Zack and Miri Make a P0rno has Trini-American Gerry Bednob (Kissing Cousins, The 40 Year Old Virgin) playing yet another stereotyped desi, the owner of a Starbucks clone who distrusts his unmotivated baristas, Seth Rogen and Craig Robinson, and cusses them out in an uncle-y accent. They get back at him by filming their p0rno [...]
The Other End of the Line is a B-movie without a B-movie’s schlocky pleasures. This sitcom-style rom-com ends in a late romantic dash to the airport. (How do airports deal with this in real life? Let this cliché die, or do it David Lynch style like Jaane Tu.) There’s more wit in a half-hour [...]
Check out these get-out-the-vote videos by a couple of friends. Karmacy sings their hypnotic, anti-oligarchic political manifesto ‘Stop’ off their latest album Wooden Bling:
Photos from the South Asian Int’l Film Fest last week in Manhattan. Siddhartha Khosla of Goldspot did the soundtrack for Anuvab Pal’s film:
“What I like about science fiction,” wrote Manjula Padmanabhan in the Introduction to her short-story collection Kleptomania, “is that it offers a writer the opportunity to go directly to the heart of an ironical or thought-provoking situation by…
My first rangoli: the Obama campaign logo in pink beans, great northern beans, and rice with blue food coloring. Happy Diwali.
According to a recent Art Review, Nature Morte’s Peter Nagy is one of the 100 most powerful people in the world of art and now, he’s dipping his toes in the European art market by opening up a Nature Morte gallery in Berlin. Bodhi Berlin has company. Indian housewives in the city should start practising [...]
Three questions.1. Is it somehow cooler to write “da” instead of “the” and “nd” instead of “and”?2. If not, how difficult can it be to key in an extra letter?3. What kind of twisted mind abbreviates words like “the” but spells out “illu…
I’m still recovering from a quickie trip to SAIFF in Manhattan, where I saw The President is Coming, Kissing Cousins and, at a regular theater, Jimi Mistry in RocknRolla.
My family lights diyas every Diwali, but it’s never been our tradition to do rangoli / kolam. Just for fun, I’m going to try an Obama rangoli [...]
My Dashboard tells me that this is the 1000th post on this blog. Positively criminal. Someone should set limits for these things. Anyway, since there isn’t much time for non-work-related blogging these days, I thought I’d make a few quick notes on some…
I put off watching Bill Maher’s Religulous because I didn’t see the need to spend two hours on something I already knew. But the movie is surprisingly entertaining, not just Maher perched with harpoon over piscines in a barrel.
Like The Daily Show, Maher clearly edits interviews to make the subjects look bad. But the interviewees [...]
You know those email forwards that begin with the line “You know you’re getting old when…” and go on to provide a long, sadistic list of proofs (e.g. “…when you enjoy hearing about other people’s surgical operations”)? Well, one item I …
Here’s video of the geniuses at ISRO celebrating the Chandrayaan launch. Many a virtual slide rule was tossed in celebration:
Here’s a 3D animation of the earth-to-lunar-orbit maneuver and the moon craft’s mission.
… if successful, India will become the fourth country after the US, Russia and Japan to place its national flag on the lunar surface. [...]
I don’t read the papers in the morning. I don’t switch on the television to watch the news. All I do is check my email, have breakfast and then plug into my iPod as I trudge into work. It’s pretty dull. Today was a bit different because last night, at midnight, the Mumbai police arrested [...]