When we were little little girls, our grandmother brainwashed all 5 of us to believe to the depths of our souls “engineers make the best husbands” (guess what my grandfather, father, and brother-in-law all do?). And so I can’t ignore this holiday!
1.1. I love this song for perfectly capturing the look and attitude of the IIT grad.
2. Shashi makes a very cool and easy breezy type of engineer.
3. A less cool engineer. But with a pretty assistant.
4. New version of life for an engineer, Bangalore, freedom, and fun.
5. Remember, Viviek is a computer engineer too!
6. I almost forgot, Shahrukh was a computer engineer too! Of the cool video game designing type, but still.
7. And of course, Swades.
8. Going back to the classics for a moment, remember when Dharmendra helped his uncle invent solar power?
9. Going back to those computer engineers/video game designers, let’s look at Prabhas in Mr. Perfect!
Okay, that’s all I’ve got off the top of my head! Feel free to add on in the comments.
dontcallitbollywood 
How could you not mention VIP and VIP 2, which you said you liked, and which feature an engineer as the central character?
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I wanted to, but I just used them in my post for Grandpa’s birthday. So thank you for mentioning them so I don’t have to!
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 9:25 PM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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How can you forget this??? The one that proved that we’re so obsessed with engineers that even our mythology inspired epics feature them!
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Of course! I was a fool.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:29 PM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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😂 the one actor who’s a real life engineer too from this list!!
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Oooo, B. Tech degree! Just makes him sexier!
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:09 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Up north, we just rolled our eyes at the info. Like “could he BE more south indian??” 😁
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Now I’m wondering if there are any meaty female engineer roles in Indian movies? In my limited movie experience I’m just coming up with Amrita Singh in Raju ban gaya gentleman, but she’s an architect…
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You mean to say Indian women are supposed to be shown as doing anything other than housework, child-rearing and keeping karva chauth fasts??!!! BLASPHEMY!!!
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Hi there! I have another random translation request: another behind the scenes video from JHMS. It’s like 90 seconds long, and I’m just curious what little cute things SRK might be saying throughout…
A couple of notes: at 35 seconds I note that he has no trouble kissing (nuzzling, whatever) offscreen–ahem; and at 1.14 seconds we get a little more evidence to judge the butt question. Sigh, I think you may be right about the optical illusion in Hawayein, Margaret. 🙂
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Obviously my time is very valuable and important, so I just went straight to the two afforementioned time stamps, with it on mute, while at work, and checked them out.
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I just presented this to my panel of experts (two of my co-workers who are also performers), and the agreement was that if you have your leg up like that it will always straighten and lower the butt level. More importantly check out around 40 seconds when we get the chair shot from Beech Beech Mein. That appears to be his natural butt level and, while not at the same hieght as Hawayein, it is still good.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 9:59 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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As always, the depth of analysis found here leaves me breathless. 😁
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For background research (and since my boss isn’t in the office today), my panel of experts and I then watched Dard E Disco and Aga Bai.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:44 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Please thank your panel for me. I feel re-assured. (pun intended)
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at 0:06 Sejal, I miss you
at 0:012 I’m coming to all your rooms. Take a (my?) number!
at 0:16 I’m very happy (sarcastically)
at 0:28 If we have to go from (i didnt get the name of the place), we can do that too
at 0:29 Are you crazy?
at 0:35 yes, take it. it’s late.
at 0:30 (?) (i didnt get what he said)
at 0:52 When i get naked, so does everyone else
at 0:58 Let me know if i still have my nose. Anushka: It’s there
at 1:00 but for mom and dad, your brother in law (something, something *bad audio*)
at 1:08 after this, we’ll go up there
at 1:25 do not let me loose
There were some dialogues from the film so I’m assuming you know them better than me already.
Enjoy!! 🙂
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WHEN I GET NAKED, SO DOES EVERYBODY ELSE???? I may have to watch this again just looking for that line.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:52 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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He can get very arrogant. Also not entirely true is it? He gets naked and people WOULD follow suit right??
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Perhaps this is the explanation for our discussion on male/female gaze videos? Dard E Disco was supposed to just be SRK, but then random women saw he was naked and started ripping their clothes off?
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:02 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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No that was Farah enjoying being in the director’s seat and using all her experience to hardsell her film. Just SRK would be too much. Besides, you’re not supposed to notice the women in the background. They’re props. Sounds horrible but that’s the truth.
