Veteran Kannada film actor Vishnuvardhan, who shot to fame with his memorable portrayal of the character Ramachari in the 1972 classic Nagarahaavu,died today of cardiac arrest in Mysore. He was 59. Although Vishnuvardhan acted in dozens of films in a 37-year career, he was best known for his role of the embittered young man Ramachari […]
If you live in the snowy parts of the East Coast like we do, then you can’t help but fear slipping on the dangerously icy surfaces of the roads, decks, backyard, steps et al in winter. Like all cheapo desis, for many years we stuck to our old Made in India Hush Puppies and similar […]
Alas, we’re not as lucky as all ye folks in India. No Tamil Avataram, Telugu Avatarudu or the Hindi Avtar for us in the states. 😉 Just plain, simple Avatar. We’re already in the theater waiting for the movie (3D version) to start. Surprise. There were no long lines for the 12:01AM show here on […]
Surely, never has the bleak, woebegone, wretched aftermath of the apocalypse been so spell-binding. The whiners may complain that The Road does not rise to the level of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning eponymous novel on which the movie is based (say, which movie ever lives up to the book) but don’t count us among […]
We are happy. All these years, people from other regions have slighted us. Our areas were not properly developed. All our resources were misused. The jobs went to outsiders. – Uppu Sudhaker, a Telangana supporter in the New York Times after India’s central government caved into the demand of a fasting bozo and announced a […]
(For SI blog reader sganeshkumar) How fitting. Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars begins and ends with the tolling of bells. Oh, no. The bells don’t toll for our stranger who comes riding into the border town of San Miguel with no money in his pocket and a .45 pistol in his holster. The man […]