Have you noticed I can’t seem to decide on a spelling for this dang movie? To many vowels! to many t’s and b’s! I just don’t know. But you know the movie I am talking about, right?
Mohabbatein! It’s on Prime and youtube and all kinds of places. It is very long and fairly boring in places, but has great songs and Shahrukh and sweaters on sweaters and sweaters.
At 3pm Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and we will go from there. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!
dontcallitbollywood 
Here!
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So glad! I can’t do this one alone
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Trust me, I don’t think any of us can do this movie alone. It has to be powered through by the power of friendship and snarky comments
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Here. 🙂
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Yaaaaaaaaaay! Amitabh is talking about Parampara.
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And PLAY! Hopefully someone is here with me! Because this is the most boring movie on earth and I am going to fall asleep if I am all alone!
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I’m here!
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Oh thank goodness!
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Here!
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! I can’t remember, is this your first time for this one or not?
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I know I’ve seen it, but I barely remember anything about it : P
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It is extremely long an dmostly dull, but we can snark on sweaters and Uday Chopra together.
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I know Adi wants me to be very excited about these actors based on their intro music, but tragically I am NOT
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I am looking at the runtime and already thinking about when I can take a shower break. This movie’s pace is after all like a snail so I won’t miss anything.
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I think I may need to walk Albie Dog in the middle too.
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Yea, this movie TOOO LOONG. And I am saying this as someone who loves Jodhaa Akbar and Lagaan, both which are LOOONG!
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Boy has some way pink lipstick.
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I was showing a song from this movie to a friend earlier and she was all surprised because it was the first time she had seen Shahrukh with lipstick.
I pointed out that he always wears lipstick because he is in a movie after all, but I get what she meant. The men in this movie have bright BRIGHT lipstick.
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I’ve definitely seen a lot of Hindi movies (mostly older) featuring men in very striking eye make up, but the bright lips only make me think of South mythologicals.
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WHY DOES UDAY NEVER WEAR A SHIRT????/
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Don’t mock ) : I’ve heard he’s very sensitive about his sleeve allergy.
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HA!
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It must be a VERY severe allergy. 😉
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Honestly, I am here just for the music, SRK and Amitabh and pretty Aish. The rest can be canned for all I care.
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This room is bigger than my first dorm room in college. And yes, I had a roommate. Anyone else same?
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Living in a hostel right now. No roommates or anything. I need my space.
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My dorm room was a bit smaller but we only had two beds, not three.
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I am still working, but I’ll try to join soon.
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OH YEAH! AMITABH INTRO!!!! IN Susmita Dasgupta’s book about Amitabh, she talks abotu this moment as the reinvention of Amitji. He’d tried to come back to films before but it hadn’t worked. He needed Adi to reinvent him as this powerful dignified old man instead of trying to regain his youth somehow. Can you imagine Young Amitabh in traditional clothing upholding tradition and all that?
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I mean, he kind of did that from time to time in movies like “Manzil.” But I don’t think anybody much liked him in “Manzil,” etc. Certainly not the ’70s movies people remember of his.
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Parampara! Possibly my favorite Hindi word. Tied with “mutlab”. Just so satisfying to say.
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The Shawl is one of those clothing items that I know tends to signal something, but I don’t know why. Dudes in big shawls are usually older, in positions of power, probably in a rural setting? It’s like how The Vest means that you are a politico/social worker, for some reason.
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Yep! Also, if you get good at it, you can do great character work through shawl flipping.
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I love listening to Amitabh talk in slowly old school Hindi. Sooooooo pretty to listen to. Not bothering with subtitles, I know it’s just “parampara parampara parampara”
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Why the fountains in front of the building? It’s so pretty and frivolous. Doesn’t feel very Amitabh.
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Leaves!!!!! I always forget that changing leaves are, like, magical for people in non-temperate areas. Although, they are actually kind of magical for me too! Fall is awesome!
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Same! Autumn is the best time of year!!!
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Adi really took all the time he could with this movie. It is only the beginning and the pacing as slower than a broken computer
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And it was a HUGE hit!!!! Adi knew what the people wanted.
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I guess he knew there would be those who would sneak out of the movie to do other things, so it would be a good excuse to go on dates to “watch” this movie and then slip away since it would take ages for it to finish.
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MICKEY CONTRACTOR!!!! MY NEMESIS!!!!! ONE OF MANY!!!! But yes, we will all be spending much of this movie going MICKEY CONTRACTOR!!!!!
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A person whose name should be on a building, not flesh and blood. Every time I read that name I see concrete and metal.
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Maybe that’s why his makeup is put on with a trowel?
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Isn’t the villain in “Bang Bang” called “Contractor” also?
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Yep, I think so! I had a classmate in college named “contractor”. I guess it is a modernization o the caste naming practices or something?
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Like those -wallah names that get weirder when you stop working in the same profession. I think of that every time I see Abbas Tyrewala’s name on a credit screen.
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The run the fountains at night? That’s such a waste of power!
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Even though these boys come in various sizes, literally every one of their sweater vests is too long.
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Why am I surprised that Uday sleeps sleeveless? I should have known.
