Happy Sunday!!!! I did sooooo many errands this morning.
Hopefully we start at noon! It depends how long the check out line is at Costco.
Anyway, all things going as planned, at noon Chicago time i will put up an “and play!” Comment and we will go from there.
dontcallitbollywood 
I love the ground-banging parallel between this sequence and the snake poison one.
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(And it’s the rhythmic ostinato from the “Dosti” song, of COURSE.)
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Ah! And here I was thinking, when did they have time to develop a secret code?
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Love the visual, not sure if there is any practical advantage to the whole Chicken Fight Escape
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Shhh, you’re thinking again.
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PEAK ROMANCE, Margaret!
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What kind of brand does Ram have on his lashes?? They are so pretty and luscious and even?
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Again, Ram LITERALLY rides on the shoulders of Hanuman. Also from Ramayan!!!
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Very thoughtful of the jailers to leave some unfinished brick structures lying around to be knocked over, a la Bob Christo in “Qurbani.”
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I think you can just say “a la Bob Christo” and still be accurate.
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Hey, old-timey cell phones! IN WWII, one of my grandfather’s job was to install those in Egypt and then Italy.
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I ADORE that the Butler/Assistant is in his little Butler outfit while everyone else is in camoflouge. At this point, why not?
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All the more symbolic when he gets run through with the spear.
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Which was easy, BECAUSE HIS CHEST IS A BIG WHITE TARGET!!!
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:05 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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I love that Rajamouli is as subtle about his influences as a bull in a porcelain shop
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Along the same lines as the Butler still in his suit, I also love that the general just hangs out by the fire wearing ten-million medals and gold braid bits.
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Again, I don’t know if Rajamouli did this on purpose but to have NTR Jr take refuge with a Muslim family as a Muslim and then HE be the one that uses the orange cloth from Ram’s temple …. (you know the how orange has been perverted recently), is AMAZING!!!!
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Plus, big scene of the family shared plate meal, Muslim family and lover caste NTR and uppercaste Ram.
Which is ALSO historically accurate, most of the “heroes” of the revolutionary times were anti-casteism etc.
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Yes yes yes!!!
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Tarak carrying a whole quarter of red meat [to his captive tigers, shhh] and Charan just going “LOL, you know how hungry my bro always is” to the uncle guy. . .
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I thought it was really lovely that even after the ruse is over he’s still calling that family “Abbajaan,” etc.
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Exactly. Bheem is all heart. This movie does such a nice job of showing the impulsive and loving side of him.
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Oh good. I didn’t know how to read that whole thing and was hoping it wasn’t gross.
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HA! I just realized when looking back at my comment you were replying to that I said “lover caste NTR” instead of “lower caste NTR”. Really, both work.
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:07 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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No, the whole wrapping Ram in orange flags and turning him into God Ram. Little voices in the back of my head asking if I’m allowed to just enjoy how outlandish and pretty it was.
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Weirdly, it’s historically accurate! The real life figure dressed as Ram as part of his branding and revolutionary stuffy stuff. Also, in real life, the Alia character died of fever before they could marry, and the real Ram changed his name to “Sitaram” from then on so they would always be one within him.
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 1:23 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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FIRE! Remember? FIRE! In case you forgot, here’s another reminder. FIRE!
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WATER!!! Remember? WATER!!!
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Has anyone seen Satyamva Jayate 2 with John Abraham in the triple role??? First one, it will remind you of old time Amitabh triple role movies where again laws of physics don’t apply. But it is someone who is making the most massey film that is trolling the current government of India and it is AMAZING!!! This just made me think of that.
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Oh, that is GREAT news! I found the SJ trailers were charmingly massey, but I was afraid they would be too patriotic to stomach.
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NOOOOO Satyameva Jayete is one GIANT trolling critique of the current stuff in India. I HIGHELY recommend it. It is good in a REALLY bad way and I LOVE LOVE John Abraham for being in it because he clearly had a say in it.
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Oh, I should clarify. I have NEVER seen Satyameva Jayate one. I have only seen the second one! That’s the only one I am referring to.
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Oh and I should add that SJ2 is very patriotic but it a 1970s Amitabh Bachchan movies way. The way DCIB community would like.
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Oh, cool! I skipped that movie in theaters because it looked like not my thing, but I shall not turn down a Movie Twin Recommendation(TM) ( :
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Seriously watch it. It is so bad and yet so so amazing if you know the basics of what is happening in India.
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Wait?? Those movies are trolling?? Please explain, because I have not seen them, because they look like movies they would like or am I wrong? I would 100% only watch them for Nora Fatehi though.
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I have never seen the first one. But watch the second one. It is one giant troll for everything that is happening in India. It is a ridiculous movie but it is so making fun of the current politics.
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Yay! Thank you for the recommendation! 😀
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I mean. Keep low expectations. It’s a ridiculous movie! Expect massy nonsense!
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I love massy nonesense! Nora Fatehi’s item songs are my ULTIMATE massy craving!
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Really? I have seen the trailer of SJ2 and was depressed for days because I thought it’s for real.
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Have you seen it? It is definitely pushing back at everything that’s happening right now. I know. I was surprised too. I saw it a while ago and thought I had mentioned it in a comment.
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Bye bye Butler.
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My girlfriend used to be a competitive archer and this whole scene had her almost hyperventilating with excitement.
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Oh good, for a second I was worried Ram wouldn’t have his horsey.
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Bye Bye Mrs. Meanie!
