I am watching so much true crime! But, like, small true crime. Little hour long shows that just summarize mildly interesting local news stories, not big injustices or tragedies or stuff. And most of them have some crazy personal story at the center which is AWESOME.
Continue readingReady to be silly and shallow and indulgent? Let’s recast an iconic story for India and try to create a similarly iconic cast!
Continue readingGenevieve brought this up, and probably only she and I will care about it, but whatevs! It’s my blog, and I just want to make the two of us happy!
Continue readingChristmas Movies! YAAAAAAAY! I watch them, I sew, I wrap, I cook, I clean, my December goes by. They are not really made to be watched closely, I think, they are made to be thrown on the TV to stop the kids from screaming, or else to play in the background for company as you complete a thousand and one tasks.
Continue readingChristmas remakes! Okay, one of them isn’t technically Christmas, but it’s all family love and stuff, so it could easily be Christmas.
Continue readingThis is like the third time we’ve done this, don’t care. It’s Friends! It’s the one pop culture artifact that everyone everywhere in the world has an awareness of! And which has some very very strong archetypes that are fun to translate to other cultures.
Continue readingHappy Sunday! And Happy Day Light Savings Ending (or starting?) Day! And of course, Day After Halloween! I’m gonna do a quick fun fanfic post, hopefully you will join in with your own ideas in the comments. It’s surprisingly easy!
Continue readingHappy Shahrukh Month! And also, Halloween month! And so I have come up with a cute Halloween themed rom-com.
Continue readingMost of you have seen some to none of these, don’t care! For my own happiness, I am going to play with how they could be turned into Indian movies/TV shows. And I guess you should all watch them? If you like pleasant lowkey shows that leave you smiling and ready for bed, these are very good options.
Continue readingI am very excited about all of these ideas! Neena is great, and up for anything, and able to do practically anything.
Continue readingYes, this is yet another Hollywood-India combo ideas post. Don’t care, it’s hot, I like escaping into my own mind.
Continue readingI’m excited! Disney is now in India, for realsies, and I love the classic Disney fairy tales for their strong central female characters. Time for an imaginary rewrite!
Continue readingIt is too hot to think straight today (ha! straight!), not only can I not think enough to write a “real” post and have to fall back on fanfic, even with fanfic I can’t think it all through, I have to just start it off and leave it there for you to imagine the rest.
Continue readingWe watched it on Friday, which was super fun. But also we got all upset about the half done love story and I started thinking about how I would have written it to have a whole other second half that gave a more satisfying love story structure instead of the very light weight plot with a lot of dance competitions instead of relationship drama.
Continue readingI have been having a lazy brainless weekend. Went to my apartment, could in theory be sorting and organizing but instead I am sitting in my sunny living room watching TV shows.
Continue readingYou thought we were done with Karan Johar, didn’t you? But no! I have one more thing to say that occurred to me while we were doing our Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham watch. And this thing will also, once again, give me a chance to rewrite the endings of Karan Johar movies which is my favorite thing of course.
Continue readingIs “kuch kuches” the plural, do we think? Or is “kuch kuchi” better? I’ll leave it like this, but feel free to weigh in with your thoughts in the comments!
Continue readingMy parents and I had a little Elaine May mini-fest last week, and I fell in love with her funny but ultimately loving sort of comic touch. And now I want to rewrite and recast all her movies for India! Because it makes me happy. Even if no one reads this post.
Continue readingShashi alert! Well, sort of. At least “Kendal Family Alert”. Let’s look at nice pleasant murder mystery serieses from the BBC, the kind where death happens without blood or mess and usually to unpleasant people we don’t mind when they day, and suggest that perhaps Netflix should stop making scary bloody rapey shadowed urban series, and more happy pretty countryside murders.
Continue readingThis is turning into such a truly brilliant film, I am so pleased! Puppies and elephants and all good things.
Continue readingOh boy! I am SO EXCITED to add on Patricia Merry’s ideas. Believe me, you will be excited to read them too.
Continue readingI think we are getting really good at this! And I also think I am going to just keep rolling out new fanfics step by step all the time. It’s fun!
Continue readingNot “meet”, we already had that, but “meat”, the serious center cut portion of it all. Fun thing is, this is an Indian film we are writing, so we get the center cut here, and then the next post is the pre-interval finale, then the Twist, then the post-interval reset, then the second “meat” part, then the finale-finale, and then the epilogue. So many pieces!
Continue readingOkay, getting minor traffic on these posts, but I’m having fun! And I think I can keep doing these endlessly, maybe with a shorter pause in between? Or all combined into one post? I don’t know, I’ll keep fiddling with it.
Continue readingOkay, Rachel and Angie came up with the characters and the setting, moving on to how they meet and the first conflict!
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