Happy Friday! I am going to try to convince all of you to hate this movie along with me. Because it is the WORST.
Tamasha! It’s on Netflix, it’s easy to find and easy to watch, and I HATE it. And I am worried, because I think everyone else watching may be neutral? Oh well, hate is contagious, I will convince you.
At 3pm Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and then we will all go along from there!
dontcallitbollywood 
Imtiaz does know Corsica is part of France, right–?
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I was wondering that!
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It’s been something like three hundred years, too. Not recent news!
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Weve got a lot of her watching him, very little of the othrr way round. Ooh, go gal, push his face into the sea.
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Or just drown him in the natural pool in the forest. Get the Narcissus metaphor and everything!!
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LOL!
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At least Corsica and the music is pretty
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Sheesh! Even just running, dips is all smiling and joyful to be alive, and Ranbir is all “I’m serious, I’m Acting”
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I saw YJHD just a week ago and Ranbir was bearable and even charming there. Now in this, I want to punch him into high heaven. Such a surreal viewing experience right now.
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Deepika >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ranbir
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Smart Dips, sneak out before the nutty man wakes up
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It’s not even that I think Dips is that good of an actress. I mean, she is good. But she throws herself into her character and is open to the camera and all of these things, while Ranbir just feels so isolated and self-centered in his performances.
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I suppose it matches hisemotionally stunted character. Is he supposed to be the liberating man who lets her experience her real self etc? Speaking of stereotypes?
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I wish. No, it’s all him. Don’t expect much Dips character anything.
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Ok, this song is my favourite. Maybe because it is catchy and it is all Deepika.
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Okay, I think in something somewhere we talked about how this is the breaking point of the film. IT feels like we should be jumping to Dips’ story at this point to give the two leads some sense of equal weight. But instead we get one song, and then go right back to Ranbir. It’s weird.
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In my mind Heer-Ranjha is super super Punjabi (not necessarily accurately–IDK), so it’s interesting to have this song picturized on Calcutta.
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One of those “intellectual” things of this film
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Nice to hear Mika sing in this less pop style, too. He really does have a nice rich voice.
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Ok, this is my dream cafe!! Books and food and coffee!! HEAVEN!
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It’s multiple cafes, na? Because first she was sitting on those patterned colorful pillows and I wanted a better look at them, but then she was wearing different clothes and sitting on a sad, boring wooden chair ) :
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No no, it’s different days. She’s stalking the cafe hoping to see him.
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In that case, I will presume that somebody was already sitting in the pillow spot, because OBVIOUSLY one’s first choice would be the pillow spot.
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Agree!
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Right. The cuts were just so quick.
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Ok, I take this back now, seeing the other comments.
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You know what would be a fascinating movie? One where a woman obsesses over a vacation romance and eventually it makes her realize that she is unhappy with her life, it’s not about the boy, it’s about her.
Tragically, this is not that movie.
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Shes all suppliant here, ‘I’m so stupid etc. Yuk. You did well? PATRONISINGmuch?
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YES! And this very similar scene is in loads of other Imtiaz movies, and he makes it feel much more balanced. Like, the hero is emotional too and all that.
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That should have felt like the heroine taking control, she found him and stalked him and asked him out and everything. But instead, somehow Ranbir ended up being the character in power? how did he DO that???
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He is secretly Vampire, sucking all the attention to him so he can live a long life
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Makes complete sense.
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Deepika’s house/apartment is SO FANCY!!!
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She’s all richa nd running a companya nd being AWESOME. And yet, somehow, this movie is about Ranbir?
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I mean, I am presuming from the attitudes of those who have seen it already that I’m not correct, but it seems to me like he’s set up as the manic pixie dream girl type who gives hardworking/responsible Dips a break from real life. Although he seems to have lost his pixieness post-Corsica so–
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Yeah. Sigh.
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I am SO HAPPY Imtiaz had his awakening because this is a little like Sara in LAK2. Traumatized and unsatisfied and living the life.
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YES! And a bit Anushka in JHMS too.
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I swear Ayan and Alia need to rip that Ranbir shaped dagger in his chest and be free! Every single woman and director have been happier after letting him go.
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I’m hungry, but I think it is just boredom? I will start a game to entertain myself! Let’s go through the alphabet alternating good things abotu Ranbir’s character and bad about Dips. I’ll start!
A=Arrogant
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B=Beautiful
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C = Crud
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EXCELLENT!
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And that’s it for Dips’ part of the movie! We are back to 100% to Ranbir story and character.
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D=Dimples
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E=Egotistical
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Awww, even though she’s all grown up and has her own tea estate (?), she still wears godawfully strange patterned blouses ❤
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Myplans? That depends on you! OK, that does it, I’ve moved on from Ranbir and now want to shoot the director.
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YES! And it’s IMTIAZ! We love Imtiaz!!! JHMS and Jab We Met and all sorts of good things. Just suffers from Ranbir Blindness.
