Happy Saturday! And Happy Jackie Birthday Week! I have been talked into doing an ACTUAL Jackie movie, not just one of his modern ones where he has a little father role and nothing else.
Dushmani! I know nothing about it! Except that it is Jackie and Sunny and from 1995. So I am expecting lots of fake blood, very little dancing, and some questionable sexual politics. WOOT! Oh, and for Jackie to show too much skin, because it’s what he does.
At 8am Chicago time, I will put up a comment on this post “And PLAY” and then we can all comment along together from there.
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Those candles are super phallic, right? It’s not just me?
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Um, yes.
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Ah yes, the song sequence round bed, so touted in “Om Shanti Om.”
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these Sunny pants are much better
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Who’s this actor? He looks so familiar.
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Oh, it’s a very young Raghuvir Yadav!
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More cool street scenes : D
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NOOOO! The RICKSHAW!!!!
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The rickshawwallah’s mother’s jewelry ) :
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Are we finally going to get a Sunny fight scene?
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After backtracking, pausing, and squinting, I can confirm that the movie poster being hung during the chase sequence was “Indrajeet” (1991).
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THANK YOU!!!!! This movie must have taken forever to make then if it released in 1995. Let’s watch for visible onscreen aging of actors!
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So far, Sunny has been basically useless. Also, has anyone else seen Aap Mujhe Ache Lagne Lage? That is my favorite “hero in love with a gangsters daughter” movie. Partly because Hrithik is so straightforward about going after her.
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Useless not just re: Manisha, but this poor rickshaw guy whose life he is continuing to ruin.
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And no, I haven’t seen that, but I’m writing it down : )
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It’s a modern one, but it’s a very throwback feel, so hopefully you still like it! Hrithik’s college band is hired to play the 9 nights of Navratri at Amisha Patel’s gangster house. So he has 9 nights to woo, win, and rescue her.
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Oh, I tend to really like movies that take place over a particular time frame like that, or where somebody has to do accomplish a particular number of things.
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On the which topic, I have recently been rocking out to this song from “Do Phool Chaar Kaante,” which I will leave here for later enjoyment:
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I only watch that movie for Hrithik and Margaret. It’s bad!! But Hrithik is really cute and dances very well.
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LOL, you’re really selling it ( ;
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Anupam is evil, but he has a great taste in bathrobes.
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I can rationalize it as reflecting poorly on Anupam et al. for sheltering her so thoroughly rather than on Sunny for. . . presuming that she’s a vaguely normal girl, but her extremely childish bedroom makes this feel creepy.
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Also Sunny looking about 40 while Manisha looks about 16.
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Wait, where did all the sexy dancer ladies come from? What’s happening?
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One infers Sunny hired them to prove his point (?).
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I was thinking they just rented the top room as a dance studio. Because being gangsters didn’t make them enough money? Yeah, your argument makes more sense.
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Honestly, I like yours, and it could probably be applied to a lot of movies in which backup dancers randomly spawn.
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I just remember this movie had a lot of scenes straight out of Romeo and Juliet and so far I’m right. The window scene and the wedding meet cute scene are very much from Shakespeare. Many movies have the same story but it’s Shaker Kapur so he stole the scenes accurately.
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OH, I know this set! I think this is a famous song coming up!
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Okay, confirmed. I have definitely seen this song in isolation.
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Jackie! Gettin’ down!!!! I may have to watch the Devdas song after this is over.
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Or Aaina songs!
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Stop kissing that poor dove! omg
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Can’t make it because I had to fix my shower, hope it’s fun! Please tell me if I should watch this for Jackie nudity and fangirling.
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Ugh, sorry about your shower. You’re right in the middle of a pretty kickass Jackie song, actually. . . will grab a link.
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Well, right now Jackie is having a dance off with a bunch of dancing girls over whether love is good or bad (he is on th e”bad”) side.
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What I’m getting is that I should definitely watch the songs from this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtHzx1lMZlc
He’s got his shirt open, but an undershirt under it, BUT the undershirt looks meshy so it’s honestly kind of a wash.
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It’s a fun song but it needed something, like Jackie only wearing a mesh vest or getting wet or something. The hose dancing was fun though.
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Hope your shower gets fixed soon!
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Thanks! It’s fixed but now I don’t have time for anything else, ughhh
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So I was just looking up who this dancer is (Varsha Usgoankar), but I saw something MUCH MORE IMPORTANT!!!! Neena Gupta is in the cast list!!!! so keep your eyes peeled for her, I personally am PUMPED.
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Yeah, I don’t recognize her at all.
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She’s so good I was thinking she might be Somebody. And she is Somebody, but only in Marathi films, so that’s meaningless to me.
