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!
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Secret ninja in a dumpster – but he gets thrown through a brick wall. Farah knows movies should be fun!
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I feel like this is the scene where Farah full tells us “get ready for a surreal crazy silly movie”
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I’m ready!
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Also – Peter bouncer is doing a good job. Farah cast well.
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Yes! He and Boman should have a romance!
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I like the Googie-style neon signs we can barely see from the alley.
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My, my, a lot of gay text there, I mean not even subtext
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WOOT! Abhishek! This was his last role before he decided he was going to focus on challenging roles that made him happy instead of Masala. SO SAD!!! Because he is MAGNIFICENT in this. I wish Masala roles made him happy.
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He has left us a treasure trove of comic Masala roles, let’s just be thankful for that
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I need to see more of them, he is wonderful. Shame he didnt love this sort of role, hes got a genius for it
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And comedy is a hard craft to master, you need at least some inherent talent to pull it of, but I understand why. I am just happy he is pursuing his passion roles.
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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom! One of my all time favorite movies, so over the top, and Abhishek is BRILLIANT.
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Human towers – we just don’t have enough human towers in the U.S.
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Would also wear Boman’s hat here. I guess the moral of this story is that I have the dress sense of a parody of a Parsi.
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Have you seen Boman and Farah’s romance film? Shirin Farhad something something? If not, you MUST. It’s like if Boman’s intro scenes in this were a whole movie.
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Indeed I have not! Will look it up.
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SO CUTE!!! Middle-aged love story in the Parsi colony, lots of bright colors and silliness and sweetness.
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Middle-aged love stories are my FAVORITE favorite!!!
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I think this is meant to be a reference to Amitabh’s Janmashtami song in “Khud Daar.” “Oh my god, it’s like a movie!”
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Amitji famously busted his head open on that clay pot.
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Thank you! I knew you would be the one to translate this film for me. Farah unashamedly LOVES Masala and puts in so many references just to make herself happy, and they go right over my head.
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Consumption of alcohol is injurious to health!!!!
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Chocolate milk vomit, no chunks.
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Well, that face mask of Boman hits different now
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Yeah, I looked up for a second and it didn’t seem odd to me.
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Quick, whose costumes are better? Abhishek or Boman? I think based on this shirt, I’m going Abhishek.
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Definitely Abhishek!
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I’m voting Boman, he has the best hats.
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Abhishek looks better BUT Boman looks more comfy, while still being colorful. I vote comfy-colorful over pretty-boy fashion any day.
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Charlies angels! Thanks Farah!
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No! Wait! Jackie’s costumes are the best.
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Yeah, the more I look at Jackie the less I feel like that is proper Jackie hair. It’s Ajay Devgn hair, if anything.
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So, yes wig?
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I vote wig.
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BUt it is obviously thinning on top? Why would a wig do that? I was thinking hair plugs.
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Hum, good point. I doubt they make thinning wigs specifically for humble men.
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Asha Bhosle! *jives*
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More men should wear double breasted pin stripes jackets with red pocket squares.
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I was just watching “Safar” and Feroz Khan (who I’m used to seeing in, like, mesh shirts and popped collars in the later ’70s) was playing a businessman. Every single outfit had a tie and pocket square made out of matching material! Until he went crazy, that is.
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Does this seem needlessly complicated to anyone? Like, what’s wrong with just buying a safe that locks?
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plot
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Truthfully, I’ve always thought the plot was over complicated and confusing – BUT, that didn’t stop me from enjoying the movie.
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I just let it all wash over me, paying attention to everything but the plot
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Nonsense with safe – hackofied! I would love to see the outtakes. I hope they all had as much fun as they seem to be having.
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This white person make up is CREEPY
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Finally! An explanation for the hair streak! Only, not really. Also, from what I know of the Dubai workforce,w ouldn’t a white dude working construction be more suspicious than a desi?
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“Manzil?” “Hawa.” “Tight hai.” These are pretty amazing dialogues, honestly.
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Abhishek is SO GOOD!!!! Maybe if we all wrote him letters, he would go back to doing comedy?
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They are having such fun with this
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I can just imagine the bloopers. Farah movies must be the most entertaining to work on, a big party with some acting thrown in
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Meh – I need more than 5.5 hrs of sleep. I’ll have to catch the rest of these comments & movie later. Goodnight DCIB crew!
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Goodnight!
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Goodnight! Sleep well!
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Goodnight!
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Snake Dance!!!!!!! Abhishek makes this scene.
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Bye, Genevieve!
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THE FUNNIEST MONTAGE EVER!!!!
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PRABHU!!!!!
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PRABHUDEVA!!!!
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OMG, he uses his hands like little snakes, like this Aruna dance where she’s wearing snake-socks over her arms:
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Prabhas! So fab
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HA! Ganesh what’s his name!
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Okay, I know there’s some famous Prabhudeva dance being aped here because I’ve seen the yellow-and-white costume etc. alluded to elsewhere, but I don’t actually know what it is–?
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I think the Muqabla song?
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Will look it up. I don’t know from Tamil : /
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I love how Farah clearly makes all the friends/colleague calls she can into her movies, makes it so enjoyable, since she knows the audience will love them in it even for a second
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This Ragtime ballet sequence is my favourite!!!
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Where’s Popka? Now we have the clear homage to silent film slapstick
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Complete with “overcranked” style.
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Real men wear leotards and pink tutu’s!
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JUDGES!!!! Anurag Kashyap is such a weird dude.
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Abhi is so fantastic in this!
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Did we all catch that Anupam’s credit at the opening is an “emotional appearance”? Farah is so great, she knows exactly what this is.
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DID HE KILL ANUPAM KHER??? Horrible!
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Now THIS is a Jackie wig
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Now THIS is proper Jackie hair. He looks weird to me without a mullet, tbh.
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Never mind the revenge plot, give us more men fooling around in tutus! Without being either camp or blokey. Love it
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More color-coordinated pocket squares, but this time it’s with the weird cowboy-style running stitch along his blazer lapels.
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You know what we haven’t had yet? A SONG!!!!
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This is an incredibly fancy dance club. And open flames seem very dangerous.
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At least it’s not one of those item numbers where there’s an intricate stage show going on for the benefit of six or eight uninterested cafe patrons. I always wonder what the cover charge is meant to be in those filmi clubs to cover the pyrotechnics expended per person!
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DEEPIKA!!!!!!
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