tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post5817056640166569878..comments2023-11-10T08:26:51.182-06:00Comments on Beth Loves Bollywood: very sensible, very sweet: Cheeni KumBeth Loves Bollywoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540154833326987567noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-62416678672353387592011-02-26T23:42:23.277-06:002011-02-26T23:42:23.277-06:00Like you, i found the movie delightfully grown-up,...Like you, i found the movie delightfully grown-up, yet highly entertaining, and regretted the retarded hints at Hindi movie follies like the talk at the urinal.Hans Meierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675553770565339630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-56620381610629483822007-12-28T02:37:00.000-06:002007-12-28T02:37:00.000-06:00Hey Beth,I enjoyed this movie too but had a slight...Hey Beth,<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed this movie too but had a slightly different take, over at http://we-are-like-this-only.blogspot.com/2007/08/cheeni-kum-still-bit-over-spiced.htmlbird's eye viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338332150874851183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-30590581581913452232007-12-05T18:44:00.000-06:002007-12-05T18:44:00.000-06:00In my head a lot of younger male-older female woul...In my head a lot of younger male-older female would boil down to "young man wanting an experienced woman" type of thing. Then I tell myself, "Akash, you're an idiot" and try to think of alternative storylines. It's all about balance, I guess. I frankly don't really care for couples with age difference, but any unusual pairing that gets interesting, believable treatment in Indian cinema is worth checking out, IMO.veracioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14437521137603205617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-78677352982206827712007-12-05T13:05:00.000-06:002007-12-05T13:05:00.000-06:00I didn;t like this movie too much, to put it blunt...I didn;t like this movie too much, to put it bluntly. Maybe, I never got "into" the mood for watching something like this. The whole sentimental scene where Sexy dies, when the audience is supposed to cry, I laughed at Big B hugging a pole.Strange thoughts about whether this had any Freudian implications came to my head.aandthirtyeightshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00644980602293705853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-19043796042803563982007-12-03T14:29:00.000-06:002007-12-03T14:29:00.000-06:00ggop - I can buy that. It makes sense. Phew! And s...ggop - I can buy that. It makes sense. Phew! And sorry about that broken romance - trauma-drama-o-rama!<BR/><BR/>nirvana - Quite different, aren't we? :)<BR/><BR/>ppcc - Alllll will be revealed in the movie, pony stub, fasting, and all (except Sexy's name). The idea of the Tabu Seal of Approval is tempting, but it is not foolproof - I got very little out of her role in <I>Hera Pheri</I>, for example, other than some fuggable shoes.<BR/><BR/>Novel-length fan fic? Do tell!<BR/><BR/>re: Filmi Geek's narrative: IT's true. Having run afoul of the dictatorship of Shabanastan, I can only encourage others to tread lightly. (I'm not allowed to say anything further.) Shabanastan and Shashi Pradesh, while having different constitutions, are known to ally and they have mutual extradition treaties, so I'm not really safe anywhere.<BR/><BR/>Khanistan, though...that's a different superpower altogether.Beth Loves Bollywoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05540154833326987567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-2556386893614937582007-12-03T13:28:00.000-06:002007-12-03T13:28:00.000-06:00"So our suggestion is Shabana and SRK."Whatever th..."So our suggestion is Shabana and SRK."<BR/><BR/>Whatever the opposite of "from your mouth to God's ears" is, PPCC, I am saying that - nay, shouting it from the rooftops, while waving one of the National Flags of Shabanastan (possibly <A HREF="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e325/cmtlevy/SLP-banners/banner16.jpg" REL="nofollow">this one</A>) high over my head.<BR/><BR/>We at the Foreign Relations Bureau of the National Government of Shabanastan do not take kindly to the thought of Shah Rukh Khan sharing the screen with our fearless leader, much less to the suggestion of any kind of romantic entanglement between them - even of the Fake Pretend Movie Variety. <BR/><BR/>It is simply Not To Be. <BR/><BR/>Indeed, the Shabanastan Censor Bureau nearly came to blows at a very tense meeting to decide the fate of the very Beth(*) who is graciously hosting this conversation, in regard to the consequences for her of having created <A HREF="http://bp3.blogger.com/_48qykkqKavI/RuX6uRS7puI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/5DB3kumTyhE/s1600-h/the_man_for_me.jpg" REL="nofollow">this</A>. In the end the Board of Censors permitted her to live - but it was touch and go there for a while. (Granted, some of the Board members are a smidge humor-impaired. If the National Government of Shabanastan doesn't take itself too seriously at times, who does?)<BR/><BR/>At any rate, *shudder*.<BR/><BR/>(*) Credit to the same Beth for the concept of Shabanastan.Filmi Geekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03452657736759131107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-20399602393060542952007-12-03T04:14:00.000-06:002007-12-03T04:14:00.000-06:00Oooh, the PPCC is dying to review this, since we j...Oooh, the PPCC is <I>dying</I> to review this, since we just-a loooves the quirky, mismatched couples. Admittedy, the whole Amitabh-with-a-pony-stub is somewhat offputting, but Tabu's endorsement of this movie is reason enough to overlook that aesthetic mistake. Perhaps not even a mistake! We'll have to watch and see. <BR/><BR/>Oh dear, provocative nicknames for little girls. Maybe it's just an edgier version of "Cutie" or "Sweetie"?<BR/><BR/>And opposite couples! The PPCC's <A HREF="http://www.nanowrimo.org/" REL="nofollow">NaNoWriMo</A> novel featured a whole slew of our favorite Hindi actors, and in it there are two characters: Vijay, a generation Xth clone of Shah Rukh Khan, and Doctor Azmi (guess which Azmi), who end up becoming, yes, a quirky, mismatched May-December couple. So our suggestion is Shabana and SRK.a ppcc representativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03533616493105736109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-55336288217347881282007-12-03T00:49:00.000-06:002007-12-03T00:49:00.000-06:00hi, for a totally different take on this movie hav...hi, for a totally different take on this movie have a look at http://nirvana73.blogspot.com/2007/10/movie-review-cheeni-kum-less-sugar.html<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/><BR/>NirvanaNirvanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097479856226957441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-17630605085309666212007-12-02T22:26:00.000-06:002007-12-02T22:26:00.000-06:00The sexy thing had only one explanation in my mind...The sexy thing had only one explanation in my mind - it was Amitabh's nickname which appealed to her and she requested that she be addressed by that name. (And because she was dying, everyone including her father indulged her)<BR/><BR/>BTW the fasting till I die tactic is employed by many a mom to thwart "love marriages". I knew someone who tried to pull that stunt and caused a breakup :-(ggophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13152025930955161430noreply@blogger.com