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.
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Kajol is so naive, thinking she can own her feelings and be happy in love and it will all work out. Farida is already thinking “doom DOOM”
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Farida and the music.
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Oh yeah! that doom music over the sweet confession of love is great
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She looks so wild to be so well behaved… A fascinating character.
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No!!!! SPinning camera of eavesdropper! NOOOOO!
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Farida – stand up to your husband!!!
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In Nameste London, at this point the heroine called her lawyer friend and confirmed that, at age 18 and as a British citizen, she didn’t have to do anything her father siad. But Kajol’s not like that.
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I hated that movie.
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Oh yeah, the ending was messed up. But I love the bit where the heroine just says “I’m a British citizen, you can’t order me around”
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I love the first half of the movie, but not the second half. Yet it seems to me the world disagrees with me.
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I am COMPLETELY with you.
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Yes same for me
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Anupam is so good in this scene! Being effortlessly wise and fatherly and loving, without needing to come over the wise authoritarian. This is being a father without ruling by fear.
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Tuck in the pants!
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Looked he tucked in his shirt!
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We are pausing at intermission, until 11:40. Okay?
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Okay!
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Daughter fell in love = sell the house, pack up your family, and move to India.
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PAUSE. Start again at 40 past the hour.
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And PLAY
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Amrish does not like it when Kajol is not smiling. and he is spooky about it!
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He’s kinda spooky the whole film.
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No pressure, but here’s 5 women waiting to bless you and cry over you
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Mandira Bedi! So cute
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HUNTERS = BAD
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Kulit is just immediately disgusting. Great job from actor, costume, and hair people.
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This is a very feminist speech.
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This speech is just brilliant. It’s so good I have a hard time believing a man wrote it.
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Sorry. I was a bit delayed. Are we are the mother daugher scene?
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Yep! I didn’t even have the right to make a promise
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“Babuji has always cared for my happiness”WRONG! He has never cared for your happiness! NEVER!
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It’s an amazing speech. My heart hurts every time.
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Ugh, Kuljit!
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Kuljit Yuck!
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Amrish Puri is spooky again.
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Ah, the magic mandolin and mustard flower field is just CLASSIC
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Unlimited sarson ka saag.
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Those are some sharp ears, Kajol.
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Her hair acts as an amplifier
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There was a little bit of dialogue here originally, but it works so much better just with the wordless embrace and song, right?
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Hey, same angle and facial expressions as in the Gazebo scene years later! Karan, you stole from Adi!
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This means thay are actually having sex now, right?
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I DON’T KNOW! This song is weird!!!!! And it’s not raining, can you have sex when it isn’t raining?
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Exactly. But we also know from the Diljit and Badshah episode that field sex is not advisable. But then again Kajol and SRK were brough up in England and don’t know that yet.
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This confused me the first time I watched it, and I am still confuse. Shared hallucination? Vision of the future? Parelal universe where they had sex the whole trip? What is happening here?
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bad hair! bad hair!
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Good black jeans, Karan must have taken control by now
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Listen to Kajol, Raj!!!
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I don’t know, is that a good idea? she’s a girl, their brains aren’t developed right for decision making.
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ouch.
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Hmmm. . . good point. Plus, it will ruin the family’s collective “izzat.”
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Honestly eloping and thus never having to see her father again doesn’t seem so bad.
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Kajol has really good teeth
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This sequence is a bit silly. But we had so much sturm and drang before now, I kind of enjoy this breif break into cartoonishness.
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This tree hanging scene is SO comedic, and goofy, and unrealistic, it takes me out of the movie.
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This roaring scene is so dumb it’s funny. So ridiculous!
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I so enjoy the way Shahrukh effortlessly takes control of the Dumb Hicks gathering.
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I resent the idea that camping and hanging out around a fire makes you dumb. ELITISM!
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Also, don’t make me live in the country where the only thing to do is go out into the forest and get drunk ever night.
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Then you wouldn’t enjoy Finland, we have quite a hefty drinking culture (personally I drink very rarely) and a lot of space to do it in, including forests. Summers are WILD!
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Doesn’t Finland have the largest percentage of heavy metal bands to population?
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Yes, while all other Nordic countries are doing “Elsa’s Let it Go” we are ALL hard heavy metal. Heck, Lordi won us the Eurovision in 2006 with a heavy metal song! So yes, it’s big here. Also for older people, tango is a big thing here as well – must be because it sounds similar to some of out folk songs – and we have competitions for the singing King and Queen of Tango-music every year as well. 🙂
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Don’t forget hunting, that is also something to do.
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I had friends who grew up in America in similar places, and the big thing to do was drive to the nearest mall and sit in the truck in the parking lot and drink. Not even go in, just sitting in the parking lot after it was closed was exciting.
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In high school, in the Bay Area, we would go to various parks and drink. There was stuff to do, but the lure of alcohol is STRONG.
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Oh Preeti! You break my heart.
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Secret romance under the nose of your whole family and icky fiance is soooooooooooooooo sexy.
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He is sooooooooooo smooth about it too
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Love how perceptive the grandmother is.
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And how Amrish just kind of ignores all her wisdom!
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Because he man. Man know best for everyone.
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See how Amrish ignores the salty Lassi? He knows it is just wrong. Lassi shoul dbe sweet or nothing.
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HA! You are I will forever disgaree on that. Salty lassi is everything!!!
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Ugh, don’t make me be part of the female work crew for an Indian wedding. I’d even rather be drunk hunting than sitting in a hot kitchen cutting vegetables for hours.
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Hmm, as would most people.
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Shah Rukh is such a flirt!
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I think Himani started it.
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Simran trolling Raj is just everything in this scene
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They are so incredibly flirty here, good thing no one believes in female desire or they would figure out what is happening immediately.
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