I’m really sleepy. The whole “getting up at dawn to get my car fixed” yesterday really wore me out. And I’ve been sleeping weird because I still don’t have a dog (another post on that today! Fun fun! For my doggie subset of readers). Anyway, get ready for me to be lazy and give the people what they want. As Neha Dhupia says, “Only Sex and SRK sell”.
Continue readingIf you don’t care about dogs, ignore this post. But if you do care about dogs, this should be a fun one for you! Or at the least, it will be a convenient post for me because I can just send the link to everyone I know in Real Life and get their opinions too.
Continue readingYeah, I’m just gonna count down all the Khans! They all have the big spectacular global hits with the big promotions on streaming sites and the rest of it. And the movies they are very proud of and bring up in their highly publicized interviews and so on. And then there are the other movies, the ones that are secretly kind of good even if no one talks about it.
Continue readingI need to write something I can stay focused on while being interrupted by phone calls every 5 minutes at work, and fanfic is where it is at. I get so sucked in so fast to my own stories that I can jump in and out a lot more easily than some stupid analytical post. Hopefully these are fun for at least some of you, since they are all just additions to movies we know. Oh, and obviously there are spoilers for the films’ real endings buried in my rewrites. Also, this is a very very long post, but you can always just read the ones where you know the original film already.
Continue readingI haven’t scheduled anything else for this week, because the Valentine’s theme week exhausted me. But I can at least schedule a Sunday rerun, so you can all rewatch the movies and prepare to discuss, or else watch them for the first time.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I got through my insane day yesterday, looking forward to another insane day today. So prepare for more light posting and late comment responses. No idea what is happening at work this week, maybe it is a full moon?
Continue readingI promised to write this review for Valentine’s Week and then I missed it, so I am squeezing it in now instead. Oh well, I didn’t have anything else planned for today anyway.
Continue readingI’m the customer support supervisor at work, which means I get my own office and a window (oooo!), but also I get to take the really complicated phone calls. And it has not been a good day for phone calls. Or maybe, it has been a good day for phone calls? What I am saying is, I have been on the phone straight through for the past 5 hours and it is beginning to get a bit stressy. I’m supposed to also do a bunch of really urgent work things, and I’d like to actually respond to your comments on the blog, plus personal emails and stuff, but that’s not going to happen today. Also lunch, lunch is not going to happen. I’ve been trying to eat an apple for 5 hours, and I’m still only two bites in.
Continue readingI don’t even care, I’m just doing posts that are fun for me! We all know Shahrukh’s top TOP movies, but what are the lessor known films that are still surprisingly decent?
Continue readingYou know what is good for SAD? An excuse to look at puppies! That, along with the slight glimpse of sun today, is going to cheer me right up!
Continue readingHappy Monday! Or, in my case, bleak and cold and depressed Monday. I need happy questions and maybe also happy movie ideas!
Continue readingI have really and truly never heard of this artist. But some nice person in the comments told me that he is really really famous even outside of India? So now I get to do a post that maybe/hopefully gets picked up outside of my Indian blog by people who are the opposite of me, having heard of Marshmello but not Shahrukh Khan.
Continue readingWell, I am feeling absolutely miserable and just trying to crawl through until spring. So I am going to vent a bit here, and then you are all going to say Cheerful and Encouraging things. And if it isn’t Cheerful and Encouraging, then I don’t want to hear it!!!! Dogs! Happy stories! Sunshine and Flowers!
Continue readingThank you filmilibrarian for recommending this movie! It is a total delight! Because it was back in a time when couples were allowed to just be in love and get married without dragging the whole thing out and turning into a tragedy.
Continue readingValentine’s Day! Day of love! And for that reason, a good day for a one off post just about love stories. The two kinds of them, the socially relevant ones in which the romance is just a jumping off point for a broader social issue, and the fun fun fun ones that just make you smile.
Continue readingI wrote this post while I was in the middle of my DDLJ recap. So I was hyper aware of what this movie took from DDLJ and what it got rid of.
Continue readingI already compared and contrasted the first halves of DDLJ and Humpty. And that got so long that I decided to break at intermission and talk about the second half today. This may be slightly too much thought to put in to Humpty (although it is a very good movie. With a terrible title), but it is interesting as an example of how DDLJ has forever changed and influenced the Indian romance film.
Continue readingThis is a movie that is about the music and the moments (Zoya is such a beautiful director) more than the plot. So it isn’t that bad to SPOIL yourself. But if you want to go into it keeping some of the tension of not knowing what will happen, you can skip this review and read the other one instead.
Continue readingI’m finally doing it, I’m catching up on my sleep. So many late nights this week! I am so excited to just sleep and sleep and sleep until I wake up.
Continue readingWhat a good movie! Not original, but also original, and perfectly executed. Reema and Zoya continue to be the Queens of the industry, and Alia is the Empress. Ranveer is okay too.
Continue readingWhich Hrithik do you prefer, sweetly stupid or kind of crazed and manic? This movie has both!
Continue readingHappy Valentine’s Week!!! One more ranking challenge for you! Who is the best rom-com hero?
Continue readingI know this is a fond favorite for some of my readers, but you don’t mind if joke about it a little, right? Like, you are aware that this is a little sappy and fantasy-fulfilling and ridiculous from the plot side of things? If your reaction is “This is the most realistic and perfect presentation of love I have ever seen!”, then maybe don’t read on. If your reaction is “This is like a romance novel come to life and that’s why I love it!”, then go for it. Because that was my reaction too!
Continue readingKal Ho Na Ho has come up remarkably often in the comments as we talk about our ideal version of a love story. So I want to use it as kind of a jumping off point for a greater discussion.
Continue readingThe last Thursday review! We had 96, OK Kanmani, and now Fidaa. So many attractive men from the southern states.
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