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 […]
Unless you’ve just landed here from some other planet, you know that Gomorrah is the book on which the acclaimed eponymous movie is based. As the cover of the book puts it, Gomorrah is author Roberto Saviano’s ‘personal journey into the violent international empire of Naples’ organized crime.’ Known as the Camorra, the organized crime network has […]
(Thanks to Sanewar and Lucifersam for recommending Gomorrah) Gomorrah (Italian) takes the gangster/Mafia genre of movies to an entirely new level. If Godfather, Scarface and even Cidade de Deus (City of God) glorified the criminals, put them up on a pedestal and made them seem almost godly despite their violence, Gomorrah knocks them off their high perch and […]
Well, what do you expect from a crappy movie industry. Come on guys, are you really surprised that some of the crappiest Bollywood movies ever made or a bunch of zeros walked away with the top honors at the Filmfare awards ceremony. At the latest Crapfare oops Filmfare Awards ceremony, the top winners – it should actually […]
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: […]
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the finest Made-in-India movies (non-Bollywood, of course) we’ve watched in recent years. The movie has mostly gotten the critics oohing and aahing over it. Here’s a look at excerpts from some of the prominent reviews for Slumdog Millionaire: Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal: “Slumdog Millionaire” is the film world’s […]