Happy Happy Saturday! And SRK day!!! What a wonderful start to the day/weekend, spending the morning with SRK.
I swear I won’t oversleep this week! So at 7:30am Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY!” comment and we will go from there. Super fun!
Reminder, Chennai Express is off Netflix and Prime right now, so you will have to dig out a DVD or else rent it on youtube (link below).
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SHOLAY!!!! This series of sounds, the blacksmith and knife sharpener and wool thingy is exactly the same as the series of sounds used when Gabbar arrives in the village the first time in Sholay.
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Driving her back to her village instead of confessing love and taking her to Mumbai is ridiculous. And the moral is what, it is better to die than to elope? Aye aye aye
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No, it is better to face your problems than run away!!! It’s all very noble.
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Hmph!
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I can’t believe the “we need no translation, he can understand my meaning” thing actually worked.
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Why don’t they both just speak English – an language they both actually speak and understand?!
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“It is very good to be important, but it is more important to be good” is something I want to put on a sign next time I go to a protest.
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Ugh hate this part with the lecturing
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Let’s say the point of this lecture is to train men to be allies because women already know these things. Instead of thinking about how a man is talking about how a woman never gets to talk for herself.
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Please, just leave the cursing in the subtitles! THat’s my favorite part of the speech!
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Wow bringing up Indian independence!
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Oh oh! The totally cheese “BECAUSE I LOVE HER”!!!! It gets me every time.
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THEIR DIMPLES MATCH!!!! It’s meant to be.
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A dramatic declaration of love. Does that make it more believable than a whispered declaration?
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Yes
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Yes
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Obviously! It’s only when you declare love loudly that that it becomes real.
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I feel like if you are hit hard enough in the head for the stick to break, you would be dead. Right? no more fight, just dead?
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Yupp!
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9 year old got out of bed for this fight. 12 year old won’t leave the fire and 6 year old won’t leave Daddy’s cuddles.
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Awww!
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Which one is the SRK fan? Or are they all fans?
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They are all somewhat fans, though the 9 and 6 year old more than the 12 year old.
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12 is probably too sophisticated.
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Okay, let’s say Shahrukh is a gym obsessive because he is that kind of shallow guy. So he has the muscles to do a big fight scene, it’s just a matter of having the motivation to really hurt people. So in that case, this fight between him and 20 men For Love makes total sense and is reasonable.
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It’s Rohit Shetty. All logic goes out of the window and everything makes perfect sense!
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Here is when I start to worry about the village economy now that all the little stalls have been destroyed. Maybe they can sell Dips’ wedding jewelry to pay for damages?
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This fight scene goes a little too long if I’m being perfectly honest.
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It does. I am bored.
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I’m ordering Valentine’s gifts as we speak.
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I’m thinking about if I want a nap or breakfast more.
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It worked in theaters, I think because we all knew it was close to the end so you could start rummaging for your coats and stuff.
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No way Jose! keep the death defying hits coming!
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Oh fun fact I just found out that I thought I would share. This story for this film was written by a K. Subash who directed all but one Tamil films and also wrote the story for Dilwale.
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That is fun!
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The end of this movie also bugs me because it treats Deepika like a prize which feels so contradictory considering how feminist the rest of this movie was.
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I try to read it as Shahrukh knowing her family and village will always see her that way. So he has to play the game in order to fully free her from them, and then she is making her own decision here.
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His asking her himself makes it better. But her family learned nothing from his 10 minute speech.
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I agree. I don’t like that her father tells SRK that Deepika is his now, he (father) is giving her to him. I wish Deepika had been a part of the fight scenes. Personally, I think she would have kicked butt!
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6 year old showed up for the romance, which are actually his favorite bits.
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Good boy!
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Your kids are so great!
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I love this but I hate it because it;s so much blood and it’s all getting in her hair!!
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The blood is pretty gross, and one point it drips down his lip.
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LUNGI DANCE LUNGI DANCE LUNGI DANCE LUNGI DANCE!!!!!
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I KNOW!!!!!! My other FAVORITE SONG!!!!!!!!!!
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I just told the kids that now they were going to get married and have three boys of their own. And the 9 year old informed me that in these movies if they don’t have twins they only have one child!
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It’s SO TRUE!!!!
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Least favorite song, sorry.
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HA! I love it so much! It just makes me smile like a fool.
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And now you can see the real height difference. She’s so much taller than him!
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6 year old wants to when SRK was in the army and had the beard now, but the 9 year old is screaming for Don.
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It is confusing, He has lived so many lives
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My only issue with this song is why is Deepika NOT wearing a lungi in this song?!?! Why put her in a lungi in a song that isn’t the Lungi Dance?!
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They tried to do the Lungi Dance when Deepika was on James Corden years back and it was hilarious.
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Deepika still killing it with the sarees
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Sigh. that was so good. And I am suddenly super tired even though all I did was get up and watch this movie. Maybe all the scenes of them running?
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I am tired and hungry. So I feel your dilemma of food or nap. Can I nap while eating food? It’s Rohit Shetty world, everything is possible!
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I love the blue and black geometrical sari so much! I was trying to find something like it but haven’t found one yet.
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Omg same I searched and found something similar long time back but didn’t go ahead with it
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Same!!! I have the picture of the sari I found that was kind of similar but I thought I would find one that is better/cheaper and now I am so mad that I never bought it!
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Okay, that was great and I am not as exhausted as I was last time. Thank you for finally giving into my campaigning, Margaret. And it’s sunny in NJ now so I hope it comes to Chicago. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Thanks for the watch-a-long, hope it fulfilled your happiness goal Margaret!
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It did! And now, for further happiness, a nap!
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Loved it! Thanks Margaret and everyone. I was watching the making of Titli during the fight because it’s adorable-
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Thank you everyone for such a wonderful watch-along. I am sleepy but so so happy!
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