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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ZARINA WAHAB!!!!!! Okay, Filmikudhi, a challenge. Do you dislike Zarina or Anil more?
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That’s easy. ZARINA!!! Anil eventually redeems himself a little bit. Zarina is consistently horrible!
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I have arthritis, I can’t hold the glass for too long! – hilarious!
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I love Noories honesty almost as much as her dress.
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Yes. I love her vulnerability.
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Radhima Sood is so good with the whole quiet sadness and boredom mixed together, along with looking fabulous
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I really really want to see a movie about Noorie some day! Have we ever gotten that? A movie from the perspective of the bride who got dramatically left?
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Is anyone else really wanting to watch Veere Di Wedding now? Because it’s the same people, only they love each other more?
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Yes!!! It’s exactly the same people but if they had just shown it from the kid’s perspective.
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I believed his eyes
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Me too! He really loves her and was trying to show it, and she rejected him.
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Seeeeee???? She is breaking his heart!!!!! Anil may be cheating and fighting, but he also still sincerely loves her more than anyone. It’s complicated. That scene did not feel like acting to me, that felt like him legitimately reaching out and being rejected.
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Yeah, but she didn’t *see* the honest love in his eyes
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I showed this movie to my parents, though my father mostly read emails through it. But at this bed scene my mother hissed “Why did you say that?!?”
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Yes! I felt the same way.
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Ranveer eating off PC’s bowl is such a typical little brother thing to do. I do it to my sister even now and she gets so mad and it makes my day!
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When we were little and got ice cream at home, my Mom had to take out the food scale to confirm that each bowl had EXACTLY the same amoun tin it.
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I love this!
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Ranveer is such a HOOT in this movie! Hilarious!
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They are fantastic siblings. PC and chemistry doesn’t work well with most humans, but with a sibling relationship with Ranveer it is tops!
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Yes! It just clicks. Maybe the credit goes to Ranveer? They are amazing!
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Oh yuck, I just remembered they also played love interests twice before and after this.
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Hahaha yupp. And yet, it works! I think I actually like them better as brother sister than lovers.
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oh – was the chemistry good? I was thinking PC only had chemistry with one or two people, does she have romantic chemisty with Ranveer too?
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Nope!
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Ah, love at first sight. It looks great on film even if I NEVER believe it.
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Wait. Is she actually flirting with Pluto first?
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Who wouldn’t be?
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True
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Isn’t that why so many men have dogs, to pick up chicks with?
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Vikrant Massey’s flirt in that scene is SO Cute
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Everything about the Noori-Ranna relationship here is just adorable!
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I have asthma – HA! Love to hate her!
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The little girl is my favorite!
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Agree
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Some people say that the daughter with the shaved under head is gay. I can’t tell, I can just tell she doesn’t care to be molded into her mother’s ideal. You go girl!
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I’m also getting gay from her. At least, she is presenting herself in a way that could be read as gay. She also looks a lot like Reema and Zoya now! It feels a little like a self-insert.
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Well, is she cute enough? Were you the one who said the cute girls always turned out to be gay?
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She was not cute like the super cute girls who are always gay. However, not everyone who is gay, can be super cute. Not everyone can look like Megan Rapinoe & Portia de Rossi.
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Shefali is such a terrible parent to PC.
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Major mothering fail there!
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And daughtering! This is where PC could have said “Mom, is everything okay with you and Dad?”
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PC asks her mom why she didn’t leave her dad despite the serial cheating and Shefali tells her because that would be easy. And then Shefali tells PC to stop being so proud of her business and pay attention to her husband.
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Okay, you are right.
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This is such a well-done conversation. Both of them are so caught up in their own marriage misery that they can’t see the perspective of the other one. Shefali needs advice of “if you love him and want it to last, you need to talk to your husband and work on your marriage” not “leave him”. And PC needs the advice of “leave him” not “work on it”.
Also, is it possible that Shefali saw PC not as herself but more as Anil? She wants Anil to stop working as much and be there for her.
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YAY! This song is fun even if Anushka’s dancing isn’t the best
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Just woke up! Where are you guys?
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Girls like to Swing!
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Fun!
