Quiz: How many bad guys can Badri (Allu Arjun) single-handedly kill or maim at the Bellary Railway Station with just a sword and without suffering so much as a scratch in the new Telugu film Badrinath? a) 0 b) 2 c) 4 d) Several Dozen If you answered from a-c, you’d be grossly wrong but […]
Sadly, some movies get far more credit than they deserve. And we’re not talking only Bollywood trash, most of which should not even be released in theaters. Take for instance, the Italian film La doppia ora (The Double Hour) that marked the directorial debut of Giuseppe Capotondi. We watched the film in the theater yesterday […]
The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past. – Midnight in Paris (2011) In a million years, the Indian mongrels can’t make a movie a millionth as pleasing as Midnight in Paris. And neither will the millions of EverReady-for-Ready rabid curs patronize this classy a movie. As the more discerning of SI readers will […]
Poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions. – Francis Fukuyama in The Origins of Political Order p.14 It’s hard to dispute the above point, at least in the case of India. Despite the burgeoning population, India has plenty of resources. Certainly, enough to feed its 1.2 […]
Mein Kutta Hoon, Yeh Kutiya Hain (I am a dog and she is my bitch). – Salman Khan’s character Prem referring to his girlfriend Pooja (played by Asin) in the movie Ready Who says Salman Khan is a superstar? No way. The U.S. box office numbers for Salman’s latest crapshow Ready are out and they […]