My name is Shah Rukh Khan

The Rise of the Middle-Class Superstar! – Shahid Kapur!

SEX AAJ KAL

Movie Review : Love Aaj Kal Stars:    2/5 Love Aaj Kal tries to be a cool, contemporary, cosmopolitan story meant for the so-called multiplex crowd ( those who are essentially tasteless, love over-eating on popcorns at unearthly hours, have assured jobs , wear 3/4ths and walk around as if the multiplex is their private baap-ka-ghar … [Read more…]

KAMBAKHT GAY ISHQ

From what I have heard Kambakhth Ishq( KI)  is a dreadful scare, worse than encountering an anaconda in your nightmares, hunger-pangs making him cry in anguish as he watches your expanding waistlines. I have always believed that Akshay Kumar is India’s biggest non-actor, an Italian furniture import with a few hilarious cracks, and Kareena Kapoor,… [Read more…]

MJ

Hi, I have been all over the place, hence the delay in the blog update. But in the meantime a real incredible popstar is suddenly gone, at a young age of 50. Expectedly, all hell has broken loose, and in death Michael Jackson has suddenly found friends who just can’t help remembering how wonderful he… [Read more…]

BILLU BILLIONAIRE

Movie Rating: 4/5 Billu barber ( Irfan Khan) lives in the charming country-side of Bubuda, virtually penniless and without much hair left to cut. The reason behind his collapsing business is a new rival outfit , the rural avatar of Bombay Blunt , a modern salon , with revolving chairs, green-colored gels, electric trimmers ,… [Read more…]

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY

Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire Rating : 4.25 Who Wants To B A Millionaire? Perhaps most , but not Jamal, and therein lies the irony of Slumdog Millionaire. Jamal is on that quiz show only to locate his lost love, the bountiful Rs 20 million prize as meaningless to him as the inexplicable contempt with which… [Read more…]

BOLLYWOOD’S UGLY NIGHT

Last night, one saw an unprecedented ugly spat between the so-called brotherhood of Bollywood fraternity on public display at the Star Screen Awards at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra. Frankly, the award show was rolling along fairly smoothly , with the hosts Sajid Khan ( Hey Baby) , Shreyas Talpade and Farah Khan ( choreographer and OSO… [Read more…]

ROAR OF THE BORE

Ghajani: Movie Review Rating: I am still searching the bottom of the barrel Three weeks after watching a tortured expression of a grim-faced Aamir Khan staring down at me with an intimidating stare from the billboards , all bulging triceps and tattoo marks all over, with loud proclamations of a monster hit with Rs 170… [Read more…]

WHAT WOMEN WANT?

RAB NE BANA DI JODI Movie Review: Rating: 4 “What do women really want?” A confused, dapper-local Casanova with torn-washed jeans who wears glares even in Amritsari dusk , Shah Rukh Khan asks this of his dancing queen Anushkha Sharma. She turns philosophical and says that a woman wants a man to love her more… [Read more…]