Great news, folks. Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan, who has made no secret of his dislike for our nation America, was stopped for additional questioning by U.S. immigration authorities at Newark airport in New Jersey yesterday. No sooner was Shahrukh Khan out of U.S. immigration interrogation than the arrogant star promptly lashed out at the U.S. […]
Kaminey Fares Well at U.S. Box Office Not even that whacko emetic Priyanka Chopra can mar the charm of Kaminey. Folks, simply put Kaminey is a lovely film. So good you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a slick Hollywood crime flick. Exceptional Thriller Kaminey is that exceptional Bollywood thriller where the story, acting (the […]
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Yes, that was the bard in Twelfth Night (Act 1, Scene 1). Having belatedly realized that our 16GB iPhone (which of course includes an iPod) still has a considerable amount of empty […]
First came the illegal immigrants on the Mayflower (1620) and hundreds of other rickety ships. Then came the United States of America, 156 years later. Like it or not, illegal immigration is an inalienable part of our heritage. If you pore deep into our history, you can’t but smell the sweat of our illegal forbears, […]
Kaminey Review – Bollywood Kamineys Deliver a Decent Flick, At Last Kaminey Fares Well at U.S. Box Office Bollywood film Kaminey featuring Shahid Kapoor and that non-actress Priyanka Chopra is releasing in the U.S. on August 14, 2009. Vishal Bharadwaj is the director. In the movie, described in some quarters as a violent comedy, Shahid […]
After reading the gripping crime thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we can’t get enough of Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. So we tried to pick up Larsson’s second book in the trilogy – The Girl Who Played With Fire – from our local library. Since we were way down in the reservation list, we […]