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Mom: ending achi nahi kara

I’ll say, mom. Apart from the soundtrack and Aishwarya what was the point of this movie? Why? And why is it called Jeans? Why??

Watched on Tuesday June 10, 2025.

When Jerry asks Dorothy out to dinner and she dresses up so beautiful but the love of her life shows up underdressed in jeans and some shirt? That did not happen to me haha.

Watched on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Watched on Saturday May 31, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 28, 2025.

The best war films are anti-war and this one sneaks up on you in the best way possible. The kind of film that makes one say "Tom Cruise is a revelation." My god, he's so fucking good. I wasn't expecting this film to be so good. Fuck war and fuck America.

Watched on Saturday April 8, 2017.

Watched on Sunday May 25, 2025.

15 y/o me thought the hottest thing a man could do is wear one shirt (and keep washing it) the entire film

I’m suffering from Tom Cruise withdrawal and the need to protect young, earnest, baby Tom is overwhelming in this one. I don’t think I could ever care about pool as much (or even a little) but watching the wonderful chemistry between Paul Newman (my husband) and Tom made my day. He’s so hot at 60 (how is he so hot at 60?).

A lot of the things Newman says in the film – I could easily imagine Tom Cruise saying them in real life now. 

Love Martin Scorsese for having the bad guy find his rightful morals, even if it happens after he beats naïveté out from his horse, even if it breaks a man’s good character, even if it takes one little loss for your ego to realise that nothing can replace the delicious thrill of an honest win, not even money.

Me and Who

The dialogue in this movie is so fucking yummy. Every exchange a flirtation, every line gospel. Don't know what Max was on about, I would willfully drive Tom Cruise anywhere he asked (even with the occasional pit stops to kill people).

Watched on Monday June 19, 2017.

More than anything, I'll miss those long takes of Tom Cruise running...everywhere. Your image is burned into my eyes as if you were the very sunlight. Thank you for the movies <3

Speaks to me on a personal level as I'm struggling to make sense of this new world we're moving towards - blinded, unwarily defenceless and almost too accepting of AI. Our world cannot become redundant, and I'm struggling to fight, in my small insignificant ways, against players too big for us (not for Tom Cruise though), against a reality we're not prepared for.

Also, Ilsa was my favourite untame-able character. She wanted to leave, yes, but how she was written off is unforgivable.

When I was 18, my favourite book was Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult. Bought at a books-by-kilo sale at MR Book Store, it was a random, obscure pick which then became one of my best reads ever. It broke me, it was unlike anything I’d ever read before. When I watched this film, I thought the book and the film are somehow related (loosely based, if you will, despite the plot lines being different) and dreaded a similar ending. Only later did I learn that it’s adapted from a Stephen King story. Looking back, it could be that the book was inspired by King’s short story. Anyway, this is a good film, and I miss Change of Heart now.

Watched on Saturday May 17, 2025.

A wonderful depiction of immigrant displacement; displacement caused by the new otherness when one fails to conform within the set order and prejudices; prejudices that tend to permeate love; love that can, once again, find its way through. Wished to give Ali a hug.

Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

I was in burj khalifa earlier this year and the entire time kept thinking "this is the closest I've come to tom cruise"

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

How to be an impossible mission so Tom Cruise can choose to do me

When I was younger, I was so annoyed by the dutch camera tilts that I thought whoever made this movie didn't know how to make movies. And so, I stayed away from ever rewatching the first part. Doing so after many many years, I stand corrected. I don't like being wrong, but for once, I'm glad to be.

