Ready for a silly post? Which suddenly came to me when I was watching Chandni with y’all this morning?
Continue readingAnjaam Versus Chandni!
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Saturday WatchAlong: Chandni! 7:30am Chicago Time!!!
Woo!!! Chandni!!! I am going to slowly wake up while watching it with y’all and letting Sridevi sweep me away.
Continue readingFriday Watchalong on Saturday BECAUSE I AM GETTING VACCINATED!!! Oh, and We’re Watch Chandni
This is all very exciting and last minute, the National Guard just opened up some mass vaccination centers in IL, and if I drive for 6 hours there and 6 hours back I could get a shot TOMORROW. So I took the slot, told my boss I was gonna be out of office, asked my parents to dogsit, and called my doctor to make sure she could give me a note to confirm I qualify under the new very very loose IL State restrictions. All of this in like the last hour. And then I thought “woops! I have to reschedule Friday watchalong!!!”
Continue readingFriday Movie: Friday or Saturday? Chandni or Silsila?
Movie time!!!!! We have to get serious about this decision and I have narrowed it down to two films. And two times.
Continue readingIn Honor of Bhanu Athaiya, Her Most Iconic Designs Through the Decades
I am a bit late to this, Bhanu Athiaya died a couple days ago. But it took me some time to figure out how I wanted to write about her. As a craftswoman, behind the scenes, it didn’t feel right to talk about her personal life. But I decided I could focus on her designs instead and that would be appropriate.
Continue readingFriday Watchalong For Yashji! Chandni or Trishul or Darr?
There’s the logical choice, the fun choice, or the choice of my heart. Such a CHALLENGE!
Continue readingRecommendations Post: Happy Female Lead Films!
It came up in discussion that female lead films tend to be really dark. Which is true! But why should we watch a bunch of women be miserable and punished all the time? This is a post for us all to share recommendations for happy female lead films. And I’ll start with some of my favorites.
Continue readingHappy Birthday Yashji! 85 Reasons I Love You
Okay, let’s do this! A full 85! I broke it into 3 parts last year, but this year I think I will just do one massive post. (this is an updated and reposted post from last year)
Silly Sunday Speculative Post: Happy Endings For All Our Losers in Love, from Mandira Bedi to Varun
We all know that Hindi film loves a love triangle. And usually a blameless love triangle, two good options and one of them loses out through no fault of their own. So, I thought, why not give a happy ending to all of love’s losers? And, just to make this more fun, why not cross streams and give happy endings to losers from different films? And why not make an easy post in which I rapidly run through a whole bunch of different plots without a lot of details?
FanVid Post! Because I Found a Bunch of Good Ones!
I usually like to have some kind of over-arching theme for these. But, nope! The theme is “I had a really good run of fanvids linking to other good fanvids on youtube”. And I want to share them with you before I lose track of all the links.
Hindi Film 101: RIP Vinod Khanna! One of the First 70s Heroes to Leave Us
This is not my first post on Vinod, for additional background you can look at his birthday post from last year here, and my post on his involvement with Osho here. And my review of his Chandni here, and Parampara here. But moimeme just informed me that he passed away this morning, so I felt like I should do a special post explaining why he was important and why this death matters.
For Akshaye’s Birthday Week, Taal! Not a Very Progressive Film
I think this might be the film where I first heard the “An Indian woman loves only once” truism. Which has now been unpacked and questioned and turned upside down and all sorts of interesting things done to in other films. Heck, interesting things were already done to it by the time this film came out! But not in this movie. Nope, in this movie, your lifetime singular devotion goes along with your virginity and whatever man gets one, gets the other.
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! Ish. 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.
Karan Flexes His International Muscles
Overseas Box Office report is out! Woo! And it proves either that Ajay has failed, or that Ranbir is the rising star, or really it’s all about Karan. I’m pretty sure it’s all about Karan.
Happy 70th Birthday Vinod Khanna!
Vinod Khanna! I am conflicted about him. But it’s his 70th birthday, I will see if I can come up with a dozen reasons to love him.
Happy Birthday Yash Chopra Part 2! 32 through 55!
Okay, let’s do this! Possibly nobody but me cares as much about Yashji, but come on! The man invented a whole genre of film! Founded the only studio still on firm financial ground! Created generations of stars! He deserves 84 reasons to love him on his birthday. Even if they are mostly songs. Part 1 here and Part 3 here.
Happy Birthday Sridevi!
It’s Sridevi’s birthday! I am so excited about celebrating! Because it means we all get to watch a bunch of really great song sequences as I list of my reasons that I love her. I’ll do 13, because she was born on the 13th, and she was 13 when she had her first heroine part.
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