Well, this was a long day! With a lovely lazy start, and an exhausting middle bit, then a little bit of stress, and now dinner.
Continue readingVacation Report: Exhausting Task Accomplished, Now I’m Making Dinner
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Saturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Do Toe Exercises
Happy Saturday! It’s getting downright chilly here, a good day to curl up with a book, but instead my Dad is going to make me help with “shutting down the house for the winter” chores. Blech!
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: Ohm Shanthi Oshaana! Right Here, Starting at 3pm Chicago Time
Yaaaaay! One of my favorite movies! So even if people can’t show up, because of stupid jobs and school and things, I will have fun watching it by myself.
Continue readingThinky Post: “Nepotism” and How a Harmless Word Turns Into a Weapon of Hate Speech
I decided in the past few months that I would no longer casually use the word “nepotism” or accept it’s usage in comments on this blog. You didn’t notice, because you all must have made the same decision consciously or unconsciously, somehow it just became a term we did not use any more. But I feel like that isn’t enough. Being passive is being complicit, I want to open up the argument to why and how this word is used as a weapon.
Continue readingQuestion: My Nephew Fainted Yesterday, Does Anyone Else Have Kids with “Breath-Holding Spells”?
Oh boy, parenting/baby talk! Which is either boring because you don’t have kids, or boring because you do have kids and spend all day talking like this.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: Watch The Happiest Sunniest Movie Ever, Ohm Shanthi Oshaana, Right Here in 24 Hours, 3pm Chicago Time!
I am finally making you all watch Ohm Shanti Oshana!!!! HA! It’s only available for pay, but I don’t care, you will love it so much that money doesn’t matter.
Continue readingHappy Birthday Shakti Kapoor! The Best Movie You Were in, Andaz Apna Apna
The birthday festivities continue! After Viviek, now Shakti. I look forward to Popka complaining that this is not his best movie after all.
Continue readingOmkara! For Viviek’s Birthday, the Best Movie He Was In
Viviek of course has turned into a whiny unpleasant political animal, but he had some really good roles in the early 2000s. So for his birthday, I will remember those.
Continue readingHappy Birthday Sudeep! The Movie With Your Break Out Performance, Eega/Makkhi!!!
This is just the happiest movie. And it sounds stupid when you try to describe it. Stupid, and kind of sad.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Unexpected Thing Were You Addicted to as a Child? (Tarzan books, Adult Sitcom, anything not for children of your generation)
I feel like the DCIB community is mostly made up of people with slightly off beat taste. So I suspect there will be some interesting answers to this question.
Continue readingIt’s the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day Today, Which Means Something Different to Everyone Reading This Post
In my pre-Indian film life, I was a history major. And in my real life and deepest most important places, I am the granddaughter of two WWII vets. So I want to write this post. Especially because, coming to Indian film with this background, I am constantly stopped short by how WWII was experienced differently in India, especially related to Japan.
Continue readingWednesday Watching: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to the First Week of September?
Happy Wednesday! I get to see my foot doctor again today, which always comes with the hope of Freedom. At this point, I have started thinking I will just be in foot recovery mode for the rest of my life, but he’s got to let me go free eventually, right?
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: Hate Watch Fashion, Love Watch Ohm Shaanti Oshana, Something Else?
My mind is a blank this week. Loads of birthdays (Sudeep!) and things, and yet I still can’t think what we should watch.
Continue readingA Very Silly Post: If We Were to Remake Tarzan in India, Who Would Play the Leads?
It’s Edgar Rice Burroughs birthday! He wrote the Tarzan books, which I love. And he is from Chicago, which makes him even better. And a distant connection was married to his great great grandson, who was completely boring and respectable and Old Money since the family kind of forgot all their wealth came from cheap dime novels after a few generations.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Do I Get Grandpa For His 99th Birthday?
Forget all the other things we have been discussing, streaming versus theaters and nepotism prejudices and online discourse, this is the MOST IMPORTANT DISCUSSION POST EVER. Grandpa’s 99th, what do I get him?
Continue readingHappy Birthday Rajkummar, and 2 Year Anniversary of Stree!
So excited to share this review and discussion with those of you who just were able to watch the movie because of Netflix!
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me on Rajkummar Rao’s Birthday?
Happy Monday! Bumpy morning here, we have a friend coming up for the day (social distancing, only sitting on the porch, wearing masks, etc.) and my Dad went to senior hours at the grocery store to get supplies, only to discover the power was out at the store! Also, the president is coming tomorrow (not to our house, just the county), which is of course depressing. And on Wednesday I have to go back into the city for a foot appointment, Thursday I stay in the city through the work day and miss another friend who is coming up, and then Sunday we have my two young friends coming for the day who we will hopefully sucker into helping us take the boats out for the winter. PHEW! Big week!
Continue readingRajkummar Rao Birthday Discussion Post: Which is Your Favorite of His Films?
It’s Rajkummar Rao’s birthday! Well, in India. It’s still the day before his birthday in the US, but I figure, close enough.
Continue readingVacation Report! Our Vacation House is Surrounded By Rioting and So We Can’t Go Anywhere, Which is a Great Relief
Greetings from the new hotspot for Civil Unrest in America. So strange, this sleepy little place my family has been going to for generations is suddenly in the national news. Life is funny.
Continue readingSadak 2 Review (SPOILERS): Trust No Authority
Well, this is a movie that is very angry at authority figures! I can get behind that. The specifics of the message are maybe a little out of date, the GodMan is no longer as powerful in India as GodMob, but the general idea that blind trust in what you are told is bad, that’s a timeless message.
Continue readingSadak 2 Review (NO SPOILERS): Alia and Sanjay and Mahesh, Magic Together
Well, this was simultaneously better and worse than I expected! Mahesh’s directing and Sanjay and Alia’s chemistry together was far better than I hoped. And the anti-establishment message was a delight (I totally hit the nail on the head with my OSHO guess, by the way. Go me!). But the script as a whole just wasn’t quite good enough.
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Watch Sadak 2 and Read Books
Happy Saturday! I am up at the Lake House again for a long stretch to end out the year. Of course I still have my stupid foot, so I can’t go swimming or on boats. But I can sit on the porch and read a book, so I’ll be doing a lot of that instead of responding to blog comments. Oh, and finishing/reviewing Sadak 2, I’m watching it on my phone
Continue readingDiscussion Post (Adult Content): Which 2 Shahrukh Characters, if Quarantining Together, Would End Up Having the Hottest Sex?
Let us put on our adult content hats, block the computer from our children and spouses, and escape into harmless fantasy for just a moment.
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: Raabta! My Favorite Underappreciated Crazy Romance! Right Here, Starting at 3pm Chicago Time
I really hope a bunch of you can make this one, because I love love love Raabta and have been wanting to show it since the watchalongs started. But even if it is low attendance, I will still be happy watching Raabta all by myself. It’s just that good.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Would Our Favorite Characters be Doing During Quarantine?
I like fanfic and imagination, hopefully you do too, either reading it or writing it. Anyway, I like this thought experiment! What are all our favorite fantasy people doing right now?
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