Wooo, our first Sunday watchalong! And a great sunny vacationy kind of movie! The perfect ending to my vacation, I am going to order fancy coffee/breakfast for delivery and relax and enjoy. And then go over to my parents and officially rejoin the “real world”.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara! Hrithik and Kat are hot like fire together, and also a really well-written love story. And then Farhan and Abhay are also there. And Kriti is too good for any of them.
At 8:30am Chicago time I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and we will just go from there!
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Kalki isn’t initially sad that Abhay did not propose to her, she is embarrassed because what will others think!
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Exactly! Neither of them wanted this engagement, neither of them was really ready for it, and then it just kind of happened to them.
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Yupp. But I am sticking to my opinion that it still doesn’t excuse her jealousy and fakeness.
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UGH! This whole proposal was cringeworthy! But again, they care for each other and eventually should be together but NOT like this!!!
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HAPPY HRITHIK MAKES ME HAPPY!!
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I don’t know this is kind of misogynist to me.
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Is this a new Farhan hat? UGH!
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Emily, what the heck is happening?
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Why are there huge paper mache people?
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Los gigantes y cabezudos. https://www.sanfermin.com/en/party-guide/dont-miss-it/the-comparsa-of-giants-and-bigheads-on-sanfermin/
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THANK YOU! I knew you would know.
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Running of the bulls in Pamplona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_of_the_bulls
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But the paper mache?
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I guess some kind of mascots for the event
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Pagan religion survival is a wondrous thing.
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The pagans had paper mache?
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I don’t know about processions in Spain, they used different things in pagan processions in Europe.
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Emily gave a link!!!! The current figures are from 1860, replacing older figures that fell apart.
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Kat is on the screen and suddenly the 12 year old is watching
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NOOOO! Your baby!!!! Is he growing up?
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He has good taste.
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Kat is so pretty!!!
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Oh oh another random fact! Google says Hrithik and Abhay are the same height and they are SO NOT! Abhay is so much taller than Hrithik!
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This internet is NOT trustworthy when it comes to actor heights.
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Obviously! But it is funny to me because so many people think Hrithik is so much taller than he actually is. He is barely taller than Katrina. He may even be the same height as Katrina.
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I love how seamlessly Kat is part of the group now. Different from before, now she isn’t a “getting to know you flirty new person”, now she is just calmly there as part of Hrithik.
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When Hrithik said Dr. Freud it sounded like Fraud.
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He did say Dr. Fraud as a joke.
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Man, I totally missed it as a joke.
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I blame stupid subtitles!
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A VEST!!!! Farhan is wearing a VEST!!!! And that hat!!!! Even after working through his Daddy issues!
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I love that part of Abhay’s speech is explaining that “crazy jealous Kalki” isn’t the real Kalki, isn’t the one who knew, and maybe his friends have never even “met” the real Kalki.
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Exactly!!! They are meant to be. Just NOT like this.
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I don’t like the Weddings and love make women crazy!!!! part of this movie.
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I didn’t see it that way, I saw it as “they were both rushed into this marriage without thinking and Kalki reacted by trying to turn herself into what she thinks a wife should be”.
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Yes, I love that even though Kalki is a villain in the friendship story (Abhay’s friends have to save him from marrying her) the late reveal shows that her possessiveness is situational and he is at fault too for creating a relationship based on insecurity.
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Is it a normal think in India to buy moms rings for their birthdays?
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Yes. Jewelry is always a thing to buy moms in India. Rings also don’t have the same meaning in India that they do in America.
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Hrithik and Kat are so amazing together. Just happy and relaxed, make being in love look easy and happy.
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YES! Apologise to your Mom!
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Honestly, watching all these movies about Indian weddings makes me think eloping is a wonderful thing.
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Hey, it’s how my family does it!!! My sister was the first person to have a wedding in 3 generations, it’s just insanity.
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Farhan gives a real apology. The movie is over.
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I love that relationships are normal in this movie. People are attracted to each other. They get to know each other. They have sex. It is NORMAL!
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Wish we could have had some Hrithik & Kat sex scenes….
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I JUST said the exact same thing!!!
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I am so mad they didn’t show a Hrithik and Kat sex scene!!! It would have been so loving and wonderful!
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Confess to rolling my eyes that they end up at the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Because of course they do. But I would be curious to trace it from this movie back through whatever pop culture references to The Sun Also Rises, which is the main reason tourists started showing up to Pamplona en masse (there are running of the bulls traditions all over Spain but only Pamplona has turned into a circus where drunk Australians get themselves gored and trampled).
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I had to read The Sun Also Rises in college, and my big take away is wondering what’s wrong with non-penetrative sex.
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My three American Boys are suddenly paying rapt attention to this movie, waiting for those bulls!
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Have you done a ranch vacation yet? If not, could you? I want them to dress up like little cowboys before they stop being cute!
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I’ll try and find a picture of the 6 year old, as a 4 year old, in a cowboy suit for you.
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oh, I would DIE!
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Ferdinand is not in this group.
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Or else he is the one in the back going “I don’t like this I don’t like this I don’t like this”
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He can’t dance, but Abhay is a beautiful runner.
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Abhay is also sexy in his own way! Something about him is just innately attractive in a non-threatening smart way.
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Again, this movie is so male. Of course this is how men decide to solve all their problems!!!
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Yes!
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Men don’t talk, they do. They go hiking, climbing, biking. They don’t often just have dinner.
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Agreed. And somehow things are just resolved magically with very little dialogue!!! How is that even possible?!?!?!
