I may have totally messed this up by scheduling it very last minute, and then moving the start time an hour and a half earlier, and scheduling it on a half hour just to confuse people. But I hope this post helps. The conversation will be here, in the comments on this post, in half an hour (10:30pm Chicago time). Hope to see you here!
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai! Watch it on Netflix, or youtube, or googleplay, or Prime in some places. Or on your DVD. Start playing at 10:30pm Chicago time and I will start commenting then.
I’m excited! This will be like the first time I watched it, on my laptop in my dorm room after my roommate had gone home for the weekend, late late on a Saturday night.
dontcallitbollywood 
Man, Karan showed real skills with dialogues
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Do they know that’s the wrong Queen Elizabeth? Or did someone on staff just get confused?
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I do love that the friendship between Tina and Anjali transfers to Anjali-Anjali, especially once big Anjali realizes Tina died and she sees her friend in little Anjali. So much love.
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Does anyone understand why the star-counting child? Does he mean anything or is he just an extra dose of cuteness?
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I always understood him to just be cute
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I love that this is how Kajol finds out. Private, no one tells her, and she can process all her feelings in her own time. Karan could have gone for a juicier option with someone telling her, but this is sooooooooo much better.
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Agreed. Just the drama drums to make sure we’re paying attention. Ta-ka ta-ka ta-ka!
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Oh yeah, the little moment of confirmation that SRK may not want to marry again, but he’s not, you know, celibate.
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The voicemail about the party always stuck out to me. There is zero other evidence he’s out partying with other ladies at night when he’s home.
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But it’s also in context of his bedroom being a disaster and other evidence of being home alone. So I took it to mean that messy bedroom and bad habits of his mother and daughter being gone, go along with going out to parties.
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It could just be ladies after him, you know he doesn’t run after them!
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Thrills by Shahrukh Khan
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Ha!
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In case anyone doesn’t know, yes Kajol and Shahrukh improvised this whole thing. And it was Shahrukh’s idea to have it be a dialogueless scene.
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Love this scene so much
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(comments stop dead)
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I’ve replayed that doorway sequence so many times.
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BENCH SCENE!!!! Every Karan Johar film except ADHM has an important bench scene. And thank goodness, I’m not the only one who noticed, someone asked him about it in an interview with ADHM and he said he just didn’t find a good place for it. Although I would argue the rooftop conversation scenes fulfill the same purpose.
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Coming to a favorite scene, when Rahul and Anjalin meet again. Every time he runs across that bridge I’m reminded that Farah said every one of his directors should make him run because he runs so beautifully.
But this moment, this mostly ad-libbed reunion is just so awkward and perfect.
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Did people vanish?
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I think we all just had to take a breath for the reunion scene.
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Being shallow for a moment, I love the way Kajol’s hair looks in these scenes! I think it’s just natural, mix of straight and curls and humidity makes it happen, and I love it.
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Shahrukh brought a complete set of suits to summer camp with him? Kajol’s in a sari, but then she is a dance teacher.
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OMG that tie.
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Where did that basketball come from? Was that god again? Was Anjali being magical?
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Yes, God is deeply invested in this romance.
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Do not like Kajol’s hair here, I think it was straightened or at least blown out, and then those stupid pins put in. NO!
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The fact that he promptly takes out a comb!
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He is just a wee bit vain, and I love that character trait.
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This bench scene is so full of things to talk about but that takes too much time now!
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A sari – just the thing to wear for basketball.
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Ufff that pallu untucking
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okay, now he’s as sexy as Salman
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The basketball playing is one of the main reasons I hesitate to share this movie with fellow Americans.
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Terrible basketball, but great foreplay
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How many costume changes in this song?
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Counting flashback?
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Good song for letting us answer the question of what color looks best on Kajol. I’m going with either black or purple. FIGHT ME!
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Definitely not peach!
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Or yellow, I was noticing earlier
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Prepare yourself to see Sharukh lose control of his horses
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Okay is that a euphemism?
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In my head, yes. He sees Kajol’s sari fly off and reveal her tiny blouse, and suddenly he has to turn to face the other way?
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I mean he was doing the decent thing
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Look at him being a gentleman
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Farida is the best. I’ll try not keep saying that over and over but I love her in this movie. Her dancing and the way she echoes Kajol’s arm movements while she watches her dance from the audience. She makes every scene she’s in better.
