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 
Is Danny the only person in the world who can pull off the long hair/mustache/black turtleneck 70s look?
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He pulls Shashi up from the ground and it’s shot just like he had just been touching his feet. Tension tension!
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Don’t touch the hair, dude. It is sacred!
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He has a torture chamber in his house???
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This torture chamber is AMAZING!!!!
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It’s a perfectly nice room, except for the discount Tarzans.
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This should teach Danny to agree to kidnapping jobs on the weekends. You have to wait for the banks to open up again on Monday : P
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It’s amazing to look at, but I think it might be really REALLY bad as a torture chamber.
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And now, a BOAT. The only thing this movie was missing.
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Good thing Sashi can hold his breath for so long…
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Sheesh Danny, this took you forever!
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Wait, they are torturing him by tickling him with mice? No one in this gang knows how to torture people.
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There is an entire daku social structure postulated here. Evil dakus, civic-minded dakus, blue-collar dakus who just want a nice infrastructure in the neighborhood they steal from. . .
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OH MY GOD. I forgot about this bit with the rats. Oh, my god.
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I like the screaming while the rats are TOTALLY still in the cage. Very calm rats.
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YOGA!
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Danny’s hair looks really luscious here.
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Someone just got an underwater camera
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Do mangroves actually grow leaves underwater or are those just weird props?
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Did nobody in the 1970s know how to dive? Because every time I see somebody diving into water in a movie of this era, they bellyflop even though they’re usually only going from 3-5 feet above the water. I think I was a better diver than that as a six-year-old.
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Not only do we have the prescient lair clapper, but also Asrani’s futuristically waterproof watch.
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Danny is so distraught that he’s actually letting Asrani do the brotherly cradling.
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I love the backing music in this scene.
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Wait, they never even SING their family song? How can you be sure you are really the brothers then????
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The disembodied voice of their mother sang it, which I presume means they were both thinking it really hard.
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Danny’s hair looks AMAZING when wet
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Women’s fashion is often functionally ridiculous. But men too. Collars, giant collars, maybe once used to shade the neck, once. And Neckties? Men’s fashion is ridiculous.
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Awww, she has silver elephants embroidered on the edge of her sari.
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Wait, have Shashi and Shabana still not had their first night?
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Well, he did get kidnapped very shortly post-makeshift-wedding. I got the impression they were about to get down to business right as Madan Puri’s goons showed up.
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WHAT is going on with Iftekhar and the wife’s bedframe? It looks like it’s made of tubular steel, like cattle fencing.
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Your cattle fencing is made of tubular steel!! We use sticks and barbed wire.
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Yeah, I wondered about that! And electric fences. Why pamper them? They are cattle!
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LOL, the electric fence is not to pamper them c: With barbed-wire you usually have to do several strands (three-strand is most common for cattle), whereas with electric you only have to do one. The fenceposts can also be shorter–just metal rods instead of full-scale driven posts. That makes electric fencing more convenient for places that aren’t used to pasture cattle year-round. For example, you could plant a field, harvest it, and quickly whip up an electric fence to let the cattle graze on the stubble for much less time/labor/material cost than a barbed-wire fence, which is necessarily meant to be permanent or near-permanent.
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Where I live, in the desert, there isn’t enough water to plant fields. So no electric fences, but lots of used and unused old cattle fences.
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Well, we have four-strand barbed wire on most of the ranch, and tubular steel in the chutes/corral. Do you ranch?! (My family actually mostly primarily raise goats, but cattle on a smaller scale, too.)
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I live surrounded by it. Dogs are always getting ripped up by old barbed wire laying around the desert. Most of the Corals around here are wood, but some are tubular metal, silver, and narrower than that bedframe though! One of our closest friends grew up on a ranch in Arizona, I’ll ask him about his corrals (they have less trees there).
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Ah, sure. I grew up in high desert with basically no tree cover; various members of my family ranch in northeast NM through the panhandle up to southwest OK.
