Woo-hoo! Courtney’s birthday, party time! And Humpty time! 2pm Chicago time this week (an hour earlier than usual), and a very good movie. I’ll start the comments off at 2pm and you all can keep commenting along.
Humpty Sharma! So much better than the title implies. If you’ve already seen it, you probably already love it. If you haven’t seen it, prepare to love it.
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Alia has not magically become a better dancer since Lucky Tu
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Even Jahnvi is a better dancer than her by a mile! Check her Kathak dance videos on YouTube if you don’t believe me
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This right here, is MY favorite scene. I might disappear to absorb.
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Same.
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I really need to figure out how to braid my hair like Alia’s in this movie! I am terrible at doing hair so it will never happen, but I can still hope.
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That hug is so intimate!
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She kissed him!
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Truly, one of the best first kiss/first time/love confession scenes in all of cinema ever.
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It really is. I cannot pick anything that is better.
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It’s just a few seconds, but so well done. They are in love, they are making love, and it isn’t scary or hard, it just sort of flows from what they are feeling.
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It’s important because it’s a romcom, but it doesn’t FEEL important. It feels natural.
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They are so intimate I feel like I’m peeping through a keyhole when this scene comes and it feels so wrong!
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Maybe that’s why this scene is so good. Incredible intimacy and chemistry without the incredibly high stakes of what they’re actually doing.
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Love Alia’s hand on Varun’s cheek the entire time she’s telling this story. Love the forehead kiss. The snuggles.
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How are these two not in love in real life. This is so incredibly intimate. I can’t stop lokking and yet, I feel like I need to look away.
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I wonder how much Varun being in a committed relationship already changed the filming experience? For him, he had something real to draw on. And for Alia, she could be completely open and give in to her character because she knew it wasn’t real. Does that make sense maybe?
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Oh, and I should add the gentleness Varun has with Natasha in real life feels so similar to me to the gentleness he shows Alia here.
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This is the important bit really. I mean, for them. Sex is sex, but now they are so open and vulnerable and loving, and this is the moment that will never go away for the rest of their lives.
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It breaks my heart EVERY TIME when he wakes up and she’s not there. I could watch 2 and a half hours of Varun and Alia cuddling in bed and being sweet with each other.
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The way he touches her hair!!!! How can a hair touch be so sexy and so so loving?!?!?
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I wonder what Alia meant by leaving something behind, probably not her heart, considering what she said after. Virginity is too vulgar.
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I read it as her youth, he rhappiness, her openness, all the things she shared with Varun that will go away with marriage.
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I read it as virginity / heart.
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I love Dad! Maybe he should get together with gay friend? Or is that weird?
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THE CAR! The first time I watched this, I couldn’t get over it. Everyone I’ve shown this movie to hasn’t been as strongly impacted by that scene, and I felt like I had to explain it.
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Varun’s chemistry with his on screen father is so good!
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Love Alia in pale pink.
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My second favorite scene if coming up!!!
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She looks so young. Too young to get married.
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Unless she is marrying another little puppy like Varun.
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I can’t help being American. I want them to date for a couple years.
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I mentioned Ashutosh and his sexiness before, but I think I need to take a moment to acknowledge that Alia’s Mom is really really pretty. A very attractive older couple.
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Watch Siyaasat!!! She is great in it.
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And he bought her earrings back!!! Varun in this movie raising my expectations for me through the roof.
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I feel you, Indian on-screen men (and some off-screen ones as well, of course) have raised my expectations of men’s behaviour so high in the romance department
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As a married woman with strong maternal instinct I have the strong urge to counsel you both on the fantasies of movie men. But that’s no fun.
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I know it is a fantasy, but one can still dream 🙂
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I don’t know why but I love this scene between Varun and Alia so much.
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Another DDLJ gender flip! He is the one all “and then we will elope, happy happy!” and she is the one who is all “nope, can’t do it, must take the hard way”
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You realize Ashotush is a few inches shorter than Varun? And yet, he feels about ten feet taller.
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I did NOT realize that.
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He is shorter! I always felt him as tall.
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And it’s right there in front of us! In all their scenes! We just make him taller in our heads.
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I love Varun’s honesty/
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This scene hurts to watch, and yet I love delirious Varun in the back of the truck in a minute.
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My interpretation: Big brother is really angry at his ex-brother-in-law who beat the big sister, and is taking it out on Varun and his friends.
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And while Ashutosh is mean, he is so sexy looking in this scene and then in the song Daingad Daingad.
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Are we wrong? Is it Maine Pyar Kiya all along instead?
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Yes!!! I can see MPK here also!
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I love the Maine Pyar Kiya sountrack in the back. Perfection.
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Would Varun really have forgotten about her after all that? I highly doubt it.
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She made her shirt into a Dupatta!
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These colors I like on Alia. Maybe it’s because the rest of her outfit is white and it’s a really nice contrast.
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I want pani puri!!!
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So, this is Tujhe Dekha, right? With the flashback/fantasy/whatever?
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Yupp.
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But here, I love that they show scenes that we had not scene before.
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Definitely! And it’s the only big romantic ballad in the movie, I think. Plus, when she runs into the hospital, big reunion moment. Not as grand as the mustard fields, but still.
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And yet, it feels so much more real, heartfelt, and cute.
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How does he make drinking tea so sexy?
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Yeah, I am really digging the half vest over a button down with rolled up sleeves. Ooof!
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Way to stand up for yourself, Alia! I love this so much!
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I think Ashutosh might have a little unresolved anger and protective instincts over his jerk son-in-law. In my sequel, he will come to America and misunderstand something and threaten Fiance and the big sister will overhear and finally understand how much he loves her and how angry he is about what happened to her.
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And the father is at least willing to listen. Unheard of!
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So modern!
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And he doesn’t care about what others will think i.e. “log kya sochenge.” I hate log kya sochenge so much!
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The father does not play into a perfect stereotype. It is nice to have a real three dimensional role. Three three dimensional roles in this film!
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Yes. It is so refreshing.
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Feels a little Wizard of Oz “the way home was there all along” that he could have just said “the reason I am better is because she loves me more” right now and the movie would be over.
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He needed that time for Ashtoush to see that they’re similar. I feel like that’s also part of the reason why he understood at the end.
Also Varun could have easily taken it literally. Why is Angad bad, instead of why Varun is better.
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I like their hangy outdoor light thing
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Terrace scene!
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jinx!
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Terrace scene!!!!
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Oh that I love you bit was fantastic writing and acting!
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Yes!!
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Love the I love you!
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And another romance starts, as gay friend meets gay friend
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Yep, the friend is totally gay and into the fiancee!!
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Oh yes.
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Well he can’t have him! I am giving the fiancee to the big sister.
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VArun looks TERRIBLE in this giant bag of yellow
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And let’s not even talk about his hair.
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I guess they were trying to make him look bad in comparison to the fiance? They did it on purpose?
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Not a fan of Varun in yellow. Or his slicked back hair. But I LOVE Alia in red.
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