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.
dontcallitbollywood 
I have to leave now. But if you are confused again, just put up a comment and I will try to finish the movie later today and respond.
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Bye Filmikhudi!!
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Bye!
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THank you! Have a fabulous party with lots of adult socialization!
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Uff, Jackie looks so good! He is such a brooder!
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And we know without any dialogue that he has been in love with Manisha this whole time.
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Manisha saying she will never cry again is in the present.
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Thank you! Now go sing Happy Birthday to a confused baby!
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So I finished the Agatha Christie book yesterday, and I gotta say secret agent love for young girls kinda creeps me out.
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Yeah, Manisha is just a hair to young in this movie. Her whole “I just love swinging!” thing doesn’t quite fit with the “Best revolutionary in Indian in love with me”
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Anil’s dad is so awful he may as well be a Britisher.
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Collaberators, they are the worst. Although I legitimately enjoy that the film draws a line between Anil’s Dad’s evil and Danny’s evil. Danny is just trying to do what he sees as his duty, Anil’s Dad is selfish.
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Driver Dude is a really good friend.
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PRAN!!!! Not Pran!!!!
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See, you can tell Danny hates doing this but Anil Dad is kind of into it.
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In case you forgot, Anupam’s friend who they were staying with sent his wife away and now she is backa nd he is being tortured. Also, his wife is pregnant after 12 years. Just to add to the pathos.
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Thanks for the reminders!
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You know why Manisha had so many dramatic political movies? She looks SO PRETTY when she is sad.
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Woot, Jackie! Chop that wood!!!!
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Awwwww, Jackie. I hope he dies with his dream still intact.
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Okay Genevieve, in 15 minutes things get CRAZY and also AWESOME. Get the boys back in the room if they like explosions and jumping and shouting.
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The seven year old has returned! (The others are at hockey)
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And his response to this chase scene is “When are they going to blow up already?”
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There’s still that second packet of dynamite around.
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And on my homefront my husband’s war against the birds nesting inside the attic has failed and the 10 -year-old is off to fight the battle of the always loosing hockey team that somehow made it to the finals in the last tournament. Our lives are just as dramatic, if not cinematic!
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Albie Dog is asleep on my foot.
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His dreams are dramatic!
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Anil is really bad at secretly following people.
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What side is Anil on?
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Manisha’s side.
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So our vibrant little cell of rebels is now down to Pran and Manisha and Jackie.
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VEry pretty while sad – Manisha does rock the sad face.
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Oh Jackie! Your dreams are dead.
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Oh yeah, Britisher is here! Things are about to get explodey!
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oooh – the ugliest of the British is back!
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ANd without a hat his bald head must get SO SUNBURNED!
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil
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“bloody Indian blood, I need a bath”. It’s a good Britisher line.
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Okay, so why did the driver run at the General?
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That was his uncle who was killed. Also, in his intro scene he swore that if he ever saw the general in person, he would spit in his face.
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Well he got bloody Indian blood on him so that kinda fulfills his life goal.
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“Bloody Indian blood….”
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Okay, NOW I think Anil is straight up anti-British, not just in love with Manisha.
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He must be, they killed his best driver friend. 😥
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By the way, Danny’s Daughter actress now lives in Orlando with her husband and runs a dance studio. Isn’t that nice?
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No Danny! Not your friend Pran!!!
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Go Jackie – killing all the soldiers – badass!
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He is the bestest revolutionary, and now we see why.
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7 year old and I want the fancy building to explode.
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It is possible you will get your wish.
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Is the library in that building – does that mean the pretty library will explode too?
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Oh shoot, it is. That’s too bad.
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As a former bookseller I get a perverse pleasure from burning books – a good way to improve future sales.
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Danny! It’s one thing to order Pran arrested, but another thing to kill him yourself.
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Kill Dad! Kill Dad!
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“Now is it exploding!?” – No not yet…
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Oh yeah Jackie, a turban! They will never see through that disguise.
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DAD!!!! You suck so much.
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The goal is to kill the white man.
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Lookit all those knees around him.
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Wait Anil wait, what just happened? He shot and failed or he prevented a shooting?
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No no, he shot and failed. The cops were about to arrest him, so he took the shot.
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Another great Jai Hind
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Oh yeah, Lataji, bring us home! Her first/only song of the movie.
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She was well loved, I respect her talent, but I don’t enjoy listening to it, at least not the high notes.
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Same. I love her earlier songs (Madhubala and Vyjainthimala days) where she sounds so sweet. The high notes are lovely, but for me too the high notes are just TOO high at points when she got older, which makes it hard to listen at times, no matter how classic the song.
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At least Manisha got to be happy for like half an hour or so. This hour and a half of tears and sad face was totally worth that half hour of smiles.
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“Jai Hind” is like 50% of the dialogue of this movie.
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Much of the dialogue is unneeded in this film, so you probably could replace everything with Jai Hind.
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Oh man, you are so right. Just different intonations.
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Telling you now, Dad has an AWESOME death. Also, notice they have foolishly brought the unexploded dynamite back to the clock tower for examination?
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Woot, Danny’s daughter! Full radical!
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The problem with torches is that I never associate torches and pitchforks with the good guys.
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Go Anil!!
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Anil just has the best burns on his Dad.
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How could they even hear his “Jai Hind” all the way down in the square?
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ooooh I saw another white guy, they could kill two!
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General has pretty good burns too.
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IDEA!!!! We will use the humblest of them all to defeat the greatest.
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and gas is probably very effective at removing blood too!
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