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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Probably the best thing about this film is that it stands up completely on its own. You don’t have to get all the references to enjoy it, but it just elevates it if you do.
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YES!!!! I have shown this movie to so many people who know almost nothing and they all like it.
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This was my FIRST MOVIE, remember, so if I loved it so much to do insane amounts of research and fall down a years-long rabbit hole, it must be good.
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The fact that her father is so much paler than everyone around him makes me uncomfortable.
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It could just be that he doesn’t have to work outside as much?
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Oh this movie is 100% racist. I always wonder what the south Indian community thinks of this movie. I have seen very similar caricatures of Marathi people (my heritage), and I generally still find it funny, so that’s why I am okay with this movie.
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And now you get to watch TEN MILLION movies about noble Maharashtrian warriors, so surely that makes up for it. Ugh, Bajirao.
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I do NOT watch those because I have no patience for jingoistic bs! UGH!
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When I bring this up in school sometimes, most of my students LOVE this movie, but I have a South Indian coworker who hates this movie because of how racist it is.
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KATAPPA!!!!!!
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Discussion: do the English subtitles take away from the watching experience? Because we have access to what they’re saying in Tamil whereas the common moviegoer wouldn’t. So we know Deepika is pulling the love angle before this car conversation.
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I was just thinking that while I was watching it!!!! Other possibility, they were hoping for a crossover hit, so the Tamil speaking population would have a bit of extra knowledge that might make them feel special.
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So in the theaters they wouldn’t have Hindi subtitles during the Tamil bits?
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Even if the did, what about the illiterate audience members?
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That has to be another Deepika self reference but I don’t understand.
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Which bit?
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“I have a lot of experience running away”. Feels like the same kind of joke when Shahrukh pulled her on the train and said “I’ve done this before” but I haven’t seen enough of Deepika’s early stuff to get the joke.
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Hmm. Even knowing her other stuff, I don’t know if it quite works. She ran away in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Break Ka Baad, but I don’t think any others.
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I think that is just her being factual because she keeps running away and they keep bringing her back.
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The song singing, the note throwing great comedy bits!
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I love granny!!! And the callback that old ladies always want to pinch his cheeks.
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Tangabali!!!! We all know that this actor and SRK have stayed friends and he sends him birthday greetings, right?
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YES IT’S SO CUTE! I take screenshots and send them to my friend because we love Tangabali. ANd SRK
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Tangaballi is hot.
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Quick, between Tangabali and Kuljeet in DDLJ, who is hotter? I say Tangabali. Strong and silent is the best.
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Tangabali. Hands down. PLus Tangabali redeems himself in the end whereas Kuleet doesn’t. Tanagabali is not exclusively horrible.
I feel like a more difficult question would be Tangabali or the fiance in HSKD who I can’t remember his name right now.
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Outside of wanting to kill SRK Tangaballi never disrespects Dips, he definitely wins.
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And really, after having spent more time with SRK than him, we also kind of want to kill him. He’s not the best guy.
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Agree with everyone. Tangabali wins hands down!
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Shahrukh really loves his clavicle…..
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Tangabali or Rana Duggabati in Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani? Let’s make this a real challenge!
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Oooooh I love Rana!
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I’ve always wondered how people get on those kind of setups
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Shahrukh is totally improvising lines at this point, yeah?
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Probably. I feel like the “you must have heard the name before” was only supposed to be once.
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This movie breaks all the rules!!!! First song isn’t until well over an hour in, the interval is at this weird unnatural point in the film, no love at first sight, it’s all just craziness.
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48 minute mark according to YouTube, but yes, this breaks my brain whenever I realize this is the first song
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And only song in the first half, while the second half has 4!
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THE MOST ICONIC SONG
NO ONE TELL ME WHO THIS WOMAN IS I DON’T WANNA KNOW
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I WAS ABOUT TO TELL YOU!!!! Thank goodness you warned me.
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My friend and I obviously had no concept of item numbers when we watched this. We thought it was Deepika the whole time and it was part of her plan. When it was over we were confused but made it a point not to look it up.
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I was just thinking Who Is She? Oh well.
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She is more cute than sexy, which is interesting in an item number.
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Oh oh!!!!! My sister should totally show this to her math students!!! Right?
Alternatively, use it to teach my nephew numbers.
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Yes, totally educational.
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DOes that mean I should too
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Well, ideally only if you are teaching math. If you are teaching English, it is less relevant. Maybe show Bol Bachchan instead.
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I am a high school math teacher so maybe I should.
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Yes! And also, “Ek Do Teen”. And Anil’s “One 2 Ka 4”
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I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH!!! We danced to it at home during my sister’s henna!
