Happy Wednesday! Halfway through the work week! And almost March. And one week until the temperature here goes above freezing. Oh, and the good people won the election yesterday!
Watching: I’m watching cheerful comfort TV, catching up on the last two seasons of Modern Family. They are in California! Their houses are so sunny and bright!
Reading: Well, Modern Family reviews. And Wodehouses. And nothing really difficult or challenging in any way.
Thinking: My sister is a wee bit mad at me because it came up yesterday that I haven’t taken my vitamin D supplements in like two months. But it’s so hard to remember! And now she is being all superior and “big sister”y and going to remind me every day so I don’t let myself fade into the usual “OMG, your vitamin D level is so low that I am putting you on emergency prescription strength supplements” level that I reach at my annual spring doctor’s appointment. And of course the usual “I can’t sleep, I am always tired, and very depressed” level that I reach by March in Chicago. Vitamins are important! Who knew!
Listening: “Train Song” is on youtube! Who needs Vitamin D!
Now, question for you! A pretty simple one, because I am feeling lazy (definitely NOT because my vitamin D is low, I am fine and my sister is just being bossy): based on my post from yesterday, what is the steamiest song from Indian film for you?
I think I’m gonna go with “Main Yahoon”. But I’m willing to be talked out of it!
dontcallitbollywood 
TAKE YOUR VITAMIN D!!!!!
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Eh. Do we even really know it does anything?
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https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamins/vitamin-d/
You can’t argue with Harvard! Plus, I want to be on your sister’s good side. The all caps and exclamation points scare me.
Also, I am a total hypocirte! I have been extrememly negligent in taking my Vitamin D, so before my sister decides to get on my case, I am going so start taking it.
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Yes, apparently sisters are less willing to be sympathetic with your anxiety and sadness and fatigue after they learn you haven’t been taking the vitamins you know you need because it was just too much work to shake a few drops in a glass of water once a day.
Also, I just looked at your link, and I feel so much better about having permission to take a ridiculous amount every day! And D3 instead of D2. My doctor had me on 4,000 a day of D2 last winter, and I didn’t like it, but I can take my over the counter D3 supplement with every meal and get that much anyway.
Or, I could just watching Dhoom 3 over and over again, that has the same effect, right?
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:05 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I reccomend Dhoom 2 instead of 3 only because it doesn’t have a sad ending, and also a lot of sexy, shirtless Hrithik. Then, yes, it would basically be the same as taking a prescription strength D3 supplement!
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Come to think of it, D3 is set in Chicago in Fall, which is what is making my vitamin D levels so depressingly horrifyingly low anyway, while D2 is in Brazil. You are right, D2 is the clear choice.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:52 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Tomorrow I’m watching Kumbalangi Nights! I didn’t read your review yet cause I like to have no clue what’s going on! i watched Interstellar finally 2 nights ago and it’s still spinning in the back of my head.
I haven’t seen a lot of Indian Cinema, but something that’s sweet and steamy is this one from Mayaanadhi https://youtu.be/jpcHhyhmgg0
The translated lyrics are poetic-sexy.
I’m currently trying to get back to regular travel blogging and posting on my Malayalam instagram and it’s a pain in the ass. But I’m almost done with this blog post! oof.
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So excited to get your take on Kumbalangi Nights!
And yes, you should definitely go in without reading my review. Because I really don’t know what I am talking about. That is, my interpretation of the film is only one of many and not necessarily the best one. So go in fresh and come with your own perspective.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:19 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I always like the song with John and Vidya in Salaam-E-Ishq but it has the other stories cut into it which kind of ruins the effect. The love scene in Jodhaa Akhbar song is good. O Saiyan from Agneepath is peak sexy Hrithik. The song in the hotel in Ram Leela with the kiss. Though it’s sad and melodramatic, too,…the tub song in Sanam Teri Kasam. The tango-ish dance sequence towards the end of Befikre is kind of Mr and Mrs Smith style sexy. Arjun and Parineeti in any romantic song are always surprisingly steamy, especially in moments of Pareshaan. And I think it was when I saw Kabhi Neem Neem in Yuva that I realized that Abhishek can be sexy and Rani is always on fire.
