tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:17:36 +0000I'm in the sunshine, arms outstretched, spinning around, driving off with Shashi Kapoor in a convertible - because I love Bollywood. It's the time to disco - for ours are crazy hearts!http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/bethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)Blogger666125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-3422431785015119898Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +00002009-12-23T11:26:17.414-06:00masala zindabad | R(ecommended) M(asala) A(llowance)Filmi Secret Santashouse favorite:Shashi Kapoor"The masala epic known as Secret Santa takes a strange turn in the last reel, which seems to have no relationship to the story so far...."For those of you who have not met me in person, this is exactly what life at my house is like. C'mon over!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/sxBh2VEK4NE/filmi-secret-santas-day-11-requisite.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)8http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santas-day-11-requisite.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-5483137436611371369Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:30:00 +00002009-12-23T09:43:43.420-06:00Filmi Secret Santas"Speaking of cluttering up your house: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, andTen totally random Shah Rukhs.... And a [very seasonal] extra.(Thanks to Babasko for this charming Alpine image.)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/RVIDCX3qpLE/filmi-secret-santas-day-10-random.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)2http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santas-day-10-random.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-1912645241919637703Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:25:00 +00002009-12-22T08:31:10.168-06:00Filmi Secret Santashouse favorite:Shashi KapoorFilmi Santa brought me a surprise from the most glorious royal palace of Pitustan!For those of you who don't have time to squint and read the text, it goes, fabulously, like this:"Allow yourself to melt into Eau de Shashi. A fragrance rendolent of musk, heaving bosoms, and sultry nights.... A fragrance forbidden to all but the most desirable of women. Bring Eau de Shashi into your boudoir tonighthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/DwXUWfZCB-o/filmi-secret-santas-tribute-from.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)9http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santas-tribute-from.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-4546954398395070836Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:21:00 +00002009-12-22T08:39:05.335-06:00Filmi Secret Santas[How perfect is this?!?!?! - Ed.]Santa's Research Assistant finally got around to looking up the "Twelve Days of Christmas" poem on the Internet. Imagine everyone's surprise to discover that the actual text for today reads "Nine Ladies Dancing." That should be doable.Nine Ladies Dancing will sort of clutter up your house, but that seems to be the whole point of the song, so at least it's seasonalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/Wtq2WFw0kmU/filmi-secret-santas-day-9-ladies.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)1http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santas-day-9-ladies.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-8647028070199768623Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:22:00 +00002009-12-21T10:26:42.969-06:00Bollywood resources (books articles websites etc)Obscure-ish Bollywood reference needs are in the air! First Memsaab's plea for help IDing side and character actors; now a look at Samrat Sharma's hilarious and useful Top 5 "That Guy"s in Bollywood. I hope Sharat Saxena is pleased with his new title - I know I am!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/_do9WFl3sh8/todays-reference-source.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)0http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/todays-reference-source.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-549572838982227922Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:12:00 +00002009-12-20T15:17:25.961-06:00"On the seventh day...the elves rested. That's how the song goes, isn't It? Or are they mixing that up with something else? Either way, the elves do need their rest: they were up late at Pran's house, drinking Johnny Walker Black and trying on his wigs. So they decided to just be silly today."Bollywood High School MusicalandGoodness Gracious Me Christmas....And on the eighth day, "Something http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/RxPM2XLJkWc/filmi-secret-santas-day-7-and-8.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)3http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santas-day-7-and-8.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-3523805735923698492Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:11:00 +00002009-12-20T15:31:53.621-06:00thoughts on moviesavoid yaar - and other very bad endeavorsIf you want a thoroughly thought-out piece on Feroz Khan's indulgence-oozing-from-every-pore 1986 Janbaaz, I suggest you read Post-Punk Cinema Club's review that discusses it through a complex lens of modern Dionysian debauchery. Me, I hardly made it through the film. It's just so gross: blood, death, flame throwers, clunky innuendos,threatened gang rape,addiction, sense-scarring 80s club-rock http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/JOm0pnfSLGA/sleaze-o-rama-janbaaz.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)6http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/sleaze-o-rama-janbaaz.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-7554164965836182922Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:07:00 +00002009-12-18T16:08:10.107-06:00Filmi Secret Santashouse favorite:Shashi KapoorAnd a very welcome one during a lousy week, too!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/ytOCVyM5q-o/another-bonus.