Believe it or not, Bollywood has come out with a nice thriller.

In Johnny Gaddaar, our Bollywood folks have put out a rewarding entertainer that keeps you engrossed almost for the entire duration of the film.

Unlike recent Hollywood lifts like Heyy Babyy or Partner, Johnny Gaddaar seems like an original effort by director Sriram Raghavan.

What makes the success of Johnny Gaddaar even more special is that except for yesteryear hero Dharmendra, most of the other actors are virtual unknowns.

Read the full review of Johnny Gaddaar here.

Say what you will, we think the Singapore government’s policy of banning bubble-gum chewing in public was a sensible move.

Alas, the Indians are not half as smart as the Singaporeans, who got their Independence 18 years after the Indians.

As bubble-gum sales go flat in the U.S., the MNCs have turned their sights to attacking Indian kids with their hideous product.

Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting story on the bubble-game plans of the big multinational corporations:

Cadbury Schweppes PLC, the world’s biggest candy maker by sales, is intensifying the race to capture India’s growing bubble-gum market. Cadbury’s Bubbaloo, launched there in July, joins rivals Boomer gum, made by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. of the U.S., and Big Babol, made by Italian company Perfetti Van Melle SpA, to try to entice children, the main chewers of bubble gum.

One of the vilest products to emerge out of man’s imagination, we still can’t understand why both the young and old, boys and girls, rich and poor are slave to this horrid viscous chemical made from petroleum-based polymers.

Would you drink petrol? No, right. So, why would you want to put bubble-gum into your mouth?

As long as there are dumb, bovine folks in the Third World, MNCs have no Continue Reading…