Happy birthday Genevieve!!!!!! And thank you for picking such a great movie! I look forward to a lively debate between me, who is sympathetic to Anil Kapoor, and everyone else, who hates him.
Dil Dhadakne Do! It’s on Netflix in America, and probably other places in other places. Great movie, great songs, mixed cast, sexy Anil Kapoor.
At 7:30am Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY!” comment and we will go from there!
(also, Genevieve, refresh the site about 15 minutes after the movie is over, I’ve got another present for you)
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Only came to say: Happy birthday Genevieve! Enjoy the day and the movie 😘
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Thank you!
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Seafood pizza is ready. Let’s start this cruise.
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And PLAY
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So many people to thank! no idea who they all are.
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Noble Faith! Remember that brand, apparently it is the woman’s clothing partner and the clothes are AWESOME
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One day I HOPE there will be a line saying that all events in this movie are based on things that really happened…
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Well yeah, I think there once was. And then they got sued.
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One lawsuit and sentences of denial in front of every movie forever after… So it goes.
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So many hair and clothing partners
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Excel logo!!!!!! Always makes me think about how great Lakshya was.
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The movie I never made it through because I got bored! Someday when I’m feeling pensive I’ll give it another chance.
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Aamir Voice!!!!
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Oh, I’d forgotten about this weird wildlife documentary intro
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I know other people don’t like the dog narration. But I like hearing about how strange humans are.
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I agree! I like it too!
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Anil Kapoor! Totally a sympathetic character. Has to deal with normal healthy insecurities without ever showing them in public.
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EW NO! He is so skeezy in this movie!
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HE IS TRAPPED IN MASCULINITY! His wife doesn’t understand him!!!!
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Ew ew ew. Nope. Just no. Lying, cheating, posturing men who screw up their children’s lives are not sure sympathetic. Maybe pathetic.
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He starts off posturing and lying about a lunch date… he isn’t that symapthetic.
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I know I am alone in this, but somehow I fin dmyself liking him more than PC.
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I love the line: if you don’t plan to wear pants don’t pack them in the suitcase!
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I love Shefali’s costumes in this movie. Her character is supposed to hate her body, but she dresses it so well.
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Warning you now, PC’s character is the one I sympathize with least.
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The competent hardworking daughter who doesn’t want to forget her family the way they want to forget her?
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Yes. That’s the one. Just feels whiny to me. Partly it’s how PC plays her, she gives her too much confidence in most scenes, I feel like she could just stand up for herself instead of passive aggressively whining.
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Oh man. This is going to be fun. PC is one of my favorites in this movie!
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Hobby business funded by her wedding jewelry, passive aggressively letting people know she hates her husband without confronting him directly, rich woman who secretly thinks she has it worst of all even when she doesn’t.
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Trying to make the best out of her life that she was pressured into by her own parents and starting her business with what she had (her jewelry). Trying to make it work with an oppressive husband and MIL and finally getting the courage to ask for a divorce. Yes, her! Love her.
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Those “friends” are so fake. I hate them
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I would think frenemies ended in high school, but I guess not…
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Once again, SO GLAD I’M NOT RICH!!!!
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Me too. And yet, this is so typical of Delhi rich! I love how this movie shows the real life hypocrisy of the Delhi elite!
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Do you remember the interview Reema and Zoya gave together about this movie? They talked about how they were invited to some Delhi wedding while writing it and were secretly taking notes the whole time.
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Yupp.
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Kabir/Ranveer is the one I don’t sympathize with. But he does win me over eventually.
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Agreed. I love when Anushka calls him out.
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Same here!
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Also he is incompetent. He starts out being the spoiled stupid kid. You only love him when he admits to being the stupid one.
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Exactly!!!
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Priyanka’s in-laws being so passive-aggressive makes me mad! I hate the mom!
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Zarina Wahab!!!! Filmikudhi’s least liked person in real life, for once she can hate on her onscreen!
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Definitely. And Ranveer expecting her to fix all his little woes
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But she is SO over the top. So obviously miserable. Her misery is almost lovable.
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There is a small airport in my town. I used to take the 9 year old (when he was 2) and his friend their all the time, we would walk around the tarmac and look at the different kind of planes. Sometimes we would talk to the pilots who were occasionally just flying in for lunch!
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Rahul Bose, one of the nicest guys ever, plays the bad guy so well
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That’s a thousand dollar t-shirt, right?
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Margaret beat me to it, but OMG I HATE ZARINA WAHAB SO MUCH. In real life and on screen!!!
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OMG that HOUSE! I love that house.
