Woo-hoo! In 30 minutes, 3pm Chicago time, I will start commenting on this post as I watch the film and you can comment along with me.
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OMG Varun. You love Sid so much!
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This is the most romantic scene in the movie between them, debate me.
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Nope. Again. Was JUST about to say that!
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“Why do you hide your emotions so much?”
VARUN!!! Don’t break your heart waiting for a guy who isn’t ready for you!
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Kiss!!!!!
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The 11 year old is choosing to stay and watch instead of going cross country skiing! He’s hooked.
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I am so impressed with your children’s taste in movies.
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THis might be the first “high school” movie he’s ever seen. And he missed the first half.
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Awe! Love it!
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That was my absolutely favorite scene in the movie!
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It’s all this bit, with Varun in yellow, outside Sid’s house, outside the hospital, that HUG, the way Varun is tenderly stroking the back of Sid’s head. This is when I really think they should have kissed.
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Okay, here’s where they make love again. Best way to comfort Varun and show him he is loved.
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I am starting to seriously love this romance more than War. How is that possible?! I think because it’s a double romance between Sid and Varun and Sid and Alia. SO MUCH ROMANCE!!
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So they totally didn’t make out and be all soft after all that soft romantic talk last night? It’s at least midday when Alia arrives so it would give them plenty of alone time
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That’s what I was thinking! Hug, have the house to themselves while everyone else is at the hospital, and then go over to the hospital the next day after making love and holding each other all night.
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I don’t think Sid would respond well to a love making attempt if one of the few family members who cares about him is dying. I’m thinking more Varun comforting him, kissing his forehead a lot, wiping his tears, lots of soft, quiet cuddling.
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Great now I want chai
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Red looks so pretty in the snowy forest
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Sid and Varun wearing matching clothes with grey and pink!!!!
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Varun and Sid touch each other and hug each other more than they touch and hug anyone else.
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TRUE LOVE!
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Turquoise fence
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Maybe later, sometime during the Ishq Wala Love sequence (I also don’t like this song btw), after he has the support of his friends around him, he’d make love as comfort.
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Alia’s belt on the pink dress is hideous. To a degree that makes me think the dress must not have fitted and they had to put it on last minute.
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Also, when Alia arrives Varun has been there for a lot of time before. THIS MOVIE IS JUST HINTING TOO MUCH FOR IT NOT TO BE TEXT AND NOT SUBTEXT!!!
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Varun cares more for Sid than Alia does.
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Agreed. 100% This is absolutely a three-way romance with Sid in the middle, not Alia.
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Absolutely! I’d watch that rewrite in a heartbeat!
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And who wouldn’t want to be with pretty Sid
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I have to mention Alia’s makeup too, throughout the whole movie. It’s not good. Her lipstick is always too close to her skintone. It doesn’t make her look good.
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Yes! And something is wrong with her eye make-up. I don’t know what, but her eyes look smaller in this movie than in any other I’ve seen, so something isn’t good.
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Mascara maybe? Eyeliner? I’m just noticing she has eyeliner on her bottom lash line, which usually makes the eye smaller. I think.
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Oooo! Sid M rocking the unshaven look! Not realistic for a high school kid, but so flattering.
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That’s actually realistic. I can think of a few students of mine, around 15 years old with scruff. Not full beards, but enough to show they’re trying.
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If something happens to you – I will never speak to you… I always tell my kids there is no dying. If they die I’ll kill them.
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Okay, even though we’re riding the Sid/Varun train, the fact that he kept Alia’s earring this whole time is so stinking adorable.
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Yupp. So stupidly lovable and adorable.
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Is this the first kiss of the movie?
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Officially, but who’s to say there weren’t any between Sid and Varun in the meantime that we didn’t see
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Alia and Sid were so dating by this scene, right?!
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I hope night! My head canon of their dating had it starting later, after she’s at least 20. 18 and 28 is yucky.
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Sid was 28??? Ew!!!
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Sid was 26, Varun 25, Alia 18.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:46 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Okay, that’s not that bad then. My friend’s parents are 8 years apart.
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I do really love Sid and Alia though. This is a great kiss scene.
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This kiss is pretty decent by Hindi film standards, but still no where near the Sid-Varun chemistry just hugging
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I actually have to disagree. I just rewound and watched the kiss again because it was so good!