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Girls like to swing – 47 minute mark
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I love the catty mothers primping their daughters vs. the blunt dad saying “Stay away from her”!
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SONG! Margaret I forgot about this song – so four songs in the film!
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Anushka’s dress is so unflattering on her, but I love the number all the same.
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And for a brief moment, I can dream that this film turns into a Sapphic love story instead of a Straight one
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Happy birthday Genevieve!
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Thank you!
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And of course I love that she chooses PC
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PC and Anushka – NO CHEMISTRY
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Not true
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I accept that you disagree.
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Anushka and PC dancing together gives me some serious gay vibes! They look hot together!
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I feel like they are oil and water, there but totally separate.
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When they actually talk, yes. But just the dancing together when PC twirls Anushka is just hot to me!
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In alternate universe, this movie has a Sapphic love story between them instead of the straight ones
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Oooo, Noorie is resting her feet behind Vikrant!
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I always love when Indians don’t know the more obscure Hindi words either
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Especially these guys who I’m sure spoke more English than Hindi growing up.
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I love how Rahul is subtly out of sync with the group. He tries, but he just isn’t fitting in with them. DON’T MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER TO SOMEONE SUPER OLD!!!!
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Cringe fest coming up
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Oops no I was thinking of another scene
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That same bag moment made me laugh
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I’m I the only one thinking of this?
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It’s such a classic! I LOVE THAT SONG!!
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Noori asking Vikrant to call her is so cute!!!!
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Vikrant Massey, UFF
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I just went down a connections rabbit hole with Vikrant. So he was with Ranveer in Lootera, maybe that is why he got this role? And then Dips cast him in the first movie she produced, after she was married to Ranveer? Is he, like, a friend of the couple?
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Their date is soooo cute!
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See, she wanted the dog, not him
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HA!
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Ranveer and the dog do share a lot of the same characteristics. Dog may be smarter though!
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I would totally judge a person for picking dictatorship! Ranveer is such an adorable idiot in this movie!
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I love how fast this relationship moves!!! It feels like Zoya and Reema just threw out the rulebook and said “we are going to have them fall in love with no misunderstandings or chasing or difficulties and then go from there”
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I mean the misunderstanding is coming up later
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12 year old is watching with me now, and he can’t tell the difference between turkey and India. I suppose I should force him to watch some travel documentaries.
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It’s not like this movie would really highlight the differences
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If you do travel ones that contain food then you better have them eat before watching or after. Otherwise, there will be the inevitable hungry stomach looking at delicious meals from around the world. I suggest Rick Stein’s documentaries, they are on YouTube, but they will make you hungry.
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Asking those with eyes for both: Is Anushka’s chemistry with Ranveer really better than with PC?
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It’s different. Less sexy, more friendly and happy.
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Nope. I love the Anushka-Ranveer and Ranveer-PC chemistry equally!
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Ew ew ew. This sex scene makes me close my legs very tightly!
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LOL
Agree
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He is basically saying “I hate your family” – ugh! Of course I kinda hate them too, so perhaps I shouldn’t judge.
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And also, “I don’t take seriously your feelings in this matter”.
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Marriage comaprison!!!! Shefali and Anil’s marriage is a disaster, but at least she feels comfortable rudely and bluntly shutting down sex, and he immediately agrees. PC and Rahul’s passive dance is so much yuckier.
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Yes
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Great point!!! Shefali-Anil have a messed up marriage but he still consults her about money and business decisions. They are equals. With PC and Rahul, there is a huge imbalance in the power dynamic. PC is just a vessel for breeding to Rahul.
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Yes! Shefali and Anil have the advantage of, at one point in the past, really truly being in love and connecting. They still have that level of knowledge and comfort with each other. PC and Rahul have clearly never connected at all.
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Exactly. Another movie that shows the reality of a girl being pressured into am arranged marriage without her consent.
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VIKRANT! (I will never not say that)
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I am going to be that way when Farhan comes on screen! I am obsessed!!!
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He’s so SHORT!!!
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Height doesn’t matter when you are horizontal! And as long as he is confident in being with someone taller, I am all good! Also, he is the same height as Vikrant!!!
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