Yaaaay! I love love love LOVE this movie. And feel a little possessive about it, the filmmaker started putting up her little music videos on youtube while she was still finishing the film, and I watched them back then while she was slowly spinning them out. I was so excited when it turned into a film festival darling and everyone was talking about it!
Continue readingWoo, first Shahrukh-Juhi movie! And first Shahrukh Aziz Mirza movie! They got along okay but didn’t really really like each other in this film. It was one of those friendships that built slowly, not almost instantly like Shahrukh-Kajol.
Continue readingI put up that discussion post two weeks ago, and then realized it was already too late. With the slow shipping times currently and the impossibility of shopping in stores, plus my foot limiting what I am able to do, I didn’t have many options. Anyway, I did the best I could!
Continue readingHappy Birthday Grandpa! 99 years old today! Which is, I think, the longest anyone in our family has ever lived. At least, that we know about 🙂
Continue readingOkay, let’s do this! I’ve only seen this movie straight through twice, and the last time was over two years ago. But I have faith I can still remember and review this!
Continue readingWoo, what a fun interesting TV show perfectly designed for the DCIB audience! And nice a short and light too. I’m gonna do quick short reviews of the episodes, grouping the first 3 and the last 3. Also, VERY IMPORTANT, if you liked this show you should watch Little Things. It doesn’t have the celebrity aspect, but very similar slice of modern Indian life.
Continue readingThis is not Indian film related at all, but I just put up a deep dark post on Malayalam cinema, so I thought we all deserve something super SUPER happy.
Continue readingNow, remember, I am NOT an expert on Malayalam film industry. I’m just a beginner. So this is going to be a summary of “this is what I have heard, but I don’t know if it is true”. However, I do want everyone to read it anyway. Those who know what I am about to say so you can correct me and provide gobs more background. Those who don’t so you can get a baseline for how very messed up a film industry can get.
Continue readingYes, first, my Grandpa’s birthday is 9/11. He had a good 80 years where the most important thing about that date was that it was his birthday. Oh well, now it makes it easy to remember. Second, since the start time is gonna be different, I thought I should give two days warning to people about what movie it will be so they can plan.
Continue readingThis is an overall fun 90s kind of movie, and then halfway through POW! Shahrukh!
Continue readingI am excited about this plan! Partly because I have reviewed almost all of them already so this will be very little work. But also because, Shahrukh! Happiness!
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! It is completely overcast and dreary here and I just had a massive horrible car thing that I will explain in the “thinking” section. Why are Wednesdays so difficult?
Continue readingWhat a happy day! Ashaji just makes you smile, doesn’t she? Because she is always smiling and you can’t help but smile back.
Continue readingDue to Grandpa’s birthday, I can’t start the WatchAlong until 5pm this week. By the way, my parents take this whole thing SO SERIOUSLY that they were initially trying to figure out a way to schedule Grandpa’s birthday around the watchalong. To which I said “NO! This is more important and DCIB will understand!” You do, right?
Continue readingI’m supposed to promote on social media and whatever, because that’s part of an author’s job now, but I don’t know how to social media so instead I am putting up weird short announcement blog posts.
Continue readingI like how we have really been tackling the tough topics today. Never let it be said that DCIB shrinks from controversy!
Continue readingThe vital topics continue! If you have more thoughts on curly hair, jump to the previous post. But when we talk style, this is the place to be.
Continue readingI feel the need for a total Happy Place kind of discussion, and “hair” is the best I can come up with at the moment. I mean, we all have it, right? And it’s fun to talk about, brag about, complain about, give and receive advice, and so on.
Continue readingAre we the only ones who do Labor Day in September? So stupid! Like we will suddenly be communist if we do it on May 1 like everyone else in the world. Anyway, I have a day off work, yaaaaaaaaay!
Continue readingOkay, pretend the mullets don’t exist. This is a really good movie! And it gives Shahrukh way more action and excitement and kind of classic “hero” stuff than any other film. All without losing his essential feminism.
Continue readingIt’s Rakesh Roshan’s birthday, yaaaaaaaaaaaay! He made some fun movies, and some bad movies, but overall I am glad he is around.
Continue readingWell, this was a long day! With a lovely lazy start, and an exhausting middle bit, then a little bit of stress, and now dinner.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! It’s getting downright chilly here, a good day to curl up with a book, but instead my Dad is going to make me help with “shutting down the house for the winter” chores. Blech!
Continue readingYaaaaay! One of my favorite movies! So even if people can’t show up, because of stupid jobs and school and things, I will have fun watching it by myself.
Continue readingI decided in the past few months that I would no longer casually use the word “nepotism” or accept it’s usage in comments on this blog. You didn’t notice, because you all must have made the same decision consciously or unconsciously, somehow it just became a term we did not use any more. But I feel like that isn’t enough. Being passive is being complicit, I want to open up the argument to why and how this word is used as a weapon.
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