HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I hope everyone welcomed in 2022 in a lovely happy way, and of course my best wishes for all of my DCIB family in this new year. And now, let us begin it the RIGHT way, by watching Happy New Year the Movie.
Happy New Year
It’s on Netflix, it’s delightful, we’ve all seen it, what more is there to say?
At 8am Chicago time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will all go from there!
dontcallitbollywood 
Here!
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Here! With a slight correction: I have sort of seen this movie, but only the first half. The strength of others may be required to carry me through.
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If you just give in to the throwback silly stupidity, you’ll love it! It’s emotions and songs and drama and crazy costumes!
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I’m good at all of those things, but especially stupidity ( ;
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And PLAY!
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RED CHILLIES! And then Yash Raj! You know it’s gonna be a good movie.
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. . .and Netflix has called me out for my former failings by automatically resuming at the one hour thirty minute mark, LOL.
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Last night the Chicago Mayor organized the Biggest Firework Display in History. The schools are a mess, my garbage never gets picked up, but we had FIREWORKS. It was like she was a spoof of herself.
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Bread and circuses, as they say
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I’ll have to YouTube it – she’s got competition with Sydney for best fireworks 2022.
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Albie Dog was not a fan.
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Poor Albie Dog. I thought of my departed dog last night, he hated fireworks too. Sounds like Chicago fireworks are x-treme tho
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My Dad’s watching with me, and just complained that the US News doesn’t really cover the international dance competitions. We don’t even know about the World Danc eChampionships! (he’s being sarcastic)
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But we have a whole US movie about the Eurovision Song Contest!
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SRK Voice!!!!!!
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Why the heck is North Korea up first? omg
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Shahrukh should do audiobooks as a side hobby, they would be sold out in no time.
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MUD FIGHT! Never explained or referenced again! MUD FIGHT!!!!
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Do you think they built a mud fight field, or did they build a regular field and then it got wet? Is this a specific fight stule or an accident?
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Well, 1) it’s in a covered building, rather than outdoors, and 2) there’s a little mud-tray to hold the mud in. Seems intentional.
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Farah does a LOT of gender trope flipping in this film
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Farah knows her audience like the back of her hand, no denying that
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Yeah, this is when l thought it must be a gay director and became transfixed!
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Okay Shelomit, you are my only hope, can you identify all these quotes? I can’t.
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Not there yet, but I’ll do my best.
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Already with the bloody lip. . .
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Shahrukh’s fight hair is pretty perfect for him actually. That wet casual falling down on the eyes is a good look.
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Wahoo!
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Maybe this whole opening makes more sense if we think of it as a nightmare he is having? Because otherwise, why would the whole audience be screaming “chor”. What do they know/care about his family?
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Ek chor ka beta?!?!? O.O
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Slow motion fat ripple with the punches – even better then slow motion blood flying.
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Did he just kill a white dude? And it never comes up again?
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HOW DOES HE AFFORD SUCH A NICE APARTMENT???? It can’t be just street fighting.
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Not just street fighting, street murder – because the guy didn’t get up.
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Oh yeah. Maybe that pays better.
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Divest your brain of common sense At Once, this is PANTO!
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Wait, is SRK in bell bottoms?
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Jackie Shroff! My Dad asks, “wig or not?” What are the DCIB thoughts?
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I feel like the long bits of the wig are a little less curly than Jackie’s own hair, but that’s also something that can change with age *shrug* The little Jackie who lives in my head is from 1985 or so.
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He was SO little in 1985! Every time I look at old photos, I can’t believe how skinny he was.
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Woo hoo, Boston University! Go terriers!
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In his mind, definitely. I feel the starting with him as a failing salesman would have been a LOT less fun. Abs!
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So many abs!
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Ab-normally so?
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Malaika Arora!!!!
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WOOOO! SAINT SONU!!!!! MY FAV!
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Me too. Tho l also like the chick magnet
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That is a v naff trophy, solid gold or no
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If you were working with explosives, wouldn’t you want to wear more protective layers, not fewer?
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It’s Sonu, I think he is bulletproof
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Hence the “Dard-e-Disco look” ( ;
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Jag! So lovely
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Thing to watch for: the entire cast is 4 to 12 inches taller than SRK. Thus, very creative camera angles!
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It is an exceptionally tall cast!
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The director shielding himself behind the little AD, omg.
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All great plans require a newspaper wall & string.
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What I don’t get is, it’s the internet age. Do you really need to save clippings? Can’t you just print them out?
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I honestly feel like I ought to be using this method to organize my dissertation. Unfortunately, I have more subject matter than I do wall space.
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Either that or a glass wall and a whiteboard pen
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Boman as the Stud of the Parsi Colony!!!!! I adore it.
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Whatever is stated on a hat is perforce true.
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DAISY IRANI! I love her. And we know she is Farah’s aunt, right? And a former child actress turned character actress? She supported her whole family and was essentially the head of the family, so no wonder Farah loves her.
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Index cards! Saved me, but that was 6 billion years ago…no, did not knaow, shais great
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Sonu, just casually leaning with his shirt almost wide open. THANK YOU FARAH!!!
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I love all the Parsi ladies’ strangely geometrical frocks.
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Boman ka maa has forgotten to start the pendulum on her wall clock.
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OMG, I can’t with this accent.
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I would totally wear Daisy’s headscarf here.
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Has anyone here seen the original Shalimar movie? Is this an homage in some way or is Farah just doing a fun reference to her favorite film?
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There’s a whole thing in “Shalimar” about how the diamond is protected. There it’s surrounded by bombs instead of a kind of safe system like in this movie. And the diamond itself is Shalimar, not the security.
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But it’s another diamond heist movie. So okay, there is a connection beyond “random old movie name”. Thank you!
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Yes, the whole conceit is that the diamond’s owner will give a prize to somebody who can steal it but you might also, you know, get killed by the bombs while trying. It’s a pretty fun movie, with Dharmendra looking very lickable.
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Satire – SRK should do more satire.
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YES,
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She still hasn’t start the pendulum on her clock! Maybe she is like my aunt? Can’t sleep with the load ticking but likes the way it looks?
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My grandmother has about two dozen clocks and keeps all of them wound. Of course, she can only run so quickly from one to the other while doing it, so on the hour the chimes trail from the kitchen through the dining room and finally to the living room, the same path she takes to wind them.
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Awwwww, I love that! My parents gave me their old mantle clock which winds, but it’s broken now. This is inspiring me to take it in to be fixed.
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Awwww, little baby Vivaan Shah.
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Rohan is a baby!!
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Okay, Rohan is Naseerji and Ratna’s son. We all know them well, right? Does he look ANYTHING like either of his parents? I just can’t see it. Maybe kind of Ratna’s face but as a boy?
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Has he been in anything else?
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Bombay Velvet is all I can think of, but I’m pretty sure other stuff too.
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Ah, was about to ask if he had relos, hes not v goood. But for this it dont matter of course
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I love the idea that a great hacker hacks into a DJ system to make the DJ look lame!
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Using one’s powers for (more or less) good!
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In my gay fanfic version, this is a meet cute and Boman and Peter end up a couple. Wouldn’t that be cute?
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Okay, I know this one! Old Sunny Deol movie, maybe his first big hit? That’s the Karo Mama chant.
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