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 […]
Indians Build Biryani Highway in Edison, NJ
If Marx and Engels were to rewrite The Communist Manifesto, they’d probably pen it this way: A spectre is haunting Edison – the spectre of Biryani. All the powers of Edison have entered into a holy alliance to expropriate this spectre: Punjabis and Telugus, Pakistanis and Delhites, Afghanis, Tamils and Gujaratis. Never in the history […]