Just assume that health, family, home, blah blah blah are taken as a given.  Here is the important stuff I am thankful for this year!

Shahrukh has a hardcore gangster movie coming to open 2016.

 

And will follow it with a rom-com in which early onset candids have him looking goooooooooooooood.

 

Kareena Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor are coming together for a girl power movie, which will also prove that a woman can still work while pregnant, and immediately post birth.  But mostly, I am very excited about these two unapologetic outspoken ladies joining forces and taking on the boys club that is the Hindi film industry,

 

All 3 Khans are about to complete their 50th year (once Salman turns 51 in a few weeks), and none of them are ready to slow down.  Shahrukh has a punishing filming schedule this year, making 4 movies back to back to back to back.  Aamir just got the best body of his life, and learned how to rap.  And Salman is still a swinging bad boy bachelor, no matter what age he is on the calendar.

Also I am thankful that, while a swinging bad boy bachelor, Salman also is a doting uncle who gives us the best baby videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0irDD4yjV4

 

I am thankful that Amitabh Bachchan is in the world, calming us all with his sonorous baritone.

 

And I am thankful that Karan Johar is also in the world, making bitchy comments in public, and being secretly supportive and kind in private.  But always entertaining.

 

Hmm, not many women in here.  Just for some gender parity, finally, I am thankful for Farah Khan and all she has given to the world!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2AXxU4T_yY

 

 

Speaking of women, I am also thankful for Vaibhevi Merchant:

 

That’s the visuals, but I am also thankful for the music.  Thankful for AR Rahman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRq0hdbZG7s

 

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

 

And Pritam

 

But what would they be, without people to realize their visions and music onscreen?  And so I am thankful for Prabhudeva.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBxZNjIZAM

 

That reminds me, I am also thankful for Madhuri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5BLS2sIDM

 

And, of course, Sridevi too

 

And finally, I am thankful that I am alive in the era of Aditya Chopra: