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Letty-motif
25 May 2013 4:04 PM ISTBrazilian bust between white sheets. Private jet with the words 'It's Roman, bitches' painted on it. Tropical weather. Cool cars. No cops trailing...
King's Thing
17 May 2013 3:44 PM ISTThe Mughals ruled the Indian subcontinent for more than 300 years. From available accounts, the period was not a great time for the good Hindus....
Dye Another Day!
11 May 2013 4:15 PM ISTSmartass does not sell well in Bollywood. Neither does a bad hairdo. With that horrendous peroxide blonde wig and a faux accent, Saif Ali Khan tries...
Truth, and a little something
4 May 2013 3:28 AM ISTTruth-seeking is tricky business. After 20 years at Dawn Herald, when Gururaj Kamath gets out one night to explore Kittur, a small town between Goa...
Sheen Shitty
20 April 2013 3:42 PM ISTWhy do you think Charlie Sheen is doing all that he is doing for Lindsay Lohan? The $100,000 loan and the rehab advice? Simple, silly. He is doing her...
Lee and Behold
13 April 2013 5:30 AM ISTRumour has it that Vidyut Jamwal's screen time in the John Abraham-starrer Force had to be reduced to keep main lead Abraham in focus. John had not...
Modi sells Jasuben’s pizzas to FICCI ladies
9 April 2013 5:42 AM ISTWhich served Modi fine, as the Gujarat chief minister talked about Jasuben’s pizzas as an example of successful female entrepreneurship. Modi said her...
Freak My Heart
6 April 2013 5:30 AM ISTHalfway into the movie when Neil Parker (Luke Kenny) rips out a man’s heart and chomps it up, I wanted to laugh out loud. Call me twisted, but isn’t...
Be kind, don't rewind
30 March 2013 5:30 AM ISTA big star can do a bad turn to your old toy. George Clooney sleepwalked through his role as the Dark Knight in Batman and Robin and nearly killed the...
When home is another country
23 March 2013 3:51 PM ISTIt was during my post-graduate days at Calcutta University that I was made aware of the existence of Bengalis of another kind—the Ghotis (original...
Like the way you shoot, boy!
23 March 2013 5:30 AM ISTHistory can be a nagging bitch. Hence, old wounds need new balms to end matters once and for all. Mad boy Tarantino has been walking that path ...
Ghost Protocol
16 March 2013 5:30 AM ISTImagine a phone you leave behind at a restaurant, smash with a stone in rage or throw into the sea in a momentary lapse of reason and it keeps coming...