Mumbai’s cattle cars a.k.a. commuter trains have killed over 20,000 people in the last five years, according to local railway officials in this teeming metropolis. Worse than Nazi era cattle cars transporting Jews to the tragic final solution, Mumbai’s commuter trains carry seven million people everyday with people clinging on to the sides and many […]
Language: Hindi Actors: Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav, Suresh Menon, Dia Mirza, Juhi Chawla Director: Jaideep Sen Producer: Rakesh Roshan Written by: Ashwani Dhir Music: Rajesh Roshan One of the more tolerable comedies emerging out of the Bollywood cesspool, Krazzy 4 is the story of four mental patients Raja (Arshad Warsi), Dr.Mukerji (Irrfan Khan), […]
Yaaradi Nee Mohini Director: Mithran R. Jawahar Actors: Dhanush, Nayantara, Raghuvaran Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja Story, Screenplay & Dialogs: Selvaraghavan What an ugly movie! Is there no respite for suffering Tamil movie fans from garbage like Yaaradi Nee Shani oops Yaaradi Nee Mohini? Yaaradi Nee Shani is the usual ugly Kollywood combination of a pathetic […]
Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri is a joy to read. We enjoyed reading Namesake. And we thoroughly enjoyed watching the eponymous movie starring Irrfan Khan and Tabu. Jhumpa, who lives in Brooklyn, has now come out with her new collection of short stories Unaccustomed Earth. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interview with Jhumpa. Here’s […]
What an irony! When Indian IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro are stepping up their investments in the U.S., VMware is going the other way. Virtualization software house VMware joined the hordes of U.S. corporations that are screwing American workers with its just-announced plans to boost research and development operations in India through […]
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy Director: Abbas-Mustan Story & Screenplay: Shiraz Ahmed Music: Pritam When you have too many meaningless twists in a story, the end result is an ugly twisted movie called Race. Even Saif Ali Khan’s sterling performance cannot save Race from the garbage […]