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!
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All the girls’ blocky little ’90s strap shoes coming at us in a row c:
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Ohhh, I like this dance! A little chiller and classier than the other songs so far.
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Well, we are close to the finale so of course, it would be a little more fine-tuned than the others for PLOT RELEVANCE
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Yay! Go be a happy woman and love again!!!
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Wait, she took the time after the dramatic scene to get fully dressed up, and then ran into town? Odd combo of eager/not eager.
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I wondered too! My only explanation is that this is all about Being Not A Widow and Ready to Love.
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That’s the THIRD person to have the mandolin! Why is everybody passing this goldarned mandolin around like a hot potato?
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That’s what happens with school owned instruments.
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But Anupam had it last! He doesn’t even go to this school!
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Next time I watch this l’m counting all the wrist grabs. If my liver were stronger it would be a drinking game.
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No, clearly the Mohabbattein drinking game should be every time Amitabh says “Parampara”
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This movie would give everyone a hangover the first hour. So many things to make a drinking game of! The slow pace. The talk talk. The leaves. The Amitabh serious face….total death match
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And the only girl who’s gotten to grab a guy’s wrist (by my count) is Aish in the mountain song.
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He’s just the school principal! He isn’t, like Ruler of the Town!
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Maybe it’s a college town thing? He controls their revenue stream. Idk.
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This is the most epic thing in this movie and it is glorious!
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SRK’s black jacket, it is like it wants to be leather but just can’t get there.
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At least it’s not seethrough, unlike everyone else’s shirts
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There is nothing redeemable in Amitabh’s character. In fact in all his movies with SRK he is the biggest pill. Thus I do not have the love for him I am supposed to. Such a drag of a man. His best role was in Bunty Aur Babli.
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I would argue, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom!
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I don’t know, I think his feather hat did all the acting in that one!
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And Jhoom Barabar Jhoom! He was so fun in that!
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You don’t like any of the early ones, even?
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I like Sholay. I haven’t seen that many.
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If you like masala at all, you might try something like “Hera Pheri” or “Suhaag.” Or for something a little more serious that he’s essentially likeable in, “Kaala Patthar.” Amitabh was a lot more fun back before he got so, IDK, instituitonalized.
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Well, Amitabh is essentially a super villain at this point.
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Isn’t he almost always one, especially at this time?
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ANd then he has a change of heart and is the patriarch everyone except me wants.
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Oh, I almost forgot about the EPIC BURN SRK lays down here.
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And the thunder agrees with him!
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Oh yeah! TABLES TURNED!!!!
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It’s insane how full SRK’s lips used to be
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It seems like he lost the baby fat only in the 2010s
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Wait, so it IS a hallucination? Not a ghost? Or is it a ghost? He siad she isn’t int he world any more, but then he says she is happy?
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I think this whole ghost/spirit/hallucination Aish makes only sense to him and no one else
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I think it makes only sense to Adi when he was writing the script, and even the actors aren’t sure what he really meant.
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. . .quite possibly.
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No no, it started with her role being small, and then their chemistry was so good that they used her more and more. I read that somewhere. ANd she is BEAUTIFUL. Her dancing around SRK are some of my favorite parts of the movie.
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“I see Megha wherever I see love” seems to point in the hallucination direction, or manifestation of memories at least.
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Great, now God’s gonna fix the script?
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Oooo, breaking out the pinstripe pants for his final scene!
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Change of heart moment. Now everyone loves him. THe villian becomes the saint.
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Someday there will be a movie where he just gets killed at the end or something. Oh! Piku! Piku legitimately took him to task for his behavior, while acknowledging that you can’t turn your back on family.
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Ah, yeah, “Piku” was such a sensible movie!
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OH he was awesome in Piku, he wasn’t beloved in that one. So his obnoxiousness was hilarious.
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I liked Pilku as he showed the vulnerability of old age. Anyway thanks for hosting this and watching along!
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Thanks for coming!!!!
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Well this is a sudden change of heart! Also, if I was one of his students from the last 25 years I would be pretty mad about this. Why did I pay that much money for a lousy principal who doesn’t believe in what he taught any more?
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Uh huh!
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Ah hah! I just had a realization, if I actually spoke Hindi these monologues would be interesting! Subtitles can only give me so much in super long monologues.
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PARAMPARA!!!
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Also, this whole speech is crazy meta about the Hindi film industry in the late 90s/early 2000s.
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Wait, a music teacher is gonna be running the school? Does he have any admin experience? Or business degrees? Or even a teaching degree?
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Most deans don’t >.>
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He has love, skills are meaningless in the face of love!
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As “Munnabhai MBBS” taught us!
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DON’T YOU DARE! DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH HIS FEET SHAHRUKH!!!! HE DID NOTHING TO EARN THAT!!!!
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He is the PATRIARCH!
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I really wish SRK wasn’t wearing a sweater scarf for this final indoor scene.
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Otherwise we wouldn’t recognise him
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disguise by pinstripe!
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Awwww, ghost Aish is wearing her Mom’s mangalsutra! I guess she and SRK got Ghost Married. And now they can have Ghost Babies.
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Ok, this is a sweet ending. That completely ignores all the 3 “main characters”, which is nice, since no one cared about them anyway
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Good point!
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I never did get myself clear on straight-hair boy vs. wavy-hair boy. Sigh.
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A montage of their lives over the next couple of years would have been nice.
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Thank you so much for suffering through that with me! It is exactly how I remembered it, and now I can not watch it for another 10 years!
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Thank you for this! Finally saw the whole movie with you all (not one I could ever watch alone). Have a good weekend everyone!!
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THanks for the watch-a-long Margaret!
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I doubt I would have made it through without your guys’ company!
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Oh dear, I missed it. Going through a bit of anxiety at the moment, woke up at stupid o’clock, was then awake for a few hours before falling asleep again and missing the movie.
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