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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Awwww, Kat is already all handsy over Hrithik!!! Who wouldn’t want to feel those nice biceps/shoulders?
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Okay, maybe THIS is now my favorite song.
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Is anyone else thinking about how acidy and stingy tomato pulp can be on your skin?
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Think of it as a cleanser. But yeah, I’d probably REALLY want a shower later.
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I love them throwing tomatoes at Farhan!
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ME TOO!!
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I love that everyone makes fun of Farhan! Hrithik calling him out about rules is hilarious!
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YES! Shirt is GONE!
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I notice that no one over 35 is at this festival.
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Hrithik is such delicious man candy!!!
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Ooh!! Kat and Hrithik getting handsy and sexy together is my EVERYTHING
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It is!!!
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Scenes this the Tomatina festival now make me go NOOOOO. So COVD-Y Social distance yourselves!!!
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I didn’t even think about it. It got me so involved I forgot COVID! Awesome.
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In real life I’m not a fan of people going shirtless everywhere. But on screen, when everyone is beautiful it is lovely.
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Okay Kalki’s jealousy is off putting!
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Yes.
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Allllllllllllllll my sympathy is with Kalki. Yes, she shouldn’t have come. But she kind of knows she shouldn’t have come, and is in a no win situation.
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Hmmm, I understand her, but I can’t say I’m sympathetic. My sympathy is with Abhay.
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Farhan calling Kalki a witch is TERRIBLE!!!
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Yes! Kalki being insecure and jealous is bad, but it’s an understandable issue for her, let your friend and his fiance work out their own thing, you know? Don’t call her a “witch”.
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It’s not understandable to me. I can’t stand Kalki’s fake niceness and actual jealousy. But yes, let her and her fiance work it out. And don’t call her a witch! That’s awful!
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It’s understandable to me after we get the flashback we haven’t gotten yet and see how this whole engagement is built on quicksand. She secretly knows he doesn’t want it, and kind of doesn’t want it either, and is just waiting for something to implode.
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Hrithik all relaxed on the couch! Such a change, he’s not gonna have a heart attack any more, such a relief.
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I’m was so worried they were going to scuz up their nice hotel in their tomato clothes.
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UGH! FArhan! Just order normally and be decent to the wait staff. And also, Kalki is totally right. UGH!
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They were having fun and then she basically squashed all the joy from the table.
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The tension is HIGH
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I think Farhan dislikes Kalki for a pretty good reason. She is uptight and his friend is rushing into marriage. But she isn’t a witch.
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Yeah. It’s okay to not like a woman without needing to minimize her to a “witch”.
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Farhan’s sexy fun charming in the hotel room is so much less intimate than Kat and Hrithik’s walking conversation.
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Notice that his taking of the room is forcing his friend to go on an intimate walk with the girl he likes.
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Kat saying Hirthik’s dialogue from earlier. Very clever!
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Yes lock her in and then hit on her, that’s great and not creepy at all.
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Wellllll she didn’t seem to mind….
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Hrithik’s sweater is way too see through!
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THANK YOU! I thought it was just me. If it is that thin, why even wear it?
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HRITHIK! First one of the boys to get to reveal his full motivation, and maybe that is why I like him more than the others? No, I think I just like him more than the others.
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Kat speaks TRUTH! Hrithik is on the way to dying of an ulcer/heart attack long before 40.
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Oh, now Farhan gets to give his motivation too! Do we get the Abhay reveal right after this too? The engagement flashback? Is the construction that tight?
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I love the Abhay reveal. I love the filming storytelling contrast with the opening.
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I can ALMOST forgive Farhan now, if we go with a “he is so torn up by fear and worry over meeting his bio Dad that he is always moving and talking to distract himself”. But still, apologize to Hrithik.
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Does Kat feel like a “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” to anyone? She doesn’t to me, and I can’t quite put my finger on why she feels less wish fulfillment and more real.
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Kat is the opposite of manic.
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She has shades of it but she does feel real and her own character with her own world (in a sense) outside of the story or the main characters.
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I think because she knows who she is and sticks to it. She isn’t trying to change herself for Hrithik. She is also NOT trying to be cool. She sticks up for Kalki. All those things make her human and not manic pixie dream girl.
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OMG! I am 100% team Abhay! Kalki is annoying me so much!
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Kat’s face, her dissapointment and shock that he made no move as he drives away. Great.
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Kat is so great in this movie! She does not get the credit she deserves! Thank god for the DCIB community!
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And she is SO SEXY on that motorcycle!
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I KNOW!!! Girl crush!
