KNPH, DTPH, Wimbledon & books
I met with Old Schoolfriend on Wednesday for yet another Bolly-film night. I'd brought several films with me, so that she could choose what she wanted to see (I've already seen all of them). She decided Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai sounded like a fun, light summer movie, so we started to watch it. We got to a little under half-way point to the scene on the bridge just beforewhere Hrithik1 dies when the %&#!!! DVD decided to die on us and nothing we tried made it work after the half-way point. Until then it had been playing just fine. GRRR!crappy Indian dvdsGRRR!
It's been ages since I saw the film, and I didn't remember how much I liked the Hrithik Roshan/Amisha Patel chemistry in this film. They were so cute and young, but it's also fun to watch the film as a HR showcase, since it's the film that launched the Hrithik-mania all those years ago.
Luckily, I had brought other films with me, so we decided to watch Dil To Pagal Hai instead. I admit it's really slow moving and you could summarize the first half of the movie into about 15 minutes (max.!), but the film is one of my favourites. I like the music, I like the romance (the "aur paas" scene is in my Top5 hottest scenes in Bollywood list), and even the characters. I even like Karisma Kapoor in this film (and I'm not a big fan), and I always feel sorry for Nisha who ends up all alone :(.
After that, she wanted to show me one of her favourite feel-good films, Wimbledon, which was a fun, light, and - I admit it - feel-good. Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst made a cute couple, and the story was entertaining, though I'm not a big tennis fan.
On the reading front, I got hooked on rereading some of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books after Twelve Sharp, of course, starting the series from the beginning with (125.) One for the Money and (126.) Two for the Dough, both of which I have in an omnibus edition of the first three book in the series, called Three Plums in One.
I also have a bunch of review books that I should be reading, so the next ones were (126 1/2, only 5 chapters plus a synopsis of the rest, so not a complete book) Stephen & Lucy Hawking's George's Secret Key to the Universe which combines a YA adventure story with popular science and (127.) Patrick Carman's Atherton: The House of Power which is an adventure story set into a constructed three-layered world called Atherton.
After that I could return back to the Stephanie Plum adventures with (128.) Three to Get Deadly and I will probably continue with the series during the weekend.
It's been ages since I saw the film, and I didn't remember how much I liked the Hrithik Roshan/Amisha Patel chemistry in this film. They were so cute and young, but it's also fun to watch the film as a HR showcase, since it's the film that launched the Hrithik-mania all those years ago.
Luckily, I had brought other films with me, so we decided to watch Dil To Pagal Hai instead. I admit it's really slow moving and you could summarize the first half of the movie into about 15 minutes (max.!), but the film is one of my favourites. I like the music, I like the romance (the "aur paas" scene is in my Top5 hottest scenes in Bollywood list), and even the characters. I even like Karisma Kapoor in this film (and I'm not a big fan), and I always feel sorry for Nisha who ends up all alone :(.
After that, she wanted to show me one of her favourite feel-good films, Wimbledon, which was a fun, light, and - I admit it - feel-good. Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst made a cute couple, and the story was entertaining, though I'm not a big tennis fan.
On the reading front, I got hooked on rereading some of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books after Twelve Sharp, of course, starting the series from the beginning with (125.) One for the Money and (126.) Two for the Dough, both of which I have in an omnibus edition of the first three book in the series, called Three Plums in One.
I also have a bunch of review books that I should be reading, so the next ones were (126 1/2, only 5 chapters plus a synopsis of the rest, so not a complete book) Stephen & Lucy Hawking's George's Secret Key to the Universe which combines a YA adventure story with popular science and (127.) Patrick Carman's Atherton: The House of Power which is an adventure story set into a constructed three-layered world called Atherton.
After that I could return back to the Stephanie Plum adventures with (128.) Three to Get Deadly and I will probably continue with the series during the weekend.