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If there’s more of a swell in the music, in the heart when the friends hug than when the love interests kiss, that’s saying a lot.
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Okay but has Varun been betrayed by Alia or Sid? I was trying to focus on the direction of his eyes, but he’s not really focused on either one of them.
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See, it was this scene that hit me. Again, it’s a teen movie, but if it wanted to, it could have really explored a lot more issues about class and passion and drive. Both of them falling in love with Alia was just the straw that broke the camel’s back to drive a wedge between them.
I also love Alia’s response to all of this in a minute.
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I feel so bad for Varun’s Mom, what happy ending can we write for her? Maybe get together with Coach’s wife after Coach leaves her for Rishi?
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This fight scene was another one, where is Alia wasn’t standing there, I would have expected Varun and Sid to end up passionately making out.
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Friends to enemies in a kiss.
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Here we go, back to sexual tension. I wouldn’t be surprised if they still fooled around during this time. A lot of hate sex, and actually using the word “sex” rather than “making love”. It’s not love anymore.
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Totally! High school is weird, hormones are out of control. Also, this is when Alia gets so sick of men she starts fooling around with Shruti but not meaning anything by it.
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Oh, they TOTALLY just went to make out when they were just in black.
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The sexual tension is killing me!
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Actually, it has gotten too intense for the 11 year old, he left to go play with hotwheels.
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I feel ya, bud! It is getting intense for me, and I am an adult. I am playing with my puppy for a bit.
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It is very intense! I may need to take another pizza break
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And now we have entered the alternate film that is all about the Shruti-Shanaya romance
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Sid is so tall! And Shruti is so short! It makes me so happy!
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This movie makes so much more sense if you just accept that almost everyone is Gay or at least Bi, funny how it took me this long to realise it
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It’s also just so much more fun that way
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Yupp. Sahil (Jeet) is so the jealous ex. He is so mad Varun found Sid.
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Jeet ends up with Sudo, yes?
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Yupp! They start a nice family and have two beautiful children that they adopt.
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And Jeet stays home witht he kids because he is too stupid to function, and Pseudo gets a really good job
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:55 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Varun’s breasts might be too large for my taste
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:O
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Cannot. Stop. Laughing.
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Shruti looks so CUTE in this number! And this is my favorite Alia dress of the movie, but Shruti still looks better.
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When she rubbed her hand down his chest – I have a hard time watching people touch unwilling others on screen, usually it is a man running his fingers on an item dancers leg or something like that, I hate it. This might have been the first time I’ve had that reaction to a woman touching a man.
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Little Anjali’s whole character just makes my stomach turn in a bad way.
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That’s why she needs to be seduced by Shruti and then go into intensive therapy and realize she was gay along and never had a healthy self-image or relationship with men.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:55 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Remember when remakes were special and infrequent and not every other song? And also good? I love this song.
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High School Musical: Senior Year – the song
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Oh no, sid is “dancing” again
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This school is so rich Farah Khan judges their prom dance!
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Even she’s getting hit on! So much good gay undertone
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Hi Kajol!!
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I just got so happy seeing Kajol! She’s so so gorgeous and normal and curvy and pretty
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Oh yes! Get rid of your clothes Sid and Varun, first the buttons and then the rest! So not trying to make your boyfriend jealous in any way!
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They kept glaring at each other too. It’s too easy.
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Okay. Maybe it’s just me, but this movie and Sid’s dancing gave me some distinct early Amitabh vibes. I just see so many similarities!
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If Sid’s career follows a similar trajectory to Amitabh’s though, I’d be floored.
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I am not sure it will. But he really, even in his acting, has very Amitabh vibes.
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Tall, can’t dance, I see it too!
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:56 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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It’s the awkward, ernest, confused, honest vibes too. I just distinctly remember watching this movie and thought, wow, Sid is just so much like Amitabh.
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Choreographers always give bad dancers hat tricks, and it only emphasizes how bad they are.
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Also int aht last movie, I noticed that VArun has a dancers butt, and Sid not so much.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:56 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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A dancer’s butt – is that basically a butt versus a flat spot at the top of the legs?
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Yes. Think Gene Kelly, Tiger Shroff, Varun, what they all have in common.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 5:00 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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I LOVE this Ishq Wala Love breakdown sequence! So many throuple vibes! So much homosexuality! Such great music!
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