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Almost six
months back I was honored by Dan from Top 10 Films with the 7 X 7 Link Award.
As the saying goes, “better late than never”, here I am finally officially
accepting and passing on the award.
The 7 x 7
Award highlights a blogger’s favourite pieces of work and is passed on to
others so that they too can do the same as a way to promote posts and/or blogs.
As is the case
with such awards, there are certain rules;
1.Tell everyone something that
no one else knows about you.
2. Link to one of the posts
that I think best fits the following categories;
a. Most Beautiful Piece.
b. Most Helpful Piece.
c. Most Popular Piece.
d. Most Controversial Piece.
e. Most Surprisingly Successful
Piece.
f. Most Underrated Piece.
g. Most Pride-Worthy Piece.
3. Pass this award on to seven
other bloggers.
Tell everyone something that no one else knows about
you.
I have done a
few of these awards/blogathons that I honestly don’t know if there is anything
that I can tell you without having to kill you afterwards. In short, and these
are repetitions, I like to watch movies late at night to avoid any disturbance,
I have a number of films that I have owned for a considerable period of time
but have not yet seen, and lastly I want to one day visit the San Diego
Comic-Con (then again who doesn’t?).
Most Beautiful Piece – Mary & Max
My review of
Mary & Max is for me the most beautiful piece because it is about one of
the most beautiful films ever. It was by chance that I watched the film and was
completely left speechless and in tears by the end of it.
Most Helpful Piece. – Demystifying Indian Cinema
In my little
attempt to make Indian cinema more interesting for the “foreign” public I tried
to compile a list of Hindi films that have negligible song/dance sequences in them.
Since talking to a number of people, the one aspect of Indian cinema that made
them not watch it were the songs and “dancing around trees”, this was to inform
that our industry have a lot more to offer. It is not a detailed post, but more
of a list of the films.
Most Popular Piece – The Poor Memorabilia Collector
Although I
have another post that has had more “hits”, this one has been the most popular
in terms of comments which was mainly due to the fact that the post was
featured in the IMDB Hit List. It’s a look at some cheap and easy ways to
collect memorabilia of your favourite films.
Most Controversial Piece – Where Should I Blog?
This post
asked the question if the address of your blog was one of the reasons for
others to take you seriously or not. I felt quite strongly about the issue and
thus published this blog across my blogs. It raised quite a few discussions
with both sides being supported and disagreed upon.
Most Surprisingly Successful Piece – Despicable Me
The review of Despicable
Me, a movie that I surprisingly loved, is at present the most viewed review on
my blog. I was quite taken aback by how many people actually liked this film as
I hadn’t heard anyone really talk about it before.
Most Underrated Piece – Keep Calm
My two posts
on all the Keep Calm posters inspired by films which I made. I wish more people
would have seen/shared/commented on them.
Most Pride-Worthy Piece – What is #MTOS?
Again, this is
no intellectual post, but one I am extremely proud of simply because it is
about the little Twitter weekly chat that my friend Rachel and I conceived and
started. Movie Talk on Sunday has grown steadily over the year, promoting
fellow bloggers, and just building up on the film community in general. The
post is an introduction to the event and is still used to inform newcomers
about that little hashtag (#MTOS) they see pop up on their twitter timeline
event Sunday evening at 20:00 GMT.
As for passing
on the blogging love, here are the seven who deserve all the fame they are
getting…
Nostra with MyFilm Views
Ruth with FlixChatter
Lesya and her
blog Eternity of Dream
Haricharan
writing about films on Movie Roundup
Russell who hosts
at 1:37 exactly
Lastly, the
team behind Max and Tom Squared
Yeah, everybody wants to be in San Diego now... :)
ReplyDeleteOh, Keep Calm posters are great. I saw them and didn't comment but it doesn't mean that I didn't like them, I think I shared the link to some movie-related, too. So, if other people did so too, those posts may not be that underrated :)
Thanks for passing the award to me.
I know what you mean by everyone wanting to go to SDCC. It's just become so big over the last few years.
DeleteAs for Keep Calm, thanks a lot. I couldn't think of anything else that I would want more people to see right now so I mentioned them. It's hard to remember everything as I am nearing 200 posts :-)
All the best with the award... you deserve it.
Thanks a ton Raghav :) I'm truly honoured and I'm glad people are actually reading my posts and following my blog. Now, I have to raise the bar and do much better. Thanks once again
ReplyDeleteYou have a good thing going... all the best with your blog.
DeleteThanks for tagging me, man, how very kind! Interesting that I actually just watched Despicable Me this weekend, cute movie, I LOVE those minions!!! My um, mini review will go up later today :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Ruth. I never get too many oppertunities to spread the love so to speak, so this is my little attempt at it.
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Thanks Noopur.
DeleteNice overview and thanks for the nomination!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much
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