about me

My name is Beth and, yes, I really do love Bollywood. It's taken over a lot of my non-work time, but in addition to watching movies and imitating dance routines very poorly, I work in the world cultures museum of a big university in Illinois, have a dog, and like to read and knit, both of which are hard to do while watching subtitled movies. My Blogger profile is here and my neglected other blog is here, but it's going through an awkward phase, so be nice.

I often get asked how I started watching Bollywood movies. The short answer is that when Bride and Prejudice came out, I was so excited to see it (being a lover of almost all Jane Austen adaptations) that I went to the film's website and started poking around. The director had put up a list of Indian film conventions that she was playing with or winking at in the film, and as I read about them I thought "These sound amazing! Why have I never seen any of these movies?" I ran to my local independent video store, That's Rentertainment, which has a truly wonderful international film collection, and grabbed things almost at random. Because it had such happy-looking people on the cover, my first Indian film was Mujhse Dosti Karoge. And I was hooked.

I'm very lucky to have been interviewed, profiled, and mentioned in several publications. Here are some of those stories:

Enjoy this slideshow of movie-related images from my trip to India in 2006!

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