OK, watching Salaam-e-Ishq reminded me how much I love John Abraham, arguably the hottest guy anywhere evah. Who also happens to be a Bollywood star (he and fiancée Bipasha Basu should be mandated to have children for the sake of genepool).


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Saw Water, a movie about treatment of widows, and thought it was a powerful, understated, beautiful movie. I thought the entire cast was good, but the person who stood out the most was Serala, the girl who played Chuiya. She was amazing. I also liked the fact that the movie didn't go for the simplistic 'men are evil' paradigm. There are men who ( Read more... )

No doubt, because of the traumatic news of BSG Season 3 being moved to October, I had a dream that I was watching Season Finale tonight. In RL, I put the breaks on my K/L tendencies because of self-preservation. I have no intention of being dragged too deeply into a ship which might never have anything. But clearly, my subconscious is a bigger K/L ( Read more... )

Water, pictures of which I posted a bit earlier is opening at the Toronto festival. And I found out the plot.

Caution, spoilers (though not for the end). How fascinating: child widows, prostitution, eunuchs, fobidden love and tons of angst. Right up my alley.

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My most anticipated Indian movie of the year (and one of my most anticipated movies of the year, period) is Deepa Mehta's Water. It is the last part of her trilogy about India (the first was Fire which was a lesbian love story, and the second was Earth, which dealt with the trauma of Partition). Water deals with the plight of widows. It is ( Read more... )