dreamygirl
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Upcoming release you're most excited about: the next Aamir Khan; Aish's comeback
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Post by dreamygirl on Dec 8, 2014 1:32:24 GMT
It's that most wonderful time of the year! ~ one for them, one for me ~ when, while shopping for others, I throw in a little (or a lot) of something for myself! I have an extensive wish list of movies on Amazon, so just slid these over to my cart nice-n-easy while shopping for the family. It's been many many months since I've allowed myself to indulge. All oldies, all Hindi this go round. Boot Polish (1954) Mem-Didi (1961) - a Hrishikesh Mukherjee movie Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963) - Dev Anand, Nutan Jab Jab Phool Khile (1965) Nanda, Shashi Kapoor Teen Devian (1965) Dev Anand, Nanda, Kalpana, Simi G. Raampur Ka Laksman (1972) Randhir Kapoor, Rekha, a Manmohan Desai film Suhaag (1979) Amitabh, Shashi (Manmohan Desai film) Fiffty-Fiffty (1981) Rajesh Khanna, Tina Munim Disco Dancer (1982) Mithun Chakraborthy Mard (1985) Amitabh, Amrita Singh (another Manmohan Desai)
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Post by emily on Dec 10, 2014 1:40:18 GMT
Just bought a two-disc Lagaan DVD...yay! Hey Emily - This is a few months later but where did you get your copy of Lagaan and have you been able to play it? (I assume you're in the US) I've had bad luck with getting a copy of Lagaan I could play in the US, at least on my old-ish dvd player. I've got two copies, neither of which I can currently watch.  The second one I purchased the seller insisted I could play it in the US, but alas... Okay, yeah, so I bought my copy of Lagaan on Amazon, but it turns out I couldn't play it on my DVD player, either. I had to play it on my computer and hook it up to the TV with an HDMI cable. Sorry, I can't help you on this one 
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Post by patapin on Dec 20, 2014 10:10:52 GMT
About Lagaan, I bought mine at induna's. Although it comes from India, this double DVD is in PAL format, so I think you wouldn't be able to watch it either in the United States. You've got to convert your versions from PAL to NTSC. It is rather easy with Video to video for example. It's worth a try. I recently bought at amazon's 101 Silver Screen Stars, a 4 DVDs box of 101 video clips.  Each clip is preceded with a complete presentation of the star, but you can also find these informations on any website or specialized book. And the clips are not of great quality. The old ones are not remastered, and the new ones have a small format, so you have four black strips on the edges. It's a pity. The good thing is that you nearly have a sample of every actor. Here is a sample on youtube with Sridevi:
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Post by dancelover on Dec 23, 2014 18:20:03 GMT
Patapin, have you noticed any actor on this list who is not on my list of over 290 BW actors? I would like to correct any important ommisions. Thank you.
Dancelover bollywhat.boards.net/thread/605
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Post by patapin on Dec 24, 2014 10:43:18 GMT
Hi dancelover, here is the list of the 101 stars, I believe you, better than me, can see what you search: Aamir Khan Abhay Deol Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Ajay Devgan Akshay Kumar Akshaye Khanna Amitabh Bachchan Amol Palekar Anil Kapoor Asha Parekh Babita Balraj Sahani Bipasha Basu Bobby Deol Dev Anand Dharmendra Dilip Kumar Dimple Kapadia Fardeen Khan Farooque Shaikh Govinda Helen Hema Malini Hrithik Roshan Jackie Shroff Jaya Bhaduri Jaya Prada Jeetendra Joy Mukherjee Juhi Chawla Kajol Kareena Kapoor Karishma Kapoor Katrina Kaif Kishore Kumar Madhubala Madhuri Dixit Mala Sinha Manisha Koirala Manoj Kumar Meena Kumari Meenakshi Sheshadri Mehmood Mithun Chakraborty Moushumi Chatterji Mumtaz Nanda Nargis Naseeruddin Shah Neetu Singh Nutan Padmini Kolhapure Parveen Babi Poonam Dhillon présentation disque 2 Présentation disque 4 Priyanka Chopra Raakhee Raj Babbar Raj Kapoor Raj Kumar Rajendra Kumar Rajesh Khanna Rakesh Roshan Ranbir Kapoor Randhir Kapoor Rani Mukherji Rati Agnihotri Raveena Tandon Reena Roy Rekha Rishi Kapoor Sadhana Saif Ali Khan Saira Banu Salman Khan Sanjay Dutt Sanjeev Kumar Shabana Azmi Shah Rukh Khan Shahid Kapoor Shammi Kapoor Sharmila Tagore Shashi Kapoor Shatrughan Sinha Shilpa Shetty Smita Patil Sridevi Sunil Dutt Sunil Shetty Sunny Deol Suraiya Tabu Tina Munim Urmila Matondkar Vidya Balan Vinod Khanna Vinod Mehra Vivek Oberoi Vyjayantimala Waheeda Rehman Zeenat Aman
So, have you spotted any? 