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)2http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-bonus.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-12010598434430866Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:45:00 +00002009-12-18T08:45:12.790-06:00house favorite:Abhishek BachchanFilmi Secret Santasand a reminder of how much I love "Genda Phool."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/SDitGSTy44w/delhi-filmi-secret-santa-day-6.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)2http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/delhi-filmi-secret-santa-day-6.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-952876431731836886Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:37:00 +00002009-12-18T08:40:01.395-06:00Filmi Secret Santashouse favorite:Shashi KapoorMy Santa has superb math skills! Do aur Do is paanch, after all.... Shashi after too much of the Christmas spirit and a freaky song (and one that will make no sense at all if you haven't seen the film, but don't let that stop you)!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/OVPKpl84D84/filmi-secret-santa-day-5.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)0http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santa-day-5.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-7490585360472072396Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:29:00 +00002009-12-18T08:40:35.898-06:00Filmi Secret SantasDoctor Who clips set to Bollywood music and dialogue, that's who! WOW!Don"Bachna Ae Haseeno" "Main Yahaan Hoon"and my favorite, "Kiss of Love"My Santa totally has my number.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/_qDfB2DLghU/present-5-who.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)2http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/present-5-who.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-2948920183172224304Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:23:00 +00002009-12-18T08:35:10.751-06:00Filmi Secret Santashouse favorite:Shashi KapoorSnowy, smiley Shashi and Sharmila, still on skates despite the ice! What could be more merry and bright? (And this clip even helpfully cuts off before the perilous descent into logic-defying "I'll save you by raping you" part that makes my brain fall out.)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/5dGgAFy9Bos/present-4-musical-bonus.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)2http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/present-4-musical-bonus.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-1016084174228023742Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:35:00 +00002009-12-18T08:40:45.610-06:00Filmi Secret Santasbut "three brothers of varying religious persuasions and degrees of dishiness."Masala stamp stamp stamp of approval!Santa, I'm thinking of you as Vinod's one-man band - you're so resourceful!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/gLhtVS0coLM/present-3-not-three-french-hens.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)2http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/present-3-not-three-french-hens.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-2323465348413609869Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:02:00 +00002009-12-18T08:40:54.817-06:00Filmi Secret Santashouse favorite:Shashi KapoorAnd as my Santa says, it is the quality of the leaper, not the number, that matters.I should note that yesterday's gift came with the assessment that Shashi is so fine, he doesn't need any pear trees.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/UY86SD6fZ_U/present-2-two-lords-leapin.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)3http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/present-2-two-lords-leapin.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-8072945807025138824Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:45:00 +00002009-12-13T20:46:26.668-06:00Filmi Secret Santashouse favorite:Shashi KapoorMy Santa is off with a bang!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/tUSwFR_MJvw/my-first-secret-santa-present.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)9http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-first-secret-santa-present.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-7781657297386503283Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:27:00 +00002009-12-13T01:27:00.049-06:00thoughts on movieshouse favorite:Neetu SinghLook how cute!Like chocolate and peanut butter, 70s Bollywood and Some Like It Hot turn out to be two great tastes that taste great together. Rafoo Chakkar is a dead ringer for the American original, but it's so successful at being a great film that I sometimes forgot it was a copy. Nothing is lost in translation, and the changes all make sense, even the addition of long-lost family members and ahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/s0MUAwxzFGs/whats-hindi-for-like-jell-o-on-springs.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)12http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/whats-hindi-for-like-jell-o-on-springs.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-6054880313207981035Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:59:00 +00002009-12-13T20:46:40.765-06:00Filmi Secret SantasIf you're playing, check your mail for something from filmi@n9works.com. (And apologies for any duplicates!) YAY!If you have any questions, please post them here, and I'll answer as best I can so everyone will know the current thinking. The major rule is: have fun!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/He7RL5yOxBQ/filmi-secret-santa-emails-going-out.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)3http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santa-emails-going-out.