46! Pretty soon he is going to have to acknowledge that he is straight up middle-aged, not just “mature”. (this is an updated and reposted post from last year)
Happy Birthday Karan!!!!! 46 Reasons I Love You
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Monthly Archives: May 2018
Sanjay Dutt Bonus Post: How Sunil and Nargis Fell In Love
Datablue sent a link to an old interview of Sunil in a comment on the Sanjay posts, and it was so good that I decided it was worth a little mini-post to share it with you all.
Hindi Film 101: Sanjay Dutt Part 2, The Motherless Addict
This is the really sad section. So many terrible things happened to people around Sanjay during these years, and he floated above and out of it. Such is the blessing of drug addiction. (part 1 here) Continue reading
Hindi Film 101: Sanjay Dutt, Part 1: The Spoiled Son Turned Teenage Alcoholic
I’m finally doing it! The Sanjay Dutt Hindi Film 101 series! And if his movie gets delayed again, well that’s just too bad, they will have to live with my having already posted his series way way too early (not really, I’ll probably repost all these posts the day it comes out for convenience).
Want to Watch a Movie With Me On Twitter in 5 Days?
Hey, my office is closing for Memorial Day! That’s AWESOME!!!! I’m hosting my church quilting group and I really need an extra day to make the apartment opinionated-older-women clean. And also, it means we could do a twitter watchalong if we wanted! That is, if anyone is interested.
Wednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking This Week?
Happy Wednesday! It’s Wednesday, right? I was up kind of late last night working on the Telugu review. But now I will have coffee and it will all be better.
Tuesday Telugu: Gentleman, Nani is Here to Support Two Women
I finally found a way to watch this with subtitles!!!!! YuppTV, which I still don’t fully understand, had it. And it was, indeed, very much worth watching. Mostly for Nani. Who was not our protagonist and therefore had the best part. Because the most interesting role always goes to the character actors.
Silly Tuesday Discussion Post: Which Madhuri Iconic Look is Most Iconic?
On Friday I did a post on random Madhuri photos so we could pick our favorites. I purposefully avoided her iconic looks, thinking that wouldn’t be fair. But Asmita called me out on it, so now a bonus post! Which look is most iconic?
Box Office: Raazi Rides Again! And 102 STILL Not Out
This is a good week! Recent release doing very well in the second week, older release surprisingly still holding steady, and an assortment of other not so good movies still feeling in some of the screens. (as always, figures courtesy of renttrack by way of bollywoodhungama)
Monday Malayalam: Nokketha Doorathu Kannum Nattu, The Safety of Denial
Look, I watched an actual good movie! A classic even. It just took all of you listing off the good movies for me on HotStar so I could avoid their gosh awful search function and go directly to what I wanted.
Female Bonding Songs, Inspired by “Veere” from Veere Di Wedding
This post is also because I am looking for a nice light post to put up to cheer myself up because it has now been raining here for 30 hours. It was nice yesterday, when I could huddle in bed and watch the rain, but it’s not the same now that I am at work and have to shiver in my office watching the rain.
Roll of Shame: My Meanest Reviews of the Movies I Truly Hated
As you know if you are a regular reader, it is rare for me to really truly hate a film. I will always find some redeeming feature, discuss the themes and treat it seriously, make you want to watch it. I don’t like all films equally, but I do generally like all films. Except for the very very rare film which I absolutely HATE and the main purpose of my review is to try to destroy it with my hatred. Which, possibly, might be a style of writing you enjoy. In which case, this post is for you, to make it easy to find the 1 in 50 film I actually wrote a bad review of.
Monday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Week of Parmanu?
Hello All! It’s Monday and I am crawling back to work after spending yesterday in bed, and not sure if I want to be here. Distract me by asking questions!
Silly Sunday (Part 2): East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon, with Sai Pallavi
I’m back! Already put up one long an self-indulgent post based on fairy tales, now I am doing another, and I don’t care what you think!
Silly Sunday: Fairy Tales Remade, 12 Dancing Princesses with SRK and Swara Bhaskar
Well, I am spending the day in bed, as promised in my post yesterday. Life is too difficult, and the world is too cold and rainy, best to stay under the blankets with Dog Hazel snoring in her big pink dog bed at my feet. And in that soothing easy mood, I will also right a soothing easy FanFic, based on the very first stories I learned and loved, fairy tales.
