In this installment of Music We’ve Acquired, we’ve gone down an old road, the memories of which are turning hazy as the neurons in our brain collapse in large blocks. Here are some tracks we’ve acquired lately from iTunes: * Hello, My Dear Wrong Number (Tamil) – This one is from the old Kamal Haasan […]
Hey, does anybody even give a damn about Paathshaala? Apparently not. Yes, Paathshaala has turned into a dud at the box office, the U.K. box office that is. As the below table attests, Paathshaala ranks way at the bottom of box office returns of a few prominent Bollywood films. Related Stories: Movie Critics Savage Paathshaala
I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut, because of the clanging of bells to announce one’s arrival to God, because of the whine of the reedy nadaswaram and the beating of drums, because of […]
(For SI blog reader Kurf) It’s past midnight, here on the East Coast. And here we are, the gin-soaked desis popping the DVD into our Panasonic player to watch the Martin Scorsese-directed film The King of Comedy. Featuring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, the movie debuted in the U.S. about 27 years back. We […]
To deny that Shakespeare’s plays could have been written by a man of relatively humble background is, after all, to deny the very possibility of genius itself—a sentiment increasingly attractive in a democratic culture where few harsh realities are so unpalatable as that of human inequality. The mere existence of a Shakespeare is a mortal […]
Indian movie critics have savaged the new Bollywood movie Paathshala (Shahid Kapoor, Nana Patekar). Here’s what a sample of Bollywood critics had to say on Paathshaala: Reuters: “Paathshaala” is an incoherent mess of a film which takes a serious issue and manages to run it to the ground. Why someone like Shahid Kapur would want […]