A couple of days ago, Priyanka Chopra and her husband, Nick Jonas, announced that they had welcomed their first child through surrogacy. The outpouring of criticism and resentment on social media has been unbelievable. The reasons for the criticism are wide ranging. The main objection seems to center around their preference for surrogacy over adoption. Some…
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Nothing is personal or private!
How can a TV channel obtain the bank statement of a deceased customer?How can a bank release the statement? How can the channel air and discuss its contents openly? That is how lax India’s privacy laws are. That is the disdain with which we treat personal and private matters – of others. The channel’s anchors…
Bollywood pushing me out!
I dont know anybody in Bwood, leave alone SSR or his family or his girlfriends (I wish) or their families. I feel the whole of Bwood, the movie mafia, insiders and outsiders all together, have conspired to keep me out of Bwood though I was never interested to get into it in the first place.…
Bollywood going nuts!
Nepotism is what we all do! Nepotism is just a fancy word for what we call ‘networking’, ‘having contacts’ and ‘influence’ in our non-Bollywoodian industries. On the streets of Bombay, it’s called ‘vashila’ or just ‘contak’. Tell me, which good job in which industry is available without some goddamn ‘vashila’?! And if the ‘contak’ happens…
Film critics running scared!
Film critics are now scared of giving low ratings / stars and even slightly negative reviews. All newcomers’ movies will be rated very highly by all them in future. So be careful which movie you go to see in theaters. All established star movies especially the Khan movies will be reviewed negatively. That doesn’t mean…
How we insult women!
There are many things offensive in our Bollywood films but here are a couple that I find most obnoxious.One is the scene where a married woman dutifully touches the feet of her husband. I just hate those scenes, the bowed head and the pious look on the woman’s face, the expression of benign magnanimity on…