Shantanu Srivatsa Out of Spelling Bee

Desi lad Shantanu Srivatsa is out of the 2010 Spelling Bee championship. Unless, Anamika Veeramani also misses her word in this round. In which case, Shantanu will be back in the race. By the way, Shantanu was tripped by the word Ochidore. The 13-year-old boy is an 8th grade student at the Cheney Middle School […]

Bollywood Trash – Some Key Statistics 2

Amateurish, thieving bastards churning out tons of crappy movies that no one except the South Asians and the Indian diaspora watch. That’s what comes to mind when we see a reference to Bollywood. But there are plenty of folks for whom Bollywood represents the ne plus ultra of entertainment. For these millions, Hrithik Roshan and […]

MovieCity NJ Review – Shitty Then, Shitty Now

How naive we were. We thought Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas’ Movie City theater on Oak Tree Road in Edison, NJ would improve after the renovation. Shows how little we know. The theater is still a dump and richly deserves the MovieShitty curse. Here’s what we’ve seen at MovieShitty, post-renovation: * Pee all over the toilet […]

R.I.P. Nagarahaavu Ramachari a.k.a Vishnuvardhan

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 […]

Mungaru Male Review – What Made it Click?

Recommended by (halfMonkHalfHitman and rakeshbaba) We’ve watched very few Kannada movies in our life. As most SI readers know by now, Hindi, Tamil, English and now foreign language films have been the mainstay of our filmi entertainment. So, when SI readers repeatedly brought up the Kannada film Mungaru Male, we were intrigued as to what […]

Incredible India 32 – YSR Grants Moksha to 30 Followers

This is beyond nonsense, a calamitous event that can happen only in Incredible India. When Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy (Chief Minister of the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh) died in a helicopter crash the other day, the 60-year-old politician, may his soul rest in peace, took with him not merely his four co-passengers. Alas, Reddy took […]