Just got another comment asking when I was gonna finish that. And really, the hardest part is getting the dang images. I start with about 1 image for every 5 seconds of film time, then cull it down to the best ones to talk about and do the analysis. But pulling and saving and storing 1 image for 5 seconds of film time is really really tedious and time consuming! The analysis is a piece of cake in comparison.
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Sunday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Watch My Father Stress About the Rain!
Happy Sunday! I’m up at the lake house with my parents, watching my father obsess over if/when the weather is going to be nice enough for us to take the sailboat out for the year. Right now, it is pouring rain, so NO.
Continue readingDiscussion Post Courtesy of Shreyans! What Characters Would We Dislike/Like If They Were The Reverse Gender? And Which Would We Feel the Same?
Yes! We are all going to THINK! Even though it is December, and FilmiKudhi is having a baby, and Eva and I are in mourning, and just in general life is insane (Genevieve, I’m I remembering right that you are in the midst of a sweep of birthdays?), we are still going to DISCUSS and THINK and STUFF.
Continue readingAditya Chopra Birthday Post! Let’s Rank His 4 Movies, Best to Worst!
Hey, Adi’s birthday! Coming up tomorrow! We should celebrate! We should also put opinions on the Friday watchalong scheduling post from yesterday because no one has yet!
Continue reading90s Week of Romance: Best Hindi Love Song of the 90s, “Tujhe Dekho” or “Pehla Pehla Pyar” or “Khandala”????
A challenge!!!!! Which will be well-nigh impossible! At least, it would be for me. All 3 Khans had amazingly iconic love songs in this era, with adorable spectacular co-stars and forever hit tunes and so on and so forth. But which is BEST? And I guess also which is worst, and which is middlest.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Makes a Happy Ending?
Thank you TownsandTulips! This is such a great interesting question! At least, it is interesting to me, hopefully to other people too.
Continue readingHAPPY BIRTHDAY TOWNSANDTULIPS!!!! My Gift to You, DDLJ Part 52
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I hope you are having a wonderful day and eating cake and spoiling yourself. And as a thank you for being such a nice enthusiastic new commenter, here is my gift: a new section of DDLJ.
Continue readingDDLJ Anniversary Post: DDLJ and Feminism, Simran and Frieda Kahlo
I’m not sure if I will be able to articulate this correctly or not. But I will try my darnedest and we will see what we get.
Continue readingDDLJ Youtube Video With Pardesi and ALBIE DOG!!!!
Pardesi/MovieMavenGal/My Friend reached out and suggested we do a youtube video talking about DDLJ for the anniversary today. And then Albie Dog decided he really really wanted to be involved too. So all three of us got together and talked about the movie.
Continue readingShahrukh Month Discussion Post: What Movie Would Make an Interesting Follow Up TV Show?
I think this question makes sense. At least, it makes sense in my head. I want to see if I can make it make sense in your heads.
Continue readingThinky Post: Pop Culture and Progressiveness, Understanding the Difference Between “Then” and “Now”
What a fun title! Just makes you eager to read the post, right? Way more fun than “who is the sexiest man/woman”.
Continue readingQuiz Time! Which Shahrukh Heroine Are You?
You ready for how rumpled I am today? I have retreated to online quizzes! I never do online quizzes. Like really, never. But something about watching a happy sitcom and methodically answering questions about myself is really nice.
Continue readingDiscussion Post: What Movie/Book/TV Show Have You Gotten Absolutely Obsessed About? (yes, you can say JHMS)
I guess also music album/stage show. Anything you think about obsessively, talk about excessively, and so on and so forth, until you are over it all of a sudden and it becomes this nice nostalgic piece of your past.
Continue readingSunday WatchAlong, DDLJ! Right Here, Starting at 10am! Woo-Hoo!
So excited for a DDLJ watchalong! I will be very superficial and dumb I suspect, far less “let’s consider the deconstruction of the typical Hindi film hero” and far more “his DIMPLES!!!!”
Continue readingSunday Watchalong Tomorrow! DDLJ at 10am Chicago Time!!!!!
Woo-hoo! You know why I picked DDLJ? Because I can be high on pain pills and still follow it. If I am high on pain pills, don’t you want to be there to watch me say things like “hat pretty dimples cute bad Amrish Puri BAD”?
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Who Are Your Ultimate Personal Jodi? Rahul and Anjali? Harry and Sejal? Humpty and Kavya?
Discussion time! No wrong answer here, just personal stories/opinions.
Continue readingPride Day: Indian Movies That You Most Want Remade as Queer Love Stories
I was going to say “that could be queer love stories”, but really that is all of them. Out of all the possible wonderful queer films, which do you most want?
Continue readingBook Day! What Indian Movie Do You Most Want Made Into a Book?
This is a very clear question in my head, hopefully I can make it clear for other people to understand too. Because I want to know your thoughts!
Continue readingClothing Day Show and Tell! Post Pictures of Your Favorites For Each of These Categories!
Clothing Day! Probably less universally exciting than food day, but still interesting! I wonder what my theme should be for tomorrow? Hair? Teeth? What else does every human possess and have opinions on?
Continue readingTGIF: Rank Aditya Chopra’s Male Leads in Order of Sexiness
A vital question! And yes, I am including the 3 younger men from Mohabbatein, just to make it a little more complex.
Continue readingAditya Chopra Week! Rank Aditya’s Heroes in Terms of Originality of Character!
Albie Dog has decided his new morning routine is to have breakfast, and then pee on the floor. The first time it happened was absolutely my fault, I skipped a walk and he was desperate. But I think his doggie brain then went “hey, this is a good system, I should keep doing this”. Anyway, I had an unpleasant start to the day and now want to think about pleasant things as a distraction. So, Aditya Chopra’s Heroes!
Continue readingAditya Chopra Week! Adi’s Men, Flawed But Not Fragile
Thank you Kainaat! And SRK, of course. Kainaat quoted SRK describing Adi as someone who writes movies about men while his father wrote movies about women, and that started me thinking a whole thing.
Continue readingDDLJ Part 52: (Aditya Chopra Week) Shahrukh Finds the Moon (Happy Birthday Joyomama!)
Part 52! Less fun than the last part maybe, because Himani and Anupam were suuuuuuuuch fun. But SRKajol are fun too, in their own young dumb way. And also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOYOMAMA!!!!! You mentioned it in a comment on another post, and I made this present for you right quick
Continue readingHappy Aditya Chopra Week!!!!! Sex-Marry-Punch, Aditya Chopra Heroes
Oh boy! Aditya Chopra week! The beauty of Adi’s career is that it is so very limited. Even if I include the movies he scripted along with the ones he directed, still a tiny list.
Continue readingHindi Film 101: What Are Mothers in Indian Film and Indian Society?
Oh boy, a big scary 101 that people are going to yell at me and disagree with me about what I say! Those are always the best ones.
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