Now I am thinking about Keanu Reeves. I guess that would be a good parallel, in that Keanu seems to have found his nitch (sp?) and be happy staying within it. And he isn't really around enough for you to get tired of his very particular kind of character.

I know you weren't asking me, but I am answering anyway, and I will be curious if Subbu says the same thing. For me, it is familiarity. Somehow, the more you see her "act", the more irritating it becomes. She's been in Indian films for over a decade, so the audience for those films has had plenty of time to tire of…

Good to know! That's what I thought was probably happening, but I wasn't sure

How is it doing in India? Is there buzz or anything?

I guess I can see that. For me, my melodrama/violence tolerance has become so high by this point, that I need something really hard core and violent like Once Upon a Time or Agneepath or even Gadar to even trigger a reaction. The heartbreak and then violent bloodshed just hits the spot. (I may also be a sociopath,…

I'm curious, where are you seeing it as a big hit? I don't think it made a dent in the Indian box office (although it did way better than any of Kashyap's other films), and it barely got a release overseas.

Is it the post-satrical engagement that you like or find tiresome? To me, it comes across more as an intellectual engagement with the 70s crime films, without an emotional one. He knows all the right moves to make and how to include them, but the heart isn't there.

Let me offer you a far superior youtube clip:

Yes, definitely.
Also, he is super unlikeable in interviews, in a way that seems to have a disturbing echo in how his protagonists act. Nothing is ever his fault, the world is against him, etc. etc.

My soulmate! I also dislike him, because I don't like his attitude towards woman. Why do you not like him?

Yay! The semi-monthly India article! I am disappointed it wasn't about a more popular movie, but this is still nice.

Yes: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Baahubali! Saw it 4 times in theaters, totally worth however much money they spent on it!

I also love Bend It Like Beckham, and I just wanted to jump in real quick to point out that it wasn't Chadha's debut film. Her first film was Bhaji on the Beach, followed by What's Cooking, followed by Bend It Like Beckham. She made Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging after Bride and Prejudice and is working on a…

So, is the choice of Saif Ali Khan (an member of an Indian Royal Family on his father's side and Indian Independence movement royalty on his mother's side) a conscious suggestion of undercutting the British-Bond identity by using an actor who is definitely not British, or is it just being unaware?

I also love Hum Tum! and like Rani well enough. But I am a little thrown by thinking of Saif as the next Bond instead of as the next Rom-Com hero

That makes sense. I just get hyper touchy about anything that seems to say the Hollywood way of making films is the "right" way, instead of just the way Hollywood does it.

I don't know if I would agree with this. First, I don't think "nuanced" necessarily equals "good", or even that Indian directors need to "catch on" to anything, since they are already making films that follow their own complex technical and artistic standards. Secondly, I wouldn't say the "masses" have necessarily…

Huh. Maybe that's why I like her early stuff and not the new stuff? I love Asambhav, with her and Arjun Rampal, both being super pretty, and not even pretending to act.

I'm just thrilled that she is going to play the boring unwanted older wife. Because I am petty and I only want bad things for her.