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!
I have to bring my computer into my office and hide to watch the movie. Anytime there is a screen on, Baby SRK stares at it like he is in a trance!
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With a nickname like that, I don’t know what we expected.
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Yeah, okay. That makes sense!
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oooh, Amitabh looks good in white too!
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No, Rekha! Don’t get the dizzies!
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Are you at the end of the song?
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No, at the optometrist’s office by now.
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Here come the sad parts
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You sure you’ve got him there, bud?
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Chandeliers! They’re the worst.
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Also, not quite sure how the chandelier hitting him on the head makes him blind.
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Eye transplants! My favourite imaginary medical procedure.
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Of course you’d need new eyes after losing your sight because of brain damage.
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The eyes are in the head, which is also where the brain is. Not sure how better to explain it to you.
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Of course. I feel so silly.
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As Always, I fell asleep during the Friday watchalong. Spounds like I got back at a great part!
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You should transfer some of the sleep to Baby SRK. He has decided to go on a nap strike over the last couple days!
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Amitabh is so upset that his neck is unadorned ) ‘:
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HA! I am laughing so hard right now!
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See how Amitabh’s taken on Shashi’s habit of unbuttoning his shirts, like he’s going to take on his job!
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Clever!!
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SO. MUCH. HAND. CARESSING!!!
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Pretty sure I can see Popka glowing with delight from across the Atlantic.
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This movie is much more Amitabh than Sashi. In fact, I hate to admit it, but Sashi isn’t very good. Amitabh however – this might be the first movie I’ve actually really LIKED him in. Maybe I have a soft spot for drunks.
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Them’s fighting words. He’s homoeroticising and showing his chest hair, thighs straining in his police uniform, what more do you want??
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Yes! I love this song, too.
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Whoops, replied to the wrong comment just now : P But since I’m here, I’ll agree that Shashi offers many delights in this film, and we haven’t even gotten to him feeling his way up the steps of the temple yet.
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Oh yeah, sweet sweet homoeroticism
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An interesting glimpse into the economy of Jeevan’s beggar racket, I guess.
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This is the same donut table from the villains lair, they just covered it in green!
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Saves money! Good budget thinking!
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If his chest/neck is so cold he needs a scarf, why doesn’t he just BUTTON HIS SHIRT?
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Because he knows his audiance?
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Siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. It’s not for warmth, it’s a STYLE STATEMENT. Otherwise he would only need one or two neckerchiefs, not thirty of ’em.
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He’s channeling Shashi while trying to retain his own style. It’s tough!
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There is so much pink/rainbow lighting in this movie! Just makes everything more erotic and so very pretty.
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Weird day to be an instrumentalist at the kotha.
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Agree. Unless this is something she does a lot which is why Amitabh new to go to her.
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HE’S TRAPPED IN THE BOTTLE!!!!!
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He breaks a glass bottle on the floor she dances barefoot on and she’s delighted!
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Good 70s CGI
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Yay best song!!!
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Agreed. Such a good song!
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They both are so hot!
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Holding his stomach in like a champ
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Whoa, how fast is police college??? Like, two days?
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More filmi logic!
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They seemed pretty pleased he’d made it through secondary school.
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Is Popka gonna survive this?
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With a lot of fanning, I suppose
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No, I die and am resurrected every time I watch this song.
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THE TOUCHING!!!
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Motorcycle song!!!!! Yes?
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This film has its homoeroticism dialled at 100%
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Tragically, I have to go. 😥 I’m looking forward to reading the rest of your comments later!
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Bye Lily!
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Too bad! We will be extra entertaining.
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Shashi holding Amitabh’s waist! So so good!
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Bless pillion riding for giving us so many memorable cinematic moments.
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Bye, Lily! You’re our “yaar” ( :
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❤ Bye!
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I LOVE this song too. All these songs are soo so good!
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Ok, with the name Basanti and a motorcycle song and the Amitabh drunkard scene I am convinced this was made with a tongue and cheek thought to Sholay, because of course!
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And Amjad Khan is the villian again!
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I have to say as the mother of brothers this bike/love/friendship forever song is pretty sweet. And I know I’m supposed to think they are lovers, but I’m stuck on the brotherly love. Except wasn’t he just killing innocent birdies?
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Just mechanical chirping birds, so that he can hear where they are.
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No no, a button that made a birdie sound
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I agree. The brotherly love between Amitabh and Shashi in this movie is so so good.
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Weird threesome!
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POSSIBLY MY FAVORITE MOMENT IN ANY FILM, EVER.
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These dancers are really professional
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Shashi battling blind and Amitabh just randomly dancing makes this song one of my favourites!
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Kirre, you were right, it is not a jumpsuit. Oh well.
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We can dream. . .
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Does Amitabh have the best male ‘friendship’ songs or what?
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Yes. Yes he does. They are SO great!
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This experience is inspiring me to rewatch “Hera Pheri.”
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Ok now it looks like they are getting married with all the namaskar and Nirupa greeting them
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I also love that Amitabh built a whole-ass temple in their neighborhood and now we get this touching scene set in. . . a completely different temple. . .
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Oh man, I miss two hero movies!
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We always have Tiger-Hrithik
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Yeah but will they be back? The only recent ones I can think of are SOTY and War.
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We rewatched “Gunday” recently and it scratched the itch a little, but the brothers spend too much time being at loggerheads : /
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Okay, I have to go! Sweet Shashitabh dreams to meee. Enjoy the beautiful handholding still to come!
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Bye, Popka! Sleep well!
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I hope you have the best Shashitabh dreams, Popka!
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Bye Popka! We shall enjoy it with you in mind!
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Do you think Amitabh had to help Shashi get into those leather pants?
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And did he keep his eyes open or closed while helping Shashi? Because sharam.
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This is why it’s important to keep receipts. Sometimes you need to return the orphan you bought to customer service decades later.
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If I ever own a house of my own, I WILL paint strange murals on all of the walls, of which a dragon will naturally be among the first.
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HA!
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Minor correction: /bellbottom/ Col. Sanders.
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I think I fell asleep during the bit that set up why all the bad guys hate all the good guys and vice versa. But I will just take it as a given and ignore it.
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It honestly doesn’t matter very much, except to know that Amjad changed identities after the prologue and nobody currently knows that he’s still the same guy except for Jeevan. Nirupa would, too, except that she splashed tea on his photo in the newspaper (figures).
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So Amitabh chased him all the way to London, figures
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I think they shot much of it in London. I’ve been noticing the backgrounds
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I saw the two-decker red busses and the old victorian brick houses. That clued me in.
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Albie Dog is liking my pants. Do you think he loves me or I spilled something?
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Did you accidently put peanut butter on them?
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I may have. I had peanut butter for a snack. Or, he Looooooooooooooves me/my pants.
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are these fancy pants that you plan to wear to the concert tonight?
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Yes, and now they are extra clean
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Oh, wow, that concert is tonight? How fun!
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Yes! That’s why WatchAlong is on Friday this week. So I can sleep in tomorrow morning.
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