Kahaani Ending Stolen?

Like the warning found on all cigarette packets, it’s time to insert a statutory declaration at the beginning of all Bollywood movies: This Indian movie may have been stolen in full or part from Hollywood and/or other foreign sources with impunity and reckless disregard for the intellectual property of others. Indian media reports suggest that […]

Agent Vinod Review – Oozes Panache

It took the bozos over four decades but with Agent Vinod Bollywood has finally turned in the first Indian action thriller that desi Bond and Bourne aficionados can watch without cringing. Written and directed by Sriram Raghavan, Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Prem Chopra) is a well crafted Hindi action film that has […]

Hunger Games Lacks Strong Emotional Heft

Jennifer Lawrence is a fine actress, and mark our words carefully now, one about whom y’all will be hearing and talking a lot in the coming years and decades. – The Wise SI in the review of Winter’s Bone, June 2010 As we were driving home through the dense mid-Atlantic fog, we couldn’t help thinking […]

Crazy Crowds for Hunger Games

We’ve never seen anything like this. Not even for the Twilight nonsense. The midnight show of Hunger Games (Jennifer Lawrence) is being screened in at least seven halls at a theatre on the East Coast. And it’s the same story across the U.S. Multiple midnight shows. And we expect every hall to be full. The […]

U.S. Job Killer Nasscom Thinks Americans are Really, Really Stupid People

Indian software services trade organization Nasscom must have a very poor opinion of Americans. Not content with robbing hundreds of thousands of Americans of their well-paying software and call-center jobs, Indian businesses are now stooping to insult the intelligence of Americans. American Job Killers As anyone with that body appendage called the head knows, Indian […]

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