With Vettai, Kollywood director N.Linguswamy has turned the Pongal celebrations into a huge funeral ceremony for 60 million Tamils Across Tamil Nadu today, the depressing sounds of a dirge fill the air and wailing Tamil movie fans everywhere beat their chests in agony. Folks, one pallbearer and one pallbearer alone is responsible for ruining the […]
Thank God for Netflix. We can have our fill of Korean, Argentine, French and so many other fine films. Here’s a bunch of decent foreign (non-English) films we watched recently, some on DVD and others via Netflix Instant Play: * Carancho (Spanish) – A lovely, dark Argentine film that shows a side of humanity few […]
We mean emptying the bladder on Muslims not merely figuratively but literally as well! All ye schmucks can say what you want. But ever since the horrific attacks of 9/11, America has been in a rage against Muslims. First there was the attack on the mountains and terror camps of Afghanistan in which thousands of […]
Numbers tell the catastrophic story of Abhishek Bachchan’s Bollywood misadventures better than words and minus any bias. If there’s one thing that unites the disparate Indian-American community here, it’s their intense dislike of the Bollywood Flop King Abhishek Bachchan. Vexed over Abhishek’s utter lack of talent, stung by his abject failure to improve and shocked […]
For anyone who’s lived in Tamil Nadu in the 1970s, K.J.Yesudas’ Deivam Thantha Veedu must surely rank as the Keralite singer’s greatest song ever. There was no way you could miss the song for it was constantly blaring forth from some loudspeaker (public address system) or the other. The lovely song is from Tamil director […]
Like all of the non-iPad tablets (except perhaps Amazon’s Kindle Fire), Toshiba’s 10.1-inch Thrive too has turned out to be a dud. In November, Toshiba Thrive tablets were on Groupon for $299 (a hefty $100 discount for the 16GB version), making it $200 cheaper than the entry-level 16GB iPad 2. Ha ha ha! Now, don’t […]