We are happy. All these years, people from other regions have slighted us. Our areas were not properly developed. All our resources were misused. The jobs went to outsiders. – Uppu Sudhaker, a Telangana supporter in the New York Times after India’s central government caved into the demand of a fasting bozo and announced a […]
Folks, here comes the 37th instalment of your favorite Incredible India. Suvars. Pigs. We will never forgive the Telangana baboons. Never ever. Guys, here we were, all sexcited to watch our first Ileana D’Cruz movie (Saleem) today and that nut-case Telangana politician Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao and our Italian grandma Sonia Gandhi had to throw a […]
(For SI blog reader sganeshkumar) How fitting. Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars begins and ends with the tolling of bells. Oh, no. The bells don’t toll for our stranger who comes riding into the border town of San Miguel with no money in his pocket and a .45 pistol in his holster. The man […]
Box Office Gods Pee on Paa – A Monumental Disaster Is there no end to the budda Amitabh Bachchan’s shame? Paa has failed miserably in the UK too in the December 4-6, 2009 opening weekend (on top of the disaster in the U.S.). With a pathetic gross of £67,545 (one of the lowest in the […]
Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were. – British playwright Dennis Potter as he lay dying of cancer. Cited in the New York Times, Arts & Leisure section, p.13 December 6, 2009
Need we say anything more. Please see below table for how badly Akshay Kumar’s De Dana Dan has fared at the U.S. box week in the second week compared to a few other prominent Bollywood films: