I am mostly excited about the Jabariya Jodi trailer, but so long as I am talking about it, I might as well throw in the couple of new songs from other movies.
Jabariya Jodi
Jabariya Jodi! The return of the Hasee To Phasee couple which a small segment of the world has been waiting for! And it looks pretty decent!
Sid is doing great, good look for him and charming and all that. Pari is doing okay too. And the feel of the film is fun, bright colors and silly fight scenes. Most of all, the basic idea of the film is fun and original, Sid being a goon who kidnaps grooms for forced weddings and then gets caught up in a kidnap plot of his own.
My only concern is that the plot seems a bit confused. Like, I really can’t follow it from this trailer. Sid and Pari seem to fall in love and have sex, but Sid isn’t interested in marriage, Pari plans to kidnap him, then he kidnaps her, and….something?
I’m hoping the plot is good but just hard to convey in trailer form. Not a total messy disaster that even a trailer can’t save. The first seems more likely, right? If it was just super messy they could have skipped all the complications and shown only the falling in love parts and then a tease of more complications. So maybe they have a good plot for the post-in-love bits and just aren’t doing a good job conveying it.
Khandaani Shafakhana-Koka Song
This is just a fun song. Sonakshi does really well in rap songs, not sure why, somehow she has a cheerful “one of the boys” feel to her. I am still not sure what is happening in this movie, pretty sure it is about Sonakshi setting up shop as an infertility/erectile dysfunction consultant. Anyway, fun song!
Super 30-Basanti No Dance
Another Super 30 song! My goodness, this is just the songiest movie. I don’t know if I like this song. I think it is supposed to be a show off song for the students, they do a Holi dance in front of the fancy training school and show off how they have learned English? But it doesn’t work for me, isn’t joyful enough somehow, feels too rough and angry for the moment.
dontcallitbollywood 
Jabariya Jodi looks awful. If this is supposed to be Parineeti’s comeback, it’s terrible. Even Sid looks and acts better than her. When did she become so annoying and tacky? The film looks like a mess.
I don’t get what Super 30 is trying is do but whatever it is, I’m bored. They haven’t released a single thing that would want to make me go watch mud-covered Hrithik sporting an odd accent.
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Yeah, I am surprised to find that I am likely to see Jabariya Jodi more for Sid than Pari. He seems fun and looks like he is having fun, I am not sure what is going on with Pari.
This song bored me with Super 30. It should have felt triumphal and different but instead it just felt depressed. They can’t have the whole movie in this tinted muddy tone and rough angry children feeling. Like you said, boring! The first trailer excited me because it was just a taste, but since then everything has felt like rehashing that first trailer. It’s still possible the movie could surprise us and put in bits that haven’t been in any of the promotion materials, but I am trying not to get my hopes up.
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I am back to asking the usual question. Why can’t Hrithik just make his big stupid movies and be done with it? I dislike all his attempts to act and make supposedly important movies. It never works with him and looks really artificial.
And why do the kids look mentally off instead of just poor? Look at their facial expressions and movements. It’s not normal.
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yes!!!! Agree about the kids, and it doesn’t make sense. I understand a desire to make lower classes seem like lower classes, not just rich folks in costume, but you don’t have to put them in falling apart clothes and dirty faces to do that. Again, I liked it for the initial shock factor of the first trailer, the feeling of “wow, this is a totally different world from what we normally see in film”, but I don’t like that it seems to have lasted into all the songs and trailers, not just a first impression for the character/audience.
So excited about the Hrithik-Tiger movie! This is what we want from him!
(and thank you for commenting, seems like everyone else is busy today, but you and I can keep going back and forth)
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Hah, I’m sick from a virus and have lost my voice so I have all the time in the world!!
Unfortunately, there is nothing big going on to comment on.
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I’m doing my best! An SRK discussion post yesterday, and I’m hoping to post a RA.One review today. So that should be fun to talk about.
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Why do you feel so upset about what kind of films Hrithik does or is doing. It’s not the first time.. I just recently got to know of this blog.. and really, your vibe is very off-putting.. There was this other forum Satyam something (`jr Bachchan fan boys`, maybe you know of it ;).. that blog had similar posts and comments (like they felt personally offended with everything HR did, kuch zyaada hi takleef hoti thi unko). You can of course comment however you wish, I am just baffled by such a consistent negative commentary. Even twitter ‘die-hard’ fans get tired after a while.
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Oh that previous comment is to “Anonymous” .
