Khatta Meetha Box Office 2 – Disaster in U.K. Too

No surprise. No surprise. Khatta Meetha has fared badly at the U.K. box office too. Khatta Meetha’s opening weekend gross of  £124,104 is worse than Akshay Kumar’s earlier movies like Singh is Kinng, De Dana Dan,  Kambakkht Ishq, Chandni Chowk to China, Housefull and even Blue. Akshay Kumar’s Stock Falls See for yourself in the […]

Khatta Meetha Box Office: Disaster, Big Disaster

You know in the not-too-distant past the Samurai folks in Japan used to handle shame very well. They’d get a ritual sword, plunge it deep into their stomachs and scoop out their entrails. If that gruesome act didn’t prove effective, they’d take the knife and cut their throat. Death was probably extremely painful but the […]

Farewell Review – Drop-Dead Gorgeous Spy Film

(For SI Blog readers kd36939, Gandhiji et al) Farewell a.k.a. L’affaire Farewell (French) is simply the best spy film we’ve seen in our life. And also the most sui generis spy film – we heard gun-shots only twice in the entire movie. Eschewing Indian films like Khatta Meetha and Pudangadi oops Thillalangadi that have earned […]

NYC’s Hot New Shake Shack – Total Ripoff

Much has been written about NYC’s burgers and shakes place Shake Shack over the years, enough to fill multiple tomes. We had held off going to the older Shake Shack location in Madison Square Park primarily because of the long lines there. But when a new Shake Shack outpost recently opened in the Theater District […]

Watching Farewell

(Via iPhone) Hell with Khatta Meetha. Hell with Wateva-Langadi. Here we are in the theater waiting for the acclaimed French movie Farewell to start. Big crowd in the hall. Over 60 people at the hall in Lincoln Plaza on Broadway in NYC and they are still coming in. We hope to have a good time […]

Trisha is Trash in Khatta Meetha, Say Critics & Audience

Khatta Meetha Box Office: Disaster, Big Disaster Readers of this fine blog have always known that Tamil ‘actress’ Trisha Krishnan is the most worthless thing when it comes to delivering the acting goods. Total garbage. The woman can’t emote if her life depended on it. But Bollywood critics are just realizing what a lot of […]