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Oh Prithviraj, somehow even more beautiful than I remembered.
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Nice eyes looks sad.
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Nice eyes can go find a wife who will have sex dreams about him, not some other dude.
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he deserves to be sad
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I have seen this movie so many times, and I still love the reveal of the origin for all Prithviraj’s strangeness and sweet smelling
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I do enjoy when this movie moves right into actual crazed stalker territory.
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Also I actually want that John Abraham doorbell
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You aren’t secretly Irritating Co-worker in real life, right?
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Judging from the way I dress, yes
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Oh God, what is she wearing!!!!!!!!
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So, would she not love him if his father hadn’t left him an incense factory? Or is it fate for them to be together and thus fate arranged for her to have a smell thing and him to have an incense factory? Also, if he loses the factory, will she stop loving him?
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She does seem weirdly into the incense factory
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Why must the best part of this movie be intercut with the worst part of this movie????
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I don’t mind the wacky subplot!
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or do you mean the song which is indeed awful
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I had no idea incense was so colorful.
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It’s like Elizabeth Bennet seeing Netherfield! If it was an incense factory and Darcy got his hands dirty along with his servants!
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Yes! that is it exactly!
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the best comment
WHY IS SHE SO INTO THE INCENSE FACTORY
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They make things that smell good and she wants beautiful smells in her life! It’s just a bonus and explains why Prithviraj smells so good (I suppose)
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HE KNOWS HER NAME!!!!!
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As I have mentioned in other posts, I am very worried about their sex life if he is working all the time/under rested.
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she can take over the incense factory since she loves it so much
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why the giant painting of himself
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Because his face is so beautiful and he likes beautiful things?
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okay yes if i was him i’d also paint a giant picture of my face
or my arms
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Did you all catch she was practicing “I love you” in Tamil while waiting and he pretended not to have heard?
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the endless engagement party looool
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I mean, she’s not like “cover her face” unattractive. This is a bit much.
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Rani look’s so gorgeous in this scene, her make-up and hair is perfection.
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Rani has never looked anything but gorgeous.
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If he knew and was into it the whole time, does that make it retroactively not stalking?
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No it means he’s wrong in the head. Like who does that
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Tolerates stalking, or doesn’t bother to talk to the girl who is stalking him for weeks even if he likes her?
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Yes like is it a sick game to him what
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Or maybe the lack of sleep makes it just easier for her to dot he pursuing, and him just out of shyness not to do anything?? Both realised they were stalking each other in a sense, but didn’t know how to get past that barrier
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They are so cute when they talk on the bike and the lamplights!
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Oh Nice Eyes!!!!
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I think he was kinda a dick.
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He looks all cute and smiling at the end, but I remember him throwing all those books down.
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Yeah, and you never get an explanation for why he was so weird, either. I guess except the lack of sleep and the pressure
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If you don’t catch it, she falls from Hindi to Tamil to Maharashtrian in her speech to her parents.
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Nice eyes is good eye actor, his nice eyes when to hurt, confused and sad very well.
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Okay the reason the marriage will work out! The pleased and entertained way he reacts to her drama during the engagement. Nice eyes would never have really enjoyed that part of her.
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isn’t nice eyes a creep at the beginning somewhere? Also he mansplains movies which is high on my list of dumpable offences so I never liked nice eyes
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I didn’t notice any creepiness. He might have mansplained, but I probably liked his eyes so much I didn’t notice.
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I haven’t rewatched the beginnings now so IDK
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I know I’m alone on this, but I only think this guy is hot when he is shirtless.
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You gotta see his Malayalam stuff. Not for the kids, but Koode and City of God in particular, he is all tormented and super hot.
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what about the rolled up sleeves
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And DONE! That worked way better than I thought it would. YAAAAAY!
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I’m going to rewatch the petrol song
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One of my sons was on my lap when I saw that. He couldn’t really figure out why I was laughing so hard.
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It’s sooo great.
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Final takeaway – consider they had to pay some poor schmuck to oil Prithviraj’s body for the belly dancing number. The oil had to be continually reapplied to make sure that he glistened. I would have happily volunteered for that arduous job, and saved the production some money.
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You are right, that is a blatant waste of money!
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 4:54 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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The idea that Prithviraj could be at class all morning, working on art all afternoon, working at a factory all night AND be super buff bothers me. It bothers me because nice eye’s lack of undressed physical attractiveness was part of the plot. Women totally have unrealistic expectations put on them, but that is no reason to do the same to men. To look like that you have to spend hours working out every day. And a lot of actors acknowledge this, Hrithik posting videos of himself working out is obviously showing how hard he works on his appearance. Some actors in interviews fully admit that to stay in shape for a movie they can hardly eat anything and exercise a lot and that well, it is hard. Gully Boy actually showed Ranveer working out, and I feel like often if a character is super buff in a movie, it isn’t always unbeleavable – they either have a physical job, or spare time. So on the one hand I do appreciate the objectification of the man’s beautiful body in this film, on the other hand I dislike their belittling of the normal body.
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I love this thought! And I want you to hop over to my new post asking for 101 ideas, but I want more ideas like this.
Counterpoint for this film, and now I am wondering if they did it on purpose, real Prithvi had body hair and, I think, Real Prithvi was also less pumped. Rani’s fantasy man had this amazing perfect body, but the real guy was kind of normal. I read the moment when she saw Nice Eyes changing as her realizing that Nice Eyes also had an okay normal body, nothing wrong with it. But she still fantasized about and desired Prithvi more than him.
And also, I have literally never thought before about how male bodies are fantasies on film just like female, the same way we complain about female characters never shown to be dieting, we could/should complain about male characters never working out. Why have I not considered this before?????
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 7:22 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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You don’t have sons. Would I have had thoughts like this if I hadn’t watched Bang Bang with three impressionable boys and made a point to discuss how much the actor works out and how hard it is to have a body that looks like that? And one of my sons has a round face and a wide build, thus he is the one most obsessed with being thin…
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You can also tell them that most women find Hrithik in Bang Bang toooooooo thin. They’re probably too young for that, but it’s true!
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:28 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I’m sorry I couldn’t make the time to watch along with you guys. But then I probably shouldn’t rewatch this movie too often, since the first time was such a perfect experience. I saw Aiyya in a theater in India on my so far only visit there. Outside everything seemed so loud and chaotic to my European sensibilities. Inside it was blessedly cool and calm, just the way Rani perceives Prithviraj. Plus, without subtitles I only got the general gist and was spared some of the really over the top humor.
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That sounds amazing! I’m jealous of your experience.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 9:29 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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