All that being said, I don’t generally think that the songs in Hindi films are all that sexy. Because of their montage-y or very over the top melodrama, they always seem a little too fake or manipulative.
Watching: nothing lately:(
Reading: random romance novels:)
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I was surprised when I tried to put together my post, how many sexy songs have Rani! She isn’t sexy in an obvious way, but when she is put in a love scene, she really commits to it and makes it feel real. Physical, emotional, and intellectual all together.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 8:39 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I am stressed, stressed, stressed. Also depressed, depressed, depressed. And feeling like I don’t have much left to give, yet people keep asking for more. Not a great headspace, so I feel you with the SAD. Hang in there. At least in my own experience these bad times do pass.
I may take a mental health day from work so I can be home alone to get my living space and personal to do list a little bit less chaotic. It won’t be fun but I can have Shah Rukh songs on in the background, and being even slightly more together at home base usually helps me feel a little more “resourced” as my shrink calls it.
I really want to see Gully Boy this weekend. Then Captain Marvel next weekend. 🙂
Reading Bossypants, several years after everyone else. Tina Fey’s autobiography. Have never watched 30 Rock, and only bits and pieces of her SNL stuff, but the book is legit hilarious. It resonates especially because she is a year or so older than me, so her take on 70s, 80s, and 90s family life, school/college, and pop culture feels very familiar.
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Well, as of this Sunday, I am FINALLY off my church committee and done with responsibilities for it. So, phew! That’s one less stress on me. I don’t know if you have anything you can drop like that, but if so, do it! Makes things so much better. And, as I am sure you noticed, I am also letting myself be lazy lazy lazy on the blog. Which usually means a bunch of really light happy posts, so that’s all good for everyone’s SADness.
I love 30 Rock, and I love Kimmy Schmidt too, and one of the best parts about them is how much Tina Fey is able to get out of her collaborators. Her actors really build their own performances and have dialogue written perfectly just for them, plus based on what they have gone on to do, her writers room is top notch and also encouraged to think for themselves. All of which has made me less interested in reading Bossypants because I wasn’t sure how much of what I liked was Tina Fey as a writer, and how much was Tina Fey as a manager who encourages others.
And yes you should see Gully Boy! It’s such a good movie, well-made and inspiring and happy.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:04 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I am continuing to watch One Day At a Time and 100 foot Journey. And maybe I will watch old Salman movies this weekend. P.S. I watched Gully Boy last weekend and LOVED it! It might be one of those movies that I watch over and over again when it comes on Netflix/Amazon.
As far as steamiest songs go, my vote would be for Dhak Dhak Karne Laga (Beta) because well Madhuri and Anil! and Jo Hal A Dil Ka (Sarfarosh) because it starts of so chaste and playful and then get really steamy and it has been on my mind after your Aamir post.
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I am so glad you liked Gully Boy! I will definitely watch it over and over again on Netflix, it’s one of those movies that has so many good scenes and songs, I want to just have it on in the background so I can dip in and out of the good bits.
I’m stalled on One Day at a Time, because it’s so emotional! For a sitcom that is. I had to take break after getting through the first two seasons. Haven’t seen 100 Foot Journey, but when I saw Rahman live, he played some of the soundtrack he wrote for it and people were NOT HAPPY. So that’s my big connection to 100 Foot Journey, an auditorium full of people shouting out “Roja! ROJA!!!”
