Friday WatchAlong: Happy New Year!!! We Are Watching HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 3pm Chicago Time

Posted on January 1, 2021 by mredlich21

Shahrukh! And, to a lessor degree, Boman and Sonu and Dips and Jackie and Abhishek and even Vivaan!!!! It’s all happiness all the time.

Happy New Year! It’s on Netflix, it has the perfect title, and it is a super silly happy movie where we can all hate on SRK’s hair and misogyny.

I will put up an “And PLAY!” comment at 3pm Chicago time, and then we can all comment along right here.

387 thoughts on “Friday WatchAlong: Happy New Year!!! We Are Watching HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 3pm Chicago Time”

Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 4:38 pm said:

This is a Christmas movie!!!!

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:39 pm said:

Is anyone else thinking about Dolphin penises in this scene? Or just me?

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- shantisal on January 1, 2021 at 4:39 pm said:
  
  Just you, ha ha
  
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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:39 pm said:
  
  HA! This cracked me up!
  
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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 4:39 pm said:

NOKIA MICROSOFT PHONES!!!!

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Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 4:40 pm said:

English English English

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filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:41 pm said:

Christmas!!!!

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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:41 pm said:

Those poor dolphins. Free the dolphins!

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- mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:41 pm said:
  
  Dolphin rapists! Keep them locked up!!!
  
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  - procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:42 pm said:
    
    Fair point.
    
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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 4:42 pm said:

SRK without a beard is making Sonu even more attractive in my eyes in this movie
AND THANK YOU FARAH FOR THE SHIRTLESSNESS OF SONU!!!

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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:43 pm said:
  
  Agreed! I just wish Sonu’s pecks were slightly smaller. That kind of scare me a little bit.
  
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filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:42 pm said:

Who made all the sunglasses that everyone is sporting? That has to be a sponsorship, right!?

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:42 pm said:

Every heist movie, the heist planner keeps the vital thing secret from the team. But WHY??? Why not tell the team everything? And also, why does the detective never tell his assistant everything until his final sum up? Why do people not just talk to each other in fiction? Don’t even get me started on romantic misunderstandings!

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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:43 pm said:

I enjoy this fight scene. So dance-y, which, well, makes sense.

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:43 pm said:

Yes! Yes yes yes!!!! Best music cue of the film coming up!!!!

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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:44 pm said:

Do he got the booty in the yellow pants?

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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:45 pm said:
  
  I have very similar yellow pants and I love them so much. But they do nothing for my already non-existent booty!
  
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  - procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:47 pm said:
    
    They’re not doing much for his either. Farah gave him a 20-pack or what the hell ever but took his cute buns away. Boo.
    
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    - mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:48 pm said:
      
      She tried to replace them with cargo pants, but it’s not the same.
      
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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:44 pm said:

How is the little boy’s hair still perfect even after a big fall? Really, how is everyone’s hair perfect, seeing as the wind on the helicopter pad should be intense?

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shantisal on January 1, 2021 at 4:45 pm said:

Great place for dane practice – no chance of anyone going over the edge

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- shantisal on January 1, 2021 at 4:45 pm said:
  
  dance (not dane)
  
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Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 4:45 pm said:

Unrelated, but Margaret, I want you to know I’m hanging your Hanukkah card behind my desk since that’s the only wall space I have but my students might see it over Zoom so look forward to comments from them

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- mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:46 pm said:
  
  YAAAAAAY!!!! I am so happy.
  
  If you really want to have fun, let me suggest you do like my sister and create theme homework for Shahrukh and Amitabh’s birthdays. She teaches math and there are many word problem possibilities.
  
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  - Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 4:48 pm said:
    
    Sometimes I put actors names in problems. One of the last worksheets they get is on word problems, and Varun and Alia are “characters”. Since it’s the end of the year, they’re usually more than comfortable saying something. We were online by that point last school year, but multiple people commented “well played” or that it made their day. I still have the screenshots.
    
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    - mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:49 pm said:
      
      Genius
      
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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:46 pm said:
  
  I have her card on my mantel! Thanks, Margaret! I love all your cards so much! If you have any extra, I’ll take others!
  
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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:45 pm said:

YES! KUNG FU FIGHTING!!!! Now I kind of want to watch Cobra Kai, which NEtflix is shoving at me.

