Woot! The DCIB favorite! Let’s see if we can think of new things to say, after many many posts, many many comments, and a previous watchalong on twitter.
First, Happy Birthday Rachel!!!! This is in her honor, and her movie choice, so yaaaaay! What a great party!
Second, Jab Harry Met Sejal! Woot woot! You can watch on Netflix, youtube, googleplay, or your own DVD. I’ll put the first comment below when it is time to start, and then you just comment along with any old thing that pops into your head.
dontcallitbollywood 
Anushka speaks for all of us when she sees him in his turban.
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Love this song for the absolute fun factor
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Turban! Most of you know this, but just in case, the turban is something Sikh men wear, so Shahrukh is regaining a vital part of his religious identity when he dares to put one on again. And just his identity-identity, a Sikh boy comes up with his own way of putting on the turban for himself as part of growing up, Shahrukh is regaining a daily practice and turning back the clock.
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Interesting that the kara is an integral part of his dress from the beginning–they seem to be actually emphasizing it.
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Yes! And the tattoo we never even see fully is Sikh as well. I took it as showing that he felt the religion in his heart, but no longer felt “worthy” of being public about it. So a tattoo no one sees, and a silver bracelet no one will notice, just for himself.
Tragically, we never get to confirm whether or not he is wearing the Kachera, you have to go to Bhaag Milkha Bhaag for that.
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It’s very important! Love the meaning there
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I love his wedding song.
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More awkward white people dancing!
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But they’re having fun dancing so badly!
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These are the happiest funnest least self-conscious Germans I have ever seen!
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My Berlin friends would have let loose.
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I feel it is necessary to admit that most of my Berlin friends are gay, thus they have already broken social expectations.
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Just a great casting by Lóránd Banner-Szûc and Ralph Berkin the casting directors in Hungary for these white people roles to great actresses and actors, as well as Mukesh Chhabra who I think did the rest. I checked Imdb.
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Thank you! They did so good, they deserve to have their names listed.
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So punjabilicious
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I love their sexiness together in the scene at his apartment, so casual married couple kind of sexy
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Lovely
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Oh MAYANK!!!! Being a good friend, but why not just be a bad friend and let them live in delusion?
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No good deed goes unpunished. Whenever you try to help you $%^# things up.
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SRK’s facial expressions are brilliant here
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Did he do anything wrong this whole film? He’s amazing the whole way through. What is wrong with the rest of the world? Why don’t they see what I see?
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People are the worst
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They even sip wine at the same time. Married!
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Sweet, funny, to angry – and yet you understand it all. SRK is a god.
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Bicep watch: he totally pumped right before this scene
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Now I find his turn a little fast here.
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It was brewing in the doorway.
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I think he psyched himself up to it, I think he forced himself to be mean and went up and came down fast because it wasn’t fully natural. The character I mean, he decided he had to end this and made himself get mean and then was releaved when it was enough
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He never tells her what he wants! Why are we so scared of the truth?
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He’s so scared he can’t ever have what he wants. His other dream didn’t come true either…
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self sabotage.
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Indeed
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Agreed but I am choosing to take a short break from Ranbir bashing this weekend, so sad
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Oh right, I forgot. Shoot, I love Ranbir bashing. I’ll still bash him as an actor, I would have found him so fake and twitchy as Rupen in comparison with Shahrukh.
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Fair enough! This Rupen had just the right amount of blandness
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Rupen at one point was going to be a Ranbir cameo. Which might have been too perfect, I already hate Rupen, having him combined with Ranbir would make my hate so high, I could no longer feel any love.
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I read that Ranbir came up with the name for the film. I’ve always hated the name.
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But a Ranbir cameo in this would have been the perfect counterpart to the SRK cameo in ADHM.
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Rupen, we’ve seen SRK in peak raw sexiness. You are blandness by comparison and not even bothering with open buttons while talking to your fiance….really??
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Wearing a full suit! Like this is a business skype call! No intimacy, of any kind
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Let us all pause for appreciation of Anushka’s eyebrow artist
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His self monologue coming here, I’ve always felt it was over the top. I wish it was done some other way.
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I honestly think Shahrukh could have conveyed all of that with just his eyes and a whispered “Sejal” at the end, no other dialogue
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I’m not a fan of her jean jacket.
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I’ve decided it is supposed to be unflattering in a “I am trying to put on clothes and a childish persona that no longer fits me” way
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I’m not good at understanding costuming as part of story-telling. So I do appreciate all of your insights.
