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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The lady on the bus with the particularly giant embroidered red dress–I have a mashriqi-style kaftan that looks almost exactly like it, LOL.
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This melody is reminding me, of all things, of “Tanhayi” from “Dil Chahta Hai.”
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“City couple trying to fit into the countryside” is one of my favorite genres of song picturization.
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“Aaina” has one, actually! “Goriya Re Goriya.”
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Such a good song!!!
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And then Amrita has to show up right as they’re going to bang. Ugh.
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Jackie is right! Go Jackie!
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Seeing oxcarts in movies always makes me homesick.
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We can’t have a whole childhood village flashback! There’s only like 20 minutes left!
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Admittedly I lost a little time looking for that poster, but I still have 56 minutes to go.
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Oh dear, I had 2 hours 20 min in my head, but maybe I am wrong.
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Oh oh! Neena Gupta? Finally? Not this old lady but maybe someone else in the family?
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Neena Gupta!!!
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The whole situation of these two families has been wrapped up in, like, croissant-style layers of exposition.
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It really does make such a touching visual contrast to have him absorbed into this super traditional-looking family while wearing jeans and sneakers.
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I am getting sleepy. Oh man, I may not last the whole movie. Or I may take a nap and come back to realize that I have missed nothing.
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Take the baby back! He will be all crying and whiney and keep you awake.
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Are you nuts? First rule of parenting… do not wake a sleeping baby. Well wake him up to eat and stuff but if not, no waking the baby up!
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Is this the playback singer from “Pardesi”?
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I was wondering the same thing! It also sounds like Neena’s voice in “Choli Ke Peeche”
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We are both right, because Alka’s in that song too ; )
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Yes! Sapna Awasthi! She sounds so distinctive.
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This is such wish-fulfillment! Going from such a crazy violent fraught family situation to being immediately and unquestioningly accepted by all these people ❤
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Jackie! Br nice to your old aunt!
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HATE IT when people shoot at pots with slingshots. Not only have you broken a pot but now there are sharp shards everywhere!
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Plus, it’s usually full of water so now you have to go alllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to the well and carry it all the way home again.
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I saw “Milan” recently, in which Pran is eeeeevil and Jamuna shot off his giant hat with a slingshot. Much better!
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This is the most exciting day EVER in the village! They are going to be talking abotu this for years.
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LOL, no kidding!
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Ooooo, Aunt is Dina Pathak!!!
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With decades of nephew-scolding experience under her belt! I’d obey her.
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Anupam’s goon has a great tie.
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Jackie, you’re doing a hypocrisy ) :
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He is a Patriarch, it is Their Way
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The sucky of it is that he’s legit trying to keep Sunny out of the same kind of pain/fallout that he and Deepti had, just. . . not in an effective way.
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Awwww, Jackie.
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QUILTED WALL HANGING!!!!
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See? Why can’t these quilt-lovers all just get along???
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I do like that Deepti is the one who finally pointed out Anupam’s screwed-up-ness to him and now Manisha does the same at Jackie. Symmetry!
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I agree. I loved that!
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Wait, is there gonna be a happy ending? Is Jackie, for once, going to survive to the end of a movie and get everything he wants?
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There’s still half an hour for things to go horribly wrong. My money’s on things resolving okay for Sunny-Manisha, but not for Deepti-Jackie.
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Plus, Dina’s premonitions are on my side ) :
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Obviously, you don’t actually want me to spoil this for you, right?
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Oh, really striking image there: going from the family home in the countryside, bright and colorful and stuffed with loving people, to Anupam’s beige mansion in the dark.
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oooh good point!
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I am so stressed, I just googled and tried to spoil myself. And failed because of the synopsis out there on THe Internet, they are all so inaccurate for what has already happened that I don’t trust what they say is the ending. I think because the internet people are confused by the many MANY movies that have essentially this same plot and keep conflating them together.
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Noooo! Be strong!
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I can spoil it for you if you’d like.
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No, I will just squeeze the dog and suffer for another half an hour
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Please do not squish the Albie.
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Too late! I’m using him as an armrest.
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Good idea!
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Mostly worried for Deepti right now ) :
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The soft lens of drunkenness. . .
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You can tell they grew up in the country. City boys know not to play in the middle of the street!
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Or trust hospitals
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The hospital! Sunny has learned from his mistakes!
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I mean, I guess he did pause for a Revenge first, but only very briefly.
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Nooooo! Don’t leave behind your Ascot!!!
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He has to say “khwab” instead of “sapna” to prevent us getting confused, LOL.
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HA!!!!
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HA!
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The already ridiculous “take all Persian words out of Hindi” people have not taken this potentiality into account.
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Oh yeah, this is the Sunny I’ve been waiting for! FINALLY
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Why didn’t Sunny just kill Anupam. He is the source of all evil. Just kill him already!
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Because Manisha said it would kill their love! Dumb Manisha.
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Who cares. She’ll get over it eventually. Just kill Anupam.
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Wait, how did one gunshot drive a car off the road, and another blow it up? What bullets are these?
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Sunny Deol’s bullets!!!
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I wouldn’t call myself a Sunny fan, but he does a good “dead eyes” look.
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MANISHA!!!! You brought this on yourself!!!!
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EXACTLY!!!!
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Deepti, KILL ANUPAM!!!!
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Yes! Nobody can say “Oh, but I didn’t want to make you a widow” if you just widow yourself.
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The two ladies, both compartmentalized in their windows of sadness ) :
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Bigil, the other movie we could have watched where Jackie is naked, does a similar plot but backwards with flashbacks. We meet our hero as a super cool gangster warrior type, and only later flashback to him as a happy in love boy. That would have been a lot better, if we got to see cool gangster Sunny at the beginning and then were interested in him when he became in love Sunny.
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Is anyone else singing along to the “zoom zoom”s?
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This has been, erm, a noticeably intrusive background score.
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HAHAHA! I was dhoom dhoom to the zoom zoom!
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Oooo, Anupam has magic explodey bullets too.
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Yes! As soon as we saw that balcony, I was hoping somebody would tumble off of it, and as soon as we saw those giant parallel stairs, I was hoping somebody would run down them in slow motion. check and check!
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Sunny, you idiot. *headdesk*
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Did he not bring more bullets?
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Remember the end of Jeet? When it was a shoot out like htis, only also Karisma was giving birth in the middle of it? That was a good movie.
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DUSHMANI!
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I stopped counting long ago.
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Woot! Deepti!!!!
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Jackie! 3-peat turn! Things are serious now. Zoom. Zoom.
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Way to go, Deepti! It makes me happy that she never loved Anupam. Finally, a plot where the forced marriage doesn’t automatically make you love a person.
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I’m kind of astonished the movie didn’t forget about her. Deepti FTW!
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I’d be terrified of ricochet if I lived in an action movie.
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I’d be terrified of literally every object in existance spontaneously bursting into flame.
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