Good morning! I have walked the dog, made coffee, and I am all ready to be soothed by beautiful Goa and beautiful SRK.
Yaaaaaay, Shahrukh movie!!!! He’s wise and kind and encouraging, and the rest of the movie is nice too.
At 7:30am, I will put up a comment “And PLAY!” and you hit play and then we all comment along together.
The child learns to write in English before Hindi?
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I guess in this family yes?
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Don’t lie to little kids!!!!! They will remember forever. It’s feels easy, but it is WRONG.
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Santa?
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That’s not a lie, that’s a story
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I love Grandpa! Getting angry with his own daughter on behalf of his little granddaughter.
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OH! This is why she cut off contact with Raghu when he left! She didn’t feel liek writing a letter, she was going to just wait and talk to him face to face.
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SRK also stayed with his grandparents till 5…
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Yep, I think about that every time. And I wonder if his parents lied to him about it or told him the truth.
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Shahrukh is doing very good about just being a neutral non-judgemental presence while she gets through what she needs to get through.
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Hopefully he went through therapy to prepare for the role.
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Maybe this was all an elaborate scheme by his friends to force him into therapy? Maybe him take a role as a therapist so he has to go through it?
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This movie hitting hard, especially at this moment, is not helped by Kaira being very close to Kirre, my own name.
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I love that he starts by saying “you don’t have to forgive them”. Forgiveness is a really hard barrier to ask people to cross, it’s much easier to just say “feel what you feel, but for your happiness you have to find a way forward”.
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Jug’s reaction here of calm acceptance and then congratulations is so good. It’s so important to know that you can cry, scream, lose control and the world doesn’t end. It’s a gift to have someone who can help you feel safe to lose control and can also help you move past it.
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AND NOW TO HAPPY PLACE!!
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This song comes at the perfect time!!
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It’s so great that her therapy doesn’t end here. It’s not about the magical breakthrough, it’s about learning how to live after that breakthrough.
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Except now after the break through it is her falling in love with the therapist.
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FINALLY!!!! Her Mom gets to make food for her that she will eat! Fatten up that skinny body!
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The part where she makes up with her mom is the best part.
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Especially that she responds to “I’m sorry” with a hug, and not “It’s okay”. She doesn’t have to give her Mom that, it’s something to work towards, this is just the beginning.
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NO! Alia!!!! You are falling in love with your therapist and it is a BAD IDEA!!!!!
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NO ALIA! BAD IDEA! RETREAT! RETREAT!
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Awww, the dad’s smile when she climbs into bed with her parents. So sweet.
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NO! ALIA! BAD IDEA!!! Good idea for Shahrukh to cancel the session and give them breathing space.
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I actually lived with my grandma for a couple of years around the same age. Nothing tragic about it, dad was working, mom was studying, even grandpa was working, all in different cities. I remember the excitement when they came to meet, and sadness when they had to leave!
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Yeah, I think the key is that her parents kept lying to her. She was happy living with her grandparents when she thought she understood what was happening. It was learning that her parents were lying and it wasn’t what she thought that bothered her.
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Yeah. First time I saw DZ, I didn’t immediately get why she was so angry at her parents, probably because I was thinking about my own experience. I had to think about it!
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Oh Shahrukh! This is your preprepared speech leading towards “and this special relationship is therapist and patient and nothing more”. He must have to give this speech so much.
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One of the things I like is that SRK is the teacher when he own life is arguably a mess. He is divorced, doesn’t get to see his kids. Works a job that is not universally respected…
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Yes! It’s a subtle little indication of therapy as a profession. Like, you wouldn’t expect a medical doctor to never get sick, you would just expect him to be very good at helping other people be well.
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I like this Shahrukh speech about all the different rishtas. Very unusual sentiment for a movie, but very true.
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And it’s telling what we hav ebeen shown for the rest of the film. Alia needs Fatty and Jackie and her parents and everyone else in her life to feel happy. She doesn’t need that one special perfect person.
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Oooooh awkwardness coming!!!
