Anjaam! Bonkers bonkers movie, amazing songs, baby SRK and Madhuri, and a ton of 90s fashion.
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Important Question! Which Anjaam Song is the MOST???
Thank goodness, Red Chillies finally managed to buy Anjaam, which means the songs are remastered and available on youtube. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Truly, it is a FABULOUS collection of songs. Especially considering how very odd the movie is as a whole.
Continue readingMonday Anjaam WatchAlong: Anyone Interested? And Morning or Afternoon?
Woot! 3 Day US Weekend! And WOOT!!!! Anjaam is on Netflix! It is like the PERFECT watchalong movie. So ridiculous, and also has SRK and Madhuri. Seems like we just have to do a bonus watchalong
Continue readingAnjaam Versus Chandni!
Ready for a silly post? Which suddenly came to me when I was watching Chandni with y’all this morning?
Continue readingShahrukh Birthday Countdown: Early Movies He Should Remake Now! Part 1
This is an idea from Catherine who pointed out that Koyla, for example, is ripe for a remake, all silly action and strong heroine and all that. Which made me think about how many of Shahrukh’s early films had solid original ideas at the center that could be redone now in interesting ways, for instance flipping the genders, or aging everyone up to middle-age.
Continue readingShahrukh Birthday Countdown, Anjaam! Shahrukh Meets Madhuri!
Such a great weird movie! Shahrukh is probably the most villainous he will ever be, absolutely no redeeming features, and Madhuri becomes as dark as he is.
Continue readingSunday ReRun/Female Film Week: Anjaam, Madhuri as the Avenging Hero
This is such a good movie! In a very dark way, it puts our heroine through the wringer because that’s what can happen in India, all sorts of things happen to a woman without her doing anything to cause them.
Continue readingMadhuri Day Continues! Anjaam, Madhuri Does Vengeance
I watched this movie with my friend for Valentine’s and, truly, it is the perfect Valentine’s movie! All the romantic relationships are a different variety of horrible, erotic love leads only to misery, and happiness come from embracing inner strength and aloneness and killing EVERYBODY. (it might also be the perfect PMS movie) I should also mention, just to complete the picture, that my friend and I ate 2 dozen mini-eclairs straight out of the container while watching this film. The Perfect Evening.
Anjaam, Female Vengeance with Madhuri, Or How I Celebrated Valentine’s Day
I watched this movie with my friend for Valentine’s and, truly, it is the perfect Valentine’s movie! All the romantic relationships are a different variety of horrible, erotic love leads only to misery, and happiness come from embracing inner strength and aloneness and killing EVERYBODY. (it might also be the perfect PMS movie) I should also mention, just to complete the picture, that my friend and I ate 2 dozen mini-eclairs straight out of the container while watching this film. The Perfect Evening.
Really Good Songs From Not Very Good Movies
Christmas is over, which is sad, but it means I have a lot of new presents to play with (check them all out here!), and it means I can go back to listening to Saavn and my Indian music instead of Christmas carols. In early November, when I start my Christmas channels, it feels all refreshing to listen to White People Music (as I think of it) for a little bit. But by December 26th, I am ready to go back to my Indian stuff. And for my first playlist, I went with the theme of “good songs from not good movies.”
This Guy!!!
So, if you have watched your fair number of 90s Hindi films, you immediately went “Yes! That guy!” as soon as you saw the picture up there. He’s one of those people that wanders in and out of films, playing the guy who is like-the-hero-but-not-as-good. Friend, rival, enemy, brother, what have you. In, like, Everything!!!
He played Sanjay’s best friend and side-kick in Sadak:
(It is a special challenge as a side-kick to make Sanjay look like a good dancer)
A year later, he was in Khiladi, supporting Akshay:
(Shirtless Akshay presents different challenges. Like, being visible on the screen when he is blinding us with his hotness)
The same year, he was Aamir’s rival in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander
(ooo, they are so evil!)
In 1994, he twice bested Shahrukh in a romantic challenge, in both Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa and Anjaam:
(I love this movie, and I really love this song. I don’t care that it makes no sense on any level. Also, did you know this actress married Shekhar Kapur, director of Mr. India and the Cate Blanchette Elizabeth movies?)
