You ready for a baaaaaaaaaaaaaad movie? It’s just bad. And dumb. And weird. But pretty! And Tabu is Full Camp.
Wooo, Fitoor! Available on Netflix in America and some other places, and on einthusan etc. elsewhere. At 3pm Chicago time we will all hit “play” together, and then comment along on this post as thoughts strike us. I will start us off with an “And PLAY” comment exactly at 3pm.
Very excited to share this with you!
dontcallitbollywood 
Gold is not Kat’s color.
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Finally! Kat’s perspective on the past! Maybe?
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Awwwww. his sister. I really wish the movie had spent more time on anything besides the love story.
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I love the side bindis! I now want one!
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But, then you will be trapped in a beautiful impossible gothic romance!
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Oh man, I was just planning on wearing it to my Friday family game night! What you don’t wear a velvet skirt and side bindi on your virtual gatherings?!
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I have a friend movie night tonight, and I am planning on wearing a Christmas Cardigan, which is basically the same.
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In london in – WHAT YEAR?!?
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What a coinky-dink that those two articles would be right next to each other in the same magazine!!!
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The costume and jewellery in this movie is ON POINT!!
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GIANT SLINGSHOT ART!!!
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TABU!!!! I adore you, and you can SWEEP like no one else.
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Was’t Tabu on a wheelchair and very sick?
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She is other worldly, sick and well and then sick again.
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Yupp. But she also takes a lot of drugs. I am sure she took some that allowed her to walk for 5 minutes.
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Who would want an enormous outdoor statue of a dying horse? What is teh market for this?
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Museums.
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I suppose. But I don’t want to go to them. I like a nice Edward Hopper or a cheerful Klee, I don’t need any dying horses.
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I’ll take the dead horses.
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AJAY DEVGAN!!!!!
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He came at a good time, I was starting to get sick of everyone except brother-in-law.
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I must go. Thanks for the company and the comments 😀
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So happy you were here! Have a great night!
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I don’t evne like Dickens that much, and yet I feel the need to defend how this plot twist plays out in the book versus the movie.
In the book, he helps an escaped convict as a boy out of pure fear. But then as a young man, he learns that the convict paid his school fees and helped him along in life, and feels deeply grateful and loving towards him. Repays that generosity again by helping the convict again. Instead of being an angry stupid prig like he is here. The message is “don’t look away from anyone, don’t reject gifts because you think you are better than the person who offered them, be grateful and accepting”. Not, “be a whiney little idiot”.
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Agreed. That annoyed me too!
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Also, did wasn’t Katrina’s character the Convict’s daughter in Great Expectations? Is that ever established here?
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I don’t even remember. I remember it was this weird “ward” thing where everyone knew she wasn’t really Mrs. Havisham’s daughter, which wasn’t the case here until our big reveal just now.
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I only remember it because Pip says something about it to the convict when he is dying. Basically reassuring him that she is okay.
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Pip is such a good guy compared to Noor.
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Yupp. And they could have easily done that with Noor.
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Pip was never needlessly cruel or ungrateful to his brother-in-law. Or a dog.
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18 more minutes, I want him to go on a shooting spree and kill everyone, except AJAY, who turns into an action hero and saves his dog at the last second.
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I want Ajay to fall in love with Tabu, get her off the drugs and cleaned up, and the too of them have a happy retirement in a small cottage in England.
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Pretty hard to fall in love with Tabu, here, crazy lady!!!
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But she’s so over the top and pretty! Maybe a sort of Taming of the Shrew thing? He marries her for her money, and then changes her and they fall in love after marriage?
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This is what she wears to bed? Elaborate gold embroidery silk gowns? Yeah, that seems in character.
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Tabu’s too good for this movie
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Tabu and Ajay, they should be off having their own movie and leaving everyone else alone.
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Oh oh! I know this! Falling on stairs causes miscarriages! I have learned it from Movies.
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They don’t tell you that running, bed rest, eating seafood, and basically doing nothing also cause miscarriages.
