The plumbers coming at 7am tomorrow and I can’t sleep, so I’m gonna distract myself by trying to write a thinky post and see if I can get my thoughts straight.
Continue readingThinky Post: Fantasy Versus Reality With Toxic Romances
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Karan Johar and Parents: Is It All About Love, or Is It All About Making Them Happy at the Expense of Yourself?
This is more of a thought experiment post. I want to try looking at all of Karan’s films through the lens of parenting, specifically BAD parenting, and see what we come up with.
Continue readingAe Dil Hai Mushkil, Karan’s Most Explicitly Queer Romance?
In our discussions about Karan for his birthday, this movie keeps coming up. And it makes me want to go back and talk about it again, really digging in to how this film can tell us about Karan’s personal journey and how he sees himself.
Continue readingShahrukh Summer: 4th of July FanFic Celebration Part 2! 25 Shahrukh Plots Filled In
This is a post I wrote for his birthday, but it’s really quite good! And fun to read and discuss. I already did the first 13 early today, here are the last 12.
Continue readingThe Most Imaginative Song Sequences in Hindi Film in Recent Years
Well, I’m having a rumpled start to the week! Karan sent out an embarrassingly sycophantic tweet this morning, there’s a final warm spell hitting Chicago which is making me not able to sleep, the elevator is broken (again) at work so I have to keep running up and down the really abnormally steep stairs, and my boss gave Dog Hazel some food she shouldn’t eat which wasn’t a big deal except that I had to tell my boss not to do that, which was an awkward upturning of our usual power structure (he’s in charge of me, but I’m in charge of Dog Hazel). Anyway, time for a soothing interesting post with a lot of great things to watch in it.
Silly Sunday: Karan Johar Sequels, Part 2!!!! Kal Ho Na Ho Na Ho, Kabhi Alveda Na Kehna Na Kehna, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Again, and Student of the Decade
I got very excited by this idea. A few of these are reposts, but the really long ones are original, written just for today. Which is why I had to do two parts, because this is much much much too long.
A Repost in Honor of Karan’s Birthday! All His Ending’s fixed
I did a lot of work on this one, so why not reuse it? Alternate endings for every Karan movie, K2H2, K3G, ADHM, SOTY, MNIK, KANK, KHNH.
Silly Sunday Post: Happy 25 Days to SRK’s B-Day! 25 SRK Plots Filled in, Part 2
I did 13 this morning, now another 12 for this afternoon. This is such a fun way to spend a Sunday! (part 1 here)
Happy Birthday Ranbir Kapoor!
Happy Birthday Ranbir! Â Last year I promised to bump you up from 12 to 34 if Ae Dil Hai Mushkil was good. Â And it was! Â But then Jagga Jasoos was bad. Â So I will average it and bring you up to 23. (this is an updated and reposted post from last year)
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Scene By Scene Index
I forgot I did this! Â Thank goodness I looked at the list of films in 2016 and it reminded me. Â So now ADHM gets its own index. Â With only a wee bitty bit of Shahrukh in it.
Deleted Scenes Report!!! ADHM and Dear Zindagi! UPDATED WITH BETTER TRANSLATIONS!!!!
DVDs are out, yaaaaay! Â And I was able to watch the deleted scenes! Â And now I can report back on them, so you don’t have to go out and buy your own DVD.
UPDATE: And I forced my friend who understands Hindi to watch and give me better translations too!!!!
ADHM Full Summary Part 8! The End! All Finished!
Woo! Â I’m gonna finish in time for Dear Zindagi week! Â Really, the end-end goes remarkably fast. Â Although it still has the patented “Karan Johar doesn’t know how to end a movie” touch.
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Full Summary Part 7: The Part With the Friendly Appearance
Okay, I need to hurry through this to be finished by Shahrukh Week, starting on Wednesday (this time-posts on Shahrukh movies in which he mentors young women!). Â I am all the way past the Interval of ADHM, and my posts are slowly increasing in length, so I think I should be able to finish this thing off soon.
Box Office: Rock On 2 Does Terribly, Not Because of Demonetization, But Because It Is Terrible!