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Hi! Anonymous is certainly capable of answering this herself if she chooses, but from my perspective at least in this small part of the internet world, it is partly because Hrithik has been working on Super 30 for soooooooooooooo long. If anyone doesn’t happen to like Super 30, or his performance in it, there is nothing to say but negatives for the past year or so. Once Super 30 comes out and he moves on to other films, we can say new things. That’s the danger of working on just one film for a long time, if people like it then it is all good things, but if they don’t than it is all bad things for years on end.
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Do you just go on various blogs looking for critical comments about Hrithik? Very strange. Not sure which other blog you’re referring to but one filled with Jr. Bachchan fan boys is definitely a unicorn.
I’d suggest you stick to posting positive comments about Hrithik instead of personally attacking others who may not feel the same way. I’m not even sure what you mean by consistent negative commentary because I hardly even comment about him. Maybe once a month if that. But I understand how even the smallest things can hurt when you’re a diehard fan like you obviously are.
I don’t need to offer you an explanation but since you’re so interested, I don’t consider Hrithik a convincing actor so when he tries to act, it generally makes me roll my eyes and bores me. On the other hand, I really enjoyed him in his Krrish movies and ones like Dhoom 2 so that’s what I wish he would spend his time on.
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I’m by no means a Sid fan so I can’t believe I’m saying this but he does seem more promising in this trailer than Parineeti
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Yes! Pari seems strangely muted while Sid is just pure entertaining.
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This was a pretty decent trailer. And Sid’s accent is so much better than Hrithik’s – can’t believe I’m saying that. Am I the only one who thought Pari was fine too? Her Rishta/rickshaw line was pretty funny. And Javed Jaffrey and Sanjay Mishrwa were so good! I think this should be a decent watch.
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Oh good! I’m hoping for a decent watch too.
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I really enjoyed the Jabariya Jodi trailer and hoping it will be a silly, fun movie. Sid’s bihari accent is so much better than Hrithik’s and Pari’s. Pari continues to slip into the Punjabi accent. And Hrithik just sounds like Rohit from Koi Mil Gaya trying to speak with a Bihari accent and failing miserably. Hrithik really needs to stick to fully action, dance movies. Who do you think nailed the Bihari accent in recent movies? To me, the best Bihari accent I have heard in recent times has been Swara in Annarkali or Aarah. Ayushman Khurrana in Bareilly ki Barfi is a close second for the more eastern U.P./Bihar accent. I know you don’t speak hindi but you are great at catching tone and pitch so would welcome your thoughts. Also, on a separate note, will you be watching and reviewing both Jabariya Jodi and Khandani Shafakhana?
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I’m really terrible at catching accents. I can tell you the ones where it felt so strained it was almost painful. Ayushmann in Bareilly, I didn’t even notice he was doing an accent. Rajkummar a little more than him. Hrithik in Super 30, definitely feels strained.
I’m glad I’m not the only one looking forward to Jabariya Jodi! I’m hoping to see it, but summer weekends are always a little up in the air for me. Looks like it is the same weekend as the Sonakshi movie? I kind of want to see both! Maybe a double bill if the timing works out and I don’t have anything else going on.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 12:58 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Yes, Jabariya Jodi and Khandani Shafakhana are coming out on the same day. I am hoping I can convince someone to watch one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
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I was thinking maybe get up early on Saturday and shoot for a double bill. If it’s as hot as August usually is, 6 hours in an air conditioned movie theater might be perfect.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 2:09 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Super 30 is just looking worse each passing day…rather than actually doing the research behind the lives of the underprivileged, they instead decided to just portray their idea of what poor people must be thinking/feeling/doing. I don’t even think the director/actors bothered to go to Bihar…I can almost imagine on the sets the director yelling “not poor enough…more mud…more holes in clothes…more pitifull”
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The whole thing is just making me appreciate Gully Boy more, where the poor people looked like regular people, especially the youth.
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 11:27 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Is it just me or do you get the vibe that Jabariya Jodi is trying too hard? Like they just decided to make a desi heartland rom-com because those are the types of movies that are working well nowadays.
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This was me btw 🙂
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Oh definitely! It’s not a movie I would think this cast and crew would come up with organically.
But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t still be good. I have hope!
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Btw do you know what Parineeti’s doing after this? I know Sid is doing another action movie with Rakul and a biopic.
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Yeah, Pari’s working on the badminton (tennis?) player biopic that Shraddha was going to do and then got dropped.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 3:51 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Oh the Saina Nehwal movie? Yeah, she’s a badminton player. It still feels like there are so many biopics made every year.
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And there didn’t used to be any! I am so sick of biopics and sports movies, and yet I would be hard put to think of any from before 2000. It’s like India is putting all it’s sports and history that should have been in the last 100 years of film into just these past 2 decades.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:05 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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