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Ah, I was not a fan of jhms neither,soz
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do you at least like Jab We Met? Everyone likes Jab WE Met!
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Havent seen it. Actually, I would be up for another go at jhms cos I barely made it half way through
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JHMS is DEEP. And the ending is super cute. Worth another watch, with attention.
Jab WE Met truly EVERYONE likes. You should watch it on your own next time you need a smile.
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Agree–I don’t like anything else of Imtiaz’s that I’ve seen EXCEPT “Jab We Met.”
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Yeah, me neither : /
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Well great, now I have to schedule yet another JHMS watchalong so the DCIB community can grind you down into acceptance.
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F=Fearless
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G=Gross
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H=Heartfelt
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G = Gaandu (Moron)
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Better than mine
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No one should ever propose in front of a group of people. It’s just way WAY too risky.
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Even if for no better reason than to preserve one’s own ego, I think it’s pretty much idiotic to propose with other people present unless you’ve already arranged for a “yes.”
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“and then I realized I wasn’t in love with you, I was in love with the me I was when I was with you. You suck, I don’t need you”
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Did anybody catch if she was the one who came up with “Mona Darling,” or he did? Bindu is not the person I would elect to be out of that movie, LOL!
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She did. I was watching for it!
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For the record, my “Zanjeer” alter ego is DEFINITELY Sher Khan.
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I = Imbecile
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Thank you, I was stuck on I.
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Now, in Rab Ne, the point was that the “real” person was interesting and sweet and dedicated and all of those things. The fake person was just surface and fake. That seems way more interesting and, not for nothing, WAY harder to perform. In this Ranbir is just ON TIMES ONE HUNDRED and then OFF TIMES ONE HUNDRED and that’s it.
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J=Just
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I’ve seen Karthik Calling Karthik (a bit weird, more OK, but ultimately worked for me) and it dealt with these things so much better
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I think the breakdown scene is coming up. This is the one that Ranbir needed three days to Emotionally Recover after filming. I read that in an article about how “deep” he is, but all I got was “he delayed shooting THREE DAYS???” And also, I feel like Dips dug deep and gave a lot but of course it’s not about her, it’s allllllllllll about Ranbir the Great Actor.
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K = Kamina (bastard)
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Hush girls, he’s ACTING
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In JHMS (which Elin doesn’t like), Shahrukh conveys the same thing by a silent dialogue-less 5 second shot looking in a mirror. Because it’s called Acting.
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Don’t even say SRK, say Salman in “Sultan,” whom nobody thinks of as a good actor!
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YES! THANK YOU!!!! The silent mirror scene is a classic of cinema, and if it is good, you don’t even notice it being good. It’s just the character looking in a mirror exactly the way that character would look in the mirror.
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Salman can act, he just doesn’t usually want to!
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I don’t think of myself as his fan at all, but sometimes I do see him in something and my jaw drops at just plain how LIKEABLE he is. And in the ’90s, definitely the best dancer out of the Khans, IMO.
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Okay, Dips girl, call the police. This guy is DANGEROUS.
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L = Lovable
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M=Misogynist
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Well, it’s nice that she is agreeing their break-up is All About Him. She spent 4 years of her life on something she is now seeing was a dream, but that’s boring to explore, let’s think about the Fragile Male instead.
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N = Nagging
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Sorry, that’s Ranbir!
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You’re kidding me! Three days to recover from that? Dear me. But you’re right, its all about him, regardless.
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Someone needs to kick him back into reality and that it is not all about HIM HIM HIM
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No joke, this is why I think Ranbir is a dangerous star persona. This woman broke up with him. And the film has full sympathy for his agony, it even shows the woman having full sympathy for him. To the point that unacceptable dangerous behavior is made acceptable. And all the Ranbir films are like that! If you don’t get what you want, it is okay to misbehave, throw a tantrum,a nd expect everyone else to take care of you. I don’t think male upper class/caste Hindu Indian men need any more encouragement to feel that way.
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Ayup! Its all the woman’s fault, too, and his dad didnt understand him
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the way he is yelling and falling apart outside her door, that feels too real to me. AS in., that is actually the way a man might act after a break up and it is NOT okay to go to the woman and force sympathy.
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Can’t decide how I feel about the translation “rockstar” for “hero.” Definitely conveys some of the texture of the word.
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Oh, I’ve heard this song! What fun!
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In 2 States, our hero works hard and gets a marketing degree so he can support himself while persuing his artistic dreams in his spare time. Oh wait, I DID THAT TOO. Sheesh!!!! It’s not one or the other!!!! Just be, you know, Not Lazy.
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I can see why so many youngish men feel represented by him, tho,
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Don’t like it. Not good. They should feel represented by someone who inspires them to find a healthy life balance. Either accepting that no one gets everything they want, or accpeting that they have a responsibility to go after theri dreams.
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What, you mean GROW UP.? You are so cruel
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I know, they are men, men never have to grow up, they have women to do that for them.
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