Monthly Archives: August 2017

Tuesday Tamil: Pizza! An Unfinished Horror Film

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Well, I watched Pizza!  Which had a high standard to live up to, because the only other horror movie I have seen is The innocents.  Oh wait, also Ezra.  Which is a lot easier to beat than The Innocents.  I think I would say this one landed closer to The Innocents side of the scale than Ezra.  Oh!  I forgot The Fog!  Which hardly qualifies to be called a movie, let alone a horror film.  But is fun if you ever want to see Irrfan Khan in the worst film of his career.

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Trailers and Songs! Baadshaho, A Gentleman, Bareilly Ki Barfi

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Let’s through out a nice general discussion type post!  For those of you who aren’t interested in my scene by scene of JHMS or Monday Malayalam or Tuesday Tamil.  We can all talk about Ajay Devgn’s midlife crisis and how increasingly charming Siddharth and Kriti are looking in comparison.

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Jab Harry Met Sejal Scene By Scene: Part 1, First Song and First Meeting

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Welcome to the first scene by scene since Bahubali 2!  Which might make you go “really?  This movie?”  But yes!  Really!  This movie!  It deserves it. (full index of JHMS coverage here)

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Monday Malayalam: Nerariyan CBI, A Very Confusing Plot!

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I watched this whole movie and I am still not sure who did it and why and all of that.  But it was certainly entertaining!  Although not as entertaining as the last CBI movie I watched, Jagratha CBI, where the twists were just BONKERS.

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Box Office: Jab Harry Met Sejal, Not As Bad As it Could Be!

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Okay, are we all ready to set aside our expectations and our prejudices and look at raw figures?  Are we excited?  Do we have our calculators out and our common sense hats on?  Are we ready to try to figure out a pun based on the title of this movie, because I couldn’t and I need help?  (The best I could come up with was “Jab Harry Met Slow Business”, which isn’t great).

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Happy Raksha Bandhan!

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Happy Raksha Bandhan!  A holiday I don’t get to celebrate at all, because there are no brothers in my family.  Yes, even if I count cousins.  All girls, all the time, both mother and father’s side of the family.  But, at least I can watch movies and pretend this is what it would be like if I had a brother or a cousin-brother. (this is an updated and reposted post from last year)

(as always, if you have a favorite video for the holiday, let me know in the comments!)

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Netflix List for August! JAB WE MET!!! See What Imtiaz Was Doing Before JHMS! (Thank you Accessbollywood.net)

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Accessbollywood.net does the real work of keeping this list updated, if you want a day by day update, subscribe to them.  My update is only like once a month or so when I feel like it.  But it does give some tips on what to watch and what not to watch, so that’s helpful! I hope.

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Silly Sunday Speculative Post: Happy Endings For All Our Losers in Love, from Mandira Bedi to Varun

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We all know that Hindi film loves a love triangle.  And usually a blameless love triangle, two good options and one of them loses out through no fault of their own.  So, I thought, why not give a happy ending to all of love’s losers?  And, just to make this more fun, why not cross streams and give happy endings to losers from different films? And why not make an easy post in which I rapidly run through a whole bunch of different plots without a lot of details?

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Jab Harry Met Sejal Review (SPOILERS): She Is His Radha

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No Spoilers review is already up, time for SPOILERS!  And then, sometime next week, I start the slow crawl through the scene by scene.  Because yes, this movie is good enough to deserve it.  Oh, and also good enough that you shouldn’t SPOIL yourself if you are planning to watch it.  Not super super good, I don’t want to oversell it, but good enough that it is worth avoiding spoilers.

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Jab Harry Met Sejal Review (NO SPOILERS): So Sexy I Think I’m Pregnant

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OH MY GOD!!!  If you are attracted to Shahrukh Khan, and if you have found him increasingly attractive as he ages, then this movie will KILL YOU.  Like, kill you dead.  I thought he was distracting in Dear Zindagi, but this is a whole other level.  However, I should warn you, if you are not attracted to Shahrukh Khan, or find him less attractive as he ages, you will not enjoy this movie.

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TGIF: Feminist SRK! (I’m Lazy, Partly a Tumblr Link This Week)

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On the one hand, this was too good not to share.  On the other hand, I’m not going to just rip off Tumblr and steal their page views.  So I am finding a middle ground, pulling my favorite images, adding on some other images from elsewhere in the internet, and HIGHLY HIGHLY encouraging you to follow this link.  THIS ONE!  RIGHT HERE! http://feministsrk.tumblr.com

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Friday Classics: Look Look Look Look Look! An Evening in Paris!

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(okay, if you speak Hindi, and have seen this film, that title is hilarious!  Or at least, I find it funny)  There was a “Best of Shammi” collection on sale at my local DVD store and I couldn’t resist.  So be prepared for a fair number of Shammi films over the next few Fridays.  Although I don’t know if any of them will be able to measure up to this one!

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Hindi Film 101: Why Do We Keep Seeing the Same Thing Over and Over Again? Risk-Reward in Hindi Film

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This is another one of those posts that I know I have said in various forms in other comments and stuff, but I thought I might as well write it all out in one place so we can think about it together.  Once again, the war drums are beating as to why Shahrukh is playing too young, in a romance, and opposite a woman half his age.  Replace “Shahrukh” with “Salman” or “Ajay” or “Akshay”, and the same question comes up.  Let’s not settle for the simple “ageism!” or “midlife crisis!” explanation, let’s dig a little deeper.

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I’m on YouTube! 3 Different Videos, You Decide Which You Like Best

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Moviemavengal is on youtube, a couple of commentators pointed out if I want to drive up my blog views youtube is the place, and I was trapped all day Sunday in the only airconditioned room in my apartment with loads of time to work.  So, it was time.

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Phurr Video Out! So, that Whole “Paywall” Thing Was Really Nothing

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Yesterday I put out a kind of no news-news discussion post about why “Phurr” was having a limited pay only release, and why this wasn’t actually “news” it was just the first officially promoted version of something that had been happening in a low key way for a while.  And now that is even more true because, poof!  Youtube video!

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Hindi Film 101 One-Off: Music Digital Rights Stuff

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Remember yesterday when I was driven to an existential crisis by the way the release of “Phurr” kept being delayed and delayed?  Well, googling around today revealed there is a fascinating industry story behind it.  “Phurr” is being publicized as the first song to be released behind a “paywall”.  Which isn’t actually true, but that’s another story. (also, it’s on iTunes now, but also on Saavn, if you pay for the app like I do, you can download and listen as much as you want)

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Jab Harry Met Sejal Week! Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, I HOPE it is Like This!

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Only 2 (1?) days left!  And finally, the movie that was my first thought when I saw the trailer, Pyaar to Hona Hi Tha.  Which is very very hard to find and watch (thank you HotStar India and your obsession with copyright and streaming locations!), so forgive me if I miss-remember anything.

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