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 
Popka, I assume you like Jim’s suit here?
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The suit is great, I would have chosen a livelier shirt though. But it’s pretty.
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This underwater scene is sooooooooo pretty!!!
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The transition to the past was well done, even if I think there were a couple too many flashes in the drowning sequence.
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Is this incomprehensible flashback time? If so I am off. You can all try to make sense of it for me.
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The whole past sequence is ridiculous and unrealistic and stuff, but also really well-filmed. They kept it simple, they used practical effects as much as possible, I like it a lot better than the big crazy CGI stuff.
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I think Jim is even sexier in the past than the present. Even though he isn’t rich.
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I don’t like his whole “Princess, let me protect you and tell you what is good for you” vibe
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What lover wouldn’t try to help when one is confronted by a tiger?
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One who respects her right to go hunting by herself!
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Don’t go hunting by yourself. If you even go on a hike by yourself you need to have someone who knows where you went and when you expect to be back.
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It’s the hair and the voice and the eyeliner.
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EXACTLY!! He is so good looking here!
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Not great CGI
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Rajkumar Rao! Why would be be the old wise man in the huge mask? I guess a favor for his old friend SSR?
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Okay I am going but I did enjoy when he scared off the tiger and the kind of skipped across the stones like he didn’t know what he was doing.
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held tilt = bad & annoying.
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Raspy voice = ditto
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Ha! His ponytail is flipping in his eyes just like it does for me!
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How is Kriti at emotional scenes? That one seem a little, poetically shot to perhaps make up for lack of acting?
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I don’t think I’ve seen her in a straight sincere emotional scene. She’s more of a comic actress I think, and those two talents don’t always go together.
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I don’t understand this warrior society. If they have no women, then where do all the warriors come from?
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Okay, SSR just isn’t good in the past. So great in the present. but well, this is a bit embarrasing.
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Yeah, I think it was a failure of vision all around. They wanted “Barbarian not like the civilized Jim” but couldn’t quite figure out what that meant. Chemistry is still there though!
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The chemistry in the race through the jungle scene is great. And I have to say Kriti sells the past quite well. Physicality is one of her strengths.
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Why didn’t she pull her hair back for a jungle race?
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She was trying to distract him with her beauty
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I noticed in one of the scenes she was running, yet her hair wasn’t flying behind her. It was as if the fans had failed.
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“Mom what’s going on?” There was a competition and she lost and she cut her finger and… I have no idea.
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They fell in love at FIRST SIGHT Or race. Or something
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So she cut her finger to prove the love?
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Yes, the race said “whoever was first cut, loses”. And if it was Kriti, she had to stay with SSR. So she cut herself to indicate she wanted to “lose” and stay with him.
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Marriage HURTS!
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Okay, here’s what I’ve got. Jim and Kriti grew up together and it was always understood that they would be married, but they weren’t married yet. Kriti liked Jim but maybe felt slightly trapped. SSR shows up, Kriti is worried for her kingdom and upset about Jim being hurt, so decides to risk sacrificing herself. But during the competition with SSR, she starts to feel free and alive, finally with someone who is her equal and doesn’t tiptoe around her. At the end, he saves her life (revealing his feelings), then is about to kill her and she asks him to do it because she can’t go back (revealing that she feels irrevocably changed by being with him). He backs off and gives her the knife, meaning she “wins” and the decision is in her hands. She chooses to cut her finger, giving him the “win” so that she has to leave with him. Now, Jim has re-written things to make himself the hero, the poor abandoned “husband” whose wife was taken from him. But Kriti doesn’t want him, she wants to be gone, no matter what Jim and her father say.
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Now I understand the knife. Thank you.
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There are rough breakups, and then there are REALLY rough breakups.
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Yep
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5-year-old “What is he doing?”
Me “He’s eating her ear.”
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He’s a barbarian!
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Dry Lightning! ACK fires!
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Oh, very important bit! Just like in the present, in the past Kriti doesn’t totally trust SSR’s love. Which is what almost breaks them up, her asking for a proof that comes close to tearing them apart. I don’t think it is exactly about her being foolish, more about her being scared while he is fearless.
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Chest make-up! Damn, I just can’t escape it.
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I have a dirty mind, but did you notice how they barely even got to kiss in the past? Thus, in the present, they meet and are immediately desperate to FINALLY consummate after waiting 800 years.
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wrinkle baldy head makes me feel like I’m in Middle EArth.
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Hahahahahahahahah! XD
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Kriti is acting well here. I believe her anguish at remembering her past life, and surviving.
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Someone explain to me the suit without a belt look. I’m not a fan.
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Jim is so cute and unsure! Poor guy with his little crush
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A LITTLE CRUSH!
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This exchange cracked me up so HARD!! XD
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Jim is eating all the scenery in this scene, and I love it!
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Scenery chewing is almost always enjoyable!! Go big or go home attitude at its best
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Yes! Super creepy party! And Deepika for no reason, and yet it works. Jim Sarbh’s character would totally hire a famous actress to sing a creepy song for his engagement.
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The item song, which I like as a song, feels a little forced in.
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I love this song!!!!
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Someone has stolen all those poor men’s shirts
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I was thinking they would look better dancing with eachother and ignoring Deepika.
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THANK GOODNESS!! Deepika doesn’t have to work on the classy sexiness all on her own, even though she totally could easily do it
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Kriti looks so pretty in blue
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Once again, Jim has great taste in clothes for her
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Seeing SSR in the background made me actually sigh with relief. And I’ve seen the film before!
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Oh oh! I just got it! This is the past over again but with the roles changed. This time Kriti has walked out on her fiance SSR to mysteriously run off with Jim. Only SSR and Kriti actually talked, a lot, and he knew she wanted to marry him for real, not just because of social pressure. Also, past SSR made it easy for Kriti and Jim to talka lone so she could say her real feelings, Jim isn’t giving SSR and Kriti that chance because he doens’t trust her.
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Her act to dissuade SSR is half hearted as she continued to wear his ring.
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Kriti! Raid the closet Jim has for you and then leave!! TAKE ALL THE DRESSES!!
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YES! Kirre you are so right! Biggest flaw in the film
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They swam all night!
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HA! There! Popka, look! 2 hours and 6 minutes, Jim kills someone for no reason. Not a good dude!
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I thought he just shot the guard in the foot.
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Wait, where did the water bottle come from?
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garbage island?
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A payphone!? What year was this made? Are there still places in the world with payphones?
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By the flags on the caps they are now in Croatia, so most likely a good chance they still have payphones there
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I always wanted to visit Croatia.
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Never been there, but it always looks so pretty
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This is a delightful twist. Every other reincarnation romance, they are in love once they both remember their past. This movie, they are in love whether or not they remember, she does and he doesn’t, and they are equal ready to die for each other.
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I have a birthmark on my little finger, does that mean someone stabbed me in the little finger in a past life?
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Kids and I are having a conversation about why rich people are always bad because they want to make people marry them who don’t want to.
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Yes! Rich people are always bad! Don’t let your boys marry anyone rich. It’s a generalized greed for possessions including people.
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My spouse would disagree, my parents give us their hand-me-down cars.
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And look, rich people can shoot and kill without consequence!
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Kids say Jim Sarbh is a good actor, they could tell he was upset.
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Jim doesn’t have a terrible singing voice
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He should get more roles…
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Jim is soooo upset he didn’t even change out of his paint covered fancy pants.
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Okay, Jim is now full on crazy
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