SHAHRUKH MONTH!!!! I am SO ready for it this year!!!!! Starts tomorrow, I don’t even know for sure what I am going to be doing, but I know inspiration will come upon me and it will be MAGNIFICENT. Also, usually I say “don’t worry, there will be non-SRK content too”. This month, I MAKE NO SUCH COMMITMENT!!! DCIB could very well become an all-SRK/all the time sort of place for the next 30 days. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it 🙂
Yes Boss! On youtube for free and legal, also on einthusan for sort of free and sort of legal.
At 3:30pm Chicago time I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and then we will go from there!
Aditya! Emotionally abusive much?
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Aditya’s such a manipulative a$$!!!!
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Lips mystery solved: it’s a liquor cabinet! At the moment, a very broken liquor cabinet.
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You solved it! I never knew!
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What’s up with this Fourth of July tie, by the way?
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I think that may win worst tie of the lot!
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A PLAID JACKET????
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Does it seem to anybody else that Juhi’s voice is particularly high in this film? Even compared to others of the same era.
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Thank you! I was just wondering if I was imagining it. Are you on youtube? Is it possible it is just poor soundtrack quality?
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Yes, YouTube, and there’s definitely some distorted audio in evidence when things are louder. (I’ve turned it down for the songs.) But everybody else sounds normal to me? I don’t think she’s dubbed–or if she is, it was an astoundingly seamless job.
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Her voice always sounds high to me in her 90s films.
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I’ve seen “Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke” approx. one gazillion times, and could swear it isn’t so high there. Maybe I’m just hallucinating.
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I have watched that movie a BAJILLION times also!!!! I love that movie!!! I am tone deaf, so it’s probably me.
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It’s my favorite! And such good music! There had better be another song in this movie soon, or I will get the “Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke” ones stuck in my head just from thinking about them.
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They are so great! It is one of my all time feel-good movies. The songs are so addicting!
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Yes, we should definitely do it for a watchalong sometime! So happy-making : )
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YES! And Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin. My other feel good Aamir movie!
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A friend came over and I’m trying to explain the movie to her, and her only reference point is Days of our Lives.
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It’s a remake of For Love or Money which was a remake of the Apartment, it is all very easy to understand!
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I love seeing SRK and Juhi’s friendship evolve in this movie. Listening to their dialogue as friends feels weirdly intimate.
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The background music made a weird, brief veer into the territory of the “Godfather” theme there.
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do you notice that SRK is used for the sincere emotional messages, but the other assistant is used for the REALLY sleazy stuff? Aditya knows that SRK has a purity he is lackig, and he needs to use that.
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Yes. Shukla is evil too and Aditya uses him to unbashadly further his own evil nature. Whereas he knows he can use SRK’s circumstanses, purity, and ambition against him.
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Why does Juhi’s hostel friend look like she’s 50 for no reason?
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And she didn’t just a bit ago! Lighting Avenger strikes again.
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I’m not certain I understand Lighting Avenger’s sense of poetic justice, LOL. With Aditya it made sense!
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American flag tie?
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My friend is horrified that I’m watching on little chrome books and is convincing me to get a big screen.
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HAve you explained to her the complications of Indian streaming copyrights and the necessities of bootleg videos?
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“You should take your Chromebook-scale streaming and be grateful for it, young woman! Back in MY day, we had to rely on Nehaflix and ‘grocery uncles.'”
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Sheela’s outfit is not flaterring!
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Or appropriate for a work dinner!!!
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Okay, doesn’t it really feel like Juhi likes SRK and is trying to read his behavior??? She did that double take and smile after his comment, and when she accidentally hit him she was immediately super upset.
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YES! She is charmed by him from the beginning. And it grows with time and getting to know him more.
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But from her side of things, how can she read him? He came on strong, they had this great date, and then he totally disappeared on her. And now he is behaving like they barely know each other, and then suddenly dropping a love bomb.
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I think he came out strong and at that time she might have liked him but they just met so she was also being practical given their circumstances. As their relationship grows, she starts to rely on SRK as a friend and a confidant, and someone she can just be herself with. Then he becomes the one of the only people that understands her circumstances and a shoulder to cry on. That tuns into love.
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Nope, I disagree!!!! I think she is feeling flutters around him the whole time, but ignoring it because he is clearly not interested in any more and Aditya makes more logical sense. I think part of the tragedy of the film is that all he had to do was ask this whole time and he was afraid to do it.
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No no. I completely agree with this. I thinks by this time, she is definitely in love. I was just trying to explain her trajectory.
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Juhi’s vulnerability is so endearing!
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The sari is beautiful, but it dwarfs her a little–she looks like a little girl playing dress-up </3
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I was explaining to my friend that she now looked “married” – but yes, it looks like she is pretending to look married.
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See???? She likes him! But he keeps giving her weird mixed signals, so she doesn’t know what to do.
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He also doesn’t know what to do. And she still likes Aditya. It’s complicated.
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She kissed him, she is in love! She needs to dump Aditya!!!
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I JUST SAID THAT! AND YOU SAID I WAS WRONG!!!!
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No i didn’t. I think he came out strong and at that time she might have liked him but they just met so she was also being practical given their circumstances. (That was like the first 5 minutes of the movie). As their relationship grows, she starts to rely on SRK as a friend and a confidant, and someone she can just be herself with. (When she is the gf and doesn’t know Aditya is married. She might still have feelings for SRK here but she is also kind of charmed by Aditya and SRK doesn’t continue to pursue her. If he did, maybe he did, she would have chose him). Then he becomes the one of the only people that understands her circumstances and a shoulder to cry on. (Since she finds out Aditya is married). That tuns into love. From then on they are FIRMLY in love.
