Sunday Watchalong: RRR! Noon Chicago Time!

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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.

437 thoughts on “Sunday Watchalong: RRR! Noon Chicago Time!”

  7. I still think it would have been better narratively for Charan to have been For Real a colluder until interval, but I like the whole multiple-generations-of-sepoys thing.

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  9. And again, I shall hit the drumbeat of historically accurate inaccuracies! The British wouldn’t have, like, burned down an orphanage while laughing evily. But when there were women and children within a rebel camp, they ABSOLUTELY killed them.

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  12. And here is where I struggle with this movie and completely agree with your Shelomit. The cameos of men are so much more thoughtfully written giving them so much to work with than the cameos of women.

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  14. It’s the same thing I struggle with with Aaron Sorkin stuff, including West Wing. So much importance is giving to the father-son relationship. And the women are rarely well rounded despite being amazing actors. UGH.

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    • I like that in this day of anti-Muslim films and rhetoric, everyone can come together in a common hatred of the British / White people.

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  18. Okay, now that I ranted on Rajamouli, I am going back to giving him credit. I love love love how he continues to show Ram (the character and the legend from Ramayana) as flawed. We got a back story. We got that he achieved his mission. And yet, HE WAS WRONG!

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    • Ram from Ramayan is constantly depicted as the perfect human. And he wasn’t. He was deeply deeply flawed. I love love love this portrayal of Ram.

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      • You’re making me much more curious about the Ramayana. I feel like I’ve come around to some basic level of Mahabharata-literacy because the narrative plays into so many movies, whereas the Ramayana always seemed less interesting/less relevant from an outside perspective.

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        • I think this is one of the only unique perspectives I have seen on it. And I give Rajamouli credit for it. But I may be the only that thinks of it this way. I know in Margaret’s review she rightly brought up the class differences and saw it differently than I did.

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          • Yeah, the first time I watched it it gave me creepy savarna-gaze vibes but with repetition I’ve grown a lot more comfortable with it. I do think the film does wrong by Tarak’s character in some ways, but it’s not hard to read “against the grain” and see the characters as more equal.

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          • Just putting in an argument for the Devdutt Patianaik Sityana and/or the “Sita Sings the Blues” version as the perfect introduction to the more complex questions of the story.

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          • Oh, technically I’ve seen “Sita Sings the Blues” but not in years and years. Perhaps time to do some reading and then revisit.

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          • Ooooo! And she finally finished her follow up, which is about her Jewish heritage/the Patriarchy/Passover. You should double bill it!

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          • Do you know Siona Benjamin (the visual artist)? She does a lot of cool Jewish mythos stuff. They recently had an exhibition of her pieces at a shul I used to belong to.

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          • I forget which Jewish-Indian group she belongs to, but seeing her stuff really makes me wish Karaites/Egyptian Jews had something similar in the cultural conversation, feeling really intensively Jewish without having to also be Ashkenazi.

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  26. I imagine even folks who are watching this for the first time will have already have heard the soundtrack, but when I realized this was the same melody as Malli’s little folksong in the theater I FREAKED OUT.

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  31. By the way, just finished the new season of Bosch, which is still SO GOOD. And the repeated motto of the show is “everyone counts, or no one counts”. A great motto for police work, freedom fighting, and scriptwriting. Which this movie also follows on, why should Malli be ignored for sake of “more important” fights.

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    • EXACTLY!!!! Malli’s fight is just as important. Also, fighting for ONE human NOW is as important as securing weapons that can possibly help many people in the future.

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    • I just want to point out how ANNOYING it is that Ram talks to the governor in Hindi (or Telugu as the orginal was) and not the English he usually used with the British. I mean I know the movie with it’s animals and such isn’t a bastion of realism, but still I found it disconcerting.

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  34. OMG ladies, I had so many thoughts about this movie and I am going to confess that I was really apprehensive to share my thoughts on Ram from Ramayan because it can be a very very divisive topic. So thank you for giving me this forum to share my thoughts. YOU ARE AWESOME!

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  37. Rajamouli absolutely does the same thing with weapons here that he does in B1 and B2. Ram uses guns and other manufactored weapons, while Bheem uses tree limbs and similar. Until the end when it starts to blur.

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      • The passage that wasn’t in Hindi. (Sanskrit, maybe???) It was similar to the Pirkei Avot saying that “You are not required to complete the work, yet neither are you permitted to set it aside.” I can skim back and get the actual subtitle text later if liked.

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  45. Okay, say that this is a hide out that is known to be safe for revolutionaries. And Sita is a revolutionary traveling to the city. And NTR and the gang have been hiding in the city for months. So it is actually logical for them to bump into each other, and I shouldn’t worry about the realism. Right?

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  46. There are some weird moments where the English dialogue feels half-baked, and “You thought you could take on us?” is one. It seems like one of the Anglophone cast members ought to have pointed out that “take us on” was more idiomatic before it actually got committed to film.

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