Monthly Archives: September 2016

Oozham Review (SPOILERS!!!): Some Nice Bits, But Not a Lot of Them

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I already put up my non-spoiler quick little review.  This is the bigger one with lots of plot details.  I won’t be doing the full summary, like I do sometimes, but I will be revealing all the plot high points.  So if you are kind of curious about this movie, but not curious enough to spend the money and time going to a theater, read this! Normally I try to encourage people to see the movie anyway, but in this case, I can sincerely say, “don’t bother, just read this.”

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Swara Bhaskar About Smita Patil and Katrina Kaif

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Smita and Shabanaji were long rumored to be professional rivals, kind of a Juhi-Madhuri thing.  No personal component, I never heard about them fighting over the same man or anything like that.  But some semi-nasty remarks passed in the press.  And now, the feud continues, long after death!  I am posting about Smitaji on Shabana’s birthday.

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Watch a Movie with me Tomorrow!

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I’m doing another live twitter watchalong!  Just like I did for Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham a few months back (click here to see how that went)!  This time, Kal Ho Na Ho!  Which is available in American Netflix, as well as most streaming services.  It will be at 10am Chicago time tomorrow, which is 8:30pm on Sunday the 18th India time, 1am Australia time (sorry Australia people), 11am New York time, and 8am California time.  Join in by searching for the hashtags #KHNH (for Kal Ho Na Ho) or #DCIB (for my book, Don’t Call it Bollywood, which this is nominally promoting.  And which you should all read!  It’s really good!).

Let’s Look at Some Romances of Consumerism!

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Another ad post!  I just keep finding awesome ones!  Also, I realized I still hadn’t posted the epic Ponds Saif and Priyanka series, which rivals the Anthony Stewart Head (yes, from Buffy) Taster’s Choice ads from England in its romantic scope.

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Innathe Chintha Vishayam: A Pleasant Unambitious and Quietly Radical Film

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I gave in!  I re-upped my Netflix DVD subscription!  Just because they have 2 dozen Malayalam films listed, and I am so sick of dropping subtitle files onto youtube videos, or waiting for international shipments, or paying $2.99 for googleplay videos, or squinting at eithusan on my laptop screen.  Anyway, now I am cranking through all the random films Netflix happens to have available.  Like this one!

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New Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Video! Is It Possible This Whole Thing Is About a Love For Coats?

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New Ae Dil Hai Mushkil song video!  Which shows new clips, but they don’t really reveal anything we didn’t already know.  Except, so many coats!  I’m really excited for coat weather now.

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Bhavum: My Favorite Character Actress Gets to be a Star

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I don’t quite know what to think about this movie.  They left a lot of things open and a lot of things to our imagination, and there are no easy answers in it.  But what I know for sure is, I love Mita Vasisht and am thrilled I finally got to see her in a lead role, instead of just showing up and giving awesome advice for a few minutes, and then going away.

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Happy Birthday Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay! You would be 140 If You Weren’t Dead!

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It’s Sarat’s birthday!  Which is as good an excuse as any to put up a post with some of the pretty pretty songs from the movies based on his novels. (if you really want to party hearty, check out my 4 separate Devdas posts here, here, here, and here)

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Ormayundo Ee Mukham: Good People Dealing With a Bad Situation

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What a pleasant film!  Everything isn’t perfect, but if everyone works together they can make it perfect.  Well, almost.  But the big message is everyone working together and dealing with a bad situation as best as they can.

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Important News Update: AbRam is Cute

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And so is his father!  And also a bit of a tech nerd, have you noticed that since he discovered instagram, Shahrukh has been posting a lot of videos that are kind of like the ones your dorky uncle posts after his son shows him how to use the video tools?  But more interesting, because it’s a movie star.

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New Production House On the Horizon! Strange Name, Good Business Plan

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“Ellipsis Entertainment”.  Really?  Trying saying that outloud.  Doesn’t your mouth kind of stumble over it?  It looks good, and it’s a nice idea, that the leave out the unnecessary bits, and I am assuming their logo will be some variation on “…”, but can you really say it ten times fast?

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Action Jackson: A Manga Crossed With Tarentino and Mixed to a Southern Beat

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This was just a fun, silly movie!  Which was perfect, because I had a friend over and she said “I’ve had a bad day, let’s watch a fun silly movie.”  My first vote was Dil Aashna Hai, but she wanted something a little more current, so we ended up with Action Jackson.  Which I somehow missed in theaters and hadn’t gotten around to seeing since.

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Happy Onam! I Just Started with Malayalam Films, So Forgive the Shortness of the Post!!!

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I know this is a huge holiday and there most be hundreds of songs about it.  But I’ve only been watching Malayalam films for less than a year, so I know very very few of them.  Forgive me!  And feel free to mention some better ones in the comments.

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