Asingamana Tamil Magan would be a more apt name for this repellent farce of a movie featuring Vijay in a double role opposite the young Delhi girl Shriya Saran. Abomination Par Excellence Even in the long gone days of silent movies, film-makers would not dare to unleash an abomination like Azhagiya Tamil Magan on viewers. […]
Although Saawariya never rises to the great heights of Luchino Visconti’s black and white film Le Notti Bianche, it’s still one of the finest love stories to emerge out of the augean pits of Bollywood in recent years. Like the Italian film Le Notti Bianche (1957), Saawariya is also an adaptation of Russian author Fyodor […]
When limitless ambition collides with limited talent on the Bollywood Highway, the end result is a road wreck called Om Shanti Om. A dispiritingly commonplace theme of reincarnation packaged in a disjointed, tracing-paper-thin plot with ho-hum performances by the lead actors renders a mediocre movie that only addled fans of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan would love. Shahrukh Khan’s […]
Diwali 2007 will be remembered for the epic battle of two Bollywood love stories on the Big Screen. Saawariya vs Om Shanti Om. Who will walk away with the Diwali honors for the more entertaining movie? Will the winner be Saawariya featuring newcomers Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor in a tender love story? Produced by Sony […]
Some 58 million Indians will languish without access to electricity in the year 2030, according to the World Energy Outlook 2007 figures released today. According to the World Energy Outlook figures put out by the International Energy Agency, the share of India’s population without access to electricity will fall from 38% to 4%. Since the […]
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com wants to expand its electronic marketplace operations to India, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Alibaba.com CEO David Wei told the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) after the company’s recent $1.5 billion IPO: “Although we believe that Chinese manufacturers’ competitiveness will remain for a very, very long term, for some categories ‘made in […]