Quote of the Day – Adolf Hitler
The greater the man, the more insignificant should be his woman. – Adolf Hitler, in 1934 Source: At Home With Hitler by Antony Beevor in New York Review of Books, April 26, 2012 P.37
100m Indian Chutias Will Soon be Depressed
A friend recently visiting from India told us that fast-food restaurants in India serving Pizzas, Burgers, Croissants etc had mushroomed there and are now wildly popular with the younger generation, particularly in the cities (food courts, malls and even residential neighborhoods). Our friend’s remark on Indian fast-food places came to mind when we stumbled upon […]
Mirror Mirror Review – I Believe, I Believe, I Believe, I Believe in Tarsem Singh
The greatest of life’s many tragedies is that it’s so damn unfair. Evil often triumphs over Good. There’s often no penalty for cruelty, gluttony, debauchery, savagery and a raft of other venal acts. And, oh yes, good movies sometimes meet a sorry fate at the box office and the hands of critics. We just returned […]
A Dangerous Method Review – A Triumph of Imagination
I can assure you that in a 100 years our work will still be rejected. Columbus, you know, had no idea what country he’d discovered. Like him, I’m in the dark. All I know is that I’ve set foot on the shore and the country exists. – Viggo Mortensen’s Sigmund Freud describing the then nascent […]
Word of the Day – Onnagata
It’s been a while since we boosted your vocabulary. We stumbled on the word Onnagata last night while leafing through the latest issue of New Yorker magazine (April 2, 2012, P.7). There’s a short piece on an upcoming Kabuki (Japanese dance-drama) program in New York City that contains the word Onnagata. Onnagata means a man […]
Agent Vinod – Not Good at Box Office
Agent Vinod, which had a fairly wide release in the U.S. (for a Bollywood film), hasn’t done well at the box office. And that’s a shame because the movie is a decent Hindi action, spy thriller. Here’s how Agent Vinod fared at the U.S. box office compared to a few prominent Bollywood films: Related […]