Happy Dear Zindagi Week! King Uncle, and Shahrukh as a Supporting Character to a Younger Woman

King Uncle is a silly silly not very good movie.  Did I mention silly?  But it is notable for building an entire film around a female child character.  Children based movies are rare enough in Indian film, but female child based films are even rarer.

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Dear Zindagi: New Trailer, and Censor’s LOVE It!

If you care about the censor board’s opinion, they like Dear Zindagi.  Personally, I don’t care at all, but I am kind of surprised by the extreme level of support they are giving it!  Oh, and there’s also a new teaser.  Oh, and the full album just came out!  7 days before the movie release.  And no Ali Zafar songs in sight.

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My First Real Post Post-Depression! Shahrukh is Bringing Me Out of It!

I want to spend another day listening to lament songs and distracting myself by doing work-work, like reconciling the office bank statement.  But Shahrukh is dragging me out of it.  I can’t NOT post about a new Dear Zindagi trailer.

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Koffee With Karan! Best Quotes!

Internet Piracy for the win!!!!  Stupid Hotstar.com, the legal website, won’t accept payment from outside India, even using a credit card.  So I hunted and googled and got ten minutes into one video that was pulled literally as I was watching it, and finally a found a deep dark place that had a high quality version available which lasted long enough for me to see the whole show.

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New ADHM and DEAR ZINDAGI Trailers!!!!

So much more excited about the Dear Zindagi trailer!  Partly because it is just the second one, whereas ADHM is now on, what, the 513th trailer?  Remember how excited I was back when there were just a couple ADHM trailers?  Yeah, that’s worn off by now.

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Friday News Round-Up (Mostly Photos): Aamir’s Ears, Shahrukh and Ali, and Kabali Box Office

What happened to the scandals?  The nice juicy scandals?  Or even a new film announcement!  Or rumor!  I don’t know, it just felt like there used to be more news in these news round-ups.  Oh well, at least this one has some nice pictures.

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