Happy Wednesday! This is my first full week of work since I returned from vacation and I DON’T LIKE IT. 5 days in a row is too many days. Especially when I no longer have a vacation to look forward to. Oh well, halfway done now. At least, halfway done as of noon today.
Continue readingWhat fun! I’m gonna criticize stuff! I almost never do that, because I like liking things. But sometimes it is okay to be mean. And I really hate Devdas.
Continue readingIt is extremely hot today. I am looking at my poor wilted flowers on the windsill in my office and feeling even more wilted than they look. And also a wee bit worried about Dog Hazel who is all alone all day in my third floor apartment. I left the a/c on for her, but it’s not really enough. And what if the power goes out or something? Poor little hot doggie!
Massive combined post! Because I am trying to end the day/first year of blogging at exactly 999 posts, so I can’t split this up. But I also don’t want to ignore any of these stories!
Yay, second weekend box office is available! And that global-local/multiplex-singlescreen divide is popping up, just as anticipated. Really, these films are not going to clash, besides me, there just aren’t that many people who would be interested in both.
You know I shouldn’t be your primary source for Indian political and other hard news, right? Because I don’t have a strong background in that, and more importantly, I’m not a journalist. If anything, I’m an analyst. I take news other people have already reported and put it together in interesting ways. Anyway, moviemavengal just tweeted me an article that does all the hard news work of the ADHM protests for me. Check out this link.
Third and final Shivaay post! I already put up a No Spoilers review, and a Spoilers review. Now it’s time for the more specific detailed summary of the whooooooooole movie.
Overseas Box Office report is out! Woo! And it proves either that Ajay has failed, or that Ranbir is the rising star, or really it’s all about Karan. I’m pretty sure it’s all about Karan.
I’m going to put up a full summary later, probably today or tomorrow. But in the meantime, here’s a review for people who’ve seen the movie, or are never planning to see the movie and don’t care about SPOILERS.
I saw Shivaay tonight! Because it was the practical thing to do based on theater schedules, even though everyone else is seeing ADHM. I’m glad I saw it, not necessarily glad I saw it before ADHM.
Little bits of news have started to burble out, as they do during opening day of major releases. What did the public think, how are ticket sales, etc. etc. And, of course, are there massive violent protests or not?
I normally don’t use bad language, but I couldn’t resist the alliteration! And really, the man is less than scum.
The biggest news is really the meta-news that there are 3 news stories about ADHM to one about Shivaay. Clearly, the people who run English language industry news sites are pretty sure that their readers care more about ADHM then Shivaay news.
I still haven’t seen Force 1. I’m ashamed and all that, but I missed it in theaters and then I spoiled myself for the ending and it sounded like kind of a downer, so I skipped it on DVD. But Force 2 looks pretty good, so maybe I will make myself watch Force 1 so I am all caught up.
The Shivaay love song just came out. And, thank goodness, I think it explains what’s going on with one of the three very very young heroines. And possibly one of the other ones as well.
The first song video for Shivaay is out!!! And it is Weeeeeeeeiiiirrrrrrrddddddd!!!! In a whole bunch of different ways.
Don’t get to excited, she’s not doing a show or anything. Just other stuff to help promote Shivaay. But still, Kajol!!! In the same country as me!!!
Two! Two great videos! One of which is striking and beautiful and amazing, and the other of which is just kind of cute.
I thought Ajay couldn’t top suing Yash Chopra’s widow days after his death, but this is pretty bad! Not that he’s actually necessarily in the wrong, just like he wasn’t in the wrong last time, but it’s just turning into a whole thing again which isn’t going to help anybody’s film.
Two trailers out today! I think they both might be attached to Rustom/Mohenjo Daro or something like that? Anyway, they are released online today, and I am excited!
I was alerted to this news story by moviemavengal‘s twitter, feed and it made me so happy! And then to fluff up this post, I found some other random upcoming film news floating about the internet.
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