Woot! Watchalong! What a wonderful way to welcome my return to blogging! Especially this nice dopey over the top movie.
Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa!!!! Need I say more? Okay, I’ll say a little more: Evil Britishers! RD Burman love songs! HORSES!!!!
At 9am Chicago time on I will put up an “and Play” comment and we can all comment along together from there! Prepare yourself for Manisha gorgeousness, and Anil dopeyness.
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PRAN!!! I love Pran!
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I forgot it was Pran! He is so nice. Too bad he’s planning to bomb his own production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Patriots!!!
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I have been watching a lot of 80s and 90s movies so naturally I have been seeing a lot of movies with Amrish Puri and Pran and it is amazing so seemlesly they both go from playing the villan to playing the sweetest humans! Anupam Kher is a close second to them.
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Note to self- if you want to live a happy life don’t be born to a man who makes bombs.
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Husband says he likes that Manisha’s voice is not super high like all the heroines from the 90s.
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I’m gonna say right now that I think the bomb plot is STUPID. It’s a terrible way to assasinate someone, way too many variables can go wrong. Disagree with me as you will!
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I can’t wait to read a defense of bombing!
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Anil looks good in all black!
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These two kids are really diving head first into love, aren’t they? Young idiots.
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But it has a happy ending so I can get behind this romance!
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Gosh, I could have sworn we saw Anil getting hung at the start of the movie. I await the happy twist.
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Margaret – 7 year old is getting confused and thinks I am talking to Shah Rukh Khan because of your picture.
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If Shahrukh Khan were to watch 1942 with us, I am sure this is what he would be saying.
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Romeo and Juliet in Hindi is just lovely!
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Oh no – daddy is going to bomb his own daughter by bombing the play! What will happen?
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No no, she’s just prompting rehearsals. He’s gonna bomb all these other kids though. I’m telling you, the bomb plot is TERRIBLE. Just use a gun for Pete’s sake. Or poison.
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I suppose Romeo & Juliet is the ultimate symbol of British evil.
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First a fake stage balcony scene, now a real one. I love this film!!!
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Have you seen this movie before?
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Yep, a long time ago. But I still remember it a bit.
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I love seeing Anil’s hairy hairy arm hair peak through even when he is wearing full sleeves!
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7 year old is worried Manisha will fall off the cliff.
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It’s a valid worry. Also, once again, A BETTER ASSISINATION PLAN THAN A STUPID BOMB!!!
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Ooooo, Orange-white-green tone to the love song. So smart.
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Do you think that was VVC or Shekar Kapur?
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Good question! I’m gonna say VVC, because there’s a similar precision in Mission Kashmir.
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YES!!! Wait can we pretty pretty please watch Mission Kashmir sometime for the watchalong? It’s such an amazing movie!
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Ok, that happy shout from Anil definitely felt like a shout-out to the R and J done by Franco Zeffirelli.
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Manisha in mostly plain white salwar kameez with miminal makeup is stunning!!!
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7 year old really likes swings too. He and our heroine would get a long. I however, would get motionsick.
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Oooo, metaphorically and literally separated by the independence protests. I get what you are doing here VVC.
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I love that he is seen as subtle, while still not being subtle at all in all of his films. Just putting every metaphor out there in the classiest way possible, with no fuss.
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Across all time and all countries, the one universal is that uniforms with shorts look stupid.
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comfort over fashion! There should be uniform sweat pants.
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Which do you like better, her red umbrella or his huge raincoat?
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Who is singing the Anil part in this? It’s really good! Internet says….Kumar Sanu!
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Who wears the hat better, Manisha or Anil? I’m gonna say Anil, but it’s close.
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I vote Manisha. I feel guilty admitting it kinda bugs me on Anil.
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I think Anil too. Anil was kind of known for his hats in 90s.
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My mom sent me to the first day of middle school in America with my hair in braids like Manisha’s. It did not help me make friends. Middle schoolers suck!
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When I was in India, one of the biggest puzzles I had in my head is if little girls in braids were cuter, or little girls with the shorn heads were cuter.
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the girls especially. The boys don’t really suck till high school.
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Such a clear divide when I was teaching Sunday School. The boys were awesome and disobedient and loud and wriggly and the girls were Too Sophisticated to Participate.
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Oh oh! Anil is gonna break her pearl necklace! And once a girl lets a boy break her pearl necklace, there is no going back.
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HA!
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Woo Hoo the pearl song! Or at least the pearl stair case.
