Our first thought after watching the Hindi film 9 Eleven was that it’s a pity everyone and his brother is making movies these days. Bozos with a few coins jingling in their pockets get an irresistible, uncontrollable itch that won’t abate until they see their name in the Produced by [Insert Bozo’s Name Here] credits. […]
Uh oh, not one more. The Bollywood streaming business is looking increasingly crowded lately in the U.S. Besides the 800-pound Goliath Netflix (peddles Bollywood, Hollywood and other content), there’s BollyVerse, Databazaar, YuppTV, ChannelLive, Mela and a bunch of regional language offerings for desis in Amreeka. As if all that weren’t enough, now comes a new […]
We were more disappointed with The Descendants than with the straight-to-DVD film Columbus Circle. Given the multiple Oscar nominations and oversaturated hype surrounding The Descendants we expected to be blown away by this George Clooney starrer. Having watched the film today, now we can say with confidence that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and […]
Of the seven new IBM Fellows named today, two are desis. The two new IBM Fellows of Indian origin are Ruchir Puri of IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, NY and Balaram Sinharoy of the Systems and Technology Group in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Who are IBM Fellows? IBM Fellow is the computer company’s highest technical award to […]
The over-the-top Bollywood comedy Housefull 2 (Akshay Kumar, John Abraham et al) has met with an enthusiastic reception at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend (April 6-8, 2012). Related Stories: Housefull 2 – Entertaining Piffle
2012 is proving to be annus horribilis for some Indians as they will soon be guests of the American prison system. First, it was Kharak Singh, who admitted to unlawful sexual contact and unlawful imprisonment, in a case that rocked Delaware. Singh got a one-year prison term. Then, the New Jersey peeping tom Dharun Ravi […]