I almost included “Jo Hal A Dil Ka” in the “fire” songs, but I forgot there is only a little fire and then it gets wet. That’s one of those songs I really love within the movie, but not on its own. In the film, we have Aamir as this impossible to read hero and its thrilling to get a glimpse of the passion he is hiding. That’s what makes it sexy to me. Kind of like the love song in Jodha-Akbar, but that is also sexy just on it’s own, because Hrithik and Aish are beautiful.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:27 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Thinking:
I finally finished adding movies to my letterboxd, and my first thought was: Oh man I have seen a lot of crap in my life 😉
I realized also that Nila – simple tamil movie I saw 2 years ago and absolutely loved is 96’s older brother. It’s about a taxi driver who one night meets a women he was in love with when they were children. He becomes her driver every night when she returns from work. There is so much tension, and caring and saddnes between them in this small taxi. I won’t say more because I hope some of the commentators (LOL I know Margaret you are not tempted) will watch and love it too. It’s on Netflix and it’s beautiful.
And also I was shocked when I saw Sruthi Hariharan is the protagonist. It’s funny how I saw her in some roles but never knew it’s the same actress. But now I’m offcialy Team Sruthi.
Watching:
-Ente Ummante Peru – it was ok
-Taxiwaala – I loved it. First I was watching only for Vijay Devarakonda, but then I realized I really like the story, and in the second half I found myself talking to the screen: Be careful! Run! Oh, the bad guy is here!
I haven’t seen a movie that make me talk like that for a while. This film is not perfect, but very entertaining – funny, gripping, Vijay is super sexy and Vijay’s white girlfriend (she is my heroine) has 2 sec cameo too. I don’t need more.
-Nathicharami, kannada movie with Sruthi Hariharan. Basically it’s Quarib Quarib singlle, but without romance. Here’s the trailer:
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You’ve seen so many good movies this week! Makes me feel lazy. Although I did see Gully Boy a second time with my parents and Kandalingi Nights, so that’s something. Of all of them, Taxiwaala sounds most interesting to me! I like gripping thrillers, so long as they are more exciting and clever and less scary and violent.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 1:08 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Often I don’t feel like finishing a movie, but I think: hey, I must end it so I can include it in my Wednesday Watching 🙂
Taxiwaala is not scary. They tried to make it scary using red light and background sounds, but it didn’t scare even me, and I’m chicken-hearted. And there is not much violence too, compared to other telugu movies.
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You are allowed to lie on Wednesday Watching, if you absolutely have to. It is allowed to just start a movie and then stop it and say you finished it.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 8:18 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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But I like to have a deadline to finish the movie. I’m already lost in all the movies I started (curently Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai, KGF, Poo, Oru Mexican Aparatha, and maybe some others I don’t even remember) and it’s good to have a reason to finish some of them every week.
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That’s why I started my scheduling system, but then the deadlines got on top of me and I keep having to take breaks to catch up.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:44 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I already know myself – as soon as I scheldue something it won’t be done.
I had a nice list of movies to watch, and I kept watching everything else.
I decided to watch at least one Tovino Thomas movie a month, and in the beginning it worked but then I haven’t seen one in 6 months (till this Februray when I saw 2)
The same with home chores, emails I should write, things I should do…
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My apartment is so clean, when I am trying to schedule blog posts. Because suddenly cleaning seems way more fun when the alternative is the thing I have told myself I “should” do.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:01 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I take Vitamin D every day and I thought it would be a waste of time but I actually had more energy (I was very deficient despite living in Southern California). I have a medicine reminder app on my phone and it is a lifesaver.
I started watching Dabangg last night because I was inspired by your Salman post and it’s been a rollercoaster of cackling and eye rolling. Gonna watch more tonight since this is not a movie that requires dedication and binge watching.
All of the news out of India is horrible, horrible, horrible. And I feel very sad about it all.
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I love Dabangg! It is such crazy fun. Dabangg 2 is okay, but not nearly as good. I also recommend Singham, for a similar feel.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 1:52 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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The steamiest song?
