I really hope a bunch of you can make this one, because I love love love Raabta and have been wanting to show it since the watchalongs started. But even if it is low attendance, I will still be happy watching Raabta all by myself. It’s just that good.
Raabta! It’s on Prime and Einthusan and it is totally delightful. Can’t wait to hear what you all think about it.
At 3pm Chicago time, I will start the comments off down below and then we can all watch and comment together. Fun fun!
dontcallitbollywood 
Here!
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I’m here!
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I’m also here but only for few first scenes 😃
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And PLAY!
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Here!
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I am so excited to have a full house for this silly silly movie!
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Golden Temple! One of the two Indian old buildings I can recognize along with Red Fort! All historic place should have clues in the name
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Lately my oldest has been holding his breath for as long as possible, we swim in ponds so I can’t see him underwater. It is kinda terrifying. So I feel for the friends.
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But on the other hand, probably good for meditation and yoga or something
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or drowning…
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I hate this part about white girls! I almost abandoned the movie the first time I watched it
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Same! I was dating some Indian guy at the time, too, I think which made it worse somehow.
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lol the comet thing. Maybe this time I will understand the reincarnation plot!
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We will groupthink it and figure it out
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I don’t know why they had to make our hero such a horndog. Maybe because the heroine is cool and casual so he had to be even MORE SO to maintain male-female power balance?
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He is such a slime!
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He really is awful, now I remember why I never rewatch this part.
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And then it just completely goes away never to be mentioned again in like 10 minutes! So why include it?
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He is a maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan how else will we knoooooooooow
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And for NO REASON! They could have just had him be dating casually some woman when he met the heroine, we don’t need this history of a whole life of sliminess
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The fact that he is such a slime makes his fall for Kriti more special.
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Where are you at?
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7 minutes
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1st time watching! What did I miss?
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Our hero left Amritsar for a job in Budapest and is excited to sleep with a bunch of loose European white women.
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Ewww
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Don’t worry, having seen the movie, I can tell you that he meets the heroine in about ten minutes from now and completely changes his ways never to mention womanizing again.
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Interracial dating is worse than drunk driving.
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If you met Kriti on the street would you know she was Indian?
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Look, I don’t make the rules, this guy’s mum does
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OMG, why have we not written a movie about a white girl who has to pretend to be Indian to win over her boyfriend’s Mom?
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Great plot idea!
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At least this and HDDCS give some gorgeous travel wanting shots of Hungary and Budapest. I seriously want to go there!!
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Also Sultan! I have been to Hungary, it’s like the only place in Europe I’ve been to, so I get very excited when I see it.
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Can’t see a fall/jump off a bridge without thinking Bang Bang.
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Listening to the credit music 8 year old asks if “This is an old time movie.”
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It is! It is an old time movie! It is a a throwback to fun Masala
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The credits are very pretty.
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I am a little jealous of Kriti’s life/apartment
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These chocolate making scenes are so satisfying, thank goodness I have sweets nearby
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The 11 year old is making chocolate chip cookies so before this movie is over I can have some too!
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Good pre-planning!
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Making chocolate without a hairnet and gloves, not according to EU guidelines.
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She’s a wild woman
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My least favourite scene of his, macking on someone else while on a date.
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But they are REINCARNATED LOVERS!!!!
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Sure, a comet makes you forget all your manners
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I kinda love it. We already know he is a slime. And Kriti can see he is a slime, but of course she’ll fall for him anyway.
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OH GOD, THEIR CHEMISTRY!!!!
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I love reincarnation romances, it’s love at first sight but embracing the unbelievability.
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I have been in this square! There was a Christmas fair and I had a fever of 102
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Actually I think he is like that to make the Jim Sarbh plotline more believable
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In both the past and the present, Jim Sarbh is the “better” husband option, but Kriti wants to be with SSR. So good!
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This is why I will never understand this movie.
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This light background music is so pleasant, with the soft voice and occasional trumpets
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I love this bit. It starts with him stalking her, and then in 10 seconds they are back and forth like they have known each other all their lives. It’s not the usual romantic poetic love at first sight, it’s more like “best friends at first sight”
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Such a cute lunchbox
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All of Kriti’s stuff is good. I love her kitchen.
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It is like there is a magnet pulling them together
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Yes
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Their chemistry is so special in this, so natural and authentic and so strong that it really sells the fantasy of it all
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SSR has very pretty wrists and hands.
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I don’t know how I feel about this. He’s trying to do a Shahrukh I think?
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When he talked about how handsome he was, there was something in the way he said it that immediately made me think of SRK.