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I like that you specify just SRK as “too much” rather than “too little”. Which is true, just naked SRK is like the sun, you would have to look away.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:08 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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He’s cultivated such a nice boy next door image that you almost feel slutty for objectifying him so but you can’t resist it either.
Like saying “OMG Salman so hot” won’t be an issue for people but analyse every part of SRK’s body and face and his hair for 3 years and suddenly you’re obsessed!! SHEESH!!
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Thank you. Bless you!
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You’re welcome!! Ask for more anytime! Sorry my Kapil Sharma show one is still pending. I’ll get to it somehow I promise!
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No pressure on the Kapil translation, please! Especially since you also wrote an evil Shah Rukh fan fiction in the meanwhile.
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Yea that was mostly to get my brain out of the shock that the grungy Prabhas fanfic left it with!!
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I’m looking at my DVD shelves, and I’m drawing a blank. Women are lawyers, doctors, interior decorators, and fashion designers. and models sometimes. But mostly just daughters/wives/sisters.
Oh!!! Tabu in Kandukondain Kandukondain!!!! She’s sort of a computer engineer. and there’s another reason to watch the film, if you haven’t already. And Kajol in VIP2, the antagonist to the hero and a more successful engineer.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:20 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I knew you’d come through!
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What’s Deepika’s job in Piko?
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“Piku”
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wikipedia says architect.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:17 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Architect again I think.
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Based on films from India and America, you would think every third person was an architect. what is up with that job in movies?
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I guess it’s vaguely artistic yet white collar professional, and seemingly flexible enough to not show up to work for long stretches of time if the plot calls for it.
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And it’s something we all kind of feel like we can understand. Architect=builds houses. It’s not like real world jobs that it always takes you twenty minutes to explain at family parties, and even then no one really understands it.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:11 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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because real jobs requires people to be at work. How’d they every get movies made if people were at work?
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BTW what was your office buddies’ verdict on the videos?
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WEll, one of them is a long term SRK fan and already knew all the videos. The other one was like “what is this? I’m feeling feelings!”
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:00 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I feel like we should have like SRK Saturdays on this blog. Exclusively for him. With more in-depth analysis about all things SRK. He’s such a nice introduction to indian men and India.
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Maybe later. Right now, starting October 2nd, there will be the month long birthday festival, which is just about as much SRK as people can take. Actually, a lot more SRK than most people can take. Last year I only did 18 days and I still got complaints.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:06 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Your blog, your rules!!!!
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That’s what I think! And, I mean, I was celebrating his birthday for 30 days before I started blogging, so why not keep it up on the internet?
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:13 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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If anything, it might mean this blog becomes a comprehensive SRK resource/appreciation forum!
And I mean it honestly too. More international eyes on our films is great exposure for our culture, so, please, continue!!
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Oh, also, random thing, I am working on loading a new youtube video on feminity and stuff, basically what we were just talking about. If it ever finishes processing. Anyway, don’t go to bed yet is what I am saying. Because you may be the only person who is interested in it.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:00 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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It’s just 9:30PM here and I just finished watching Mumbai Police. Loved the film but the thing that the friend got upset about upset me. But it was a solid film.
So yeah, I’m probably going to watch Death Note because I’m the hip older cousin sister that watches anime series so she can make younger cousin brothers watch feminist films and documentaries in exchange!
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So glad you watched Mumbai Police! Prithviraj is so progressive, it is so sexy. You can put spoiler comments over on my SPOILER review if you want to talk about the thing.
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:11 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Link please!
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That’s the link you wanted, right?
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:15 AM, dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Engineers day is celebrated for vishveshwaraiya who built my home town to all its glory and was Dewan to the king. He designed and executed asias first hydroelectric power station and dam. Bangalore was then the first Indian city to get electricity. My dad and allmostveveryone in my family is an engineer. So this is a very special holiday 😊
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Just looked up Vishveshwaraiya. He was also apparently a proponant of the Kannada language? Maybe next year i watch another Kannada film for engineers day.
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He was a born Tamilian who lived and worked in a Kannada speaking state. I don’t know if he was a proponent of any particular language. What Kannada movie have you already seen? (You said another)
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Lucia. Review here:
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Oooh! The scary movie. I haven’t had the forage to watch that yet. But you should watch kirik party. It’s superlative.
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I haven’t seen kirik party, but I did see one of the stars in real life. I was going to a movie at my local indian theater and there was this huge mob in the lobby, and we finally figured out it was people taking pictures with a movie star before going into the special “watch kirik party with the star!” screening.
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What!! Omg! How exciting! Must have been Rakshit Shetty! He’s amazing.
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