This is an actual excellent film, and a very fun watch. It doesn’t really matter if you know what happens, you can still enjoy watching it play out, but if you like being surprised and having edge of your seat thrills, maybe wait and read the No Spoilers review first, and then this one after you have seen the movie.
This movie also has a No Spoilers review, if you don’t want to be spoiled. But if you want to be spoiled, or have already seen it, here is the review so you can feel all patriotic today.
I am not, in fact, Indian. So anything song that goes “Rah Rah Rah, Indian Over All” is not really going to work for me. But a song that goes “Rah Rah Rah, Let’s Love Our Home Because it Is Our Home And Try To Make It Better”, that works for me because it works for everyone in the world, you know? And these are my favorite of that time.
Happy (?) Wednesday! I continue to have a semi-terrible week, so you all get to distract me from stress! What fun for you!
I finally got the box office post up! Much later than usual, but at least I did it.
Quick news report for you all. Not much for me to analyze, but hopefully lots for you to chew over as I spend the day with family/nursing my poor car along.
And the August singer birthdays just keep coming! After 3 men, it is time for one woman. But a really impressive one with a wonderful body of work.
This is one of those traditional “blog” style posts, where I talk about my life in an amusing way, instead of one of the more “Indian film news and analysis website” posts, where I am all professional and stuff. Be warned!
What an interesting looking movie! And what an interesting movie for this studio to make with these stars at this moment.
Happy Monday! I have a wee bit of a crazy week, so posting may be the slightest bit erratic. But today at least, I am at work with nothing else to do but respond to comments! So, lay your questions on me!
Twitter update! And something for us all to chew over today as I continue with my Sister Weekend (did you know Hasee To Phasee on Amazon does not have subtitles? Because ErosNOW is THE WORST????)
Okay, prepare yourself for a very very deep cut. This is my absolute favorite LM Montgomery short story. So, not an “Anne” book, and not one of her other lessor series either. And not even from the first short story collection Chronicles of Avonlea, but aaaaallllll the way in Further Chronicles of Avonlea. But it’s SO GOOD!!!! How can I resist I remake? And it is just crying out for Shahrukh.
Happy Saturday! My sister is in town and, after spending the week with my parents, now we are having Sister Weekend. Which mostly means watching movies. Maybe a trip to the grocery store.
My sister is visiting, and has volunteered to make Dog Hazel a little sweater for the winter. Knitting takes time, so now is the time to pick the pattern so it can be ready by chilly weather. Dog Hazel has terrible fur, is already cold just with air conditioning, so she definitely is going to need SOMETHING. But what?
My sister’s visiting, I’m feeling lazy, and it’s World Elephant Day on Sunday. So that’s as good a reason as any to look at people with elephants, right?
Quick one today, nothing super exciting, but some fun stuff to think about and maybe for you all to talk about.
Finally watched it! Months and months later. And years late to the whole Luv Ranjan genre. And I am fascinated! It is so much better, in so many ways, than I expected. Oh, and this is an insanely long review, partly because of the huge block quote in the middle of it. But it was too good to shorten!
Everything’s coming up Vicky! Takht announcement, and now this trailer. But, more than Vicky, everything’s coming up Abhishek. He’s BACK! And how!!!!
Yes yes, it’s another fluff post. But I put up a nice big long one this morning! Let me have my fluff.
I was feeling bad for writing such light weight posts lately, and then I remembered, oh right, I watched 3 movies this weekend and wrote 6 full length reviews (2 each) for them. Just, not everybody was interested in those reviews, so for some of you this is a pretty light week. To make up for it, I pulled out some of the more general discussion sections of my reviews of Karwaan and cobbled together a Hindi Film 101 out of it.
Okay Karan, I’ll let you make me stay up late one more night. I am so tired, but this can’t wait until morning.
I put up this video as part of my Friendship Day post, and it got no comments, which makes me think either no one watched it, or it isn’t as remarkable as it feels to me. And I am going slowly insane trying to figure out which it is. Please! Watch and comment and tell me I’m not crazy!
Well, this is just an orgy of nepotism today! Some good, some bad, some boring. Anyway, trailers!
Happy Wednesday!!! Halfway through the week, my sister is in town this weekend, I am excited! What’s going on with you?
I reviewed this movie ages ago, and I am not an expert on Tamil history or society or even film. So in honor of Karunanidhi’s passing, this is the best I have to offer.
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