Woo-hoo! I am beginning to feel like I am getting back to regular life! Watchalong, I made my own coffee, I’ve started laundry, life is good.
Mom! It’s dark, it’s twisted, it’s satisfying, it’s Sridevi! Very excited to share it with y’all
At 7:30am Chicago time I will put up an “and Play” comment and then we can all comment along from there!
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I got my iced coffee (also known as day old, with ice in it), a bottle of water, the head phones with an extra long cord, and a blanket even though it is 72 degrees in my house. Because it always takes so long for my computer to warm up I set my alarm for five and put it under my my pillow. But I slept through it anyway. My spouse however did not, and as I crawled over him out of bed he asked if I was going to exercise. Sweet soul, I’m afraid watching Indian movies is less wholesome, though I’m sure Mom has plenty of famiily values.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay! I am so happy to have you with us!
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Here!
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Yaaaaay!
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And PLAY!
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Honestly the mad films logo looks like it is made from a pool of blood so it is already a thriller.
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Surinder Kapoor=Boney, Anil, Sanjay’s Dad.
Geeta Bali=Famous actress who hired Surinder as her secretary and then encouraged him to become a producer. Also married to Shammi Kapoor.
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Oooo, Sridevi’s hair. So pretty. It’s not a wig, right?
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She stole SRK’s glasses!!!!
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SALMAN! She is the best biology teacher
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Sajal Ali is so beautiful 🙂
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I was gonna say teenage boys are gross, but Genevieve’s boys are gonna be kind and understanding ally types. so SOME teenage boys are gross.
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Sridevi is so good with child actors! When she died, a couple of grown actors who worked with her as kids talked about remembering how fun she was on set, no idea she was a big star.
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Don’t go to the party! We know the plot. Don’t go. And the music also says DON’T GO!
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Well, that’s a bratty teen testing her boundaries! Ugh, boys might be easier.
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Dont’ give in Sridevi!!!! Being extra lenient won’t make your teenage daughter like you again! Nothing will make your teenage daughter like you again! Oh man, I was so TERRIBLE to my mother between 12 and 18.
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He is handsome, isn’t he? In a mature grown man sort of way, not just a pretty boy.
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He is.
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Well, this is an unhealthy way to handle a stepmother relationship! I blame Dad! Let your daughter grieve and have a separate place for mother and stepmother.
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zip = pocket. I didn’t know that one.
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My theory, based on the age of the younger sister and the way Sridevi seems to be surprised by her stepdaughter’s behavior, is that when Sridevi first married her Dad she was young and easily accepted everything. Only now as she hits teen years, suddenly the whole stepmother thing is getting hard.
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HIJRAS! This is such a great movie. And the Hijras are so dignified and classy, not the cartoonish types we usually see.
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It was a nice and natural representation. Didn’t feel forced.
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Oh man, I wouldn’t take that. I’d make the child look at me when I am talking to them or send them to their room. Allowing disrespect inspires more disrespect.
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Yep. But this movie is so good, I feel like we understand where she is coming from. Feeling so desperate to win back her stepdaughter, and also maybe not having the right to snap at her since she isn’t her “real” mother.
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I had a friend who, when she was 15, complained because she had a november birthday and therefore was older than everyone else in her class, and it was her Mom’s fault because her Mom had given birth to her in November. EVERYTHING IS MOM’S FAULT ALWAYS.
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Being born in January I can relate to the strange feeling of being older than the rest of my classmates, though I didn’t blame anyone for it. If someone is born on Christmas or New Year or Valentine’s Day I think there is a little resentment because of the sharing of one’s birthday – so in that case, I would understand.
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It’s better than the other way, my Dad is born in November too, but back then they had a different rule so he started school at 4 and college at 17 and so on. Really hard for a little boy.
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AR Rahman soundtrack! I love this song, it’s basically Rahman doing a teen pop girl power anthem. So out of his standard wheelhouse.
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And yet because he is AR Rahman he masters this genre of music as easily as he had made that kind of music all his life.
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YES!!!!! You listen to it and think “ah, a female power anthem written by some up and coming young female writer”
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Also, everything is horrible for the next 10 minutes or so, now is the time to look away if you think you should look away.
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Wait, so the guy who sent her porn in class is actually interested in her?
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In a “send her porn in class” kind of way.
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It seems like something a kid who was in a boys only class would do.
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Noooo! Trustworthy older brother who drove the teens to the party is leaving! And creepy dude from school is getting drunk with his weird older cousin who he brought to the kids party! I hate this, and it is also soooooooooo believable. It was a safe party with a safe older brother taking them and only other teens there, and now suddenly it isn’t.
