Tag Archives: Amitabh Bachchan

Two Unrelated Videos: Sarkar 3 and Prithviraj!

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Mohzin on my Wednesday Watching post recommended a new interview with Prithviraj, which I was able to watch after work today, and it was fascinating!  Probably in a bunch of ways I missed, but also in some I managed to actually catch despite knowing almost nothing about his industry.  And then separately from that, trailer for Sarkar 3 came out!  And it is kind of fascinating to look at the two of them in terms of how Hindi film stars present themselves versus Malayalam.

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Hindi Film 101 One-Off: Amitabh, from ABCL to Mohabbatein by way of KBC

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Another one-off post!  This week is just killing me between church and work and friends, so I don’t have the energy to start another big series.  Plus, I never gave you a chance to vote!  So instead, another Amitabh one-off, this time covering his most recent re-invention, from failed international businessman to TV star and back to movie star.

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Hindi Film 101: One-Off, The Coolie Accident

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Once again, I ended a series on a Tuesday!  So I am going to give you a little longer to decide what you want to read about next, and do just a little one-off for Thursday.  And, for the first time, I am going to attempt to cover Amitabh.  Except he is so big, I think I will try to do it piecemeal.  Starting with The Coolie Accident, mentioned in my Rekha coverage.

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Hindi Film 101: Rekha 3.0, After Amitabh

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Part 3!  I am so glad I decided to do this in multiple parts.  I probably could have squeezed it all into one, but Rekha has really lived many lives, it is only fair to give her many posts.  Oh, and again, almost all this information comes from This Book.  Buy it if you like these posts and want to learn more! (post 1 here and post 2 here)

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Hindi Film 101: Rekha 2.0, The Amitabh Years

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This is such a fun one to write!  Mostly because it is so fake.  Rekha is brilliant at manipulating the press and crafting an image for herself, so her whole life story (as presented to the public) sounds like something out of a bad melodrama.  Oh, and almost all of this is based on This Book, which is a super fun read and if you like this post, you should go buy it and read it.

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Happy Raees Week! Deewar, the Ultimate Smuggler and Criminal and Anti-Hero and Let’s Just Say Film-Film

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I’m just going to say it, Deewar is the best written film in the history of Hindi cinema.  It deserves an epic detailed perfect discussion.  That is not this post.  This post is a very superficial and not detailed discussion as it relates to the upcoming release of Raees.

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Happy Hrithik’s Birthday! Let’s Talk About the Movie with His Greatest Performance, AGNEEPATH!

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I can never say that title without the big yelling-it-out-into-the-world defiance, AG-NEE-PATH!!!!  Anyhoo, I think it’s Hrithik’s greatest performance, and the greatest movie he has been in (well, except for Bang Bang, my heart’s choice).  And what makes it really impressive is that he (and the filmmakers) were actually able to improve on an Amitabh movie, one of the Amitabhiest of them.

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Happy First day of Winter! Some Seasonal Songs

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It’s been a little bit since I did one of these song posts (although I have put songs up in my birthday messages).  I like doing them, because I hope they fill the gap that I filled with songs DVDs.  Back in the early 2000s, I bought and rented a bunch, and I would see random songs and think “Hey!  That’s cool!  I should check out this movie/actor/actress/choreographer.” Or at least I would think “Hey!  Now I can picture that actor/song sequence/actress the next time he/it/she is mentioned.”  Hopefully this collection of loosely connected song sequences can have a similar effect for some of you!

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Happy Birthday Dilip Sahib!!!!

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I might finally got around to reading his biography!  I made my friend buy it and bring it to me aaaaaallllllll the way from India, and I STILL hadn’t read it.  But surely his birthday would be an occasion for that, right?  I was tempted to do a full 94 reasons I love him, but maybe that should wait until next year when he hits 95.  This year, I will just do 32, for the age he was won the first FilmFare Award ever.

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TGIF Post: Santa/Raees-themed! Men With Beards!

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I am sure if I wanted to google “sexy Santa” I could find it.  But I don’t want to do that.  So instead, I am going to limit myself to one Santa-like element, and look for beards.  Sexy men with beards.

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Happy Dear Zindagi Week! Mohabbatein, Shahrukh as Teacher!

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No young women really in his orbit in this one, but that’s part of what I find so interesting.  That just 16 years ago, it was all about the male generations handing things down to each other (Amitabh to Shahrukh to Jugal Hansraj/Uday Chopra/Jimmy Shergill).  And now we are in a space where the future is a young woman.

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TGIF Super Superlatives Post: Something to Argue Over All Weekend!!!

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This came up from a discussion I had in the comments back on Monday with the commentator “Sal” about Kunal Kapoor.  And I thought “Heck, I bet I can get another silly Friday post out of this!  And one that will leave you lots to discuss and consider over the weekend!” Because I KNOW you are not all going to agree with me on all of these.

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Sick Day Songs

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I’m still sick.  Way too sick to deal with anything emotional or challenging like a post about a movie, or even gossip news or box office.  Instead, I am sitting around listening to super soothing songs.  Just in case you are ever this sick (and I hope you aren’t!  This is terrible!), I’ll share my play list with you.

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Important News Update: AbRam is Cute

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And so is his father!  And also a bit of a tech nerd, have you noticed that since he discovered instagram, Shahrukh has been posting a lot of videos that are kind of like the ones your dorky uncle posts after his son shows him how to use the video tools?  But more interesting, because it’s a movie star.

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