So I’m watching the Pakistani show Heer and thinking about how much it is like Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl. Which brings up the question, is Alcott or Austen more Indian filmi?
Continue readingI did the first two episodes one at a time, but now I am just plowing through. So much happens, and yet also nothing. And somehow now that we have left the village, it all feels a little less important. Anyway, rich people got PROBLEMS! That’s the theme of these episodes. (Heer reviews index here)
Continue readingHappy Varun Week! What a delightful celebration we shall have. Thank goodness Varun’s filmography is almost 100% light and happy. Not necessarily “good”, but definitely light.
Continue readingI feel bad, Salman made a deeply felt sincere music video, and here I am sitting in my PJs giggling at it. But really! Sincerity is funny!
Continue readingYes, it is Varun Dhawan’s birthday week! Which I think means our Friday movie has to be a Varun movie, don’t you?
Continue readingYou know how every Friday I would go see the new release with my friend Dina? Our new routine is to watch a movie together with Netflix Party every Friday. And we have a long list of weird old movies we have been dying to show each other. So, sorry Internet People! The new movie reviews that are going to be going up, are a lot of weird WEIRD old things. And this one is very weird, I encourage you to read the spoiler section even if you don’t want to watch the movie just to see how WEIRD it is.
Continue readingAnd the differences and distances keep coming! This episode and the next are structured differently, instead of cutting back and forth, we are seeing things solely from the perspective of one part of our separated couple, the other half only appearing in brief phone calls. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingMaybe I missed something, all I did was skim through the EIGHT HOUR video until I saw Shahrukh’s face, but if this is all there was, dull dull dull.
Continue readingI thought about giving you a prompt this week, but I just couldn’t think of anything good enough. So it’s all on you! Any story you want about any body you want set anywhere you want!
Continue readingA vital question! And I am throwing in a complication to make this hard, Sex Marry Punch but with FOUR choices. So one of them you have to just leave alone.
Continue readingMy views are insanely low right now, and I don’t super care. The blog is keeping me sane and if it is doing the same for my half dozen or so folks who are still reading and commenting, that’s totally worth it. But! Since it is just us half dozen in an empty room chatting, that means we can talk about the stuff we care about and not worry about the 100 or so other people who are usually here with us. TIME FOR DDLJ!!!!! (full index here)
Continue readingThis was brave, the whole season is set up around their long distance, and we get past the whole thing in one episode. But then, it’s a show about relationships, we don’t need to see them apart, we need to see the good-bye and the re-entry.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I am staying at my parents’ this weekend instead of going over to my place, the back and forth was getting to me. I think ideally I would do 8 or 9 nights at my parents, and then 3 nights at home, and then back again. But tragically work schedules don’t work like that. Anyway, staying at my parents! Which means I am both more available for blogging (because I don’t have a big project to work on) and less (because I have to be nice with the other people I am living with).
Continue readingBoy, that headline doesn’t make you want to watch the episode, does it? But it’s a good sad. A healthy sad. And the kind of sad we don’t usually see in art, normal every day non-tragic sad. Which is part of why it is sad, that you don’t feel like you have the right to these emotions. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingFriday Watchalong time! The best part of the week! It’s spring break in some places which I think is affecting attendance this week (parents gotta parent), but I am super excited about our film choice!
Continue readingHappy Birthday Siddharth! “Southern Sid” as you are known here. 41 today, and still looking somewhere around 23.
Continue readingThis show moves so fast! I’m not used to this from my South Asian serials. It’s only episode 2 and we are already completely changing settings? (full index of Heer reviews here)
Continue readingWhat a fun game/way to express our irritation! I am sure as Indian film fans (desi or non-desi) we have all dealt with the scornful outsider who thinks they know everything but really knows nothing.
Continue readingYaaaaay, Friday movie time!!!! Not as much excitement in the “pick a movie” post this week as previous weeks, but I plow onward regardless! I mean, even if it’s just me and Kirre and Genevieve this week, that is a freakin’ PARTY! Still the best part of my week.
Continue readingOkay, season 2 was twice as good as season 1, and season 3 looks to be doubling in quality again. This episode is so lovely and loving and scary.
Continue readingI really love Gertrude Chandler Warner. She got me reading, just like she got so many other children reading.
Continue readingWhat a nice day today is! Lara Dutta was born, that’s nice enough, but Charlie Chaplin! Who wasn’t an Indian artist in that he never made a film in India, but his influence on Indian film was so vast, he definitely belongs here.
Continue readingOh Lara! I like her. Not really sure why. I mean, there’s no reason to dislike her, but I don’t know enough about her to be able to justify why I like her so much.
Continue readingThis is such a great show! It’s like Humsafar or Zindagi Gulzar Hai, only stuff happens quickly and people wear bright colors. So, not at all like them. (full index of reviews here)
Continue readingI loved loved loved Mentalhood, but not many of you watched it largely because of the ALTBalaji subscription. And I continue to love Little Things, but not many of you are watching that, maybe just because it is too lowkey and bland instead of Drama and Romance. So here, Drama and Romance on an easily accessible service! Watch Heer with me on Prime!
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