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Gods Must be Crazy

Remember laughing at the native African innocence and then feeling awe for their wisdom, and maybe then laughing again over the bottle of Coke.
What do you make of these headlines then:

Wall Street Journal has a story of the Visa Balaji in Chilkur where devout prayers are answered by visas from the American consulate
In the northern […]

Rising Sun - India

This movie based on a novel (by the same name) by Michael Crichton shows the cultural differences between Americans & Japanese in their businesses & in their lives. This book came at a time when Japanese were everywhere in the coroprate America, buying up the Empire State Building, setting up huge car companies, etc … […]

The Killing Fields

A brilliant story about a New York Times journalist and his Cambodian intrepreter set in the land occupied massacred by Khmer Rouge. The movie won three Academy awards, and in the first half shows how the western media present a different version of the story when an American plane bombs a village “accidently” while the […]

I, Robot

I remember seeing this “action” movie and was always under the assumption that this Isaac Asimov’s tale was an action packed one, until I read this wikipedia article.It is now clear that the only Asimov about this movie was the allusion to “Three laws of Robotics”, which are:

A robot may not injure a human being […]

Cover Girl

Remember the movie Shawshank Redemption and the poster of the Rita Hayworth in it?

Well, the movie Cover Girl was a movie made for Ms. Hayworth … With eight song-and-dance routine with elaborate sets for them and the “cover girl” amidst them all, the movie was a big success.

These days when girls head to say Saks […]

Airforce One

A high altitude thriller with all masala elements (sans the song and dance from a bollywood movie) along with Harrison Ford make this ideal for some hot popcorns and a lazy couch anytime of the day. However what came as a surprise was that Kevin Costner had refused to do this movie as he was busy […]