Misc comments, as several different topics have been discussed:
1. I met a few friends who attended the BMM convention in LA (I was in the SF bay area aka Si Valley at that time). They said a bunch of celebrities had been flown in from Maha for the convention. They mentioned GTG as the feature attraction and raved about Leena B & Mangesh K. Among other events, the 'Uttar Rang' session for seniors (organized by our friends Vidya & Ashok), the stand-up comedy session & as always, the music program were mentioned by them. A 14-yr old Preeti Tamhankar (she learns classical singing *on Skype* from Pt Vijay Koparkar) from the SF bay area outshone all senior singers (as you can see from this video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_IlYRbFj0
I heard her live 3 years ago in Pune at Pt Vijayji's Guru Pournima program & was impressed then.
2. My friends didn't mention JYRG stars being at the convention. Among my friends, HSMHG & D3 were more known than JYRG & that could be a reason too.
3. D3 seems to be holding up well. I watch it once in a while and while it's not great, it's watchable. The big negative is that the show is centered around its worst actress & the premise that her charade is swallowed by her family is completely unbelievable. (Just like the charade in ELTG.)
4. On Mon, CHYD featured 'Highway', another apparently disjointed, episodic movie w/o a coherent storyline. Why is a decent story so hard to find these days that movies like 'Bioscope' & 'Highway' are being made? And what a travesty of a 'song' by Shalmali Kholgade! The less I say about her 'marathi' the better!
(Doesn't anybody know that Hindi 'garv' is 'abhimAn' in Marathi? It gets on my nerves when so-called Marathi people say 'mI marAThI asalyAchA malA *garv* Ahe'.)
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