Sridevi! Was a star from 13 to 54, but I want to focus on the last few years. Generally women of a certain age aren’t given good roles, but she came out with Puli, Mom, and English/Vinglish proving that wrong. In her honor, let’s share our favorite actresses of a certain age who are still working and proving their strength.
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Battle of the Champions: Which of These is the Worst Mother? Kapoor & Sons, Kalank, or Agneepath?
I am highly prejudiced of course (as everyone is on subjective things like parenting), but to me these are the absolute WORST mothers in recent Hindi film. Would you agree? And which is really the worst?
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Who Do You Have a Couple Crush On?
Follow up to the “girl crush” post! By the way, these posts are getting more traffic than anything else I am putting up (why does no one want to play Antakshari???) so if you have more general ideas for questions, lay them on me!
Continue readingThappad Review (SPOILERS): When is It Time to End a Marriage?
Such a good interesting movie! There aren’t really surprise twists and stuff, but it is a journey for sure, so you should read the No Spoiler review if you are planning to see it and let it wash over you and surprise you.
Continue readingThappad Review (No Spoilers): What Happens When Women Stop “Adjusting” After Marriage
Such a weird sleep day! Up super early, bed super early, and now it’s 2am and I just popped away and thought “well heck, I might as well write my Thappad review”.
Continue readingSilly Sunday: Love Stories By way of 1930s Hollywood (Including a Divorce Romance for Shahrukh and Juhi!)
I left work early on Friday and just came home and spent the weekend watching TCM. So many fun obscure movies that we could remake!
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 readingMubarakan 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.
Happy Birthday Naseeruddin Shah!!!!
It’s Naseerji’s birthday! How wonderful! His career is so long and so impressive, I don’t think I can possibly hope to do justice to it in one post. So I am going to do the best I can and if I miss something, just mention it in the comments and maybe I will put it in for next years post! Anyway, here are 26 reasons for now, for the age he was in his first movie.