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I love how all these men are at least 6-8 inches taller than SRK
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While we’re on math, quick story:
Two years ago, I was playing a review game with my students that involved splitting in teams and giving each person a number. WHoever’s number was called had to answer the question. The last one called that class was 4. This one kid took it upon himself to count and make sure the right person was answering. When 4 came, he counted “one, two, three, four” then turned to me and, without missing a beat said “get on the dance floor”. This was less than a month into the school year so they had no idea I knew what they were talking about but I was like “:O Chennai Express!!” and they were like “YOU’VE SEEN IT???” and it started a whole thing that lasted the entire school year.
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THAT IS SO CUTE!!!! I love your kids.
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I bet you became their FAVORITE teacher immediately!
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I would also make student of the year jokes to kids who were insanely competitive about answering first and when they were like “hey that’s a bollywood movie” i “watched it over the weekend” and talked about how great it was and we made jokes the rest of the year to the point where I showed them the first ten minutes on the last day of school
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I wish I had a teacher like you when I was a kid!
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I think I told you that my sister taught at Rutgers for a while. She LOVED being able to put filmi jokes into word problems and stuff and the kids were really great about taking it in the right spirit and joking right back. Teaching math in New Jersey as a Hindi film fan is just the BEST.
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IT’S SO GOOD. I still have Varun and Alia as characters in a word problem, and when we went online in the spring and I still gave that same worksheet, so many were like “I see what you did there and I love it”
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COURTNEY DON’T READ
The item dancer is a southern actress/model who had a decent career and then retired and got married in 2017. What I find really fun/funny is that her Mom was a national level Badminton player, and since Dips’ Dad is basically the Patron Saint of Badminton in India, especially in Bangelore where she is from, that means the families probably know each other. Cool, right?
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Very cool. What’s her name?
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Priyamani. She is also supposed to be a cousin of Vidya somehow?
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Interesting!
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This silence after the motorcycle is underrates and hilarious
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This section is SO RANDOM!!!! But I guess they had to get him away, and then bring him back just in time for her wedding, and they decided to do it in the weirdest way possible.
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My dad cracked up during this part.
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The police boats are very shiny, so many for one smuggling boat.
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But that is illegal! Another quote worthy line!
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Do you think if Dips talked directly to Tangabali and explained that she simply did not feel ready for marriage he would take care of it for her? I kind of feel like he would.
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I think he would. He doesn’t seem outright evil. Just duty bound and also probably a bit in love with Deepika because who wouldn’t be?!
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But her father wouldn’t which is probably a bigger problem.
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My name is RAhul and I’m not a terrorist, and then he straightens his head!
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Do you know how many rewatches it took for me to catch that My Name is Khan reference?
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3? I’m on number three.
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HA! “Aapko Singham ki kasam” to the police officers. Translation: leave me for Singham’s sake
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Rohit Shetty does love a good car chase.
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Can’t get married now, too muddy. So much dust in the air, and so many people in clean white clothes. It always amazes me.
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A. I don’t think just driving into gas cans would cause an explosion; B. I don’t think an explosion in front of the car makes the whole car flip forward
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But does Rohit Shetty care about any of that logic nonsense?
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Excellent point. If it feels like it could happen, why not make it happen?
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I’m joining now. Rahul is just back at the village right?
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CAR CHASE!!!!
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Too bad my boys are still asleep.
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I was just about to ask if your boys were awake yet!
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Deepika’s sassiness is hilarious!
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She makes the movie for me honestly
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Same here.
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From idiot with no savant to action here, quite a shift for SRK’s character.
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Maybe he played a lot of video games?
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Oh oh! Help me! What is on his t-shirt?
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I saw Steve McQueen written
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Something about Steve McQueen, I think. Maybe a movie poster?
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One of my biggest take aways from this film is that I really want Shahrukh’s bag. It is so handy! And easy to throw around! And never gets lots!
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Just another one of Vidya’s backpacks.
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ACK! polluting that beautiful lake!!
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Her Dad can get some of his men to drag it out later. He seems like he takes very good care of his village.
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This is such a random intermission point! The intermission should have been when he woke up on the boat, but then it wouldn’t have been halfway, so they had to throw it in here instead.
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They go their separate ways so it kinda works
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Everyone look away, weird ableism moment
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don’t like this part.
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Bathroom break time
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Yupp! I am going to go make tea!
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I wanna FF this
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ME TOO!
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This is the part that does make me very very uncomfortable!
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And Dips is back! It’s all good!!!!
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Wedding saris are not the best for hiking.
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But wedding jewelry is great for paying off people, so she’s got that going for her.
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I’m sure this Jolie part is SRK’s idea
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PRETTIEST VILLAGE IN INDIA!!!!!
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Beautiful, but it looks like it is prone to flooding.
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It looks like a village from a Disney live action movie! It is just so stunning!
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Shah Rukh constantly has to go to Deepika to save him. She is definitely the hero in this movie!
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