Woot! Â Global box office is out! Â Which is completely unaffected by the demonetization of India. Â Which means the Rock On 2 producer’s arguments that it is only doing badly because people can’t buy tickets don’t hold up at all.
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Full Summary, Part 5 of ??: Chandni! O Mere Chandni! And a Statement on the Position of the Heroine
Okay, back to work! Â Ish. Â I’ll still be taking things slow, but I need to do something, and I also need to finish all my thoughts on ADHM before I get too far from the last time I saw it.
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Full Summary Part 4: Including the Missing Song!!!
Part 4! Â I am just zipping along! Â Sort of! Â Not really! Â But to be fair, I am also doing really short posts. Â I could probably have knocked this whole thing out in 4, if I did longer lengths. Â But then I would get all tired and resentful and wouldn’t have the energy to post about anything else. Â So, part 4, still not up to Interval! (part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here)
Box Office Update: ADHM Drops Off at Home, Soars Overseas
Yay, second weekend box office is available! Â And that global-local/multiplex-singlescreen divide is popping up, just as anticipated. Â Really, these films are not going to clash, besides me, there just aren’t that many people who would be interested in both.
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Detailed Summary Part 2 of ???: Lisa Haydon is the Best!!!
I saw ADHM for the second time last night and, just as I suspected, I enjoyed it much more on a second watch, when I knew what was going to happen and I could focus on just appreciating how they built it up. Â And this also means I have a much clearer memory of the details, and can come back to my full summary in multiple parts, all renewed and refreshed!
Deleted Song from ADHM released! But Where’s the Other One?
Just like Happy New Year and “Sharaabi” or Dilwale and “Premika”, Karan Johar is keeping the buzz going and celebrating a successful first week of ADHM by releasing another song. Â But he must be sitting on another song video, because this is not the one I was waiting for!
Links! To Articles With Random Filmi Related Content!
I’m sleepy, still haven’t recovered from last night (CUBS WIN!!!) and really can’t face writing another full post. Â So instead, I am going to recommend other things for you to read while I sleep.
Discussion of ADHM by Someone Smarter Than Me (also Box Office)
You know I shouldn’t be your primary source for Indian political and other hard news, right? Â Because I don’t have a strong background in that, and more importantly, I’m not a journalist. Â If anything, I’m an analyst. Â I take news other people have already reported and put it together in interesting ways. Â Anyway, moviemavengal just tweeted me an article that does all the hard news work of the ADHM protests for me. Â Check out this link.
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Full Summary!!! Part 1 of ?
I’m just assuming this is going to turn into multiple parts. Â Shivaay I’m going to knock out in one looooooooooong post, but this movie is a lot more interesting than that one. Â If you aren’t down for a detailed shot by shot moment by moment discussion, you can check out my quick spoiler review and No Spoilers review I already wrote for ADHM.
Karan Flexes His International Muscles
Overseas Box Office report is out! Â Woo! Â And it proves either that Ajay has failed, or that Ranbir is the rising star, or really it’s all about Karan. Â I’m pretty sure it’s all about Karan.
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil NO SPOILERS Review
I put up my Spoilers review first, for once, because I wanted a place for people who had already seen the movie to discuss it. Â But now it’s time for a review for people who haven’t seen the movie yet, and are curious what other people think about it. Â But NO SPOILERS. Â Because the plot is very carefully constructed to build point to point, and if you do decide to see the movie, you should try to go in fresh.
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil SPOILER Review: Seriously, Don’t Read if You Haven’t Seen, the Ending Should Surprise You
Normally I’m not that careful about spoilers on this blog. Â I flag them when I put them into a post, I put up spoiler and non-spoiler reviews, but I don’t care if you read the spoiler review before you see the movie, or if you put a spoil in a comment, or whatever. Â However, in this case, I’d like to try to keep the experience that Karan carefully crafted for the audience. Â So I’m putting up this review early, so everyone who has seen it has a place to think about and talk about the film as a whole. Â And then the other review will be for people who haven’t seen the movie yet, but are planning to.
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