Happy Tuesday! And happy Day I Am Randomly Taking Off For Christmas! We are all going to watch Atrangi Re to start my day, and then I may take a walk, or a nap, or just do a puzzle. Ahhhhhh, heaven.
Atrangi Re
Surprisingly good/interested reviews, available on Hulu in a funky way (I recommend just searching for it on Hulu and seeing if it pops up and you can play it because it is magically part of your subscription), and available in einthusan of course. A little over two hours, great music, and I expect it to result in a really interesting discussion and eventual review! Or, we will all hate it and spend the entire time cursing Kirre for recommending it.
At 8am Chicago Time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will comment along from there!
dontcallitbollywood 
Have we all noticed and appreciated that Akshay is now dressing like Dhanush?
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Nice catch! I didn’t notice it even after watching this multiple times
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Uhh, wouldn’t losing the “love of her life” damage her so bad? And if Dhanush’s goal is genuine love, destroying Akshay isn’t the way to go. As much as I hate Akshay and hated that whole suicide thing
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This scene is just so good!!
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When he’s lying on the floor hugging imaginary Sara ))):
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This movie knows how to do real romance and break your heart at the same time
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OH! It’s RAB NE!!!! Right? Right? He could take the easy way out and kill the fantasy person, but instead he wants her to legitimately choose the real husband.
Or, put it another way, both films are getting at the divide between a fantasy and reality relationship as definied by filmi fantasy.
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Also, learning to love your spouse post marriage
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Yeah, although “Woh Saat Din” does not involve any imaginary people, I am standing more and more beside that correlation. There’s the ideal/fantasy that you want, and then the happy life that is actually within reach.
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Everybody at this dorm is having SUCH a weird month.
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Maybe they are all getting extra credit for their psych class?
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There’s no way the Institutional Review Board is going to approve this!
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Wait, SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH!!!! I had to watch a whole 5 minute thing from Akshay at the start of the movie about that!
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I can see the little watermark in the corner, but it’s much subtler than usual? I actually wondered if they had taken them away after watching “Tadap.” There was plenty of smoking in that movie and I don’t think anybody ever reminded me that it would kill me.
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Having just come back from the movies I can now with confidence confirm that I must just have been distracted during “Tadap” and that the smoking warnings are alive and well ; )
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Oh! Akshay has Dhanush hair now too! And now he is back to stupid clothes.
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This is by far my favorite song so far, BTW. Very simple lyrics, but affecting.
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Did you notice how Dhanush moved her out of a hurrying man’s way, protecting her!
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It’s a small scene but so cute on rewatches
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I love how she lies, like he did with the bottles, and runs off. He is thinking “not again”
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This rickshaw scene is both adorable and funny
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I like that the earlier rickshaw-wallah was perfectly chill with Sara talking with invisible Akshay in the back, and now this one doesn’t flinch when a random dude jumps into his moving vehicle. Just another day at work. . .
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It’s kind of remarkable that they NEED a divorce. You would think their marriage could not possibly be legal in the first place. Did her family cross out the name of the original kidnappee on the license and write Dhanush’s in instead–?
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Dhanush doing Chaka Chak is so cute
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For the second time c : He pulled that out when he first “met” Akshay also.
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Aww, je remembered the horoscope time!
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🙂
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That’s the same outfit!
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“Haan, toh Japan jaalte.” MS is sooooo over all this.
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Imaginary exposure therapy?
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Filmi logic
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Oh wow……..
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Yes–this is precisely the thing I think of when somebody says a story has “emotional logic.” Makes no sense to the mind, but is cogent enough for the heart.
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This is a surprisingly subtle murder for a Bihar family!!!! Why not just kill him like normal?
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He didn’t expect her to come back, not fully. I am crying!!!!
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So she never really knew her father that well? Looks like she was raised in her mother’s house, and they just managed to reunite for a little bit before her parents were killed? Adding to the fantasy.
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Oh now I’m getting choked up! That ending!!!!!
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It is just such a perfect ending!
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I remember saying I thought the little girl climbing out of the window with Sara was so cute the first time we saw it. . . now sad, sad, sad </3
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So Kirre was right–it is like HTP. If you ignore all the shoddy mental health rep, it’s a really sweet love story. Sara and Dhanush were amazing. Surprisingly emotional. I liked it!
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Thank you for this!! It was so nice to share this film with you all. 😀
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Did we all appreciate that it was listed as “A Film By AR Rahman”? That was a really classy move from Aanand L Rai.
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He did that for all production heads, which is even more classy and just heartwarming
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Well, ten points to whomever it was who clocked Akshay calling her “beti” when we first met them on the train.
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I knew that was suspicious!
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That was lovely! and now I am going back to my lazy day off work and CLOSING THE LAPTOP
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Have a good lazy day!
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“Meri wife waapas aagaye” :’ )
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I had a great time! And now I have the rest of the day to be productive and grade papers, so the timing was perfect. Thanks Margaret, and thanks Kirre for the rec! This was a great movie!
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I am so glad you liked it! 😀
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Thanks for hanging out, guys, and esp. Kirre for convincing us to take on this unlikely-sounding proposition ( ; I will go over the comments later, as I have to go hop in the car to head to “Shyam Singha Roy,” for which I am very excited!
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My Telugu friend has apparently already seen it twice in theaters. Clearly she loved it. Enjoy!
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I barely watch any Telugu movies (this is the first one I’ve seen in cinemas in. . . six years?), but I’m glad I came out for this one. I loved it! And there is at least one scene that should definitely be seen on the big screen.
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My random thoughts after having seen the movie:
-I never thought I would watch Akshay movie again or get emotional during his scenes, and here I am crying when he is in flames.
-It was a good movie. The forced marriage was well made. After seeing the trailer I was affraid Dhanush is guilty of forcing the girl but no, they both didn’t know what was happening.
-Dhanush is super hot, and OMG those jeans looks so good on him in the bathroom dancing scene.
Also
-isn’t the patience one of the sexiest qualities a man can have?
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