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Post by dancelover on Dec 24, 2014 18:28:12 GMT
Thank you very much, Patapin, this is exactly what I needed.
Yes, I found 7 omissions from the list I made, which now numbers over 300. I had not included Amol Palenkar or Mehmood; serious omissions! I also had not gotten to Rajendra or Kishore "singer" Kumar, or Joy Mukherjee. I don't have a birth-year for Sadana, whose debut was 1969. Southern larkis often start early. They also put Babita (Kapoor) in their top 101. Wiki says she made only 19 films.
As for their omissions: Start with Ashok Kumar and Shobhan Samarth; no Tanuja either. They are very short of Southern stars: NTR, MGR, Ganesan. Their youngest star seems to be Katrina Kaif: no Dehpika, Anushka, Ranveer, etc. No Preity Zinta. No Pathaks.
I would like to know how they selected their list. Not that I would presume to dispute it (much. Babita?)!
Thank you again for the work of posting this list.
Howard "Dancelover" Wilkins
Hi dancelover, here is the list of the 101 stars, I believe you, better than me, can see what you search: Aamir Khan Abhay Deol Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Ajay Devgan Akshay Kumar Akshaye Khanna Amitabh Bachchan Amol Palekar Anil Kapoor Asha Parekh Babita Balraj Sahani Bipasha Basu Bobby Deol Dev Anand Dharmendra Dilip Kumar Dimple Kapadia Fardeen Khan Farooque Shaikh Govinda Helen Hema Malini Hrithik Roshan Jackie Shroff Jaya Bhaduri Jaya Prada Jeetendra Joy Mukherjee Juhi Chawla Kajol Kareena Kapoor Karishma Kapoor Katrina Kaif Kishore Kumar Madhubala Madhuri Dixit Mala Sinha Manisha Koirala Manoj Kumar Meena Kumari Meenakshi Sheshadri Mehmood Mithun Chakraborty Moushumi Chatterji Mumtaz Nanda Nargis Naseeruddin Shah Neetu Singh Nutan Padmini Kolhapure Parveen Babi Poonam Dhillon présentation disque 2 Présentation disque 4 Priyanka Chopra Raakhee Raj Babbar Raj Kapoor Raj Kumar Rajendra Kumar Rajesh Khanna Rakesh Roshan Ranbir Kapoor Randhir Kapoor Rani Mukherji Rati Agnihotri Raveena Tandon Reena Roy Rekha Rishi Kapoor Sadhana Saif Ali Khan Saira Banu Salman Khan Sanjay Dutt Sanjeev Kumar Shabana Azmi Shah Rukh Khan Shahid Kapoor Shammi Kapoor Sharmila Tagore Shashi Kapoor Shatrughan Sinha Shilpa Shetty Smita Patil Sridevi Sunil Dutt Sunil Shetty Sunny Deol Suraiya Tabu Tina Munim Urmila Matondkar Vidya Balan Vinod Khanna Vinod Mehra Vivek Oberoi Vyjayantimala Waheeda Rehman Zeenat Aman
So, have you spotted any? 
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Post by patapin on Dec 25, 2014 9:41:21 GMT
Great work, dancelover! Congratulations for your lists.
Sadhana was born in 1941, September the 2nd.
And about their omissions (in their choices of 101 stars), I deplore the absence of Sushmita Sen. I find her so elegant, she has such class! But I admit the movies in which she appears are second-rate (ecxept a rare few ones, such as Main hoon na).
Bought, received and watched the disappointing Dhoom:3. For once, I found Uday Chopra to be the best actor in the movie. He brings a breathe of freshness in this heavy movie, played too toughly by aamir khan, and too seriously by Abishek Bachchan.
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Post by emily on Jan 10, 2015 3:10:58 GMT
Finally buckled down and bought Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak from Amazon, and also bought Ishq and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag from myindiashopping.
