Say what you will, but U.S. desis have better taste and, of course, class compared to their compatriots in India when it comes to Bollywood films. Media reports suggest that Salman Khan’s latest crap-show Ready is going gangbusters in India. However, Ready has not found the same level of acceptance from U.S. based desis. In […]
In a nation reputed for churning out one crappy movie after another ad infinitum, the mere mention of the late Bengali auteur Satyajit Ray’s name evokes aahs and oohs in India. No matter that few Indians have watched Ray’s movies and fewer still see them these days. A couple of years back, we watched one […]
By Naveen The movie print has not arrived at Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas theater in Chicago. We went to Big Cinemas for the 7:30 pm show and the girl at the snacks counter (where they also sell the tickets) lied to us that only the 1:20 pm show was on today. After we yelled at them, […]
Super 8 is one of those movies where the exciting promise of the trailer is belied by the prosaic reality of the film. We had seen the intriguing trailer a bunch of times and so went over today to the mall brimming with high hopes. As the old saying goes, there’s many a slip betwixt […]
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 […]