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thinking about her rn..

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girlies of indian horror pt. 2 (part 1)

shraddha kapoor in stree//jasmine in veerana//anushka sharma in pari//remya nambeesan in pizza//bipasha basu in raaz// Pooja bhatt in junoon//madhubala in mahal//jyothika in chandramukhi//urmila matondkar in kaun?

🕸️💞🕸️💞🕸️~happy october~ 🕸️💞🕸️💞🕸️

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Wet Shahrukh for your Throwback Thursday

...nice shirt 🤤

Dil To Pagal Hai, 1997

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the jasmine throne is amazing. the two main characters are: a woman so deeply committed to being kind that she's worried about losing more of her humanity with the more power she gains and This Cunt.

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love like religion.

inspired by these amazing posts: 01 by @metamorphesque & 02 by @ijaazat

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I just finished my reread of the Jasmine Throne, and oh my gosh I love Bhumika so much.

I always loved Bhumika, but her role in the story really hit me this time. This is a woman who spends the majority of the novel about 8-9 months pregnant. She is objectively the most powerful person in the book, and the only people who underestimate her are the people who don't think of women as anything more than child bearers. She uses her position in the beginning of the novel to take in children and to protect her people as much as she can. This is rewarded at the end with their loyalty. Her power is in her more motherly traits, and that is so rare in fantasy novels to see a woman like that celebrate and empowered. She is so well written, and its amazing.

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Commission for Gaza families of Priya & Malini’s reunion in Oleander Sword. Donate and get a drawing!

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girlhood never ages

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Hrithik Roshan and Kunal Kapoor, 1990s

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But can you imagine Aaja Nachle had a dude who was stood up get closure, but not at the expense of the main female protagonist falling for him?

That the main female protagonist didn’t need a romantic arc but there’s a hopeful one at the end? That not once does the narrative slutshame her in an Indian movie for running away with a white dude and getting divorced and being a single mom?

Also that fucking climax scene saved cinematography.

Aaja Nachle is so good.

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If Madhuri Dixit in Aaja Nachle was your whole ass life-crumbling crush, you’re in love. If Kunal Kapoor’s hair, voice, eyes didn’t intoxicate you with a different kind of nasha and ruin your childhood with a lot of hormones that aren’t meant for PG-13 hormones, you’re probably lying to yourself. If the 19 minute Laila-Majnu dance-drama didn’t make you cry with joy, pain and anguish, you’re lying to yourself and probably you need to go watch it again.

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ok listen….if you didn’t experience an absolute roller coaster of emotions while watching the laila-majnu dance in aaja nachle, you’re either lying or you don’t exist.

On some level, I understand why it wasn’t a very popular movie but also my breath catches every time madhuri dixit is on screen and especially when she’s dancing so obviously everyone else has issues. 

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Did you memorise the entire Laila Majnu play from Aaja Nachle or are you normal

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Der Se Aana Jaldi Jaana

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lemme be clear. i WANT fucked up shit to happen to and between malini and priya in the lotus empire. i want them to go through sooo much bullshit and nonsense i want them to break and then come back together with scars, or die.

HOWEVER. if bhumika dies??? if anything happens thats worse than what has already happened to her??? if she dieS?? i will lose it :)

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currently reading

The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

Ah, hello Bhumika, Priya, Malini, and Bhumika. A pleasure to see you all again.

I started this like two days ago and have been flying through it. I’m already 40% in and thinking about trying to get to 60% today. I’m not as into it as I was the first one, but I am liking it. Something major just happened that has the potential to flip this whole story on its head, and I cannot wait to see how it goes. The chapters where it happened had me shook. Tasha Suri the author that you are.

I can’t tell if I’ve forgotten how much pining was in the first book or if it’s been ramped up to 11 this time, but the either way the pining is strong. Malini is so down bad, and I do not blame her one bit. Dare I say Rao is doing quite a bit of pining too. Somebody help this man.