For anyone who’s lived in Tamil Nadu in the 1970s, K.J.Yesudas’ Deivam Thantha Veedu must surely rank as the Keralite singer’s greatest song ever. There was no way you could miss the song for it was constantly blaring forth from some loudspeaker (public address system) or the other. The lovely song is from Tamil director […]
Like all of the non-iPad tablets (except perhaps Amazon’s Kindle Fire), Toshiba’s 10.1-inch Thrive too has turned out to be a dud. In November, Toshiba Thrive tablets were on Groupon for $299 (a hefty $100 discount for the 16GB version), making it $200 cheaper than the entry-level 16GB iPad 2. Ha ha ha! Now, don’t […]
Five years back today, i.e. January 9, 2007, smartphone history was made with the launch of the iPhone. Launching what subsequently became the world’s favorite smartphone at the 2007 Macworld, Apple co-founder and then CEO, the late Steve Jobs said: iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any […]
If there’s one thing Bollywood’s flop king Abhishek Bachchan is used to, it’s failure. Some Indian movie stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan (at least, lately) and Aamir Khan have the Midas Touch and set the box office registers ringing. Au contraire, Abhishek Bachchan has the Jonah’s touch. Surely, Abhishek’s movie distributors and Bollywood […]
Thank God for Abhishek Bachchan. Just when life was getting so insufferably boring in Amreeka that we even entertained fantasies of ending it all with a Saturday night special to our head, comes Bollywood’s numero uno buffoon with his hallmark simian antics in the new film Players. Abhishek Bachchan – Antithesis of Acting They say […]
Flop king Abhishek Bachchan can go only one way in Bollywood. Down, down, down. Predictably enough, the clown’s latest film Players is drawing withering scorn from critics. Here’s what a gaggle of critics had to say on Players: * Deccan Chronicle: The audience’s intelligence is insulted throughout in this endless horror show of pyromaniacal explosions, […]