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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:47 pm said:
  
  Everyone keeps telling me to watch it too but I have been resisting. Instead I watched Upload!
  
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  - mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:47 pm said:
    
    I am nervous about Upload because the premise is so ridiculous. I did just start a rewatch of The Good Place this morning, you should check that if you haven’t yet. Very romantic.
    
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    - filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:49 pm said:
      
      My husband and I started watching The Good Place when it first started and thought it was quite funny but then for no reason at all, we stopped watching it. .
      
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      - mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:50 pm said:
        
        Well, now it is all finished, and they really stuck the landing, and the whole thing is on Netflix. Time to catch up! Also, it’s one of those shows were slowly over the seasons you realize it is really a love story. I love those shows.
        
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Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 4:45 pm said:

It’s epic but it is also lowkey racist

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- procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:46 pm said:
  
  Yeppir.
  
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  - mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:46 pm said:
    
    Really, this could be said about all of Hindi film, couldn’t it?
    
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    - procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:48 pm said:
      
      I think the lowkey racism is about the same in American and Hindi movies. Just shows up differently.
      
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      - filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:51 pm said:
        
        I agree with this! It is much more, for a lack of a better word, cursory and in-your-face in Hindi movies but not worse than in American movies.
        
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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:49 pm said:

Ugh, Charlie is a dick. Sonu is lovely! Again!

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- Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 4:51 pm said:
  
  He is such a sweetheart I love him on-screen and off
  
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shantisal on January 1, 2021 at 4:49 pm said:

Who is the female host?

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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:50 pm said:

Ooooh, can I pick this tux jacket of Jackie’s?

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- mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:50 pm said:
  
  Yes, but I want the red one on the other judge
  
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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 4:50 pm said:

I swear this movie lowkey ships Sonu and Deepika!!!!!!

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- mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:51 pm said:
  
  You know what it’s like? SRK and Amrita in Main Hoon Na. The nice kind brotherly supportive type, versus the jerk she has a crush on. Or, Pretty in Pink.
  
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  - procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:52 pm said:
    
    Yes! But Ducky veers into “Nice Guy” territory in Pretty in Pink. He could be saved though.
    
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- procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:51 pm said:
  
  Agreed.
  
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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 4:52 pm said:
  
  So much!
  
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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:52 pm said:

Why would “if you tiger than I tiger and quarter” be subtitled as “if you hero I am superhero”?

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- procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:56 pm said:
  
  Yes, or the buffalo one. “Who has stick, he has buffalo”? Is that it, or what is it exactly? At any rate it’s my favorite part of the song.
  
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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:54 pm said:

Dips wig is really cute in this, and I think she actually has hair like this in some movie? But I can’t remember what. That’s my deep thought.

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:55 pm said:

WHY WOULD YOU PUT GLASS ON A STAGE????

Although, remember I said there was one dance show I went to that was almost as nice as Dips’ theater? That was a variety show and it included an act that was a sexy lady literally rolling around in glass, because some people are into that. Maybe the stage glass is left over from an act like that?

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- procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:56 pm said:
  
  Ugh
  
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  - mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 4:57 pm said:
    
    Yeah, that was the act I had to close my eyes and look away. Mostly it was fun stripping and sexy dancing and stuff, but I cannot do glass work.
    
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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 4:56 pm said:

SRK you mean idiot!!!!!!!

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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 4:57 pm said:

I love Abhi’s American accent!

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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 4:57 pm said:

Vivaan’s expressions are priceless!

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- procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 5:01 pm said:
  
  Anyone know what he’s done since this?
  
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  - mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:03 pm said:
    
    Bombay Velvet, where he was cute but the movie was a mess. Laddoo something something, where he was actually the hero but it had a poor release and no one saw it. Oh, and A Suitable boy!!!! So if you have about 50 hours to spare, you can watch him in that.
    
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  - Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 5:03 pm said:
    
    A couple of movies, but not much, and he is on A Suitable Boy that is on Netflix
    
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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 5:03 pm said:

I love this song. Makes me so happy. Both song and picturization.

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:04 pm said:

Wait, does Shahrukh get a room to himself and no one else does? Or is he sharing with Sonu, because they are the hot guys?

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Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 5:05 pm said:

God, I always forget about Satakli but this song is so good too. This actually might be my favorite. It’s the one I come back to every so often to listen to on repeat, and it’s a huge energy booster. I wanna choreograph a routine to this and I’m not even a choreographer.

