Yaaaaaay, a Shahrukh movie!!!!! Genevieve’s pick, so thank her for your happiness.
Main Hoon Na! Available basically everywhere, including on DVD, at 3pm Chicago time just hit “play” and start commenting along.
Also, warning, I have listened to the DVD director’s commentary many MANY times, so I will have many comments that start “Farah says”.
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Here! And thank you, Genevieve, for choosing this movie!
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And PLAY!
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I’m here ready to go!
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yaaaaaay!
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This is a very serious credits sequence for a very silly movie.
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This TV set looks so cheap! Either because Red Chillies had no budget, or because TV shows legitimately have no budget.
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I suspect TV interview shows aren’t rolling in the dough.
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Farah says, the way she convinced Naseerji to do this little silly cameo, was she went to him and said, “The hero’s father has to have gravitas. After all, Superman’s father was Marlon Brando”
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That is interesting because I have never been awed by his gravitas. Yet based on the roles he plays I figured everyone else was.
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I don’t know if she was going for gravitas so much as able to make us care about his character with just a few minutes of screentime, and understand what Shahrukh had lost.
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Farah says, Kabir Bedi was made a Sikh character because he didn’t want to have to shave his beard. But the problem was, the turban was put on his head so tight, he couldn’t hear anything. So he is just saying his lines waiting for the other persons mouth to stop moving
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Is there a making of movie where all these tidbits came from?
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The DVD has director’s commentary, Farah is a BLAST
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Very interesting stylistic choice in having the tunnel be full of TV screens but very silly in reality
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The 8 year old likes the bad guys.
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It is Suniel Shetty’s birthday week!
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He’s a little confused though, he thinks they are Pakistani
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It occurs to me that if Naseerji were really a good body guard, he would have insisted on metal detector screening of the audience. Oh well.
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I wonder how expensive metal dectectors are? But if schools can afford them…?
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Surely if you can afford 6 guys with machine guns, you could afford a metal detector
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Well, if anyone important would truly be good at their jobs in movies than the movie would last maybe less than an hour
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I’m thinking too much about the logistics of this. But really, the plan was a bunch of heavily armed guards, and then for back-up, one super super good soldier?
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Super super super good!
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8 year old’s response to jumping through the window “Wouldn’t he have at least been cut?”
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Notice, he now has a stylish blood smear on his cheek!
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Okay, Farah really loves her hero entrances. At the end of them all, there will be a quiz, who is best? SRK falling through glass, Sush, Zayed, or Amrita?
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OH, DEAD DADDY!
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I love how this all very stylistic fighting, but also very, very, very silly
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Hey Mom, what’s Shah Rukh Khan’s name in this movie?
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You have raised your boys well
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Farah says, this sequence Shahrukh shot on his own with the second crew. She was very mad at him because he put in all these cool stunts for himself and he was supposed to be easy on his back. She threatened to call Gauri and tell on him.
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I guess no one cares about all the other dead and dying guys? Like the TV host, who was shot pointblank on camera?
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Why doesn’t SRK where uniforms more? He looks sooooooooooooooo good in them. Great hat head
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FYI, this whole backstory is from one of Naseerji’s own classic films, Masoom. He plays a happily married man with two daughters who learns his one night stand from years earlier had a son, who is now orphaned. And he is torn with his responsibility to the little orphan versus his wife and daughters. But in that movie, the wife struggles and struggles and finally comes around.
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Yeah, that’s a pretty big struggle.
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It’s a gorgeous movie, it’s handled perfectly, the little boy is so cute and sweet and fragile, you can understand why the wife finally finds a way to just love him and forget where he came from.
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I don’t always find SRK handsome, but he is a great actor, and in this movie he makes himself gorgeous the whole way through.
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Anyone else distracted by Naseerji’s double hospital bed?
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Never noticed it before.
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The kid looks younger than 10. But well, some people are really small.
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Creaking swing! Sholay reference! First of many
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I love Kirron and Naseerji, but they are NOT pulling off the “20 years younger” look
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Nope.
