So excited about this movie! It is so dumb! We will have so much fun! Oh, and also, London at Christmas time!
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Friday WatchAlong Reminder! Mubarakan on Friday (tomorrow), 3pm Chicago Time!!!
I am SO EXCITED about this pick! Although I am also coming off a string of bad choices (recommended Christmas on the Square which no one liked the same way I did so far, made my parents watch Prancer which they didn’t love). But this is fine. Right? Angie likes it!
Continue readingFriday WatchAlong: We Are Watching Mubarakan This Week and I Don’t Care What You Say!!!!
I am SO HAPPY with this plan!!!! I totally forgot Mubarakan was a Christmas movie until I looked at it for the headers. It is Christmas, it is happiness, it is Anil Kapoor and Ratna Pathak, it is All Good. Also, this is my early Christmas present to Angie, enjoy!
Continue readingSunday ReRun: Mubarakan! A Big Fun Stupid Movie With a Mostly Great Cast
Are you all mad at me for making you watch this dumb dumb movie? Or are you grateful that I challenged you to watch a super entertaining movie? Or did you all ignore this film and no one will read the review?
Continue reading2017 Hindi Film Awards: Promotion Related, Biggest Surprise and Biggest Disappointment
I already put up the winning real life stories of 2017, now lets move on to where film and real life overlap, the promotions that try to drive people into the movies. What films were over-promoted, leading to disappointment. And what were under-promoted, leading to delightful surprises? And what were just plain wrong promoted, leading to both?
Box Office: Mubarakan Money, Vikram Vedha Volume, Fidaa Phenomenal
Yeah, nothing is ever going to be as pun friendly as Tubelight. Even Toilet, when it comes, will be just too obvious, no scope for invention. And this week I have to make do with alliteration. (background on box office available in my big discussion post here, as always, full figures available at bollywoodhungama here)
Mubarakan Review (SPOILERS): Good But Not Quite Good Enough
I already put up my No Spoilers review, which should answer the question “should I see this movie?” for you. This review is for “I don’t want to see this movie but I am mildly curious what it is about” or “I have just seen this movie and I’m not sure what to think about it” kind of people.
Mubarakan Review (No Spoilers): Definitely A Movie, not A Film
Well, I saw Mubarakan. And I thought, “should I stay up super late and write a review to go up at midnight? Naaaaaaaah!” So hopefully no one was staying up desperately refreshing my site waiting for it to post.
New Trailers! Jagga Jasoos, Mom, Mubarakan, Partition 1947: Guess Which One I am Most Interested In?
Well, Karan Johar is tweeting about it, so that means it must be news. Fine! I will talk about the new Jagga Jasoos trailer! And then as a reward for my good behavior, I will talk about the trailers I actually like.
Two Non-SRK Trailers, Baadshaho and Mubarakan, Which Just Make Me Think of Other Better Films
Well, that’s not really fair, I don’t know yet if they are better films because these films haven’t come out. But I can suspect they are better films, because the films they remind me of were really really good, and it showed even in the trailer.