My Mom and I are in the little town where my grandfather grew up to close up the last family house and do all that stuff. And we have an ambitious plan of hitting the historical society, the cemetery, Poppie’s high school, and the really good breakfast place. In the meantime, you all can chat!
First, very important, shall we as a community start referring to any film that sounded kind of interesting and now has suddenly disappeared off the release schedule before announcing it will go straight to streaming as “being drive’d”? I think it works! And gives a strange sort of immortality to poor Sid and Jacqueline’s suffering being in that movie that didn’t go anywhere.
Next, upcoming movies! Emraan Hashmi is going to be in a thriller directed by Jeethu Joseph, also starring Sobhita and Rishi. So, lots of news there! Jeethu Joseph making his first Hindi film, Rishi Kapoor healthy enough to act again, Sobhita doing something that is NOT Made in Heaven season 2 just to test us. What do you think?
Satte Pe Satte remake, which still isn’t even officially announced, now has a new rumored heroine! Anushka Sharma! What do we think? Can she do comedy? Would she work opposite Hrithik? Or as a tough Bhabhi who whips her brothers-in-law into shape?
And finally, we now know why Saif’s career is so weird! According to a recent thing he said, after his father’s death he decided he wanted to get the palace back from the hotel company that was running it and renting it out for them. So he worked hard and made lots and lots of money and now owns the Pataudi palace himself. Which my mind translated to “Oh! That’s why he made a bunch of really good movies, and then suddenly a bunch of really bad movies, and now good movies again!” Humshakals, Bazaar, Love Aaj Kal, all mortgage movies. And now he is free and can make the weird and wacky films that feel like natural progressions from the Omkara era.
Oh right, one final thing. Rumor has it that post Drive, Netflix is going to be a lot pickier with the content they pick. Hmm. I’ll believe it when I see it.
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While we are talking about Netflix – I saw another hindi movie on “upcoming” list, this time it’s something with people I know: Ali Fazal and Jim Sarbh
I don’t understand this Saif thing. So the palace was theirs or not? Why he had to pay for owning it?
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I’m not fully clear on it, but either they leased it or they sold it to a hotel company, with the understanding that the family would keep a private wing. The agreement I guess said that they could take it back at any time and break the lease/sale, only they had to pay for it? Saif said something like “I asked, and they said of course I could have it back but I would have to pay a lot of money”.
I guess this is a routine thing with the old palaces? The family’s can’t afford them so hotels come in and make it a “heritage hotel” with the agreement that the family can keep living in their private quarters and still have some kind of a right to the building?
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 8:35 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I can swear I have seen a movie the plot like this.
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That’s the plot of Khoobsurat.
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Yes! Fawad has to go talk a fellow ancestral ruler into letting them lease and run his house while he can stay in it, because he doesn’t really have another option.
I wonder why the luxury hotel scheme is so common in India and yet you don’t hear about it in other places like England? Event rentals and movie rentals yes, but not giving 2/3rds of the house over to a hospitality company. Or maybe I’m just not aware of it.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 9:14 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Oh it’s definitely a thing in England too. Those old piles are too expensive to maintain without billionaire money.
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I hadn’t heard about the Satte Pe Satta remake but I googled and now I’m excited, mostly for Hrithik and Preity. I’m not an Anushka fan. I know she’s supposed to be the girl next door but I find her incredibly boring on screen. I know I’m in the minority on this. But she’s so bland to me.
I discovered Jacqueline Fernandez’s YouTube channel and she’s utterly charming. I don’t feel like Bollywood has made good use of her talent outside of A Gentleman. I’m also intrigued that she speaks English with an American accent yet as far as I can tell she’s never lived in the US.
My hubby and I started watching A Flying Jatt last night and surprisingly we are really enjoying it! The first half hour was such a slog that I gave up on it but then some Twitter friends encouraged me to give it a second shot and I’m glad I did because the story really picks up after he gets his powers and has to struggle with learning to use them. My hubby knows a lot more about martial arts films than I do and it turns out the movie has little homages to classic fight scenes from the Matrix, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, etc. which he’s enjoying.
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I love A Flying Jatt! It’s such a cute little movie, and it has Amrita Singh, and Kay Kay Menon, and all those nice little jokes and stuff. I wish it had done well so we could have gotten more fun happy little movies like that.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 9:21 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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THE BEARD IS BACK!!!!! It’s a late birthday present to ME!
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Without reading too much into it – could this be a look for a new film to start shooting in the next couple of months? (as per his hints about announcing his next when it starts filming)
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I don’t know, I think sending a personal message to me, alone, that he loves me and cares about my opinions is far more likely.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 4:54 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of my FAVORITE musicals. My husband calls it the “You’re My Wife!” musical. Reading the wikipedia entry for Satte Pe Satta I like how it has been re-written for the Hindi audience, and I think Anushka would make a fabulous Indu, much better than the pipsqueak of an actress who played the character in the U.S. movie. So happy to think of her doing comedy!!! Though if it really is going to be in a Main Hoon Na style I’m not sure how funny she’ll get to be. I’d like to see Hrithik and Anushka together.
I’m curious to know more about Netflix and the story of Drive, but I don’t actually want to watch the movie.
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The original Satte Pe Satte is a total blast to watch, makes no sense at all and yet somehow is more logical than Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ever was.
All I know about Drive is that it was announced and filming started like 2 years ago, there was enough publicity that I got excited about it, the first look poster released and it looked cool, and somehow the film never actually hit theaters. Release date announced, then rescheduled, then canceled, all of this stuff. And then it was announced as going straight to Netflix instead of theaters, mild publicity around that, finally it hits Netflix and according to the DCIBers who have managed to watch it, it’s mostly cars going zoom zoom and one catchy song.
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I was just reading your ‘gayest moments of SRK’ post yesterday and I see this today – definitely a top contender, huh? And CUTE!!
Since childhood I’ve been saying his dialogues. What a wonderful feeling when he decides to say my dialogue this time. There’s is no one like you @iamsrk sir. You’ve inspired me to become an actor. Biggest fan ever. ❤️❤️❤️ #Stree pic.twitter.com/9o1tyUabiL— Rajkummar Rao (@RajkummarRao) November 10, 2019
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That’s adorable. 🙂
(The link didn’t work for me, here’s another one in case anyone else has the same problem.)
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Isn’t it?
Thanks Emily, I don’t know why the link didn’t work!
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I was thinking just this week how everyone’s photos look so posed now in the selfie age, even famous people. But SRK makes him crack up and it breaks them both out of their camera face :). Aww.
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SO CUTE!
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SRK said on his Ted Talks show that his sister is suffering from cancer. He said both his parents also died from cancer and that his family has gotten it in wholesale. Very sad. This was probably the real reason for his sabbatical. I think fans should just leave him alone now and stop pestering him for a movie.
Sigh, why doesn’t he stop smoking?
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Oh dear. That’s very sad.
I agree with the sentiment on smoking. He appears such a strong willed man, why is he in such denial about this?
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