Newsflash: Bollywood is Filming in
Exotic Liverpool
FWR
wrote: Filming a Bollywood movie. New York taxi on a trailer, getting some
pics... security guy turns round.
Obviously!
Editor:
Great pics! Has anybody burst into song yet?
FWR: No,
but there is fake snow covering the cars today! Gotham must have its own
climate.
I was
talking to a colleague (who is actually from Kerala) on the way home yesterday
about that very thing. Its a misconception that Bollywood films are all
musicals. Rom/coms and action movies have overtaken them in India. He blames
Netflix and Prime.
Editor:
I blame my Afghan friend Namir, who used to take me to those three-hour
song-and-dance spectacles when I was in grad school in the 70s.
Deprecated
Expression of the Day
It
changed everything. No, dammit, it did not. If whatever you're
describing changed the rotational axis of the Earth, say This changed the
rotational axis of the Earth. But stop using this maddeningly vacuous cliché.
It only alerts us to the fact that we should not waste time on your blog,
essay, or Youtube video. It was probably written by generative AI, anyway. Our
view of generative AI essays is: AI wrote it. Let AI read it. Cut out the
middleman.
Featured
Beauty
These are not Monet's waterlilies. These are
Superfrenchie's waterlilies. But they might be related, you know. And they are très beaux.
Video
of the Day
Welcome Clouds (with suitable music)
Note: People on Youtube have really bad taste. Our
great video of the punch-drunk Stag Beetle? 12 views. Twelve. All day.
Me pointing a camera at the church steeple and then
playing Stairway to Heaven with 3 fingers on a keyboard? Seven
hundred views in an hour and a half. I'll never figure it out: that
carpenter bee was worth more than a lousy 48 views.
CU l8ter, 
, Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor
Don't worry about it. One of my lousy videos of Luna or some other idiocy will work as click bait (pity I couldn't film getting dive bombed and cracked on the head by gulls)
ReplyDeleteThat IS a pity. I suspect we could run that one as pay-per-view.
DeleteThere was a time when Bollywood was happy making musicals and action thrillers at the same time, in the same movie, as you can learn from this review of the classic Khoon Khoon (1973), which features the word 'diegetically': https://aw1x.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/reasonably-clean-harry/
ReplyDelete'It’s very entertaining, in all sorts of ways, and most of them are intentional.' I love it. Confessing here that I have never seen 'Dirty Harry' (why should I? I watched 'The Mothman Prophecies' for the third time last night, more my speed). Which means that the line that shocked me most in that review was 'while being held hostage by Andy Robinson.'
DeleteMy reaction was, what??? Garak taking hostages? Never!
Read this review, folks: maximum enlightenment here.