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 
Kind of want this movie to be about the rickshaw-wallah now.
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Or Dips? Remember her? The film won’t. No more character development for her.
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Every other character other than Ranbir deserves a better movie concentrated on them
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N=Noble
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If I saw Ranbir in this in IRL I would run away FAST. Someone should cast him as a serial killer or a villain, he has the eyes for it
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Kind of odd to me that he hasn’t appeared in a straight-up negative role. It would fit with his ~serious actor~ image also.
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Yeah, but that would only be if he actually was a good actor and capable of playing more than just the one role.
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But: this one role is pretty much already a villainous one, as we have all been pointing out. Just needs to be fit into a different storyline to make it fully overt.
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But he has to be either a misunderstood man-child or a saint!! How would his intellectual image survive this long otherwise!
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O=Offensive
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P=Pretty
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Okay, I’m stuck on Q. What is a Q word to describe Ranbir’s character?
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One of Javed’s life lessons should have been not to stand in front of the slide projector.
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Quibbling? It’s not his primary character flaw but it’s there, lol.
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I’ll take it!
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Oh good, Dips is processing their break up by obsessing over his pain. That’s healthy for her. Good role model for women too.
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Ok, that last mirror monologue was straight up VILLAIN!! Imtiaz either had a cinematographer or an editor who saw through him and went all out. Even the freaking montage is creepy as hell
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In any other movie this dark shot versus light shot would be a villain vs hero shot
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R=Radiant. I know it’s trite, but it’s so true of Dips.
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IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT DIPS!!!! RUN AWAY FROM THIS VAMPIRE!!!!!! SAFE YOURSELF!
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S=Shitty
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Oh yeah, this is an awesome ex-boyfriend. Keep feeling bad for him, totally the right decision.
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Oh gosh, can we have more of dips apologising and ranbir going into raging at her? Actually, instead of raging, it makes me feel very sad. Is he going to hit her, I wonder?
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Worship him Deepika! WORSHIP HIM!!!!
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I seriously recommend watching Karthik Calling Karthik as an antidote from this movie! Just an OK movie in my mind, but so much better in so many ways!!!
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Thank you, I seriously am going to need n antidote to this .
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This is, like, the exact same dialogue you would see in a Lifetime Movie about emotional abuse.
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I’ve been a server at a restaurant where basically this same scene went down, and the cook had already called 911 by this point.
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He is abusive! Girl, call it quits now before he makes you more miserable than you can imagine!
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But poor Ranbir, of course. This is repellent, I’m not joking
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Yep. And I think this was the sequence that was all “and then he had to take 3 days off filming to recover”. Like, do you not SEE that Dips’ character is going through a way worse emotional journey?
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This song is so pretty, I am just ignoring what is going on in the scene
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Okay, an hour and 30 minutes into this movie, that’s what I need to show people so they understand why I hate it
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Cool graffiti.
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Glad he finally paid attention to the hijra, tbh
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I hope she goes to live a long life off the money from that ring. At least someone is truly happy in this movie.
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So now he becomes more of an asshole than he already is. SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!!!
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Of course, because it’s always the woman’s fault!!! I HATE THIS CHARACTER AND THE FILM FOR HAVING THOSE LINES!!!
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FINALLY someone calls security.
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The background music is very serial killer like
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I was trying to figure out if it was a callback to the music from the very beginning of the movie, with the clown and the robot and all, but I can’t remember that clearly enough.
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OK, he’s gone psycho,is this supposed tobe deep and clever? Or just tedious? I’m so shallow ( and female), I just cant tell.
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I think it’s because we are all Female. Men feel things and have intellectual desires and stuff. Women just want Love.
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Once again, mirror scene with words, because he CAN’T ACT
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Welp, now I have “Koi Patthar Se Na Maare” in my head.
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See, I think the issue is a combo of Ranbir playing the role in a very self-centered un-empathetic kind of way, like he seems to have no awareness of/interest in his scene partners. And also a daily water on stone effect of slowly convincing the director to give him more attention and screen time and less time to anyone else.
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Oh good, now the Hijra is worshipping him, as she should. Because his struggles as a straight cisgender upper class male are SO MUCH WORSE than hers as a transexual living on the street.
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Hum, between this and OSO it seems like Javed is not a very effective movie-dad. His kids are all brats!
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Okay, breaking news from my video-watching spot, which is also my workspace. My desk has a window next to it that overlooks the backdoor to our building, where we keep the recycling bins, part of the parking area, etc. It’s dark as the inside of a dog already. My upstairs neighbors were apparently just getting home, which turned on the motion-detector light above the back door. Dad was carrying the three-year-old on his hip, but set him down to open the door (which is very “sticky”). At which point three-year-old took a couple of steps, fell down on his bum, and slid off down the hill into the darkness and (I presume) into the backyard!!! I had to yell out the window at them because they couldn’t see where he went!
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(N.B., the kid is not only fine but is laughing like a mad thing after having been retrieved from the backyard)
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HA! That was a great news break. News from my end, Albie Dog got out from under his blankie to eat dinner, and now can’t figure out how to get back under it again.
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Like, does he even know Deepika? Does he have any concept of who he is calling for beyond “Pretty Lady who Let Me Kiss Her”?
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Notice that Dips managed to continue working, and even succeed, while feeling sad? I guess becuase girls don’t feel as sad as boys
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Till date I don’t believe she’s yelled at anybody, much less her boss. (Does she have a boss or is she just, like, the queen of tea?)
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I think she’s just the Queen of Tea. Looks like ancestral wealth. But also looks like she earned her place at the table and is continuing to work hard.
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Oh, ALSO, she’s working in the family business in a defined role, and isn’t whining about it! Just do your job, go home, live your life. SHEESH
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Gully Boy! there’s another one! ARtist who succeded while still working and supporting himself and his family. Actor who conveyed everything without needing dialogue. And, not for nothing, movie that actual made sure they had GOOD ART created by their fictional person.
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Or OG “Tamasha”! The Dev Anand one, I mean.
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And now Ranbir feels bad for the poverty of this man who gave him so much and realizes it is time to stop taking and start giving back????
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Wait, the big message of this movie is “what do you want, Ranbir?” Like, that’s the thing everyone wants to know? The Biggest Question?
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Oh that’s nice, now he’s happy. Dips is traumatized, but he’s happy, so it’s all good.
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T=Truthful
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I like this parade much more than the Corsican one. It seems thematically unified.
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U=Ugly
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Margaret, did we lose everybody else?
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Clearly they were all too upset to keep going. You and I are the strong ones.
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LOL. To be honest, I stopped paying attention for a while when the driveway-sliding incident happened, but I’m back in it now.
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Nope, still here! I got interested for a bit, with the parents and the old storyteller… but now itsback to ranbir Acting badness. I guess this is a lament about the dehumanising society we live in. Got snagged cos I went through similar with my little Ma, once upon a time.
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This music is so good my foot is tapping in spite of myself. CURSE YOU RAHMAN
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No, BLESS you Rahman, for these moments of relief
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Robots speak English.
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Oh look, it’s the three generation story of basically every other family in the world. First generation survives, second thrives, third wants to Live.
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This is SUCH a boring narration. If you can’t even sell the story to make sense when you are narrating it, it should never be a play.
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My family would never sit still so long for something like this, LOL!
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