Notes while watching this film:
- Of course they changed his WIFE
- There's something wrong with Vaani Kapoor‘s facial bone structure. I bet all she'll do is change sarees and make tiffins
- Wait is Riteish Deshmukh kinda...hot?
- Why are people using their phones in the cinema ffs? (I'm allowed though, I'm an observer of human nature...and movies)
- That golden hand is you-know-who’s emblem, isn’t it? But Riteish is you-know-who’s member, isn't he?
- Why is he talking about the previous raid as if he's seen the first film?
- Why does Supriya Pathak sound like my mother talking about her son?
- Did he just reveal everything about himself to the hero????
- Why is Tamanna doing these item songs that aren't even good?
- Of course he’s a serial sex offender
- Of course they are going to use women and their pain as fodder
- Did he really say bhoot purv?
- He's wearing a black shirt as the bgm goes "Black! Black! Black!" ahaha
- “Kisne kaha main Pandav hoon? Main toh puri Mahabharat hoon.” EW
- Iski family ko abhi tak attack nahi kare?
- Not Vaani Kapoor dedicatedly playing her namesake role
- Lost opportunity to say: “Sir, lundry”
- Indians (men) are idiots
- The film just said if there's something women don’t lie about, it's abuse and rape…wow?
- Ab yeh paise udayega
- FUCK YES (Love it when they throw money in the air in a film)
- Perfect use of Paisa yeh Paisa (la la la laaa la la la la laaa)
- Indian men do the worst things EVER and then say sorry we love our mother
- Mom: “See? He stopped only when his mother came or who knows how many people he could have killed and hurt” (Happy Mother's Day, jeez)

Watched on Thursday May 8, 2025.

It rained tonight and seeking comfort, I turned to Aisha in lieu of a much-needed hug. I always joked that someday I would write an essay on how much I love Aisha, a more faithful adaptation of Emma (my favourite of Austen's work); perhaps today is that day. Despite how much I love the book, I'm not blind to how vulgarly colonial, classist and problematic it is. Aisha solves some of those problems for me. Emma is a supremely problematic character, as is Aisha - both unable to shed their prejudices, with Emma using their faulty justifications to fool readers into social and class mongering, but Aisha fighting against them and changing. The age gap between Emma and Mr. Knightley leaves a sour taste, but Abhay Deol embodies the ideal Mr. Knightley for me.

Aisha is also one of my favourite romcoms for love here is never evil, never ill-willed and always rooted in good nature and a desire for the best for your beloved. As someone who has always related to Emma (in their thoughts, humour and judgements of people), it becomes impossibly essential to have someone who can look through that farce. It's also quite rare. Arjun is the only person in her world who sees her, who understands her and continually attempts to do so. He's ever present, but never possessive. It's endearing that his biggest vex with Aisha is her not realising her full potential, not being the best version of herself that she easily could be. His silent yet steady dependence only gets angry when realizing that the object of his desire fails to read his actions, doubts his interests and continues to be her snobby-but-seems-goody self. Oh how plain your jealousy is Aisha, but romantic epiphanies follow only much later, despite knowing that Arjun is the only good man she knows. A good man who waits—for his turn, for his love, for her.

Although not the epitome of great cinema by any means, I could endlessly analyse it, but it's midnight and I'll soon start missing Abhay Deol's kind eyes. My window's ajar and cool breeze is making its way in to hug me—I suddenly wish I was Aisha so Arjun could show up at my balcony. I could go on, but some things are better left unsaid.

Was both fun and jarring to compare the songs with their Hindi versions that I grew up with and so deeply adore. So obviously overt are the film’s politics that it didn't work for me, and I wonder how is this the same guy who made Bombay and Dil Se? The music is out of this world though and Arvind Swamy is beautiful.

My dad was taking a nap as I was watching the film and woke up exactly thrice—first, during rukamani rukamani as the sounds of kissing and cot creaking on the first night were being discussed. second, during pudhu vellai mazhai as they were frolicking in the snow on their patchwork-honeymoon, at which point he mumbled "how many songs does this film have?" and third, when she dropped her saree and exited the bathroom wearing only his sweater at which point he got up and left the house and I wished someone would appear and kidnap me.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Something the girls & I could have solved over margaritas by TALKING to each other

Watched on Tuesday April 29, 2025.

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I’m a simple girl, I love it when the hero fights vampires and kills a bunch of white men

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

Watched on Sunday April 27, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 26, 2025.

Watched on Friday April 25, 2025.

