Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! Friday WatchAlong! I did work all morning, ran an errand, then came home and had a nap, and now I am all settled in for this movie! And I will NOT fall asleep (as I tend to do when we have Friday afternoon watchalongs).
Chori Chori Chupke Chupke
It’s available all over the place for rent, and it is well worth the rental. It has one of my all time favorite songs, “No. 1 Punjabi!”
At 3pm Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY” comment on this post and we will all watch along together from there. I’m excited!
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Stuck in traffic, maybe a few minutes late
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Here!
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Here!
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Here
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And play!
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I thought I was going to be late, but it looks like I’m not ( ;
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Watching film on YT since einthusan for some reason didn’t have audio. Found one with subtitles thankfully!
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Well the opening music is fairly awful, but perhaps the 90s and I just don’t mesh musically.
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Amish Puri!
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Well, this is an exposition-heavy start
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2001 was not 2000s enough yet for Salman to escape the giant-suit-jacket look, I see.
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Are we at #1 Punjabi?
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Yes
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Okay, took off my coat, settled, just in time for my favorite song!
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Rani looks STUNNING!!!
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I guess falling for her right away is kind of believable.
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Eva – Are you watching this with us???
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No, just finished. And now I have to go and soothe Baby.
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Aww! Best of luck!
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It always is 🙂
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Salman Rani chemistry is off the chart right from the start! I love this song.
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I had forgotten how fun the choreography is in this song!
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So I have three kids here, two are not my own, and they really like #1 Punjabi.
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It has an addictive dance beat to it!
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Because it is the BEST SONG
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Even years later, it used to always be played at the Bollywood parties I went to.
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Small Rani-related tragedy: I was supposed to see “Bunty Aur Babli 2” this afternoon, but my car’s radiator broke down on Wednesday, I can’t get to the cinema, and they won’t refund my ticket ) :
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That is a TRAGEDY!!!! I am trying to figure out when I can see it.
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Oh no!!! If you go to see it, let us know how it is!
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😦
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BABY!
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Wow, decent foreshadowing, how a baby almost keeps them from getting together.
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Bonus points for having a cute nose.
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Also, this movie is right before Salman got hair plugs so look for his thinning hair.
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Saw it thinning on the sides when he is in profile, very noticeable
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It becomes so obvious the longer you watch the movie.
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That’s a much cooler car than most of the “cool cars” in early-aughts movies.
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And the matchmaking begins
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This film tries so hard to sell us this family as some kind of progressive ideal, but all that means is that Amrish is emotionally manipulative instead of outright scary.
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Bingo!
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Taking a guess that the phone Johnny has is NOKIA
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Amrish Puri makes a pretty good shield, LOL!
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Salman is the ONLY child of his generation??? So really, the blame falls on his mother and aunt.
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Weirdly, it seems like everybody else is a bad influence on Johnny Lever instead of the other way round like usual.
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With the white hair and in this suit, Amrish looks like a slightly more robust Colonel Sanders.
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He so does!
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Have you ever seen “Chori Mera Kaam”? Ashok Kumar wears a Col. Sanders-type disguise there. It’s. . . something.
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YES!!!
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Oh, I like Rani’s batik-style waistcoat!
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Salman is so smart to phone his mom
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One gets the sense this is not the first time Amrish has tried to guilt/entrap/otherwise fool him into meeting with a girl. . .
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So I have a 10 year old girl here and I’m thinking “oh no, she’ll think the whole point of Indian society is to get married and have kids.” And now I’m trying to think of a non-action movie where that ISN’T the plot.
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Dear Zindagi? Though it is still brought up it’s more about trauma recovery than anything.
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Rani is so cool! Just her eyebrow raising at him is cool.
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This was one of the first Indian films I ever watched. It may have unduly influenced my view of what an ideal arranged love marriage would look like.
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That eye flirting was on point!
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Peak Salman flirting time, always with the eyes
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Rad dance moves, man! *does the robot*
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Wait, Salman’s wearing a Hawaiin shirt in Switzerland?
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The songs in this movie are so fun!!!
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I love the 90s/200s wedding styles, so ornate and warm in their own way
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As a major Actress I wonder how many times Rani has dressed up in wedding gear. I’d love a collage of all the different outfits. BTW I’ve never seen the having to find the ring in a giant bowl of red blobby soup before.
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I’ve seen it in at least one other movie, another Punjabi hero. Maybe it’s a Punjabi thing?
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I was wondering what made it so red. The only recognizable shapes (beside Hidden Treasure, of course) were rose petals. I’ve soaked those before, and they barely color water at all.
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I would not enjoy this vacation at all. Thank goodness I am not married to Salman.
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Salman, in a Hawaiian shirt in WINTER – brave of him to not be in warm clothes the men usually wear while the women are as if they had stepped from a summer clothes ad
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Do you think Salman puts it in his contract that there has to be one scene where he rides a horse? And obviously at least one shirtless scene?
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Well, best to utilise him strengths when filming if a horse is available
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I think he doesn’t ahve contracts, I think he just shows up one day and announces he will be riding a horse.
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Do you think it has to be his horse or is he okay riding random horses?
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Did she just steal that white baby???
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I like the green-and-white porch umbrella things, but they also kind of look like sports bar lampshades.
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Nice of them to use different locations for the song and not just the (insert very Yash Raj Swiss/Austria location here)
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HE’S HAVING AN AFFAIR!!!!!
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OMG, THE DOCTOR CALLS HER HUSBAND????
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Patriarchy, it sucks hard
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I know India has privacy laws similar to HIPAA. Maybe they are not as strict, but this has got to be a HUGE violation!!!
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I mean, they are married. Her body belongs to him now. That’s how it works, right? So this is totally HIPAA okay!
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The doctor tells the husband that his wife is pregnant but not the wife first?!?!?!?!?!
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I’m sorry, but when she twirled out of the curtains to reveal the Nike logo on her sweatshirt, I burst out laughing.
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Awww, sporty Rani is so cute!
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Filmikudhi! I totally believe in this, you need to keep that SRK content UP for these last few weeks. I want Baby SRK to come out already wriggling eyebrows and spreading arms.
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BWHAHAHAHA. I just want the baby to come OUT! I have told him to be a “good Indian boy and listen to his mother.” He needs to come out by next weekend or else he is going to have to start paying rent!
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Well yeah, but how much must Salman be away at work so that looking at his actual face won’t do the trick?
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Why does shy businessman Salman have a sexy glamour shot of himself available for Rani to frame? Or did she request it?
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He’s nowhere near as shy a businessman as Monish Behl in “Hum Saath Saath Hain,” and Monish had one. (But giant glamor photos of one’s self are mandatory in Rajshri movies.)
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This is a WEIRD sequence, and I don’t get what it means. Fragility of life? Something?
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