Indian entertainment conglomerate Adlabs Films (majority-owned by Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) plans to operate a 200-screen cinema exhibition chain in the U.S. that will show both Bollywood and Hollywood movies. Adlabs’ plan is to have a nationwide footprint covering 28 cities across the U.S. including the key desi hotspots on the East Coast, West […]
Bollywood movie Dus Kahaniyan did not set the U.S. box afire but didn’t do that badly either considering it’s an offbeat Hindi movie. Dus Kahaniyan rolled in at No-25 at the U.S. box office for the December 7-9, 2007 weekend with a gross of $176,726. Released in 55 theaters in the U.S, Dus Kahaniyan had an average […]
Dus Kahaniyan is one of those better films to emerge out of the stinking sewers of Bollywood. Unlike most Bollywood movie makers, who usually steal or rehash successful stories, throw in some big-name stars who usually can’t act and then desperately pray for success, Dus Kahaniyan takes a different tack. The folks behind Dus Kahaniyan seem […]
One of the most awaited Tamil movies of 2007 – Billa – is finally hitting the big screen on December 14 (Click here for Billa movie showtimes in USA). Featuring Ajith, Nayantara and Namitha, the new Billa is a remake of the old Billa (itself a remake of the Hindi film Don) starring Rajnikant and Sripriya. The […]
Like an uxorious husband, we are inordinately fond of Latin. We’ve been dropping Latin phrases into our spoken and written English for as long as we can remember. Besides making us seem smarter than we really are, Latin has a certain cachet that plain vanilla English lacks. SearchIndia.com will bring you some of our favorite Latin expressions. […]
We remember it all as if it happened just yesterday. But it was actually 1992. IBM reentered India through a joint venture with the Indian conglomerate Tata called Tata Information Systems Ltd (subsequently changed to Tata-IBM and later to IBM after Tata and IBM parted ways in 1999). And Mike Klein, the Bullet motorcycle-riding IBM expat, […]