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Yeah, I got mildly obsessed with Mahesh Kothare recently (child/teenage actor in Hindi films in the ’60s-’70s) and he’s apparently a big name in Marathi now.
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(The dancer, I mean, not Neena Gupta : P)
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Still down a casting wormhole. The dancing lady was in the TV Mahbharat, playing Uttara, Arjun’s dance student during the year he was a woman who ended up being Abhimanyu’s widow.
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Noooooo! Not-Hajji is dead!!!!
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HOLI!!!!!
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Ooooo Sunny, a Holi sneak in, classic.
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Indoor Holi! With carpeting, no less! I pity the maid who has to clean that up.
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Oh, showing her with the colors on her face rather than showing the kiss is pretty hot.
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I know this is a mad idea, but I’m doing it! I’m looking up cast ages at the time of filming!!!
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The second time now Sunny has said “Dushmani kyun?”
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NOW who’s a forceful sindoor-applier? smh
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No! Nobody is allowed to slap baby Manisha!
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Sunny: 39, Manisha: 25, Jackie: 38, Anupam: 40, Deepti: 43. That’s going by release year of 1995, going by “mover poster in background” year, it’s all 4 years earlier than that.
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N.B. they also have a quilted wall hanging to match the pillow covers.
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This is working on my brain, now I want more quilted decor in my house.
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Just let me hook you up with my grandmothers, LOL ( ; Or my girlfriend’s mother.
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What did you get for breakfast, Filmikudhi?
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Maggi noodles. Felt appropriate for this movie!
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Plantains for me c:
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I got coffee delivered, Dulce De Leche and nutella croissant.
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Oh, fancy! The only walkable grocery here is Brazilian (hence the plantains) and they have the best dulce de leche soft candies. There’s a kind with ground almonds in it that is A++.
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oooh yumm!
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Oh. Sunny didn’t know.
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It sucks that they’ve made Deepti complicit in locking Manisha up ) :
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But it’s awesome that she’s the oldest cast member, and the most diserable one who’s beauty sets this all off.
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Agreed. And I think she does best in these kinds of roles where she’s trying to hold things together/keep other people happy following some horrible tragedy. I just wish she’d DO more in this particular instance.
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NOOOOOO!!!!! Tybalt! Or Mercutio! Whichever it is! Romeo’s friend who dies!
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RIP Raghuvir; I’m glad I figured out your name </3
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EXACTLY!!!! Mercutio?
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Honestly, almost all of the locations in this film have been amazing. It doesn’t have that “studio-bound” feeling at all. . . looks real and lived-in.
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Yes! Feels very authentic Bombay, like a descendent of the 70s movies.
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Again, Sanjay Kapur!
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I will have to look for more of his stuff. The ’90s are kind of no man’s land for me.
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Also, I meant Shekar Kapur not Sanjay.
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Ah, okay. That’s more familiar ground!
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Shekhar Kapur. Mr. India! And then he came to America and made the Elizabeth biopics.
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he directed Mr. India and then the Hollywood Elizabeth movies.
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And also Masoom! Which I forgot until I looked him up. Oh Masoom.
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Masoom – based on the movie by Eric Shegal, the author of Love Story. It all comes full circle!
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Ooooooooo! Also, is it possible all the Love Story references in MDK are actually a tribute to this film? I’m gonna say yes.
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I was wondering if there was a connection too. We can hope.
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By the way, just got a call from the vet, Albie’s stool sample is clean. Good Albie! No parasites this year! Despite all the garbage he eats.
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yay!!!
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Maybe he could have taken Raghu to the hospital instead?
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Talking to somebody without actually seeing their face is never a good idea in a Hindi movie. Sometimes they’re secretly dying; other times, they’re Pran in an obviously fake rubber mask.
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When Anupam is horrible, he can be the WORST!!!
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Also, I went down to make breakfast and my husband was having a dance party with my son and inappropriate songs! It was hysterical!
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d’awwwwww ❤
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The pink eyeshadow at the very outside of her lids does make Manisha look super doll-like in this outfit.
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SHE HAS AN ENORMOUS LOVE STORY POSTER!!!!! A LOVE STORY POSTER!!!!
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I just noticed that! That’s awesome.
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I like that in combination with her big fantasy sequence earlier. She doesn’t have a social life around which to construct her ideas of adulthood, but she does have the movies : D
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This costume is weird, but gorgeous.
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“What could I have done? Hit my head against walls?” What what he just did was hit his shoulders against walls (to surprising effect).
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Aw, this poor girl ) :
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Wait, when did they move to a cave?
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It’s the same dungeon thing Sunny shouldered his way out of earlier, I think.
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Woot! QSQT ending!
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Yeah, Deepti! Tell it how it is!
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Sunny, I’m very disappointed in you right now.
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