There were 4 strong contenders for me for this award this year, Rangoon and Tubelight and Tiger Zinda Hai and Jagga Jasoos. But I went with Rangoon by a hair.
I forgot how much the outsiders in the love triangle have to do in this song! There’s Mandira Bedi all over the place, but this bit has Kuljit too, and he will show up again later. (full index of DDLJ coverage here)
Well, romance is in the air! Or at least couples are in the air. Everyone is pairing up in their own way
This was a hard one! I was torn between Shashiji and Vinod Sir until the last minute. But I think Shashi edges Vinod out by a hair. And, I am sorry, but Om Puri didn’t even make it to consideration for me. (this doesn’t mean voting is closed! You can put your own pick in the comments on this post here)
There are many separate posts for you to vote on, but I wanted to put them all in one place for convenience and also to remind you to vote!!!!! Oh, and very important especially since I limited my suggestions to Hindi, WRITE INS ARE ALLOWED!!!!!!!! If your favorite film, or best film, or most disappointing film of the year was non-Hindi, go ahead and put that in your comment. Not sure how I will count them, but I’ll do an honorable mention section or something.
I don’t know about you, but I am very very happy to be in 2018. It sounds like a nice solid kind of year. However, I am also in the middle of the post-holiday blahs. So I thought I would cheer myself up with a nice post, and cheer you up too if you need it!
Happy Wednesday! And Happy Return to Regular Life. Which, yes, means there will be new film reviews going up on regular schedule starting this Friday. Sorry for the interval, I had time to write during the holidays but not time to watch anything new.
So many options here! More than you think, 2017 was a happy year in many ways. But the question is, which, to me, was the happiest?
Terrible terrible news! You thought Shraddha in for Vaani was the worst heroine casting news possible, you haven’t heard this! Oh AISH!!!!! Why do you torture us so?
Well, Tiger is still going strong! Generally great box office to varying degrees worldwide. Everything else is in its shadow.
Final chance to judge me! Which of my fanfics of 2017 did you like best? And remember, whatever you pick here my influence what I write more of in 2018!
Teaser and title are finally out for the Aanand L Rai movie! I am not sure yet what I think. Maybe you tell me what you think and that will help.
Something extra fun for you and torturous for me, you get to vote on which posts you liked best! And I get to go “wait, that one? The one I did no work on and didn’t even much like, that’s the one you want?”
Something extra fun for you and torturous for me, you get to vote on which posts you liked best! And I get to go “wait, that one? The one I did no work on and didn’t even much like, that’s the one you want?”
Happy Monday! I don’t have to work! And I may not be sitting in front of my computer waiting for your questions and quick to answer them, sorry about that. But I am still putting up the post! Just so we have it for the rest of the week.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!! Everyone else in the world has been doing their year end lists this past week, but not me! I am a COMPLETEST!!!! I will not do my 2017 awards until every last second of 2017 is finished.
Happy New Year’s Eve!!!! Obviously, I have to do a theme post. I considered stories that revolved around New Years celebrations, but then I wasn’t sure what that would look like in India, so instead I am going with my sister’s suggestion and doing New Year’s combined with time travel.
Phew! The whole 9 week period is over! Almost. There’s still one more post going up next week to show you what this week’s winner got, but there will be no more winners announced. Which means, if you want a card, you should go to This Post and leave your information there.
Links to various listings of all my reviews, including the straight alphabetical list, are here.
Continue readingI’m finally doing it! I’m putting reviews lists by star! There’s still the nice alphabetical everything version, but just in case you want to start with a particular actor, here is everything I have written. I will try to keep it updated.
This is the only Shahrukh movie I reviewed twice, once my academic style, once in the way that I would write it for all of you here on the blog.
A movie that I had almost forgotten, written off as a lot of style and no substance. And then the second half happened and surprised me!
I have no idea how to spell “avant garde”, let’s hope I got a little close. Anyway, this is Shahrukh as the stage actor, the Brechtian artistic type. A very odd film.
This is a fun pleasant nice little movie. Which has Shahrukh in it for no real good reason. Beyond the producer wanting to use his name, and Shahrukh owing the producer a favor.
Well, it finally got approved. And I kind of agree with everything the Censors did. At least, as it is presented by them and the spin they are putting on it. I am sure there are all kinds of political realities on the ground that I am missing which makes them not so great. Oh, and I think we can aaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllll agree that swapping Vaani for Shraddha is a disaster of epic proportions.
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