Metapost: Filmi Geek ko janam din mubarak!

I apologize for two metaposts in a row - you don't deserve that.  But real life has been busy lately and I haven't had a chance to watch any movies.  Still, I had to subject you to another metapost because I'm delighted to celebrate Filmi Geek's first birthday and I didn't want to do it alone!

I founded Filmi Geek a year ago to keep what was then my only blog, Geek of All Trades, from becoming too unbalanced with posts about Hindi films.  At that time I had been watching Indian movies for about 16 months and had seen a little over 50 of them.  I had on GOAT a short blurb about each film I'd seen, plus a handful of longer reviews.  I created Filmi Geek and started migrating the reviews over and expanding the shorter ones.  Filmi Geek opened its doors on October 6, 2006, with fewer than twenty movies, and over the following couple of months I got all caught up on the films I'd already seen and begun posting more reviews as fast as I could watch movies. 

I didn't know what Filmi Geek would be; I didn't know if I would enjoy doing that much writing about movies, and I didn't know if anyone would care what I had to say.  What's happened in the past year has been more fun and rewarding and interesting than I could ever have imagined.  I've made new friends all over the world.  I  got a little side job writing about movies.  I lost my head and launched Sounds Like Power, And I've learned a tremendous amount about Indian movies. 

Today, one year after its launch, Filmi Geek includes reviews of 129 movies (and one play).  It averages more than 550 page views a day, by nearly 300 visitors a day, from all over the world.  In fact, in just a few days, Filmi Geek will receive its 100,000th page view.  Ek lakh page views - not bad for a year's work.  Filmi Geek's success  has been beyond my wildest dreams.  I have to bow down and thank you for this, the people who come and read Filmi Geek.  And, special heartfelt thanks to those of you who leave comments.  Your thoughts, insights, recommendations, and commendations are deeply appreciated.  Interacting with all of you is far and away the best thing about writing Filmi Geek.

So stay tuned for another year of Filmi Geek.  I've still only just scratched the surface of Hindi movies; there's so much more to see.  Thanks so much for coming along for the ride with me. 

Comments

[Arun]

Hi Carla

Congrats on completing one year of Filmi Geek. Loved your reviews. Expecting more.

Congrats once again

Cheers

Arun Prasad

[Meera]

Happy Birthday Filmi Geek. Many happy returns of the day.

Carla, keep the reviews flowing. Wishing your interest and energy levels in watching and sharing your thoughts on Indian movies continues.

Hope to see some reviews of regional indian movies from you soon

cheers

Meera

[yves]

Happy birthday Filmi Geek!
Wow, Carla, indeed what an achievement. The figures do say a lot, well done!
cheers
yves

[Fadista da Mouraria]

Well,Filmi Geek, this is indeed a Happy Birthday! Especially for all of us who so enjoy your comments, recommendations, sense of fun, knowledge ... and etc. etc. Thanks for giving birth and life to this website!

Congratulations on one year, Carlaji! I have been impressed by how similar our tastes are, on those occasions when my either of my neurons craves something more than masala. Your reviews are insightful without bloviation, and even when I disagree with them, I can understand and applaud the processes by which you reach your conclusions. I envy you your Azmolatry, forgive you for p***ing off mere sapno ki rani, and look forward to many more thought-provoking reviews. Of course, I should hold you liable for fuelling my longing for hard-to-get golden oldies, but since I still have some 15 or so to get through, I can wait until next year before telling my wife it's your fauilt I've gone back to spending insane amounts of money tracking down obscure Hindi DVDs, such as Hari-Bhari. ;-)

[maxqnz]

PS, a plea from maxqnz to my favouritest Hindi-film loving, Shabanatic IP lawyer in the whole world - can you PLEASE tell me why even when I login at Type Key, so many of my posts end up being "nameless".

[carla]

Thanks for the warm wishes, everyone.

maxqnz, I don't know what Typekey's problem is. But I knew it was you - who else uses words like "bloviation," apart from myself? :-)

[v9y]

बधाइयाँ! मिठाइयाँ?

[maxqnz]

"बधाइयाँ! मिठाइयाँ?"

Sorry, but this brought up an image of Kareena and Hrithik in K3G, because "I love laddoo"s. :-)

[daddy's girl]

Congratulations! And please keep up the good work.

[Sanket]

Nice hitting our 'ek saal' anniversaries so close together. Continue the outstanding work & reviewing Indian movies both old & new!

[Amit]

Congrats Carla. I think my previous comment was eaten by the Internet demon. So, belated happy anniversary!!

[Lokesh Kumar]

Hey ! Came across your blog through Jaman today. amazing blog and congrats for finishing one year. this is probably the most neatly kept & well organized blog that I have seen to date.

Also, I was wondering why you havent reviewed Party (1984) movie by Govind Nihalani. If you havent seen it, I would seriously recommend watching it. It's on Jaman :)

[carla]

Thanks so much for the kind comments Lokesh! I haven't seen *Party* but on your hearty recommendation I will add it to the ever-growing list of films I'm looking forward to watching.