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Happy Tubelight Week! Who is Zhu Zhu?

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Happy one week before Tubelight comes out!  And welcome to my week of coverage.  If this is your first time here before a big release comes out, what I usually do is a loosely related post every day for a week before.  Stuff like, the director’s last film, or a similar film from the same star.  Just sort of discussion topics and background reading for stuff that might end up being relevant for the final film.  And for this film, let’s start with the co-star, Zhu Zhu!

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News Round-Up: No RK Films Revival, No Arbaaz for Dabangg 3, and No Indians at the Top of the Forbes List

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Boy, it’s been awhile since I did a real news round-up, isn’t it?  Partly because the releases have been going boom-boom-boom for the past few months, so with my weekly southern reviews, and new movie news, and then Bahubali, there just hasn’t been time.  But this week it’s kind of slow, I don’t have another review ready yet, might as well do a quick news round-up.

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Hindi Film 101: The Nehru-Gandhi Family, The 1st Generation and the Young Jawaharlal

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Well, this is one I’ve been avoiding!  Because I know feelings run high on it.  And I know that, as a non-Indian, I have no right to talk about another country’s politics.  So I am not going to talk about politics, I am going to give as impartial a perspective as I can on the progression from Motilal to Jawaharlal to Indira to Rajiv to Sonia to Rahul.  Because as I discovered yesterday when looking at the posters for upcoming films, we are about to have a spate of Indira-era period pieces, and to understand them, you really need to know about not just Indira, but what came before and after.

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Upcoming Movie News: Toilet Has a Trailer, Baadshaho Has a Time Period, and Paltan Has a Massive Cast

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The Ramadan promo parade continues!  Tubelight is taking it easy, Salman just tweeting set photos, Shahrukh is doing the same with Jab Harry Met Sejal (blech, still hate the title).  Leaving the field clear for the hardcore promos of first looks and teaser trailers for other movies.

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Raabta Footnote: That Song! The One the Villain Sings! Where is it From?

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I was just re-reading my SPOILERS review for Raabta and I realized I missed a big point, so I am going back to add a footnote.  When Jim Sardh walks home with Kriti and it starts to rain, they start to sing a song to each other.  And it was such an interesting choice, I just have to talk about it.

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Raabta Podcast! With Special Guest, MY SISTER!!!

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New podcast!  As I said in the review, I saw Raabta with my sister, thinking it would be a fun so-bad-it’s-good kind of sister experience, like when we watched Aashiqui 2 together.  But it turned out to be actually good!  So good that we spent 40 minutes talking about it on the way home.

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Raabta Review (NO SPOILERS): The Romantic Fantasy We Have All Been Craving!!!

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I say “all”, but really it’s just a subset of the commentators here.  But a strong subset.  Which includes myself.  I can enjoy an action film or a well-made drama, but there is just something about the big swoony romances with songs and impractical plots and lots of chemistry between the leads.  And this film definitely delivers!

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Shahrukh’s Movie Has a Stupid Title, Tubelight Has a Touching Song, and I Still Don’t Know What’s Going on in Jagga Jasoos

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I take one day off twitter, and everything happens!  It’s not fair!  Shahrukh’s movie has a title, and a bunch of new posters, new Tubelight song is up which changes the plot, and Jagga Jasoos…..well, that one doesn’t really change anything, but it sure perplexes me!

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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge: Scene By Scene Analysis in Exhaustive Detail Index

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This is one of my least popular, and most difficult, blog series.  It’s hardcore analysis, social and shot by shot and narrative and history of the film industry and history of India and everything I have ever learned all in one place.  I am up to section 20 now, and 100 screen shots, and I am barely past intermission.  But I thought I should probably just put together an index post to make it easy for latecomers to catch up.  And hopefully get a few more readers to justify the amount of effort I am putting in!

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Happy Birthday Dimple!

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Happy Birthday Dimple!  I cannot BELIEVE you are 60!  You are still the most elegant, the classiest, the coolest lady in Hindi film.  Here are 15 reasons I love you, one for every year you were alive when Bobby came out and made you a superstar. (this is a reposted and updated post from last year)

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Happy Birthday Ekta Kapoor! Most Powerful Woman in the Industry!

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You may say Farah or Zoya has more power, and maybe if you just look at the films they produced, okay.  But if you look at all the stars and stories and production changes Ekta has done through film AND television, there is no contest.  So, for her birthday, here are 18 reasons I love you, one for every hundred episodes produced of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (1833 in total). (this is an updated and reposted-post from last year)

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Hindi Film 101: Shahrukh’s Filmography, Part 3!

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Happy Tuesday!  Once again, I am going through Shahrukh’s filmography film by film in chronological order.  Because it is an interesting case study for how a career progresses, and how the industry has changed, over the past 25 years. (part 1 here, part 2 here)

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Bahubali Theme post: Shakti and Shiva, Male and Female

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Time to talk about gender!  I love how Bahubali 1 and 2 deal with gender.  I do not like how Bahubali 1, in isolation, deals with it.  But that’s just because it was only half the story.  The two films have to be viewed together for the concepts of the male and female and how they are handling them to become fully clear. (my last theme post is here, and my full Bahubali list of posts is here)

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Netflix List Update (Thanks to Accessbollywood.net): What to Watch and What to Skip

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What are those birds that eat bugs off of the elephants?  Or is that an urban legend?  What I mean is, I feel kind of like those birds, existing off of someone else, because Accessbollywood.net does the real work of keeping this list updated, and then I just swoop in and put in recommendations and descriptions.

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I Am Moved In! I Know You Are All Curious How it Went

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I am writing this in my new apartment on my new internet sitting on my old couch and facing my old TV, but with a new-to-me coffee table (rescued from the trash, where all the best furniture comes from).  Also, a dishwasher!  Anyway, I thought I would take a break from unpacking boxes to tell you how the move went, since I have been pestering you with posts about it.

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New Podcast Announcement! With Special Guest, MovieMavenGal!

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I haven’t put up a podcast in a few weeks, because there hasn’t been anything to watch for a few weeks (except Bahubali over and over and over again).  But I thought it would be a good time to put up a podcast MovieMavenGal and I recorded a while back, actually the beginning of our Angamaly Diaries conversation.  Especially since MovieMavenGal just started putting up her video reviews!

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Monday Morning Questions Post, the Week I Move Apartments!

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Happy Monday!  I am writing this from my parent’s guest room, because my apartment is now so packed up, it has become unlivable.  So this will be a bit of an odd week in Margaret-world, hiding out in the back bedroom at my parents and occasionally “visiting” my real place to put a few more things in boxes.  But that just means all the more reason you should ask me stuff and distract me!

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