Everyone should watch this movie. It’s available for rent or purchase on basically every streaming service, and believe me you will want to purchase it.
Continue readingI just watched this movie for the 4th time, and it is still So. Good! And such a hard sell! I’ve seen it 4 times partly because people will only watch it if I sit next to them and force them to. Because the title alone really isn’t enough to sell it.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! I have such a freaky horrible day at work today, many many phone conferences. Expect a lot of reruns, even on top of the ones already scheduled.
Continue readingThis isn’t a list of every single Indian film with a European section, just the three most interesting ones from the Hindi industry. And the connections I find between them.
Continue readingThis is such a fascinating wonderful movie, so many themes woven into it, and no easy answers. And tragically, it is impossible to find with subtitles. Looks like it might be available through WorldCat (the extreme University version of inter-library loan) and on the UK, India, and Australia amazon on DVD. And also, Movie Time Video, the wonderful New Jersey store that offers rent-by-mail. So if you live in one of those three countries, or have access to WorldCat, or a rental account with NJMT, you can watch it! Otherwise, you can struggle along with the Einthusan no-subtitles version. Thankfully a lot of the dialogue is English, so you might be able to make it work.
Continue readingThis doesn’t really match the theme week, but we had so much fun with this discussion yesterday, I feel like I have to give you the other side of it.
Continue readingSuch a bad/good movie! I forgot about it when I posted the schedule for the week, but that was kind of good. I don’t necessarily want to encourage people to watch this movie. But if you already watched it and liked it, here is a reminder of why you liked it. And I forgot, this review is also HILARIOUS. So if you like reading me lovingly taking down a bad movie, you should read this.
Continue readingIf Hindi film is going to torture me with ten million flagwaving movies, I am going to fight back by honestly talking about how some characters would just be better off overseas.
Continue readingI’m still fighting off a case of the Mondays, and nothing cheers me up like fanfic! And this is fun fanfic, the ones where I don’t have to come up with characters and stuff, I can just piggyback on characters we already know and love.
Continue readingHappy anti-Independence Day week! As in, movies about folks happily living not in India without all kinds of patriotic angst.
Continue readingThis is NRI week, the week when we celebrate stories of Indians happily living overseas. So, let’s look at Shahrukh’s NRI characters!
Continue readingBlech. My usual level of cheerfulness is somewhere around 12 out of 10 (especially early in the morning, I am that horrible person who leaps out of bed singing in happiness while everyone else wants to kill me), but today it has dropped to more like 8 out of 10. I just want to go home and crawl into bed.
Continue readingThose aitches are going to kill me in Chhichhore, I will never be able to spell it correctly. On the other hand, Dream Girl is a breeze! Purely for my spelling abilities, I wish all movies had English titles.
Continue readingHappy Monday! So excited to be out of my apartment. I finished off not one, not two, but THREE streaming serieses this weekend. Yeah, I’m productive.
Continue readingGrand finale of Women Directors week! The two most prolific and successful female directors in Hindi films.
Continue readingInteresting, this film gives us 3 separate female leads, and each in a different phase of female life. And the one who is in the most typical filmi phase, Anushka as the “maiden”, actually gets the least amount of screentime.
Continue readingPatricia Merry sent me a message reminding me of Suniel’s birthday, thank goodness, because otherwise we might not get to celebrate together. Oh Suniel! So photogenic in an odd way that doesn’t feel photogenic! Like, you don’t look at his photos and think “there is a perfect model handsome man”, you look at them and think “I enjoy looking at this face”. Or else you think, “I would marry that man just for his vacation villa and I’m not even normally a house person”.
Continue readingSecond to last one! And an important one. Another super successful director, and super good and all of that.
Continue readingHappy Sunday! This is a silly silly post, and a lazy post. I’m not writing the ending for these, you get to!
Continue readingThis movie is….fine. It’s not great and perfect, but I will happily rewatch the best bits over and over again, and the worst bits aren’t torture. If you like rom-coms and you want to see it, read the no spoiler review instead. If you don’t like rom-coms but are still curious about it, you can read this.
Continue readingI am sooooooooooooo sick of Indian patriotism movies. At this point, it’s just lazy. It’s not even good movies, it’s just any old trash and then you throw in a flag and the national anthem and people will watch it. So I am doing counter-programming for Independence week! Movies about Indians who aren’t in India any more, and are happy about it. Centered around Independence Day itself when I will have a glorious festival of non-Indian movies about non-Indian desis.
Continue readingDo you like rom coms? Do you have patience with flawed movies? Do you like Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra? If your answer is “yes”, you should watch this movie. If it is “no” to any of those questions, avoid.
Continue readingI wrote this a long time back, but I think it is still relevant. There are more and more women directors in India, but it is still a rare thing.
Continue readingFinally, a full length trailer! This will answer all our questions and make sense of everything. Or, not so much.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I was up way too late last night after the movie, and I didn’t even finish my reviews yet. But today I am going to be all productive and write lots and lots of stuff.
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