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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Love this conversation between Ranveer-Anushka, he admires her courage!
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This conversation – Anushka and Ranveer have a real connection. Not necessarily a sexual tension though, but their connection is palpable.
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Yes! I don’t even necessarily want them to be together forever. I want them to be the catalyst person who is always important in their lives, even if they end up with other people.
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Guess what, dialogue movies about relationships don’t entrance 12 year old boys. Go figure.
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Noorie and Ranveer conspiring is so cute!
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Ranveer and Noorie are fun co-conspirators. Girl and boy as true friends
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Oooo! Diegetic and non-diegetic music play!!!! Very cool and classy high falutin film work!!!
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Okay, almost every conversation Ranveer has with another actor it appears a real connection is there. So could it be that Ranveer is a very good actor?
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I think so!!!! And not showy about it, he just makes his scene partners look awesome.
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I actually think he is an excellent actor and really smart in real life. I think the Ranveer we see during interviews is just all show and not the real him at all.
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He is like a glue in this film, connecting all story strands
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Ranveer-Anushka dancing together, SO MUCH CHEMISTRY!!! More than Anushka and PC dancing, and more than Ranveer and Anushka talking.
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This song, song #2 is SO SEXY! And I guess they did the choreography themselves.
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Ranveer and Anushka really work best with each other
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Does anyone else really really want Dips and Ranveer and Anushka and Virat to be couple friends? I don’t think they are, but I think they would be SO GOOD together!!! Can we cast Anushka and Dips together and make it happen?
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Ranveer looks so good in that white captain suit
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Yes! He is one hot fantasy in that suit!
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And he damn well knows it!
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Reema and Zoya wanted Ranbir to play Ranveer’s character. I am SO SO SO happy that did NOT work out.
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On the other hand, Ranbir playing the Ranveer character and Kareena playing PC (as was the original plan), would have been AMAZING. The metaness!!!!
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I really don’t think I would have liked it as much. I love Kareena but I just can’t see the brother-sister chemistry being nearly as good as it is with Ranveer and PC. Kareena and Ranbir in interviews are just so awkward together. Kareena is her bubbly self and Ranbir just sits there being boring.
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Because Kareena is good at her job and Ranbir is terrible at it! As shown in this film 🙂
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I don’t like Kareena. But I don’t like PC, but she is great in this film. These directors know what they are doing.
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Yes, the directors know exactly what they are doing. And yes, Kareena is not for everyone. I am probably the only DCIBer weirdo who really likes both Kareena and PC.
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Anushka trying to sneak him through the back of the ship, and the view of the back of the ship is so cute.
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I was thinking that I’d like to show this film to the friend of ours who has actually worked on a cruise ship
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This song is so sexy! OOOF!
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Anushka’s bra is WEIRD!!!!!
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It looks like a bikini top.
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Hey! It keeps her boobs from jumping around as she dances, so in essence, the perfect bra – I WANT IT!
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Also, the back is perfect! Keeping it all contained, no falling straps to be seen.
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I also love how he breaks off the kiss to start singing the song. Just the best song sequence!
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FARHAN!!!! (ha, I beat you)
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But why wouldn’t he tell his dad about a girlfriend? The film JUST established that parents don’t mind a son meeting a girl
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It’s probably because the manager is more middle class, so different values
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I am waiting until he walks onto the ship with his cropped pants, looking all hipstery and hot!
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Anil is falling apart! Pity the fragile masculinity!!!!
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The theme party costumes are HILAROUS!
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I love the poor relations famiily!
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THEY TRY SO HARD!! It’s a little funny, at least the costumes with all the leopard print. And then Rahul taking a picture just seals it!
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I don’t think I even realized they were the poor relations! But their entrance was fantastic
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Yes! It’s Anil’s brother’s family. Early on he gives his brother “assignments” for the trip, and PC is like “Dad, it’s your brother, you can’t order him around liek a servant” and Anil is like “yes I can”
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OMG, Rahul’s conversation! That was just a delightful snippet of horrible.
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Anu and PC look so good!
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This outfit on PC!!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!
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The parents are SO HORRIBLE! Ranveer’s expressions are so on point!
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They were really trying to push him towards Noorie without even telling him why, right?
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Yep! Suggestion and manoeuvring so they can have possible deniability
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“the kids fell in love and then, conveniently, her family invested in our company!”
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Also, again, Shefali is a bad parent too!!!!! She indulges Ranveer and spoils him all the time, but when it comes down to the wire, she is ready to sell him out to save the company.
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Yes! The kids are basically just investments for them!
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It wasn’t enough for Anil and Shefali to ruin their daughter’s life. Now they are set on ruining Ranveer’s life. Horrible, horrible parents!
