For his birthday, I will give you 55 reasons to love him (mostly songs) (this is an updated and reposted post)
Happy Birthday RD!!!!! Still the Greatest Composer in Hindi Film History
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Monthly Archives: June 2018
Wednesday Watching: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking This Week?
Happy Wednesday! Halfway through the week and I am WIPED. Still haven’t fully recovered from staying out soooooooooooooo late for the Salman concert (I am old). Oh well, I don’t have to do anything tonight or tomorrow, so I’ve got loads of time to prepare mentally and physically for Sanju.
Discussion Post: Anupama Announces Film Companion Will Not Cover Sacred Games or Sanju At All, What Do We Think????
Thank you to Akshat for bringing this to my attention! I have no strong feelings about it, but I am finding it fascinating to consider from all angles and puzzle over what I would do, or what I would want someone else to do in this situation.
Global Box Office: Race 3, Week 2, Flop 1
Box Office day! Let’s look at numbers! And think about how the box office can be fooled and the horse race mentality is ruining the industry (it’s raining here again, I’m depressed. oh, and figures are from renttrack by way of Bollywoodhungama)
Fanney Khan Teaser: Who Here Has a Crush on Jazz Musician Anil Kapoor?
Me me, I do I do!!!!! Anil should always play his own age, it’s the only way. I am excited enough that he is getting a post all to himself because there aren’t any other teasers/trailers out today I want to talk about.
New Indian Members of the Academy: Watch Out Oscars, Aditya Chopra is Coming For You
Well, this is an odd list! And it inspired me to do a bit of research on how these names are chosen and what it means and what the process is.
One More Pride Post! That I Forgot to Put Up Yesterday: Queer Images
I reposted everything yesterday, I thought, (once again, my Pride themed fanfic is sad and ignored. WHY??? I give you Arjun and Shahrukh making out, isn’t that what everyone wants?). And then I just found this post hiding in the archives, so here is a late breaking addition.
Trailers! New Sanju, Gold, and Soorma
Ready for a bunch of inspirational stories? They were down, they were hopeless, it was all impossible, and then against the odds they rose up again!!!!!! I am going to be so sick of inspiration by Independence Day, hopefully I can still enjoy Gold.
Monday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Last Week in June?
Happy Monday! I am still grumpy about being gypped out of a good show on Saturday night (Hetal Patel, I curse your name!!!!), but I got to have coffee this morning, so that’s nice.
Dog Hazel Was a BAD DOG This Weekend
Just wanted to do a fun post to cheer me up after being so mean and angry about the Dabangg show. And also, Dog Hazel was BAD and I will punish her through public shame. Like those mothers who put their kids’ shame photos on Facebook, except considerably less horrible.
Dabangg Reloaded Chicago Show: I Had a Miserable Time Thanks to Local Promoter Hetal Patel
I did research and investigated and now I know why the show I saw last night was horrifically infuriatingly terrible. Not surprisingly, it’s the fault of the Chicago local who also thought it was a good idea to turn it into a political event for our insanely incompetent Governor (“you know what would save the state money? If we just stopped paying our bills and let the interest accumulate until all our debtors went bankrupt. Sure the children’s hospital will go out of business, but those kids with cancer should just die instead of continuing to put a burden on the state”).
Silly Sunday: Happy Pride (Repost)! Many Many FanFics, Including Shahrukh/Arjun and Rani/Vidya
You understand that I mean “gay” as a genre, not an insult, right? Kind of horrible that I have to make that clarification. There used to be a movie store in the gay neighborhood of my city that had a series of shelves called “Neighborhood Favorites”. Which was their little pseudonym for movies with same sex romantic plot lines. So maybe I should say that instead, all the Khans, plus Amitabh, should be in “neighborhood favorite” movies.
Dabangg Reloaded Chicago Show: Literally Unwatchable, WHAT HAPPENED????
Well, that was a disaster! And not in the way I was expecting, but rather the complete opposite. Salman and all the performers were great, it was everything else that was shockingly bad. And I can look at video from Atlanta and see that they got a totally different show than I did. WHAT HAPPENED IN CHICAGO????
Happy Pride! FanFic Repost, Love Stories for Karan
This post makes me so happy! Because I just want good things for Karan and marriage would make him so happy, which makes me happy.
Annual Pride Celebration! Indian Film Slashfic
Happy Pride! I am celebrating by sleeping in and recovering from the concert last night. But I will still mark the occasion with the annual reposts!
Continue readingHappy Pride!!!!! A List of Viewing Suggestions
Happy Pride! Not a lot out there for representation of Queerness in Indian film, but I will highlight what I can. Oh, and Veere Di Wedding! Still in theaters, and the best relationship in the film is between Kareena’s gay uncles.
I’m About to Leave for Salman!!!!!
Woo! Just wanted a last updated before I took off.
Silly Saturday Small Talk: I’m Seeing Salman Today!
Happy Day I See Salman! I have a new outfit plan (because of the goshawful cold and drizzly weather), and a new schedule for the day (based on checking the time on the tickets and the estimated travel time). I’m ready!
TGIF: Swimsuit Season!!!!!
I am seriously considering wearing a swimsuit tomorrow, and to mentally prepare myself, I am going to look at allllllllllllllllll the movie stars in their swimwear,
Friday Classics: Badal! For Amrish Puri’s Birthday and Bobby in Race 3
Happy Friday! I’m feeling lazy after my very very very very long post on PC and SRK yesterday, so I am going to throw up a short post on a bad movie. My favorite kind of lazy post to write! And if you want to be a lazy reader, I highly recommend watching all the song videos instead of reading, because this movie has really GREAT songs. And a stupid plot.
Hindi Film 101: Priyanka Chopra and Shahrukh Khan
Apparently, this is going to be a story again. So I will try to address it again. The first time I tried, I got so much anger in the comments (by Priyanka defenders who misread it as the strawman version below) that I had to pull down the post, but maybe it will be better now. Mostly because I will try to be more clear in my writing.
Job Ad Post: I Need a Social Media Manager
Everyone else is better at this stuff than I am! And I could get better, or learn to be better, maybe, but it is honestly making me miserable. So I need someone to do it for me.
Well, My Day Started HORRIBLE!!!! But I am going to find a bright side in everything, because that’s what I do
Not a great start to the day here! Hopefully it gets better. Or else I will get a pizza on the way home tonight (my soothing stay inside treat) and hide from the world with Dog Hazel, that works too. Or just rely on my natural optimistic instinct to find the silver lining and force myself to be happy.
Happy Summer Solstice/My Aunt Bernice’s Birthday!
Never actually met Aunt Bernice, she was my great-great-aunt, but every summer solstice my grandmother would mention that it was also Aunt Bernice’s birthday and now that is burned into my brain, the two go together. Pagan earth based sun rituals, and a spinster who worked for a mail order catalog company for 40 years.
News Round-Up: 3 Stories to Make You Angry
You know how sometimes you just need a little jolt of anger around mid-afternoon to keep you going? Not big anger about stuff that actually matters, but just gossip news incited anger. I am here for you!
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