Ready for a silly post? Which suddenly came to me when I was watching Chandni with y’all this morning?
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Friday Watchalong on Saturday BECAUSE I AM GETTING VACCINATED!!! Oh, and We’re Watch Chandni
This is all very exciting and last minute, the National Guard just opened up some mass vaccination centers in IL, and if I drive for 6 hours there and 6 hours back I could get a shot TOMORROW. So I took the slot, told my boss I was gonna be out of office, asked my parents to dogsit, and called my doctor to make sure she could give me a note to confirm I qualify under the new very very loose IL State restrictions. All of this in like the last hour. And then I thought “woops! I have to reschedule Friday watchalong!!!”
Continue readingWho Was Rajiv Kapoor?
This is a sad one. Not a sad one today, just a sad one in general. A life story that makes me a little mournful when I think about it.
Continue readingShahrukh Birthday Countdown! Movie 1, Deewana!
This is an overall fun 90s kind of movie, and then halfway through POW! Shahrukh!
Continue readingFriday Watchalong! Do Dooni Chaar Right Here at 3pm Chicago Time!
This should be a fun one! A nice light comedy about a middle aged couple trying to buy a car.
Continue readingIMPORTANT QUESTION!!!! How Should the Kapoor Men Be Listed Top to Bottom in Sexiness?
I promised you an All Happiness day, right? What could be happier than objectifying men in a feminist act of subverting gender power dynamics!
Continue readingDimple Birthday Week! A Pleasant Light Forgotton Rom-Com, Pyaar Main Twist
Just like for Sonam, I am bringing up a nice little lower budget pleasant film you may have forgotten about. If you need a smile, you should watch this movie!
Continue readingDuniya: Salim-Javed Make a Middle-Aged Man Their Angry Hero!
This was a fun movie! Classic Salim-Javed kind of plot, but with mature elegant calm Dilip Kumar as the lead, gave it a whole different feel. Also, Pran and Ashok Kumar and Rishi Kapoor and Amrita Singh are there.
Continue readingNews Round-Up: Life Goes On! Brahmastra is Delayed, Salman Makes a Bad Business Decision, and Amitabh Makes Us Cry
News round-up! This is mostly because Brahmastra made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Oh, and because I have a new commenter getting to know Amitabh, and it reminded me that he is a combination of rawly emotional and very very restrained in his public appearances.
Continue readingRishi Kapoor: Song Master
Saying someone is “good at lipsyncing” sounds as silly as an air guitar contest, but it is an actual thing! There is something about being able to sell a song, even if you aren’t the one singing it, and Rishi was truly the master.
Continue readingHindi Film 101: Rishi Kapoor, A Lifetime Spent Struggling Against His Father’s Legacy
I already wrote my farewell post to Rishi, what he meant to me, but I want to put together a post about Rishi the person. As a Kapoor, we (the public) know a remarkable amount about him personally, and Rishi in interviews and his memoir has made even more available. I’m not going to try to rake up scandal or demonize him, but I want to do my best to give a fair and balanced look at the life of this man we have just lost.
Continue readingRishi Kapoor: An Honest Man
Once again, sad news to wake up to! There was a similar year in 2013, death after death after death. I found that kind of touching because it was the 100th anniversary of Indian film and all of these greats went on their way out with the anniversary. But 2020? I don’t see any meaning to that.
Continue readingIrrfan Khan Fest: New Review! D-Day, His Saddest Greatest Film That No One Talks About
This movie released, a few select critics applauded it as one of the best films they had ever seen, and then it disappeared a few days later. I saw it, and I know a few other people here on the blog watched it, and we all think of it as a really remarkably good movie. One of those films you find yourself thinking about at surprising moments. It’s one of Irrfan’s few films where he is good, but the rest of the film lives up to his performance. It’s also extremely sad. Not tragic exactly, just sad. Be warned.
