Happy Shashi Day! I am supposed to be off work early on Fridays, but I had to cover for co-workers so I ended up working until just now. I am sooooooooooo happy to be off work and goofing off with y’all instead.
Suhaag! It’s in different places all over the world! In America, it’s for rent on youtube. In Australia, apparently it is on Prime. And in Europe, it might be free on youtube? Anyway, Suhaag! 1979! With Shashi and Amitabh!
At 3pm Chicago time I will put up an “and Play” comment and we will all comment along from there, yaaaaaay!
dontcallitbollywood 
Here! Have you seen this one before, Margaret? It’s a delight.
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Yes! Only once a while ago because it was randomly available on hoopla. I’m excited to find out what bits are in this movie and what bits are in all the other amitabh movies I vaguely remember.
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I am making popcorn and have already given youtube $! I won’t really be able to comment, but at least I have a fun movie to watch.
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Yes! rest your leg/eyes/head/everything. I am also making popcorn.
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Oh, popcorn is a good idea. Enjoy whatever you are able to ❤
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And PLAY
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aaah i’m having trouble with the file
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Pray to Shashi!
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Here!
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Here, but will have to go early for work 😦
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Watching on Einthusan, hope I stay in sync!
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Warning you now, I almost always fall asleep during the friday afternoon watchalongs. But I’m gonna make popcorna nd fight to stay up.
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I thought these were really arty silent titles, and then I realized my TV was on mute.
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Poor horsie
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I don’t remember the details, but I remember this brother-separated sequence is INSANE. Excited to see in what way the insanity occurs!
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The separation : reunion time ratio is pretty ambitious.
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I do not remember this AT ALL
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I should specify that I have seen this approx 20 times
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Well, there’s no Shashi onscreen, how would you remember?
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This actually happens a lot.
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It’s subtle, but I THINK this might be a brothel. And I love how the naach girl looks vaguely bored.
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No, no, we get to the actual kotha a bit later. This is just Amjad’s personal house of vice.
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NO! really? This is just his house?
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Well, if I’ve learned anything from the two (2) brothels featured later in this film, it’s that mirrors are mandatory.
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Where are people on the youtube version? I think I am slightly ahead now.
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He’s dissing grandpa
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About 7:00 in.
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Grandpa! Heart Attack! Babies! Set down!
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I really don’t think those perky wriggly babies are newborns.
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Kali!
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Durga, I thought? But I’m not good at murti recognition.
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Yeah it’s Durga. Also called Sherawali, which comes up later.
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Oh! Is this the one where Amitabh has a thing about a Goddess?
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Whoa, who is scarf dude? From nowhere?
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Kader Khan. He’s a pimp
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And also got script credit!
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I was wondering about that actually! He’s a great dialogue writer
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Wait, scarf dude is a bad dude? Also, is Grandpa just, like, dead? Never to be seen again?
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Yes, grandpa is dead and scarf dude is evil.
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And we aren’t even 15 minutes in!
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Get to the Shashitabh, I only have an hour or so.
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Oh I remember this, the crying prostituion bit.
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When my mother first saw this, she started screaming “Nirupa, no! Don’t go to a secondary location!” about two minutes ago.
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Wait, he’s a POLICE OFFICER? What are the chances???
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It’s a Desai movie! There’s ONLY coincidence.
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So Gabbar Singh is the evil father, and Kader Khan is the evil kidnapper, and now he is selling the baby to someone else? So many people to get comeuppances later in the film!
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Confusingly, Jeevan (to whom the baby is being sold) is presented as only, like, medium-evil.
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Are we getting a sudden adult transition?
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Of course!
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Oh yeah, there’s my Desai style opening credit song! It’s now “Khoon Mala Khoon” from AAA, but this is pretty good.
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And IMMEDIATE baby reunion. But Nirupa is too dazed to notice.
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Did I remember the exact moment they switch over to grown up? You bet!
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Baby Amitabh is TOUGH! And Baby Shashi is sweet. Of course.
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I do love Amjad’s giant zoot suit, lol.
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NO! Baby Shashi! Don’t do it!
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The most evil game of quarters. . .
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I love how quickly the brothers are sort of reunited
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I think we can just assume that Amitabh is the older twin
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Nirupa! No slappy ) :
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AMITABH!!!!!!!!!!!
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I want every single one of his neckerchiefs.
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God they’re so great.
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I can tell this is going to make me get all my 70s clothes out again.
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Is Orange Thug wearing a onesie, or a shirt and pants that are the exact same color?
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OMG, now I cannot unsee it as a jumpsuit.
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I think it is one.
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I was going to say “If so, why the belt?” but I suppose “why not?” is the more appropriate question. What a marvelous thing!
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Digging Amjad’s old man style!
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Shashi!!!!
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It looks like the costume department pasted an entire sheep onto his face.
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Wait, where Shashi? Shashi coming? Then I am not going to start my popcorn yet!
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I’m in the fight scene. Are you behind?
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I think you are a hair ahead of us. With old movies, there is usually a slight variation depending on which version. I’m on the pay youtube version.
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Seems likely. What’s the runtime? Mine’s 2hr 35mins.
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Mine’s 2 and 46
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Oh I wonder what’s missing in mine
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I want a lovely apricot jumpsuit now.
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Yes! This is the bit I remember most vividly from this movie! It’s like a superhero fight, but way better!
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Yes! Vampire outfit!
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You can only pick one: Shashi’s coat or Amitabh’s neckerchief? I’m going coat, it’s immediately striking.
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Oh, neckerchiefs, definitely. I like a little color in my life : D
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Coat!
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Oh shit I forgot about Shashi’s S&M outfit. What is this, a Christopher Lee movie??
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Love that half his shirt is unbuttoned!
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More like all of it
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No no, whip each other
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Hand holding coming up if I’m not mistaken
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Is it wrong to find this slightly homoerotic? I mean, they weren’t raised together, it’s not like they know they are twins….
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This movie is DEEPLY homoerotic and I think I also recall is one of two where I shipped Nirupa and Shashi.
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. . .huh. Will have to consider this further.
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Yeah, it’s noticeable in this and that one Manoj Kumar movie with the ship. Moreso in that one.
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Ohhh, I just looked it up and that must be “Kranti.” I was thinking of “Roti, Kapada aur Makaan” and trying to remember where Nirupa showed up in that one.
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Nirupa and Shashi? No, always Nirupa and Amitabh.
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Never tried that one! Which are some good ones?
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There’s this whole journal article about how you can read Deewar as a sick oedipal story. I love it.
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That’s great. I don’t know if they have the chemistry Nirupa and Shashi do though.
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It’s not shippy, but this photo of them all has been circulating recently and it’s adorable: https://bollywoodirect.tumblr.com/post/676278414732345344/niruparoy-shashikapoor-and-amitabhbachchan-on
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