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And I love the “we aren’t those old fashioned terrible parents who force a child into a marriage, you like her, right? We will give you a plane i fyou say you like her!” So much more real than if they went for “I am your parent and I am ordering it”.
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“They are made for each other” and “she’s a lovely girl” such idiotic typical things parents say!!!
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FARHAN! HA! I said it first!!!
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You clued me into the fact that I’m 30 second behind you! (or a full minute..)
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Farhan!!
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FARHAN!!!!!!!!!!!
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She said divorce out loud! Yes!
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What did she say?
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“you pressured me into a marriage and now I want a DIVORCE!”
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“What did she say?” They were still trying to deny it, though. Such horrible parents.
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I guess I’m a minute behind. PC yelled at her parents for wanting Ranveer and Noorie to get together by saying they wanted her to get together with her husband and now she wants a divorc-
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Also, this is how I picture Anushka’s engagement in JHMS! It’s not like they were strangers or anything, and she can even pretend they fell in love, but their parents absolutely manoivered them into it.
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OMG Farhan and PC!!! I love them so much!
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One of the only ones PC has chemistry with. They are great together.
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Awkward meeting
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How did they make him look so tall? Is he standing on a ladder?
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That looks like a romantic walk towards Ranveer, probably reading too much into it, but that sorta romantic slow motion didn’t happen with PC
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It seems by brain is on fanfic mode today
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I mean, we can just recast the movie. Anushka plays the old friend/lover. And Farhan plays the dancer aboard ship. Everything else stays the same.
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That may be because she’s slowly backing away instead
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Farhan and Ranveer are a KICK together!!!!
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The awkward interaction is perfect! Farhan’s sad eyes. PC’s fakeness. Perfection.
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Farhan does a good job with the “yeah, right” face when Anil says “you are like our son!”
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Farhan pays Anil back, with interest. Such a good guy!
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And proof that this is a movie because a photographer doesn’t earn enough to pay back a foreign colllege education in less than 20 years.
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Maybe he worked at a boring responsible job until he earned enough to pay it back and just now became a photographer?
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Maybe maybe maybe, or maybe it is a movie.
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Mmm. I don’t know. He went to Yale and works as a journalist for National Geographic in a foreign country. I can see him earning enough to pay Anil back in 20 years.
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Next time you pick up a magazine ANY magazine, but in this case National Geographic, give thanks to the journalist who aren’t getting rich writing for you. It is a profession of love, not money. The photographers earn fame for getting into National Geographic, and then use that fame to leverage money for other jobs.
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I have a lot of respect for journalists and especially foreign correspondents. I also agree that I don’t think they get into the profession to make money or are getting rich through their writing. But I can see them saving enough money over 20 years to pay someone back.
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This isn’t 20 years later. But yes in 20 years he could pay him back. https://www.quora.com/How-much-is-a-National-Geographic-photographer-paid-annually#:~:text=All%20NatGeo%20photographers%20are%20independent,depending%20on%20your%20specialty…
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Also, with the layers in this scene, I could believe that he got a scholarship on his own merit, and Anil’s contribution was to pay for housing and travel and stuff. So not THAT much money. And yet Anil still makes a big THING about it.
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He is a writer for Nat Geo. https://www.careerbliss.com/national-geographic-society/salaries/writer/
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54K a year, when you have to pay for all your own traveling expenses and everything, is not a lot of money. BUt he totally could have gotten a scholarship – so then yes, he could have conceivable paid him back.
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He writes too right? Shefali talked about reading his articles
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This is why I prefer badminton to tennis – less aggressive and less chances to get hurt
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Once again, couple comparison!!! Shefail and Anil aren’t in love any more, but they can have a real conversation about anything, while PC and Rahul just fight at tennis.
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Ew! Anil openly flirting with Gulher in front of Shefali. EW!
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OMG Farhan taking PC’s pic in that tight white shirt. I am melting!
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Anil’s attaching himself to the attractive woman is so creepy, and what is extra crazy is that he doesn’t even seem to realize he is doing it.
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YES! Like it’s a reflex action. And he certainly has no idea that his wife (and everyone else) is noticing.
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ANIL IS THE WORST! DON’T GASLIGHT YOUR WIFE!! OR ANYONE!!
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YES!!!
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Shefali!!!! DON’T DO THIS IN FRONT OF YOUR CATTY FRIENDS! Smile and pretend it’s nothing and then lay into him alone!!!!
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Cake scene!
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I’m having “The Crown” flashbacks now
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I don’t watch it. Who stuffs themselves with cake?
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Diana. And then she’s hanging over the toilet bowl.
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Actually, scratch that, even her catty friends looked kind of sincerely concerned for her just then. How horrible. to know they aren’t gossiping any more, they are pitying you.
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Take their pity, maybe they’ll let you move in with them when you get divorced?
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