I know, I skipped last week, but there wasn’t much to talk about. This week, three things to talk about! (as always, figures from renttrack by way of bollywoodhungama)
Box Office: Mulk Does Bad, Karwaan Does Better, Fanney Khan Does Best
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News Update: Salman on PC, and Shahid Does Prabhudeva
This is it, right? This has got to be the end of the Priyanka Chopra story, since PC refuses to give a statement herself, that means Salman’s version becomes definitive and now we are done? Please please say we are done! Oh, and if you don’t care about PC, it is possible this other news story will get you very excited (angry maybe?).
Karwaan Review SPOILERS: Birth, Death, True Love, All Less Important Than if Dulquer Will Quit His Office Job
I already put up my No Spoilers review which was just a wee bit cynical and unsympathetic. Versus this review which is a lot bit cynical and unsympathetic. If you want to watch the film, you should probably read that review. Not because this review has spoilers, the joy of it is in the songs and the beautiful cinematography and the line delivery by Irrfan, not in any details of the plot. But because I am just the entsy-ist bit mean and sort of tie this movie into the entire problem of class/gender oppression in the world.
Karwaan Review (No Spoilers): Oh the Struggling Upper Middle Class Male Unfulfilled Office Worker! Weep for His Tragedy!!! WEEP FOR HIM!!!
I am a bit over the “greatest tragedy in the world is a wealthy upper class man who just wants to be an artist” film trope. Which was probably clear from the title if this post. Indian, American, French, Norwegian, it’s all the same thing, and I am SICK OF IT. Good lord, just count your blessings and get over yourself.
Fanney Khan Review (SPOILERS): 1st World Problems Shoved Into a 3rd World Film
I already put up my No Spoilers review. You can read that if you are obsessed with avoiding spoilers, or you can read this. It’s a remake, so most of the plot is already is to find out, not like I am revealing big secrets here.
Puppies! And Amar Akbar Anthony
Silly post, but I just got an email from the animal shelter foster listserve I am on and I have to share a joke with you. (Don’t worry, it’s a highly funded no-kill shelter, these little guys will get adopted in no time)
Fanney Khan Review (No Spoilers): Too Much Sincerity and Too Little Honesty
Well, this was not a good movie! But a not-good movie in that way where I could see the goodness struggling to break through, and then being suffocated by bad choices. Very frustrating, with a different cast and a slightly different script, this could have been something special.
News Round-Up: Hrithik Will Dance, Salman Will Circus, and Priyanka Will Promote Herself
It was so nice not reporting Priyanka news for years and years. But now she is back and I can’t escape her. And I really don’t like it, because it makes me sound a little mean and a lot crazy, but on the other hand, it is what it is and this is the only way to interpret it. Other stuff is more interesting though, so I can talk lots and lots about that and little little about PC.
Monday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the First Week of August?
Happy Monday! I was up way way too late yesterday watching two disappointing movies back to back. Good news is, we snuck into the second one so I didn’t have to pay twice, just watch twice. Anyway, keep me awake! Ask me questions!
Rajan Nanda, Husband of Ritu Kapoor Nanda and Father-in-Law of Shweta Bachchan, has Passed Away
I don’t have much to say about this, because Rajan was a Delhi businessman, not a movie person. But I am irritated that it is being reported incorrectly in all the press, his Kapoor connection ignored in favor of his Bachchan one, and that is forcing me to write a post.
Silly Sunday: Malayalam LM Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables with Nivin Pauly
I’m doing it! A totally ridiculous extremely specific post for those people who live within the Venn diagram overlap of “Familiar with Malayalam Films” and also “Familiar with the Anne of Green Gables Series”. So, Angie. You better appreciate this Angie!
Happy Friendship Day!!!!
Happy Friendship Day!!!!! And Kajol’s birthday, it’s a busy day. Anyway, here is a nice little video post with some friendship videos, and you can leap in with your suggestions for more in the comments.
Happy Birthday Again Kajol! Helicopter Eela Trailer!!!!!
Oh wow, this movie looks so good! I thought it was going to be some sort of kitschy come back thing just riding on Kajol’s popularity, but no, it looks really really good! All on its own. The script idea is great, and Kajol is the perfect person to carry it off.
Happy Birthday Kajol!!!! 44 Reasons I Love You
It’s Kajol’s birthday! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! I LOVE her! Love love love! So I am going to do a full 44 reasons I love her, one for every year she’s been alive. Oh boy! (this is an updated and reposted post from last year)
Saturday Night Report, Laundry and Dog Hazel
Well, I just spent the past 4 hours working flat out to finish laundry. And Dog Hazel supervised. She was NOT helpful.
Monday Malayalam (on Saturday): Koode Review (SPOILERS), People Needing People to be Make Themselves Whole
I already put up my No Spoilers review. I’m going to encourage you to read that one if you haven’t seen the film yet. Not because spoilers would ruin it, but just because this review won’t really make sense without having seen the film. It’s so much about what is implied instead of what is shown, reading the plot bare bones won’t give a feel for how it is within the film. Wait until you can see it, and then come back here.
Monday Malayalam on Saturday: Koode Review (No Spoilers), Broken People Trying to Keep Moving Forward
First movie of the weekend! It could have come out last weekend, when there was no Hindi movie I planned to see, but nooooooooooooo, it had to come out this weekend, when there are 3 other films to juggle. Oh well, at least I got to see an Anjali Menon movie in theaters.
Saturday Small Talk: What Do We All Want to Talk About Today?
Happy Saturday! I am sleeping in, or at least trying to (I always have a hard time sleeping in). So I am writing this from The Past so you have a place to talk amongst yourselves while I sleep (hopefully).
Happy Birthday to Kishore Kumar!!!! A Dozen Reasons I Love You
Well, this is ridiculous. In the course of one week, the 3 major singers of Hindi film were all born. I guess if we are looking for the next big thing, the key is to check for an end of July/beginning of August birthday.
TGIF: Inspired By Suhana, Best/Worst Magazine Covers
Kind of surprised I haven’t done this already. Oh well, we are here now! I don’t promise a comprehensive overview, but I am going to pick out the most strikingly different covers I can find.
Friday Classics: Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi for Kishoreda’s Birthday
This is a classic, but a fun classic. The kind of movie that you don’t want to pick at too much because then you will end up ruining it. Which means, yaaaay! Probably a short review.
Happy Birthday to My Japanese Located Reader!!!!!
Assuming I understood what you meant by “weekend after next” several days back, this is your birthday!!!!! Or the day before your birthday!!!! Or the day before the day before your birthday!!!!! Congratulations!!!!! If I were a really good person, I would have watched a classic Bengali film for you, but I didn’t. The best I can do is this post.
News Round-Up: John Talks Sarfarosh, Pa Ranjith Talks Hindi, Everyone Talks PC
Well, this is the gossip cycle that will never end. I don’t know why I am surprised, this is how it happens, right? The gossip comes out, and then everyone reacts to it, and then everyone reacts to the reactions. And I am part of the problem, because it is just barely on the line of affecting the industry and the big messages of stuff so I feel like I should talk about it. Oh, and also Pa Ranjith might make a Hindi film, yaaaaay!
Hindi Film 101: Amitabh 2.0, ABCL to KBC
The final post in honor of Amitabh’s second birthday, bringing his life somewhere close to the present day.
Hindi Film 101: Rajiv Gandhi and Amitabh
In honor of his second birthday, I am reposting all my various Hindi Film 101 posts related to Amitabh. This one is mostly about Rajiv Gandhi, but I can’t talk about Rajiv without also mentioning his best friend since childhood, Amitabh(Nehru Gandhi part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here)
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