Woo-hoo! I’ve been wanting to watch this movie with y’all for WEEKS. And Madhuri looks gorgeous, and Kunal Kapoor looks gorgeous, and all of life is happiness.
Aaja Nachle! We get to snark on Madhuri’s “western” look, debate who is swoonier Kunal, Akshaye, or Irrfan, and generally have Happiness.
I’ll start the comments at 3pm, just comment along with me.
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YES! MYSTERY SOLVED! It’s the back-up dancers!!!! They rehearse at night like vampires, that’s why we never see them.
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This Konkona-Kunal conversation is going to kill me. He is in love and he doesn’t even know it!!!!
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Sure Kunal. Sure, you AREN’T a Majnu. you are just following Konkona around like a little puppy
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Yes! Mohan helping with the matchmaking!
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This is so good!
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Nawazuddin! Sharing screen space with Irrfan! And also, about to have a plot moment I think.
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Is it me or does anyone else think that Irrfan’s wife looks a little bit like Gabrielle Carteris?
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Maybe, I just see Divya Dutta, I’ve seen her in too much stuff.
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Kunal, you are so beautiful and noble and beautiful.
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Jugal! Fighting!
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Not the CHANDELIER!!!!! Anything but that!!!!!
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Don’t worry there was another one still intact on the stage.
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Thank goodness, you can’t have a low budget out door production without multiple chandeliers
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Hating Irrfan! Is this his most negative role?
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Well, in Dhund: The Fog he played a serial killer. I think he had a whole string of creepy villain roles when his career was getting going.
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Have to say, Nawazuddin is not blowing me away, I can see why this role wasn’t his big break.
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See, Irrfan’s a good husband. He makes his wife betray her best friend, but then he gives her an expensive necklace, so everything is fine.
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Their relationship seems just so icky…
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They give him a really good speech at the end, in an effort to redeem it.
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Awww, daughter! I want her to have her story next. Maybe she can fall in love with Jugal or something.
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That’s highly age inappropriate!!
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She’ll get older!
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Divya Dutta, guaranteed to make you cry at least once in every performance.
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One police officer to control an entire crowd? I know he’s a Sikh, but still….
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My theater friends get totally distracted at this point by figuring out how they built such amazing sets in a month.
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They bought them at the same store she found her original backup dancers.
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Or used the backup dancers as slave labor to build them.
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All the child actors came from the Child Store, don’t over think it.
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Green is Madhuri’s color.
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Every color is Madhuri’s color.
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No. It is green.
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You know this movie was a flop when it came out? HOW?!?!? WHY?!?!? It’s such a joy start to finish.
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This is the second time I’ve seen it, and I am enjoying it more than I did the first time.
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I am smiling like an idiot through the play
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Every costume I think “okay, now THIS is Kunal’s best look”. But really, I think this is the best one. Blue brings out his cheekbones.
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I do enjoy that people don’t have to be thin to dance well.
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Two of the top choroegraphers in Hindi film, Ganesh Acharya and Saroj Khan, are not just overweight but obese. And so graceful.
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I am loving the audience reaction shots so much.
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Ahh. My meeting went longer than expected. I am still joining for the end though!
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If I’d done Hum Aapke Hain Koun, we wouldn’t even be at the interval yet
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I knew there was a reason I had picked that one! I am selfish.
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My goodness Kunal Kapoor is beautiful.
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You missed almost all the flirty flirty akshaye scenes, but I will still let you vote in the Kunal versus Akshaye versus Irrfan pole. Surprisingly hard in this movie!
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Yeah, I love the flirting but Madhuri doesn’t end up with Akshaye, right?! So boo!! Come on, Akshaye, go follow Madhuri and her daughter.
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Just wait
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Kunal and Konkona are legitimately good here! In a “their characters are doing a really good job” kind of way. Like, I don’t feel like I am watching Kunal Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma act, but their two characters act.
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This is so good!
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Look! It’s the shirtless back-up dancers again!
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I have to show this to my theatre friends we return to ‘normal’ again. They would love this play!
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I don’t know how I feel about the narrator having more costume changes than the leads
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She’s the narrator, she is out of this play’s world’s logic as narrators normally are
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And then they got married in real life! This is so weird to think about watching this failed first night scene.
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Aren’t they seperated/divorced now? So, I am okay with it.
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You can see her smiling a little when she was on the bed when he was ‘kissing’ her neck
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So Laila agreed to marry someone else in order to save his life. And now he is all “yaaay, death”? So what was the point of getting married!
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I was explaining to the boys that Madhuri is like the best female dancer in Indian movies, same as Allu Arjun is the best male dancer (sorry Hrithik fans), but that Madhuri is a lot older than Allu Arjun. And 8-year-old asked hold old they are – is Madhuri like 30 and Allu Arjun 20?
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Yes, that is absolutely correct.
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Can’t stop laughing. Love this!
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Akshay gives good “ai, this sexy woman has defeated me” face, doesn’t he?
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Anyone else want to watch a bunch of old Madhuri IIFA live performances now?
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Irrfan’s character, yes or no at this point?
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The sets, costumes are insane and make no sense in the context of movie
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Anyone else dancing to the title song?
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Of course not, I am respectably watching with an analytical distance
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I think I’m lagging a bit going by Margaret’s comments
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Same.
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What happens now? Is this the end? Does the daughter in the movie learn how to speak Hindi? What’s chemistry? – from the kids
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They are not wrong! This is a remarkably abrupt ending. but watch all the way through the credits!
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Oh, Irrfan…you warm my heart even if you were a jerk in this movie
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Agreed. that scene was just so beautiful.
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See, he just didn’t realize what he had
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Be sure to watch closely all the way through the credits!
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Okay, Irrfan, Kunal, Akshaye, rank them!
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Akshaye=#1
Kunal=#2
Irrfan=#3 (because his character is just not someone I would want to be around)
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Akshaye’s flirt defeated Kunal’s beauty? akshaye should be very proud.
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Kunal is drop dead gorgeous, but he is also a bit like a statue.
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This movie needed Akshaye & Madhuri
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They don’t even get a full song to themselves!
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MORE Akshaye & Madhuri
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I’m behind a few minutes too
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OMG!!!!!!!!! How did I miss that all the times I watched this movie?!?!?!
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I was wondering that too!!!! And he brought her coffee, there is no greater love.
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Me too! Except it was really only once before…
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It always bothered me that Akshay did not move for Madhuri, and the abrupt ending bothered me so much. This was one of the reasons I did not pick this movie for the watchalong.
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Genevieve – To be fair, I watched it only once in its entirety too, and then just watched the parts I liked because the ending got on my nerves so much.
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But now it is resolved! He is going to fly back and forth to NYC to bring her coffee.
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Yes, or perhaps convince her to come live with him in a palace because he got the electricity running for 24 hours and well, most of us know the kind of apartment a dance teacher in NYC can afford.
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And he can make pizza!
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This is all just so adorable all around
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Thank you, Margaret, for this! This was so enjoyable!
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I missed that bit with them in the credits in NYC before!
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A time when watching straight through the credits isn’t just a bonus, but actually a plot requirement.
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Me too! I am so glad, Margaret was there to make us watch through the credits.
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as always – THANK YOU MARGARET!
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For Happiness:
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