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Thank you! Heh, yeah, this wasn’t always 24/7 Juliantina. Just go a month back and I had a very balanced, diversified blog. đ
One thing I did catch is that it’s banned in Pakistan. Even as mild as it apparently is, it’s still not even going to be allowed. I wonder if that will pique the interest of younger Pakistanis to find some way to watch it, I did see comments on Twitter about how it shouldn’t have been banned and they wanted to see it.
Haha, I was looking in the Twitter tags for that last night already. Nice to see some other Bollywood big names supporting it.
That does seem more likely. Which. I dunno. The first mainstream Bollywood movie about a lesbian told through the POV of the guy who falls in love with her? It is what it is, I guess. Gotta give the hets something to watch for? Ease them into things? All right, all right. I calmed my own anger in this one paragraph, lol.
@uncontinuous
replied to your video âEk Ladki ko Dekha toh Aisa Laga (2019)Â – Title Songâ
He is one of the leads. But I’m also guessing the fakeout is to make it past some of the shittier rightwingers who’d definitely start riots over this.
You think so? Itâs interesting, all the same and reflects the state of things, I guess. They can make the movie but promoting it is a different thing. And heh, my comment about being lead was mostly angry hyperbole, I know he is a lead, but not the lead. But there was more of him (and his viewpoint) than Sonam or Anilâs. Presumably theyâre holding back her parts with the other girl and thus the full story?
@missed-my-stop replied to your post â@missed-my-stop replied to your video: Ek Ladki ko…â
@booasaur I don’t necessarily follow Bollywod films but even when they released the teaser 6 months ago there was absolutely zero mention of a coming out story and then the full trailer dropped and we all clued in. I’m hoping that we don’t get the female version of the song but it’s like the sad version because I won’t be able to take that.
Idk maybe I’ve just been living outside of that cultural bubble where I just except Bollywood to do an outright wlw film if they say they are going to do one. The spin seems more about the process of coming out. Who knows if there is some sort of resolution at the end of the film.
OMG! Even the youtube hashtag is letlovebe but again you’d think it was about the guy & girl.
As for what will happen on the 1st? ����ââď¸. They still need to fill seats so they need to sell it in a package that makes sense.Â
Oh yeah, I didnât even think about it but we should get a female version of the song. Wow, yeah! A woman singing it? So powerful! Iâd forgive everything if that happened, lol. Shreya Ghoshal, please, get on that.
Itâs definitely gonna be less about romance and more about the father-daughter relationship and I guess the friendship between Rajkumarâs character and Sonamâs as he…learns to accept she wonât ever be in love with him and then he helps her? The whole âunexpected romanceâ tagline and #letlovebe donât make sense if itâs het, they just donât.Â
@kerrinify replied to your video âEk Ladki ko Dekha toh Aisa Laga (2019) – Title Songâ
I hope this is just straightbaiting
Itâs gotta be, right? Though I dunno if tricking people is the best way to go…putting off the storm as long as they can, lol.
How so, anon?
@booasaur if the average person watches this without knowing anything about the film theyâd have no clue about the wlw storyline in the film. The entire video reads from his viewpoint (granted from the trailer he looks like heâs retelling a story) and Iâm guessing thatâs how Bollywood wants the vast majority of its audience to view the film.
Is this…a surprise theyâre going to spring on people? A trap theyâve set for them? What do they think will happen on the 1st when it premieres?
Ek Ladki ko Dekha toh Aisa Laga (2019)Â – Title Song
Okay, Iâm going to confess something and I donât want you guys to think too badly of me for it: I canât really tell when an actor is bad.Â
I mean, major overacting I can usually go hmmm at but really, I just take everything as a choice. Like, oh, I guess theyâre just playing a person whoâs really flat or really histrionic. After all, people can be like that in real life. And at times Iâve thought, huh, that personâs delivery is really monotone and weird and then everyoneâs like, oh, theyâre great.
In Sonamâs case, I havenât really paid much attention to her current career, but sheâs always seemed at least serviceable to me? I was still living in Pakistan when Saawariya came out and since much of Pakistani cable is Indian channels, we saw the promo for it and then the movie itself. (And thatâs another reason this is going to be so interestingâa whole section of Pakistan is going to be exposed to this movie too, by virtue of the fact that however much else they disagree on, they share so much of their pop culture. Put together, India and Pakistanâs population exceeds 1.5 billion.)
Saawariya was her first role, I think, and to me she was fine. Maybe thatâs not very confidence-boosting, given the above, but you should already have some idea of what I like and donât like from what I post. I think it might depend a lot on the role, and perhaps the director. Sheâs got a great face and expressive eyes. If I absolutely had to point out a flaw, maybe her dialogue can come across as unconvincing under certain extreme circumstances? But the melodramatic heights Bollywood movies reach arenât where most of the movie will take place. And again, some people are just like that!Â
Iâve seen a couple of other things with her, some of Neerja and Khoobsurat, and I really donât think sheâll be the weak link here. Itâll come down to the writing either way.