The cattle have honestly never given us any trouble with fencing, but the goats are another matter. We were once separating our buck off from the does at the end of the spring breeding season by putting him into a loafing shed with a little outdoor section fenced in with tubular steel panels. He decided to attack one of the panels head-first and, after eight or ten whacks, had bent it into a 45-degree angle O.o
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I have a friend who had some goats for milk, and then just kept getting more and more and more and more and more and more and more goats. Eventually her family is going to have to move because of space. They basically are at the edge of a neighborhood on a lot that I’m not sure is a full acre, and they have too many goats. Or they’ll get divorced because of the goats. She sells her goats, but only to people who won’t eat them. Their lot has two houses on it, she rents one out as an Airbnb “goat house”. My sister likes it, she stays there with her family when they visit. On their last visit we got to see a goat give birth. The kids thought it was so cool, but I was honestly just worried about the additional goats now living on the property.
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It’s so goofy, but this terrible hiding is making me very literally laugh out loud. And the little flourish as Iftekhar steps out of the room!
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Well, this movie is having it’s cake and eating it too with the whole “sneaking into the bedroom to have sex while her parents sleep next door, but it’s okay they are MARRIED”
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Now THIS song I do go back and listen to a lot. “Maybe she’s hungry and that’s why she’s singing.”
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Whoa!!!! What happened to their clothes???
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I am not complaining!
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SHASHI!!!!!! TUT!!!!
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They broke the bed!! THat must have been really uncomfortable to sleep in.
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OMG. I think that’s the same hideous blanket Madan Puri was under near the beginning of the movie.
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ooh interesting!
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Popka – Shashi is having sex and not just roaming around trees!
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Thank you Shashi! Asking what we were all wondering!
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Ah inherited wealth, that explains the policeman’s nice house.
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There seems to be a whole little subgenre of people singing songs while disguised as holy men. This movie, “Hera Pheri,” “Shaan”. . .
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Oooo, I like Aruna’s dress!
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Madan Puri realllllly likes those pearls. Poor Aruna, though ) :
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I know. Poor Aruna.
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Well, I’ve lost the plot again. but I’m not worrying too much.
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Danny and Shashi stole Madan Puri’s fancy idol/the cash he was going to pay for it, so he’s making up a fake event with a fake fancy gift so that Shashi et al. will be tempted to show up to steal it and can be recaptured. But Iftekhar’s people are also aware of this party. . .
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It got complicated!
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Iftekhar’s second-in-command looks like a slightly squished Vincent Price ca. 1956.
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Sashi may be the only man ever who looked attractive with a handlebar mustache.
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Confusingly, I find this get-up pretty dashing. Danny ain’t looking shabby, either.
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Two independent groups of people here thought, “How shall I sneak into a high-society party? Ah, yes, by posing with my friends as a qawwali ensemble.”
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I had completely forgotten about this whole Emperor’s New Clothes bit.
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yes, it’s great!
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His little red socks blend in with the velvet chair, LOL.
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“Ustaad Bole and Baam Bole.” Oh, dear.
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I was literally here giggling loudly at Bum Bole but didn’t want to seem really juvenile by pointing that out. I am so happy someone else thought it was funny too!!!!
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So the police and criminals are singing to eachother in disguise right? Do they know who the other is?
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Shashi knows Iftekar and his team are police. And I think Iftekar’s team suspects Shashi and Danny but I am not sure if they are sure.
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I just paid attention to the song and yes, Iftekar knows who Shashi is.
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The Vincent Price lookalike said as such to Iftekhar at the beginning of the scene, did he not? not so certain if the dakus realize that the other performers are the police.
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IFTAKHAR IS SINGING!!!! I mean, not really, but even lipsynching is exciting.
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It’s honestly delightful that the policemen get to take part in the disguise-laden qawwali showdown, too. Also, Madan Puri looks like he’s unironically digging it.
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