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Monday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me on Rajkummar Rao’s Birthday?

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Happy Monday! Bumpy morning here, we have a friend coming up for the day (social distancing, only sitting on the porch, wearing masks, etc.) and my Dad went to senior hours at the grocery store to get supplies, only to discover the power was out at the store! Also, the president is coming tomorrow (not to our house, just the county), which is of course depressing. And on Wednesday I have to go back into the city for a foot appointment, Thursday I stay in the city through the work day and miss another friend who is coming up, and then Sunday we have my two young friends coming for the day who we will hopefully sucker into helping us take the boats out for the winter. PHEW! Big week!

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Punyalan Agarbatthies: Good Malayalam Film (I think?), that went completely over my head

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Back 10 years ago when I first started watching Hindi movies, there was all this stuff that went completely over my head.  If I enjoyed a film, it was just in the most superficial way, because the hero was cute or the love story was sweet.  And then I learned more and more, and all of a sudden all these plot things started making sense, and I got that the reason this character says this thing here is because it is related to some huge political movement or religious metaphor or something.

And now I am trying to get into the regional films, and I feel like I am back to square one and I am missing all sorts of things!  It is very frustrating, but I know the only way to get through it is just to keep going.

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