Happy Saturday! I got home late Sunday night, so I still haven’t organized the apartment post vacation. What a fun project for the day!
Happy Saturday! Things you all can talk about:
What do we think of this new trailer? I like Sonakshi in it, and it’s a kick to see Badshah acting, but not sure if it will actually be a good film.
Did anyone read my Udaan review? I sweated blood over it, and then realized probably no one has seen the movie. Watch the movie! Partly because it is good, but more importantly so you can read my review!
And, happy start of Pride week! It’s too late to suggest movie reviews to me, but you can always give me post ideas (songs, TGIF, fanfic, analysis, whatever). Lay it on me! What Pride theme content do you want?
dontcallitbollywood 
Saw Udaan a while ago, before I joined DCIB, and sort of ho-hummed thru it. Back then I was all, “Entertain me, Indian cinema; don’t make me think.” But after reading your almost frame-by-frame analyses of other films, I watched it again and began to appreciate the pacing which I had found stuporous, the cutting which had confused me, and most importantly, the theme or, more appropriately, the absence of a hit-you-over-the-head theme in this message movie. Now that I’ve read your review of Udaan, I’m ready to watch it a third time thru my “Margaret” eyes.
An evening with Udaan will center me after last night’s Bangalore Days. This wonderful movie had me flying all over the room with happiness. Nivin Pauly, whom I’d always thought of as a lightweight, and Nazriya were perfect. And for me, Dulquer can never do any wrong. He played his “honorable rebel” role like a seasoned pro, and looked just like a younger version his famous father.
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Yes, rewatch Udaan! I think it is also one you will appreciate more now that you have seen more films with the themes of brotherly love and father-son relationships. Because it takes the familiar tropes and twists them slightly to reveal the sickness instead.
And now that you have seen Bangalore Days, I recommend either Ohm Shanti Oshaana for something super light and fun and happy that will make you really love Nivin, or Koode for something slightly more serious by the same writer/director.
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 7:08 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Well, you’ll read that I watched the movie in which I was dragged rather quickly because of the ‘rebellion against authority’ theme. I like movies where (boarding) schools play a life-forming role. As for talking…eeehhh…writing about the movie, I just would love to show the movie to youngsters and then discuss it with them (especially with two different kinds of youth-groups in the movie).
There is one queer movie I would be happy to become an inspiration for a similar movie in Hindi Cinema…I think it is my all-time-favouritewith queer protagonists: To Wong Foo, thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.
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I was thinking a drag movie would be a good fit. But in Indian culture, that would run against the role that Hijra’s already play. Hmm. Something to think about. I am sure there is a good script idea that could work with it.
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 7:33 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I’m rewatching Fanaa. I think it was the fourth or fifth Hindi film I ever saw so I had no idea who Rishi or Kirron were, I had never seen Kajol before, I had no familiarity with any Bolly tropes. It’s a really different experience watching it now. I’m still enjoying it though despite the silly sooper spy plot elements. Kajol’s performance is brilliant and Aamir is genuinely heartbreaking in the second half.
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How’s Aamir’s hair?
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 12:45 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Very different and much better in the second half which makes me think that the terrible hair in the first half was some weird character choice by Aamir. Whenever he gets in the weeds of his follicles, bad things follow.
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While organizing your appartment, are you listening to music or listening to the tv? And how is dog Albie? Did he get along with the other dog on Sunday?
Since some time, I have started to listen to audio books while doing simple chores. If I have to do physically challenging ones, I listen to my compilation of ShahRukh filmsongs…that boosts my energy and makes the physical strain insignificant.
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I usually do songs while cleaning for the energy burst. If it is a bigger longer clean I do a TV show I know well (so I don’t have to pay close attention to the screen). In this case, I did nothing. I just set a timer for 20 minutes and worked straight through and was able to do everything I wanted. I also ran a bunch of errands yesterday and took Albie Dog for a nice long walk, it was a good day.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 4:24 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Fine 🙂
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Aw, SRK. His heart just isn’t in it for now.
https://m.filmfare.com/news/bollywood/shah-rukh-khan-explains-why-hes-not-signed-any-film-as-yet-34508.html
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When I was in college and would come home on break, my parents would skip dinner parties and meetings and stuff and say “sorry! Margaret’s home!” and instead we would all stay home and watch TV together.
And now that’s what I’m picturing with Shahrukh. Suhana’s off at college, whenever she is home on break, Shahrukh wants to be able to just sit around and hear about her life and friends and stuff, Aryan’s growing up too fast and he wants all his last chances for father-son activities, and little AbRam is in school now and he has to grab his chances to play with him. And he can’t get himself excited about committing to a job that will keep him away from them.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 9:26 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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In addition, it is old news rehashed by Filmfare pretending to get a new statement from ShahRukh.
Jitesh & Co are really desperate…since 4 years, ShahRukh did neither an interview nor a photoshooting with them and the interview last year about Zero they had to buy to put it into their Filmfare like an own interview.
I bet I read those exact words Filmfare is citing already a couple of months ago. From time to time they rehash old things in a different manner with some own words. It’s really pathetic, I feel.
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The beginning of your how to read negative reviews piece where you talk about all the different people’s talents that go into making a film made me remember this tribute to film editor Anne V. Coates.
https://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-first-cut-is-the-deepest-a-tribute-to-anne-v-coates
I don’t remember where I first saw it – could it have been here?
It stuck with me because it made me realize I have no idea what film editors do. It seems like a crucial part of the work that happens behind the scenes, often carried out by women apparently, but with the credit for brilliant editing mostly going to the director.
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Yeah, one of my film history classes explained that the reason women are editors is that back when film started the cutting and pasting together pieces of film was seen as similar to being a seamstress, someone else comes up with the design and they just stitch it together. It’s a stupid reason, but somehow it has lasted down to today, over a 100 years later. Women are shunted towards editing and men towards directing. And of course, since editing is a “girl job”, editors tend not to get the credit they deserve. Cinematographers and writers, on the other hand, all kinds of credit. Because those are “boy jobs”.
In Indian film in particular, the roles don’t follow the same rules. Editing was often something the director did himself, or at least supervised, to a higher degree than in the West. More than that, because film was so expensive and so restricted, you wouldn’t have as much for the edit to work with. Instead of taking multiple shots from multiple cameras and letting the editor piece it together into a story, you would take a shot, cut the film, move the camera, take another. Every scrap of film ends up being used. The “girl job” in India is more the producing part of it, giving opinions on what changes should happen to the script, and who to cast, and stuff. Now that it’s going corporate, those jobs are being labeled as “casting director”, “costume designer”, and so on.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 9:31 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Did you see this?
https://twitter.com/i/events/1142559373643747328?s=13
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Yeah, it’s fake news. That is, the quote is real, but it’s not news. It’s from an old interview, the are just patching it together and putting it up again
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