Well, here is a shocker, after winning the worst actor award last year, Sidharth landed in the best Hindi movie (I think) of 2017. Not that he has become a better actor, he is just way way better cast this year than last year.
I did a long post about Nadia Wadia/Fearless Nadia/Mary Ann Evans several months back, thought I should repost it in honor of her birthday today.
This isn’t “news” as such, this is just cute stuff people have tweeted or re-tweeted. Mostly Amitabh, who seems to have gone a little baby mad the past few days.
I finally got around to making a video. Quality is so-so, I was in a hurry to finish before I had to run out the door for work, but it’s there. It’s related to the “Surprisingly Good Film of 2017” awards post, but a little different.
Happy Monday! Time to distract me as I start a full week of work for the first time in a month. On the tragedy!!!! Working 5 full days, without any time off for being super sick, or the holidays. How will I possibly go on?
This was a really close one, between Sulu/Vidya Balan in Tumhari Sulu and Dev/Akshaye Khanna in Ittefaq. Vidya won by just a little bit, but mostly because she was the title cahrater and got a little more time onscreen. This is just my choice, if you want to vote for yourself, go here and place your vote in the comments.
No new winner this week, so sad. Because the Christmas season is over. Although I am almost tempted to just make this a weekly thing all year. But probably not. Or at least, not like this. Anyway, you do all get to admire the card joyomama won last week, which is my favorite.
This will be the ONLY award for JHMS this year. Just pointing that out for people who think I am blindly Shahrukh mad. It was a good interesting movie, but it is only the soundtrack that really stands out for me when I compare it with the other films of the year. Plus, it wasn’t that great of a year for soundtracks.
Sorry, this is going to be a lot of me-me-me, but it will also be a little bit of a discussion of the responsibility of public writing and education and stuff. So that will be fun! Oh, and it will answer a question that a lot of people have been asking me lately.
I never get much comments on my birthday posts, but this one I have hopes! I am picking, maximum, only 50 songs. Which means I am obviously going to be leaving brilliance out. You get to point out the important things I missed in the comments!
I said there were 4 strong contenders for yesterday’s award, most disappointing. But there were 5 times as many for this award! And yet the box office this year was record breakingly bad. Which says interesting things about what kinds of promotions do and don’t work and what kind of films do and don’t work and so on.
I completely forgot our southerners last week, and I am doing an all-Hindi “Best of 2017” contest, so I really feel like I need to make up for it. And the best way I can is an Entire Post of Southern Gentleman. In their native garb.
Happy Birthday Dips! Sorry I am so late, early January is a bear to deal with. But I am taking a break from the make-up-for-the-holidays rush of work at work, and the cleaning of the apartment and putting away of presents at home, in order to write this post. Because I love you, 32 times over.
There were 4 strong contenders for me for this award this year, Rangoon and Tubelight and Tiger Zinda Hai and Jagga Jasoos. But I went with Rangoon by a hair.
Well, romance is in the air! Or at least couples are in the air. Everyone is pairing up in their own way
This was a hard one! I was torn between Shashiji and Vinod Sir until the last minute. But I think Shashi edges Vinod out by a hair. And, I am sorry, but Om Puri didn’t even make it to consideration for me. (this doesn’t mean voting is closed! You can put your own pick in the comments on this post here)
There are many separate posts for you to vote on, but I wanted to put them all in one place for convenience and also to remind you to vote!!!!! Oh, and very important especially since I limited my suggestions to Hindi, WRITE INS ARE ALLOWED!!!!!!!! If your favorite film, or best film, or most disappointing film of the year was non-Hindi, go ahead and put that in your comment. Not sure how I will count them, but I’ll do an honorable mention section or something.
I don’t know about you, but I am very very happy to be in 2018. It sounds like a nice solid kind of year. However, I am also in the middle of the post-holiday blahs. So I thought I would cheer myself up with a nice post, and cheer you up too if you need it!
Happy Wednesday! And Happy Return to Regular Life. Which, yes, means there will be new film reviews going up on regular schedule starting this Friday. Sorry for the interval, I had time to write during the holidays but not time to watch anything new.
So many options here! More than you think, 2017 was a happy year in many ways. But the question is, which, to me, was the happiest?
Terrible terrible news! You thought Shraddha in for Vaani was the worst heroine casting news possible, you haven’t heard this! Oh AISH!!!!! Why do you torture us so?
Well, Tiger is still going strong! Generally great box office to varying degrees worldwide. Everything else is in its shadow.
Final chance to judge me! Which of my fanfics of 2017 did you like best? And remember, whatever you pick here my influence what I write more of in 2018!
Teaser and title are finally out for the Aanand L Rai movie! I am not sure yet what I think. Maybe you tell me what you think and that will help.
Something extra fun for you and torturous for me, you get to vote on which posts you liked best! And I get to go “wait, that one? The one I did no work on and didn’t even much like, that’s the one you want?”
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