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The 5 year old loves how the little boy gets chocolate.
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It does solve all ills
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Okay, now I think his hat is too big
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Unlike generals it took me a year after my second son’s birth to get over the fact that he wasn’t a girl.
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Me too!!! Well I don’t have children but it took me a long time too!
I am still not convinced that young Tiger was not a girl, especially in Heropanti.
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I wonder how the general gets the sweater on over his turban? Or does he do sweater first and then turban?
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A CA man died earlier this summer trying to rescue some kids in a river. He took off his turban and unravelled it to try and give the kids something to grab and he ended up getting swept away. That is all I think of when I see the word turban now.
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Sexiest Tomboy EVer!
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Farah said, Amrita showed up for filming and she went “your waist is gorgeous! We are cutting off the bottom of all your shirts”
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YES! I definitely had a crush on her style.
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Second lead intro! Farah is having so much fun with these.
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Oh, and notice there are no cuts in this song for a really long time, Farah just wanted to see if she could do it. As soon as the camera moved, dancers were falling down on the ground for rest until they had to pop-up again.
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2 minute solid, no cuts, and Amrita has been dancing the whole time.
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Amrita is so freaking gorgeous!!! I mean Farah makes her interesting and fun, while Sooraj made her the perfect shy beauty. The contrast is so big!
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She really is really so darn gorgeous in this movie! She and Sushmita both are in such different ways!
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Have I not been paying attention or did you choose this movie in part because of Indian/Pakistani Independence Day? It is perfect timeing!
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I didn’t! But it is perfect timing
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Zayed’s jeans are hideous.
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And they don’t fit right, jus tlook kind of bunchy
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Saw this movie a while back for the first time and after seeing Zayed I was like: “Oh that’s why he was one of the first in the Dewaanagi Dewanaagi song!”
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5 year old “HOw does he get those muscles”
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Referring to Zayed not SRK
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He’s a bad boy! The 5 year old should be a bad boy too and fail all his classes, and then he will have muscles.
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I told him he got the muscles though exercise and 5 year old said “That’s what I’m going to do when I grow up”. MUCH BETTER than failing classes.
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Farah says that Zayed’s extensions were misbehaving this day, so his hair looks all ratty. I disagree, I think the truth is that the extensions always look ratty! It’s not just this one day!
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Oh, good old times with chalkboards…I’m nostalgic….
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Most of these guys are just members of Farah’s regular dance troupe. She let them come up with their own campus characters and then they were just dropped into the background all the time.
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That hat is NOT good
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PERCY! It’s really Percy’s movie. Best person
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That poor girl who played Simran’s younger sister, Chutki, in DDLJ. Did she ever have a career to speak of? Or just little bits like this one?
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She had a better career as a little girl I think. And then did TV stuff.
Which one is she here?
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She’s the one who introduces Lucky to the students
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Yes, Farah put in all the anti-smoking messages to try to get through to Shahrukh. And no, it didn’t work.
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Boman’s star making break out role! Already over 40, trying to start a second career as an actor, this movie dropped in his lap and he never looked back.
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i don’t know why but I wouldn’t have recognized him. I guess it is facial hair.
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Karan did all his costuming. He wasn’t on set, he would just pick up cool things and ship them over for Shahrukh to wear.
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Those clothes are from the 70s, and not in a good way
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Yes in a good way!!!! I love them. I will take SRK in bell bottoms and sweater vest, you can have him in cool clothes later if you want.
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You can have him!!
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So, you have to understand, the joke is that this is an old item girl. So she is playing this overly flirty woman everyone avoids, but the joke is the audience knows she is really a super sexy woman and everyone onscreen can’t see it. At least, that’s how I think it is supposed to be.
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Okay. I certainly never picked up on that.
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8 year old and I are trying to figure out how many army ranks there are.
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I have given up on this mystery long ago. Also, I can’t spell the one that starts with L
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