2017 Hindi Film Awards FINAL! Best, Favorite, and Least Favorite

Finally, the post that puts it all together!  The films as a whole, what was best and favorite and least favorite.

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2017 Hindi Film Awards: Promotion Related, Biggest Surprise and Biggest Disappointment

I already put up the winning real life stories of 2017, now lets move on to where film and real life overlap, the promotions that try to drive people into the movies.  What films were over-promoted, leading to disappointment.  And what were under-promoted, leading to delightful surprises?  And what were just plain wrong promoted, leading to both?

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2017: What Happened in Film? And What Do I Want to Happen in 2018

This will be a fun post to write!  A combination of audience, text, and industrial analysis, because all of those things combine to influence what happens to film.  Part of what makes popular culture studies so fascinating to me!  It’s the intersection of so many things.

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