Woo-hoo! Friday WatchAlong!!! Grandpa’s family funeral weekend, and yet I am maintaining normalcy! Also, I’m pumped to watch this movie with y’all.
Gonna let Grandpa introduce it with his review (he asked for Indian movies to watch so he could understand my interests):
Jab Tak Hai Jaan Obviously a Bollywood production. Well done and a good love story mixed with some moderate action. The hero by working hard goes from part time jobs to owning and operating a successful restaurant. His love interest who is engaged to another takes a church vow of separation if his life will be saved after an accident. He goes off to Afghanistan and a dangerous position in the army. There another girl is involved. It is a good story and the scenes as filmed were interesting and sometimes spectacular. The two ladies were good actors and surprising to me very good dancers. As is usual in these films all of a sudden there are a whole bunch of people doing a elaborate dance routine. It was two minutes short of three hours and I view it all in one sitting.

Let’s see if we can be as good as Grandpa and view it all in one sitting! At 3pm Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment on this post and we will all comment along together from there. Yaaaaaay!
Awww, Grandpa.
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Here!
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Your Grandpa’s review is so sweet! I’ve to miss this one because of work, and then I really like to be outside these days to take in the last rays of the sun (hate the short days!). Hope you all have fun snarking!
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Hey there, I was noodling on the site in bed after an exhausting week, ready to nod off, when I realised – Friday! That’s today!! 3pm Chicago means there’s still time here in Britland! So I have charged downstairs, made an Enormous cup of tea and hotted up a sausage roll i brought home for my son, only he’s out on the razz, and hit the sofa with great anticip…ation. Sharukh as a bomb disposal expert, oh my oh my!!
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YES!!!! So glad to have you!
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And PLAY!
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I love the two characters very unsubtly doing exposition in the background xD
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SRK’s intro scene in this movie is EVERYTHING!
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Why don’t you have a baby yet????
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Staff shortages at the hospital. So they wouldn’t even schedule me until I was at least 1 week overdue! (Oh they changed the rules 3 weeks ago!!!!) And baby SRK has a GIANT head so he is just cozy in there and has no intention of coming out on his own!
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Giant head=big brain! baby genius!
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Yeah yeah. Right now, I ust want him OUT. He is coming out by Monday! I asked for the FIRST available appointment and after basically being a PITA, I am going in on Sunday.
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Just, try to avoid December 7th. That wouldn’t be the best date.
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I’m here but Amazon does NOT want me to watch this movie, another minute or two and I’m switching to einthusan.
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It came up with two versions of the film for me for some reason, maybe the other version is better?
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Yeah, it only wants to play the one without subtitles… I got it working finally.
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I also appreciate that SRK’s hero in this movie is a very practical calm smart kind of hero, not a big jumpy around kind of hero. Fits with his maturity.
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This poem is just so beautiful
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Is this shot in Ladakh?! It’s soooo beautiful. I’d like to visit it some day!
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Oooo, good bicep shirt!
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Yeah, the shot is pretty, but the logistics of jumping off that rock dry are IMPOSSIBLE
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‘The water is freezing’ well it’s Ladakh what do you expect??
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SRK – the man every woman wants to wake up to
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He looks so cool just sipping his coffee.
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why is she calling him an asshole?? he just saved your life lady
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I love how she says ‘Asshole’ in the American way and then the subtitles are ‘Arsehole’ in the British way
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HA! I didn’t even notice that but now, I am laughing!
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Arsehole somehow sounds so much more sarcastic!
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Anushka is SOOO cute!
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Yay! GREAT white people acting!
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Loving the bomb-proof mittens – am lagging a bit, PRIME!! Now got subtitled version and even managed to switch on dreadful subtitles. Still, visuals are fab 🙂
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Oh, and my tablet is dying, so have to run into another room to post via PC 😦
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SRK look so much better in the present than in the past.
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The beard us an upgrade in MANY ways, I wish more guys realised it
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I used to think that I didn’t like beards but it looks SOO good on some people. SRK in this movie. Fawad in Khoobsoorat. Hrithik in War.
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SNOW!!!
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He really didn’t notice she walked off with his diary??? Is it because he FELL IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT and wasn’t thinking straight?
