Namaste sab ko!
It has been a fun and busy couple of months since my last metapost. I've reviewed 16 more movies since then (wow!) which means that review #100 is just around the corner. In my last metapost I thanked you for 10,000 page views - I will reach a total of 20,000 today or tomorrow. I was delighted to see yesterday that one of my reviews was linked on a Wikipedia page - my thanks to the reader who did that. But mostly I thank all of you for reading and offering your comments and perspectives.
I would also like to make a small plug for a website I've gotten involved with. Jaman is a place to download, watch, and discuss movies from all over the world. I hope you will consider checking out Jaman's offerings and fledgling communities. You can find me starting discussions in Jaman's South Asia section. There is also a lot of interesting work by independent filmmakers from other parts of Asia, Latin America, and more.
I can't make any predictions about what will pop up here on Filmi Geek in the next couple of months - I have tons of films waiting to be watched and I'm sure more will insert themselves into the queue. In the near future I expect to watch some more Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor classics, some more of the fun 60s and 70s fare I enjoy so much, mix in a few modern films, and of course you can count on more of the magnificent Shabana Azmi turning up sooner or later. There are some things in life that are simply immutable!
Congrats on closing to the 100-review milestone, and on making the 20,000 pageviews, AND getting linked by Wikipedia. So many good news, cool!!
Your blog is getting me more and more into old movies. I've watched a few of Raj Kapoor and Dillip Kumar, but not much of other actors. I think it is time to widen the horizons and get to know more oldies, they might as well be the goldies :)
Posted by: DJ | April 04, 2007 at 06:45 AM
Thanks DJ. I can't believe I neglected to mention my addition to the Bollywood Blogs Network! I'll be sure to add it to the next metapost. For now, links to the rest of the network can be found to the right.
Posted by: carla | April 04, 2007 at 08:04 AM
It's no big deal Carla. I have a question for you though.
Almost all the links to your blog are to www.filmigeek.net while technorati considers your blog URL to be geekofalltrades.typepad.com/filmi_geek and has only 2 blogs linking to it. Is that OK for you, or do you want us all to change our links??
Posted by: DJ | April 07, 2007 at 08:12 PM
I don't understand how Technorati works. Technorati does have a listing for www.filmigeek.net, to which (it says) 43 blogs link. I'm not sure why it also has a separate listing for the geekofalltrades.typepad.com/filmi_geek URL. That, in some sense, is the "real" URL; www.filmigeek.net is aliased to that URL. I don't particularly care which one you link to, but I guess www.filmigeek.net is better.
Posted by: carla | April 07, 2007 at 08:36 PM
Yeah, Technorati does have a listing for filmigeek.net. I hadn't noticed that. So it is fine, as we all have linked to www.filmigeek.net.
Happy Bollyblogging,
DJ
Posted by: DJ | April 10, 2007 at 06:53 AM