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Monday Morning Questions Post, Aiyaary Week (Finally)!

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Happy Monday!  I successfully finished my first week of heartworm treatment!  Well, not “my” first week, the dog’s first week.  But I’m the one who had to give her the pills and rub her sore legs and stuff.  And now, the second week!  In which if her heart rate goes up, she will DIE!!!! (or so the Vet impressed it upon me)  Now, distract me from my overwhelming responsibilities by asking me questions.  Oh, and answering mine, a follow up to last Monday.

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Silly Sunday: Quickie Bonus FanFics! Snowed in with SRK

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My first fanfic post was very long, had no SRK, and only had one story option.  All of these things have resulted in the past in a lack of interest from the readership.  So to make it up I am going to do something short, with a lot of options, and lots of SRK.

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Silly Sunday: International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Vidya Balan Female Scientist With Supportive Men in Her Life

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My sister, who does math, just forwarded me an email reminding her to celebrate the “international day of women and girls in science”.  Which I feel can best be celebrated by an epic fanfic about how hard and ultimately rewarding it can be to be a woman in science.

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Upcoming Movies: The Next Film of Amitabh, Rajinikanth, Ranveer, and Dhanush

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Lots of first looks!  Which are always kind of “how is this news?” but sometimes slightly interesting.  These were slightly interesting ones.

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Saturday Telugu: Anand, Which Should be Titled Rupa

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What an interesting movie!  Now I can see why everyone was excited about, but not surprised by, Fidaa.  Clearly this director knows how to build complicated imperfect female characters and reward them with a perfect love story.

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No New Movie Tonight, Because Of Snow. Instead, Dog Video!

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This snow is really helping me get those old Hindi reviews up that I haven’t had a chance to write before, since I can’t go to the theaters to see something new, Hindi or otherwise.  And I will be tucked in tonight watching Malayalam and Telugu films streaming so that I can put up reviews for those sometime this weekend, after doing Hindi reviews during the week.  Essentially, my whole schedule is just upside down and backwards.

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Happy Birthday Yash and Roohi!!!!!

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A happy post! To balance the serious one from earlier today.  And also because I looooooooooooove Yash and Roohi.  Most serious and concerned babies ever!

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Hindi Film 101: A History of Islamaphobia in Hindi and Western Popular Culture

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This is another one of those posts that I have been considering writing for a long time, and now suddenly seems like the right time.  Because, in a certain way, things are finally beginning to shift.  And I want to do everything I can to help in shifting that conversation.

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Dil Dhadakne Do: A Family Film

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Here’s a random post.  There’s a big thought provoking scary hard important post coming tomorrow morning, but I wanted one more nice film discussion post first.  And Angie reminded me that I had still not written about this film.

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Upcoming Movies! From Salman, Anushka Sharma, Sharman Joshi, and ADITYA ROY KAPUR!!!!

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Oh boy, lots of interesting movies to talk about today!  None of which are actually out there in the world yet, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about them

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Youtube Video: Padmavat Box Office, No Dog

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I’m sick of the dog stealing my thunder!  No, not really, she is so in pain and miserable that all she can do is breath and sleep, so she didn’t even raise her little head up to join in the conversation.  Anyway, this week’s box office, here it is again, same as in this post.  But this time with me talking instead of writing!

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Trailers! Raid, Gold, Welcome to New York, and Veerey Ki Wedding

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Yesterday was Day of News, today is Day of Trailers.  Ajay’s new movie, first teaser for Akshay’s next or, as I think of it, Reema Kagti’s next.  And a song from Welcome to New York.  And Veerey Ki Wedding, just to round things out.

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Box Office: Padmavat Drops Down Under

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Well, this is a boring week. Padmavat continues as you would expect based on last week. Bhaagamathie too, everything is kind of predictable. Except for Australia! And New Zealand. What is going on with those kooky Kiwis and Aussies? (figures courtesy of bollywoodhungama, as always)

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News Round-Up Part 2: Ranveer and YRF, Aanand L Rai and Rajkumar Santoshi, Aditya Chopra and Hrithik Roshan, John Abraham and Release Dates, Sui Dhaaga and Valentine’s Day, Sanjay Dutt and Scandal

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News round-up part two!  Which I wrote at the same time as part one, but I wanted to post them separately so you didn’t have to dig through the comments to find the topic you were interested in.  You can comment here on these stories, and on the other post on the other stories.

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News Round-Up Part 1: SO MANY Upcoming Movies!!!!! Milan Talkies and Ali Fazel, Housefull 4 and Abhishek Update, Aiyaary and the Censor Board, Manikarnika and Kangana, YRF and Karan Malhotra

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So many news items about upcoming movies!  Mostly how they are being released early, or released late, or starting filming.  Just a lot of date talk, really.  Which isn’t very interesting on the surface, but is super super interesting when you dig in and think about what those dates mean.  And this is just part one, I am breaking it into two parts so we can more easily keep comments focused.  Part two here

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Silly Sunday: Comeback Films for Preity and Urmila! (with guest appearance from Shahrukh, Anil, Sanjay, Arjun, and Ajay)

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It’s Preity’s birthday week! And Urmila’s too! And both of them deserve to be working more, even though they are over 40. So, I have IDEAS!

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Happy Birthday Urmila Matondkar! A Dozen Reasons I Love You

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Another birthday!  And another one I am mostly excited about because of the song options.  There is often a secret motive behind these birthday posts, that being that I really want an excuse to dig through all the songs of the birthday boy or girl.  And Urmila has such great songs!

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Hindi Film 101: Fan Studies, “Female” versus “Male” Fans, and Fan Power

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Meenakshy asked me a question on Monday about fans, and then I gave a way way too long answer in response, because that was what my Masters Thesis was on!  Fandom and how Hindi film inspires a different kind of fan.  Anyway, I thought I might as well take my answer and turn it into a post. (my thesis is here if you want more details and and original research related to this)

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Happy World Wetlands Day! Wet Songs For Us (also, dog)

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I know I’ve been doing a lot of song posts lately, but I am sick of reporting on Padmavat and not much else has been happening.  So, songs it is!  Just to keep us busy for a bit until the one-two of Padman and Aiyaary next week.  Oh, and there’s a dog video at the end, if you are into that sort of thing.

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