Indian cricket stars make a lot of money, recently reinforced by the IPL auctions. Yuvraj Singh will be paid Rs 14 crore, Dinesh Karthik will pocket a cool Rs 12.5 crore for a few weeks of effort on the field. The two are not even regulars in the Indian cricket team anymore. Each minute on…
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Ex-girlfriends, Ex-boyfriends, its complicated in Bollywood
Like many others, I like to follow Bollywood, the movies, stars, gossip, directors, songs, composers. There’s a lot of trash, but there’s plenty of creativity too. Off late I have been intrigued by the rising number of ex’s floating about. Everyone is someone’s ex. There is Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan’s ex and Ranbir Kapoor’s current…
Bye Bye Sachin Tendulkar
The God of Indian cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, has decided to retire. God’s don’t fade away, they endure. Youtube videos of Sachin taking on Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Shoiab Akhtar, will remain forever, I am sure recording millions more hits. I am going to be watching Sachin again and again, in Perth, South Africa, Sharjah, like…
Its the Indian economy, stupid
I have not watched Chennai Express as yet. I like to catch the usually low IQ blockbuster Bollywood movies at the multiplex, to marvel the immensely successful Hindi movie mindless masala business model play out yet again. With CE, there is also the added incentive of viewing Deepika Padukone’s fab abs on big screen. Lot…
T20 Cricket Fever in India
It is T20 IPL cricket season in India again. Able bodied young, old, superannuated, dropped, playing cricketers from across the world have converged to try and hit the ball like Chris Gayle, the Don Bradman of capsule cricket, with added ability to do the Gangnam dance. T20 cricket has subsumed evening prime time at the…
Pardon Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Dutt should be pardoned and allowed to do what he does best, act in movies. I don’t know him. I don’t belong to the film fraternity. I am not producing or directing his film. I am not his booze or exercise buddy, though I am a big fan of Munnabhai-I & II and Dutt’s…
Siddharth Srivastava 