#FinallyFourteen🎉 - Page 107

Originally posted by: RaniZelda

If we still have stalkers at this point they'd be the most dedicated bunch, so probably deserve to work it out 🤣🤣

You’re right my bad. The way we start and stop. Then stooooopppp. Then start 😆 you’re right feel like we should acknowledge them somehow might surprise them 🤣

Originally posted by: RaniZelda

I'm excited for The Shaadi Set Up too, so I hope it lives up to my expectation. A few times recently I've been excited for a desi book and ultimately disappointed by it - I'm looking at you, Sara Desai's The Marriage Game 😊 (also why do all desi books have to have marriage in the title? 😆). IDK if I'm being overly harsh bc it's also my own culture, but sometimes I read characters - esp FLs - in these desi novels and cringe at the way they've been written to react. And if I cringe too much, it puts me off the story entirely. Which annoys me bc I truly want to support desi authors and buy their books so they keep writing more, and so we have more diverse stories, but once I'm done with a particular style of writing/character/book, I just can't continue. It's what happened with The Marriage Game and Sajni Patel's The Trouble With Hating You, both of which I couldn't finish in the end. And I haven't bought/read Sara Desai's second book bc I didn't like her first. So that sucks.

It's why I keep rec-ing Sakshama Puri Dhariwal, and why I'm desperate for her to write more - I was grinning throughout The Wedding Photographer, just thoroughly enjoyed all the characters. IDK if you've read it D, but there's a Punjabi naani character that makes me think of how you've described your naani before - bindaas and cool AF 😆

Also nobody here's going to hate your two page essays on fave books...bring them on! 😆

Same... There have been too many times... I've left the book in between because the second hand embarrassment got too much to handle.

I just put the wedding photographer in my tbr and now with reference to my naani.. I'm very excited to read it🤩

Are you sureeee..like really sure. Because I go crazyy when I talk about my fav books🤣

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.

Ikr....if I'm honest..only imlie's lead gives me lead vibes because she's a really amazing actress. Baaki toh aajkal..aise lgta hai kisi ko bhi utha kr lead bna diya.

There has to a vibe, personality that aura... it's all missing.

Ohh how I miss aamna sharif. Also..idk why she reminded me of sanjeeda sheikh. Now that girl screams lead material.

.....

Der aaye durust aaye. Got my first dosee..finally!!

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.

Tbh...young saif was such a cutie.

I mean I miss that era arshi..not saif🤣

Also..YJHD. top comfort movie. I like movies like that. 3D is also really good..from actors to storyline. It was a real fun watch. But not better than yjhd. 😆

I'm a yjhd fangirl. There's nothing I don't like about that movie😆

Yassss.. rom-coms and chick lits. That's all I want now a days and what do I get. Either it's some serious stuff or it's all action/thriller/ suspense. Or political, mafia drama. I'm fed up of those.

Tbh.. even ITV needs to come back with yputh shows like mjht, kyy, dil dosti dance, sadda haq, dmg, the buddy project.

Those were the shows and the days!!💫

Originally posted by: RaniZelda

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.

Chitra banerjee is a word master man. She's so amazing. Whenever I read a really good book na..i go into reading slump for sometime. Like rn😆

Circe is top notch. Song of Achilles made me cry tbh😭

But honestly, I've had enough of egyptian and greek and roman mythology. Give me some old gods stuff from scotland and norway, iceland and romania. Give something really fun from chinese and Japanese and mongolian mythology. And have you read Russian mythology...its so good i just put my feet into by reading the "deathless". Took me 3 tries to get the hang of it... should've started with something lighter🤣

I've also developed a interest in native american and mexican mythology now a days. So there's that.

You're just looking at mainstream fanstasy arshi...you need to look deeper. Give me sometime, I'll send you a list.

My life's new motto- Get arshi to lovvee fantasy.

There's also this new genre I'm exploring now a days..idk what it should be officially called🤣 but it's a mix of fantasy/paranormal and comedy. This genre tbh is such a light read na.. I'm loving it.

Originally posted by: Dmad

Ikr....if I'm honest..only imlie's lead gives me lead vibes because she's a really amazing actress. Baaki toh aajkal..aise lgta hai kisi ko bhi utha kr lead bna diya.

There has to a vibe, personality that aura... it's all missing.

Ohh how I miss aamna sharif. Also..idk why she reminded me of sanjeeda sheikh. Now that girl screams lead material.

.....

Der aaye durust aaye. Got my first dosee..finally!!

Oh well done, finally! How are you feeling? I had my second dose this week so I'm all done and dusted now, thank goodness. Take it easy a few days...

Aamna is a literal goddess. I couldn't bear to watch KZK2, but I saw clip of her from time on time and she looked gorgeous and just blew EF's dead-eyed acting out of the water. Ugh....it'll never happen, but Rajeev and Aamna together again would make my entire life

Agreed that there's quite a lot of that je ne sais quoi missing from aaj kal ke actors/actresses.

Originally posted by: Humes22

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!

Finallyyy a kristen ashley and suzzane Wright's fan. Yep, she does go on a bender sometimes but then after sometime she gets back on tra k so I'm not worried.

There's this series called Bewitched and Bewildered by alanea alder. Fits perfectly into this genre and it gives very rock chick type vibes...

Originally posted by: Dmad

Tbh...young saif was such a cutie.

I mean I miss that era arshi..not saif🤣

Also..YJHD. top comfort movie. I like movies like that. 3D is also really good..from actors to storyline. It was a real fun watch. But not better than yjhd. 😆

I'm a yjhd fangirl. There's nothing I don't like about that movie😆

Yassss.. rom-coms and chick lits. That's all I want now a days and what do I get. Either it's some serious stuff or it's all action/thriller/ suspense. Or political, mafia drama. I'm fed up of those.

Tbh.. even ITV needs to come back with yputh shows like mjht, kyy, dil dosti dance, sadda haq, dmg, the buddy project.

Those were the shows and the days!!💫

Oh no, I agree, young Saif was a hottie and that era was unparalleled. Hum Tum was one of my fave movies.

YJHD is great and the songs are beautiful too. Kabira is always on my playlist. It's such a good friendship movie too.

@bold - bas yaar, exactly! I'm tired of prestige TV or unnecessarily grimdark or twisty content. Just give me some straight-forward fluff, where you know exactly where the story's going but the journey is still fun and enjoyable. The tide has to turn back some day, right?

Originally posted by: Humes22

For reference Vikas Guptas brother

https://youtu.be/BBAyRBTfsOU

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

Ok he's hot...he has that vatsal Sheth vibe going on for him and I'm always up for vatsal sheth!!

Out of two of you..who didn't find him hot try to forget that he's VG's brother🤣

Originally posted by: RaniZelda

Oh no, I agree, young Saif was a hottie and that era was unparalleled. Hum Tum was one of my fave movies.

YJHD is great and the songs are beautiful too. Kabira is always on my playlist. It's such a good friendship movie too.

@bold - bas yaar, exactly! I'm tired of prestige TV or unnecessarily grimdark or twisty content. Just give me some straight-forward fluff, where you know exactly where the story's going but the journey is still fun and enjoyable. The tide has to turn back some day, right?

Haina...sometimes simple is better yr. And it's not just here..hollywood too. Stop with the stranger things vibe. Let's bring back something that everyone can enjoy. Even a good old action movie with simple story works but plissa no unnecessary twists.