Happy Friday! And Happy Shabana day! I am very nervous about this movie because I haven’t seen it before and what if it is SAD??? But even if it is sad, it still has Shashi, so that is HAPPY.
Fakira! It’s on Prime for a small rental fee, youtube with ads, and einthusan! Pick your poison, I will be on Prime myself.
At 3pm Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will all comment along from there! Based on the poster, many of our comments will be fashion/grooming related.
dontcallitbollywood 
It is happy!
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But can I trust your happy to be my happy?
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If it wasn’t suitable for watchalongs or the sort of thing only I like, I would have said so.
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SIGNIFICANTLY happier than many a Shabana movie. (She did so much serious stuff.) You are in good hands.
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And PLAY!
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Here here here! sorry slightly behind
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Oh yeah, pre-credits drop you right into the narrative! This is definitely a 70s movie! Also, villagers? Slumdwellers? Can’t tell.
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Great, it’s starting in the middle because I clearly watched and abandoned it some time ago
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And adverts! aaaah
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Sexy lady dancing
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Okay, saintly Mom singing a family song to two boys. I feel like I know where this is going. But whose the kid outside?
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And Dad seems to be a scholar/writer type? I’m gonna say Mom dies of sickness and Dad is killed by Bad Guys and kids are separated?
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I have no idea because I have watched so many of these they’ve all blended into one big mass!
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He’s a schoolteacher, IIRC.
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Here but still working. I should be able to give it by full attention shortly.
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I mean, we still haven’t had them grow up and be separated yet. Which I am just assuming is going to happen once we get through this boring bit with a family living in poverty.
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I realised I played myself because I think you only even see Shashi after more than half an hour so I don’t think I will even see him.
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Well, yeah! 20 minutes for folks to buy popcorn and fight over seats, and then the real movie starts. Obviously.
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Yeah but I recall it being really long in this one, more like 40.
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LOL, sorry, Popka ) : He is certainly a very fine Shashi in this film.
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He is EXTREMELY beautiful in this.
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I do always fancy this character actor whenever he shows up and never remember his name.
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It’s JAckie Kennedy’s pearls! On a Bad Man!!!!
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That swirly purple-and-white shirt. . . canoodling under a sort of faux-leopard-print bedspread (much less the canoodling itself). . . real Villain-Signaling.
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I’m less than 5 minutes late, and yet I have NO IDEA what is going on. Usually you can skip 5 minutes and the plot is obvious. I guess not in the 70s.
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Poor but honesst family, two sons, ill mother, obviously set up for a tragic separation.
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Doesn’t matter! I have very often done something else during these bits it’s fine.
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Guy tries to stand up for community, but the goondahs get back at him and the rest of the neighborhood blames him for the carnage. It’s kind of like Rani’s brother in “Ghulam.”
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I need to find a masala villain to marry but what else is new.
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Ajit!!! Or, Bob Christo.
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Ranjeet has my heart, but Bob is also good. Also, Danny.
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To each his own, but what makes you go for Bob Christo?! (I don’t mind an older fellow, so I’ll take Pran–thanks.)
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The older kid is the same poor child actor whom Jeevan (I think?) forced to drink alcohol as a child in “Suhaag”–resulting in him growing up to be addicted Amitabh.
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The brothers! They love each other so much! Little do they know that as adults they will be ENEMIES!!!! (I assume)
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beats me if I know, all I remember from this movie is the lair and the amazing sex song.
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Wait, Ma isn’t dead yet? I thought sure she was dead by now!
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The injured mother is just laying in the middle of the town square, no friends or family to give her a bed? And the whole town ignores her.
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They hate her because of what the dad did.
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Do you ever worry that you don’t have a family song and therefore will not be able to reunite with each other when you are separated? Because I do.
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Get half a monkey tattoo instead!
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When we were little, my Mom taught us to slap our bottoms every time someone said “bottom”. Which I supposed wouold work well in a “separated” situation, but which is VERY embarrassing on an every day basis. Less cute now than when we were 3.
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That sounds like a believable masala plot point though.
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If your family is unmusical, you MUST take photographs. Either multiple copies can be distributed among separated friends (“Awaara”), or you can simply tear one photograph in two and piece it back together (“Coolie”).
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Was there a casting call for little boys who can cry well on demand?
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Or they just pinched them real hard.
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Wait, there are THREE boys? I thought there were only two boys?
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THree boys is unfair, I’ll start getting sentimental.
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I’m super confused though, because I thought it was just a Danny-Shashi movie. Does one of them have a double role?
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OH look, they lost one.
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Do the children think the bad guys won’t kill them?
