HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRRE!!!!!! I am so excited that, thanks to time zones, we all get to be the first ones to wish you, at midnight Finnish time which should be one hour into this movie (right? Did I do time zones correctly?).
Mirzya! It’s based on a tragic legend that the filmmakers think we all already know, so the whole love story and tragedy part should not surprise us. But also, so sexy! And Harsh, so beautiful! Oh, and it’s on Netflix.
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Yes, you got the timezones right! š
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Yay! Important questions: Does the Nepalese place you are going to tomorrow have momos and have you had them?
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We ordered from them home today, since my Dad’s birthday is the day before mine, so today. We usually have joint celebrations. I haven’t had momos, and I don’t know if they have them.
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Momos are delicious little Nepalese dumplings. They are so so good! Here the wiki page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(food)
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Thank you! I’ll see if they have them the next time we go there.
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Momos are delicious little Nepalese dumplings. They are so so good! Here is an article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(food)
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I’m here!
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Popka – I send this comment to the wrong person last time by mistake. Last week Margaret asked if she should watch Shalimar and whether it was masala or just boring. I figured you would have so many strong opinions on this topic!
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Oh my god, Shalimar is INSAAAANE. It doesn’t really have enough plot in my opinion, and it’s boring in places because of bad pacing and a bunch of other stuff going wrong, but it’s pretty entertaining regardless because of all the fringe stuff being soooo crazy. Just Sylvia Miles is worth watching for honestly. I mean it is VERY bad, though.
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HA! It is so bonkers that it is thoroughly entertaining to me. I didn’t think it was boring at all but this type of movie is basically made for me! I think given her love for movies like Rajkumar with Anil, I think she will like this one. It is just nutso.
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Well, I think it could have some more insanity stuffed into it but man it is entertaining. That snake movie we watched was less crazy, but you have to have patience for 70s bad movies.
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And PLAY!!!!
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Hey, Chicago International Film Festival!!! My first thought was “shoot, I missed the chance to see it on the big screen.” But I saw it on the big screen! The day it released! It played all over the city!!! Film Festivals are dumb.
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WOOOOO, HARSH!!!!
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Om Puri! His last movie!!!
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Gulzar’s lyrics are just heaven
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Already, the visuals are just sweeping me away
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Happy Birthday Kirre!
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Yes, happy birthday!
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Thank you so much, Popka!! š
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Thank you, Genevieve!! š
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Love the lady blacksmiths.
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Their hammering is almost like dancing.
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OOOOOO!!!! The PAST!!!!
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9 year old just asked when this takes place, and I’m not sure..
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Olden Times
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The most elaborate sports tournament ever
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I shouldn’t be, but I keep thinking about gun powder and horses arriving and trying to date this. It’s foolish, I know. It’s Olden Times.
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I just saw 8 hours of history documentaries on India -so olden times is NOT doing it for me.
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Pre History Times
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Saiyami Kher has such an interesting look. Really good casting for this movie, she feels immediately kind of throwback and ancient.
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She is really classically beautiful, but I do think they did the make up wrong for her.
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Oh oh oh!!!! Like the cartoon Robin Hood!!! Splitting the arrow I mean. Really, this whole movie is the cartoon Robin Hood. right?
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Mirzya is the Robin Hood of India, especially with the arrows
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Doom, DOOM!!!! With that opening, we know this little boy will not end up well.
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9 year old and I have spotted the hero, but we aren’t sure if blue eyes is the heroine because she looks kinda evil.
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Oh, have you seen this before? There’s a bit coming up that might be really really upsetting for the 9 year old, especially since he is your sensitive one. We will warn you.
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brb gonna brush my teeth
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Wrong reply window!
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That is such a blue house and with nice murals
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Such cute little kids with a healthy and helpful connection with each other that will never go wrong!!!!
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That little boy is such a gentleman
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9 year old is frustrated that movies can’t take place in just one time period these days.
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It’s SO TRUE!!!!! Why can’t everything just be chronological?
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Huh, little girl’s face kind of looks like Saiyami. Good casting.
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Look at lil’ Harsh, sitting with all the girls!!!
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I hate this part. It’s your own fault! Blame yourself for being lazy and letting someone else cover for you! Uugggh
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100% agree!
