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 
He was fated to wear the slouch hat. After all, it matches his glasses rims.
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Sweater on sweater!
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I had to make diabetic-friendly laddoo once and it was actually very hard.
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So, like, the cook and cleaning staff is all female too? No woman has ever been snucken into the grounds?
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A good old revolution from the inside needs a good soundtrack, glad that SRK knows that and provides
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But Amitabh said NO! He’s gonna get in such trouble!!!!
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Jimmy, point 1: if that is an electric guitar, doesn’t it havee to be plugged in somewhere?
point 2: who wears an electric guitar around their neck for a whole dance?
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Only if you want it to be loud!
Curious that there is no lead electric guitar audible in this song… but there are so many songs that are guitar-y and where people don’t bother to plug the prop one in. “Papa Kehte Hain,” “Humne Tumko Dekha,” etc. etc.
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Carries a cake while dressed like a cake. Commitment to concept.
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Evil townies!!!!
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Bossa nova break?!?!?
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We all realize that Uday is wearing a sleeveless vest under his jacket, right? Always be sleeveless!
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He is committed to showing his arm muscles, so of course, he is.
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Oh, the transition from them dancing alone to the lights going up and the couples’ fantasy being over is very cool. The little pop of blue light!
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Adi, clearly taking a few things from Karan’s filmography here just for fun
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Oh, SRK, now you are in trouble
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Does anybody know who that girl who was behind the girls’ dean’s left shoulder when she and SRK were having their little pantomime is? She’s also in a Sridevi dance performance video I’ve watched 1,000 times (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIhtoG3UK2I), saying a line from the crowd. I presume she’s somebody well-ish known, or was in 2013, but I have no clue who she is.
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It’s beyond me.
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*shrug* I’m gonna watch it 1,000 more times, anyway. Prabhu Deva’s in it also.
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I’m totally zoning out on this dramatic speech and just thinking about how SRK gels his hair to make it do that.
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Honestly, this is pretty much the hair I was thinking of when I said that better SRK hair existed last week. It’s not so sculptural as it was (well, will be?) in KANK.
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In any other movie, this would be the climax. Here, it is just the interval point
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Meanwhile, Amitabh’s hair, do we think it is a wig like the cynical unbelievers? Or do we have faith that it just grows like that?
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Okay, in this scene, Mickey Contractor used the PERFECT lipstick. His lips look all full and trumbly and stuff, but not fake.
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Undershirt, shirt, sweater? All three? He really needs to layer all three?
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It’s thundering in the distance! Clearly a gust front is on the way.
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YES! Whip those glasses off dramatically! But don’t put them in your pocket, you will sit on them.
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1h35minutes to go!! Almost there!
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The fountains still run even in the rain????
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Sorry, I spoke/wrote slightly too soon. It’s a gust front of the SOUL.
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If these Hindi movies have thought me something, it is that ‘Om Jagadish’ chant’s first verse that will not leave my brain
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This is a pretty baller post-interval move, TBH–both the quiet, quiet opening and the time jump.
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FLASHBACK TIME
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If this flashback is supposed to make us have sympathy for Amitabh, IT DOES NOT WORK.
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I mean, the first few interactions between him and Aish are pretty tender/cute, but then. . . this. . . *sigh* What a jerk.
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It’s not just that everybody has bright pink lipstick, but that everybody has brighter, pinker lipstick on the lower lip than the upper.
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OMG, you are right!
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Sheesh!!! Maybe it’s not so much sending away her true love, as training her to never give in to healthy expression of emotions, that’s what messed her up so much!
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This must have been shocking for those expecting a sweet old romance movie
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It could totally be read as though Aish was his secret lover coming to visit him until this moment, right?
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Yep.
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But there were at least a couple of occasions when she appeared to Shahrukh on campus, with other people there–I presumed she wasn’t real because nobody else seemed to notice her/remark on a woman (!!!) being at Gurukul.
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The fountains are on all night, and also the outside lights? Sheesh!!! Turn that stuff off and bring in more scholarship students with the money you save!
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SHEESH! Uday has tan lines around his vest!
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He learned piano really quick!
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I swear this plot point is the only reason SRK’s character was made into a music teacher and not some other professor
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Also so we can admire Shahrukh’s fake violen playing while emoting.
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It is so wrong the way he “plays” the violin, but he looks good while doing it so I don’t care
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Yes!
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No! It hurts to look at ) :
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Tell me what time you-all are at? YouTube blatted out for a few minutes and I had to restart it.
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2 hours 5 minutes
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2 hours 5 minutes
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Thank you!
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I swear every time Shamita Shetty is on screen is a delight! I love her outfits and PERSONALITY…also commitment to neon
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These other old dudes must be the other teachers who we never see or hear about!
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They missed a golden opportunity of the gossiping teachers’ room, we always hear of it, but rarely see how the teachers gossip about students, their potential relationships and complain etc.
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LOL, I watched that movie “Khel Khel Main” that you had mentioned, and that college also has exactly one faculty member.
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Oooo, religious schools are the WORST!!!! Not allowing teachers to be athiests and stuff.
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I have an academic friend who isn’t religious and who teaches sacred music at a Baptist college, which I honestly think is almost weirder?
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Awwww, I sincerely like this scene and feel bad it was wasted in this movie instead of a better plot,
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Okay, yeah, that’s pretty sexy.
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Oh yeah, Sonia is the one dressing suggestively. Not Shamita! Shamita is pure and modest!
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Dancing in giant clunky sneakers! I imagine your ankles would get exhausted, like with wearing roller skates.
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It’s that girl! The girl in all red who isn’t getting the dance step! She’s the one in that Sridevi video. It’s driving my crazy to know that she’s, like, a real bit actress who was in things.
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Ok, this is some good dialogue right here what he is spouting.
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It had gotten to the point that I was enjoying the main plot, and now I care about these kids even less : P
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They are very “Meh”
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Is the reason Uday never wears a shirt, that he doesn’t know how to use buttons?
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Uday in a long-sleeved shirt! But completely unbuttoned, of course.
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I swear Uday is self-heated in this cold weather. HE DOESN’T OWN ANY SWEATERS OR WARM CLOTHES!!!
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Oh wow! It’s….exactly the same as her previous outfit!!!!
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I guess there is a kind of nicely consistent thing of people expressing their real selves/real feelings through their clothes going on here.
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Or a limited costume budget?
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