Woot, A Gentleman! Such a great Indian-American movie. I am super excited to watch it with y’all.
Right here in about half an hour, at 3pm Chicago time, we will all start up A Gentleman on googleplay or youtube or whatever we choose. And then I will start the comments up below, and you can leap in with your own comments. I’m excited!
dontcallitbollywood 
I saw a making of on this scene and Jackie pretty much broke her @ss multiple times by falling off the pole
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The amount of strength you actually need to pole dance is insane. Still a little bothered they included it in this song, but I have a lot of respect for the art form now.
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This song is such a bop
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Jackie learned pole dancing for some movie, not this one, and ever since then there is a pole dance section in all her dances. Good on her, that is HARD, she should show it off.
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GOA! So pretty. And now here’s Sid shirtless, which is also pretty.
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Really, every Sid movie from now on should just be him doing great action and winning over his love, with the occasional dorkiness, bad dance moves, and gratuitous shirtless scenes.
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Yes! Dorkiness! That’s it exactly! Sid is hopeless at pulling off the smooth moves ladies’ man, but he is magic at the “slightly shy and dorky dude” romance.
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*cough* Hasee Toh Phasee
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Bingo! Sid romancing the pretty sister is blah, Sid being all lost and confused with Pari is magic.
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Does Sid have…light brown highlights?? *swoons*
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It’s vacation! Let’s read it as “he’s been in the sun enough to bleach his hair”
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Either way, I am extremely into it.
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You know the second Jason Bourne started with a Goa sequence? Now I want Sid in this and Jason Bourne to have been secret assassin neighbors. Oh! And ARK in Malang too!
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I didn’t get to see Goa when I was in India, I need to go back and catch next time
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It’s filled with shirtless former assassins on the run from their past. FUN!
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😂
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Love that detail of the American flag on Bad Boy Rishi’s shirt
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He just wants the American dream, house-car-wife-kids-fluffy dog
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AGNEEPATH!!! Oh, that must be why they thanked Karan in the opening credits.
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DON’T BELIEVE HIM SID
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The “one last mission” is always a lie. ALWAYS.
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Well, Amitabh is always a good choice to say last words to you
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Also, DON’T GO TO MUMBAI SID
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Why is Sid wearing a leather jacket in Goa? Isn’t it super hot and pleasant there?
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Bad boy fashion takes priority.
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I rewatched Khoobsurat and Fawad wears layers of wool jackets with sweaters through the whole film in Rajasthan, good lord
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He is royalty, he is naturally cold on the inside
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As an aside, i LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Mumbai. What a fantastic city. I want to go back for at least a month if not more.
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Those are VERY tight pants. If I were HR, I might have words with him about his office attire
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“I need you to come to my office and have a closed door meeting about what you’re wearing” boom chicka wow wow
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“take off those pants”
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Oh oh! I forgot about this scene! And now I remember it and am so happy.
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I HATE THIS SCENE SO MUCH! I don’t know why!!
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I don’t knwo why either! I love it!
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Age gap between Sid and this other guy? Not sure. I’m all for gay romance, but something about that scene rubbed me the wrong way the first and only time I watched it.
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To me that all felt on purpose. This guy is a bad dude, a corrupt government official, he wants a pretty young thing and assumes everyone is available to him. The scene would play out exactly the same if Sid were a woman.
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Okay, I only watched this movie once, and now I can kinda get behind it. Sort of.
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I feel so bad for that poor bartender, he better get a big tip out of this dude.
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Okay, I know the scene is problematic but I think the gay guy actually gets some respect on some level? I don’t know, it doesn’t put me off for some reason
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It doesn’t put me off at all. Mishra is played like an obnoxious powerful man who assumes everyone is there for his sexual pleasure. It’s not gay versus straight, it’s creepy powerful dude across all lines. That’s set up right at the start with the way he treats the bartender, and us seeing the bartenders’ side of it.
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For those who have seen this movie before, NOTE THE PHONES. Attention to detail, very awesome.
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The message going awry because the bad guy ran out of data is hilarious
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BISEXUALITY!
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BOO-YAH!
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Hey, she’s giving him a ride to the airport! She’s totally already in love with him and just not admitting it to herself.
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How was this movie a bomb? Every moment is so perfect 😭
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I feel like this would have worked so well with American audiences!
