This doesn’t really match the theme week, but we had so much fun with this discussion yesterday, I feel like I have to give you the other side of it.
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Monthly Archives: August 2019
NRI Week: Neal ‘N Nikki, Don’t Be Fooled By the Surface, NRIs still want Love and Romance
Such a bad/good movie! I forgot about it when I posted the schedule for the week, but that was kind of good. I don’t necessarily want to encourage people to watch this movie. But if you already watched it and liked it, here is a reminder of why you liked it. And I forgot, this review is also HILARIOUS. So if you like reading me lovingly taking down a bad movie, you should read this.
Continue readingShahrukh Summer/NRI Week: Which Shahrukh Characters Most Would Benefit From Leaving India?
If Hindi film is going to torture me with ten million flagwaving movies, I am going to fight back by honestly talking about how some characters would just be better off overseas.
Continue readingWomen Directors Week Sequel Post: Sequels for Zoya and Reema, Gauri, and Tanuja; Luck By Chance, Talaash, Dil Dhadakne Do, Gully Boy, English/Vinglish, Dear Zindagi, Qarib Qarib Singlle
I’m still fighting off a case of the Mondays, and nothing cheers me up like fanfic! And this is fun fanfic, the ones where I don’t have to come up with characters and stuff, I can just piggyback on characters we already know and love.
Continue readingNRI Films Week: Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, One of the Happiest and Most Realistic NRI Films
Happy anti-Independence Day week! As in, movies about folks happily living not in India without all kinds of patriotic angst.
Continue readingShahrukh Summer Theme Week Discussion Post: Marry-Sex-Kill, all Shahrukh NRI Characters
This is NRI week, the week when we celebrate stories of Indians happily living overseas. So, let’s look at Shahrukh’s NRI characters!
Continue readingI’ve Got a Case of the Mondays
Blech. My usual level of cheerfulness is somewhere around 12 out of 10 (especially early in the morning, I am that horrible person who leaps out of bed singing in happiness while everyone else wants to kill me), but today it has dropped to more like 8 out of 10. I just want to go home and crawl into bed.
Continue readingTrailers! Chhichhore and Dream Girl!
Those aitches are going to kill me in Chhichhore, I will never be able to spell it correctly. On the other hand, Dream Girl is a breeze! Purely for my spelling abilities, I wish all movies had English titles.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Week Mission Mangal Comes Out?
Happy Monday! So excited to be out of my apartment. I finished off not one, not two, but THREE streaming serieses this weekend. Yeah, I’m productive.
Continue readingZoya and Reema, Better Together
Grand finale of Women Directors week! The two most prolific and successful female directors in Hindi films.
Continue readingSunday ReRun/Women Directors Week: Dil Dhadakne Do! Reema and Zoya Give Us a Mother, a Wife, and a Maiden
Interesting, this film gives us 3 separate female leads, and each in a different phase of female life. And the one who is in the most typical filmi phase, Anushka as the “maiden”, actually gets the least amount of screentime.
Continue readingHappy Birthday Suniel Shetty! Let’s Look at Beautiful Suniel Photos
Patricia Merry sent me a message reminding me of Suniel’s birthday, thank goodness, because otherwise we might not get to celebrate together. Oh Suniel! So photogenic in an odd way that doesn’t feel photogenic! Like, you don’t look at his photos and think “there is a perfect model handsome man”, you look at them and think “I enjoy looking at this face”. Or else you think, “I would marry that man just for his vacation villa and I’m not even normally a house person”.
Continue readingWomen Directors Week: Meghna Gulzar, Fearless Honesty
Second to last one! And an important one. Another super successful director, and super good and all of that.
Continue readingSilly Sunday: Choose Your Own Ending Love Triangle, Which Hero Should She Pick?
Happy Sunday! This is a silly silly post, and a lazy post. I’m not writing the ending for these, you get to!
Continue readingJabariya Jodi Review (SPOILERS): Way Too Many Twists For One Love Story to Carry!
This movie is….fine. It’s not great and perfect, but I will happily rewatch the best bits over and over again, and the worst bits aren’t torture. If you like rom-coms and you want to see it, read the no spoiler review instead. If you don’t like rom-coms but are still curious about it, you can read this.
Continue readingIndependence Day Counter-Programming: The Best Overseas Indian Films
I am sooooooooooooo sick of Indian patriotism movies. At this point, it’s just lazy. It’s not even good movies, it’s just any old trash and then you throw in a flag and the national anthem and people will watch it. So I am doing counter-programming for Independence week! Movies about Indians who aren’t in India any more, and are happy about it. Centered around Independence Day itself when I will have a glorious festival of non-Indian movies about non-Indian desis.
Continue readingJabariya Jodi Review (No Spoilers): A Perfectly Okay Movie
Do you like rom coms? Do you have patience with flawed movies? Do you like Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra? If your answer is “yes”, you should watch this movie. If it is “no” to any of those questions, avoid.
Continue readingWomen Directors Week: A Repost on Why There Are So Few Women in Power in Indian Film
I wrote this a long time back, but I think it is still relevant. There are more and more women directors in India, but it is still a rare thing.
Continue readingSaaho Trailer! I Still Have No Idea What is Happening
Finally, a full length trailer! This will answer all our questions and make sense of everything. Or, not so much.
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk/National Film Awards
Happy Saturday! I was up way too late last night after the movie, and I didn’t even finish my reviews yet. But today I am going to be all productive and write lots and lots of stuff.
Continue readingTGIF: Women Objectifying Men
Pretty sure this is feminist and empowering and not, you know, bad. But even if it is bad, sometimes it’s good to be bad.
Continue readingImportant Question! Which of These Women Directed Sequences is Steamiest?
No wrong answer here. Tastes differ in many ways. But we can at least attempt to discover a majority consensus. And to make this easy, I have already narrowed it down to only 3 options for you!
Continue readingWomen Directors Week: Happy New Year, The Potato Chip Bag of Movies
Have I reviewed Main Hoon Na? I can’t remember. I know I did Om Shanti Om because Farah re-tweeted my review and that was cool. And I know I HAVEN’T done this movie, because I made a mental note that I hadn’t reviewed it a few months back. Anyway, I already reviewed a fascinating groundbreaking risky sexy feminist film Paap, today I will review a big dumb fun hit film with a neutral to anti-feminist message. Let’s see which gets more attention!
Continue readingGauri Shinde: Twice as Good and Half as Far
Another talented exciting female director! And one just starting out in her career, only two films old which will make writing this post tricky.
Continue readingShahrukh Summer Discussion Post: Melbourne Film Festival Chat Space!
Shahrukh is out of hiding! Yaaaaay! For another one of those pleasant events he has been doing, mature and international and where he is respected. I have no real “news” to report, it’s just a bunch of fun photos and instagram videos. But I thought I would put up a space for us all to share and discuss the fun photos and instagram stuff.
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