Folks, to merely dismiss Tees Maar Khan as yet another amateurish Bollywood piece of junk would be an egregious blunder. For Tees Mar Khan is so much worse. Infinitely worse. Tees Maar Khan (which released in the U.S. today) is so unbearably awful that we wouldn’t in the least be surprised if many of you […]
Tees Maar Khan Review – Insufferable Trash A short while ago, we switched on our TV, then the Roku set-top box and started streaming the Peter Sellers movie After the Fox (1966) via Netflix Instant Play. The first 15 or 20 minutes of the movie were endurable but then the so called comedy went so […]
More ink has likely been expended on Freedom (by Jonathan Franzen) than on any other book in the U.S. this year. Even the high priestess of American TV Oprah Winfrey has given her imprimatur to the novel naming it to her much followed Oprah’s Book Club – 2010 Selection. Given so many adulatory reviews for […]
One of the unmistakable signs of a declining order is the preoccupation of its people with trivia. The fixation and endless gawking on the tawdry, on flashing lights, on the frivolous antics of a teen pop star, on the latest mobile phone, on the new Barbie doll or the Christmas Tree at the Rockefeller Center. […]
Well, 2010 is certainly turning out to be annus horribilis for some NYC Indian restaurateurs. At least six well-known NYC Indian restaurants, some belonging to prominent groups, have called it quits in 2010. Among the NYC Indian fatalities are the high-end Tabla (shutting down at the end of this year), A Desi Diner (belonging to […]
Bollywood film No Problem starring Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Sushmita Sen, Paresh Rawal et al is receiving withering scorn from movie critics. No Problem is directed by Anees Bazmee whose claim to fame is the hideously bad Singh is Kinng. Even unabashed Bollywood cheerleaders like India FM have come down heavily on the […]