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That’s what a bunch of people here said based on the trailer alone! I don’t see it myself, but apparently a lot of people do, so there must be something there.
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AAAAAAAAAAA!!! She kissed first! Love it. This is my argument with all the stalker romances, if she is clearly interested, the same behavior becomes okay that would be creepy in other situations.
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Oh foreign chick again!
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Never forget for a second interracial relationships are bad!!!!
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Oh oh! Can we make our movie about a white boy pretending to be desi instead? I want to make fun of all the “good desi boy” stereotypes.
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Why not both?
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Maybe boyfriend is a real long term relationship, and then the heroine’s brother has to have a fiancee too so their Grandma will agree to her wedding and he uses the heroines college girlfriend who he has cheerfully hated and vice versa for years. So we have one couple fighting and falling in love, and the other couple long term in love but under strain that almost breaks them up.
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That’s a great plot, actually. Good romance set up.
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Yes, they make a lot of stupid stuff but have one rule they can’t break. It’s like Priyanka in Fashion
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I may not love this sweater. I think short sweaters are stupid because if it is cold enough for a sweater, you don’t want your tummy bare.
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It kinda gives the vibe of “I’m cold but still want to have sex.”
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I kind of love that he is a banker. Not a born into wealth industrialist, or an artistic type architect or game designer, or even a super smart engineer. Just regular smart and out for money and a good career. On the other hand, her “chocolate shop owner” career is a totally ridiculous movie job that no one has in real life.
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In Belgium or Switzerland it would be, I don’t know about Hungary.
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I have limited knowledge of Hungary, but they do seem to have a good confectionery culture concentrated on cakes, so a chocolate shop doesn’t seem far off
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Yes, but it’s the kind of thing you achieve when you’re a bit older than this after an apprenticeship and maybe a course in France. But oh well.
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Yea, maybe just best to leave it at being movie logic
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My best friend’s grandmother was a candy maker.
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This is so cute! I love that they aren’t being romantic or impressing each other, but just laughing.
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I love his dancing. They are so cute.
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Autotune, whyyy
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I love this scene
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This movie really gets the importance of showing the couple in love and liking each other before leaping into the angst. Romances where we are just told they love each other and never shown, it is so much harder to care about the relationship.
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HA! He hit on her while with another girl, then broke up with that girl and went after her, but she has an actual boyfriend! She is so much worse!
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ooooh, she’s even slimier than he is!
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Yes! And she’s dating another non-desi!
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Popka where are you? What do you have to say to this?
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She’s the actual worst! But somehow Jim Sarbh’s character is the bad one just for being a bit nutty.
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Uh, and kidnapping and killing people?
Also, I totally think that is the point! They didn’t want the usual boring saintly hero-heroine, they wanted something a little fun.
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Wait, when did he kill people? The kidnapping is fair but he can totally kidnap me if he HAS to kidnap someone. But he wouldn’t want to.
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His gundas! He kills at least one of them all casual
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Oh really. lol you can see where my attention is when watching this and it is not the plot.
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I thought stalking was okay in Indian flims, so shouldn’t Sarbh be the hero? Anyway he is kinda my hero because I think he is super sexy. But fortunately the current chemistry will keep me entertained until he appears onscreen.
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Yeah, this is my line of thought exactly. He is very loopy here though, and I guess nobody can escape fate or something.
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Dumb white dudes. I can’t find it in myself to get as upset on their behalf as I do on behalf of dumb white girls.
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Yes but she was worse to him than he was to her.
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I’m gonna assume this is Sunday or Saturday so I don’t worry too much about SSR’s job.
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SHe said two days, so this is probably Monday, sorryyyyy.
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But his job! He just started! It’s his big break!
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Well, either they spent the weekend together and he is skipping work Monday, or this is the weekend and he skipped work for two days or one day before that.
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They are both insanely attractive in this dinner spectacle.
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And her boyfriend is dressed a bit….unfortunately
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I would wear that RIGHT NOW.
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Really? With the baby blue jacket?
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All of it!
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The magnet is strong!
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Once again, its a commentary on the typical heroine! An Indian girl doesn’t have to be all confused and guilt ridden and feeling like she should be with the good guy, she can just feel trapped in a relationship and bored and not sure how to get out.
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Oh, dude isn’t white after all. I have even less sympathy for him, why would a desi dude have that dumb hair?
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Honestly my problem is SSR’s stupid hat
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Bad boyfriend! BAD! Mansplaining her feelings to her. I think I see why she wanted to break up but somehow never managed it.
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Ooooh, foreshadowing! Never noticed it before
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Yes! Same thing in the past as in the present
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