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Ooh, a different, fancier shawl!
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The subs didn’t even try with Sohni Mahiwal.
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All of these three “male leads” are as bland and boring as paper
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I don’t know how to tell the non-Uday ones apart.
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Same. There is the soft shy one and then the other one I don’t know.
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Jugal=slightly curly hair. Jimmy-straight hair.
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LOL, I am infamously bad at learning/recognizing faces, but you make me feel better about my failings!
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Jimmy has slightly straighter hair. That’s the only help I can give you.
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Jimmy’s PJs are the most comfy looking, right? In fact, I am jealous of them.
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finally someone with a personality on screen!
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We are talking about Shamita Shetty? Is that personality, or just boobs?
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Yea her. I love her personality in the Holi song
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I wish my socks stayed up that well.
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I know they had to focus on three romantic leads, but I can’t help but think the whole college must have been full of hormones!
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I’d ask you to guess which of these young actors went on to the best career, but I think they all tied for “bad”. Except maybe Jimmy? Because at least he is still working steadily.
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Votes: is this a high school, a college, or some sort of weird college prep 2 year thing?
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It would make the most sense for it to be a prep, but sense never stopped a movie. If it is a proper college, I guarantee you it is unaccredited ( ;
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I vote for prep! Except they look so old! So post-college thing?
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But if it’s prep, what are they doing talking marriage with their girls?
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Also, I think Sanjana is supposed to be a confident tomboy? Which we can’t tell, because the costume people dressed her as slutty as anyone else.
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PURPLE LIPSTICK!!! CONTRACTOR!!!!!!!
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Columns to nowhere. Your roof isn’t complete without them!
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Have any of them thought about maybe not starting a relationship right now and jut waiting a few years??? Like, this whole “NEVER TO BE” thing seems extreme.
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28-year-olds pretending to be 28-year-olds are notoriously impatient.
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Thinking of getting a shower quite soon, if there are songs in the latter half (the drum and holi song) I don’t want to miss them, because they are simply the best
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Might be a good time. I think there is a lot of talky talky and then the Chalte Chalte song.
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Ok. I’ll go now. I will be back!! Thankfully I saw the SRK intro
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Albie Dog is nosing under my skirt and licking me and pawing at me. Do I yell at him, cuddle him, or give him a chew?
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SRK GLASSES!!!!!
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YES!!!!
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TBH, that’s a weirdly pink tilak, too.
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PARAMPARA! I’m gonna shout it every time I hear it.
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The YouTube subtitles say that this is an “impossible” task, whereas SRK only rates it “bahut mushkil.”
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Isn’t outside air bad for instruments? And what if it rains? Also, doesn’t he need the school to buy/provide instruments for the students? Also, where did he get the chairs? Are those the chairs they used to use for assemblies before Amitabh decided it would be more impressive if everyone stood?
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Eh, playing outside doesn’t necessarily matter unless it’s, like, actively raining on you. But if you go between outdoors and an indoor space with air conditioning or heat running, that will stress the wood because it expands and contracts more rapidly than it would just with changing weather. And there’s this annoying phenomenon that happens with steel-wrapped strings (what his violin has here) where they develop condensation in humid air. Then your bow can’t get traction and the rosin kind of wants to gum up.
. . .as to the chairs, I don’t have any theories.
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“Look, there’s a crazy man playing violin in the gazebo! Le’ts go watch!”
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Any film in which I have to watch people trying to mime playing bowed strings does me real psychic damage : P
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Okay Nckat, you have broken the spell and made me think too much about the sweaters on shoulders thing. Do you notice the shoulder sweater isn’t even big enough to be a REAL sweater on SRK? It’s clearly a size too small, only good for shoulder drapping. And why do we see shoulder draping constantly, and never ACTUAL SWEATER WEARING?
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I dunno – I never look for logic in Bollywood!
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WHERE DID THE INSTRUMENTS COME FROM????
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Mandolin? Banjo? Two different boys with half-size bongos? What’s happening here? I think somebody in the back has a dobro or a resonator guitar of some type.
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Ha! I was right! I told Kirre she could shower because it would just be a lot of talkie talkie and then Chalte Chalte.
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I’m here! Back for the first song I see. 😀
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Yep, perfect timing!
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I love their library, though! And that cafeteria kind of looks like one at U of Chicago.
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YES! My sister went to U of C, and they had the coolest cafeteria.
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I was only there once, to present at a conference. We got lunch in a wood-wainscotted room like that, with lots of portraits of disapproving-looking nineteenth-century trustees. They had lots of little stalls with different kinds of food that I think must have been sourced from local restaurants, too. It was tasty!
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Oh yeah! That’s the fancy cafeteria. The less fancy one is equally cool, they turned the 100 year old gym into a cafeteria.
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That whole campus was impressively beautiful TBH, especially coming from the public uni world where everything is brutalist and as constructed as cheaply as possible.
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I went to UIC, which is of course the triumph of Brutalism. Leaving UIC to visit my sister of U of C was quite the shock.
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Shamita is wearing nothing! That’s no clothing! That is ridiculous.
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Yes that is one of the things I don’t like about this film – it sexualizes women.
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