I suspect some of you will have STRONG OPINIONS on this question. I also feel like maybe I have done this post before? Or something similar? Anyway, it is a vital question that deserves constant revisiting and revising. And since tastes differ, it is also a question that should spark some interesting and enlightening discussion!
Read moreI just put up a post about kissing onscreen, and a comment from Alisa/BollywoodNewbie got me thinking about how maybe the reason kisses are so shocking is because they are the one act everyone understands. While all the other stuff that is just implied goes right over people’s heads. Not “against the grain” things, but things that have no logical explanation beyond sex, and imply sex which is not procreational and married and in the missionary position.
Continue readingThanks for Catherine (by the way, Catherine, I owe you a greeting card! Email me your address and I will send it off) and Whitney bringing this up in the comments because I think it is a super interesting topic to consider, especially in the Indian context.
Continue readingOh boy, more movies!!!! I’m probably skipping a movie in theaters this weekend, so that just means more time to write about movies I saw out of theaters.
Continue readingWhat a nice movie! Not swoony and romantic, but well-made, and with a heroine I can like and sympathize with.
Continue readingThere are SO MANY!!!! It really is, in many ways, his anthem.
Continue readingThis is exciting, because we are definitely at another turning point after Thugs. And, in a lessor sense, Sui Dhaaga. Aditya’s system of small serious films mixed with big big BIG films is no longer working and he is going to have to come up with something new to entertain us.
Continue readingPart 2! Adi started out with a business plan of pouring the distribution and DVD money into multiple new small films a year. When that stopped working in 2008, he retooled, slighter bigger and more serious movies, and the occasionally REALLY REALLY BIG hit.
Continue readingReady for me to be lazy? All I’m gonna do is list off all the Yash Raj movies produced since Aditya took control. And then you can pick your favorite. And maybe I’ll review it or something. And I am going to start with the first era of YRF under Aditya, 2002 when he took control and started cranking out multiple films a year (instead of his father’s system of one film every few years), to 2008 when he started having multiple flops a year and decided to re-tool.
Continue readingI am about to crawl into bed for the next 12 hours, but as a little farewell, I am going to do a post of happy things to give me sweet dreams.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I had the best weekend, spent ages with my friend on Saturday, hung out with another friend on Sunday and cleaned my apartment and did laundry. Oh, and updated my Reviews and Hindi Film 101 indexes. And now I have to go back to work-work, boring!
Continue readingI spent the whole day cleaning and organizing, both my kitchen and the blog. And I want you to see and appreciate what I did! Well, not my kitchen, it’s still not that great. But the blog stuff, YES! Most especially, there’s a reason the “Shahrukh on Letterman” post is at the top of the homepage, it’s really cool! And Updated as of this afternoon. Check it out!
Continue readingReposting this review in honor of the De De Pyaar De release! And now that I have seen both, I can tell you that De De Pyaar De is the more progressive film, but this movie is the more fun movie as a whole.
Continue readingWhy even try to top this, The Greatest Story I Ever Wrote???? Better to just repost it and bask in the brilliance once again.
Continue readingWell, this was an interesting movie! Really did not go in the direction I thought it would. More time spent on stories I thought would be quick, and less time spent on stories I thought would be long. If you want to be as surprised as I was you can read the “no spoilers” review. If you want to know what to expect in advance, for real, not just what the trailer says, you can read this. And of course if you’ve already seen the movie and want to join the conversation, you can read this.
Continue readingWell, this was a weird day! Sorry about the lack of posts, I’ve got a De De Pyaar De spoiler review I’ve been trying to finish all day. It will go up sometime.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! We get to go to doggie training class, and I will do laundry, and other fun stuff. And also, wait to see if my eye unswells itself.
Continue readingLuv Ranjan is such a FASCINATING artist!!!! I can’t think of anyone else who brings together such different sensibilities within one artist. And, in this case, within one movie! He didn’t direct, but he produced and wrote the script, and it is pretty clearly more of a Luv Ranjan movie than anything else. Really interesting, a film that is both a fun light sexy situational comedy, and also a drama about being a woman and being a man and being a family.
Continue readingBecause Shahrukh’s newest longform interview was in America, and tickets were open to the public, there were a few DCIBers who were actually able to attend! I asked them for their stories of what it was like, without any details of the actual interview (because I want to be surprised and I am selfish that way). Oh, and no SPOILERS in the comments please either, even rumors. I’ll delete them if I see them, so other people like me who want to go in fresh can stay uncontaminated.
Continue readingMy friend who is in library school has hit an academic stumbling block, so to encourage her I thought I should do a theme post. Sexy Librarians!
Continue readingI really want to do a “red carpet looks” post, but I’m not the best place for it. Especially in a “hot off the presses” kind of way. I don’t have a subscription to a photo service, so I am just stealing images from other sites in a very haphazard way, which means it’s best if I wait until things have settled down a bit before I try it. But I can at least give a starting point for what Cannes is, behind the glitz and glamour. Be warned, this is a very cynical and practical post, so it may not be much fun.
Continue readingAnother Bharat song! Is this the last one? I think it’s the last one. Or maybe not? We’ve still got 3 weeks left, what else are they going to do if there are no more songs? Oh, and there is a super super cute news story going around about the Khans that just makes me happy and I want it to be true.
Continue readingI really love this movie. It was one of the early films I saw, one of the first movies I watched where I was told “this is an actual good movie”. And it is! It is an actual good movie! Not just a fun romance with something deep down below, but deep straight through.
Continue readingOh boy, time for my monthly pitiful beg for referrals! Which is not fun for me at all, and is probably not fun for you either. Oh well, we all have to take our medicine.
Continue readingI don’t usually let myself complain, but it’s pouring rain, my summer schedule is looking like the things I want to do won’t be possible because of other stuff that is happening that I am less excited about, and I have a big irritating expense that appeared suddenly out of nowhere. Also I just got an email asking me to sub in for Sunday school this week and I REALLY REALLY don’t want to. So I am going to complain about a thing that I think we all have strong feelings about-SUBTITLES!
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