“This award is given to a blog that invests and believes in PROXIMITY – nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”
Banno, whose writing and photography I adore, and whose film I am dying to see when she subtitles it (hint, hint) has given me this sweet award. I had no idea when I started blogging that my world would grow so immensely. So here are some of those (and there are many more of you, but I only can pick eight) I’m particularly happy to have become acquainted with virtually and hope to meet someday personally!
Third Floor Music: PC claims not to watch Hindi movies, but I know that he does. Hopefully one of these days he’ll write about some of them, but in the meantime he posts original soundtracks to Hindi films which he’s ripped from vinyl form. That’s a lot of hard work, and PC—I appreciate it more than you know.
Indiequill: Amrita is funny, articulate and intelligent. I’d like to meet her relatives too, who sound like a bunch I would really have fun with. Kohl-smearers! Bra-burners!
Briyanshu’s Bollywood Butt Blog: A hilarious—and lingering—look at the butts of Bollywood courtesy of Briyanshu, who during his long and illustrious career at drooling over handsome Indian actors and cricket players has also absorbed an awful lot of knowledge about those secondary actors, extras and backup dancers the rest of us barely notice. Sadly, he doesn’t know much about the actresses (except his first mother-in-law Nutan) who are always getting in the way of his screen caps.
Diedangerdiediekill: Todd has made me realize that it is possible to be both lowbrow and intelligent! Thank you Todd, for making a love of Dara Singh and bad B-movie special effects cool.
thechasingiamb (or why you should not pick blog names in a hurry): Tehelka writer Nisha Susan’s blog, full of interesting and eclectic links and opinions. There’s a reason she writes for India’s best (in my opinion) magazine!
dustedoff: Another fan of the golden oldies (Bolly and Holly), she has (finally) started up her own blog which is now reminding me of some of my childhood films!
Filmi Geek: Carla’s exceptionally erudite blog which has fallen silent of late (because she has a life). Let’s start pestering her to write again! I know she’s watched at least a few films she hasn’t written up yet, because I watched them with her. Plus, she shares her hookah with me.
Post-Punk Cinema Club: Managing to be hysterically funny and insightful at the same time cannot be easy, but the ppcc makes it look effortless!
MemsaabStory 