I wrote this FanFic on Sunday but just kind of sketched in the outline. And then we talked and came up with multiple variations on the story.
Continue readingMini FanFic Post: Pick an Ending for the Kareena-Deepika-Akshay Baby Movie!
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Hindi Film 101/2010s, the Decade Rap Arrived in Hindi Film
This is fun, these random decade round up posts as stuff occurs to me. It’s slow days anyway as we all prepare for New Years Eve (and, of course, the New Years Day tweetalong!), so I might as well put up random stuff. Oh, and forgive me if I mix up “rap” and “hip-hop”, Reflects on Life explained the difference to me months ago and I mostly understand it, but when we get into trying to use them as verbs and adjectives and adverbs, I got confused again.
Continue reading2010s: The Decade the Big Hindi Film Choked the Industry
I’m still sleep-deprived, but I have a Big Idea I want to try to express. Let’s see how I do with that. It won’t be perfect, but we can talk in the comments and make it perfect. And if you want background reading, here, and here, and here, and here are some other posts I did on the history of box office.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Pick A Best/Favorite Shahrukh Movie of the Past Decade
I popped awake at 3am this morning and could not get back to sleep. So, I am not thinking very straight and I want to put up a discussion post to save myself from having to write stuff. Save me! Respond! Even if you aren’t an SRK fan, you can still have an opinion so long as you have seen at least one of his recent movies.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Last Monday of 2019?
Happy Monday! I work today, and then I work tomorrow and leave early, and then I sit at home and eat pancakes and tweet on Wednesday, and then I work Thursday, and then I work my usual half day on Friday. SWEET! This is a good week!
Continue readingDDLJ Part 50: Karwa Chauth Party Party!!!!!
I’m back! I just took about 200 more screenshots and it got me slightly less than 5 minutes farther into the film. So even if I do a post a day, I think we still have a month or more before I end this thing. Which is good news or bad news depending on how you feel about it.
Continue readingSilly Sunday: Dark Reunion for Rani and Shahrukh, Charlie’s Angels in India, and Akshay Gets His Come-Uppance
Random mixture of ideas today, I know most people don’t read these, but for those few of you who enjoy them these thoughts were too good to resist. Especially a movie where Akshay gets what’s coming to him. You can skip to the end if you just want to read that one
Continue readingChristmas Give-Away Week 8: Popka Superstar!!!! Take a BOW!!!!
Look at that! Last week, surprise winner, Popka Superstar! “Surprise” in that Popka doesn’t comment that often usually. But hey, it’s Govinda’s birthday week! And also, week 8 of the give away, so I had to through 7 other people first before I got to Popka. But I’m still excited! This card is going to be EPIC. (also, Popka, I don’t have your address. Use the “contact me” link to give it to me. International mail, not a problem)
Continue readingGood Newwz Review (SPOILERS): Good Newwz is Bad News
If you are kind of interested in this movie and want to see how the plot plays out, read the No Spoiler review. If you just can’t get past the Akshay of it all, you can read this review instead.
Continue readingGood Newwz Review (No Spoilers): Major Plot Problem, Why Would Kareena Want Akshay’s Baby?
I saw it! I do NOT recommend it! Once again, Akshay managed to somehow suck all the goodness from a film.
Continue readingI Went to An Indian Buffet! How’s Your Saturday Going?
Happy Saturday afternoon! I’m gonna be working for a while on my Gooddddd Newwwwzzzz reviews but I thought I could put up a quick placeholder post about my delicious lunch.
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat While We All Recover From the Holidays!
Happy Saturday! Not to brag, but I went to bed before 9pm last night. Yes, that is right, I am living the dream! And today I plan to get up and out the door super early in order to make the really cheap showing of Good Newwzzzzzzz. I’ll see it, but I don’t want to pay a lot for it.
Continue readingDDLJ Part 49: The Romance of a Fight
An SRKajol scene! Always the most interesting ones to discuss. Although by this point in the film/my analysis, I’m not sure if there is that much new for me to pick up between them. But I will try because Rachel said she was depressed last night and I want to cheer her up!
Continue readingTGIF: Happy Birthday Salman Khan! A Lot of Your Photos Make Me Smile
Love him, hate him, at least you have to appreciate the humor of these images! Well, they make me laugh, even if no one else is amused.
Continue readingDCIB is Going on the Road! Coming to DC Area, and NY/NJ Sometime in the Spring
Yes, it is true, I could be coming to a city near you in the near future! To fight the post-holiday blahs, I am planning little exciting weekend trips.
Continue readingHappy Birthday Salman! Lowkey Celebration This Year, Just a List of Your Best Songs
Happy Birthday Salman! Poor Salman, almost a Christmas baby, tends to get lost in the holiday shuffle. I’m worn out and still have more family events to go to, so I am going to slack on him this year too. At least I will hope for a celebration in the comments with the rest of you chiming in with songs I missed.
Continue readingDDLJ Part 48: Father and Son Comedy Team
I’m back! I am starting fresh, with a sprinkling of Christmas cheer and happiness, and a new system for pulling images that hopefully makes this less horrible of a process for me, so let’s see how I do. UPDATE: oh right, I forgot the other reason I stopped these posts, it’s been an hour and this post only got 4 views so far. Not a lot of interest for intense scene by scene discussion.
Continue readingQuick Christmas Report! Albie Dog, and the Kapoors
I’ve got a holiday surprise I’m working on for y’all, but in the meantime enjoy this fun little placeholder post where we can all share our Christmas stories and trade gossip and whatever.
Continue readingWatch a Movie With Me New Years Day (January 1)!!!! 10am Chicago Time, #HT4Ever Hashtag
What fun! Sit around starting the new year with a tweet along. Courtney is in, Kirre is in, Molly is in, Genevieve is a maybe, Alisa is a hopeful but not likely. I’m still hopeful for Alisa, partly because I truly believe she can join a minute by minute tweetalong of this movie just by watching it in her head.
Continue readingMerry Christmas! We Had Christmas Bread!
Merry Christmas! I am writing this as my parents rustle around getting ready to go for a long Christmas afternoon walk. Unseasonably warm weather continues in Chicago, which I choose to see as a blessing, so we can walk and walk and walk.
Continue readingChristmas Means Hope, Why I Find That in Indian Film
From the silly way I treat the holidays, with giveaways and fanfic and all, it may seem as though I don’t take the holiday seriously. Or maybe I do, but I don’t find anything in it that can overlap with my Hindi film love. And that’s not the case, so every year I put up this post about why Christmas is so important to me, and how it wraps itself around every part of my life, including the films I watch.
Continue readingChristmas Week: Baghban! Because Families Are Sometimes Hard
Well, this is a saaaaaaaaaaaaaad movie! If you want the happy edit, stop after the telephone booth song, fast-forward until the Valentine’s Day song, watch Hema yell in a nightclub, then fast-forward again until Hema and Amitabh are reunited and play straight through from there.
Continue readingChristmas Week: Prem Ratan Dhan Payo! A Happy Film for the Whole Family
This is a movie I like more and more as time goes on. It’s happy, it’s loving, and bright colored and cheerful. It’s also completely illogical, but that doesn’t really matter.
Continue readingHappy Christmas Eve! Why it is Special, and Some Songs To Pump You Up for Tonight (“raat” songs)
Happy Christmas Eve! The holiday that is all about the excitement of one last long night before a new day. And we have Hindi songs for that!
Continue readingWould You Like a Christmas Card? I Will Send You One!
I’ve still got one more official week left in the give away, but I have SO MANY CARDS!!!!! And you are all such delightful people, you deserve to have a lovely lovely holiday card if you want one.
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