Happy Saturday!!! And very VERY happy last-day-before-daylight-savings. I am sick of this! Very ready for an extra hour of sleep and the sun to be up when I walk the dog in the morning.
Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham
On Netflix and everywhere else in the world! Starting at 7:30am Chicago time. I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and then we will comment along from there!
Bask in our Amitabh-hate, Shahrukh-love, and Hrithik amused tolerance!
dontcallitbollywood 
Oh, I legit never caught before that he is in the same outfit! So he comes straight home from declaring his love to Kajol, and walks into this scene.
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I never caught that either!!
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This isn’t a F*CKING BET AMITABH!!!!
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Nope you do NOT know your son.
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How much responsibility should we give Jaya for this mess? I know it’s hard to make Amitabh listen, but she knows EVERYTHING and apparently told no one? Did she just think it would be easier to not bring it up and let Shahrukh secretly kill his love and adjust to Rani? That’s HORRIBLE.
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Passive evil.
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She does eventually speak up and fix everything, but just showing that she has that power means she SHOULD HAVE DONE IT YEARS AGO
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Fromt he Amitabh side of thing, how important is it who you marry after all? She just has to raise your kids and make your life easy, so really one pretty girl is as good as any other!
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Rani and Shahrukh are SUCH good actors! In every other movie, they have crazy sexy love chemistry in their scenes. But in this movie, they both turn it off and we just get two good friends.
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Also, all the Amitabh Thunder woke up Albie Dog and made him grumble before he settled back to sleep.
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The thunder and background music leave no doubts as to what you should be feeling. But the thunder especially, is a bit much.
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Amitabh’s “woe is me” self-pity speech is so MUCH more hateful than his yelling speech, right? He is just the WORST.
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This might be the first movie I saw him in, so I think of him as this character. Thus, he isn’t my favorite person.
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I had to restart my computer because my keyboard stopped working all of a sudden. Ugh!!!
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We’re on 1h28min
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Thanks.
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Parenthood! It means being hurt! Suck it up Old Dude!!!!! My nephew just kicked my sister in the face and split her lip. STUFF HAPPENS!!!
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I had to physically carry the (tall for his age) 6 year old into the house after he scratched his 12 year old brother and the 12 year old friends when he got out in 4 square. And he scratched me too.
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And then you gave him a long lecture abotu how he proved he wasn’t your child and you didn’t love him any more, right? Because love is conditional?
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No I gave him a six minute time out and then encouraged him to take a bath.
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Not very Parampara.
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Your child should NEVER apologize to you for being who they are!!!! NEVER! You have done something wrong as a parent if they feel they have to earn your love!!!!
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Is he wearing the same outfit coming to Kajol’s father’s funeral that he wore when professing his devotion to his father’s happiness? THAT would be a tough day.
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YES! He went straight from telling his Dad he would break up with her to go break up with her. And then changed for his wedding, I like to think he just bought a new outfit at a local store.
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And once again, Jaya just STANDS there!!!! Like, at this point I think she should be leaping across the room and throwing her hand over Amitabh’s mouth before he can say anything else.
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Agreed. Jaya’s silence makes me so angry!!!
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It’s sort of weirdly unhealthy that Jaya and Shahrukh both understand without saying anything that she disagrees with Amitabh’s decision but has no power to change it.
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It makes Jaya so much worse!
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Yeah, even just pretending to agree with Amitabh would be better. But instead it’s this two-faced “son I agree with you….husband, I agree with you”
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Jaya’s tears reflect my knowledge that soon I will see Kareena’s over-acting.
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Oh, I love everything about Kareena in this movie. My sister hates it. It’s always a point of contention.
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I’m with your sister. When Kareena started out she was a TERRIBLE actor.
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Have you seen Refugee? Her first movie? She is excellent in it.
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No, I haven’t. Noted. I might force myself to watch it one day.
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Wouldn’t this have been an interesting movie if Jaya had stayed in contact with Shahrukh and Kajol and not Amitabh? Actually, then it would have been Kim’s Convenience! Have y’all watched that show? I love how it handles this, the son is fully integrated into his sister and mother’s life, but they have all just gotten used to him and his father never meeting or talking about each other.
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I saw two and a half episodes. They were hilarious. But then I wanted to know how the story ended so wikipedia’d all the episode plots. There isn’t an end. Knowing that it is hard for me to enjoy the show as much.
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BENCH SCENE! Karan always has a bench scene!!! And it tells you what the central relationship int he film is. In this one, Hrithik-Shahrukh. In SOTY, Varun-Sid. in KANK, Shahrukh-Rani. And so on.
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It wasn’t frickin SRK’s zidh (stubbornness). He was kicked out of the house. It is 100% Amitabh’s fault
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Hrithik’s blue sweater looks comfy
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So Hrithik never really asked about his older brother, but as he was always at school perhaps the change was less dramatic for him?
