Happy Saturday! I’m gonna have a PJ day, because it is overcast and rainy outside, and I just got a bunch of new puzzles.
Half-Girlfriend! It’s on Netflix in America, and einthusan everywhere. It’s ridiculous and romantic and has a rain song and overall is just a total throwback to old school romance.
At 7:30am, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and then we can all comment along right here on this post!
dontcallitbollywood 
Rohan’s accent is so stupid!
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Rohan has such a punchable face an OBNOXIOUS dubbed accent
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Can we have a moment for his blue stripped shirt too????
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His clothes are his only redeemable factor
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YES!!!
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Shraddha is so cute when she laughs!
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Okay, I am about to do a REAL REACH. Did you see that Prince Phillip died? Sometimes this is how I feel like his relationship was with The Queen. He wasn’t always appropriate, he wasn’t an easy fit, but he made her feel happy and safe and he was content doing that.
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Yeah I saw that he died. And yes, he gave her the importance she needed and (maybe deserved) and showed by example that he cared for, loved, and revered her.
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Also, my Grandpa just has to live 4 more months to outlive Prince Phillip, which will make my competitive spirit happy.
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So, Vikrant Massey is the source of all toxic masculinity? I can get behind that. Like that weird friend in Pretty in Pink.
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I hope we never get a backstory on Vikrant’s chip on his shoulder, I like it as just “for some reason or other, he is a jerk”.
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Arjun is nearly half-naked with that blue shirt on
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Is Vikrant gay? Is that what is going on? Seriously, why does he care so much?
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Because they are all from Bihar. People from Bihar are looked down upon by people in Delhi. I think his chip comes from constantly being made to feel like a second class citizen and even at this school seeing the stark class difference between him and the rich kids.
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Shraddha is so cute and so normal and so fragile – I love her!
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Where are we? I had to pause
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50 minutes in. They just kissed on the bed
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Thanks
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51 minutes, in his dorm room
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Okay, now I hate him. Angie, how does he come back from this? Because BLECH!!!!!!
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Yeah he was terrible and stupid, will have to suffer a lot to come back
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GOOD!!!!! He should suffer!
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And Vikrant is HEARTBROKEN!!!! Okay, I’ve decided he’s gay. Agree?
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He is so good. Just a mute scene behind the crowd and yet we know what he is thinking
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I mean, I appreciate the realism, that a guy in India would get confused by those signals, and that his male dorm would be gross. But I also don’t appreciate it because now I am UPSET
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So, if he hadn’t moved to fast because of Vikrant, what do we think would have happened? Would they have kept falling more in love and ended up fighting her parents and finding a way to be together? Or would it always have ended here, with him realizing she is in control and wants to go so far but no farther?
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Hmmm. I wonder how this movie would have worked if we skipped the dorm room scene and just went to this? She suggests being his “half-girlfriend”, he is happy, and then she suddenly breaks the news she is getting married?
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But without the dorm scene he wouldn’t learn a lesson
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They actually had these interview days at my college, but just for the engineering school. So suddenly you would see like 10% of campus in suits, and everyone else still just going around like normal.
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How is his hair more Cool Dude once he is back in Bihar than it ever was in Delhi?
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Politicians are so gross!
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NO! Bill Gates?????
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Feminist part of the movie
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Bill Gates is NOT the richest man in the world. Come on Chetan or Mohit. Just get some facts right in this movie.
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They don’t need facts!!!! They hav ea hero who looks like a body pillow come to life and you just want to cuddle up on top of him.
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https://www.smilefoundationindia.org/p_dalitvikas.html
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Okay, now I’m confused. We are back in the present day? He saw her ina h otel room, and now we are back int he sad present when she ran off?
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Yes.
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Thank you! Tell me when we are in the past again
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VIKRANT!!!!!!
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OMG Arjun looks so good in rain
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See my “living body pillow” comment above
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And now see the apartment Vikrant has in NY!
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After 2 years if working. What he was studying? Where he works?
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Vikrant going back and forth between his Bihari accent to Americanized English is just pure gold!
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So now we are in the past again?
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Yes.
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Back in the past again.
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MISSING THE BUS! It’s like a METAPHOR!!!!!
