It’s one of the depressing aspects of movies that a disproportionate number of them focus on insignificant piffle. Like romance, for instance. Try as we might, we can’t get a handle on how generations of moviegoers can watch the same boy-girl love story on the screen for decades just because they bear different titles. Well, […]
For the next couple of days, y’all are going to be bombarded with articles on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet. The 7-inch Android-based tablet is already in the hands of consumers and early reviews are kind of mixed with some not impressed with its Silk browser. The below chart from Indian market researcher Social Nuggets […]
The U.S. box office numbers for Ranbir Kapoor’s new movie Rockstar are out. And, hey, the numbers look pretty decent. For the November 11-13, 2011 opening weekend in the U.S., Rockstar pulled in $612,235 from 112-screens giving it a respectable average gross of $5,466. Rockstar was Ranbir’s 10th movie. The 29-year-old actor, who hails from […]
The best we can say about Rockstar is that we didn’t throw up and sully the movie hall as we usually do after watching a Bollywood film (like Bodyguard or Dum Maro Dum, for instance). As is to be expected of 99.9% of Indian films, Rockstar too is a romance. But this one comes covered […]
India is a nation with two deeply hostile neighbors, a nation with people dying of starvation, a nation wracked by internal rebellion, a nation without toilets for over 600-million, a nation where hundreds of million struggle for survival every day, a nation where people are ‘encountered’ to death every day….. And yet, what is the […]
The below video makes us proud, so proud to be an American. 😉 Now you know how your tax dollars are put to productive use. 🙁 After all, art imitates life. Doesn’t it?