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Probably said that SRK had to move away for business indefinitely as an excuse
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THIS FAMILY! He probably asked and then was told “I am so sad you have asked this! I never thought you would bring tears to my eyes. Today, you have proved you are not my son by questioning something that happened”. And then he never asked again.
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Jaya making Amitabh bend down is such a good first step.
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But Hrithik mentions his brother to his dad. So the name is not forbidden!
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He technically just says brother. He doesn’t mention him by name. Maybe that’s the distinction in Amitabh’s rule?
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Jaya’s qualifications for taking this role were making believable tears. Lots of tears, and watery eyes.
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And now the most Indian song in England EVER!
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I do enjoy their passive aggressive ugly relationship. I could watch a sitcom about that. Also, Jaya would kill him by slowly poisoning his morning coffee in a way that makes him think he is getting dementia and dying of old age and be scared and miserable before his death.
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The slit in Hrithik’s sweater irritates me SO MUCH.
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Definitely worse than the name tag sweater he wore to meet his grandmas.
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Hrithik doing Bhaeatnatyam is SO CUTE! He looks so happy! This song is just him being a cute humbo
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Bharatnatyam and a cute himbo
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Kudos to Amitabh’s character for mentioning the emotional distance between him and Jaya. Too bad they didn’t just head over to marriage therapy right then.
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And then the therapist would say “wait, let me understand this, your husband BANISHED your son???”
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This is the bowler from his Cricket match, right?
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Hrithik’s sweater makes it look like his chest is bleeding.
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Ugh, there’s the purple lipstick.
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I don’t understandd her bedroom. Does she live in the basement?
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POO! #iconic
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appropriate that Kareena’s intro is with a song where the singer can’t sing
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I love Kajol’s interactions with White Lady. She is making fun of white lady and all that, but she is being really nice to the little girl. Doesn’t blame her just for being white like Insane Amitabh would have.
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VEry strange to leave a child with a family when the parent doesn’t try to communicate with you.
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But it seems to be a regular thing? So maybe it was weird the first time, but now she has gotten reports from her kid that she likes their house and is treated well and stuff?
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Oh, you were talking about Krish! He is totally going to come back to London for college and meet up with this white girl again and they will magically recognize each other and fall in love and then Kajol and Shahrukh will be cool with it and Amitabh will have a heart attack and DIE.
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oooh i like this!
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Love love love Shahrukh with Kareena in this. Fuddy duddy funny Dad is such a good look on him.
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I am totally with Shahrukh here. She looks like a hooker. Nakedness is only empowerment in nudist colonies. Also, she lives in his house. She should wear clothes.
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I feel like if Kajol was united with him on this, Kareena would dress differently. The issue is that of her three parantal figures, Farida and Kajol don’t care and therefore Shahrukh is overruled.
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It was also the high fashion of the 2000s with that skinny midriff looks so there is that as well. And she is supposed to be the Queen of the college
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To be fair to Kareena, I think she performs this role exactly as Karan directed her to do it.
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So he asked her to be as annoying and unrealistic as possible?
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Yep!
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Do you think Karan put Kareena in this role to create an icon?
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Absolutely. This was his vision for what KAreena’s star image would be. Young, modern, outspoken.
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I completely agree. And Kareena having done interesting roles in movies like Refugee, Ajnabee, and Ashoka was ready to take on something like this to catapult her star status?
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Kareena’s confidence is OTT but so aspirational as well
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Hrithik’s zip vest!
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This is such a great song!!! Fun, ridiculous, and immediately redefines Kareena as the usual “I am in love at first sight and don’t know what to do with my emotions!” heroine.
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All the female back-up dancers look like they are heading to a night club! Because this is totally how college girls dress for class.
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When they aren’t matching in white bottoms and solid colored tops of course.
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At some colleges they do!!!! I used to work close to Northwestern, and it was FREAKY. College girls in make-up and nice clothes.
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It is much more realistic when they are all in bellbottoms.
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It’s the Dharma universe, logic is not used
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I find this dancing scene so funny because it is the British Museum in London!!!
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There’s another version of this movie that is all about the college dance team trying to recruit the new kid on campus after the catch him dancing.
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Yes! these are the lyrics I remembered! Two super cool irritating young people, but then the lyrics are all “my heart is feeling something for the first time, what is happening to me?” And Hrithik is all “OMG, it’s her! What do I do?”
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Ooo, Hrithik chest hair!
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Kind of a cruel line to give a guy who struggles with a stutter.
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Now I want orange juice.
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See? This is a little house! So they keep bumping into each other! So much healthier than a big house.
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All houses are little compared to the last one!
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