Yaaaaay, Kabhi Kabhie! Shashi Kapoor being AWESOME, Raakhee being pretty good, everyone else being shades of terrible culminating in truly terrible Amitabh. The snark should be strong in us.
Kabhi Kabhie! Watch on Amazon Prime, or youtube, or googleplay, or DVD starting at 3pm Chicago time.
I will start the comments off at 3pm, and then you all pile on after me, right here.
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Here!
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I’m here
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And PlAY!
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Here for half an hour until a parent teacher meeting!
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The key is to let it keep playing in the background but freeze your “interested and listening” expression on to your face for the webcam
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You know I was gonna watch this on my DVD, and then I checked the run times, and the Amazon version is 7 minutes longer. EXCITING! There will be 7 minutes of content I have never seen before!
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How old is he supposed to be?
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At this point, college student
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Hard for me to see him as anything except SRK’s dad…
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Luckily he plays 20 years older for most of the film.
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Even at this age??
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Has Amitabh always worn a wig???
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HIS HAIR JUST GROWS LIKE THAT!!!! I refuse to believe differently.
(folks who are more cynical than me can point to the early 90s as when his real hair started seriously thinning and he switched to a wig. This is his real hair, just very styled)
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Why would you want your hair styled that way???
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It was iconic! All over India, you could go into a barbershop and ask for the Amitabh.
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Confusing mindblowing thought, in real life Amitabh would have seen his Dad do a bunch of these kind of college poetry recitals. And, decades after this movie, he started doing them too with his Dad’s poems.
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Oh yeah, you can sense Amitabh’s self-congratulatory woe is me attitude from this song alone
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This is very romantic, but in a way that makes me not want to date this guy. Like, TOO romantic. He would not be a good guy for having practical discussions about dirty laundry.
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Actors often seem to have very red eyes in their close up eye shots, and I personally suspect it is a reaction to all the make up.
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Or the lights, if it is a set.
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RAAKHEE! Don’t fall for it! He is everyone’s horrible first college boyfriend!!!!
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I really don’t like him at the moment. So self important. But well, he is supposed to be a college student…
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Oh, but you aren’t supposed to. I have never watched the movie liking his character, and I think the film works better that way. He is the tragic failure loser, the other men who think of others and stuff are the winners.
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He’s a millennial!!
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HA! Or, every generation ever once they hit age 20 to 25.
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So, their relationship is him dreamily writing poetry while she just sort of embraces and worships him?
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Yep. A guy wrote the plot I bet.
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I’m digging the sweaters
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I’m fond of her lepard print jacket.
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I am trying very hard to ignore that this should be at least 20 years in “the past” from 1978 when the movie released. Because I wouldn’t enjoy it nearly as much if they had tried to do 1950s period costumes, I love the 70s college wear!
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WHY CAN’T HE JUST ANSWER A QUESTION LIKE A PERSON?!?!?!? I am so glad I never had to date a poet.
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I know poets and they don’t actually speak in poetry. On pretensions nitwits do that.
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I think you have found the key to Amitabh’s character.
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He hasn’t yet spoken normal dialogue!
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They’re moving awfully fast for Indians, no?
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Gotta get this whole relationship start to finish before the opening credits.
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Rakhee’s makeup is so good (minus the thin plucked brows)
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Love this song
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It’s so good. And so simple, no flourishes, not even that many instruments.
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Amitabh’s eyes look so different now from the Myesthenia Gravis.
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My Mom would kill to have that leopard print jacket!
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Prepare for the SHASHI!!!!!! And the big twist at the opening credits.
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I just adore the cinematography in this scene! SO MUCH SPARKLE!!!
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That’s an abrupt cut
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Impressive cast!
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That boobie close up they just had was a bit weird.
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Yeah, maybe it was supposed to show her choli as part of her bridal wear, but it was odd.
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Yea, not the greatest, especially when there isn’t a piece of large jewellery there yet
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WEre they showing her sweat to show she was nervous, if so good call. I sweat buckets when I’m nervous or upset.
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Ya think that tinsel stuff on her clothes is itchy as all get-out? Maybe that’s why the brides cry. I would.
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Sashi! Be still my adoring heart!!
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Shoulda eloped dude…
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My husband and I did. Best idea we ever had. $50 bucks and a ladder. That’s all you really need.
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My parents were third generation elopers. So easy! just tell everyone after it’s done!
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BOOOO! BOOO Grumpy Amitabh! She is well rid of you
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I am hoping Amitabh’s character fell on mud puddle with those all-white clothes, he deserves it
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If for nothing else, for the stupidity of wearing all white
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Amitabh is watching this??
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Maybe just in his head?
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Did everyone see Shashi take Raakhee’s hand? I read it as him being a nice guy and reaching out to comfort her shaking hand with his strength. Kind of thing dumb Amit would never have thought to do.
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Shashi’s so happy!
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At this moment, given choice between unkown sashi with the nice smile and pompous AB I’ll take Sashi in a heart beat.
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So, you are going to make her marry someone else, but also make sure she feels guilty and torn up about leaving you, and always and forever responsible for your happiness? What a peach of a guy!
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Oh man, you’re watching the song.
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Almost, right now we are watching Amitabh be drippy and self pitying.
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I am coming in late; where exactly are you?
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18 minutes going on 19
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At this point, does anyone have any sympathy for Amitabh? Just curious
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Yes. For his hair.
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Fair point. in the second half it changes slightly and he becomes far more insufferable.
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He also starts smoking a pipe in a really annoying pompous way.
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I already need a drink. Does it get any … cheerier?
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Check out the “morning after” scene. Once Amitabh is no longer around all the time, everything is awesome.
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It gets a lot more wacky!
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SHASHI! Get some!
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But why couldn’t she have told about Amitabh? His family is similarly rich as Shashi’s as we’ll see later
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Because he wouldn’t let her! She said “what should I do”, and he said go with what your parents say. Because he is a COWARD
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because they shagged?
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Ew, with Amitabh? REciting poetry the whole time? Gross!
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Well, considering how much of a revelation Shashi is, it seems likely.
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I read somewhere that they wore a lot of their own clothes for this which means that Amitabh wore that white outfit in real life.
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Does that make it better, or much much worse?
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I genuinely do not know.
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Oh, Rakhee you lucky lucky woman…
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Raakhee’s expressions kill me in this song
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I am getting guilt and sadness, but not disgust. Like, she is kind of maybe into it with Shashi and that is making her feel sadder.
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Yeah she is so sad, breaks my heart
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This is my own personal favourite song from the movie. Guess why. Is it Sashi? The song? Sashi? The aesthetics? SASHI??
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I just realise I quicky right Shashi as Sashi, oh well, point still stands
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It’s one of my favourites of all time, and it’s because Rakhee looks beautiful and is great but also Shashi making heart eyes is just…
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The red all the way down the part makes me think of a demon. Obviously I’m not used to it.
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Ufff, Raakhee’s hair!
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Blech, why would you picture Amitabh instead of Shashi? Or maybe she is thinking “huh, I don’t know if he really would have made a great husband”
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Shashi is truly the bullet point presentation on how to be a good husband and a good human being to a T
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I love the tossed off bit where he address adoption as “how lucky you are to have this baby in your lives”
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