Phoonk blows

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Ram Gopal Verma is consistent. His movies after ” Satya” are consistently awful.
I watched “Phoonk” this weekend. At the end of it my feeling is one of deepsorrow.That would have been the easiest Rs.500,000 [...]

The Love Guru Central: The movie review

In our continuing coverage of the movie “Love Guru”, we have some posts left including the review of the movie itself, our opinions on whether the movie was really as offensive as self proclaimed leader of the Hindus, Rajan Zed, proclaimed it to be and, perhaps, another surprise post ***hint***. All these post will feature [...]

Movie Review: The Happening

*Note : This review contains spoilers so please do not read it if you intend to see the movie and do not want to anticipate the fun ! *
“The Happening” - a much awaited release from M.Night Shyamalan debuted at a strong # 3 position this weekend with a $ 30 million take. I contributed [...]

The Resurrection of Indiana Jones

*** Some Spoilers ***
Don’t expect anything new out of the new Indiana Jones movie. Lucas, Spielberg and Ford get together and revive the franchise after Indy rode off into the sunset couple of decades ago in the Last Crusade. The movie is set in 1957. Everything is intact - Indy’s penchant for adventure, street smart [...]

Bhootnath: Really scary

Be scared of the latest Bollywood movie, Bhootnath ….. real scared. Be scared because you have to pay real money for the ticket.
Regarding, Bhootnath. I watch desi movies in theaters because I get so few of them. Normally I don’t read reviews or hype, so I can form my own opinions. Ditto for Bhootnath, I [...]

Review: The Darjeeling Limited

I recently watched Wes Anderson ’s “The Darjeeling Limited” on DVD.
The film stars Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman (who also co-wrote the movie). The three play the Whitman brothers who have not spoken for a year- since the death of their father. Their mother is missing from the funeral – much as she [...]

Great Food, Cold Beer with a side of hypocrisy

The best part of a visit to India (next to meeting family and friends) is , for me, the ability to unabashedly give up any pretense of dieting and gorge on all kinds of gastronomic delights. On every trip to the des , I try to hit all my favorite restaurants at least once. This [...]

When Jodhaa met Akbar

(Note: Special thanks to Santosh for allowing me to write this one )
Jodhaa Akbar is like a cupcake : sweet, ornate, decorative but not substantial. In essence it is a love story but with swords, sand, elephants and lots of color. Ashutosh Gowariker’s labor of love /depiction of labored love -is a 3 and a [...]

DOSA - A review.

After having read multiple comments about ‘bastardized‘ cheese dosas, I walked in with with a lot of skepticism. I fully expected everything to suck and in a lot of ways, I wanted it to.
Dosa, located on 995 Valencia St., San Francisco was different in most ways. Just like my other favorite restaurant on the [...]

At Home, at war: Tahmima Anam’s ‘Golden Age’

Author of “A Golden Age”, Tahmima Anam was featured on this morning’s NPR Morning Edition Show.

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‘Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal’ should have been named ‘Missed Goal’

Over the weekend I had the misfortune to watch Goal or as the title is supposed to be “Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal”, directed by Vivek Agnihotri.That mish-mash of a title itself should have warned me. There is a particular pain to watching a bad Hindi film - I cannot describe it exactly but [...]

Does ‘The Namesake’ stand a chance?

Do they stand a chance? Image from IMDB.

With the 80th Academy Awards set to air on Feb. 24th 2008, movie makers are working hard to get in their nominations. Besides the controversial “Eklavya- The Royal Guard“, the other “Desi” movie in the running is “The Namesake”.
The team is doing it’s best to [...]

Desi on NYT top 10 books of 2007.

‘Imperial life in the emerald city: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone’ penned by Rajiv Chandrasekaran made it to the top 10 books of 07 by New York Times. The NYT review is here and you can buy the book here.

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Get London Curry using your mobile phone.

Google maps has a new beta feature that allows you to locate yourself on a map, without using a GPS. Of course to help non-techies understand what they do, they made a video. The point of the video is to locate a place that sells the famous London Curry (Aka. Chicken Tikka Masala). Since when [...]

Udupi Palace, Tacoma Park, MD: A Review.

The Mysore Royal Thali at Udupi Palace, Tacoma Park, MD. Do not let the Zagat Reviewed sign on the door fool you.
Dinner was my second meal of the day and boy was I excited to see the “Zagat Rated” sign on the door as I walked into Udupi Palace at Tacoma Park, MD. That [...]

Maximum City: A Review.

Maximum City by Suketu Mehta.
As someone who spent a year growing up in Bombay (It was Bombay then), visiting often and having relatives there, much of this book read like Cliffs Notes for me. The few Bollywood Gangster movies that I have managed to catch over the years filled in whatever actually living there [...]

Holy Cow

In the Amrikan version, Shiva wears pink goggles
The author, Sarah MacDonald, is an Australian. The Australian version of the book just had an image of Shiva on its cover. “How boring” the marketing folks thought when it was introduced to them in the US and A. In the US and A, we setup coffee shops [...]