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Post by Prem Rogue on Jan 13, 2015 20:02:23 GMT
Bought a bunch of movies when I went to India in December:
Blu-Ray Dhobi Ghat Dev.D Cuckoo (Tamil) Amen (Malayalam)
DVD
Hindi Ankhon Dekhi Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan Ek Din Achanak Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron Om Dar Ba Dar Party Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda John & Jane Manthan
Tamil Aalayamani Aayirathil Oruvan Aboorva Raagangal Anubhavi Raja Anubhavi Aval Appadithan Bhama Vijayam Haridas Iruvar Manmatha Leelai Mohammad Bin Tughlak Mullum Malarum Nenjathai Killathey Ninaithaale Inikkum/Varumayin Niram Sivappu
These three are possibly bootlegs:
Goli Soda Onayum Aatikuttiyum Vidiyum Munn
Malayalam Annayum Rasoolum
CDs (Tamil)
Aarilirunthu Arubathu Varai/Nenjathai Killathey/Enakaaga Kaathiru Enakkul Oruvan Lingaa Priya/Jhonny/Kaali Ullasa Paravaigal/Guru/Sigappu Rojakkal
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ranranbolly
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Posts: 108
Favorite actor: Ravi Teja
Favorite actress: Deepika Padukone
Upcoming release you're most excited about: Bengal Tiger
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Post by ranranbolly on Jan 27, 2015 22:22:12 GMT
Just got back from India...and wish I could have stayed longer. Absolutely loved it, and managed to get to a DVD store the last day before the flight! My friends limited me to 23 dvd's though >.> I so would have bought more...I would have lived at that store. Believe it or not, most of the movies at Indian DVD stores...actually have english subtitles? What's that all about?! Anyway, here's a list of most of what I bought, I'll list the others later
- Khatarnak - Mirapakai - Bhadra - Nippu - Venki - Kick (Teja) - Balupu - Krishna - Avunu Valliddaru Istapaduru - Vikramarkudu - Bhageeratha - Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammai - Neninthe - Naa Autograph - Dilip Kumar collection - Nayak - Amar Akbar Anthony (restored edition) - Ashok Kumar collection - Racha - Chirutha - Yevadu - Special edition of Shahenshah
IF it isn't obvious, I raided the Telugu section first...
...Was going to buy Maghadeera, but my friend took the last copy. If it goes missing from her collection, I swear it wasn't me...
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Post by emily on Jan 29, 2015 4:36:10 GMT
Lots of films I wanna see, especially older ones, but many on myindiashopping don't have subtitles or list it as "unknown" (and I'm not taking that risk, don't know enough Hindi lol)
So today I bought: Anand (Rajesh Khanna & Amitabh) Border (Akshaye Khanna's debut) Jodhaa Akbar (Gowariker-Roshan-Rai goodness) Maine Pyar Kiya (Salman's debut) Mother India (self-explanatory) Sholay (self-explanatory)
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Post by emily on Feb 17, 2015 6:07:30 GMT
For those of you who have used myindiashopping, how long does it usually take? I ordered two DVDs on Jan. 9 and they still aren't here yet.
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Post by patapin on Feb 17, 2015 9:10:05 GMT
For those of you who have used myindiashopping, how long does it usually take? I ordered two DVDs on Jan. 9 and they still aren't here yet. I waited 3 weeks before contacting them, and so I received 2/3 of my order 3 days later. Then I had to re-contact them, and I received nearly all the missing DVDs 2 weeks later. But 5 months later, one DVd is still missing...
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odadune
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not around much due to stuff in my personal life.
Posts: 1,494
Favorite actor: Currently a certain Kumar, but I like most of them
Favorite actress: whoever's in films I'm interested in this week
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Post by odadune on Feb 17, 2015 14:40:00 GMT
My own policy on myindiashopping is to wait 3-5weeks to see what shows up, if they don't send you at least some of the stuff by then contact them. If they do send part of your order, sit tight for another couple weeks and if nothing else shows up, contact them. If they don't get back you in a timely fashion after that, mention it here.
In my experience they're well-meaning but somewhat disorganized and the only stuff they are guaranteed to have in stock are Malayalam films and recent or extremely popular Hindi/Tamil/Telugu releases. Most of the the things you ordered seem like things they are likely to have, FWIW.
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Post by emily on Feb 17, 2015 15:14:17 GMT
Thanks.  Just didn't know what to expect from them. Oh and I did contact them a few days ago...never got a reply back.
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