#Bollywood 2023

[bollywoodisforlovers]

Supplemental Episode 17: It's All About Loving Their Family, or Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani with Manish Mathur

After bemoaning the state of Bollywood in our last episode, Karan Johar has given us something worth celebrating!

Show notes:

Thank you Manish Mathur for joining us (and suggesting we record this surprise episode)!

Listen to It Pod to Be You

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

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rahul mishra spring 2023 couture

[inmyworldblr]

Laapataa Ladies (2023) | dir. Kiran Rao

[folklore-girl]

ek ladki bheegi bheegi bhaagi si — a short story

a/n: okok so i tried my best for you @androgynous-pavbhaji <3 since this is your secret santa gift? im so sorry for posting this so late, this was supposed to come out a long time ago.. but ig happy new year? hope you like this!

word count: 0.6k

warning(s): bad writing, cringe dialogues + a shitty asf story in general :( im so so sorry.

raindrops splattered on the sidewalk as i hurriedly made my way to the bus stop, my clothes drenched from the downpour. my hands held up my handbag to shield my head from the rain and to try and deflect some heavy raindrops, but all in vain. for the millionth time, i cursed my stupid self for not carrying an umbrella, even though we were deep in winter, and there was no way I could’ve predicted this. i still should have.

and, to top it all, i was horribly late to my bus.

when i reached the bus stop a thousand years later, my shoes were soaked and my head was in an overdrive. i noticed a guy—probably my age—waiting at the stop too and decided i should probably wipe the mess off my face.

so, i took out my napkin, just to drop it on the ground like an absolute idiot. and as i bent to pick it up, the guy on the right offered me his napkin, in spotless white.

i was scared. not of the guy, but of ruining his napkin by using it. he saw me hesitate and said, “arey, it’s fine. i have spare.”

“pakka?” i asked, uncertainly.

“yup,” he said and i thanked him, smiling.

he smiled back. and i thought, wow. i guess men aren’t all bad, then.

i took the napkin from him and dabbed my face with it gently, still scared to damage it. when i was giving it back, he said “it’s ok, you can keep it.”

“you sure?” i asked again.

“yes!!” he laughed, “it’s alright, you know. i don’t bite.”

“no, but, i’m not used to all this,” i gestured with my hands and his eyebrows rose in confusion. “kindess?” i finished lamely.

“well then, you will be soon,” he winked and i looked away because i was in a loss of words.

meeting a decent man made me feel like i was in some other dimension, some dream where kind strangers were real and not a thing to read in tumblr posts and fawn over.

by now, my heartbeat had slowed down and my breaths were much less frantic, so we talked about our buses.

“oh, me too,” he smiled, “we’re both going to mumbai.”

“that’s nice,” i smiled as the bus approached the stop, “i bet the ride is gonna be fun.”

he smiled, “hopefully.”

we hauled up our luggage and sat in the bus, me in the window seat with him by my side.

we talked for almost the entire ride there, exchanging our names and talking shit about distant relatives (my lord, we had the same type of humour). and when we grew bored of talking, we both decided to do something else. he plugged in his earphones and i found out that i couldn’t find mine anywhere.

i looked out of the window and i could tell it was going to be a long road.

he noticed and offered to share his wired ones. feeling utterly helpless, i gave in.

later, we discovered that our music tastes were very similar and i soon found myself scooting closer to him as we listened to his playlist together.

by the time shuffle lead us to ‘i guess i’m in love’, i knew the feeling burning up in my chest, threatening to spill over. it was beautiful and warm, like sunlight filtering in through the curtains. like the first day of spring, my heart was blooming and after a long time, i felt the butterflies.

but it couldn’t be, could it?

i woke up to the sound of mumma calling my name. i’d fallen asleep with my head in my arms, crossed on the windowsill while rain poured outside and my chai grew colder with each passing minute. right next to it, my phone had just finished playing the song “ek ladki bheegi bhagi si” on my wired earphones and suddenly the surreal scenario in my head made sense.

i guess it was a dream, after all.

xoxo

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Bollywood actress Rekha for Vogue Arabia.

[maibearcore]

Category is Revenge

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Dev Patel as Kid Lakshya as Amrit Tripti Dimri as Bulbbul Song Hye kyo as Moon Dong Eun Namkoong Min as Han Ji Hyuk Jeon Jong Seo as Jang Ok Joo

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Monkey Man (2024), Kill (2023), Bulbbul (2020), The Glory (2022), The Veil (2021), Ballerina (2023).

The reason for my existence. My saviours, can't decide if I want them or to be with them. I'm so gone like yeah bro I'll get in my knees for them *sigh*...... Yeah that's it ✌️

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[ayushsan]

i am looking

[batataaurdoodh]

@hetalia-rarepairweek day 2: culture

sare/gama caravan: every 70-90s Bollywood fan’s dream (grandparents love it!)

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rahul mishra spring 2023 couture

[inmyworldblr]

Laapataa Ladies (2023) | dir. Kiran Rao

[binnte-dil]

Shefali shah in Three Of Us (2023)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was a wealthy author and fostering my cousins (who were now primary school-aged children?) and their tennis coach was Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan.

After they spent ages on a plastic playground slide, Hrithik got all up in my face about them being terrible students then angrily asked me to give him all my best books. I told him I only had ten books out and he got frustrated and told me to make more.

[maibearcore]

Me and my non-canon & angsty ships against the world ˗ˏˋ 𓅰 ˎˊ˗

They started dating ok?!

They are together and happy idgaf about canon.‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡🪐༘⋆

࣪ ִֶָ☾. They deserve better and they also deserve therapy. 🧸ྀི

Weak Hero Class 1 (2022), Squid Game (2020), Ballerina (2023), Beyond Evil (2021), Tomorrow (2022), 25-21 (2021), Raazi (2018), Sita Ramam (2022), Sanam Teri Kasam (2016), Laila Majnu (2018), Kill (2023).

[sarcastic-sue]

First time in my life I want to rewatch the movie I just finished watching.