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Kat! In a church! She and Vicky are now legally married and there will be the whole ritual wedding starting on the 9th!! My baby will finally be happy with a good man!
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NO! That’s so EXCITING! Kat babies!
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With Vicky’s and Kat’s looks their chilren will be so pretty!!!
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I AM SOOO EXCITED FOR THIS!!
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Oh! Do we know already if Vicky is taller than her? I like the wedding photos where the groom is taller.
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I think he is slightly taller (2-3 inches), but in pictures it will depend on whether she is wearing heels or not.
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I’m loving the visuals so far!
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Theories as to why Kat was white when she was a little girl: She is adopted and as an adult started dying her hair black. There is a regressive white gene somewhere in her family that goes away in adulthood. They couldn’t find a single desi child actress in all of London to play the role.
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I honestly didn’t even realise she was the same girl xD
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Are you blind? She’s white. Her mother is white and her father is unknown. MAYBE she is half Indian, maybe. And hair does get darker as people age.
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No no, we meet both parents, everyone’s desi in the family. I mean, fictional Kat in this movie. Why would they cast a little blonde girl to play fictional child Kat in a film where we meet both parents?
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We met the mom? I missed that.
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Later we do
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The AR Rahman music + Gulzar lyrics = PURE MUSICAL GOLD!!!
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I’ll add, Yash Chopra song visuals!
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Oooh this song is from THIS movie?? I used to hear it on the radio all the time!! It’s nice
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Yes! All the songs from this movie are nice and work great out of context.
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I dislike young London SRK – the overly perfect human with weird face make-up.
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And the old man body pushing itself to play youthful energy.
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The energy is okay. I think he has energy regardless of age. It’s the face. the face is wrong.
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H’mm I think the tout ensemble is just too old and too polished for this busking in Trafalgar square malarkey
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Yes! The makeup throws me off.
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Would the movie be better if SRK was playing 35 here and 45 later? So he was distinctly older than Kat and also a 35 year old still finding himself, but closer to his real age?
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If that would include less face make-up – YES.
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How old is Kat supposed to be?? It might work with her in her late twenties, not early twenties, I think
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She just said she topped her exams. So, MAYBE it was MBA exams with a gap year and stuff, so 25? Or could be 21.
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Uuuuhh that makes me kind of uncomfortable 🙂 that’s a huge age gap!
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SRK is making selling fish also look appealing xD
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Did the Banker that Kat was talking about earlier just make an appearance??
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Oh to be an extra on that bridge.
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“Octopussy” – SRK really likes to add that “pussy” line. I mean, he did the same in OSO
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FishSeller-SRK is back!!
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Okay, pretty sure this is how they do his face: There’s tape pulling it back and tight at the hair line, they a hair piece to thicken the front and cover the tape. And finally, loads and loads of foundation to hide all wrinkles. So instead of his face looking fuller in youth, it looks thinner and tighter, which is weird.
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Agh, that wd explain bizarre HNY appearance!
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All of Kat’s outfits are so iconic!
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Yashji always made his heriones look so fantastic, and in a way that uniquely fit their characters.
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I’m gonna go heat up some fish! This movie is getting to me.
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I do love that he mixes up the English and it is done in a way where he is not seen as less than. Engagement vs. Arrangement. Good writing, and acting.
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Oh so this is a DIFFERENT banker…. I am confused
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Something about a beautiful “perfect” woman smoking is just so Uff appealing when filmed or photographed
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Roger is like ‘what did I sign up for OMG’
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Wow I love how they explained the Punjabi song… all the plot threads all tied up.
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YES! And the deeper level, just as he noticed and remembered her, she noticed and remembered him.
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Love at first sight!
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I was definitely sneaking a crafty fag outside the church after my wedding. Not in a beautiful or perfect way tho
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I love the practicing English in the bathtub scene.
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I love Kat’s jackets – The pale pink one is SO PRETTY
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I know right!!
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I love how he went ‘okay whatever’ to her correcting him because same xD
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Ya know I’ve worn short skirts in very populated cities, but only once or twice. There is a reason I didn’t wear them more. Nice that Kat isn’t constantly harrassed in the movie though.
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Because she is a Proper Desi Lady, clearly. No one would even DARE.
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YES! SONG! They really come fast in this movie
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