Woo-hoo, a Shahrukh movie! And a good/bad one, so we will neither be distracted by being in love with him, nor bored by how terrible the film is. Oh, also Varun Dhawan, the Birthday boy.
Dilwale! Big fun bright dumb! The comedy track is murder, but we can just talk about other things during that section. Watch it on Netflix, or anywhere else you can find it.
I will start the comments below at 3pm Chicago time, you all can just keep adding on. Fun fun!
dontcallitbollywood 
(Hux, cover your eyes!)
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Varun sharma looks as believable fighting as Shammi Kapoor did.
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Is that a shirt ona shirt? That is so dumb! But I love the open buttons, so I will forgive.
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You would think the Virgin would provide some more protection than that! How lame to be beat up in front her!
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Oooo, that color combo on Kriti is everything! I want to redecorate my apartment inspired by that.
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I’m liking SRK’s shirt a lot.
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No, shirt on shirt is unconscionable
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Here it is! The “whole new person just by changing his face” moment!
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I have watched this scene over and over. It’s like seeing Clark Kent turn into Superman, only without a phone booth.
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THIS IS MY FAVORITE SCENE OF THE MOVIE!
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Oh yeah
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It just now occurred to me that it may not be Shahrukh himself doing all these fight moves. That’s crazy, right? It’s really him? Tell me it’s him! Genevieve already broke my heart with the reveal taht Varun isn’t doing his own driving.
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Honestly I hadn’t thought of SRK having a fighting stuntman…
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Thrills by SRK 4eva
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Oh man, the Zorro trope of “everyone thinks he is a coward but secretly he is awesome” is always so juicy
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If I ever go to Goa I’m going to be really sad if I’m not blinded by color.
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Boman Irani looks like he just stepped out of a 90s film, he is so delightfully hammy!
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Boman and Anupam Kher are the only people I can think of who manage to be both funny and scary at once. I guess also maybe Anil Kapoor in Tashan?
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My husband had that sports coat that Boman is wearing. Not the whole suit, thank heaven.
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Cars! CARS CARS CARS!!!!
Oh, and Shahrukh said in an interview they almost broke the record for car flips in this chase scene, so now I have to count how many times the car fly-flips later.
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Hux said “Tammy!” when Boman shows up
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FLYING CARS!
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Have to give to the movie for selling these locations very well. Now I want to go to Bulgaria.
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KAJOL!!!!
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Kajol! My heart beats out of my chest when I see them together
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Same here. It’s magic!
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Do people have to pay a copyright to use this tune, or is it in the public domain at this point?
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What, which tune? What am I missing?
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 3:33 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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It was the mandolin plucks, I now associate anything mandolin with DDLJ but I was just realizing it was a different actual tune. DDLJ isn’t the big part of my life that it is for the rest of the world and I get my tunes confused.
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When I saw this in theaters, literally cheers so loud you couldn’t hear anything through this entire scene. Which they knew would happen, thus the lack of dialogue
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I love Kajol’s outfit. I want it! The skirt is so pretty!
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I love her skirt. Like Kriti, fun and funky clothes that are also sexy, but that isn’t the point.
Actually, Varun and SRK are objectified more than the heroines in terms of clothing. My kind of movie!
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I have heard of no Dons. If someone said to me “I am the child of so-and-so”, I would look totally blank.
Although actually, a friend of a friend is Frank Nitti’s granddaughter, so I guess I do know a child of a gangster kind of!
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I am sure that police siren that went when she said her name is by no means foreshadowing of any kind…
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And attention to detail! The phone is a flip-phone while in the future there is only Apple!
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Flip phone! Historical realism!
Also, that is still my mother’s phone. She loves it and we will have to take it from her cold dead hands.
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Oh how they look at each other
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Vinod Khanna! Looking very different from the sexy Amitabh movie where last I saw him.
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That’s a wig, right? On SRK?
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As an adoptive father, Gangster Single Father Vinod Khanna >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Respectable Married Millionaire Amitabh Bachchan
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Everyone goes around speaking English with American accents in Bulgaria.
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Maybe it’s actually true! They are filming in Bulgaria, just have gotten the actors from somewhere.
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“Hey, Indian girl” is their racist comment? I feel like they could do better than that.
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I need Kajol hair
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Go to her wig maker
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I want Kriti’s. So curly!
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I also really like this skirt. Her patterned skirts are so cuuuuuuuuuuuute!
On the other hand, the pop of colors at his cuffs irritate me.
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I do NOT like her shoes.
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Oh blech, I hadn’t seen them. Agreed! That outfit is just crying out for a little red sandel, not these black things.
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It’s funny how there is no background music from the people or the musicians there. It’s all so surreal that they essentially are in their own little world, but also weird
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So this whole thing is from PS I Love You, I am stunned that Rohit Shetty has seen that movie. Who would have thought he likes sappy death love stories with Hilary Swank?
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I LOVE THA VINTAGE CAR!
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I love the driver!
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Now I am just sad about the end of How I Met Your Mother. How can a sitcom retroactively poison all the cute little things (like this 5 minute date) with one really bad last season?
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Oh my God Margaret have we talked about this before? We need to have an entire thread dedicated to that. I know one of the executive producers and I felt like I was betrayed and spent eight years of my life for the show to be completely ruined
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Same!!!! I was most upset about breaking up Robin and Barney, that was such a nice “fix” for their characters, gave her the love story that would make her happy, and retroactively made him into a decent person who just wanted love. And then, blargh!
I’m trying to figure out if I could just end at the second to last season and if that would work. So dumb! In a very Indian way with true love and one love and stuff that I hate.
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We need to work on this fanfiction
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I loved/hated those double shirts. That moment in the hospital when Varun was hurt and the two henchmen come in to tell him who did it, and his eyes change from kind to hardened criminal….is one of the best acting moments in cinema EVER. It’s just too bad it is in such a mediocre movie.
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Chalte Chalte! Also, Mere Naam Tu! He hires string orchestras a lot.
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We’re all spoiled on this movie already, right? With that in mind, I kind of think Kajol is playing this as “pretending to be falling in love, but underneath secretly regretting it isn’t real”. That “damn” sounded like that, right?
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I was thinking that her acting looked better now that I actually know what is going on. The first time I saw this film I thought she was terrible….
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Those pants do nothing for his tush.
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I had to lower the tone to my level…
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OH oh! I think that’s it! When they came close to the car flipping record. It was a lot of flips, for sure.
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This is really a great car chase.
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Why wouldn’t he have someone with him? Isn’t that the whole meaning of “shotgun”?
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I just realized he looked through the windows and recognized the thugs calling her “Indian girl” didn’t he.
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Oooo, I hadn’t caught that before. Poor SRK
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