I Am Worn Out, How Was Your Saturday?
I’m back! Spent an incredibly long day doing things, and now I am home and waiting for my delivery dinner and trying to distract myself.
Friday Classic (Bonus, on Saturday): Masoom, the Inescapable Pull of Motherhood
Mother’s Day week, obviously I was inspired to watch Masoom. One of the greatest explorations of what it means to be a mother of all time. You can run from it, but it will always catch you.
Saturday Small Talk! It’s the Weekend, Let’s Waste Time
Happy Saturday! I am helping my parents open up the family house, and also washing my dog. So, not much time for postings. Anyway, Alicia/Bollywood Newbie asked last week if there could be a post between Monday and Wednesday for random small talk. This is that post! Let’s see how it goes.
TGIF: Madhuri!!!! Which Madhuri is Your Favorite Madhuri?
Happy Madhuri’s birthday week (again)! I tried to come up with something clever and original, and all I can come up with is a bunch of photos of Madhuri, which isn’t clever or original at all. Oh well, she was very pretty.
Friday Not-So-Classic: Dil, A Fun Terrible Wonderful Romantic Ridiculous Movie of the 90s
Happy Madhuri week! Looking for something from your suggestions that I have already seen and could write about quickly, I landed on Dil. Because it is soooooooo terrible that I don’t need to really think that deeply about it, and it is also soooooooo fun that I can sincerely recommend it.
Hindi Film 101: Media and Stars, From Dilip Kumar to Sonam Kapoor
Welcome back! The last post focused on an overview of celebrity media from the big picture perspective, how the fans and media found each other and grew. Now, let’s shift to looking at what this is like for the Stars and bringing it through to today where media and Stars have come together and turned into one entity
Youtube Video Version of Last Post on Media
Look! Me talking! And Dog Hazel’s little head and butt.
Hindi Film 101: Media from Prithviraj Kapoor to Shahrukh Khan, Newspapers to Websites
Sonam’s wedding is the perfect opportunity to discuss the changes of old media and new media and blah blah blah to how the Hindi film industry operates! And, hopefully, how it will start operating in a new way. I’ll get to Sonam in the next bit, but first I have to back up and deal with celebrity culture in general, and how the media works with it.
DDLJ Part 47: Like Father Like Son
I’m back! Sorry, it was the screenshots I didn’t have time for. Takes about two hours steady work on my home laptop, and I haven’t had two hours straight at my home laptop in a while. But tonight I did, and I got enough screenshots for two posts, so I should be good for next week too. (full index of DDLJ here)
Do You Think This Blog Deserves to be Read? Here’s How You Can Help Get Me New Readers, Better Than Anyone Else!
In March I was mentioned in an article in The Hindu along with a couple other bloggers, my photo appeared and this blog and my book were mentioned by name. And the needle on my book sales and blog views moved not one millimeter. The largest newspaper in India, and it has no ability to gain me a single reader.
Meanwhile, Meenakshy posted a mention of this blog in a reply to a Bhardwaj Rangan tweet, and I gained ten new followers in a DAY. Not visitors, but followers, people who came over and liked what they saw and signed up to get notifications every time there is a new post.
So when I say to you that the best way to gain me new views is to put a link in the comments of another site, or in another forum, I’m not kidding! You, the readers, are far more powerful than any newspaper, any website, even than me! I’ve posted my own links in the past, and discovered that no one clicks through to links posted by the writer themselves.
So, here’s your monthly request to please help by posting links to my related content on other sites. Quote me, or say the article reminded you of me, and put up a link to the original post. And that will gain me more readers and keep me writing and the wheels of the blog keep turning.
Oh, and also, COMMENT!!!! I also ran the numbers on that. Every comment gets me 20 views. People who may have already seen the post clicking through to it, others who wouldn’t have read it otherwise clicking through to read the comments. It doesn’t have to be a brilliant comment, just say “I love this film! —— was so good in their role!”, that’s enough. Or, if you want to be really easy, just answer the questions at the end of the TGIF or FanFic posts.
So, two things. Real simple. And that have an enormous effect in keeping me writing.
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