Not enough fantasy in/or sex, unfortunately, but Harris Dickinson slow dancing as the warmth lighting the night made love to him was truly beautiful.

Watched on Tuesday April 22, 2025.

kill and don't tell maybe???????

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Thursday April 17, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday April 16, 2025.

turns to my imaginary twin: "wait, is this fucking play ?"

Watched on Thursday April 3, 2025.

When the movie began, my mother asked if I'd already seen it because "the way you talk of marriage is just like her" "so you're saying I watched this film and decided what I think of marriage?" "...yes?" but as it progressed, my adoration turned to frustration. I understand why people would like it, but I no longer fall for these kinds of stories that sell arranged propaganda to me. Even if I look past my own biases, I'm struggling to find what moments of genuine connection Divya and Chandra actually had. She wakes up one morning and decides to be assertive about what she must do and is owed as a wife, even if it's as little as drinking the coffee she makes for him? The husband was sweet, loving, caring, patient and so understanding...almost too much. I simply couldn't buy it. I wish my brain wasn't periled by patriarchy so much that I’m incapable of accepting the idea of love in such a marital setting—and this when she had the best of everything, all things considered. Revathi is beautiful, so so so beautiful, as is the music but the movie annoyed me so much. Mother loved it though.

It was 4 am, I was hurt and she had just soothed my crumbling world, but then she found out I'd not seen some films essential to one's being and looked at me horrified, seemingly questioning our entire friendship. So here I am, watching them.

• What a Girl Wants
• She's the Man
• The Choice
• Safe Haven
• The Sound of Music
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• The Tourist
• Meet Joe Black
• Vanilla Sky
• Mona Lisa Smile

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Kung Fu Panda 2

finally watching them & removing them from this list hurts more than you’d think 🙂

• Close-Up
• Camera Buff
• Vagabond
• The Piano
• Michael Clayton
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Ivan's Childhood
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• The Godfather Part II
• The Master

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

ie films recommended, analysed and watched at FTII’s Film Appreciation Course 2025

• Eat Drink Man Woman
• Run Lola Run
• Russian Ark
• The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
• Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
• The Birth of a Nation
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
• Battleship Potemkin
• October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

...plus 295 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Like Someone in Love
• Perfect Days

also a bunch of people dance to ainvayi ainvayi at some point

• War
• Fighter

nbd just a list of films that saved me.

1. The Wind Rises
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
5. Howl's Moving Castle
6. Spirited Away
7. Castle in the Sky
8. Kiki's Delivery Service
9. Ponyo
10. My Neighbor Totoro

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Golmaal – Fun Unlimited
• Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!
• Bachchhan Paandey

• Perfect Days
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Past Lives
• Oppenheimer
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Three of Us
• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
• All of Us Strangers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Priscilla

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Paddington
• The Shape of Water
• Spencer

• Three Colours: Red
• Paprika
• The Kid Detective
• Eighth Grade
• Before Sunset
• Flipped
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Pig
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Three of Us

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Veer-Zaara
• No One Killed Jessica

• John Wick: Chapter 4
• Beau Is Afraid
• Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire

• Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu
• Sarkaru Vaari Paata

• Masoom
• Main Hoon Na

• Hum Tum
• Lage Raho Munna Bhai
• Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
• Manmarziyaan

(ongoing)

• Can't Buy Me Love
• Love Don't Co$t a Thing
• Fat Albert
• Boys Don't Cry
• Sixteen Candles
• Animal House
• The Bucket List
• Good Will Hunting
• Bad Influence
• The Abyss

...plus 82 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dogtooth
• Sitcom

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. All That Breathes
5. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
6. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
7. Qala
8. Decision to Leave
9. TÁR
10. Joyland

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Fresh
• Kantara
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• K.G.F: Chapter 2

• Kaabil
• A Thursday

1. Spencer
2. The French Dispatch
3. C'mon C'mon
4. Pig
5. Dune
6. The Last Duel
7. The Power of the Dog
8. Nightmare Alley
9. tick, tick... BOOM!
10. The Mitchells vs. the Machines

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.