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The background score for this movie is so pleasant and lovely
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I want Indian street food!!! I am so excited about getting some next week in Chicago, Margaret!!!
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YES!!!! And we can support small local business, like everyone says we should!!!!
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You guys are so lucky! Finland is so empty with only Nepali or generic Indian (very little specificity from where, but all the genric stuff) restaurants. I want to eat Pani Puri so bad!!
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Aww! I am sorry, Kirre! Come visit! When I went to India a few years back, the first thing I wanted was pani puri on the street! YUMMMM!!!!
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Yes! Kirre should come to Chicago!!!! And she can stay at my new apartment and eat street food with me!
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If there comes a time along with having the resources to visit you guys then I will take it! 😀
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If you decide to visit Chicago, I promise to come visit you!
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You guys are so wonderful!!
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When my sister went to MIT, they had boy’s bathrooms that were changed around to girls bathrooms. And still just in general fewer girls than boys. Because all the buildings had been built 100 years ago, and although the school was technically coed, they figured there would be only 10% girls to boys. So if you walk in the door as a female student, there is literally signs on every floor saying “we did not expect you to be here”.
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While she was forced to get married, I love that she gets divorced because she was unhappy. Good for her!
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And good for him to react with a happy smile because she is single, not a judgey face because she is divorced.
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Yeah. Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same way! UGH!!!
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The best movie 😜
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OMG, I like this movie so much more than I should like it!!!! The heroine is so strong and real and the hero is so respectful of her.
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Exactly!!! We are all very grateful to Angie!!!
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Yeah, thr actors aren’t the best and there is a strsngr Bill Gates head but so what? He is hot and soft and understanding,the girl strong and nice, and they will built bathrooms for girls, I don’t need more from a movie
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Great, I’ve read too any articles, and now all I can think when I see fireworks is “Deadly Air Pollution”
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While Arjun messed up on college, it’s so great to see him grow up and come back to deserving Shraddha!
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And by golly, they did it in a way I can believe. He messed up really really bad. But after years apart, that one really bad moment could go away and the value of shared memories and happiness outweighs it. And they can start fresh.
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The romance in this movie is SO GOOD!
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Okay, this is what I am picturing for a happy ending for Sir! In college, she was rich and trapped by her family, and he was struggling to learn and achieve. But now they have evened out. She has left her family, and he has finished his training and is working in the world. If our Sir hero leaves his family, and our Sir heroine finishes her training, they can kind of meet in the middle.
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The idea of him being a honorary royal of Bihar is really interesting!!!!! He felt out of place and wrong in Delhi, but in his own realm, he has a confidence and power and maturity that makes him a whole different person. So much better than just having him be a random nice guy from a village.
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Ooooo, his house is so much nicer than her house.
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UGH! Stupid stupid judgey mother!!!!
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I suspected her all along, why no girls in her school?
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The mother is evil 🤬
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Yes. Ugh! I can’t stand her.
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Shraddha answers the mother’s questions so honestly.
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Ugh! I HATE Rohan, his mother, and Shraddha’s mother. Yet, all the abuse and reactions are so common and realistically portrayed.
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YES! This is what really stands out to me about Chetan Bhagat. He doesn’t do abuse in this ridiculous dark lighting dramatic over the top way, he does it as an every day in the background thing.
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EVIL MOTHER!!!!! Life has given her NO chances!!!! See the intersectionality of class and gender!!!!
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GAHHHHHHHHH Arjun’s mom…. stop talking!!!!
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I believe Arjun is actually out of breath running after the train. I would have never believed it had it been Varun or Ranveer being out of breath!
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Man, the emotions hit hard and real in this movie
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Oh, maybe best part about Chetan Bhagat abuse handling!!! The internalized misogyny of WOMEN! Right? In 2 States, his mother reacts to her abuse by looking for a daughter-in-law she can abuse. In this, Shraddha’s Mom sides with her son-in-law, and Arjun’s Mom agrees that women don’t need education at the same time that she is running the school herself.
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Wait, why is Shraddha there? Does she work for the Gates foundation or is she just being a friend? Did I miss something again?
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She came as friend
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I think she is just there as a friend.
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