Shashi Kapoor on facebook? Shashi Kapoor on facebook!
Update to post (September 13, 2010): Shashi Kapoor is NOT on facebook. A proper journalist called Prithvi Theatre and they deny it. Sigh. At least I can rest more easily knowing that Shashi himself did not publicly state that Saawariya is any kind of adjective related to "good."
[Note from Editor Self: I'm leaving this post up just for amusement of remember how excited I was to be friend-ed by Shashi Kapoor.]
Shashi has been on facebook since June and I didn't know? I'm such a failure. However, that in no way diminishes my glee at getting this email today:
Nor in seeing a post that uses an emoticon, the strange public ramblings of fans (why yes, I am familiar with "irony"), and a comment that Saawariya "is very nice!!"
Shashiji and I disagree on that one.
So what do we think? Real and written by Shashi himself? Real and written by someone else? And why now? Is there a certain project he's got underway that he will be promoting? Or perhaps just generally wanting to be a bit more public and make his presence a little more prominent?
[Note from Editor Self: I'm leaving this post up just for amusement of remember how excited I was to be friend-ed by Shashi Kapoor.]
Shashi has been on facebook since June and I didn't know? I'm such a failure. However, that in no way diminishes my glee at getting this email today:
Nor in seeing a post that uses an emoticon, the strange public ramblings of fans (why yes, I am familiar with "irony"), and a comment that Saawariya "is very nice!!"
Shashiji and I disagree on that one.
So what do we think? Real and written by Shashi himself? Real and written by someone else? And why now? Is there a certain project he's got underway that he will be promoting? Or perhaps just generally wanting to be a bit more public and make his presence a little more prominent?
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I've been skimming your blog for a while now and you really make the most interesting posts of the most banal movies-good job. I was curious to know if you ever bothered to watch soap operas from south east asia..The newest ones are really very similar to movies- an amalgamation of key scenes from several movies, and yet, oddly, I find a few worth watching- bad acting, makeup and all..
I'd like to suggest a Pakistani show that's on youtube and really, very watchable since its based on a novel. At 100 episodes, its a long watch, but I think you might like it ( I am assuming you follow hindi?). Unfortunately there are no subtitles on these videos.
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Slytherin - Sorry for my really late reply to your comment! It's so interesting you bring up the soap operas. I HATE American soaps (except ones geared at teenagers, for whatever reason), but I have several Bolly friends who do really like some soaps from various parts of Asia. I can sort of follow movie Hindi most of the time so maybe I'll give Dil Diya Dehleez a shot!