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This is such an immediately iconic moment. The woman chasing down her man, all by herself, on a motorcycle, to put her heart out there.
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Happy anticipation as she tries to catch up to them…
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AWWW! Hrithik jumps out of the car right away, he knows she is there for him. I didn’t catch that before.
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INteresting how a mine can make a good background.
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YAAAAAAAAS!!!! SUCH A GOOD KISS!!
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If she was a “manic pixie dream girl” character, just there for Hrithik’s journey, this is the last we would see of her. And we wouldn’t have seen her ask her friend for the bike or chasing him down, we would have just seen her magically appear and kiss Hrithik and then disappear again.
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I guess that is how we know women wrote the script.
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I’m thinking. Same with Kalki and Alia in Gully Boy. They could easily be the “new girl versus old girl” for the hero, but instead they each of indications of motivation and why they want the hero.
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Kalki automatically thinking of Kat as the help who is bringing something she left behind. So very Indian rich girl!
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THUMB!
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Awwww, we also get to see Kalki integrate more into the group during this song. We don’t know what she is saying, but she is talking to Farhan and making him laugh and Abhay is holding her and stuff.
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Hrithik doing the flying motion with his hand is parallel to Alia in Highway when she discovers her freedom on the road!
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YES!!!!! I waas just thinking that! Except Zoya got their first.
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Yupp!
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Spain looks absolutely GORGEOUS! My dream is to go to Madrid, Barcelona and then all the way to Andalusia (in the south).
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Oooo! White horse white horse! Make a wish and look away! They are ruining EVERYTHING!!!!
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The world is different, but in all honesty so many places look like different spots in California.
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Which is why Hollywood is there!!!! So easy to film basically anything.
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I love the nature scenes in this movie!!!
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No fences. Don’t run into the road horses!!
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And now Kalki is a full character too. Abhay is giving stuff up to be married, but Kalki is giving up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more. All for this impulsive decision they are now both regretting.
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Oh my god the rock chick song
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Man I want to go to Spain so badly now. I also didn’t know they had wild horses. France does.
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Perhaps Spain has wild horses, but those ones were not.
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Does California have wild horses or is that just in movies?
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Mustangs, right?
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Yes, just barely, most are in Nevada but we do have some (close to the Nevada border). There was a huge herd that travelled through the county north of me two years ago. The Phantom Stallion books by Terri Farley are great kids books with wild horses in them, that are mostly true to life. The books take place in the high deserts of Nevada, but the situation is similar to some high desert places in CA.
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Oh what a relief! Zane Grey and the Black Stallion series and all these others primed me for gorgeous herds of wild horses. Glad to know it’s a reality.
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 9:26 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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There is a beauty to wild horses, but um, they’re kinda shaggy and beat up looking. The glossy coats belong to the animals in the stables.
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Oh man!!!! So all those book descriptions of the magical wild horses running through the plains and such beauty and stuff, is really just shaggy lice infested diseased wild animals?
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 8:56 AM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Well, they aren’t usually diseased.
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Kalki’s character is supposed to be at her worst at this moment in life, right? Like, we are getting clues that she was a super cool ambitious professional woman, but as the marriage gets closer she is forcing herself to put all her focus on Abhay because she thinks that is what a “wife” is supposed to do?
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Yupp. She is changing for him because she thinks that is what women are supposed to do but he doesn’t want her to change!!! They truly care for each other and are actually meant to be. Just not yet. See my comment below about 27 Dresses.
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See my comment about BIG DISCUSSION after we see the end credits sequence!!!!
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I just did!!!
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She is living her dream driving an awesome car and the guys are party poopers.
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Has anyone watched 27 Dresses? Abhay and Kalki’s relationship in this movie reminds me a little but of Malin Åkerman and Ed Burns’ relationship in that movie. They will eventually get married but they need to get to know themselves first and be real with each other.
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we are going to have a WHOLE discussion at the end about if Kalki and Abhay will get together again. I am torn between wanting them to get together in like 2 years after dating other people and stuff, and Kalki marrying someone awesome and making Abhay spend the rest of his life thinking “what if”.
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Oh I can’t wait! As you know, I am team Abhay! But I also think Abhay and Kalki are meant to be.
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It really is an argument to wait until you are well into your 30s for marriage. Babies schmabies.
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Or to do intensive pre-marital counseling so you figure out what you want your marriage to look like, not just what you think all marriages should look like.
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As someone who is living this entire comment!!! I am still so happy I got married in my 30s despite going through all the challenges of trying to make babies!
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