Wednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking This Week?

Happy Wednesday!  It’s Wednesday, right?  I was up kind of late last night working on the Telugu review.  But now I will have coffee and it will all be better.

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Box Office Report: Raazi and Mahanati Prove Women Are Better Than Men

I was going to come up with something clever, but now, simple is best.  Every male star in every industry is struggling to make a decent box office, and Alia and the Savatri biopic sweep in and break records without breaking a sweat. (as always, figures from renttrack by way of bollywoodhungama)

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Wednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Thinking and Watching the Day After Madhuri’s Birthday? Also, Dog Video

Happy Wednesday!  Are we all recovered from the massive celebrations of yesterday’s holiday (Madhuri Day)?  Anyway, this is the place to chat about anything and everything you have been thinking and reading and watching this week

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Tuesday Telugu: Mahanati Review (No Spoilers), A Huge Talent Cut Down to Fit in a Love Story

Well, I saw it!  And I did NOT like it.  And then I went home to discover that Dog Hazel had gotten lonely and into the trash and eaten a bunch of stuff she shouldn’t.  So all around, a failure of an evening.

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Telugu Film 101: Savitri, the Basics

I just ordered possibly the last copy in America of the only English language full biography of Savitri.  But it’s shipping from a million miles away, and it looks dauntingly thick, so I have no idea when I will finish reading it.  In the meantime, I wanted to put up a post based on the very superficial information I have gathered by reading every single English language article I could find on The Internet about Savitri and her associates.

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