Here’s a short list of upcoming Movie Reviews that SearchIndia.com will most likely be publishing in the near future.

Selection of movies to be reviewed are based on SearchIndia.com readers’ suggestions and our own picks.

Forthcoming Movie Reviews on SearchIndia.com:

English
The Frozen River - Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival
Persepolis - Lovely animation film
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Directed by Woody Allen

Hindi
Singh is Kinng - Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri
Bachna Ae Haseeno - Ranbhir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone
God Tussi Great Ho - Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Amitabh Bachchan

Tamil
Anbe Sivam - Kamal Haasan, Madhavan
Mullum Malarum - Rajinikanth

Movie critics are ripping into Rajinikanth’s Kuselan and showing it the middle finger.

No suprise. No surprise.

After all, Kuselan is a piece of trash and an affront to all notions of art.

Here’s a sample of the critical reviews that this Kuselan garbage has received:

Deccan Herald:

It’s a big con to exploit brand Rajni and make a quick buck. He himself gallops in on a flying horse almost half way through the tortuous proceedings. His oneliners and quirks fall flat. If at all we are able to see flashes of the Rajni of yore, it’s towards the dying moments. By then it’s too late.

….Vasu’s work looks like a haircut done with a pair of shears.

Mid-Day:

The ‘cinema-cinema’ song that was supposed to be the crowning glory celebrating 75 years of cinema in South India and the entry of Rajini into the film passes, leaving no sense of celebration or excitement.

We’re left wondering if the direction went wrong, or was it the music, or was it just bad editing? We still have no clue.

The movie continues with hard to laugh at comedy sequences, badly edited scenes, alien songs that have no place in the screenplay and an overall sense of a thorough waste of time

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Struggling communications company Motorola has named Sanjay Jha its co-CEO and CEO of the Mobile Devices business.

The Mobile Devices business has been a complete disaster for Motorola without any big hits after the Razr phone.

Motorola’s Mobile Devices business reported an operating loss of $346 million on sales of $3.33 billion in Q2. Sales were down 22% over the same period in 2007.

The company has no must-have handsets in the market nor have we heard of any in the pipeline.

Sanjay Jha
Co-CEO, Motorola

Sanjay Jha has a hard task ahead of him in salvaging Motorola’s handset business.

Besides the competition from traditional rivals like Nokia, Samsung, LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson, Jha has to contend with the mindshare and marketshare that Apple is gaining with its iPhone 3G. Also, Motorola has nothing like Apple’s App Store that fuels further appetite for the popular iPhone.

If you consider IDC’s recent mobile phone shipment data, Motorola’s Mobile Devices business is in terrible shape.

           Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors - Shipments & Market Share

                 Q208   Market share   Q207   Market share  Growth
                                           (units in millions)

Nokia                 122m      39.9%    100.8m    38%        21%
Samsung          45.7m    14.9%     37.4m      14.1%     22.2%
Motorola         28.1m      9.2%    35.5m     13.4%     -20.8% 
LG Electronics  27.7m    9.1%     19.1m       7.2%       45%
Sony Ericsson  24.4m    8%        24.9m       9.4%      -2%
Source: IDC

The 45-year-old Jha was previously COO of Qualcomm where he was

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