(Dedicated to SI blog reader Gora, who first recognized the charlatan. This post is mainly for our North American readers who understand the context better.) Tis’ Christmas eve in America Columbia Mall on Patuxent Rd is full the Starbucks Latte line is long but I have no cause to smile for I ain’t got no […]
From the New York Times to the Times of India and beyond, Akshay Kumar’s latest movie Tees Maar Khan has been brutally torn apart by movie critics. Here’s what a sample of critics had to rant against Tees Maar Khan: * Reuters [O]ne of the year’s most awaited and hyped films has turned out to […]
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. – George Bernard Shaw, in The Philanderer act 2 (1893) cited in Yale Book of Quotations, p.702 George Bernard Shaw wrote/said a lot of cute things in a long life. The above is one of […]
When even Bollywood’s Angry Young Man of yore Amitabh Bachchan starts donning a wig, it’s time for all intellectuals to set aside their trivial preoccupations and start addressing one of the big questions of our age: Do Indian men feel effeminate, ball-less without their hair? Mind you, we’re only talking here of hair on the […]
Romance on the High Seas Review – Ulaga Madayan is a Shameless Thief Say, who is the schmuck that allowed Ulaga Madayan a.k.a. Kamal Haasan to write the story, screenplay and dialogs for his latest embarrassment Manmadhan Ambu. Must be that half-wit producer Udayanidhi Stalin who’s got a surfeit of money and a paucity of […]
Manmadhan Ambu (Kamal Haasan, Trisha, Madhavan) suffered the ignominy of a shamefully poor opening at a key theater on the East Coast. There were about 19 people for the opening 8:30PM show of Manmadhan Ambu at Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas theater on Oak Tree Road in Edison, New Jersey (the lady at the counter told […]