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Now I want a dramatic angry father scene where he forces the teen mother to eat lots and lots of shrimp.
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And just basic common sense. But, movies do help crystalize it!
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Concentrate! Many confusing things are happening quickly! Aditi lost her baby, sunk into drug addiction and depression, her fiathful servant’s wife gave birth and died, and now he is handing the baby to Aditi. And that is Katrina. So the silent servant in the background of her whole life, is her biological father.
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So Kat is her SISTER?
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No, daughter of her servants
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Wait, did Tabu die? did I miss that?
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His sculptures were made of paper mache!!! flamable paper mache. FRAUD!
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It would be fine if they were inside, but as an outside installation? Unless he spins something about the temporariness of beauty that melts in the rain.
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And this is her biological father! Does she know that? No idea. Movie was more interested in the romance.
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Snow!!! So pretty!!!! And such an abrupt poetic incomplete ending.
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Beautiful running in the snow in a white dress. GIVE ME SNOW SO I CAN DO THIS!!!
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Does it matter if no one sees you?
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Oh I would do all this for me and a nice photo opportunity if the moment arrived
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Oh, I had snow yesterday! It was nice, made the gross city mud look pretty.
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We had snow in the mountains yesterday too.
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Fiance doesn’t seem so sweet anymore.
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Yupp.
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Creep!!!!
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DOG!!!
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ARK is SO BEAUTIFUL here.
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Kashmir is beautiful
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She looks like a layered wedding cake.
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I know the movie isn’t going to answer this so I guess we have to answer it for ourselves. Are they going to settle down int he cottage with brother-in-law and have a blacksmith shop? Is he going to manage her money? Will the open an art gallery after selling Tabu’s jewels? Or will he try to be an artist again despite burning all his work at his last exhibit?
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I don’t think they are giving away her money, probably moving brother-in-law into the big house with them. Kat will manage the money while ARK and brother-in-law make art.
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Maybe they turn the big house into a fancy boutique artists retreat?
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I feel like it is setting up for ARK opening an art gallery after selling all of Tabu’s jewels. He seems to paint quite ferociously, I am sure he can come up with some paintings quickly.
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But….good paintings?
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And that’s the end of the movie! I feel completely confused and unfinished.
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But you got to see gorgeous people in gorgeous scenes! I mean, that’s all this film is really all about.
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Thank you for the film, I am relieved it is over, but watching it was fun. My mess house and loud kids, and quarantined life seem so good now. At least I’m not rich and crazy in gorgeous Kashmir.
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Yes! And at least you aren’t a young man who thinks half his life is over at age 20 and gets a tattoo after one night with a woman.
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Pretty movie with pretty people in it and pretty cinematography and art and Tabu and Ajay and abs. Nice “painting in the background” movie. Thank you for this, Margaret!
Can we at some point do Mirzya? It’s on Prime here, it has pretty Harsh and just needs a watch-a-long at some point.
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Mirzya is SO GORGEOUS! Like this movie, but with even more crazy and beautiful thrown on top. Yes, we must do it.
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For BEUTY and for HARSH!!! WE MUST!
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Thank you, Margaret. This was exactly the snow filled beautiful nonsense I needed in my life!
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And now, I will watch A Knight Before Christmas with my friends! Which is even more snow filled beautiful nonsense, if you need it.
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That sounds perfect. I am going to finish watching “Love at the Christmas Table” because it has Ted from Schitt’s Creek and Winnie Cooper.
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I love Love At the Christmas Table! It’s sincerely clever in some places, and it has a sweet older generation romance, and the hero and heroine (mostly) never do anything super dumb or misunderstanding-y.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 5:11 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Honestly this needed a lot more plot, then it probably would have been great. It was fine and soooo beautiful but I didn’t like the pairing (didn’t expect to, it’s Dickens), so I’m glad to have watched it during watchalong. I don’t know if I would have finished it on my own, unless I was ill and needed something with no plot to watch.
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No plot! It has no plot! Just a bunch of pretty stuff that happens.
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 12:58 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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