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So 10 minutes of SRK in Yes Boss was not enough to turn my friend into a fan. “He’s cute? really?” And yes, SRK needs more than 10 minutes to understand. Do I have to show her DDLJ or is there one on Netflix I can force her to watch? She is off, she doesn’t feel like looking at my chromebook any more.
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Hey, it took me until over an hour into DDLJ, I’m no one to talk.
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HA! I enjoyed SRK’s movies but the first movie where I found him objectively attractive was as a dad in KKHH.
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I think “Paheli” may be on Netflix in the U.S. right now? He has his cute moments in that.
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It is! I just showed it to a friend, because of Halloween 🙂
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“Yeh meri sapna nahin tha” ) ‘:
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Never got the red nose, bangles on ears okay, but why a red nose?
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Maybe so he can smell her make-up? Or the clown obsession again?
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The director has a clown obsession. That answers all my questions.
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So did Raj Kapoor. It’s not a great look on either of them : P
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Surely it must be a clown thing, with the bindi under his eye a la a weeping Pierrot.
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Okay, Little Dog is climbing on top of me demanding his walk. Back soon, in the meantime Shelomit is in charge! Since she is the only one this is knew to!
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LOL, I am not responsible enough for this posting! And I have seen it, but it’s probably been fifteen years : P
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I had straight-up forgotten that this song was from this movie! What fun!
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I love the rolling down a hill till he hits his bosses feet. Such a perfect ending to the fantasy.
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moon as a symbol of beauty – not something you find in western ideas. I still can’t quite grasp it. Moon face was never a compliment growing up.
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A Japanese friend of mine in undergrad told me that her sister had called her “moon-faced.” I presumed that was complementary, so I said, “So poetic!” or something like that. Then my friend explained that, in Japanese, this apparently is a slightly less impolite way of saying that someone has put on weight.
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I’m a sucker for sequences like that, ones which play with the question of whether a song is “really” happening or not and who is aware of it.
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The fantasy songs, honestly galavanting around snowy mountains with tons of skin showing works best as a fantasy.
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adjoining rooms, he is such a slime!
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It grosses me out so much!!! It makes it so much worse because it’s Aditya!!!
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I feel so bad for the wife, even if she isn’t a great actress, poor wooden fooled woman.
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Poor Johnny has clearly learned his geography from the movies.
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So does the wife really want to see Rahul & Seema because she likes them (she didn’t act like she liked them when she ate dinner at their house) or because she suspects Siddharth?
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I think she likes Rahul. I think she is maybe slightly suspicious of Seema?
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He did bring her a piano after all…
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Okay Rahul and Johnny in the bathtub cracks me up soo much. They just seems like kids having the time of their life!
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Tell me about bathrooms in Mumbai? Are there bathtubs? Was this hotel bathroom something really special for them?
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No one I know owns a bathtub in Mumbai. So, yes, I think hotel bathtubs are novel and special!
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We didn’t have a bathtub where I grew up. When visiting my great-aunt and -uncle, they always expected the first thing I would want to do was to take a bath in their tub. It seemed so luxurious!
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As comical as walking down hallways in a towel is, wouldn’t it have been faster to have thrown on a shirt and pants and ran?
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Anyone else see the blond lady give SRK’s booty an appreciative look?
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I’m back!!!! We went walkies, and then I had to help my friend hang our Golden Girls Montage Puzzle in the front hall.
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I love trying to figure out how SRK could have put on Juhi’s nightgown without her knowing. Movie MAGIC!
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Why would you go swimming in those earrings????
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Oh she forgot to take them off!
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Them narrating the movie words is one of my favorite pieces of cinema ever! SO CUTE!
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ME TOOO!!!! I love it!!!
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My mother and aunt used to make quite a game of this when they went to the gym together! They always had telenovelas playing at the YMCA with the sound off. They would make up whole plots for them while on the elipticals.
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Wait, is this Indecent Proposal or whatever that Redford-Demi Moore movie is? Very VERY on the nose with the whole “virtious young couple seduced by money”. Or is it a different movie.
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Oh oh I hope it is Indecent Proposal.
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I think it is that movie.
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Ooo, very nice inside reference for those who know the original film!
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Okay, I think Sheela sincerely likes Rahul and is happy for the young couple because she is a sincerely nice person. and Aziz Mirza is a sincerely nice person because he gave such a nice character to the “evil” rich wife.
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OH! I recognize these costumes too! There is another song coming!!!!
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ONce again, OMG the ties!
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Very far way from his drop dead perfect black suit and plain black tie in JHMS.
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Juhi is uncertain/unhappy and wanting SRK to be jealous, yes? That’s how she’s playing this scene playing with the scarf and asking him to stay and stuf?
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I’m going to have to rewatch that scene.
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You should! I think Juhi is playing it on lots adn lots of layers on purpose.
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oooh Bhushan keeps telling Seema that Aditya is involved with the models. So, I can see why she is slightly suspicious of Juhi until this visit, when she sees for herself that SRK and Juhi are on their honeymoon.
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The fact that the mango ruse works on the Boss shows that he must be DESPERATE for money. He needs that additional advertiser.
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Well, he wastes all his money chasing after models, it makes sense.
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Okay, Seema is having orange juice in a wine glass with breakfast. Or a mimosa. Whatever. But her brother is drinking some kind of juice that is 1) light green, 2) opaque, and 3) also in a wine glass.
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fancy kale smoothie?
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Maybe. . . it’s so bright-colored!
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Ooo, hot white girl! Who the Lighting Avenger hates.
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She isn’t hot, but she IS white.
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I love his mango salesman voice, OMG.
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She is all happy that SRK is taking her sightseeing. And she is all flirtly! She is definitely into him!
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This song is soooooooooooooo good! In every way, lyrics and music and visual.
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