So excited for a DDLJ watchalong! I will be very superficial and dumb I suspect, far less “let’s consider the deconstruction of the typical Hindi film hero” and far more “his DIMPLES!!!!”
DDLJ! It’s on Prime, it’s on googleplay, it’s on youtube, it’s in your heart! At 10am, press play and join us. Or if you show up late, just go to whatever minute after 10am Chicago time it is. Does that make sense? I’m on a lot of medication right now.
dontcallitbollywood 
Movie is getting to intense for me. Suddenly I’m wondering what are the headlines on WaPo.
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Just hold on! In 5 minutes we get the awesome.hilarious fight scene to break all the tension
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Leaf blower wars. I came back.
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Shahrukh’s speech here is the one that Karan wrote, that made Shahrukh say “You gotta direct, and I will be in whatever you make”
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I like Karan a lot as a director but I dislike this speech so much.
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Sometimes I try to read it as insincere. Shahrukh-the-character knows just what to say to win over Amrish and is saying it, but laughing on the inside?
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Oooh! I like this reading of it!
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I always read it as mostly insincere.
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His “izzat”!!! Oh Amrish Puri.
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Oh you can totally make your parents sad for the sake of your happiness! Babuji is an idiot and is wrong!
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Kajol does so much more than the standard heroine. The way she looks at him.
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YES! Their rhythm is so good, they are in cahracter every moment they are in a scene together.
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It is sad that she doesn’t have the same level on on screen connection with her actual spouse! But I think that is his “fault”. Ajay tries, but his eyes are unreadable.
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No Shah Rukh. Kajol is not Amrish’s amanat. She is her own person and capable of making her own decisions.
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Well, he did swear the night before that he would take her away. So if that swearing overrides all this scene, he doesn’t mean any of it.
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You BEST apologize to Preeti!
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Although to be fair to SRK here, he never ever flirted with Preeti. Unlike Rishi in Kabhi Kabhi (which I always disliked).
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FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
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Didn’t SRK convince Adi to include this fight scene?
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I don’t remember, but I could believe it. He does love his fight scenes.
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The house is what, a 5 minutes walk from the station? They keep running back and forth so quick in this sequence.
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Anupam ACTION HERO!!!!
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Hahaha!
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GO FARIDA GO FARIDA GO FARIDA!!!!
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I love the thunder clap of every punch.
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My husband always wonders how the punching and the kicking sounds the same in every movie.
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Is it just me noticing that none of these blows are connecting? By like 6 inches at least?
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SRK is better at fight scenes now. Some of the punches were so off you could see the air between.
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Fight scenes now are so much better than they were then. Even the blood looks silly. I understand Shah Rukh has his own fake blood he uses in more recent movies
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Yay Farida!!
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Stop pleading with him and bite his hand, Kajol.
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It sucks to have boobs while running.
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HA! Same thought!
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Kajol really should have been wearing a sports bra for this scene, always makes my chest hurt ins ympathy
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Conducter uncle just stants there and doesn’t help Kajol just get into a compartment?!
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Doesn’t want to interfere in a family dispute
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Ahh makes sense.
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Ahhhhhh, that was so nice. And now I am going to have the pain pill I’ve been putting off so I could keep sitting up for this. Also, lunch!
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Thank you Margaret. Rest well and heal up!
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Thank you, Margaret and all the ladies for such an entertaining Sunday!
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Well, thank you for this Margaret. I had a great time!
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So glad you could join us!
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Thank you, Margaret, for this! So much fun to watch this as a watch along!
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Thank for joining, as always!
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I got caught up in chores, but did finish it! I’m gonna go through the rest of the comments. Thanks and hope this made you feel better!
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Glad you are feeling better! Or at least you got through this…feel better and heal fast!!
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Thank you!
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 8:45 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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One of the iconic romantic sequences of Bollywood that is etched in every Indian’s memory, DDLJ’s train scene where Simran is running to catch Raj’s hand who’s on board a running train is a perfect end to the love story of Simran and Raj. Coincidentally, a train ride is also where Raj and Simran started falling for each other, although it was on a European one.
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God, I am so upset I slept through most of this. But it was great to read through.
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