Happy Friday! I have SUCH a busy day today, everything from getting a skin cancer full body check from a dermatologist (I’m just being pro-active, nothing to worry about. But be proud of me!), to buying boots, to returning a $10 item to Best Buy that is going to take me over an hour to drive there and back. But TEN DOLLARS! Anyway, wait for my “And Play” comment this week, just in case I am running a little late.
Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna! Yes, it is terribly flawed, we can spend the whole time talking about how we would fix it and admiring costumes. It’s on Netflix, at 3pm Chicago time I will say “And PLAY” and we will all watch along from there!
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I really like Amitabh’s glasses and wish he wore them in real life.
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These people really have got to stop having such personal interactions in the street.
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Oooo, the hair does look good int he rain!
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I like also that everybody else is having cafe drinks, tea, coffee, whatever, and here is Amitabh with a glass of white wine.
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Maybe to fix your marriages, you should be having coffee dates every day WITH YOUR SPOUSE???
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And what, “discussion karein”? Abhishek, at least, we know is anti-discussion : P
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“Tumhare sab kuch,” okay, that’s actually very sexy.
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I like how there are just random woman whipping things in the background of the store!
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There used to be this furniture store in Wichita that had an extraordinarily comfy desk chair. My dad looked at it, but thought it was too expensive. After that, though, whenever we had to go for errands in Wichita, we would go to that store at the end of the day and take turns sitting in the comfy chair. It was like a cloud. Once we noticed the sales girl looking at us and got all embarrassed. She explained that people came to sit in the chairs all the time. Admittedly, though, none of us were making out. I’m typing this all up to distract myself from the sex shop scene, you understand.
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Oh it’s gonna get SO MUCH WORSE than the sex shop scene. I may have to leave the room and make myself tea.
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Yes! It gets so much worse. It’s incredibly cringe worthy.
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No, don’t invoke its power! I’m trying reallllly hard not to let that thing imprint on my permanent memory.
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The second-hand embarrassment is real : /
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On the plus side, Abhishek has another great button-up?
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Have just Googled and discovered that Ohio Extreme is a real soccer club name.
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Oh, I had no clue this song was from this movie!
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It’s SO GOOD!!!!
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OMG, this is my favorite song!!!! But not my favorite coat on Rani.
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One gets the sense that, for Rani, getting her hands ketchuppy for somebody is a legitimate sacrifice.
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HA!
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Why does “boring” Rani wear so many sleeveless shirts?
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She’s advanced to these bustier-type strapless things even!
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“Off-the-shoulder”! That’s the phrase.
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Oh, I once spent a night sleeping on one of those old-fashioned wrap-around wooden benches at a train station in Georgia. Not comfy.
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Sheesh, let Preity finish a dang sentence.
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LOL, you are typing faster than I am even when we have the same thoughts ( ;
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Ughhhhhhhhhhhh, Shahrukh is so ready to be unhappy at Priety that he won’t even let her finish a sentence ) : <
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Shahrukh is the WORST!!!! Preity has done nothing wrong in this marriage!
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Go off, Preity! That felt very gratifying.
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Abhishek has some legitimate complaints. I think both these couples just really need therapy!!!!
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Yeah, I guess I am kind of rooting for Rani-Abhishek, because this scene just makes my stomach hurt. SRK-Preity, though, I just want to split up. He is so terrible around their kid!
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I am strongly on Preity and Abhishek’s side in the movie. I should be more sympathetic toward Rani, but I just can’t. She drives me nuts in this movie. Not taking an once of responsibility. Blaming Abhishek for everything. I just can’t!
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I think I feel favorable to her in part because I’ve been in that position of having a partner who wants more from you physically than you feel you can offer them, and even with real affection there, it’s a tough situation for both. But yeah.
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I’m so sorry you had to go through that. I agree, that’s a really tough situation.
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That’s the hard part: that it isn’t really anybody’s fault, just a kind of incompatibility of needs that is always going to leave one of you compromising. I still bear a lot of love for him, but it would not have worked in the long term.
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Great acoustics in the empty train station!