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Awwww, Danny’s daughter. Poor girl with her awesome fashion.
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Whoops, there go her pearls! Anil, you dog.
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I’m sure pearls were cheap in 1942.
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I would not swing double on a stage swing. Seems very risky.
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I don’t know about in 1942, but modern theaters have serious metal up there – so the swing would be safer than at a playground.
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Manisha has very large breasts. They are hypnotizing me.
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Not even close to Madhuri’s! I myself am transfixed by her nose. So dignified.
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After the movie is over, you can watch Anupam do this song in drag:
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Yep, I can definitely feel the SLB touch in this song with the theatricality (literally in this case) and the swing
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Just dropping this here:
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This officer has an amazing gardener.
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Probably makes the little soldiers do it in their shorts.
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look for dirty knees
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So far at least two fo the songs from this movie were later names of movies. Ek Ladki and Kuch Naa Kaho.
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It’s RD Burman’s last soundtrack, you gotta RESPECT
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This is the part of the movie where I always get confused. But I’m gonna pay attention and NOT get confused this time.
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What are you confused about?
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Past, present, relationships, death. The whole thing really.
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Was one of the bomb makers shot?
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One of their allies was shot. Yes.
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Oh thank goodness, a GUN! So much smarter than a bomb.
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Whaaat? Am I behind? I see a dead man and Manisha and her dad all wide-eyed.
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The last thing the dead guy said was “with great difficulty, we have brought you a Gun”
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Okay, that’s where I get lost!!! “you have lost one more of your brothers”. So, like, literally her brother? Or just her Brothers in Revolution?
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Both. Her brother was killed by the British and the one that just died was her “brother” in revolution.
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There is something about this burial scene that makes me think of Top Secret. I suppose it is a bit over the top.
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So, when was the hanging? Was that last night? Or father in the past? I get that Manisha is all traumatized and rededicated to the cause nad stuff, but I’m still stuck on who was her brother and when he died.
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I don’t understand who was hanged.
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ME NEITHER!!!! And this is, like, my 6th time watching this movie.
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That was Manisha’s real brother. It’s a scene from the past.
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How are you so ahead of me?
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I’m watching Anil talk to Anupam, what are you watching?
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While Anuman is burying the messanger, Manisha is remembering the past when her brother was hanged by the British!
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Which was also the opening scene of this movie?
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I started a bit late so I don’t remember the opening scene but maybe. I thought the opening scene was in future when Anil is sentenced to hang? Maybe I am wrong.
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No, there was that. And then I think we go straight to the woods hanging. And then the “present”.
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Got it. Yes, the woods hanging scene is from the past. That’s the British killing a whole bunch of revolutionaries, including Manisha’s brother/ Anupam’s son. The Anil scene is from the future.
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Oh Anil!!!! But what about your horse? Who is going to take care of your horse?
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Anil is just telling everyone everything, isn’t he?
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Yupp. IDIOT!
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Awwwww, Anupam. Bringing the good father vibes.
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Anil Dad! It’s evil enough to snitch to the British, but hitting your wife?
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I’m still on the scene where Manisha is talking to Anupam. I haven’t gotten to the Anil Dad scene.
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Oh oh! We are coming up on one of my favorite “Jai Hind”s! Of the many many Jai Hinds.
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I left to eat breakfast and now it looks like the world is collapsing around the lovers. The music tells me what is happening, no need for dialogue or plot.
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And in real Romeo=Juliet fashion, now Anil will thing Manisha got exploded and the best he can do is Avenge Her and Die.
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The 90s really were a mix of romance mixed with politics in Manisha’s movies. So many of them in her lineup! Especially this and Dil Se..!
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Also, Bombay! I’m sure there are others too!
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Jai Hind!!!
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Manisha has got to change clothes, this is a terrible “hiding in the forest” outfit.
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Wait, who is the dude leading Manisha through the forests?
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Okay never mind, it is the grand Patriot who has finally arrived & Jacki Shroff.
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Bingo! And the third leg of our love triangle.
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WHAT! Anil has competition! I thought the Officer’s daughter was the love triangle. – So this is a love square!?!
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Yes! Manisha should be in love with the revolutionary from her world, and Anil should be in love with the proper soldier daughter from his.
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the Mysterious Shubhanker Secret Agent Revolutionary!!!! Also, Jackie Shroff.
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Jackie!!!
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Ooooo, she looks so pretty drapped in black. Also, now we are getting timey-whimey again and I am confused.
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“timey – whimey”
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This is the past now.
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