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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I love how soft and gentle Shashi is in this song, and how aware he is of her. He isn’t just having sex with his new available bride, he is having sex with Raakhee, a special wonderful person. You know?
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Sorry. I am late but I caught the Shashi-Rakhee “suhaag raat” scene, so I am happy!
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We all already hate Amitabh, although Catherine is sympathetic with him because of his hair.
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Well, that’s a bit of a stretch!
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Everyone in this movie besides Shashi sucks.
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And Raakhee! She does nothing wrong, except for accidentally loving dumb Amitabh, but she was young and I can forgive her.
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Meh. Her scene when she meets up with him again towards the end annoys me. Why would you hide your past from your awesome husband?!
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Are there any Indian movies that DON’T include trains?
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No. I think we can safely say, no.
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Nope. It’s a must just like rain sex!
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YES! Best scene! Shashi sex is life changing!
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The great thing is I think he really sells it. I can’t see many actors doing that and not coming across as arrogant and terrible.
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He is so ridiculously charming and sexy in that scene.
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I truly can’t imagine another actor pulling it off, except maaaaaaaaybe Sunil Dutt. I don’t think even Dharam could be adorable and tender enough.
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Does everyone shower with their bangles on?
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It’s actually a thing for new brides, you are supposed to keep wearing your glass bridal bangals until they all break.
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Thank you.
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Hmmm… I didn’t know that. I thought broken bangles were a bad thing. For example, widows break bangles when their husbands die. I am also mostly basing this on movies.
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It’s a thing I heard from a real life Indian old lady giving advice to a real life Indian bride. Could be just their family, or just their region or something, but definitely a thing.
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Interesting. Thank you.
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Look how happy she is
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I mean if you just had sex with Shashi wouldn’t you be that happy?!
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Cute morning after scene.
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He is so loveable and loving and I LOVE HIM!!
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See??? Shashi and Raakhee have actualy conversations and jokes and he responds to her, instead of just weird poetic monologues when she asks questions. I have to think this was on purpose, they knew when they were writing the script what would come across.
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Ugh, don’t make me be the father of poet Amitabh! Can you imagine trying to get him to clean his room? Just a bunch of dumb poetic backtalk until you give up.
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That dynamite blew all the buttons off his shirt.
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That’s the familiar Amitabh
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it’s my special brand
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Usually I find it strange when actors speak intot he camera, but I feel like for Amitabh’s character, he totally would just turn away from the person he is speaking with and say something into space.
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Raakhee really is “timeless beauty” in that she can look 20 or 40 without make-up or anything, and equally beautiful.
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In Kismat she plays Govinda’s mother, and Kabir Bedi is his father, and the combined beauty was A LOT to take in.
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My dad used to always love her, especially her style. He always said Rakhee wore the best clothes in every movie. Rakhee plus Neetu = very happy young dad! Although nothing meet Mumtaz for him.
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Neetu!!!
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Rishi’s so cute
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Aw Rishi and Neetu are so adorable
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For the good of us All, I will now look up what point this movie was in the Neetu-Rishi 5 year courtship.
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When did they start dating? I thought it was in 1975 during Khel Khel Mein. That is also when they became super close to Rakesh Roshan. .
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This is 1976, so around the same time. I know they were for sure dating for at least a couple years before the 1980 marriage, but I don’t know if it was longer than that.
My impression is that they were already such good pals that the switch to dating didn’t really change things around them, they were already cast opposite each other all the time and had mutual friends and stuff.
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Love how they’re both into each other, no chasing and fake shyness
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Yes! And therefore better than Amitabh and Raakhee, the previous generation who were afraid to love.
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Found it! Not yet dating, she was 18 and his little buddy that he protected on sets but thought no more of than that. Until a couple years from now when he would suddenly miss her while on a long location shoot and send her a present and ask her to be his girlfriend.
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Oh I was sure they were dating at this point.
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Not unless they dated for 4-5 years before marriage, which doesn’t fit my impression, I had more of a feel of freinds longer than dating.
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I want Neetu’s pink dress!!!
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I want Rishi’s red hat!
