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Femmeconne was awesome, but made me sick as a dog (I had to get Cam to pick me up early) I mean to write it up later, but anyone who was there and said "Can you email me/post about *blah*" etc please remind me or I'll forget by the time I am well. I blame Felix the adorable lurgy carrying baby.

Just watched the Bollywood film "Om Shanti Om". It's a comedy/romance/drama set in Bollywood (with lots of melodrama about past lives and such), I get the feeling I was missing the context for a lot of the references (even just minor things like the significance of names) but it was still a lot of fun. The trailer has an amusing scene: the main character is doing a tragic love story about a deaf blind amputee, and decides what it really needs is this dance number "The Pain of Disco"(*) (nb the rest of the film contains much less in the way of topless men and blondes in spandex) I also really liked the credits: as in a lot of movies about the film industry, the cast comes out on a red carpet as if attending the film within the film and has the actors real names come up underneath..and then the (afaict entire) crew does this as well. The choreographers in particular clearly enjoyed having chance to dance onscreen :)


things I remember I said I would do
-femmeconne synopsis for people who didn't go and are curious as to what it's like
-email aboriginal womens meeting thing stuff to emma_in_oz. Emma: I seem to have lost your email address! Can you email me so I can email you?
-post about 50_bookspoc to femmeconne list, plus revised version of page about race panel
-post fanvid recs to femmeconne
-literally post fanvids to lilysea :)
-possibly post about times I've screwed up wrt race since actively trying to engage with antiracism (someone asked me but I was too fuzzy to think of any good examples, and I think it is something people might find useful, since it can feel like you're the only idiot or you don't know what sorts of mistakes to look out for)
-wire crochet link

(*)Lyrics sample:
The feeling in my dreams, stung so badly
So I roam in London, Paris, New York, Alai, San Francisco
In my heart is the pain of disco

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Om Shanti Om is an awesome movie :P
You might notice the director Farah Khan makes a cameo in the first scene, she says something about what she would do if she was the director...Also the party scene after Om wins his award is basically 30 Bollywood stars making cameos :P

I saw it with a friend at a Bollywood cinema in Singapore, and it was pretty obvious there were a lot of in-jokes that we just didn't get...like you said, the significance of peoples names and also titles of films at the Filmfare awards. People kept laughing, and we just thought 'huh?'.

My favourite line -
Om: Does this character have any body part that works?
Director: Only his aching heart!

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Yes, I felt sure they had to be cameos, since otherwise the scene is just a bunch of random one off characters dancing for no reason.

I think I need to watch a bunch more bollywood movies and then watch the movie again and get more of the jokes :)