Playing with Linux Easier than You Think

For less than the cost of a pirated Bollywood or Kollywood DVD, you can learn to play with the open source Linux operating system. Despite its enormous popularity as an enterprise server powering mission-critical operations at thousands of organizations including the likes of Google, IBM and the Amazon, the Linux operating system has failed to […]

Kick Ass 2 – Cheap Ass Garbage

Act like a bitch, get slapped like a bitch. – Hit Girl to Kick Ass in Kick Ass 2 To my great disappointment, Kick Ass 2 turned out to be no different from the run of the mill trashy Bollywood film. Think of Kick Ass 2 as the Hollywood equivalent of Once Upon a Time […]

Ghanchakkar BO – Disaster

Vidya Balan and Siddharth Roy Kapur have taken a big hit with Ghanchakkar! Vidya Balan was the heroine of Ghanchakkar, which was produced by her husband Siddharth Roy Kapur of UTV. Disaster Angry Indian-American moviegoers showed their collective middle fingers to Vidya Balan’s Ghanchakkar. As for her co-star Emraan Hashmi, all I’ll say is Emraan […]

A Separation – Gorgeous Divorce Drama

(For SI blog reader unknownvirus who first recommended this gem and accurately predicted it’d win the Oscar) Salaam Aleikum, I have a religious question. I am working in a house. There’s an old man I’m supposed to care for. I wanted to ask, pardon me, but he has wet his pants. I wanted to know […]

Paradise Biryani Jackson Heights – Awful

Greater crimes are being committed on New Yorkers in the name of Biryani than by all the sleeper-cell jihadists supposedly holed up in Queens and Jersey City. No sooner did I hear that the Paradise Biryani Pointe chain had opened an outpost in the same location as the closed Mehfil on 37th Avenue in Jackson […]

Anand – Rajesh Khanna’s Finest Hour

Babu moshai, Zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahin (Life should be big, not long) – Rajesh Khanna’s character Anand in the Hindi film Anand Anand came out in early 1971, when Rajesh Khanna (born Jatin Khanna) was at the height of his popularity. Aaradhana, released two years before and in which the star played dual […]