Saturday WatchAlong: Dil Dhadakne Do! Starting at 7:30am! For Genevieve’s BIRTHDAY!!!

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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)

493 thoughts on “Saturday WatchAlong: Dil Dhadakne Do! Starting at 7:30am! For Genevieve’s BIRTHDAY!!!”

      • It is. And such a good scene showing an eating disorder realistically. Her husband keeps taunting her with her weight. Everything in her life feels out of control. And she feels like she can’t even control her eating. You know she threw up right after stuffing her face with cake while crying over the toilet. Everything in that scene just crushes me.

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  6. The way Ranveer is playing this, it’s also totally like the plot his Mom came up with!!!! Ranveer is good at the manouvering planning like Shefali, and PC is good at the hard money decisions like Anil.

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  13. I love Anil and Shefali in this song! Because it feels real, right? They aren’t posturing, this is the fun sexy loving relationship they had years ago, brought out by forgetting themselves in the song.

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  19. I love the mix of old and young in this song too! The rest of the movie has such a generational warfare going on, but in this song they all mix and forget to treat each other as “old” and “young”.

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  24. Also, dialogue said by a brother who is producing his sister’s movie. Does that make sense? So a guy who has probably been told many times “wow, you allow your sister to work” is saying the dialogue “don’t say allow, it’s not that”.

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  29. I hate the “you sold your jewelry” bit because it is so blind to privilege. But I love the “I’m proud of you”. Because you can see no one has given her that before about her work. So smart. Even Ranveer who loves her doesn’t see her as a businesswoman, but as his sister. That’s the thing she was missing.

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      • I think he sees her as his sister first, if that makes sense. He wouldn’t say, “I am proud of you”. because he would say “I love you”. Or if he did say “I’m proud of you”. she wouldn’t believe it because he loves her.

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        • Yes, I can agree he sees her as his sister first. His sister who is competent in everything and of course has a successful business when he can’t even be handed one. So perhaps he wouldn’t say “I’m proud of you” because in a way that would put him above her, and he has always seen himself below. (Spoken as a younger sibling of a highly successful older sister – I would never think to say “I am proud of my sister”, her success is a given. BUT that doesn’t mean I don’t see her as a businesswoman. My sister is a highly successful businesswoman, it simply isn’t my place to be proud.)

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          • Exactly!!!! And him saying that wouldn’t mean as much to PC for the same reason. He has always seen her as competent and smart and so on, it’s everyone else who doesn’t. Farhan is someone who has made his own way in the world, who is her equal, and who is a non-related man, it’s a big deal for him to say it.

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  35. Zarina saying PC could have talked to her because she is like a mother to her after constantly putting her down! GAHHHHHH!!! I hate her so so much! Although to be fair, Shefali isn’t any better.

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    • I’m reading a book called the Wierdest People In the World, about Westerners, and it mentions this. How Westerners are motivated by an internal sense of what a good person should be, and thus guilt when they don’t live up to their own ideals, and the rest of the world is motivated by shame. So I see this shame as a motivating force in Indian movies, and I understand it, but I don’t feel it.

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      • Fascinating. And it makes sense to me. When I went back to India last, I remembered how much extended family (cousins, aunts, uncles) are in each other’s business. It can be in a wonderful way in that they will just come over and cook for you and provide any support you need without asking because you are going through a really though time and at the same time, this comes with way too many opinions about your life whether you want them or not. Nothing is private, nothing is out of bounds, and everyone has an opinion about EVERYTHING.

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  45. My read of Anil’s character is that a little bit of him is afraid of/fighting PC’s divorce because he is afraid Shefali will leave him. I honestly find his character more interesting and realistic if we accept that he is as driven by insecurity as everyone else. He is afraid of losing his business, he is afraid of losing his wife, and he lashes out by hurting everyone around him.

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  46. The gender versus age divide in this movie is GENIUS between the siblings! Ranveer is supposed to be in charge, but PC is his big sister, so he never really has been in charge. On paper as the “boy” he is supposed to protect her, but in reality he is the baby of the family and can’t quite think about protecting her instead of following her.

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  49. Farhan’s clothes are nice and stylish, but they don’t feel so freakishly expensive as everyone else. Right? He is doing well for himself, he can move in this world, but he’s not the same.

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