BW: U Me Aur Hum

Kajol, you animal.

BW: Quote game!

Here are quotes from the Bollywood movies listed on this blog. No cheating w/ IMDB or Google. Comment w/ the correct movie titles. Some are pretty easy, esp. if you know your character names. Some you might not have seen, and there are others I wanted to use, but IMDB didn't have the quotes I wanted. Movies are repeated. Have fun!

1)Ma says sinners get punishment. I've done no sin, so why am I being punished? (Koi...Mil Gaya, thanks to Bec)
2)I know, I'm very sexy (Kal Ho Naa Ho, thanks to Hen)
3)Dad, what did you have for breakfast? --I don't know... I don't remember her name. (Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, thanks to my Indian Friend)
4)I hope you’re not trying to make a fool out of me. (Krrish, thanks to Hen)
5)Mind it. (Om Shanti Om, thanks to my Indian Friend).
6)How can you love me so much? How can anyone love so much?
7)After having 8-10 children, you come back to India and I'll carry you around the village on my bicycle. ---I'd be too fat by then to be carried on a cycle. ---I'll get you a tractor... (Veer-Zaara, thanks to Bec)
8)It's love, Taani partner. I swear to god, its true love. (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, thanks Hen)
9)It's all right, Senorita. In big countries, such small things happen. (DDLJ, thanks to Hen)
10)You’re looking is so good! (Krrish, thanks to Hen)
11)Ask for what? I've got you. Now I'm thinking about having three or four kids. And I'm afraid god's no help there, whatever has to be done will have to be by me. (Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, thanks to my MOM)
12)Such vanity? Not even the Moon is as vain. ---How could it be? The Moon is scarred. I'm not. (Devdas, thanks to my Indian Friend)
13)There's only room for one bully on this team! And that bully is me.
14)Life is like a film, it always has a happy ending and if there is no happy ending it means that the film is not done yet. (Om Shanti Om, thanks to Hen)
15)Punjab Power, lighting up your life. (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, thanks to Hen)

Nice try w/ #6 Henevieve, but wrong. V. close wording though.

I just watched THE CUTEST movie, NOT BOLLYWOOD. Arranged is about an Orthodox Jew and a Muslim, each teachers at a NYC elementary school that become friends and go through their respective arranged marriage processes. It was fantastic, really subtle and well done. Just wanted to say. It's available on Netflix for immediate viewing.

The Fourth & BW: Don '78

I spent the past two days painting trim @ Riss' house. She was kind enough to let me watch Don w/ Big B on her big screen yesterday. The children were kind of alarmed at how long it went. "How long is this movie?"
"Very"
"Is it going to be over soon?"
"Probably not"
Ellie Belle watched most of it with me actually. I asked her what was going on and she said that there were Happy People and Bad People and the Bad People were doing Bad Things. I paused it and asked if Vijay (when we was playing Don) was a Bad Person or a Happy Person. She said he was a Bad Person, tricked her! but then she corrected herself and said that he was a Happy Person. Smart girl. I asked her if the movie was in English and she said that it was. Apparently she's so smart Hindi gets filtered through her genius 3 year old brain and turns into English. She's cute.

Don was pretty fabulous; much better than almost all the movies that came out of Bollywood in the 70s. It had a fluidity, vibrancy and intrigue that the Bonds of that decade severely lacked. I mean, it's dated for sure, but so much better than any of the Roger Moores. It was interesting that there was little to no Indian identity in it. No saris, a few dhotis, but really it was straight up gansta. Amitabh rocked.

The Fourth was celebrated w/ a BBQ, Wipeout, and mild fireworks at Jer's. We then went to The Parents and watched the ridiculous show our three neighbors went in on. TRUNKS full of fireworks. Pretty fishing fantastic. We had a prime spot on our street to catch their show, Yankee Hill's and whatever funtimes happened to the north. I love everyone's Staycations and their need to escape from the recession through colorful explosives. No doubt the best Fourth I've seen.

Grad School!

So I have two years left at BYU, but it's never too soon to look at grad schools right? I don't know why I chose today necessarily to pick up the search, but looking at UCLA after finding out I didn't get many dollars from BYU for next year does not pick up my spirits much and I am aware of how skewed of an idea of the cost of college BYU students have.

Anyway, I pretty much need to choose btwn theatre and film costuming before I choose a graduate program. A couple of months ago I was leaning heavily towards theatre costuming b/c there are a lot more places in the country w/ theatres whereas film is concentrated in L.A. and New York and it's a lot more family friendly (as fam friendly as the either industry can be). But then Bollywood hit! and why not work film internationally even? Bollywood aside though, film is looking more and more appealing to me and I toats need to try it out before I make a decision.

I was looking at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne (or is it Champagne-Urbana?). My sister got her Masters in German from the UofI and is currently getting her PhD from there as well. Right now this looks good for theatre studies. Its facilities and program is comparable to BYU's. Its senior professor taught my associate dean and costume professor, but he's retiring soon and there is a hiring freeze....I like Illinois, the campus is beautiful and Champagne-Urbana is a nice place to live. Chicago is fairly close and in the end I could stick around and still be close to home.