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BIG callback to “Do those white women bear children? Do they feel pain?”
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Also the dripping things. There are so many things that drip in this movie.
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OK but, did it not seem that they had basically an entire floor of contiguous rooms, each with just enough explosives to set the next room off? Even if you don’t foresee a flaming motorcycle crashing through the window, that seems like terrible fort design?
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I was thinking the same. And also didn’t they know they had all those explosives there? The flaming motorcycle is heading there and nobody is like: F*** it’s going right to our dynamite room!
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I kept thinking about my Dad’s office watching this. When I was growing up and he had a State job, his office was in “the Old Armory Building”. As in, the building that used to be the armory before they built the newer armory out in the national guard base outside of town. It was all heavy stone and weird little tunnely rooms and confusing stairs. Which makes sense for an Armory building! If the radicals had broken in through one place, they could have retreated. It was built in the late 1800s, in the middle of town, in preparation for race riots and similar civil unrest, so actually pretty similar time and situation to this! If someone had thrown a flaming motorcycle through the window of my Dad’s office, it would have just been locked off into his little suite of 5 rooms before it affected the rest of the building. And the large central rooms that were clearly intended for actual arms storage were surrounded by many small series of rooms. Side note: Terrible acoustics! We went to a couple concerts in the big central room and all the sound just disappated because it was like in the center of a cave.
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I love the image of the burning motorcycle, all alone in the sky with Mr. Meanie’s back. In this movie with 5,000 impossible things, it strikes me as a delightfully weird threat.
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Sita’s like: “My fiance is back! Sexier than ever!!”
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Wait, the blood on the crown, is that a visual metaphor? It’s too subtle! I don’t get it!!!!
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It’s neither water nor fire, so I can understand how you might get confused.
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And the “sun never sets of the British Empire” line beneath it, is that related? In some unclear way?
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That moment was something else.
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My son loved this moment, and in the evening when he was in his bed he was still talking about it.
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I was gonna tweak you for being wild anti-British radicals, and then I remembered I’m American. Suck it British Empire! We defeated you before ANYONE!!!!
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:10 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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So, Jenny is just always in ball gowns?
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Yay Jenny actually gets a happy ending instead of being like Elizabeth in Lagaan and getting shipped off heartbroken!!
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LOKI LIVES! I wish we got more stuff with her and Malli and back in the Gond village in general, but I literally screamed with delight when she showed back up the first time I saw the movie.
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My son was so happy and so relieved.
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I love this song soo much. Enough that I got Zee for one month so I could watch Alia speak Telugu and watch this song in its original language.
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I will totally watch this on einthusan when it has the Telugu dub! Nothing ultimately beats the original language
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The “Komuram Bheemudo” song is especially amazing in the Telugu version.
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I feel like my Telugu is coming back watching all these movies. I love it.
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Oh, very cool!
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Can anyone here identify all the Heroes of the Revolution? Because I can’t.
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I’ve got all of two, I think : P
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Thank goodness for Bhagat’s fedora. Unmistakable.
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Was wondering if there was any significance to who was introduced by which actor or if they were just taking turns.
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I have no freakin’ idea! Ajay Devgan is famous for playing Bhagat Singh, but I don’t think he even got that intro?
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:15 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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Love the Soviet style art work in the background. Accurate to the time period, and the socialist ideals of the historical people.
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Oh that was LOVELY!!!! And now that it is on Netflix, I can force literally everyone I know to watch it with me. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!
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I think I prefer the Telugu songs to Hindi, I’ve listened to them so much on YouTube
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Thank you Margaret, Kirre, Shelomit, and Lilly for this wonderful watchalong! This was one of my favorites! And Baby SRK got to watch parts of it too. You all are the best. Have a wonderful weekend!
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Very fun, guys : D I hope our chatter didn’t distract Kirre from the intricacies of the fire/water symbolism.
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Should we explain it to her? It’s complicated. She may have missed it.
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What a great film and watchalong! I would never have watched it otherwise ❤ thanks everyone!
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! Now you can watch Bahubali, and Eega, and Magadheera!
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I totally forgot to say this but oh man, this film reiterated my love for two hero bromancy films!!!! GIVE ME MORE OF THOSE!!!!
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Oh oh! Watch Our Flag Means Death!!!
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I missed the watch along, but my family voted for this over Jersey so I got to join after the fact. Thanks for the rec. Super fun and all the good stuff we’ve been missing – scale, big songs, big stars, big bonkers unselfconscious action sequences. (Even with all the animals, think the bridge sequence was my favorite, followed by that big crowd dance sequence and the budding bromance. Beauty.)
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And did your Cool Almost Teen find it worth watching? Can we claim that honor, of impressing a Cool Almost Teen?
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12yo voted for Jersey. He’s interested in cricket now because one of his friends went to Atlanta to play in a tournament. He reluctantly admits he enjoyed RRR though. I feel like he’s more likely to run into people in his peer group who’ve seen RRR than people who’ve seen Jersey! Plus songs.
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My son wasn’t happy when I told you I’m going to watch the movie and he must watch with me, but as soon as I said: It’s about British Colonialism, he was like: count me in! He has really odd interests for 11 years old boy.
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Ooo, there are so many movies you could watch with him!
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7 year old came in for the last half hour – needless to say he was entertained. And now I have to watch a half hour of Australian kids on motorbikes before I take all the boys to the skate park.
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Why Australian? Are they noticeably better?
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Netflix has a kids show about it, in Australia.
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