Woo-hoo! Friday watchalong, high point of my week! And tonight is my turn to pick the movie to watch with my parents, another high point!
Yaaaaay! Watchalong time! Pull up Jhoom Barabar Jhoom on Prime (or einthusan if your naughty), and start commenting below! Be sure to refresh the screen regularly to see other people’s comments, I’ll start us off promptly at 3pm with the first one and then you take it from there.
Woo-hoo! Watchalong!!!!
dontcallitbollywood 
Ugh can’t join today but looking forward to next week!
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Booo! I’ll miss you!
On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 2:43 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Starting! Yash Raj logo!
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I’m here!
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Yaaay!
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Oh man, it opens with the best song! I really hope other people are watching this!
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Here!
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Yaaaay!
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I absolutely LOVE this use of Amitabh! The magical spirit that invades the NRI life.
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Also, the dance moves are well within the Bachchan limitations
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Hi, All!
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Hi!
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I feel like I could pull off Amitabh’s outfit, if I had to
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YOu wouldn’t be annoyed by the feather hanging in front of your face?
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I’d turn it backwards
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What am I watching? I love the outfit, but why the hat? And the wig?
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He’s the spirit of old-fashioned hippie Indian-British connections!
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Woo, Abhishek! And we all realize his ringtone is Aish saying “hey handsome” from “Kajre Re”? Little double in joke?
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Abhishek looks good! Must be the hoody and moustache because I have NEVER had that thought about him in any movie
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Oh no! Two strangers at a train station with nothing in common forced to share a table! Surely this will lead to only fighting and misery
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I’ve been there! Not feeling the facial hair at all.
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I like Preity better with the curls, but this hair isn’t bad. Short and light colored is definitely better for her.
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Yep, she already has delicate features and the curls make it look better, while straight hair just makes the contrast more unnatural
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Ba-bam! Cross-religious, cross-nationality couple!
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Her second time playing a Pakistani!
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A pirate film dealer? MY DREAM MAN!!!!
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Did I mention this film is kind of cheerfully surreal?
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I think Preity may be a little bit interested in this lowclass guy in spite of herself….
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Maybe so.
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Hi, Lara! Ouch–too soon about Dodi and Diana!
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Kind of cool to get the desi spin on it though, with the equal interest in Dodi
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Was that a double entendre on the phone? How appropriate for being in France!
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This comic section sneaking out feels very French comic film too
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Love the fake broad shoulders in the layered look!
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Same. My first lol of the movie.
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They know he can’t speak french, why weren’t they talking to him in ENglish.
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It’s possible all of this might become clear later
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It’s too late for me to watch this now, but I love this movie. I wish I could wait to see Bobby! I love him in this.
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Come back later and read all our comments! And yes, Bobby is amazing in this. Lara’s pretty good too.
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Yes, Lara is fantastic in this. Always reminds me how much I like her.
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This is what makes this movie so special! Two characters who consider themselves 100% British. None of that “at heart I am Hindustani” stuff.
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I feel like this chef is 100% being made fun of because he is French, the color of his skin has no connection to it.
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He looks good sweaty though.
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He’s so SWEET! I’d fall in love with him too. Look at that smile Lara! Give in!
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I do my best crying in very low cut dresses.
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So my boobs act as tear pillows, obviously
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Such a drag when they pool up in the hollow between though. Can the magic hanky help with that? Can Abhi? Hmm…
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Awww, the white rose for Diana. Perfect.
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That’s a really short skirt to wear to work….
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Well, Lara’s acting has gotten better since this movie.
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Wait for it. She’s way different in the second half
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Lara is doing a really good job with the bad accent on the Hindi. I barely understand Hindi, but I can hear how she is hitting the vowels wrong, because she is “French”
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MY FAVORITE SONG!!!! It’s so incredibly joyfull dumb. You must apprecite the costumes of the background dancers. They are all so French!
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Of course he’s wearing a Che shirt.
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Oooo, Lara’s earrings!
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I want to know what the French actually thought of this when they filmed this song, it is so out there!
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I can’t believe the filming permissions they got! The Louvre and the Eiffel Tower park and other places I can’t remember the names of
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And the amount of police or something to make sure they weren’t disturbed by tourists or anyone! Must have been a hassle
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Ok his lil sad expressions are saving this song for me.
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Comic Abhi is the best Abhi
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Ouch – First Diana and now Notre-Dame de Paris…
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Oooh! Moulin Rouge-esque!
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This scene really shouldn’t work, but it still feels romantic to me
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Don’t anger! Please!
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It is more awkwardly natural and yet flamboyant at the same time, yet somehow works!
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Preity’s skirt is also super short, but feels right for a day off work bopping around London
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“Aunty-ji” to “Gossip Girl” on the subtitles. Bad! Subtitle bad!
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My subtitle said “sissy”
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First big dimple flash from Preity!
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This is A LOT more hilarious now with the whole MARVEL and DC universe XD
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In there an Indian thing with wax museums?
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Nah. I think there was just a lot of publicity around this time about Amit being added at Madame Tussauds
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I was thinking of Fan…
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Best part of her prayer, the understanding that God is a white British man, of course.
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Superman’s hair is really bad.
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My dad had a perm like that in the 80s. I’m getting flashbacks!
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Did Yash take the whole Katrina praying in church scene for the perfect man in JTHJ from this???
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YES!!! And no one knows because no one watched this movie!!!!
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I love what a gamer Preity is in this movie. No opportunity missed!
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I love that she’s talking to the camera the whole time.
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