Continue readingFriday Classics: Saagar! The Dimple-Rishi-Kamal Love Triangle You Didn’t Realize You Wanted!
Well, this movie was a kick! Definitely a fun Sippy, an Andaz-Seeta Aur Geeta-Shaan Sippy, not a Sholay-Shakti Sippy. If you have been politely ignoring all my Sippy movie posts because they seem way too deep and serious, you can swing back now and watch this movie because it is fun fun FUN! And a little melodramatic and romantic, but that’s just a different kind of fun.
Continue readingValentine’s Week of Sex: Doosra Aadmi, Sex and Marrying Too Young
This is such a good interesting movie! I watched it years ago and yet I still remember it well enough to write a review, which is a sign of a very good movie.
Continue readingValentine’s Week of Sex: Kabhi Kabhi Review 2! What Does Yash Chopra Think Makes Good Sex?
This is a movie with a lot of layers, consideration of parent and child relationships, and changing times, and the generation gap. But it is also about sex, and what makes good sex and bad sex, and why that matters in a relationship.
Continue readingValentine’s Week of Sex: Kabhi Kabhi Review 1! The Movie that is All About Sex Without Being About Sex
Happy Kabhi Kabhi day! This is my old review, with one paragraph added, but I think I have to do a second review later today specifically about what sex means in this movie because I think Yashji had a very particular reason for showing different interactions between the 5 couples.
Continue readingRitu Nanda, Daughter of Raj Kapoor, Sister of Rishi Kapoor, and Mother-in-Law of Shweta Bachchan, Has Passed Away
Ritu was related to a lot of famous public people, but was not a public person herself. I don’t want to reveal too much of her life which (by choice) she kept private. But I want to point to how she affected those around her who have chosen to lead a public life.
Continue readingHindi Film 101: Ranbir Kapoor, The Physical Embodiment of Young Male Privilage
Okay, sharpen your claws, build up the knives of resentment, stoke the fires of your class/gender anger, and let us focus all of that on the one perfect representation of every man who ever tried to tell you his pain was more important than yours, that his success is a tribute to talent and not privilege, that if we disagree with him it is just because we don’t have the depth to understand his thoughts. Take down Ranbir, and we can take down every patronizing boss, every bad boyfriend, every dumb colleague promoted over you, every person who looks at the world and only sees a mirror, not a window. Yes, our Ranbir Hate, in one great cleansing burst, will Save the World.
Continue readingFriday Classics: Deewana, Shahrukh’s Power Punch Entry
Yaaaaay, a new Shahrukh review! Of a really interesting movie. Like, I think I would be interested in it even if Shahrukh weren’t the star.
Continue readingShahrukh Summer: Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte Annotated
Thank you Emily for the suggestion! This is the perfect song to do a lazy Saturday when I don’t want to think that much.
Continue readingFriday Classics: Delhi 6, A Cry for Humanism
I did it! I figured out the message of Delhi 6! It was right there in front of me all the time! Also, I figured out the main problem (Sonam and Abhishek have terrible chemistry).
Monday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me, The Week of My Father’s Birthday?
Happy My-Father’s-Birthday week!!!! To celebrate, I am going out of town. It was the only weekend I could visit my sister between now and, like, May. But I will try to make up for it and be a good daughter by making sure you are all VERY AWARE that it is my father’s birthday this week. 66! That’s a semi-big deal! Or at least, very cool to be matching digits.
News Round-Up: RK Studios Sale, Kriti and Rishi Both Have Films Postponed, and YRF Thugs Publicity Continues
There is one really big story, but so long as I am covering things, I might as well cover the little stories too.
Rajan Nanda, Husband of Ritu Kapoor Nanda and Father-in-Law of Shweta Bachchan, has Passed Away
I don’t have much to say about this, because Rajan was a Delhi businessman, not a movie person. But I am irritated that it is being reported incorrectly in all the press, his Kapoor connection ignored in favor of his Bachchan one, and that is forcing me to write a post.
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