Barfi Box Office Report – Sweet Returns

Hooray, Barfi Crushes Heroine at U.S. BO Ranbir Kapoor is moving into the big league. His latest film Barfi, in which he plays a deaf and dumb character, has done remarkably well at the U.S. box office. Directed by Anurag Basu, Barfi also features Ileana D’Cruz, Rupa Ganguly and Saurabh Shukla. In the opening September […]

Barfi Review – Not Swoonworthy Fare

Hooray, Barfi Crushes Heroine at U.S. BO Story, Screenplay, Direction: Anurag Basu Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Ileana D’Cruz, Saurabh Shukla, Rupa Ganguly Release: September 14, 2012 Barfi is a decent film considering the offal that Bollywood routinely puts out. But in my not so humble opinion Barfi is not swoonworthy fare. Most certainly not. Tedious Parts At […]

Heaven Comes to Earth – iPhone 5 Lands

Nirvana’s here. I mean, the iPhone 5. Apple has just launched the iPhone 5 in San Francisco. IPhone 5 Specs: * 4-inch screen (previous iPhones had 3.5″ screen) * Retina display of 326ppi, 1136×640 resolution * 7.6mm thin (18% thinner than iPhone 4S) * Weighs 112 grams (20% lighter than 4S) * LTE capable for […]

The Attack – A Stunningly Poignant Film

By SI Blog Reader AC One of the pleasures of living in Toronto is attending the aam aadmi -friendly Toronto International Film Festival – or TIFF in short – at the fag end of summer. September brings a mouth watering treat to the movie buffs of this city in the form of a virtual cornucopia […]

Love in Tokyo – Missed Due to a Power Cut

I can’t for the life of me remember the exact year. But I have a feeling it must have been in the late 1960s. The whole caboodle including yours truly went to see Love in Tokyo (Joy Mukherjee, Asha Parekh). It was a much talked about movie those days. The songs from the film were […]