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OH! Okay, two brothers and one friend.
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WHAT?! Which was in the friend.
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I think the middle one was the friend? And the littlest one was the one who went off? Which will probably explain why he doesn’t remember he had brothers.
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SHASHI!!!!!! So he is the one who went off on his own?
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Anybody catch what was written on the sign on the dummy? Went by too fast for me.
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Call me crazy, but I think that might be rear projection and Shashi isn’t actually riding the motorcycle?
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Love when he takes both hands off the handles to calmly remove his glasses to rub his eyes!
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The fake mustache, omg. If my memory does not fail me, this is not even the last time we will see that particular Hulk Hogan-esque mustache in this movie.
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I wish I could put on a mustache for an automatic disguise.
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Is someone else paying attention to the plot for me? Because I’m just looking at the mustache.
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None of this is important!
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Okay, now I like this, having the gang pretend to be a farmer fighting with his wife to block the cops.
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Thanks for that I had no idea what was happening.
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Reminds me of the first big con scene in “Chori Mera Kaam,” the one where Zeenat pretends to have been killed by a car.
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“Sir, I will not go with this shorty fellow!”
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How does this room make sense? As anything besides a stage set?
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The villains’ weirdly extravagant house! Best part in any masala movie.
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Just tell me this, is Shashi the baby who was separated or the oldest brother who stayed with his friend?
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It’s been a few years since I’ve seen this, but I thinnnnnnk Danny is the little one and Shashi is the one who stayed with the friend and that said friend is “Popat” (don’t know the actor name). Now wait for me to be proven incorrect in twenty minutes, lol!
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Oh, duh, it’s Asrani. A more effective disguise than most–I actually did not recognize him in that first scene!
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I love this house and that weird Tom of Finland guy and that stuffed tiger that shows up in every masala movie.
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IFTAKAR!!!!!!!! There’s one movie where he turns out to be the killer and it is the BEST twist because we have all gotten so used to him as Honest Cop.
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I don’t know it! What movie??? Although I suppose the more honest method of experiencing the surprise would be to steadily watch movies with Iftekhar in them and then be taken aback by that one.
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SPOILERS Khel Khel Mein END SPOILERS
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I will seek it out!!! I can barely imagine Iftakhar doing anything villainous, with the exception of one movie when he pretends to solicit a bribe from the guy he’s arresting and, as the guy handshakes on the agreement, CLAPS the manacle around his wrist!
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IMDB says it has Rishi and Neetu, plus one of my favorite character actors (Yunus Parvez). Certainly I must see it!
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And, HRITHIK’S DAD!!!!
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 7:04 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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IFTEKHAR! My fave!
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Hijra! Also, is Fakira Shashi? Are we supposed to know that?
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It is, no idea.
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Doves? Pigeons? WHY????
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Drive-in lair! DRIVE-IN LAIR!
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THE LAIR
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Bet you didn’t think Shashi was going to be Diabolik!
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This Lair hallway goes on FOREVER. Why can’t they just live in a house?
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Also, see-through shirt.
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Sashi is so beautiful!
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No one is bothered by Shashi’s muffin top in taht shirt? Just me?
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His muffin top is an essential part of 70s masala. You should see it in Chori Mera Kaam.
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They lampshade it there, yes? Zeenat says something like, “Every time you’re in jail you gain 5kg.”
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lol yes exactly it’s great
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It is a very small muffin.
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But he could just wear looser pants and it wouldn’t exist at all!
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That isn’t allowed in 70s fashion. The idea is that all men are beautiful, regardless of how much they work out.
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TBH, I love that about ’70s movies (and earlier ones). For one thing, I’m sentimentally fond of Randhir, who would never have been considered a “hero type” these days because even as a fairly young man he was just sort of blob-shaped.
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Chekov’s Yogic Breathing
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Okay, so ASrani is the “funny” friend who isn’t a REAL brother. And Danny is still off somewhere unknown in the world.
Do you think it will ever be pointed out that Danny and Shashi look dramatically different from each other?
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Have we seen the actor Danny yet? Did I miss him?
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Nope! He’s the villain from Bang Bang, he looks almost Central Asian, very distinctive.
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I get to see the Bang BAng villian young! Awesome.
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He also went to drama college with Jaya BAchchan and they are still friends. Which I find sweet somehow.
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For some reason I remember this whole thing going on forever.
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I’m not feeling well so it feels like forever to me.
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I’m just ignoring things until either Danny or Shabana show up.
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I’m worried about missing plot but I’m already so lost it probably won’t matter.
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Nah, join me in waiting for Danny and Shabana and just going from there.
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Yes it certainly seems to go on forever.
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