This clip is kinda like the Indian teen wolf, only instead of a werewolf and a fat guy, it’s just one hairy fat guy. The fat guy is apparently Chiranjeevi, the most famous Tollywood actor of all-time, Tollywood being the Telugu-language branch of the Indian film industry …long story. Anyway, I’m not sure what’s better: the glowing, badly CGI’d basketball, or that the filmmakers don’t really know the rules of basketball. Or that after Chiranjeevi wins the game with a full-court shot, he celebrates by outrunning a train. It’s not what you would call… subtle. Get it? The fat Indian guy is an amazing athlete? It’s kind of like when they give Kevin James a hot wife. The film went on to be so successful that it eventually spawned an American version, Air Bud.
[via FreeDarko]
Sylvester Stallone was recently in India to shoot a Bollywood film with Denise Richards and Brandon Routh. The headline accompanying the news story about it was “Stallone was very impressed with Indians.” Above is an artist’s rendition of what that might have looked like.
Slumdog Millionaire is Danny Boyle’s film about a poor Indian kid who goes on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire in order to impress a girl. I hope he wins so he can go back the slum and tell her “See, bitch? Now who’s too good for whom,” and then light a giant spliff with a $100 bill and splash cow shit on her with his Hummer on the way to a gangbang. Guess I’m just old fashioned like that.
Also: needs more dancing condoms.
Our official movie reviewer Sexman is back, and this time he’s pissed. About outsourcing. Seriously, just watch. He’s like the Andrew Dice Clay of his generation.
(feel free to skip it, Sexman haters, I still love the kid)
Wes Anderson has been hired to write the remake of the 2006 French film, My Best Friend.
The French pic starred Daniel Auteuil as a cranky antiques dealer who learns at a dinner with his closest acquaintances that none of them really like him because of his harsh manner and selfishness. When his business partner bets him a valuable vase that he can’t produce a best friend, the dealer tries to get an amiable cab driver to pose as his buddy. [Variety]
Wes Anderson’s a great director and an amazing production designer, but in my infallible opinion, only the films Owen Wilson co-wrote (Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums) were truly great. Oh, and I bet you a thousand dollars the cab driver will be Indian.