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-2205866524770082756Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:21:00 +00002009-12-12T10:07:27.836-06:00thoughts on moviesTrue confessions: I'm having a hard time being objective about this film. When ass-hat Raj bailed on Radhika without a word, my heart broke for her - not just because it's clearly a vile thing to do but because it has happened to me.I wasn't in the rain on my wedding day, thank Helen, but someone (a 20-something someone from Delhi who worked for a large entertainment company, just like in the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/ErXwTe_pldY/bias-and-empathy-for-bachna-ae-haseeno.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)11http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/bias-and-empathy-for-bachna-ae-haseeno.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-2177666431785010168Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:45:00 +00002009-12-13T20:46:40.766-06:00Filmi Secret SantasYou may wish to reconsider.Hey Santa baby.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/uz8qTaHt9Ho/in-case-you-havent-signed-up-for-filmi.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)2http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-case-you-havent-signed-up-for-filmi.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-8228013166353303533Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:53:00 +00002009-12-13T20:46:40.767-06:00Filmi Secret SantasRemember in grade school (or in my case, high school French class) when you'd get assigned to be someone's Secret Santa and give them little presents for a week? And trying to figure out who gave you that cardboard book of Life Savers? So fun! I hereby invite you to participate in a Filmi Secret Santa program, and the rules are thus:Presents will be virtual - collages, videos, song re-writes, newhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/QlCRgIwvbQA/filmi-secret-santa-project.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)14http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/12/filmi-secret-santa-project.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-5538261960237005086Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:20:00 +00002009-12-01T09:52:24.589-06:00thoughts on movieshouse favorite:Rani MukherjiThat unstoppable, beautiful happiness! Raniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!My favorite Bollywood lady is predictably cute and appealing in bumpkin-Babli mode - that is, a spirited small-town young woman with big dreams and sheer and/or pink outfits, not as complexly written but still thoroughly enjoyable and root-for-able. As Veera, Rani shines as only Rani seems to do - squeaky, sometimes bratty, fully http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/76pZOGIhWZw/babli-at-bat-dil-bole-hadippa.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)13http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/11/babli-at-bat-dil-bole-hadippa.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-6738096965007713120Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:40:00 +00002009-11-23T08:58:54.771-06:00thoughts on moviesavoid yaar - and other very bad endeavorsYalgaar is not so much bad as it is lacking in any enticements - unless you like early Sanjay Dutt, and I know some people do, especially shirtless and/or bemulleted. I was bored and unmoved. It drags. There's too much time spent on uninteresting things.And sometimes they just ramble on and on for no apparent reason. Feroz must be talking about some other film here - any "twists" Yalgaar may http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/kiOfOtcw2oo/yalgaar.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)22http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/11/yalgaar.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-3478936485456249569Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:00 +00002009-11-22T13:45:23.398-06:00thoughts on movieshouse indulgence:Kareena KapoorWithout being spoilery, here are the good things I can say about Kurbaan.The acting ranges from solid to quite strong, with Om Puri and Kiron Kher perhaps tailing the pack only because their characters are extreme and tempt the actors into scenery-nibbling. I was especially impressed by Vivek Oberoi.* Even the American extras and bit players are pretty good, relatively. (Note: it seems like a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/52W6_U6G3q8/kurbaan.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)12http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/11/kurbaan.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-5666092691537821894Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:36:00 +00002009-11-22T14:34:17.550-06:00knitting in BollywoodThere are several knitting, Bollywood-loving bloggers out there - Deewaani for Bollywood, Memsaab, Totally Filmi, who publishes Bollywood-inspired patterns; and Antarra, who has posted a few times on the most important and memorable theme of knitwear in Hindi cinema, the sweaters of Rishi Kapoor. There's even a Bollywood group on Ravelry, the knitting social networking (knitworking?) site. I http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/g9oTwvU8me0/first-in-occasional-series-knitting-in.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)8http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-in-occasional-series-knitting-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-5651338386108260907Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:20:00 +00002009-11-18T11:15:39.092-06:00thoughts on moviesThe opening frames of Reshma aur Shera, a tragic story of family honor and vengeance set in rural Rajasthan, made me think I was in for depressing slog through the trials and tribulations of The Indian Woman, deified in theory but treated like dirt in practice. As the film begins, a voice (I think director/producer/star Sunil Dutt) extols women as the keepers and transmitters of the Indian virtuehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kKej/~3/tbvJJEXPqGE/reshma-aur-shera.htmlbethlovesbollywood@gmail.com (Beth)9http://bethlovesbollywood.blogspot.com/2009/11/reshma-aur-shera.html