Another box office post! Maybe the first one I wrote? Anyway, it’s big and complicated and goes into a lot of detail. And some of the examples are a hair out of date, but still okay.
Continue readingI think I wrote this after Zero came out? One of those big movies that caused the reaction of “grrrr! The stars make terrible movies and that’s why the box office is falling!”
Continue readingI have been having a lazy brainless weekend. Went to my apartment, could in theory be sorting and organizing but instead I am sitting in my sunny living room watching TV shows.
Continue readingKainaat sent me a fascinating article, which also depresses me, but has the very small silver lining that it confirms my analysis of years is/was correct. Keep trusting me, stop fighting me, I do actually know what I am talking about. Depressing though it is.
Continue readingYou thought we were done with Karan Johar, didn’t you? But no! I have one more thing to say that occurred to me while we were doing our Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham watch. And this thing will also, once again, give me a chance to rewrite the endings of Karan Johar movies which is my favorite thing of course.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I am back at my apartment, with Albie Dog, and my only plan for the weekend is to keep sorting books. It’s nice, sort of soothing activity that also feels vaguely productive.
Continue readingTHERE WILL BE AN INTERMISSION!!!! We will pause at the interval (an hour and 40 minutes into the movie, 4:40pm), and restart 10 minutes later (4:50pm) I will announce Woo-hoo, Karan Johar week grand finale!!!!! At 3pm Chicago time, I will hit “play” on the movie and start up the comments. You start at the same time and just comment along with us. Refresh regularly to see the new comments (might be worth it setting up a wordpress account to make it easier).
Continue readingThis was a fun movie! Classic Salim-Javed kind of plot, but with mature elegant calm Dilip Kumar as the lead, gave it a whole different feel. Also, Pran and Ashok Kumar and Rishi Kapoor and Amrita Singh are there.
Continue readingI suppose I could try to come up with a reason, like it is the anniversary of one of his films or something, but really there is no reason. I’m sad, so I’m putting up gifs of Shashi. And then I’m gonna have a strawberry milkshake.
Continue readingI’ve had a hard week, the weather is gorgeous and my job has slowed down, but I am still stuck inside all day which is SUPER FRUSTRATING. So cheer me up, watch a movie with me! Which I guess still has me stuck inside, but it doesn’t feel as bad.
Continue readingI’m just really sad today. Not depressed, you know the depressed where life seems hopeless and all that? Nope, not that. Just sad. One of those “I want to wrap myself in soft fabrics and drink hot tea” kind of days.
Continue readingThis is more of a thought experiment post. I want to try looking at all of Karan’s films through the lens of parenting, specifically BAD parenting, and see what we come up with.
Continue readingWoo-hoo! Everyone’s favorite scene! And the post where I get to tie it all together and talk about soulmates and love triangles and stuff.
Continue readingIs “kuch kuches” the plural, do we think? Or is “kuch kuchi” better? I’ll leave it like this, but feel free to weigh in with your thoughts in the comments!
Continue readingThe clothes!!!! The starting point in many ways for Karan. He got very excited about this new look he would do for the college years, and it totally worked, the KKHH look was a craze. But why did he think it was so important? What did he do with them that was so important?
Continue readingFinally Shahrukh! Good character, good performance, not nearly as interesting to talk about as everyone else. At least, I think so.
Continue readingWhat Karan did that was quietly radical is make the fiance plot conflict into a really nice guy. There is nothing wrong with Salman in KKHH, in fact he is a better option for Kajol than Shahrukh. And yet it is still a love triangle and a tragedy.
Continue readingNext most interesting character, Tina! Really it is the women who are original and new and different in this film, Shahrukh’s hero is good, but not quite so spectacular.
Continue readingI forgot about this, I wrote a whole bunch of specific KKHH analysis posts. We had such fun watching it together on Saturday night, and it’s Karan Johar week, so I thought I would put them up again.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I love these short weeks. I always do a half day on Fridays, and I had Monday off, and Thursday is really just a slide into Friday, and the first day of the week is just a slow ramp up to productivity, so if you think about it this is my only real work day of the week. Huzzah!
Continue readingThis is it! The greatest question of our time! The debate we have all be training for! Which of Karan’s two greatest scenes, is better?
Continue readingThat is the question! Thanks to our little Memorial Day festival, over this weekend we watched KKHH and SOTY2 already. Which means we are quickly running out of Karan Johar options.
Continue readingWe discovered last week that Aditya Chopra doesn’t actually do “sexy” well. But, in contrast, I think Karan really REALLY does. Question is, which is his best sexiest pairing?
Continue readingIn our discussions about Karan for his birthday, this movie keeps coming up. And it makes me want to go back and talk about it again, really digging in to how this film can tell us about Karan’s personal journey and how he sees himself.
Continue readingOh Harsh Kapoor! Truly, you were put on this earth for my amusement. Certainly not for anything useful, Harsh is pretty much the perfect example of a person who exists purely for ornamental reasons.
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