Yet another Bollywood movie has turned into a disaster at the U.S. box office. Hey, who’s surprised. Featuring that worthless actress Deepika Padukone and Farhan Akhtar, Karthik Calling Karthik, which released in 70 theatres here, managed to gross only a piffling $179,643. Here’s how Karthik Calling Karthik fared compared to a few prominent Bollywood movies […]
Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid Besides demonstrating callous insensitivity towards disbelievers and making frequent threats of the blazing fire awaiting those who refuse to repose their faith in him, Allah also exhibits a bigotry towards men whose sexual orientation differs from the mainstream. In short, Allah is a homophobe. You have Allah’s anti-gay […]
(For SI blog reader Gandhiji) The Netflix summary of the 1996 film Carried Away describes lead actor Dennis Hopper’s performance in the film as a tour de force. Let’s see if the film lives up to the hyperbole. Besides Dennis Hopper, the 1 hour-48 minutes movie features Amy Locane, Amy Irving, Julie Harris and Hal […]
(For SI blog readers Twig, Supergirl and GaneshKumar) By the abysmal or non-existent standards of Telugu films, Aithe (2003) is a decent movie. Truth be said, it’s hard to believe those unschooled Tollywood louts made this film. Whether this movie is just an aberration, the side-effect of a solar eclipse or a radiation leak, we’d […]
The Amitabh Bachchan-Ben Kingsley starrer Teen Patti is receiving the thumbs down from movie reviewers. Here are excerpts from a sample of reviews: Reuters: “Teen Patti” is a textbook study in how most films slip uncontrollably in the second half and any element of thrill or suspense you may have felt disappears in the chaos […]
Goat-fucking idiots! Offspring of lunatic donkeys! Shameless eunuchs from somewhere. Source – the drunks yelling in the beggar-van in Rohinton Mistry’s tour de force A Fine Balance P.323 Thank God, fictional drunks can’t watch Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa. For if they did, the tipplers wouldn’t hesitate one nanosecond before unleashing the same vitriolic barrage at (mis)director Gautam […]