Asking for a discount doesn’t mean I’m poor. It means I’m thrifty. – Om Puri’s character Papa in The Hundred Foot Journey Filmed in Mumbai (a short-bit) and France, The Hundred Foot Journey is visual splendor. Linus Sandgren’s photography – of rural France, Indian and French food, the markets, the cast etc – is like […]
(Image Courtesy: Times of India) It’s no secret that Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is a drunk-driving murderer who mowed down several poor people sleeping on a Mumbai footpath and then, coward-like, the inhuman swine fled the crime scene without caring to help the dying and wounded. Like a rat, the inebriated Salman Khan scampered away […]
Who needs Bollywood when you have U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NYC Preet Bharara to provide better entertainment on a Friday by re-indicting former NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. 😉 I have not the slightest doubt that this Friday’s Bollywood release Bewakoofiyaan has no hope against the might of the Bharara-Devyani juggernaut and […]
I am being attacked because I’m doing things that are dangerous to the system….I’m a serious politician. I’m not somebody ….I’m somebody who’s here….I’m going to fight a battle. I’m going to fight a deep battle…. Don’t forget that. – Indian clown prince Rahul Gandhi in first extended TV interview Like millions of Indians (and […]
After the nightmarish ordeal of sitting through Punnaku Pandi’s last movie, Thalaivaa (Leader), the other day, all I can say is that the Tamil Nadu political leadership is far wiser than I gave them credit for. Just in case you’d forgotten, Jilla’s release was delayed in August 2013 over “security threats” to theaters and brought […]
[I am] one part creative, one part strategist, one part producer, one part inventor, one part video editor and one part South Indian. – Gramovox co-founder and CEO Pavan Bapu on his Linkedin Profile When the gramophone was introduced in America in the early part of the 20th century, it was magic. In the 1920s, […]