#FinallyFourteen🎉 - Page 104

Originally posted by: Dmad

I'll be honest and very brutal.. I'm not that interested in the MV. The craze isn't there, it's not like old times.

It just seems tainted yk. Like somehow everything has that gray tinge to it.

I'd rather be happy with my old clean memories than overshadow those memories by whatever's coming our way. And it's not like both of them are excited. It feels like both of them did it because, it needed to be done...like a obligation.

Yeahhhhh nothing to add here really. Sort of feeling the same 😒

Originally posted by: Dmad

Can I tell you a secret..

I like aish but imo she's not lead material. Or maybe it's the character that's making me feel this way.

I have feeling if EK puts a komolika type vamp against aish in her new show na... she'll overpower aish esp. since the chracter is written very shittily!! I can tell it just from the promos

LOL I don't think she's lead material either but then neither are half the FLs on TV these days 🤣 I alsso think this bechari character trope is SO limiting. No wonder actresses have much more fun playing the vamp, there's so much more freedom to go wild in your performance. If EK brings a Aamna Sharif-type to play a villain...then you can bet she'll out-perform everyone including Aish.

Originally posted by: Dmad

Khoobsurat is my fav movie ever. It just fits the criteria of rom com so well.

And I agree 💯 percent guys. We aren't getting good rom coms these days from anywhere.

I mean give me some znmd and yjhd and I hate love stories kinda movies pliss bollywood.

Or let's just go back to the saif ali khan in rom com era. Hum tum, tara rum pum, salaam namaste, dil chahta hai, love aaj kal..

Yasssssss please, although maybe Saif can retire now, he's looking too buddha to be convincing or aspirational😆

I re-watched YJHD again recently. SO MUCH LOVE. Also, not exactly a rom-com but I adore Dil Dhadakne Do. Just the perfect fluffy nonsense to while away a few hours.

BRING BACK ROM COMS B-TOWN.

Originally posted by: Dmad

I did really like this convo humes ans arshi😆. Too bad I wasn't present and had to quote later on.

Also...rom coms aside. Indian authors have really stepped up their game qhnw it comes to fantasy tho. I've been reading some really good fantasy books by indian authors.

Writers in all honesty, seem to have forgotten that India existed before british came, i mean for someone like me who's extensively read Indian history and likes reading it. Colonialism from pov of a reader is the most BORING thing to read when it comes to fiction.

If you need some recs or even better you have somw good booma to suggest to me. PLISS PING ME UP. Vaise toh I'm going through reading slump rn. Since I finished palace of illusions..kuch aur pick hi nhi kiya. TA6 uthayi thi but fir vapas rakh di.

BEFORE I GO, THE ROCK CHICK SERIES. It's very cliche aand very very very fun to read. It's that light hearted read that make you smile. Pliss give It a try.

Ahhh we missed you in this convo 😆 but it was fun. Now I have some more recs to add to my TBR pile, yay!

Re: fantasy, I enjoy it, and I occasionally enjoy YA though it's not really my go-to, but sometimes I find lots of these books very "samey"...there's always some Chosen One magical orphan princess, some forced marriage to a seemingly cruel man/boy, some magic realism/supernatural element. Sometimes I feel like you can read one and have read them all. And they're always trilogies 😆 sometimes people don't have time for trilogies, guys! That said, I'm intrigued by Swati Teerdhala's The Tiger at Midnight series, though it's really hard to find here in the UK for some reason.

Ah Palace of Illusions - what did you think? I read it so long ago, I should probably re-read, but I remember loving it. I do really like stories that retell myths or re-frame the lives of mythological/historical famous women. I used to love a series of books by Michelle Moran on Ancient Egyptian women - Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen. I also love anything from Greek mythology, like Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of Achilles), Natalie Haynes (A Thousand Ships), and anything to do with Persephone/Hades. Palace of Illusions felt really unusual to me bc at the time I don't think there was a similar fictional story about Draupadi, or any major Indian women from myth or legend. And Chitra Banerjee Divakurni has a real way with words.

Originally posted by: Dmad

I did really like this convo humes ans arshi😆. Too bad I wasn't present and had to quote later on.

Also...rom coms aside. Indian authors have really stepped up their game qhnw it comes to fantasy tho. I've been reading some really good fantasy books by indian authors.

Writers in all honesty, seem to have forgotten that India existed before british came, i mean for someone like me who's extensively read Indian history and likes reading it. Colonialism from pov of a reader is the most BORING thing to read when it comes to fiction.

If you need some recs or even better you have somw good booma to suggest to me. PLISS PING ME UP. Vaise toh I'm going through reading slump rn. Since I finished palace of illusions..kuch aur pick hi nhi kiya. TA6 uthayi thi but fir vapas rakh di.

BEFORE I GO, THE ROCK CHICK SERIES. It's very cliche aand very very very fun to read. It's that light hearted read that make you smile. Pliss give It a try.

I have read the rock chick series loved them. Love Kristen Ashley she writes some alpha males. Though lately she’s been a bit off. Suzanne Wright is about her great author as well!

Originally posted by: RaniZelda

Yasssssss please, although maybe Saif can retire now, he's looking too buddha to be convincing or aspirational😆

I re-watched YJHD again recently. SO MUCH LOVE. Also, not exactly a rom-com but I adore Dil Dhadakne Do. Just the perfect fluffy nonsense to while away a few hours.

BRING BACK ROM COMS B-TOWN.

He is attaining nawaabhood with his super intelligent biwi. Saifuuuu and BEBO

Originally posted by: RaniZelda

Yeahhhhh nothing to add here really. Sort of feeling the same 😒

LOL I don't think she's lead material either but then neither are half the FLs on TV these days 🤣 I alsso think this bechari character trope is SO limiting. No wonder actresses have much more fun playing the vamp, there's so much more freedom to go wild in your performance. If EK brings a Aamna Sharif-type to play a villain...then you can bet she'll out-perform everyone including Aish.

If lostwa can claim they have a leading lady than aish is miles ahead 🤣

Originally posted by: Dmad

No really...when I wtarted watching it I was seriously expwcting them to use the gay ml as a prop and comic relief and get the teenage pregnancy sorted out through marriage... because that's the usual route in ITV but color me surprised.

The current track I'm watching revolves around sexual assault and eve teasing and stuff. Very mature handling tbh.

But then Ig mtv doesn't really fall under ITV svope does it. But still for a Indian channel to show all of this and that to I'm taking 7 years back...wooahhh. I am impressed and Ig that's half the reason I'm watching. I wanna know how they handle other tracks...the other half being how hot parth looks

(I'll stop with the parth jaap now, you guys seem to have an idea of how deep of a impression he's left🤣🤣)

You know who is hot Vikas Guptas brother 😆

Originally posted by: Dmad

@bold oh my goddd, you've taken the qords from my heart and written it down.

This ia EXACTLY the reason I stopped reading Indian authors although, I've yet again begun making a move back towards them.

I'm actually very excited to read the shaadi set up by lilie vale. The synopsis was extremely cuteee!!

If you need some recs humess. I have a few in my tbr and a few that I've already read. So ping me up.

Not gonna write here because then I'll get excited and next thing yk it's a two page essay where I'm talkng about books and which and liked and why🤣🤣

Recommend me books like rock chicks 😆

Today was a good day for this thread 🤣

For reference Vikas Guptas brother

https://youtu.be/BBAyRBTfsOU

I do like this song but it’s got 1.2 BILLION views 😲