Hi! Sorry! Forgot to write this post last night so hurrying it out before the actual start time.
Pushpa! On Prime! Watch it with me! I’ll put up an “and PLAY” comment at 7:30am and we will go from there.
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Call it Indian film and treat it seriously!
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And PLAY!
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Ooooo, computerized censor certificate! Fancy!
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Here!
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Yaaaaaaaaaay!
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Nice entrance.
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Agree! I love the casual enjoyment of beating up cops.
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He’s gonna end up spending all his profit on bribes! Bad business.
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He’s making my shoulder hurt.
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Oh good, I picked the right language.
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And apparently if we picked a different language, we would be far less cool.
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Clearly!
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Now I want chai, time to order breakfast!
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The curls are next level.
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It’s Allu Arjun! He changes his hair for every movie.
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This hero is very very earthy
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“Neither your son is listening no the buffalo!”
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This is setting up to be some character journey.
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Where did they get the conchs for the whip? They are landlocked in the village?
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Personally, I would not have taken this job. This seems very very scary.
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Through the forest, across the river. Shades of Bahubali except they’re bad guy smugglers.
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I am already enjoying not liking this handsome cleancut perfect cop. Yaaaaaaaaaaay, dirty laborer hero!
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The cop is nice to look at.
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Oh! He’s a community organizer! He’s unionized the oppressed smugglers!
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YES! It’s all the laborers finding their power!
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Wait, did they hoist many large bundles of logs into the air just to cut them down for a cool song visual?
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Well, he had already written the song in his head, he wanted to be sure he could sing it.
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Ooooo, it’s another management.labor situation. Our hero is gonna have thoughts about this power dynamic.
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Love that his friend was like, step up! I’m counting on you!
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11yo: not liking this hero much. He’s supposed to be all tough but he just glares at the camera like those TikTokers who think they’re buff.
I told him to wait.
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11 year old is cynical before his time
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Oh so much.
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Dumb cops
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OK the water bit was cute.
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His little boy hair is AMAZING
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Looks like the same wig.
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Wait, now we have a whole family fued plot on top of the wood smuggling plot? So much plot
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I hope Pushpa destroys all these brothers at some point, I don’t like them
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I don’t think you need to wait long.
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who do you like in this film?
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Pushpa’s Ma
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Wait, he didn’t tell the cops because they’re poor salarymen? The morals this plot is setting up are fascinating. Womanizing bad. Rich bad. Factionist bad.
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It isn’t moral. I think that is part of the allure. No one is moral.
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Ah I’m late! I had in my head it started at 8 chicago time. Sorry.
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Luckily, you have already seen it! So you can just skip to 33 minutes
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Welcome!
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I love the side-kick. I love the idea of his existence. The man who sees someone extraordinary and follows him.
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He’s good to his mother, so there’s SOME moral
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hmmm
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Aw! Mom doesn’t care about the car but she’s worried he got beat up. Mom is the best.
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ALSO love the that the first thing he does when he has some physical sign of success is flaunt it in front of the family that has always scorned him.
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It really struck me that not only is he disrespected by family for being illegitimate, he is disrespected by the world for starting out as a simple laborer. And it struck me how my own culture is so different from others. Starting out as a simple laborer is a point of pride for Americans.
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This part where we get a quick sequence showing how he builds his business by being clever. Gangster movie trope. Ah, and enter the heroine.
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I never doubt the top cop – on the one hand the constant frown is like a characterature, but he is the role. And I suppose he is the only moral one in the movie.
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Awwww, he’s in love. He’s human after all.
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And the curls have acquired a part!
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The camera loves rashmika.
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No no, it’s only that her friends are average looking. And anyone would look good in a red sari. She isn’t THAT special.
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Ah, I think you’re wrong. I think she has that Kajol glow, I just want to look at her, perhaps also because unlike so many pretty actresses her face seems to always have an expression and thought behind it.
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No no, sorry, that’s the lyrics of the song 🙂 The bit when he’s trying to convince himself she isn’t that special.
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😄
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I love that he keeps losing his slipper.
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Oh oh! Her father is the one arrested! It’s his in!!!!
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And now the womanizer wants Rashmika. They’re all converging.
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He goes around with his scowly gangster face all the time, it’s sweet when he smiles.
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This is great, she is as amoral as he is.
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Ah middle age men going after young girls. I try to get into the movie, but the reality of it is always disturbing.
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Now he’s embarrassed, but it’s OK, he’ll have to rescue her soon and they’ll be reunited.
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Okay, I give up, I’m not gonna be able to keep track of all the bad guys. I’ll focus on the romance/family plot.
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Oh, this guy you’ll end up remembering. Remember his wife, SHE certainly stand out (I mean being female in this movie makes you stand out). So the dude with the chewing wife is the smuggler.
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Okay, chewing wife dude is Top Guy, very scary and vicious. 3 brothers are normal bad. Our hero is bad, but hasn’t killed an innocent or raped anyone. It’s all shades of grey.
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She seems badass. Enjoyed that scene.
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Uff, the scenery, the mountains, the rivers. I feel terrible for the environmental destruction their wood smuggling causes, because that land sure is beautiful.
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Just thinking the same thing.
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Her friends are not so plain.
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Allu Arjun and Rashmika are very funny together. Early SRK-Juhi vibes.
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They are funny together.
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Awwww, he’s a decent guy. Ish. By the standards of this movie.
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I kinda love this scene. How to hide SO MUCH wood? Pushpa became famous and entered the smuggling ring by hiding wood.
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Also, I would NOT have wanted to be Allu Arjun’s stunt man.
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Hero shot! Good use of ropes. Respect.
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Love that they are all back to drinking chai
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The choice of red sandalwood as their contraband is kind of brilliant. Big red logs being transported and chucked about, very cinematic.
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And also very local laborer style. It’s not like drugs, where you need a scientist to create it, it’s something you get and transport through basic labor.
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Yes!
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“Alas, I don’t even have a shirt for you to hold my collar.” Nice.
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