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First time I saw this in theaters, at this point the friend I was watching with had to cover her ears and put her head between her knees and whisper “no no no no no”. It’s TOO SCARY AND HORRIBLE TO WATCH!!!!
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Muted for the secondhand embarrasment scene
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COWARD!!!! I am making myself watch the whole thing to try to build a callouse.
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At least I admit it aloud!
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That light falling on his face!
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Oh right, my eye drop theory! I think it is a thing he does sometimes to give a little bit of extra therapuetic time for his patients. Maybe the director or someone knew a therapist that did that and suggested it as a character trait?
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“It’s really good you said what you said.” This is a good phrase to keep in one’s pocket for awkward conversations. 🙂 And, Shah Rukh is just so yummy here.
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What do the eye drops symbolize?
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WHAT DO THE EYEDROPS MEAN????
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I just commented above!!!! My newish theory is that maybe it is something someone involved saw a real life therapist do and suggested it to SRK.
It works great as a thing to do to give the patient extra time without seeming to give them extra time.
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I like this idea, which is better than my idea, which was, “I guess Shah Rukh was having eye trouble and they incorporated it into the movie.” Remember, in Raees he uses eye drops in the doctor’s office too.
But yeah, this would be a nice tactic to break eye contact and give the patient (and oneself) a moment.
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GENEVIEVE!!!! This is it!!! This is the moment that feels like maybe Shahrukh liked her as more than a therapist! Nto necessarily in love, but felt something more than just patient-doctor.
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Okay, yes. I do believe that most therapists see their patients as more than a patient. And I do believe he will miss her. But I don’t understand that it means he was romantically interested.
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But the chair squeeks, it can be interpreted however the viewer chooses.
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I think he’s telling the truth when he says he really likes her. It might just be attraction, not a grand romantic feeling. But the squeaky chair tells us it’s something. 🙂
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I love this dress
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BABY!!!!!
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This short film is so incredibly bad. Like, I keep trying to come up with some reasonable plot reason it is supposed to be so incredibly bad. They must have know, right?
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I know there is a deleted scene where SRK tells Alia the story. but that doesn’t explain the terribleness of the film that everyone else loves.
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“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.” Dolly Parton, Steel Magnolias 🙂
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Sorry, Alia’s movie looks kind of sucky.
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Just said that! It looks super sucky. But everyone applauds? Like, is it supposed to be good?
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Apparently? But it looks like Drunk History sketch.
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Haha, yes! It was reminding me of something and I couldn’t put my finger on it.
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Hey, she invited Ali! And restaurant dude, who must be The Nicest Man in the World if she still showed up for this after what she did to him. Maybe he has also been getting therapy?
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ADITYA ROY KAPOOR!!! HE IS SO HOT!!!!
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I was wondering where he was in the film, oh yes, there he is! He is hotter in Ludo.
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ADITYA ROY KAPUR! Queue swooning from me!
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I like that ARK doesn’t have to be her perfect happy ending, we don’t see them get married or anything, but it is dipping her toes back intot he romantic pool and moving on from her issues in a healthy way.
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Again, why is that beach empty?
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Ahhhhh. That is such a nice film. And I feel all soothed and happy with my life decisions and ready to move on from my past and all that stuff.
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What else has Guari done?
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Just this and English/Vinglish. She was Alia in real life, she worked on ad films and stuff as a young talented woman for ages before finally getting a chance at making a real movie (English/Vinglish).
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And she also had a troubled relationship with her mom–the mom in English Vinglish is partly based on her mom,and Gauri has said the movie was kind of an apology to her mom.
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Thanks, everyone! It’s 1 am here so I’m getting to bed!
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Sleep tight!
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Thank you for this, Margaret! I really needed this movie right now! 😀
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Yaaaaay! I did too, I think it actually made my back feel better.
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Thanks Margaret! Every time I’ve rewatched, has always been from SRK’s appearance!
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Thank you for a lovely start to my weekend and thanksgiving break!
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Found the cutest fanvid for this movie. 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGP6_b-Ox8
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