They are a nice couple, and it was Javed’s birthday yesterday and now Shabana is in the hospital for hopefully mild reasons, so it seems appropriate to write a quick background on them individually and together.
Continue readingI know this is the film that invented the Angry Young Man. I know it is a Big Story about power and the state and so on and so forth. And that’s why I enjoy it and respect it the same way I enjoy any of the other Amitabh classics, Sholay or Deewar or Trishul or Agneepath. But the reason I love it just for me, is because Jaya and Amitabh are SO IN LOVE. Like, so in love that it is blinding. It’s not a surprise they got married as soon as they finished filming, it would have been a surprise if the DIDN’T get married.
Continue readingIt was Javed’s birthday yesterday, and I am traveling, so I am going to repost a couple of my old favorite Salim-Javed reviews. Starting with this one, which did not turn out to be the best film but is my favorite of their scripts.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! Sorry I only put up one post yesterday. But I had so many on Thursday! So you could entertain yourselves with those.
Continue readingWhat has happened to the trialer makers of Hindi film???? Have they all been kidnapped and their incompetent teenage children are trying to take over? Was there some horrible brain weapon that wiped their memories? Or did they go on strike and instead Hindi filmmakers have to use slave labor from some country that doesn’t even speak Hindi?
Continue readingOh Sid! I really liked you, and then I forgot about you, and somehow now I have come to love you again. The heart wants what the heart wants.
Continue readingI was talking to Popka Superstar and realized there were all kinds of things that I cling to, even though logic tells me they can’t possibly be true. But if I believe hard enough I will MAKE them to be true!!!!!
Continue readingAs I am sure you have noticed, my posts tend to be Hindi focused. Because that’s where I know stuff, like being able to scroll through a list of films and remember which ones had really shockingly bad wigs. But that doesn’t mean I don’t care about other places! I just don’t know enough to do an awards post. I’ll do a discussion post instead, and you can all educate me.
Continue readingThis is one of those irritating movies where it is 2/3rds perfect and 1/3rd messed up. So I totally recommend it for the 2/3rds, but I am also aware of the 1/3rd.
Continue readingI just wrote an insanely long and detailed and analytical post on male actors of the 2010s. But I am guessing this post will get twice as many comments and three times as many views. We all care about Hair.
Continue readingWell, this was a sunny pleasant film. Not great, but not terrible. Very Malayalam. Oh, and pretty also, can’t beat those Kerala village settings!
Continue readingHappy 2020! Why not make it a resolution to donate to DCIB this year? Especially because I just wrote an insanely long post summarizing the entire 2010s decade in terms of male actors.
Continue readingThank you to Genevieve for asking an interesting question! I started to write her a long answer and then realized this could be an interesting post.
Continue readingI have a terrible sickness where I can’t let anyone around me be sad. It’s horrible! And it results in me doing silly things like a post specifically designed to cheer up one particular reader.
Continue readingThe 15th seems like a good time to stop putting up new posts, right? So here is the full list of all the posts, scroll through and make sure you have voted in every category you care about. Or even categories you don’t really care about!
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I finish work today, then I finish work tomorrow, then I host a movie night, then I do half a days work on Friday, then I fly out to visit my sister and hold a crying baby for three days.
Continue readingYou know, I am actually more confident with translating real Hindi words than I am with Indian English! But I feel confident in these three at least, and hopefully folks will add on in the comments.
Continue readingRitu was related to a lot of famous public people, but was not a public person herself. I don’t want to reveal too much of her life which (by choice) she kept private. But I want to point to how she affected those around her who have chosen to lead a public life.
Continue readingWhy does no one care to vote for the best films of Salman/Aamir? Is it because they just weren’t in movies you loved-loved? But surely you loved-loved at least one Rani movie in the 2010s, right????
Continue readingOh boy! Another actor filmography to list out for the whoooooooooooole decade! And this should be a fun one to pick, because Aamir films tend to be either “I love them” or “I hate them”.
Continue readingI am so enjoying these “decade” posts, because I can do big simple categories and there are still enough options to make it interesting. If I were doing “best/worst Salman Khan Film of 2019”, it would just be between two, and that is boring.
Continue readingI was going to do of 2019, make it a challenge between Made in Heaven and Gully Boy, but then I decided to make this really REALLY hard and expand our favorite partner pair to the whole decade.
Continue readingThis is a nice fun subjective post. This isn’t everyone’s song of the year, just YOUR song of the year. And then based on the responses, we can try to come up with a DCIB community majority Song of the Year.
Continue readingBest Actor, that’s easy! You get the good role, you do spectacular, you take all the close-ups and the big dramatic monologues, everyone notices you. But what about “best leading man who stepped back”? The ones who chose to let someone else shine?
Continue readingHappy Monday! It was a snowy wet blechy weekend here, so I don’t really mind getting back to the cozy little office.
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