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I love that Bay City Rollers outfit he has.
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My teacher conference appears to be not happening… so here I am to stay! Yeah!
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YAAAAAY! I am SO HAPPY!
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Love the random anchor necklace on Rishi, clearly just there to be a redpoint separate from the hat
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Rain = sex, right? Everyone in agreement?
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It would explain why they are so quick to get an engagement.
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I don’t know. Shashi seems like he would be fine with his son having pre-marital sex as long as it was respectful and consensual.
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Oh yeah, but Rishi and Neetu are good kids, if they already had sex, they would be thinking marriage naturally.
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Haha
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Always reminds me of Rocky Horror. “You’re… wet.” “Yes. It’s raining.”
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Rishi is wearing red beret and necklace and Shashi is wearing a red scarf. Both are in love. Symbolism?
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it’s the colour of love after all… 🙂
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Shashi: do you want him to be your husband or your father more? Because he is so great in both roles!
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Something something daddy.
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SHASHI’S DESK LAMP! Truly, all the Shashi sets are amazing here
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Shashi’s character, alcoholic or just Punjabi? I am saying “just Punjabi”
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Punjabi!
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Shashi awkwardly dancing is the most adorable thing ever!!
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I love how Dr. Kapoor said “blood pressure checker” while the subtitle said “Baumanometer”
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I always forget how hilarious this movie is.
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It’s so weird to me that the movie just drops this reunion meeting into the middle of things with no backstory, no idea if she arranged him to be her interviewee or anything.
Maybe to show how for Raakhee and Shashi this whole old romance really was nothing in their lives at this point?
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I have to go, please give my regards to the extremely hilarious personalised chair covers in Amitabh’s house.
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Will do!
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HA! They are so great.
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Some of my favourite props ever!
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WTF Amitabh! What if your wife is watching this?! you said your life has no meaning. And you left poetry for a woman. UGH!
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Oh please, he says that right to her face, why would he not say it on TV? Wives are just there to birth children and make dinner, they aren’t real people like Lost Loves.
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Freaking poets. The decent ones write music lyrics instead of publishing books and whining.
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Amitabh needs anti-depressants.
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Amitabh needs anti-narcissism pills
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I don’t see how he can be so dour with those chair covers in his house.
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DUDE! She’s MARRIED! Back the heck off!
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I don’t know how it was in India, but the 70s in CA was definitely for swingers!
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That detailed wooden panel behind them is gorgeous
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Amitabh appears: Raakhee looks sad and thoughtful and a little guilty. Shashi appears: Raakhee bursts into a smile.
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The natural reaction of seeing Shashi by every woman I bet
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Subtitles say Amitabh when it’s Amit Sahab!
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This is where I get annoyed of Rakhee. She seems weirdly still into Amitabh. The staring is too much.
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I mean if this is the first time in decades, it’s understandable
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Why do these women always seem to want the high maintenance fixer-upper dudes?
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Yes. Get over the damn moody narcassictic poet and focus on your hot loving husband!
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Wow. Our first night, you’re poetry. So awkward!
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*Your*
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Amitabh makes Rakhee cry, Shashi makes Rakhee smile. 🙂
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In bed
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Cannot. Stop. Laughing!
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In the end it’s the woman who gets all the blame…
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See! They’re all drinking now!
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See Shashi immediately corrects his thinking when Raakhee tells him
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Oh yeah, Rishi and Neetu are totally having sex. In film, still reserving judgement about real life at this point.
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snow down the back of the pants! I HATE that.
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Also… brrrrr!!!!
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This song always makes me think they were dating
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Ok seriously. First Neetu had a red stipe on her shirt and now Rishi has red on and then Rishi has red tie on. I am now seriously wondering if this was done on purpose.
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Yash Chopra had such an eye for color, it probably was.
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I love Neetu’s parents so much!
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Just spent five minutes hunting on my bookshelf for the Rishi autiobiography before remembering I got it on kindle. Anyway, I am going to solve the “were they dating yet” question!
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I seriously want Neetu’s whole wardrobe from this movie, such fantastic colour combinations
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