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 NOT clear to me whence they have obtained this “chhote sarkaar.”
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Ah, they leased him.
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I do very much appreciate that there is a girl member of their gang who is a full fledged member and part of all their cons, not just “sexy”.
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I am certain there are other disguise-yourself-as-a-nawab schemes, but even between this movie and “Ishq,” if a nawabby guy walked into my shop, I would immediately be on high alert!
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What is prettier, Indian Leis or Hawaiian leis?
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Which ever one isn’t covered in plastic to keep it “fresh”
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OH! That’s where they got the little kid! They just rented him from his parents.
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See this is what I mean. They’re spending all this time on this instead of Diabolik Shashi in his see-through shirt.
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There’s a sofa int he garage area? Isn’t that a rish of CO2 poisoning?
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HA! The cars are a part of the interior design!
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SHABANA! Please let it be Shabana!!!!
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SHABANA!!!!! And it’s True Love. Yes? I am reading that correctly?
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yesss
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The giant semicircular couch in their Robin Hood living room! Which is also the garage, since it’s a drive-in XDe
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Shabhana is on! the! case!
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Was that a lust at first sight look?
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LOVE! It’s Shashi, he is PURE!
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I refuse to deny my Americanism. Love at first sight is an Indian idea, my culture leaves it at lust.
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I don’t know if I trust Shabana. Is this a real story, or is she a policewoman under cover or something?
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I can’t think of anyone who starts an explanation with “I am a helpless woman.” So my guess is undercover operative.
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I can, but now I am realizing all those female characters turned out to be faking too. Including Shabana herself in AAA.
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Shashiiiii stop being so pretty
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It is how he feeds his family. He’s gotta use it!
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His wife’s pimping him out in those clothes.
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No one is going to ask Shabana “why are you dressed like you are in Switzerland”?
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LOL! I shall imagine that, since her uncle was after all her money, so she had to steal her only set of clothes off of a winter-wonderland-themed department store Christmas display.
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“If it’s Geeta, then there is bound to be Mahabharata”
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Ooo, Shashi gently turning her down and taping her nose was super hot. I like to think that’s how he did it in real life too.
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CLAP ON CLAP OFF LIGHTS!!!!!! Why did those never take off?
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My entire childhood was filled with ads for those things. They were HUGE in the 80s. But then something would fall and all the lights would go out…
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And also Chekov’s Clapper Lights.
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That clap light scene is pretty great.
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Wikipedia informs me that The Clapper was not invented till 1984. Science fiction!
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I was thinking it was an early clapper!
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Every time I see an automatic door in a 70s Masala movie, I assume it works by having small children hired to push it closed under the line of camera.
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When we bought our house we had an automatic garage door. The kids broke it within a month!
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Judo, Karate, and Shooting!!!!!! I’m pumped!!!!
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I appreciate Iftekhar’s demonstrable trust in Shabhana here.
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The commisioner’s house is almost as nice as the Gangsters house. The police must pay VERY well.
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because all police are completely honest.
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It’s Iftakhar! He is always honest, except for that one movie where he isn’t.
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DANNY!!! This has got to be his intro, right?
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DANNY! You look totally unlike Shashi or, indeed, anyone else in this movie!
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DANNY! My hero!
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Oh Danny, I love you.
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Shetty!
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They aren’t kidding when they say “thrills by Shetty” : D
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I love it when he;s actually in one, always a joy is Shetty.
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I want Danny in the next Shang Chi movie, who is with me?
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Lighting the match on the goonda’s head! OMG. I think I saw something like that on another older film recently. Alas that it’s so hard to get strike-anywhere matches these days.
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Perhaps it was Rajesh in “Roti, Kapada, aur Makaan” that I’m thinking of? Still not quite placing that memory.
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NO WAY! I wouldn’t have even recognized him as the BAng BAng villian without forwarning! He does have a distinctive face. Tiger-ish.
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He’s from the far Northeast provinces, had to really struggle to get a chance in films because he looks so “weird”.
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He’s gorgeous. Not Sashi pretty, but hot.
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Admittedly, they were filmed a year or two apart ( ; It’s very cool to me that he still crops up in contemporary movies from time to time.
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Everybody is in their snazzy monochrome costumes: cream-colored suit, deep blue burka, and. . . whatever the heck is going on with Asrani : P
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Okay, let me see if I have this right. Danny as a very young child was kidnapped by criminals. Shashi and his friend Asrani lived on the streets and survived by their wits, eventually forming a gang with Aruna Irani to steal from criminals and give the money to the police. Now, a corrupt politician/criminal is pressuring Iftakhar, the police commissioner, to capture Shashi. Iftakhar has sent in his own daughter Shabana undercover. At the same time, the politician/criminal has hired Danny to kill Shashi NOT KNOWING THEY ARE BROTHERS.
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You are, to my knowledge, correct. Although Shashi, Aruna, and Asrani are funneling most of that stolen cash into home improvements, seemingly.
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Well, they probably make some money of their patents for clapper lights and automatic doors.
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LOL, indeed!
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Somebody put those candles straight.
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Now that you mention it they look humanistic, almost like they are going to start singing beauty and the beast style.
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Wait, are they having a romantic dinner, but with his friend?
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Maybe a planning and plotting dinner?
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A genre-savvy restaurateur: “He has come again. I will have to order new furniture now ) :”
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It looks really hard to dance in that dress.
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Agree
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Popka, in Rajkumar Aruna Irani plays a witch who sells love potions to Naseeruddin Shah. Just another little detail to encourage you to watch it.
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ugh it really does sound great
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You’re talking about the Anil-Madhuri one? I have always been told that it’s awful, but Aruna as a witch may convince me to seek it out.
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It’s only awful if you can’t stand masala/fantasy
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Oh, I that will not be a problem for me ( ; I live and breathe “Dharam-Veer,” “Mard,” “Ajooba,” et al.
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Once again, I am distracted by this massive floor show for only like 20 tables. How much is the cover charge???
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It is a really loud applause for such a small audience.
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I do enjoy how Indian choreography includes so much floor dancing. Gotta keep those dance floors clean!
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Wait, is Danny getting a thing for Aruna? Aruna is the Vamp! She’s not supposed to have a romance!
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SPECIAL EFFECTS!!! Love the Aruna popping in and out, like Bewitched.
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Like all good fights, this starts with mutual appreciation of each other’s fashion sense.
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If I had a family song and a long last brother, I would just start eveyr conversation with a new acquintance by saying “hey, do you know this song?”
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Danny I don’t think your flirtation is taking off.
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So the two brothers are meeting for the first time? Both sons of a teacher who turned to somewhat criminal means.
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Yep! Because of the fall of modern post-independence India and blah blah blah, SO many academic papers on this trope.
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Wait, Shashi is in WHITE, and Danny is in BLACK!!!! I feel like this means something, but what WHAT????
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It does!
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Sashi has paler skin? JK
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Where is this magnificent oval staircase?! I’ve seen it in so many films.
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It is magnificent!
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They are driving to make out point, aren’t they?
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