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Seventymm.com service standards slipping

Update: 24 hours after I wrote this, the requested DVDs reached me.
On Sunday, a friend visited. While talking, she asked me how my experience with the online DVD/ VCD rental service seventymm was. Told her it was not great.
The reason was two-fold: One, I find their range of movies just not enough. When you want [...]

Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag or King Kong vs Godzilla?

So I watched it - first day, second show. Because I was sure this is gonna be a super duper flop. What else could you think, after watching the ridiculous promos on TV?
In the promos, there was Ajay Devgan trying to romance a play-acting Nisha Kothari in small pieces of clothing. There was the Yuvraj [...]

Shahrukh Khan in Robot, directed by Shankar of Sivaji

What will SRK and Shankar do to science fiction?
I m no lover of Bollywood movies. Or Tollywood movies, for that matter. Sure I can sit through most of them, but that is because I do not expect to see logical stuff. I enjoy them the way I can enjoy a good farce.
But science fiction is [...]