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I loved, everyone in the theater with me opening night loved it, and then the theater got rid of it literally 4 days later. I feel like it could have been a big word of mouth hit, if it had had time. But without that big opening weekend in India, the theaters in America just didn’t want to risk it.
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And then the exact same kind of movie was a hit with Stree! It’s all about the market for NRI based films dying out.
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Jackie is so good at comedy! Could she be in our 9 to 5 remake?
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Yeah I like Jackie and she should unshackle herself from Salman and branch out
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Okay, before this movie came out, my friend Dina and I spent literally weeks debating how the double role would work. And I was right and she was wrong and when this moment happened that revealed it, I literally stood up and cheered in the theater. And then sat down again.
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I would absolutely have Sid give my presentation, even if he knows nothing about the software. SO HOT.
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Oh look, he’s still got his Goa highlights! Continuity!
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*heart eyes*
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I wanna know how Raj & DK got this performance out of Sid
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I think they just let the performance that was already there shine through. He’s great in about half his movies, and it seems like it is more about giving his character work space than anything else.
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Hey, I went to that mall!
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Have you also been to Florida? Because not to brag, but everyone else here has.
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Why yes I have but it was 40 years ago (I’m oolllllld)
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Still! You’ve been to Florida and to Bombay, if you’d been to Goa and Bangkok, you could have done the whole movie.
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I also really love floofy haired Sid, just slightly long, no gel. Mwah.
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Also this car thing? Kind of insane.
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And brilliant! I wonder who the action coordinator for this movie was, because all of it is crazy good.
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We’ll really have to stick around for the credits then.
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After watching War a million times, the lack of background music in this is still great, but all the cuts in the editing are giving me whiplash.
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Kind of feeling Sid’s struggle with the moves in that fight scene, but really admire the effort to do a long form hand to hand fight scene without a stand in.
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“the drive” is kind of an obvious Macguffin, no one broke a sweat figuring out that plot device. But everything else in the film is so original, I will allow it.
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Ooo, this is a nice hotel room. Although that mirrored table is weird.
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I keep my passport and my car title in the same drawer for this exact reason. Should I ever need to flee the country in an exciting spy mission kind of way, I can grab my passport and sell the car from the same place, and then the dog and I can drive to Mexico.
Wait! SHOOT! I just sold the car! Okay, the dog and I can walk to Mexico.
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They could have drawn this out a lot farther, kept the audience thinking it was a random mistaken identity even at this point, and had the reveal in like the last 10 minutes. But I think it is better this way? It’s funnier kind of knowing all along that he really is just a boring guy who wants a boring life, even if he used to be an action hero.
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Baat Ban Jaye is still so fun and summery! I love Jackie’s outfit!
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Aw, he put that ugly glass thing in his Pottery Barn living room
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It’s not cool to dab anymore I don’t think, but that was still so perfectly timed.
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I like how he’s so patient with her, like she’d be waaaaaaaaay too much for most men but he can roll with it since he’s an ex sooper spy
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I came at it the other way, he’s an ex sooper spy so he secretly craves a challenge and danger and all of that, and she gives him that. So they both get something out of this!
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The parents showing up is my favorite part of the film, it’s so funny!
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And they are so quick to put on “ooo, nice son-in-law” faces, such good actors.
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This is the most summer song ever
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Sid M is so perfectly homely and sharam and bridelike, I adore it.
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YES! The desi small business owners mafia! SO AMERICAN! I adore it.
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The small time hoods in the US are also brilliant. The second half of the film is really good and that’s an accomplishment because so many films sag after interval
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I will say it definitely sags in the final heist section. But that could be on purpose, to build up to the super fun final shoot out.
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Also, am I the only one thinking “oo, that’s a really big loader. I could probably fit my slipcovers and my comforter in there on one load”? Or have I spent too much of my life at laundromats?
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Did not realize that NY symbol on his necklace was used all over the country.
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It’s the Yankees baseball team logo and there are a lot of NYC transplants in Florida
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I recognize the logo–I’m about an hour outside of NYC. Didn’t realize there were so man NYC people in Florida.
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My family doesn’t know how to pack a bag for the pool so now I’m at 53:45
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Booo! I miss hearing from you, but this is such a good movie, it’s probably good you can just watch and not need to comment for the first time around.
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It’s really good!
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