#from bollywood movies i think i only watched jodhaa akbar

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do u have any movie recommendations? I trust ur taste and ur taste alone

omg anon,,, thank u. i will try not to disappoint you. i have zero idea what you are in the mood for, so i will just go for the ones i think about daily. fair warning though, almost every good movie that i love and that lives rent free in my mind is from south asia.

Karnan: this movie has seriously been living rent free in my mind since 2021. it's. SO GOOD. warning for police brutality and caste based violence, though. but it's so good, and so worth it, so well fantastically well made. shockingly i haven't seen mari selvaraj's other film, Periyerum Perumal but this one. oh fuck. for a little bit of context, the movie is about these two villages who have a lot of inter caste disputes (while both are oppressed caste communities), and our titular hero's village, Podiyankulam is constantly denied a bus stop. it is such a good think piece on the ways in which caste violence is facilitated, the streams and rivers of oppression that prevent a people from living better lives. so SO good. i think its available on prime.

Village Rockstars: completely a different movie, but this movie is genuinely so loveable. it's about this one girl in a small assamese village who REALLY wants a guitar. it's a very slow moving movie, with some of the most beautiful shots of the director's own village. it's so evident the director just went "you have no idea how beautiful my village is. let me show you," and then infused the film with love from every angle. this one might be on netflix or prime, but one of them will have it.

Made in Bangladesh: this movie is not going to be available anywhere, so if you want to watch it, hmm. well. i shant say. i think the title says it all, but it's about a group of women working in a garments factory in Bangladesh and how they try to unionise. it's not a sob fest, it's not giving you scary facts about what you already know, but it is telling you how difficult it is to ask for anything when you are working in these conditions. again. fantastically made.

Tumbbad: horror movie. upper caste greed. a witch out of which a tree grows. a horrible, monstrous little creature. the sins of fathers passed on to their sons.

The Great Indian Kitchen: i love south indian food. not after this movie though. as my friend cherry says, "south indian traditional food basically means a woman cooks for five hours in the kitchen while the men relax." it's so damn GOOD though. the food i mean (also the movie, but fr). have you had an appam anon????? best thing i tasted since cream buns from sunder bakery. anyway this movie is another horrifying one, you should definitely watch it. it's so good. it tells you so much about the emotional and physical labour women do.

Wade: i can't believe i almost forgot wade, here it is. it's a short ten minute animated movie that put the fear of god in me. about climate change, if you can guess by the name. the sunderbans have been flooded, and if you can imagine what happens next, no you can't.

Jab We Met: okay enough of this depressing shit. also absolutely no one is allowed to judge me. i would die for this movie. i would kill for this movie. legally, if you shame me for this, i'm allowed to murder you. also i KNOW i know it has a manic pixie dream girl but he manic pixie dream girls her RIGHT BACK. i rest my case. also the songs are awesome. this is more traditional bollywood, and i have no regrets.

Jodhaa Akbar: what? i KNOW, i know it is sanitising a story to make Akbar look like the good mughal, i KNOW ruqqaiya begum was akbar's first wife not jodha, i KNOW fatehpur sikri wasn't even made when this film is presumably set, but the VIBES. the vibes are IMMACULATE. Jodha watching Akbar as he swings his sword in the sunlight??? their duel???? the flowers he throws on her??? kill me. kill me now.

Your Name: okay we all know the joke Shinkai can only make one movie but this first one. it had something. also i'm a sucker for the red string of fate. otherwise it's a very standard body swap movie but it's SO GOOD, and as it goes further some of the most amazing animation also happens.

you know i can keep going, i didn't even mention the lunchbox or kumbhalangi nights, but i guess we shouldn't discriminate against the white people

Knives Out: please,,, i know its the movie of the year on tumblr but,,,, so good,,,,,. maybe i'm just a loser who has read too much christie in my life, but i love that the christie style detective is back!! the country house murder, the fantastic way johnson used narrators in the film.... immaculate. christie would be proud. also i know it gets flack for not being as sharp a critique as it could be (i think rightfully, that criticism is for glass onion. i liked it A LOT for a murder mystery, but its politics are duller than the first one's), but it's not a movie about race and class inequality. it's a movie about a murder. johnson just really accurately diagnoses the underlying issues through which a murder happens. also im a BITCH for a classic murder mystery.

Ernest and Celestine: a lovely animated movie about a friendship between a bear and a small mouse, who are supposed to be mortal enemies. also the animation is lovely, did i mention the animation is lovely?

Pride and Prejudice, 2005: you can't come to me for recs and not expect it to be there. i mean, the movie is a masterpiece.

oh i can't think of anything that you guys wouldn't have already heard of.... but i do love How To Train Your Dragon, and Into the Spiderverse. i will go insane when the sequel for the second one comes out. i LOVED Palm Springs when i watched it. OH Emma 2020 really delivered. Do Revenge was amazing too!! im sorry i have less to say about the white people movies......

oh. three white people movies that i genuinely cannot get out of my mind: A Few Good Men, The Scent of a Woman and My Cousin Vinny. make of that what you will.

#hello void this is ridiculosity #south asian cinema #movie recommendations #what can i say? im a basic bitch #the people??? want me to answer???

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Top 5 Bollywood movies

I was definitely expecting this question and I predicted it was either you or Cookie but anyway feel free to take this list as a rec list, and it is integrated with gifs because I do be loving them.

1. Veer Zaara

Literally my most favourite movie on this goddamn planet. I would DIE for Veer and Zaara and this story and soundtrack were full bops and my heart is so full just thinking about it

2. Vivah

Another damn classic, definitely ahead of the times for 2006 hehe. Either way? Prem and Poonam were so cute, and you could visibly tell how much they love each other AND ALSO THAT HOSPITAL SCENE TAKES MY GODDAMN BREATH AWAY

3. Kal Ho Naa Ho

This has to be here. I watched this for the first time 15 years ago, and I watch it at least once a month if not more, and lemme tell you I sob like a baby EVERY SINGLE TIME. GODDD i loved them, though now that I’m older, I can recognize some of the unsavoury themes hehehe. (not to mention peak Shah Rukh Khan look)

4. Thappad

This was a recent movie I watched and I loved it, especially knowing that we have this toxic pattern that hitting your partner is okay (even if you do it only once) and Bollywood has kinda just perpetuated it. Because you start from one, and after that...it just grows. Anyway the women in this movie are so varied but the lead female role is *chef’s kiss*

(this scene was PIVOTAL to the movie where the lead says “it’s not about one slap, it’s about the mentality/disrespect”)

5. My Name Is Khan

This one is so relevant in today’s world. It’s about a Muslim man with Asperger’s navigating a post 9/11 world (right at the peak of Islamophobia), and how, when tragedy hits his family, he goes to prove that “my name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist.”

And some more: Happy Bhag Jaayegi, Maine Pyar Kiya, Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Badrinath Ki Dulhania, Ram Leela, Jodhaa Akbar, Fitoor, Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi, Cocktail, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Baghban...and maybe Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge too.

Ask me my top 5 anything

#zee answers #i'm literally just recommending my favourite bollywood movies to anyone that will listen #and cj listens #so here we go #cj is amazing and i love her #ugh why is bollywood so good at aesthetics #Bollywood rec list