This is a paper I wrote for grad school, so it sounds all grad school-y and stuff. Don’t panic! The usual friendly happy review will be coming later today.
Continue readingHappy Shahrukh Month! And also, Halloween month! And so I have come up with a cute Halloween themed rom-com.
Continue readingI forgot this was such a short little light review. Someone suggested I should write an additional review of this one, and I really should, this isn’t nearly enough.
Continue readingI’m watching Star Trek: The Original Series on Netflix, and as I do with almost all narratives, I am immediately trying to recast it with Shahrukh. Help me!
Continue readingI didn’t even bother rereading my old review, because once I thought of this angle, I KNEW it was a new one!
Continue readingI’ve asked this question a bunch of times before, I know. But there are always new movies/TV shows out there, right? So it makes sense to keep asking it.
Continue readingHuh, didn’t realize how close this came to Swades. Shahrukh was really working through some patriotism issues these years.
Continue readingReally, First Review. I did a combined thing of Don 1 and Don 2 and a little bit Don Original, but I never did a review specifically of the Don 1 film.
Continue readingI think I chose to talk mostly about Preity’s character in this review, which is interesting enough of a conversation to have. There is just so much in this film!
Continue readingWhat a nice coincidence! Amitabh’s birthday and Yashji’s birthday, both perfectly timed to post a collaberation.
Continue readingI wrote this a while back, it’s deep and long and all about home and community and things. But very little about the romance, which is why I wrote that other review just now just about that.
Continue readingI like Shahrukh month because it gives me an excuse to write out my feelings in little beautiful thought posts. And no one can speak out against me, because it’s Shahrukh Month! The Holiday Protects!!!!
Continue readingThree review day! I’ve totally lost track of how many movies/days I have left, but I feel like I need to increase my rate of review.
Continue readingI wrote up Kal Ho Na Ho, that guaranteed sob fest, and now it’s time for the guaranteed laugh fest, Main Hoon Na!
Continue readingI was looking for a review to repost and discovered I had done two mini-reviews, one about this film as showing a matriarchy, the other about it as showing an interesting idea of different kinds of love. But no actual regular review! So, time to write that. (previous posts on Matriarchy and on love triangles)
Continue readingThis movie discussion should be a fascinating comparison with my re-review of KANK from yesterday. Both films are about married couples struggling with the distance between who they are as people, and what they feel their married roles should be. Only in this movie, our husband and wife really truly love each other, so they are able to fight their way back together, even when he fails as a provider and she fails as a mother/homemaker.
Continue readingI do not like it AT ALL. Bad movie, bad BAD! You should not like it either and I will try very hard to convince you of that, while being aware that there are poor misguided souls who just keep enjoying this movie. Even though it is Bad and Wrong and Bad!
Continue readingI just reread my original review, and it was quite good, but there are so many other interesting points to discuss that I didn’t even touch upon! I’m excited!
Continue readingYou know why I haven’t reviewed this film before? Because it’s BORING! Boring boring boring! It has this great all star cast, and this great question of matrimony center theme, and yet, DULL! Hopefully I can make reading about it more entertaining than watching it.
Continue readingIt’s been 20 years now, this movie has been made fun of and rehashed and ridiculed over and over, it’s easy to forget what a massive industry changing international hit it was when it first released.
Continue readingI’m doing the countdown and reposting the reviews of every film, and writing new reviews of the few I have missed. But what movies do you want me to take a fresh look at? Ones I’ve already reviewed in the past but you are eager to talk about more, and differently? Yes, I will write a 5th (6th? 4th?) review of JHMS if you want.
Continue readingOh, I hope some of you comment on this one! I don’t like it, but I know a lot of you do, and now is the time for you to reveal yourselves and defend yourselves.
Continue readingYet another movie I was sure I had reviewed! But I hadn’t. Oh well. Time to do it now!!!!
Continue readingI think this question makes sense. At least, it makes sense in my head. I want to see if I can make it make sense in your heads.
Continue readingSpellcheck wants me to replace “Mohabbatein” with “Mountbatten”. This makes me giggle every single time. Do you think it is possible that the whole film is an allegory for Edwina and Nehru’s affair? Amitabh is Mountbatten, Aish is Edwina, Shahrukh is Nehru, the school is India, Anupam Kher is Gandhi? It TOTALLY WORKS.
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