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This is also a very unrealistic vision of the reliability of the MTA.
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GO PREITY!!!! Why should you wait for him to catch up?
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Surely there is an interval title card missing just there? I dislike it when they take them out. It makes for really weird transitions.
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Abhishek is the most Adult Man in this whole movie.
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Yeah.
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He really is. And he deserves Rani to be better!
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Which is why he gets the super happy ending!
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Did the conductor just announce that the last train to CT leaves slightly after noon??? Sucks to be a commuter in the KJo cinematic universe.
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A classic train station run. . . but make it Sinful(TM).
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Oh, the blue sari over the black choli! She looks so good.
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She looks very good in this whole song, saris in strong colors are Rani’s sweet spot!
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Yes, this orange-fading-to-brown one is an amazing look for her also. And very autumnal!
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CHRISTMAS!
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I hate Christmas, but still predictably dig the Christmastime sari ( ;
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When you were bragging up the coats, did you intend to include all of these giant fake-fur things Amitabh insists on wearing?
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I did NOT
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Thank G-d.
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“Dude, it’s a toy store!”
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“Why did we get married?” “Our brains were not working.”
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Ugh, her bedazzled miniskirt!
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That messenger guy looks like the unfortunate bystander at the furniture store.
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This seems like a REMARKABLE coincidence!
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They are clearly all in the same neighborhoods at the same time: first Abhishek and Preity were spotted together for that interview, and then the awkward impromptu lunch with Preity-SRK and Kirron and Amit ji.
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Ah, now Shahrukh is the one who isn’t keeping track of what’s up with his adorable kid.
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FINALLY SRK becomes a decent father. I guess adultery fixes everything?
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Ha!
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Manchester United Philharmonic, eheheh.
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This film takes forever right, so even two hours late I still get a whole hour of infidelity!
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Oh yeah! Join us!
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What does Abhishek’s weird cowboy belt buckle say???
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A more interesting movie would have this be a turning point and their marriages suddenly better from now on, the affair forgotten, until it suddenly is brought up again months later threatening the happiness they have found.
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Aw, he cleaned ( :
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EVer seen Top Secret? The ballet reminds me of it.
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The kids are watching with me, without knowing the plot and this is just embarrassing.
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Needs more car chases
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The kids won’t leave so I’m asking them to analyze Shah Rukh’s acting. Their amazing analysis is that SRK doesn’t feel happy.
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Hey, that’s good acting! Conveying clear emotion to the whole audience.
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I was telling Margaret at the beginning that I was supposed to see this movie in the cinema with my mother, but got sick and bowed out. So far, this experience has led me to be VERY grateful that I didn’t have to watch this with a parent, and I guarantee I am (and was then) a lot older than your kiddoes. The Amitabh-Abhishek relationship alone. . .
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LOL!
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Oh, hello Filmikhudi/Genevieve! We are around 2:03, so yes, MORE than an hour left.
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Thanks. I just went back a bit. So now I get to think of Top Secret ballet again!
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Thank you! I am commenting while my husband drives and don’t actually have the movie on. And my goodness this is so much better!!!
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I have seen a ballet from box seats, and they SUUUUUUCK!!!! You can’t see the whole stage, it’s no wonder they are bored.
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I grew up with a family of musicians who can’t dance. The first time I went to a ballet performance I was astonished to realize that their little feet made so much noise, even over the music!
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Okay, if the seats are really bad I guess it would be worthwhile to neck during a $50-$100 per ticket performance.
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Such a great point!
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I feel that way about most box seats. The view is never that great.
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This is the sscene where I am really feeling the “the movie makes more sense about two gay men trapped in a marriage” feeling.
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Genevieve! Sexy scene coming! Make your boys cover their eyes!
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I got them to leave by offering different TV. ANd in fact they are so desperate they are watching on a small chromebook with a cracked screen that has to remain plugged in at all times. They’re watching Ricki Ticki and Dawn or something like that.
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Also, it’s so weird to hear this very familiar theme from the Tchaikovsky reorchestrated. I have played this from the pit and guarantee that there is not so much snare drum, lol.
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