For film I've discovered that Deborah Landis (of Thriller costuming fame, among many other things) is Co-Chair or something of the costume design program at UCLA. She also has mad theatre cred so this is looking very desirable. I'm not too keen on living in California for the time it'd take to get my MFA, but I think there'd be a more fun, diverse set of people at UCLA. Also, as far as leaving the feeding grounds of BYU goes, California would have more marital prospects for me than Illinois (believe me, I've been to Whit's ward...).

Of course this is still a ways away, but I'm kind of feeling like I'm very close to being done w/ BYU. I do have two years, but check it:
Fall '09 almost finish w/ gen eds minus a dance class etc.
Winter '10: do my own show in the Margettes!
Spring '10: London! my last English credit and one of my last Theatre requireds
Summer '10: Intern in L.A. on a set, or try to get on a Bollywood set
Fall & Winter '10 and '11: Have my senior show, finish up my last little requirements. As it stands I think I'll only have like 4 required classes to take my senior year...
April '11: GRADUATE!!

I mean, it's two years but I'll be busy and it'll be over before I know it!

BW: Fanaa, Chalte Chalte, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna

Fanaa: pretty fantastic. The whole second half, which was a complete turn around from the first, was unexpected but pretty great. Of course Kajol was fabulous. I marvel at that woman's ability to play anywhere from 19 to 30 something. She's just gorgeous! This was my first exposure to Aamir Kahn. He's not attractive, but is charismatic, only he doesn't use this to his advantage as much as our beloved goofy-faced SRK. Rishi Kapoor and Kirron Kher as the parents were great, esp Rishi. I haven't seen anything from his hay-day (Dewaana doesn't count) but I like him in older paternal roles. I was a HUGE fan of their mountain cottage and the tongue twister song. I liked the Muslim Kashmiri Indian angle. It ended well.

Chalte Chalte: I've decided to see the movies that Rab Ne's Phir Milenge is based off of, one of them being Chalte Chalte. This was produced by SRK's first production company he started w/ his buds Juhi Chawla and Aziz Mirza and apparently was their first film that didn't flop, but it flopped with me. I'm not a huge fan of Rani Muhkerjee. Of course she left a bad taste in my mouth as Tina, I don't care how instrumental she was in getting Anjali and Rahul back together, and in K3G through no fault of her own she got in their way again, even for so small a moment. It's a little inexplicable, but I just don't like her much. Basically her character Priya runs into SRK's and he's instantly in love, but she's heading back to Greece to get engaged to her childhood friend. He follows her and she chooses him. But that's only the first half! Then the marital problems and pig-headedness come into play. Raj and Priya are both heavily flawed but refuse to correct themselves for the long-term. I wasn't convinced by the "happy ending". SRK's performance reminded me of many others, mostly Devdas. Johny Lever played the town drunk that sang DDLJ the whole time. I didn't realize that Raj's song he sings for the gma is the title to the movie! Now I can pronounce it! but only if I sing it...

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna: are you joking me?! Good gravy, if I thought Chalte Chalte was a downer w/ an unlikable SRK this was 100 times worse. Two marriages, neither entirely blissful, but ok until one husband (SRK) and one wife (Rani) decide to be "friends" and help each other's marriages, only they end up being completely selfish and only helping themselves. There was not enough punishment and too much moral indiscretion w/o remorse. I refuse to believe this had a happy ending. I really hated Rani, but hey, I always have, and REALLY hated SRK. Imagine Devdas (the character's name is Dev, ha) and Raj from Chalte Chalte times a million and that was how unlikable and self destructive and pig-headed this character was. Mad props to KJo for making such an unlikable character out of SRK, and for playing emotions like a violin yet again.
Good things about KANK:
-Amitabh Bachchan plays the PIMP father that wears exquisite furs
-Abhishek Bachchan plays Rani's husband and Sexy Sam's son. He's a dear and has impeccable suit jackets that he flips the collars of, revealing fantastically colored under collars. At first I was like WAH? and then I was converted. Props Manish Malhotra, mad props.
-Preity Zinta was SRK's wife. She's my second fave after Kajol.
-Kajol had a cameo and shook her groove thang like no body's bizz-nezz.
-John Abraham was the D.J.
-Kirron Kher played SRK's mom, she's great.
-The costumes were fantastic.
-I bought this so I have the case and all. When you open it you pull down on this dealy and the discs are revealed by this crazy pop-up book mechanism, like you pull the bottom of the case and another disc holder pops out of the top too! It's straight up redick.
Question: How much is My Name Is Khan going to cost if KANK beat out K3G? Gosh Karan, you got some mad dough.

That's it really, I could rant more, and I'm sure the only people who care at all have seen these, but I don't want to spoil too much. My Hindi's going well. I practiced my dependent vowels today. Sometime I'll actually start the dialogues after I'm done w/ the miserable alphabet!

NE ftw

I DID wake up and go running and did power yoga and practiced Hindi and altered and cut out a dress for tomorrow's adventures! funtimes!



I also went to FHE at the Singles' Ward per Melissa's request. I was avoiding b/c of some expected awkwardness, but said awkwardness was nowhere to be found and it was actually a blast.



After FHE I had a hot date w/ Melissa and some Sonic slushes and we gabbed and had a wonderful time. I love my Nebraska peeps hard-core^max. I get settled in in Provo then I grumble a/b leaving, but then I'm quickly reminded about the awesomeness that is Lincoln, NE and its dwellers.



Here's a fun foto (and now I google search something random to put below).

ya 'member when Herbie was cool?