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I did see my husband have one fight with a close friend once. ONCE. It was over children, and how to take care of them. But after a week of not hanging out they went climbing together and it was all back to normal. Sometimes I do feel women talk things to death. I know the Olympics dude in Japan got in trouble for saying women talk too much at board meetings, but after listening to my husband’s morning staff meetings, he may not be completely wrong. It was only one woman who talked things to death in my husband’s staff, but one is all it takes to drag things on forever and ever. I’m sure the same could be true of a talkative man, but then, I know more talkative women…
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I have been on committees with talkative men. It is so much worse. Because they are men, so not only do they talk A LOT, they have no awareness of the affect they are having on others by talking a lot. Weird committee that was, 3 super talkative men, and me plus one rotating woman (they kept losing patience and quitting the committee and leaving me alone) who tried so hard to get this train back on the rails and actually make decisions. I was chair for 4 years (and it felt like 10), and I started printing up an agenda and aggressively checking things off and reminding people how much time was left, and writing in a “free talk” point at the end to try to contain it.
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I think there needs to be a balance. I agree that men that I know will have a fight and then magically everything will be resolved and women, in general, need talk through everything if not it festers and there is all kinds of resentment. There has to be a balance, right?!
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Do you get issued a red neckerchief when you arrive?
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I just assumed they all raided FArhan’s limitless scarf stash.
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lol probably!
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Farhan brought all the scarves!
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Part of the running bulls tradition, red and white are the official colours to wear, scarfs included
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This is such a dumb event!!!! SO DUMB!!! Am I alone here? Like, I get rodeos, because that is training for actual professional situations you need to face. But no one “has” to be chased by bulls!
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Unless in the olden days when bulls could go rampaging in the villages and then they just made it a tradition for the thrill of it, because people are foolhardy and they could get practice if it happened at some point
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It started as just a way of getting the cattle through the village into the pen.
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Following/chasing/ running with running sacred animals (before killing them) was a huge thing in pre-Christian religion all over Europe.
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And then it was folded into Christianity along with processions and things.
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As traditions usually do. 🙂
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THe 9 year old is loving this! “Run like your life depends on it, because it does!”
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Woo-hoo!!!! It’s time to decide of Abhay and Kalki are going to get together again in a healthy mature way!!!! I say, YES! She seems to be dating someone else right now, but they keep looking at each other, like there is still something there.
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I think a broken engagement is pretty hard to get past. Also, they didn’t have the best chemistry, so I’m okay with them finding happiness with others.
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I think maybe Kalki is passed it, she is with another dude and seems relaxed and happy. But I think Abhay is a little lonely and regretful. Even if they don’t get back together, I think in his next relationship Abhay will be more open and work harder and value his significant other more.
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I vote no. They’re happier as friends.
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But she’s always gonna be Abhay’s “missed chance” until he works through that. ZNMD 2? Kalki getting married, Abhay planning to make a scene at the wedding, his friends help him let go and find love with someone else?
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That I would watch! New husband can be…Jim Sarbh?
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OMG, I think I wrote this. Let me check my archives:
Yes! It is the comments here, you and I wrote it together 🙂
https://dontcallitbollywood.com/2019/12/19/zindagi-na-milegi-dobara-the-loneliness-of-masculinity/
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 12:04 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Ha! Ripping off our own ideas.
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See, Abhay and Kalki are together even after he told her that they can’t get married just yet!!! Exactly like 27 Dresses!!!
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Also, I love this wedding!!!! It’s so free and joyful and inclusive of their friends and previous life and stuff. It’s not about changing into new people when they get married, the way Kalki and Abhay were preparing for.
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Yes! Also, when is ZNMD2 coming out??? And yes, Abhay and Kalki will get together eventually!!!
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See? Kalki is with the other dude whose hand Abhay shakes. But, for now or forever?
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But they are still fighting and flirting! And she is in the picture! They are meant to be.
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Just so long as you acknowledge that, right now at the wedding, they are not together.
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Oh I have watched this enough times to know that she is dating someone else at the end of the movie. But it does not matter IMO! Because Abhay and she are still in love and care about each other. Kalki just has a lot of growing up to do. I will NEVER acknowledge that the shoe is on the other foot and Abhay will now get weirdly jealous and go what if, as you stated. Kalki will grow up, dump this guy, and then get back with Abhay who is amazing!!!
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And you are sure you aren’t just blinded by Abhay dimples?
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Nope. I actually don’t even find Abhay attractive but can acknowledge that he is attractive in a non-threatening smart way.
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HOW can you not find Abhay attractive?!? Tall, well built, beautiful eyes and dimples….
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Something about Abhay just gives me friend vibes! I want us to be friends and I think he would make an amazing friend (like him and Kat in this movie); I just don’t want to have sex with him.
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I think the most important thing is that they are still kind of friendly. That’s the most important progress for both of them after the events of this movie
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Yes. They got past their roles as “Husband-wife” and found a way to see each other as humans again.
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Kalkia nd Abhay fighting!!!! Because he is trying to flirt or something and she gets mad because he is the one who broke off the engagement, but it is all part of the dance and eventually they will get back together.
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There are so many swings in India, not that I can tell the wedding is in India. But a wedding swing is pretty sweet. I’m assuming Indians aren’t like me and they don’t get motion sick on swings.
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Thanks, Margaret. I watched this movie last weekend without knowing it was going to be the watch-along this weekend and I am just as happy to watch it again!!! One of my all-time favorite movies.
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Thank you all so much for joining in with the end of my vacation!!!!! And please continue to leave comments about whether or not Abhay-Kalki will get back together!!!
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I hope you enjoy the last day of your vacation Margaret! Thank you for the watch-a-long!
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That was fun! Thanks Margaret!
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Thank you, Margaret! First time seeing this movie and I loved it! 😀
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It’s so good! And as soon as quarantine is lifted, you should go to Spain!
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I am wishing to go to North Italy after quarantine because I’ve always wanted to go there
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