Situated between the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca, which was once the key route of the fabled spice trade and now one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, Malaysia has historically lured settlers from China, India, the Middle East as well as European colonial powers such as the British, the Dutch, [...]
By C.G. Scott
Orphaned in the poverty and human suffering pervading Mumbai’s slums, Jamal Malik (Dev Patel)—18 yet apparently full of knowledge—competes on India’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” With a potential 20 million rupees to come after one more correct answer to host Prem Kumar’s (Anil Kapoor) questions, Jamal finds himself the victim of [...]
By C.G. Scott
When Amrit Singh (Omid Abtahi), a Canadian surgeon from Toronto, is being considered for the prestigious post of Surgery Chief in a private Detroit hospital’s brand new, state-of-the-art organ transplant and research center, his inherited culture and religion, and his professed sense of ethics clash with a titanic medical establishment concerned more with [...]
This is a simple story of a middle-class man Rajendra Dubey (Vinay Pathak) who dreams big – he wants to become a millionaire, but he wants to earn this money in an honest way. He has a scheme, which he tries to sell to anyone and everyone who would care to listen. Incidentally, he does [...]
Laugh your way through this one. Director, Dibakar Banerjee’s film is as real as you can get. The main protagonist, Lucky (Abhay Deol) has a deprived childhood, which sees him turn to the life of crime – and Lucky starts at a very young age. He acquires mastery at conning people and by the time [...]
The tag line of the movie is: There is an extra ordinary love story in every ordinary jodi, which is an interesting one because we do get to see an ordinary 9 to 5 government officer’s life turn into an extraordinary love story through circumstances. Surinder Sahni (Shah Rukh Khan) works in Punjab Power, is [...]
It is that time of the year when we become nostalgic of what has gone by, are in a contemplative mood, and look forward with hope in welcoming the New Year. So how was 2008 for the Hindi film industry? To begin with there was kind of drought with hardly any hits except for Jodha [...]
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