I might finally got around to reading his biography! I made my friend buy it and bring it to me aaaaaallllllll the way from India, and I STILL hadn’t read it. But surely his birthday would be an occasion for that, right? I was tempted to do a full 94 reasons I love him, but maybe that should wait until next year when he hits 95. This year, I will just do 32, for the age he was won the first FilmFare Award ever.
I don’t know if any of these three actually tell us anything new about their respective films, but they are pretty to look at!
Happy Birthday Shotgun Sinha, Dia Mirza, Dino Morea, and Priya Gill! Phew! I’m exhausted! Obviously, they are not going to each get reasons I love them. Let’s see, how to be fair? Okay, each person gets 3 reasons, either 2 songs and one fact or two facts and one song. Whatever I feel like.
Well, it’s only fair, right? Age before beauty and all that. But now Dharmendra is done and it’s Sharmila’s turn to get a post all to herself! Let’s see, how many reasons do I have to love her? How about 13, for the age you were when you made your debut?
Okay, big day today, and really really big day tomorrow. But at least tomorrow I won’t feel guilty for sort of combining people, whereas today Dharmendra and Sharmila clearly deserve their very own posts! So, Dharam-Garam, here are 10 reasons I love you, one for every decade you’ve lived (counting the 9th one you are starting today) plus one to grow on.
SO GOOD!! And not just because the eyeliner/dorky 80s glasses is really working on Shahrukh. Well, that’s part of it. But there’s a lot of other good stuff too!
I was debating what, if anything, to do for Manish. And then Filmilibrarian started a conversation on my Monday Questions post about costumes, and I have decided to ruthlessly re-purpose it for a post about costumes in honor of Manish. Sorry Filmilibrarian! Your question was just too good to resist!
Huh. There really aren’t that many navy-based movies in India. At least compared to America. Although Navy-movies is kind of an odd genre, maybe it’s America that’s the weird one for having so many. On the other hand, plenty of songs with boats! Because, similar to songs with cars, it’s a nice way to get the hero and heroine alone.
I just got an email from Howard Brown reminding me (donate to them! They do good stuff), and I thought it might be interesting to look at the few times Indian film as acknowledged the AIDs epidemic in the country. It’s about the same amount as American pop culture has acknowledged it, but more musical!
Ha! The twist I thought might have been hinted at by the trailer is the twist! Aamir trains his girls just like he would if they were boys, but then they grow up and want to be women and it all gets complicated.
Yet another Befikre trailer! I really did not much like the first one. And then I disliked the second one slightly less, and the third one even less, and now the fourth one has continued the trend, and I almost enjoy it!
This is the post I put up exactly a year ago, when the only people reading this blog were…me (I started posting on my Facebook page so at least my parents would read it a couple days later). I have gotten much more technically competent since then. So I am updating it and re-posting it. With notes added from “future me” in brackets.
I looooooooooooooove Christmas! I have 8 Christmas trees, 1,000 Christmas carols on my ipod, and I spend about a month’s income every year on presents and other sundries (like more Christmas trees). And so, for this very very special occasion, I am going to do a songs post that is NOT Indian!!!! Although, don’t worry, there is an Indian one going up later today too.
Just assume that health, family, home, blah blah blah are taken as a given. Here is the important stuff I am thankful for this year!
I was thinking I would take a day off from blogging, but why? At least 2/3rds of my readers aren’t from America, and Thanksgiving is one holiday that is really just for America. At least on this particular date, I think Canadian Thanksgiving is in October or something? Anyway, I am going to write this post and schedule it in advance, because I will be traveling and sleeping off Turkey on the actual day.
I got all mad at Aamir for taking up time on Shahrukh’s day. But of course it’s only Shahrukh’s day in North America, everywhere else in the world his day isn’t until Friday. So I guess I will allow it.
I somehow missed this one. Maybe nobody tweeted it? Hardly seems worth posting, seeing as the actual movie is coming out shortly. But Shahrukh is so cute! I just have to share!
It’s been a while since my last fanvid post, and I recently discovered that I have a fanvid maker in the comments! Which inspired me to dust off my youtube searching skills, and I have dug up gold! Hrithik themed GOLD!!!
I am so confused! Worlds colliding! Shahrukh and Jay Z, Alia and Demi Lovato, Coldplay and AR Rahman. WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!?!?
Also, Mickey Mouse! And my best friend! Truly, a blessed day! And a busy day, because I have to squeeze in 2 celebrations (not 3, because I don’t celebrate with Mickey. But I do have commitments to the other 2).
“I’ve been looking the landscape over…” I’m I the only one who has that Gershwin song in their head whenever they read “things are looking up”? Moving on, Befikre! New Trailer, and I actually like this one! Oh, and also it was passed by the censors.
Children’s Day in India is November 14th, because that’s Nehru’s birthday, and Nehru loved children. Isn’t that sweet? And, just like World Animal Day and all the other sub-holidays, I am marking the occasion with a theme video post.
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month! Very easy to remember, very hard to ignore. That’s when WWI officially ended. Over one million Indian troops served overseas, and 74,187 died. (2 million Americans served, and 116,300 died. Although the majority of those deaths were from the influenza epidemic, not battle)
I’m mourning today, like can’t stop crying, can’t find anything good in the world mourning. I was trying to think of the last time I felt like this, I think it was when my grandmother was dying, my grandfather had just died, my father was worried about losing his job, and my mother was recovering from major surgery (yes these things all happened at the same time). That was years ago, and the small piece of comfort I have today is that at least I have something that does bring me spiritual comfort, which I didn’t have then.
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