Entries from April 2008

April 28, 2008

Dear Vikram,

Dear Vikram,
Yes, as you may have noticed, I have never called you Kenny. Because that’s what your closest, personal friends call you.
Though we ‘are’ friends, I am sure you appreciate I am paid to be a journalist and that’s what I do for a living.
So I, of course, only know you as Vikram. I have [...]

April 26, 2008

Tashan: The Englis The Tution The Star-vation

(Phor extra-reading plesar, read “tion” as “sun” and “f” sounds with “ph”)
In the backside of every Hindi “fillum,” there is a “pharmoola.”
Underwear Indian, bathroom western but business inside is about toilet paper and inspiration.
Pardon the Phlavour, but Hindi fillums out of Yash Raj are smelling like morning ablution. There’s always a sitting, a loud hearing [...]

April 18, 2008

U, Me Aur Hum: The Mr & Mrs. Devgan Show

Genre: Drama
Director: Ajay Devgan
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Divya Dutta
Storyline: A couple’s ‘Happily Everafter’ is interrupted when Alzheimer’s condition strikes.
Bottomline: Sucker for sentimentality? Try this.
“You know something?”
That phrase is used to punishing levels in this near-meandering melodrama littered with borrowed jokes and stolen moments from ‘The Notebook,’ ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ ‘50 First Dates,’ among other films [...]

April 18, 2008

Krazzy 4: Kakey Koshan Rtd.

Genre: Comedy
Director: Jaideep Sen
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Arshad Warsi, Rajpal Yadav, Suresh Menon, Juhi Chawla, Diya Mirza
Storyline: Four mentally ill friends need to rescue their doctor who has been kidnapped.
Bottomline: Gives Hindi cinema a bad name.
Kakey Koshan: I’m, er… recently retired…
Borat: You are a retard?
Kakey Koshan:Er… yes…
Borat: Er… physical or mental?
Kakey Koshan: RETIRED! I don’t work [...]

April 4, 2008

One, Two, Three: Don’t be silly? Why not?

Genre: Comedy
Director: Ashwini Dheer
Cast: Suniel Shetty, Tusshar Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Upen Patel, Sameera Reddy, Esha Deol, Tanisha, Neetu Chandra
Storyline: Three guys with a common name show up in Pondicherry as confusion ensues.
Bottomline: Watch it drunk with your chaddi-buddies
Confession: One, Two, Three isn’t half as bad as people tell you it is.
Obviously, not many would like [...]

April 4, 2008

The Bucket List: Flying Over Cuckoo’s Nest

Genre: Drama
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman
Storyline: Two cancer patients decide to cross off things from the to-do-before-you-kick-the-bucket list.
Bottomline: Watch it for these two good men
There are so many reasons to watch The Bucket List, even before you’ve heard from someone who’s seen the movie.
First, it’s by the same guy who directed When Harry [...]

April 1, 2008

My password is redunderwear and my credit card number is…

Arvind got a message on his msn messenger supposedly from me.
The message was: My password is redunderwear and my credit card number is 9876 2353 2876 2223.
Twenty minutes later:
Arvind says: (3:26:49 AM)
dai did you message me?
Sudhish Kamath says: (3:26:57 AM)
nope
Arvind says: (3:27:14 AM)
something about redunderwear and a credit card number
Sudhish Kamath says: (3:27:27 AM)
thats [...]