Let’s face it – New York City is expensive. Everything in the Big Apple is really expensive. Blame it on the swines on Wall Street. But you can still save a bunch when you visit NYC if only you know how-to. Here are some money-saving tips for our desi cheapo tourists visiting New York City: […]
U.S. Box office collections for Shahrukh Khan’s crap show Billu Barber have fallen 85.60 % in the second weekend. In a humiliating rebuff to the Bollywood superstar, Hindi movie fans have shown Shahrukh Khan the middle finger. Billu Barber’s second weekend collections are worse than that for some of the lousiest Hindi movies ever made – […]
In all the euphoria about the success of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire (a fairytale rags-to-riches love story of a Mumbai slumdweller Jamal), we tend to forget the real ‘slumdogs’ of India. In the latest issue of the New Yorker (February 23, 2009, p.22-29), Katherine Boo has a must-read piece about 13-year-old Sunil, a real ‘slumdog’ […]
Delhi 6 Falling, Falling, Falling – Down 75% Abhishek Bachchan’s latest crap-show Delhi 6 has failed to work wonders in its opening weekend at the U.S. box office. Well, what do you expect. With his non-existent acting skills, Abhishek Bachchan is the kiss of death for a Bollywood movie. Like most of Abhishek’s previous movies, […]
The magnificent success of Slumdog Millionaire, both at the box office and at the Oscars last night, has cast a dark shadow over Bollywood. What a humiliating insult to Bollywood, that an outsider like Danny Boyle comes to Mumbai, the movie capital of India, makes an amazingly entertaining movie like Slumdog Millionaire on a budget […]
Uncork the Champagne, folks. Right now. And that is an order. In the ultimate insult to the know-nothing cretins of Bollywood, the hugely entertaining movie Slumdog Millionaire won the Best Picture Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards this evening. Slumdog Millionaire beat out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Reader to […]