Bollywood these days seems to be delivering more bombs than US drones manage to drop on Afghanistan. (The suits who run Bollywood must be wondering why even getting Akshay Kumar wear yellow rimmed glasses does not cut it anymore). It won’t be long before they decide to go back to the seemingly easier route: Remake…
So the other day someone said: “The timeline of the history of Indian Fiction can be divided into two: Before Chetan Bhagat and After Chetan Bhagat”. Quite a statement to make, considering the fact that the only other major figure in history who had enough clout to split the timeline of anything was Jesus Christ. But…
The 20th movie in the Bond series, the fourth and final one to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional English (MI6) secret agent. A landmark movie as it was the last in it’s current running timeline for the past 40 years. Bond goes rogue defying M to find who had sabotaged his mission and landed…
Life in India is an obstacle course. Every day we face thousands of hurdles which make our life more and more difficult. And most of these impediments are the handiwork of people trying to make money by making our lives uncomfortable. These range from politicians swindling off crores of public money to hawkers occupying public…
Hypocrisy: Boomers whose privilege came from govt grants and subsidies now shit on Millennials accusing that they don’t work hard enough.
We all know that the answer to the ultimate question is 42. But if you are a Malayali (Mallu for short) this answer will not be enough. Because unlike the ‘general’ ultimate question, the ultimate Mallu question is known and has been haunting Malayalis for years of their waking lives, night and day, while drunk and…
Director – Todd Phillips Cast – Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helmes, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong. Genre – Comedy Watch Because – Some funny moments, Entertaining second half Dont Watch Because – Tries too hard, Missing situational humor, Does not live up to expectations, Shoddy direction, editing. Rating – ♥♥ and a half out of 5 VERDICT –…
Starbucks have opened shop in India – A 4500 square foot store in Mumbai, in the historic Elphinstone building at the Horniman Circle, South Bombay, next to the Bombay Stock Exchange (Click here for address and location of the Starbucks Mumbai outlet). Globetrotting, liberated Indian yuppies celebrated by uploading pics of them hanging around the…
Note: This is a pre-concert post. Click here for a review account on the concert as it happened OH YEAH?? OH YEAH!!!! The long wait has ended!!! The Gods of heavy metal, the undisputed kings of rock, the legends Metallica are finally coming to India!!!! Rumors were afloat for weeks after Bassist Rob Trujillo said…
A fictional take on what happened to the infamous fugitive Sukumara Kurup, imagined as a crossover between two, movies and some imagination.
With The Adventures of Tintin, Spielberg didn’t just create a motion picture. What he did was to bring my childhood back, alive, on-screen, in 3D. Like the Metallica concert happening in India, this was one other thing I never though I would see. My childhood best friends alive on-screen. It was not just a treat,…
Banana Corporation, Inc., does not sell Bananas. I mean, we would love to, since we love Bananas which are the reason for the existence of our role models: The Banana Republics. (No, not the overpriced cloth selling places! Look it up. Havent you heard of Wikipedia? #fail) Anyways coming back to subject, we are an…