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:05 pm said:

I don’t know why, but somehow the one thing I really want to do in this whole Dubai Tourism song, is ice skate in the middle of an enormous mall.

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:06 pm said:

Oh! Sonu can’t get with Dips because he is going to get with Abhishek! I just saw it, and now everything makes sense. They’ve got that same hate to love vibe as SRK and Dips too.

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filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:06 pm said:

I want Deepika’s blue romper so much!

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:07 pm said:

Wait, does Vivaan have the same hair as the little Korean kid? How have I not noticed this before?

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- procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 5:09 pm said:
  
  Hahaha, so true!
  
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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 5:07 pm said:

Oh no, not another “fit”. Take out the puking, the digs at seizure disorders, and Charlie being an asshole behind Mohini’s back, and this move would be 3x better.

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:07 pm said:

It’s like Shahrukh’s birthday!!!!! Maybe this movie gave them the idea?

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Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 5:07 pm said:

The salute fountain shot is my favorite

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:08 pm said:

ROMANTIC SEXY BIT!!!! Oh boy, when he turns it on, he turns it ON

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- procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 5:08 pm said:
  
  Oh my, yes.
  
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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 5:08 pm said:

Sonu is so pure when he looks and points at the banner in the building. I LOVE HIM!!

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Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 5:08 pm said:

See this is why I love SRKDeepika! And the fire!

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filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:08 pm said:

I am not a huge fan of Vegas because I was forced to go there too much for work conferences, but I do love the waterworks in front of the Bellagio.

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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 5:09 pm said:

Sonu you wonderful human being who should be the hero of the film, but sadly isn’t

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:09 pm said:

Theory: Abhishek and Sonu are a couple on the downlow. Still fighting, but more like a loving long time couple. Thoughts?

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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:10 pm said:

Ew, Sonu is wearing plaid pants. EW!

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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm said:
  
  This movie is showing my fashion choices because I also happen to have very similar plaid pants and I LOVE them!!!
  
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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:11 pm said:

This is a terrible terrible dress on Dips. It gives her a tummy! She doesn’t have a tummy!

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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 5:11 pm said:

Deepika is such a good actress, to make me feel for her despite this being a ridiculous situation.

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- mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm said:
  
  I don’t know what you are talking about, I am constantly learning that the rest of my dance team has been secretly plotting a jewel theft behind my back while I was sincerely trying to win the contest.
  
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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm said:
  
  I know!!!!
  
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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:13 pm said:
  
  Deepika is the BEST part of this movie!!!
  
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  - Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm said:
    
    Agreed!
    
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procrastinatrix on January 1, 2021 at 5:12 pm said:

Ok, ladies, I must love you and leave you. Glad I could hang out for a bit. Wishing you all a healthy and good new year, and maybe even happy! 🙂

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- mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:13 pm said:
  
  Happy New Year to you too!!!!! We will cheer for Team India to win the contest on your behalf.
  
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- Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm said:
  
  Same to you! Have a good year! 😀
  
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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm said:
  
  Happy new year, Popka! Oh oh also, Margaret asked if she should watch Shalimar and whether it is masala or just boring? I think she should watch it and it is masala but I am sure you have a strong opinion on it too!
  
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- filmikudhi on January 3, 2021 at 7:04 am said:
  
  I just realized I said Popka when I meant Procrastinatrix! Hope you have a happy and healthy new year, Procrastinatrix.
  
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  - procrastinatrix on January 3, 2021 at 10:55 am said:
    
    I knew what you meant. 🙂 Happy New Year to you and yours! Hoping for a filmi get together in 2021!
    
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Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 5:17 pm said:

Deepika so so sexy with that sari and blouse and just in general

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- Courtney on January 1, 2021 at 5:17 pm said:
  
  THe accent is also somehow both hilarious and hot
  
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  - Kirre Ranin on January 1, 2021 at 5:18 pm said:
    
    I know!!
    
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- filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:18 pm said:
  
  Agreed! So sexy and so lovable!
  
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mredlich21 on January 1, 2021 at 5:19 pm said:

Seeeee? Sonu and Abhishek are in love!!!

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filmikudhi on January 1, 2021 at 5:21 pm said:

Abhishek does such a great job as a second lead in so many movies! To me, he really is one of the most underrated actors!

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