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Noooo! The boy she liked is with someone else! And her friend drank the drugged drink by accident! So now she is really really alone at this party. GAAAAAH!!!! Lock all your teen children in the house always!
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This does kinda play into the idea of keeping girls closeted at home, so something bad doesn’t happen to them.
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On the other hand, they do spend a lot of time setting up how it became unsafe. It’s not just walking into a party an dbeing attacked, it’s a whole combination of circumstances.
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This is so dark, and yet realistic. The guard is just a criminal of opportunity, sees some pretty girl being kidnapped and decides to help out so he can get his turn.
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I was wondering if they had paid him off.
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Nope, he just saw what was happening and went “hey cool, a rape”.
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The overhead shots of the car parking and the men changing position are so well done. You know what is happening, but there is no spectacle in it.
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Yeah I couldn’t watch. I waited till the music changed to look at the screen.
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Well at least her face is above the water.
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This long agonizing car ride is just the worst, but it is so much better in a film-watching way than actually seeing it all happen.
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YES! It’s not made into a spectacle or dramatized or anything.
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Sridevi is sooooooooooooo good at the increasing panic and awareness that something is really really wrong.
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Awww, she’s such a young 18. Another nice thing in this movie, they make 18 be 18
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Bwhaa! I feel like 25 is 18 in most Indian films. Extended adolescence. However, I will say she does seem like a high school senior.
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Exactly! She’s trying on being an adult, but not really there yet.
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Who is weird guy with the glass of milk at the police station watching?
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Never mind. detective – Jassoos
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It will be explained more in a second, but it’s Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a wig.
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I hate the wig
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Yaaaaay! A good samiratan and a doggie!
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Sridevi crying automatically makes me cry, but I would have freaked out at the strangle part more than the rape.
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Another good thing, the response isn’t “oh no, our family Honor”. The response is illogical misery.
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AKSHAYE!!!!!! I am happier now.
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But is he a good guy or a bad guy? I can’t tell.
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Good guy. Honest cop. Wants to find these guys and arrest them by the book.
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I just rewatched Dil Chahta Hai and my goodness he is just so magnetic at any age!
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I love Sridevi’s “what do I care about your stupid investigation?” expression.
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We’re all on the side of “Sridevi can take whatever vengeance she wants on those b——-” already, right?
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America has it’s own brand of Toxic Masculinity, but our brand does not include throwing acid at people who reject you, nor gang raping and trying to kill the person who rejects you. I’m not saying gang rape doesn’t happen, but then killing the girl? Gang rape as vengence? It isn’t really such a thing. So for me the hardest part is trying to understand their motivation, because I don’t truly understand Indian toxic masculinity.
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Damn, her first act is to reject Sridevi. Ouch.
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Yaaaaay, Sridevi finally got a chance to go home and change clothes after who knows how many days!
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See? Akshaye is a good guy who hates these dudes!
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hmmm. He’s just a different kind of bad right now.
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Another thing that as an American I don’t really understand, the glorification of police violence.
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Saying this as a European, the amount of Copaganda movies and TV Hollywood makes is concerning as well.
Example: Robocop (Verhoeven even said he is an American Jesus), Men In Black, Dirty Harry, and add to that the many TV shows that try to justify the great militaristic force of the police.
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True, though in Dirty Harry, and Men in Black (haven’t seen the others) they are the outliers, it isn’t business as usual. That is a big difference. And in those movies there is the suspension of disbelief. You don’t really expect police to act that way. But here it was like they were imitating reality.
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Yaaaaay, Nawazuddin! Booo, Nawazuddin’s wig!
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So they get off because she had a drink? It is a good plot twist I suppose.
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And because they paid off witnesses and Older Cousin knew to leave his phone and stuff.
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Older cousin has totally done something like this before. He knew to leave his phone and wash the car. SCUM
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Recovering from rape is one thing, but recovering from a rape where you your attackers tried to kill you is something else. And having that be your first sexual experience. Crap. I do not envy this family. The recovery will be almost worse than the attack.
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Not to mention the “call your mom” threat, on top of the already messy stepmother relationship, and her stepmom’s testimony being part of getting the rapists off.
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She’s driving. Reversal of roles.
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Yeah, her husband totally through a little hissy fit there while she is in Control.
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Good on Akshaye! Manning up and facing them instead of hiding.
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I’m with SRidevi! Why did you leave her alone?????
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