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Is this a ‘Palat’ homage?
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Look at that lonely miserable man in all those beautiful places.
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That lonely, miserable, sexy man
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So many tourists must have taken a photo of him
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The bit of Anushka, is that supposed to be Shahrukh imagining her? Or her in reality? What do we think?
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on the plane, or the flashbacks?
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the brief bit where we see her getting ready for a wedding
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I thine it’s reality, like her engagement
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Oh, I always thought that was her, she wasn’t happy. If it was his imagination wouldn’t she have been resplendent?
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Okay, good! I always kind of thought it was her too, but I wasn’t sure I was right.
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Okay, here’s the “no one person can ‘save’ you” moment for me. Anushka couldn’t just fix him with her magical vagina, but she could inspire him to believe he is worthy of going after what he wants, and it is worth it to go after what he wants and make a change.
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magical vagina!
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Love his reaction to the guy in the bathroom. Too busy to even laugh at the irony.
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The server girls were totally checking him out when they did the Namaste to him
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You can hear his heart beating as he stand outside the room
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That lehenga choli is totally from Baar Baar Dekho ending song
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Now I have to watch!
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Watch again
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It looked the same for a moment from the top song I cannot name now. I don’t know why, but they have the same look. Oh well.
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Kala Chashma?
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Yep, that one!
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Ruins this bride for ever, or a nice pre game for her wedding night? I hope the second.
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I would be disappointed
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The 5-year-old is under the couch asking me to tell him when this part is over.
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And he can’t even read the subtitles! there’s a tribute to fine acting, a love scene that makes a 5 year old uncomfortable without even knowing the words.
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Such great outfits on both of them. He respects himself enough to dress up, she respects herself enough to dress down.
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Oh, I LOVE Anushka’s clothes here! Is it on purpose that she looks better in Indian clothing?
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I saw it as her looking better in clothing that she finds comfortable, she was trying too hard in the western stuff until the last dress, it was short and bright colored and felt childish.
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I have a kurta just like that but shorter
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Even now they can’t just say what they want, but their work arounds are fun to watch.
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However, I would suggest therapy post marriage to learn how to fight better. Otherwise married life is going to be a rollar coaster of hidden resentments exploding into ugly fights.
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Out comes the clavicle again.
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Please enlighten me on how the upcoming void talk is anything other than male ego.
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It’s clearly about his penis!
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Or, thinking big, saying that each of them is missing something taht the other provices, what he can give her is his need for her which will always be there.
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So, he’s saying his magic penis will fix her problems, right?
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But it is his void! Does he secretly have a vagina?
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I agree with the big picture but I certainly imagine he has a magic penis.
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That made me blush.
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My work here is done!
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I would have accepted that kind of talk yesterday, but today I think you are far too old for it.
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My heart!!!
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I love the way he searches her face while she’s talking before he kisses her
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Favourite song
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He’s scared of her reaction
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Nooran Sisters again!!!!!!
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His mom looked his age…
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Oh! I have a THEORY!!!! Which is that he didn’t have a Mom, or anyone who is “his”. Part of his homesickness is believing no one at home even missed him any more. This woman is his cousin or sister-in-law or something like that, someone who he wasn’t sure still loved him. They could have cast a really old looking woman, I think making her closer to him in age and the younger people not even knowing who he was, was on purpose.
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Lol
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This lol is now in the wrong place after Margaret’s added comment which makes complete sense
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Notice in this dance he does not have the six pack he was sporting in Portugal.
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OK, but how is Anushka going to be a lawyer on a farm in the Punjab?
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Farmers need lawyers!!!!! Government always trying to take their water and stuff.
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This song is my happy place
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OK this part brother up on the wall and he put his hand on her head. I’m just dead every time. Like in K3G in the rain at fathers funeral
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His face gets so soft here
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And I’ve always thought now the real story begins. How do they live? Did her family disown her? What work will he do in India? Will she support him, she is a lawyer after all? Will he be happy with that? The love was just a prelude…
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Part 2!!!!!
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I wish the film made more money, than that dream might have a possiblity of coming true.
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Although she isn’t a lawyer-lawyer. She’s the paperwork kind, the clerky kind. I would love for her to be queen of the property disputes and family fights in the area, solve all the Klara type problems and make the aunties lov eher.
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para-legal?
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No, it’s that weird British system where there’s a barrister and a different thing. She’s the different thing, the one who writes wills and stuff.
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No I don’t want the movie to be over
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