Vaseegara – Maddy shirtless, inside black sheets, under the shower and the lyrics about sleeping under 1 blanket. I love hindi version Zara Zara too, but I think tamil is sexier because the chemistry is better (and that’s because the actress is better)
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About to link the same song – it was a crazy song at that time, that audio was allowed to be played on speakers, but would be skipped on TV in living room.
Reema Sen had a similar one in Telugu movie Chitram -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp4WjnN_3Q0
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This song is sexy even today so I imagine how it was 18 years ago.
Yjbasu, have you seen N.T.R: Kathanayakudu? I’m so curious why this film was a flop.
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And oh my, I just watched this song from Chitram. So sexy. Seems that Reema was female southern Emraan Hashmi at that time 😉
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Yeah! That song was a sensation and youth went to theaters only for that song 🙂
She had couple of similar movies/songs in other Telugu movies – one with Nagarjuna in Bava Nachadu, one with Ravi Teja in Veede
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Yes, I saw recently in Prime and I was disappointed that it got flopped. It was a good attempt. Except that the 50+ Balakrishna was not suited for the early parts, he brought up NTR well from middle-age onward. The film was neatly balanced between the reshoots of NTR’s movies (nostalgia) and the persona of NTR. And the direction is apt, though not spectacular.
I think the movie was lost in the negative publicity of caste and politics in Telugu society :-(. Which was half-true that could not be denied as both parts (especially the second Mahanayakudu) were part of the propaganda for Balakrishna’s party, currently ruling the state. If this move came post-elections (due in this summer), and Mahanati was not there as a standard (for comparison), this movie would have fared well
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Modern Family has been renewed for one last season. Thanks to Hotstar, we are getting the latest season simultaneously when it’s airing in the US. And I love California too! LA and San Francisco are 2 places on my bucket list.
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I don’t normally love California, but I am very jealous of their year round sunshine while crawling through a Chicago winter. But once I get to a Chicago spring, summer, and fall, no more need for California!
I’ve been to San Francisco, visited a friend there a few years back, it was all right. Still have never been to LA. In general it has no appeal for me, but I really want to do a tour of the older areas and kind of classic Hollywood stuff. Someday.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:05 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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As an Indian, I’m not fond of sunshine all year round, but California just looks so colourful. And I love beaches, so it’s on my list.
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Did you do a post on the KWK ep with PCJ and KKK
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No, not yet.
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Thinking about something like a Baahubali remake in Bollywood/north indian context
What if we remade Baahubali as an out and out hindi movie using traditional bollywood actors?
Then mahishmati kingdom would culturally fit like a punjabi family
For example
Baahubali = Bobby deol
Balla = Sunny Deol
Bijjala = Dharmendra
Shivagami = Hemamalini
Devasena = Preity Zinta
Avantika = Anushka
Kattappa = Shah Rukh
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Hmm. I feel like SRK as Kattappa isn’t quite right, and neither is Preity. What about Akshay Kumar as Kattappa and Rani as Devasena?
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 2:26 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Rani would be ideal (I was looking at punjabi theme initially)
Kajol would be a good fit as Ganga maybe?
Akshay Kumar would physically make a good fit as Kattappa
But I preferred Shah Rukh because he could display the maturity required for the older role
Probably Ajay Devgn would provide the right mix of physicality, maturity, & emotional intensity for the Kattappa role?
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Oh, Ajay would be just right! That’s essentially who he played in Fitoor.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 2:51 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I think I can officialy add Sharwanand to my crush list. OMG one month passed since I saw Padi Padi Leche Manasu, and only now I started watching videos, and fall in love with them. When I was watching the movie I was focused on subtitles and couldn’t see actors expresions and details. Now I watched it carefully and both Sharwanand and Sai are so good. Especially in this song (btw I adore Sid Sriram’s voice and I watched Taxiwaala because he sings one song). I have goosbumbs everytime I see sad Sharwanand looking at happy Sharwanand from the tram. And I cry when I see the couple on the bike.
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Yikes! — did you see this:
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