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I didn’t really think about it, but the camp scenes really have a small cast. Without Farida in there, it could feel like just Kajol and Shahrukh isolated with a sea of children. She adds texture.
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Yes, and she gives little Anjali someone to play off of and talk to and plot with so we know what’s going on. She’s great with little Sana.
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More velour, for the summer!
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Okay, I am coming around to Salman and Reema as a couple after the movie is over.
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She was like five years older than him, wasn’t she?
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8 I think
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Poor Aman
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Salman & Reema look the same age.
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Oooh. I forgot Salman got such a clear message that Anjali doesn’t really love him. From Reema no less. I didn’t give Reema enough credit.
Going to have to tap out soon. It’s 2am and I have to do active stuff tomorrow. Hanging on through charades though!
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Shahrukh totally planned for what is to come with the see-through short
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Heck, how do we know that was really rain? Maybe it was all a plot with water loaded helicopters
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SHIRT, that would be a very different kind of movie!
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Ignoring the see through shirt, Shah Rukh is at peak beauty in this scene. And love love love the interactions with the kids and the emotional tight rope with Kajol.
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ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gazebo
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Technical question: all those close-up reaction shots at the end, how many times did they have to shoot that scene and get all those emotions right in order to get all the shots from all the angles so they could edit them together? It seems so natural in the moment, but with all those cuts they must have had to do it a bunch of times?
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Huh. I hadn’t thought about it before. I know usually Karan likes to shoot stuff once in the old school “save film” style. So usually he has actors stop while he resets the camera, or else sets up the cameras so he can get all the shots he wants in one go. With the gazebo scene, my guess is 5 minutes of footage shot in one go (complete with the camera zooming in and out and moving on a track), and then edited down. Probably with Karan shouting out as they did it “Now remember Salman! Now look confused!” to guide them through the emotions.
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When people say movie-magic, this is what I picture 🙂
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On the one hand, SRK was doing the right thing not to follow her, she clearly needed time to think and he had scared her. On the other hand, ALL THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS!!!! It could have been solved so much sooner!
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Ooh, what an ugly engagement ring! The relationship was doomed from the start!
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I’m checking out after this, nothing that follows matches up to this. Thank you all, this was awesome!
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So glad you could join us! And you are only missing the last half hour or so, always the worst part of a KJo film. Why can’t he end things?
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So hard to stick the landing.
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Me too, time for bed. Good night, all!
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Night, night, sleep tight
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10 years later, Little Anjali goes for an internship at old family friend Salman’s office. She hasn’t seen him in 10 years but Shahrukh called him up to ask him to “look out” for Little Anjali. Salman starts insisting on taking her out to lunch and for weekend fun and stuff, Little Anjali falls in love thinking he is courting her, but really it is just him doing his duty for her parents. She finds out the truth and cries and cries. And then other stuff happens and Salman realizes he is in love with her and they get married. What do you think?
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Write the script.
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But Salman’s too old now! I need a time machine first.
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Change of actor…
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Nooooo… sounds too much like #metoo or unintended abuse of power.
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But not if he backs off! Like, that’s why he feels bad about it, because he is worried about abuse of power. Maybe that’s the second half? She says she is in love with him, he shuts it down immediately and removes himself as her supervisor, and once he starts to feel the same way, feels like he can’t do anything to act on it because he thinks the power dynamic might have affected her feelings for him?
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:40 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Die hard. I’m here until the end!!!
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Woooo, Carol! you and me and the Pacific Rim-ers, up all night!
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And of course Rifatbi is there too! She has to be there to plan the wedding, Kajol’s second mother and all that.
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My favorite shot! Tear falling in the henna
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That jacket is wayyy too big.
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Here’s Ghost Rani to wind things up.
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How come Salman gets to wear suits that fit?
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Because he’s not Karan’s best friend and insisted on doing his own wardrobe?
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This is such a beautifully shot scene and touching moment and all that, I can see Karan falling in love with it and not noticing that it DOES NOTHING TO GET US TO THE CONCLUSION!!!!! Shahrukh doesn’t propose, or indicate he wants her to not marry Salman, or anything! It’s just a pretty moment!
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Poor Aman.
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