Celebrating Bollywood And One Year Of Filmy Boli
I started this blog as a hobby, you see I love everything about the movies! Today as Filmy Boli turns one 1 and I complete 23 posts I have to thank everyone who clicked that link and read this blog, commented on it or even talked about it. Never had I thought that this hobby of mine will last even for one year. Thank you United States , Indonesia, Hong Kong , United Kingdom, Singapore, Poland, Australia, United Arab Emirates, France , Bangladesh, Greece , Mexico , Russia and most importantly India!! Thank you for the love!
Since this blog was originally supposed to be about Bollywood and not just film reviews let’s talk Bollywood! The past year has been quite a filmy one for the Industry. With Controversies, shocking surprises and a rise and fall at the ticket window this year has been quite the sensation! We look back to mid Feb last year when the infamous Kangana - Karan spat was at its peak. It all started at Karan Johar’s chat show where Miss Ranaut hurled quite a few nasty remarks at the ace filmmaker. They taught the whole of India and some people sitting abroad the meaning of nepotism. Almost every headline of every newspaper had quoted lines from their feud. It seems as if after Kangana Ranaut made this remark Karan Johar felt he was not living up to his title of “Flag bearer of Nepotism” and decided to launch late Sridevi’s daughter Janhvi Kapoor in Dhadak which also stars Shahid Kapoor’s step brother Ishaan Khattar. He is now also launching Chunky Pandey’s daughter , Ananya Pandey in Student of the year 2 and Saif Ali Khan’s daughter , Sarah Ali Khan in Simmba ! Interestingly he started a show called Indias next superstars to give aspiring actors from non filmy backgrounds a chance to act in movies. The winners of the show were supposed to be the “hero “ and “heroine” of Karan Johar and Rohit Shetty’s next. For now their only collaboration that we know about is Simmba and the lead roles of that film have already been decided so I just hope that the winners of the show get their due! Then we also had Shahid Kapoor’s wife Mira Rajput claiming that her daughter is not a “puppy” and she will not like to spend one hour with her and then rush out to work. I would just like to say that she had a choice between working and not working and she chose the latter. Many women do not have this Choice. Being a home maker is a tough job but unfortunately it does not earn you any money. So these women prefer going out to work and earning money for the bright future of their children rather than not doing so and starving their children and themselves! The next piece of news was the Virushka ( Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma) wedding. The news that the two had got hitched spread like wildfire and it was undoubtedly the most talked about wedding that year with pictures of the grand celebration circulating the internet even weeks later! The Padmavat controversy taught us that just by dropping an ‘I’ from a films title things are supposed to get better (but they do notš). Salman Khan’s jail- bail saga took place in April of this year and it just shows that “ kanoon ke haath bhi Salman Khan ke liye chote padh gaye”......
This year has been a happy time for some and not so happy for the others. I wish Irrfan Khan a speedy recovery and hope the media and his fans give him the time and space that he deserves and shower him with only love and good wishes.
On the morning of 25th February the whole country woke up to the devastating news of legendary actress Sri Devi’s passing. I have only seen one movie of hers and honestly was never really a fan but I felt a certain emptiness in my chest that whole day and the reason being that it was just too shocking! People idolised her , worshipped her she was given the title of India's first female superstar and she deserved it. The disparity of pay between male and female actors has been a topic of hot debate over the past few years. Sri Devi earned more than most male actors at her time. I won’t disrespect by speculating about the reasons of her death here...... Dance away to heaven Chandini, you were not just an actress, you were an era!
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