Even the crap-loving Indian movie fans have rejected Akshay Kumar’s latest crap-show Khiladi 786. For the opening December 7-9 weekend, Khiladi 786 grossed a mere $228,967, one of the lowest in recent months for a Bollywood film featuring a big star in a leading role. It’d be unrealistic to hope that the failure of Khiladi […]
Oh God, Wilson! Never Again, Never Again, Never Again! – Tom Hanks’ character Chuck Noland in Cast Away I’ve said time and again that the majority of my classless, crass Indian and NRI readers wouldn’t be able to locate their hanging scrotal appendages a.k.a balls with two hands and a flashlight! When one of the […]
If you go by the critics, Akshay Kumar’s latest film Khiladi 786 has as much to do with quality as NRI Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri with non-violence, which is zilch! Released today, the Akshay Kumar-Asin-Mithun Chakraborty film is earning withering scorn from reviewers in India. Here are excerpts from a sample of reviews of Khiladi […]
Those Jobs aren’t coming back. Steve Jobs to Barack Obama on bringing back some Apple manufacturing jobs from China to America With $121.3 billion in the bank, Apple plans to invest a mere $100 million in American manufacturing. That’s a piddling 0.082% of Apple’s mega cash hoard, the big chunk of which is stashed away […]
For the most part of human existence, our planet was a carnalcopia. You could screw any one without worrying about consequences. Father, mother, girl, boy, son, daughter, brother, sister, friend, foe, dog, cat, goat, uncle, aunt, buffalo (some Tamils still do it), cousin, grandma, niece, grandpa, neighbor etc, no problemo. Anybody was fair game. Game, […]
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. If there’s a better novel than Vladimir Nabokov’s masterpiece Lolita, I’ve yet to encounter that book. Lolita […]