Happy Wednesday!!! In two more days, the exterminators come!!! Isn’t that WONDERFUL??? I am so excited.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to on Bhansali’s Birthday???
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It’s Anupama Chopra’s Birthday, What Are Our Feelings About Her? Let It All Out
I feel like DCIB as a whole has Feelings on this topic. More Feelings than is, necessarily, logical and expected when talking about a film reviewer/writer. But that is why we come together, to share our Feelings-with-a-capital-F about topics that really make no sense to have feelings about.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: For Shraddha Kapoor’s Birthday, Which Shraddha Movie Should We Watch?
Shraddha is just the perfect watchalong actress. You never have to think too deeply about her movies (except for Haider) and you can always talk over them (except for Haider).
Continue readingIs This Movie Too Terrible For Even DCIB? Isabelle Kaif and Sooraj Pancholi in a Dance Film?
On the one hand, I love cheesy stupid low budget dance films. On the other hand, THESE POSTERS!!!!
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Emily of Deep Valley! In 2 Weeks, March 7!
This is cool, Maud Hart Lovelace died on March 11. So we will be discussing her book almost exactly 41 years after her death.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me, the Week After My Vacation?
Happy Monday! I am actually excited to get back to work! I missed messaging my co-workers, I missed solving problems, I missed having structure to my day.
Continue readingAmazing Real Life Fake Fiance Story That We MUST Make Into a Hindi Movie!!!! Starring Preity!
I just watched this amazing documentary, made by a TV producer/reporter who was completely conned by an evil doctor/boyfriend/person and fought back by turning their whole relationship (complete with home movies) into a TV special she hosted. Amazing real life story/heroine, that I want to turn into a movie so I can give it a happy ending.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Emily of Deep Valley or Ranson’s Folly? Heroic Boy Romance or Thoughtful Girl Romance?
Either of these is fine by me! I love Ranson’s Folly and am always ready for a re-read. And I have not yet read Emily of Deep Valley, but it gets amazing reviews and was specifically called out as a “perfect quarantine read”.
Continue readingVacation Final Report! I Succeeded in Recreating My Vacation Emotions Without Leaving Town!!!
Vacation, OVER!!!! In Hindi, that would be Vacation Khatm. One of those words, like “mutlab” that sticks in my mind because it sounds way more like what it is than the English word. Final, like thunking a lid down.
Continue readingSunday WatchAlong: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, 8:30am Chicago Time!!!
Wooo, our first Sunday watchalong! And a great sunny vacationy kind of movie! The perfect ending to my vacation, I am going to order fancy coffee/breakfast for delivery and relax and enjoy. And then go over to my parents and officially rejoin the “real world”.
Continue readingDCIB Book Club: Siva Purana! It’s all SEX! Sex Sex Sex, and Violence!
3 weeks, but we finished it! At least, I finished it. And I hope some of you did. And if you didn’t, that’s okay too, we can just talk about your impressions of the parts you read.
Continue readingREMINDER! WatchAlong TOMORROW, 8:30am Chicago Time, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Don’t worry, I am still vacationing. I scheduled this post in advance just to help us all remember.
Continue readingVacation Update 2! Grumpy Day, I Shall Extract the Poison By Sharing It
Last official day of vacation and, as sometimes happens with vacations, it’s all discombobulated and grumpy. I’m gonna send my irritants out into the world in this post, and see if that helps me get over them.
Continue readingThe Key to a Good Vacation is Flexibility!!!!
Quick vacation update!
Continue readingSunday WatchAlong, 8:30am Chicago Time, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara!!!!!
Yes, everything is strange this week!!! Watchalong is on Sunday, it’s at 8:30am (so I can sleep in if I want), and we are watching a Hrithik movie. Okay, one thing isn’t strange. Hrithik is just the best watchalongs.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to the Day I GO ON VACATION?
Happy Wednesday! And happy vacation to me!!! I am SO EXCITED!!!! I have been looking forward to this vacation since I scheduled it last month. Only downside is, now I don’t have anything else to look forward to.
Continue readingColumbo and the Myth of Exceptionalism
Oh boy, a post about old American television shows! Perfectly on brand for a blog that started as being about Hindi film. Anyways, I love Columbo, and I want to talk about why I love Columbo, and then you also can love Columbo, and then we can use our Vast Collective Mental Powers to cast Shahrukh in a high budget Columbo remake on Netflix*.
Continue readingSunday WatchAlong!!! What Should We Watch???
WatchAlong on SUNDAY! In honor of Margaret’s Vacation. So I guess we should watch a super vacationy movie?
Continue readingBlog Housekeeping: Vacation Schedule!!!! WatchAlong on SUNDAY
I am doing a vacation/staycation! I’ve got activities planned for myself, I’ve canceled other things, it’s gonna be a real life re-set. I hope. Oh, and part of that is rescheduling Blog things.
Continue readingChatty Check-In Post: A Variety of Food Related Questions!
Time for one of those chatty posts where we all just make small talk at each other generally feel sane again! And also because I am genuinely curious about the way the rest of humanity handles these issues.
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Week I Have VACATION?
Happy Monday! I just have to get through today, and then tomorrow, and then Wednesday, and then starting Wednesday night I am on VACATION. True, I’m not really going anywhere, but I am treating it like a real vacation. I’m gonna get up in the morning and go sight seeing, then come back and watch TV in bed, just like I was in a hotel.
Continue readingHappy Valentine’s Day! The Age Old Question, Amitabh and Hema or Shahrukh and Madhuri?
I can only think of two distinctively absolutely Valentine’s songs (although I am sure there are more that are not as famous). The question is, which brings you more joy?
Continue readingSRK is My Valentine!
SRK is my Valentine!!! And so I shall spend the day gazing at him gazing at me gazing at him.
Continue readingHappy Valentine’s Day! From Me and Albie Dog!!!!
Happy Valentine’s Day! By golly I am having an SRK and Valentine’s party, even if it is virtual. Every year for 10 years, I have had a Valentine’s and SRK party (sometimes it is 6 people and cake, sometimes it is me and a friend and a heart shaped pizza), and I am not giving up this year! This afternoon we are virtually watching the Letterman special and then talking about how he is the Perfect Man. The way the holiday should be celebrated.
Continue reading90s Week of Romance! When Harry Met Sally to Hum-Tum to When Harry Met Sejal, How Are They Connected?
Woo-hoo! I get to write about 3 of my FAVORITE movies!!!! They are all so so SO good, all in different ways.
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