So happy to be writing this review! This is one of those movies when I was just ITCHING to rewrite the script just a tad and fix all their problems. And now I get to do that in the review! Thank goodness.
Continue readingI did it! A midweek movie! At a theater that doesn’t usually show Indian movies, and was still half full on a Thursday. So, woo-hoo Vijay Devaronda!!!! His career is growing by leaps and bounds.
Continue readingWhat a fun silly movie! One of those nice “nothing really matters that much and we aren’t taking it seriously” kind of movies. Don’t watch it if you want high quality and deep thoughts, but it is super fun if you just want sunshine and silliness!
Continue readingI am, like, BARELY qualified to write this. I read a couple articles, I did a grad school seminar that discussed Pakistan history, and I’ve seen maybe a half dozen Pakistani films. So really, not a lot of knowledge! Any less and I would refuse to write this at all. I encourage you to go out and learn from others, and to comment and teach me more if you know more, this is just a starting point.
Continue readingYou ready for tricky choices? We already discussed his best costumes, but which is his best real life outfit?
Continue readingWe can pretend we are here for original analysis of media and sociological discussion, but let’s be real. We are actually here for cute dog photos.
Continue readingFinally, some interesting news stories! Money and stars and interesting things like that, instead of more casting rumors and created controversies (blech!).
Continue readingAnother lazy discussion post, but hopefully one that some of you can leap in and join the discussion. Shahrukh doesn’t really have a solid “mystery” in his filmography, and I think he would be great playing the detective role, especially now that he is too old to play the young hero.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I still haven’t decided which movies I am watching, but I am strongly leaning towards Dear Comrade on Thursday. Because it opens on Thursday! So much easier!
Continue readingWhat an interesting good film! So glad you all nagged me into watching it. And now I am turning around and nagging those of you who haven’t seen it yet to seek it out and watch it too.
Continue readingI was in the middle of writing a 101 on Pakistani film when I realized I can’t really do that without talking about the relationship between Hindi and Urdu, and I can’t do that without talking about South Asian languages in general, and thus we find ourselves here.
Continue readingI was going to write a really good interesting post today, and then my work computer decided to reboot with updates for 2 hours which killed my writing time. So instead you have to be happy with this completely silly narrow casting post. For those of you who are passionately in love with classic English novels, and also Shahrukh.
Continue readingI am trying to do more musician birthdays and this is a big big musician birthday, so time for me to try to figure out what I know about Mukesh and what’s most important.
Continue readingHappy Monday!!! I had an exhausting weekend, and now I can relax and have a nice day at work.
Continue readingThis is just total indulgence for me. As a thought experiment, I want to continue my discussion of sex and power and class from these two posts and see if I can come up with new SRK plot ideas that continue to explore them.
Continue readingI don’t think anyone else loves this movie the way I love this movie. But I really really love this movie!
Continue readingYou ready to prove your TruFan status? This is a “best of” post not for the weak or faint of heart. I’m not talking the full fledged small roles (Saathiya, Shakti, Hey Ram, etc.), I’m talking about the 5 minutes or less one scenes. Most people haven’t seen one of them, let alone all of them. Heck, I haven’t seen all his cameos! Just the ones listed below.
Continue readingLast section! The one were everything finally happens, and we get our nice ending.
Continue readingSecond part! I realized when watching this series that it broke down neatly into three narrative sections, so my reviews reflect that.
Continue readingI originally wrote this back when there was a little group of us all plowing through right after it was added to Netflix. Not sure if anyone knew has seen the show since then, but maybe the same old folks have had new thoughts. Or maybe this will inspire someone new to check it out.
Continue readingI had another thought! Well actually, Rachel had a thought on this post and I replied to it, and then I kept on thinking. Anyway, thoughts! About sex! And also power and romance.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I am out of town for a wedding, doing family stuff with family, but you all can still talk!
Continue readingSuch a fun movie! I forgot how fun until I was reading this review. It has men in tiny underwear, women riding horses, and a great plot.
Continue readingIt was just pouring rain here yesterday. In that “I cannot see out the window and the sun is not coming up” kind of way. Which is nice, because it has been bright hot sun for the past 3 days. So today the rain sort of felt cozy and nice. I just needed a nice Indian movie star to curl up with and watch the storm.
Continue readingYou ready to put on your thinking caps? This is a question that has puzzled the global community for years, but I have faith in the power of crowdsourcing, I believe our team of experts can answer this underlying Question of the Universe. Just like genome code mapping.
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