It’s snowing, and I am feeling very cozy and ready to watch things. I’m hoping to knock off 2-3 movies on one day today, very exciting!

This is mostly to force myself to watch it. But maybe it will also force some of you to watch it! And then we can all admire the period clothing and Konkona’s directing and become fans of Vikrant Massay.

To be fair, I didn’t see that many Malayalam films in 2018. But this one was really really good!

It’s Javed Akhtar’s birthday today and I love him, both as a scriptwriter and a lyricist.  I am going to try to limit myself to 25 reasons I love him, one for every film he wrote with Salim Khan, plus a bonus just for being him.  And I’m going to include quotes from his Salim-Javed films, because although they were both credited, it’s generally believed that Javed wrote more of the dialogue.

(This is an updated and re-posted post)

Yes yes, it is that fun time again!  The time for you to read/ignore the monthly reminder to promote me.

If you want to start the year off right by paying back your Karmic debt to me, tweet my posts to your friends, or mention me in comments on other sites, or recommend me to podcasters/bloggers/professional writers/editors/whoever you may know.  I’m bad/unlucky at this kind of thing, so I really need help through personal introductions.

Most of you enjoyed my writing for all of 2018 without doing anything to promote me. Turn over a new leaf in 2019!!!! Spread the word about my blog and pay me back a little bit for all I do to entertain you.

Nice little news round-up today, not a lot of stories or very important stories, but some nice little ones to talk about.

Happy Wednesday! What’s going on in your life? I was up way too late last night so I make no promises about responding promptly, or intelligibly. But I still want to hear from you!

It’s that time again, the time I remind everyone that it is a good thing to tip people who provide a service, even if that service is writing on the internet.  Think of it as a New Year’s Resolution, start the year off right by paying off your debts, including your debt to me for giving you entertainment all year long.

If you want to set up a recurring payment, then you can do that through Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/dontcallitbollywood

Or, of course, you can always Buy My Book!  Which gets me no real money (a percentage of a percentage on every sale), but makes me feel appreciated:

Well, these are very different! And yet, the same, both are all about “young people growing up in modern India”, that theme that movies and internet think pieces love to explore.

I’m back! After skipping the past few weeks, meaning I am coming in just as Simmba turns into a failure instead of a hit. (as always, figures from bollywoodhungama)

Again, the headline pretty much says all you need to know. But I will blather on a little longer just so it feels like a real post.

Really, the headline says it all. But I feel weird putting up a post that is just a headline, so I will talk a bit about the whys and wherefores and hopes for the future and all that.

Remember the two #MeToo rules on DCIB: If you are going to repeat a story about someone, you must link back to the original source so we can all read it and judge for ourselves. And if possible, try to make the discussion broader and productive instead of personal. I’m going to try to follow both those rules myself with the Hirani story, giving a link back to the original source here, and talking about the broader issue I see what what happened.

Do you like reviews that tear down movies in a nasty way? Then this is for you! And if you don’t like those reviews, don’t read it.

I skipped this episode when it first aired, because what do I care about cricket players? But then it turned into a whole “thing”, so I tracked down an illegal copy (since the legal copy has been pulled) so I could judge for myself.