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 
These two are so adorable!! This won’t end well…
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Kind of impressed that Tarak knows who she’s talking about even though she pronounces her name “Mally.”
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Nice lady and all that, but does she really not think through the whole “who is this little girl who is locked up in our house?” question?
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For such an epic movie I guess it makes sense to cut costs in the costuming department for the white people
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Ram’s room is my room, literally with as many books
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Tarak is the kind of friend I have: comes to the house unannounced, immediately serves himself dinner.
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JR NTR is as cute as a Teddy Bear being in love and all
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He is an exceptionally teddy bear-faced and -shaped man.
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I just want to hug him
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Glow-up time!
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Aaaaaah!! Dance Battle place!
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Spoilers: I am hyping Baby SRK for an epic song and dance!
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How does he KNOW he is the best dancer around??? Do they have weekly contests or something? And is this a garden party or an evening party and why are the men’s clothes so good and the woman’s so bad?
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Because men wear suits, the easiest thing to get, while women’s historical costuming is complicated
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Jenny’s skirt is slightly too long, she’s gonna trip.
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They have to have super-full skirts for the full-skirt-flapping that occurs later.
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What Kirre feels about the gora costuming, I feel about the pre-“Naatu Naatu” stuff in this scene. The music and dance styles are so exorbitantly wrong for 1920. Hurts my musicologist brain ) :
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See, this is why people shouldn’t become experts in stuff…nothing here bothers me at all. 😀
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LMAO, fortunately my actual musicological specialty is weird enough that there are exactly three (3) films that have bothered me in my area of expertise.
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I guess going to Britain to get some BBC storage stuff is too much to ask costume wise
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Ignoring all the historical inaccuracy, I love that the African American (I assume) jazz band performers bond together with their fellow POC to defeat the White Idiots.
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And that the camera cuts to him right after the insufferable white dude says “swing!” Like nah, dude. Time to teach you a lesson.
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YES! POC people UNITE!
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 10:39 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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My body is already moving to the beat! So catchy!
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Baby SRK started eating his feet as soon as the dance started. I think it’s his way of dancing.
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Love it when the white guys start dancing with these looks of utter resentment on their face. “I’m being made to do this?!”
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*think of the paycheck* in their minds
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The actress playing Jenny is very pretty
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Yes. She is so beautiful.
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Explained to the children that evil white ladies are always blonde. Brown haired white ladies can swing either way. Redheads are always good.
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Counterpoint that I was very excited about as a child: Princesses in fairy tales are always blue eyed blondes, like ME!
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 10:41 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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I love this explanation! 😁
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I love the dancing down everyone else! It’s so silly and over the top! Also, anyone else thinking of the barn raising dance in Seven Brothers?
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OMG yes.
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RAM, is the best Bro and Wingman
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I feel like he could provide a little more translation, but w/e.
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Ah, yes, I was just waiting for a friend. . . while walking somewhere with this other friend on my back. . .
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In honor of the animals in this movie, Baby SRK has gone back to smacking the monkey and pulling the elephant off his Jumparoo. He says he’s still a baby and only has a limited attention span.
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Jenny’s pretty, but kind of dumb. Doesn’t question the young girl locked up, or the security measures. Did she never bother stealing a newspaper to read or something?
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Rich white woman bubble, also no doubt sheltered
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Ugh, Motorcycle Man : P Seems like his girlfriend has dumped him.
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Jenny is super horny
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It’s teddy bear JR NTR!!! Of course she is!
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Jenny Learn Any Amount of Hindi challenge
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Shelomit – I thought since I have you here, I should mention this. Since you are back (kind of until you have to go back) and going through a rough time, you should totally guilt Margaret into a watchalong of your choice next! And since you are my movie twin, I know I’ll love the movie.
We love you Margaret! 😀
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Oh ho! Collusion! I’d be into it ( ;
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Transparent collusion! 😀
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Hey! I gave you a “cheer up it’s Shashi” post! You already got something! But yes, I am a sucker and you can pick the watchalong next week if you want.
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: D
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I’m intrigued by the implied structure of this building. All of those hallways seem like enclosed breezeways (?), as though it’s a building that has had a whole other building then built AROUND it. It’s weird, but it’s actually very consistent throughout the movie.
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So sad when she learns she can’t go home right away </3 And just sucks it up and sits down. Poor little girl!
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ALIA!!!
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I feel like Alia is kind of wasted in this film, but that transition is very cool.
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They apparently cut most of her stuff and there was a mild controversy about it if memory serves
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I think she’s so smart though. She did a small role in Kapoor and Sons too. She knows how to pick directors and actors. And it shows that she is willing to take smaller roles if its with the right person.
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Oh, I don’t have any argument with her performance–I just think it’s a weakness of the script that the female leads kind of filter in and out of it unevenly, esp. after interval.
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Yes. Completely agree. They could have done a lot more with her.
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Was thinking the same thing. Maybe it’s cynical but I feel like she’s showing top notch survival skills in this very treacherous era.
