Hollywood is keen to make moolah out of India’s Bollywood. Wait, wait! They are however not trying to conquer it with their Hollywood fanfare. Instead, they want to join hands with Bollywood.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is the first in a wave of American studios to produce their own kaleidoscopic Bollywood musicals - Saawariya - complete with [...]
It looks like Bollywood finally woke up to the fact that it is a copyright infringement when they blatantly copy Hollywood movies. Well, it is just that Hollywood don’t care to get down to that level of Bollywood to fight out. In a recent development, the re-maker copier film producer Ravi Chopra, son of BR [...]
Yes, I saw some sort of development around a cubicle with Hutch banners at the Fame Cinemas, InOrbit, (Malad, Mumbai, India). Upon asking around, I found out that Hutch have been running a scheme whereby if you SMS to them from your Hutch Subscriber’s number, you can always get a second ticket free to your [...]
Multiplexes across Mumbai, India released The Simpsons Movie today without much fanfare and publicity; and the America-centric movie were able to make us Indian laugh-out-loud all along the 90 minute movie.
Well, in a time when Computer animation brings up worlds of unsurpassed beauty, one movie dares to be ugly in 2D.
There were no good movie releases this month and Simpsons was not released in Multiplexes, so I went for Cash, a super-promoted syper-hyped movie supposedly trying to mimic a Hollywood action flick genre. A movie that reminds you of Ocean’s movie (was it 11 or 12?), “Kill Bill”, Cash was a disappointment at best that [...]
Any CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) employee who wants to start a personal blog which “clearly associates them with CBC/Radio-Canada” now requires their supervisor’s permission, according to a new policy “guideline document.” The guideline states that, all CBC employees are “expected to behave in a way that is consistent with our journalistic philosophy, editorial values and [...]
Recently, India and the United States have made a historic breakthrough in their relations, striking a deal on civilian nuclear co-operation. The agreement would allow nuclear fuel for India’s Tarapur reactor. The US helped build the reactor but later reneged on contractual obligations to supply fuel for it because India refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation [...]