Machchi, kuppae da, kuppaeswamy padam idhu (hey buddy, this movie is trash). A wretched melange of an asinine story, shoddy acting and mediocre music, Kanthaswamy is a mind-numbing piece of trash that left us shell-shocked and reeling in horror at the infernal nonsense unfolding on the screen. Folks, at three hours this garbage is exactly […]
(Recommended by SI reader Boopalanj) Preoccupied as Indian film-makers are with regurgitating trash, the documentary as an art form is virtually absent in Bollywood or any of its smaller regional siblings. That’s odd when you know the cornucopia of material available to Indian film-makers. Given that the blighted land is rife with corruption, rampant cruelty, […]
From the shapely bottom, curvilicious figure and perky tits of our pretty desi waitress encased in tight, faded blue jeans and dark blue T-shirt to the lip-smacking Rasam, sui generis Avial and sweet delight Payasam, there was a lot we liked about Sukh Sagar Indian restaurant on Stelton Road in Piscataway (New Jersey). Sure, there […]
Like many of you, we also believe things were always so much better in the old days. Ditto with old Tamil songs from the maestro Ilayaraja. A.R.Rahman may be the fashion of today but the fame of Ilayaraja is as tall as the Himalayas. And deservedly so considering the joy he’s provided to so many […]
Women judge of books as they do of fashions or complexions, which are admired only ‘in their newest gloss.’ That is not my way. – William Hazlitt in the essay On Reading Old Books P.60 in Hazlitt: Selected Essays, edited by George Sampson (Cambridge University Press, 1963)
Folks, let’s face it. Most Indian restaurants in New Jersey exist for the sole purpose of tormenting unsuspecting diners unlucky enough to step into their portals – they dole out huge dollops of ugly food, serve big helpings of trashy service and overall serve as bad poster boys for our wonderful cuisine, be it North […]