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Agreed. It is treacherous, especially for women and she’s being very strategic. Kareena was similarly strategic with her career and I think that’s why she’s still so sought after 20 years later and gets to have her choice of roles.
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TBF I’ve been around a lot of snakes and tapping at them seems like something that would tend to drive them away–but I love the unhingedness of the yeet-a-snake-at-it method.
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YEET A SNAKE!!! LOVE IT!
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I was thinking that the tapping is a sure way to get the snake to go away! Scritching like a rodent would have worked better.
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I feel like this section is the Peak Romance part. All the deathbed vows and stuff. But maybe the ending with mutual rescues is Peak Romance? I guess it depends on if you prefer angst and action, or sorrow and sweetness.
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The running around with Ram on his shoulders as they do flips and vault over walls and defeat bad guys, all with Bheem’s head sandwiched between Ram’s muscular man thighs. That’s my vote anyway.
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It does kind of have a Bahu and Devasena in B2 vibe to it.
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 10:46 PM dontcallitbollywood < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:
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Just let him the eff go, Charan! Jeez.
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Ram Charan really is the Hrithik of the Telugu industry in terms of sheer beauty
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And they whump him REALLY hard in this movie, should you enjoy your fruit a little bruised.
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I was gonna say the same thing, but about the way he moves like a dancer even when he isn’t dancing. So precise.
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They’re both great dancers, tbh. I always forget how well Tarak can dance until it’s happening.
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This is just so romantic!!! Saving the one you love!
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“I have your friendship!” But he said “brother”, so, you know, No Homo.
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Oh, it is by no means WAR levels of homoerotic chemistry! But I enjoy it anyway as the Bromance it was meant to be
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Ajay is soooooooooooooooooooooo good at bringing the depth and weight in just little bitty bits of performances.
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THE AGONY of this scene is just killing me!!!
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“Let’s go over and see aunt Catherine!” “LMAO no.”
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BTW, all the food scenes in here had me ordering biryani.
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I made popcorn! Because it’s that kind of movie.
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I ordered snacks before the movie so I am content for all three hours
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You are a smart smart person!
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Still haven’t gone grocery-shopping since getting back, so my options are very limited ) :
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Delivery services are amazing at a time like this!
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Small town, we don’t really have any options in that regard : P
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Oh no. I am so sorry. My parents still live in the VERY small town in Massachusetts that I grew up in and I was shocked to see that they now have UberEats and DoorDash. I am sorry it hasn’t reached you yet.
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LOL, I’ll survive! I’m pretty close to Worcester so most places only deliver inside the city and don’t go to the smaller towns.
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I realized I didn’t buy the one thing I really needed while out on my ten million errands (a curtain rod), so now I am looking to see if I can buy one online and pay for delivery, even though that is crazy.
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Intrigued, as ever, by the choice of “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball.”
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The animals scene is SOOO EPIC!!
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Jenny looks like Belle from Beauty and the Beast with that yellow dress (that is a thousand times better than the one in the 2017 remake)
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How is this plan POSSIBLY better than just breaking her out one day when she is alone in her cell??? This plan is INSANE!!!!
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It’s Rajamouli for goodness sakes! If it can be done insanely and epicly then why do it at all!!
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This whole scene feels like it should be the end of the movie – and yet I can tell that timewise it is just the middle.
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The scene where NTR JR puts Jenny in the car. He does care for her! I really love this scene. It shows Bheem’s character. Does that make sense?
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Yes, really does
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Yes! He’s so sweeeeeeeeeet
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And again, it goes back to the character of Bheem (the character from Mahabharat). I also love the thought of Rajamouli bringing two epic real life heroes who never met but also two religious legends who never met.
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Ugh, I’m an idiot! I hadn’t even thought of Mahabharat Bheem!
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Yes. Sorry. I should have clarified. That’s why I kept calling NTR Jr Bheem when I was referring to the character from Mahabharat.
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I love that the solution for Jenny being in danger is to put her in a car, because animals don’t have hands and can’t open doors.
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Ugh, Motorcycle Man is the worst.
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Fire and water! Fire and Water! Do you get the metaphor yet? Do you? Do you?
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Whaaaaaaaaat? LOL. It’s whatever is on top of supertext. Supersupertext?
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Was it obvious or something???
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KISSSS KISSSSS
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The background music in this scene is weirdly reminiscent of the Montagues and Capulets theme from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
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Yes! Dance of the Knights, one of the best ballet dance songs ever!
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I just re-read your comment…oops! Saw Prokofiev and R and J
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Same to same : ) I’ve played it and it’s an EXHAUSTING viola part despite being simple. . . martellato upon martellato for all those “stomps” in the procession.
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Yea, I can imagine, and keeping the same tone throughout without loosing strength in the sound
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I love that the laws of physics have no importance in this movie.
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Have they ever been in a Rajamouli movie??? I think it is one of his trademarks by this point
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Bwhahaha yupp.
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This is so tragic on four fronts!! Bheem and Ram and Jenny and the little girl
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