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Seeeeeee? Shefali Shah isn’t perfect either!!!! This is my real point with Anil. The simple version is “Anil the patriarch is to blame for everything in the family”. But in reality, Shefali has been enabling it all too, spoiling Ranveer so he stays home and doesn’t stand up to his father, exiling her daughter, not confronting her husband about his cheating, and so on.
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Yes, but he kinda loses all sympathy when he tells her to loose weight.
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Exactly! Shefali isn’t perfect either. She is a terrible mother to Priyanka and overly indulges Ranveer. And yet, Anil giving her an eating disorder and consistently cheating on her makes him so much worse!
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That mommy logic was so sound, though. No one’s stopping you from finding something else
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So parenting…. This auto son love so that the son can do no wrong is strange, and yet, the love shown is surely real.
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Now, I feel like the diet/weight thing cuts both ways in this marriage. Anil wants her to eat healthy like he does, and she eats even more unhealthily to get back at him. It would be different if Anil was eating terrible and wanted her to eat better, but this way it is a cold war, they each eat their own thing and won’t give in.
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She isn’t really eating unhealthy, and her body weight is not extreme. He wants her to look 15 years younger. He doesn’t want her to be healthy.
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Except he is eating a fruit plate. I feel like they are saying he is obsessed with being young himself and he wants a wife to also look young. Not that he wants to be able to age while she stays young.
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But he isn’t obsessed with being young for his wife. He’s obsessed with staying young for his mistresses.
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BECAUSE HIS WIFE DOESN’T LOVE HIM!!!!
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Anil body shaming his wife in front of his son. Yupp. He wins husband of the year!
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This is exactly like me having dinner with my parents now. Except they are fighting about stuff like “who forgot to put olives on the grocery list”. And then they stop fighting and we watch Poirot. And no one has opinions on other people’s food/weight. So not that similar.
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I love the fight with the sound cut off and the over narration. It proves a point without the pain of hearing people fight. And it looked cool.
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I love their house, but also it has this distinctive look of “classy rich Indian house” and I can’t even identify what makes it like that. But it’s different from “classy rich American house”. Maybe more wood? More natural colors? More windows?
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Multiple marble Buddha statues?
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Less antiques?
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I could care less about the inside, but the few outside shots show this wood and glass beauty that blends into its environment. The inside feels like a hotel.
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I was researching cruises recently for a book club, and can’t believe that this cruise only cost 8K Euros for a couple.
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They still talk over business decisions, though. There’s still something there to save
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They are a pair. They have history, they just don’t have love.
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Did you catch taht they were a young love marriage? That’s so important to me, that they have known each other so long, and they chose each other and planned a life together at one point, even if it is mostly gone now.
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This is so Rich PEople. They can set aside their issues and talk openly and plan together for the future of The Money, in a way they can’t about anything else. Marriage is falling apart, children are falling apart, none of that is worth a conversation, but The Money must be protected.
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I was just typing something similar, but you said it better.
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Ah, taking a vacation to Turkey and Greece with this movie was a brilliant idea!
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I keep trying to buy hats that look like PC’s hat here and failing.
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VIKRANT MASSEY!!!!!
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I love that navy blue sailor suit on Ranveer
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Such a little boy outfit, but he pulls it off. He embraces that spoiled child thing.
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I LOVE all of PC’s outfits in this movie! Especially this one! I want it so much!
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Just to clarify. Not this one. The one she walked onto the ship with. And the blue and yellow one later on!
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I love Noorie’s outfits!
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The bright colors of the ship – I really like all the color.
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Good on the costume/wardrobe department on making them all seem like they bought their clothes from the same line from some expensive designer shop
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And yet, I love them all! Zoya and Reema are amazing! Their attention to detail is incredible.
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Well, wouldn’t that actually make life easier for the costumer?
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Obviously yes
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That light blue shimmering sari on Shefali (say that 5x faster) is so beautiful!!
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Ha!
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In case you don’t know how people are feeling weird oompha music will clue you in..
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This cast is huge, but I love it. We get the poor relation, the upper management servant/friend, the equals in industry negotiating for power, and the kids who haven’t figured out their place in the structure yet.
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Ranveer’s fake crying at the dinner table is so funny!
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For my grandparent’s anniversary we did a big family trip to Disneyland and it was EXACTLY like this. Except that my grandparents actually loved each other.
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PC-Ranveer chemistry is AMAZING! I love that they are each other’s person in this crazy family.
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And I always think of that as a sign of a dysfunctional parenting!!!! If the kids rely on each other that much, it means the parents aren’t there for them the way they should be.
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Oh 100% . Shefali and Anil are terrible parents!
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No pressure
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Kudos to the director and to Anil for making his speech seem so terribly terribly fake.
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A good actor is one who can act badly and still make it entertaining – Anil succeeds in that so well with that speech
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