Guys, if it’s a Priyanka Chopra movie you can be sure it’s trash. And so it is with Pyaar Impossible. Here’s how a bunch of reviewers have trashed Pyaar Impossible: Bangalore Mirror: God help us! The story, screenplay and dialogue credited to the film’s producer-hero Uday Chopra are obsolete. And, the pace of the film […]
Movie critics are heaping scorn on former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen’s new Bollywood film Dulha Mil Gaya. Here’s what a sample of critics have to say on the Sushmita-Fardeen Khan film that debuted today: NDTV: [A] familiar retread that offers little laughter or entertainment. ….Dulha Mil Gaya is regressive and stale. The most creative aspect […]
It’s been a long time since we read a book as seductively beguiling as Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. Set amid the ferment of the ‘Cultural Revolution’ in China during the early 1970s, the book is a bewitching story of the power of books and of life in the countryside for two teenage boys […]
We have to strengthen our piracy laws and ensure that films in the future receive better protection. Money made by people from selling pirated DVDs has been used to fund terrorist activities, such as the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. People should be told that their money is being used for antinational activities – Ulaga […]
(For SI blog reader Gandhiji and his many aliases) Pygmy Khan’s last two movies were either garbage (3 Idiots) or garbage+stolen (Ghajini). But the box office gods seldom give a flying f*ck to such mundane elements as garbage or theft. They work on a different plane. Schmucks, just look at the U.S. box office numbers […]
On the occasion of Google’s new Nexus One mobile phone launch, Apple jabbed Google sharply in the eye, touting the immense popularity of its App Store, which shows no sign of slowing down. Au contraire, the Apple App Store seems to be gaining momentum. App Store is a digital media repository for a variety of […]