Post Conference Relief and Humke Tumse Pyaar Hai

The conference went well. And by well, I mean people said nice things and at least I have satisfied myself that I couldn't be as bad as the guy whose paper apparently consisted of 'things I find interesting about Chinese and Hebrew.' They're publishing some of the papers, so I am hoping mine gets included in that bunch as that would be a nice thing to add to the CV. And New York was nice and I got to see Columbia, which I never have before, and there was no shaming scene before important academics, so it's all good.

Tonight I am back from Little India in Artesia seeing what has to be the cheesiest melodrama ever: Humke Tumse Pyaar Hai. It's a film that tries to fit the plot of every Bollywood film ever made into about 2 and 1/2 hours. There's a blind girl, gangsters, a dead mother, the alps, a little brother who disapears unaccountably about half-way through, a millionaire, lost love...oh god, I could not catalogue it all had I a tongue of bronze. It has cheese upon cheese and at the end some scene I didn't quite understand with guns, but despite this it may well be the best film ever made. Honestly, how can you not like a Bollywood film with a scene with a mad accordianist and milkmaids (well, I think they were milkmaids) in the Alps?

ETA: Also the film had goats and camels at one point. Goats, camels and the Alps. It doesn't get any better than that.