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9 year old is also pretty sure his friends wouldn’t take a hand beating for him.
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Is this the servant or her Dad? Either way it’s a very good nice parent thing.
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Teaching children English with Shakespeare, so, the easy way (sarcasm)
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Hey, it’s how Shashi learned!!! So he could act with Jennifer, because he is the BEST
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Shashi is the GOLD STANDARD!
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There is this thing with Indian English, where it circles around to the point. SO DIFFERENT from American English, thus Indians learning English through Shakespeare suddenly makes sense to me.
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Genevieve!!! Don’t let your kid see this!!!!!!
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yeah I didn’t refresh the screen enough to see your warning until it was too late – but by the end of the movie no one was overly traumatized.
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Hide your kid now from watching, Genevieve!
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Is this Om Puri or Amitabh? I feel so bad not being able to tell!
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This is where I lose all sympathy for this character, and have to pretend Harsh is a different person.
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He was a little kid! He didn’t know what he was doing!!!!
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You knew enough to know cheating is bad, let alone killing someone for your cheating.
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Thankfully he has a different name as an adult, so it is quite easy
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It’s true, and they never discuss it, so.
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Okay, Genevieve, you can look again. And Popka too
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WHAT! He’s not the hero anymore. Now he’s a villian!
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Exactly! I truly wonder what made them make this decision, it is not in any version of the folktale and it can’t have been popular with the general public as a plot point.
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I mean, none of the general public was watching this movie anyway, because even the trailers just looked WEIRD.
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That plot point means I can never recommend it to anyone though, not helped by the fact that like 90% of the people I know are teachers.
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And let this be a lesson to them!!! Never separate the destined child lovers in their classroom!
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I will make sure to tell them.
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That moment when the crowd of dancers leaps the gap and it goes into slow motion is the moment in theaters that I wanted to stand up and applaud and knew this was going to be a really special movie.
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I do think that the movie wanted that shock, wanted us to feel like they were a no rules kind of throw back couple right from the start. Having a simpler childhood seperation wouldn’t do it.
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They could have made it a misinterpreted accident or something.
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Like, maybe he stole the gun to threaten the teacher, dropped it, and it went off?
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Yeah that kind of thing, or he pushed him and he fell wrong or something.
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Like how lil’ Rajesh kills his uncle in Aradhana and then it never comes up again.
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Also, the cheating element isn’t in the folktale, they didn’t even need to have that!
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Maybe they are kind of mixing and matching Mirzya and Laila Majnu?
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Awwww, he’s such a good caring Dad.
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The music, the story, the lyrics, and the cinematography just make this montage song so much more than it should be. Not to mention the little boy’s intense eyes, just such good acting.
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His deliquency haircut is still better than the ones I give my kids.
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Harsh is SO HANDSOME Even just from the back.
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HELLO, HARSH THE HANDSOME!!!
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Her face is my face.
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The boys and I are still just dumbfounded. HE KILLED A MAN!
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WE TOLD YOU NOT TO WATCH!!!!! WE ALL TOLD!!!!
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I KNOW. I KNOW. This is why I can only rewatch in a watchalong even though EVERYTHING ELSE about this movie is perfect to me. Such a mystifying choice.
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Horse shoes, human shoes, it’s all about shoes for Harsh.
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HA!
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Speaking of odd time periods, even the “present” feels a bit old fashioned with the strong rich versus poor divide in a kind of 19th century way.
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I was just saying to 12-year-old that I couldn’t tell if was past or present because rich people seem to always live in the past.
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I guess if you have the money for human labor, living in the past isn’t that bad.
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Aw, he is good to dogs!
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Only slightly related, but hilarious to me. My friend sent me a video of her 3 year old falling off A STATIONARY TOY HORSE. She was rocking back and forth like it was moving, and got thrown right out of the saddle. I think it means she can never be royalty, because she has a terrible Seat.
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Okay, so I’m telling the kids that Harsh is the little boy in the past. And Harsh died and was re-incarnated into the little boy. Am I right?
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Yes. Harsh and Saiyami are destined to play out the same tragic love story over and over again through history. And in the present version, they were separated by him going to jail.
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Real love story of the film: Saiyami and the sweet manservant who raised her.
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