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.