Look Out for Daddy

Sometimes parents tell you a story about themselves that makes you look at them and wonder, “Who the hell are you?”
Much as I would like to think that I hatched from an egg or stepped out of a pod, the truth is I have a mother and father who’re actual people in their own right. [...]

Jodha Akbar: Controversy Looming?

I don’t know who took the momentous decision that no big budget Hindi film is allowed to release without some sort of tiresome melodrama attached to it, but the makers of the Ashutosh Gowarikar-directed period extravaganza Jodha Akbar, starring Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan, are definitely not bucking tradition. For a movie that seems to [...]

Spider-Man Single, Free to Mingle

Tell me something, when you looked Spider-Man swinging from a building, did you ever pause and think to yourself - well, that’s all fine and everything but I wish they’d let Judd Apatow write a couple of stories. Well, congratulations, because Marvel Comics decided to take the first step necessary to achieve that unlikely dream [...]

Tata Nano: The Apocalypse is Here

Run for the hills! The Poor are coming! Arrgh! Run! Run for your lives! Noooooo!
So this is what the end of the world looks like. Tata Motors unveiled their long-in-the-works project, nicknamed the People’s Car, to what Reuter’s calls a “Pop star welcome“. That pop star was obviously neither Bono nor Madonna (Mumbai loves her [...]

There’s Something About Tom Cruise

And I think it might be his religion.
I’m at a bit of a loss to explain this and I don’t think I’m the only one. A couple of years ago, Tom Cruise was the biggest star in the universe. He was so big, even my father had heard of him and he stopped watching movies [...]

India-Australia Race Row

 

Dick Francis, once a jockey for the late Queen Mother’s horses, found a second career post retirement as a mystery writer whose stories explored the darker side of racing. The time is ripe for a former cricketer to do the same.
The year is barely a week old and we’re already headlong into a fresh cricketing [...]

The Britney Spears Breakdown

Well, the promised breakdown is finally here.
Britney Spears deviated from her usual schedule of communing with paparazzi and consuming huge amounts of junk food (can anybody spell d-e-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n?) while aimlessly driving around L.A. and showed up for a court appointment to discuss the custody of her children and other matters. She was over 90 minutes [...]

Mumbai Molestation

 

By now all the world and his granny have heard and endlessly discussed the case of two women who were molested by a large group of men in Mumbai on New Year’s Eve. Out of this glut of articles dripping righteous anger, the story that caught my interest was that of one of the accused, [...]

Miserly by Upbringing

“You’re such a miser,” my mother said. “You never spend any money.”
Well, hello 2008. Most people tell their kids off because they spend too much money – but she was mad coz I didn’t spend enough? Wasn’t this supposed to be a virtue? It is if you call it thrift, right? That’s what I am: [...]