Happy Sunday! We are watching this perfectly pleasant 90s movie that, somehow, is a beloved favorite of many of you. But, WHY??? I understand liking it, I like it myself, but a favorite? Oh well, I live to serve, so y’all get to have a nice watchalong with me.
Hum Hain Rahe Pyar Ke is all over the place, on einthusan and for rent on youtube and maybe for free with no subs on youtube too. Seems like it’s mostly the same length in all those places too, so it won’t matter much which you choose. Pick one and join us!

At 12:30pm Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will go from there!
Here!
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A conflict with a neighbor and our building of a tree house means I’m now joining in and reading all your comments a day late. So belatedly here too!
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Ahhh so excited to watch this movie and celebrate Shelomit!
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and PLAY!
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The opening is very cute
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I adore the songs in this.
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Well, it’s based on no real person living or dead, but it is a ripoff of the Hollywood film Houseboat without any royalties paid. Oh well, Hollywood has enough money.
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Pretty sure most hindi movies before 2005 qualify as that.
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Here!
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HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY!!!!
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Thank you!!! And thanks for putting this together c:
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yay!!!
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Happy late birthday!!
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Aamir’s shirt!!! What was he thinking?
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Well, he could spill ketchup on it with impunity.
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Very good point. It’s a good shirt to wear with kids who love food fights!
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Honestly, anybody in a ’90s movie should be mentally and sartorially prepared to get dirty.
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And yet, he still looks adorable!
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He does!
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The advocate’s name is Homi Wadia ( ;
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Here 🙂 hope nothing too crucial has happened in the first 3 mins! 😀
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Just opening credits. Glad you’re here!
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Couldn’t miss your birthday watchalong!
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Aamir is in charge of taking care of his dead sister’s kids.
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Small Indian children dressed us American Indians-commentary on colonialism? Or just random? It is an Aamir movie….
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This was directed by Mahesh Bhatt and produced by Aamir’s dad. For once, I don’t think Aamir had much say in anything.
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Baby Kunal Khemu!!
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Aamir! Your pants! So high!
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Wait, is that Aamir’s chest hair? It’s like an undershirt!
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Chest hair.
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Love the South Indian classical dance!
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Juhi is so cute!
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She is so adorable!
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Awww, Juhi thoroughly enjoying her walkman!
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I love love love Juhi in this movie.
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Veeru Krishnan – Kathak guru to many many stars!
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Little Kids, cannot appreciate good performance art
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I like the classical musicians drinking Thums up
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As a kid, I was in a big crafts store (Hobby Lobby? Michael’s?) and heard my name over the PA. I thought I was being called, so I reported to whichever department they mentioned. Turned out they simply had an employee with the same first name as me and I was separating myself from my parents rather than returning myself to them!
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I know karate 😀 go Juhi!
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Wooo, Maya! Who I am pretty sure has graduated into playing humorous Auntie roles?
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Navneet Nishan. She had that kind of role in “Qarib Qarib Single” (most recently that I can remember).
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Oh oh! Imdb says she was the masculine servant in Raja Hindustani
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I love watching Aamir braiding the little girl’s hair even if he is so grumpy!
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Perhaps this is merely an aspect of Japanese business culture with which I’m unacquainted, but it always seems to me as though Mishra ji has just finished running a footrace the way he’s always clutching his side.
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I love that instead of men oogling the women, its women oogling the men. Mahesh Bhatt is awesome!
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Poor Aamir just can’t escape it in this movie!
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I love the term “kaam chor” for somebody avoiding doing their job.
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Nobody enforces a contract quite so strictly as a child, LOL.
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OMG! Yes! This is a good lesson for me to learn!
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This creepy guy is such a South Indian (my guess is on either Tamilian or Malayali) stereotype
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Such a great dress on Juhi! More appropriate for either a bridesmaid of a 5 year old girl, and yet somehow she makes it work.
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Juhi asserting her will! She will marry who she wants to! Again, I give full credit to Mahesh Bhatt.
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Whether it is this movie or Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin, Mahesh Bhatt does such a wonderful job taking an American movie and making it resonate with an Indian audience while highlighting the feminist message!
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Why couldn’t he find out today what happened to his order? What was Aamir doing all day at the factory?
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I love her blind toss of the pen she’s been using to write her escape note. Such great physical comedy from Juhi throughout this movie!
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I know!!! It’s amazing!
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I LOVE this scene soo much! Juhi and the kids have magical chemistry! I am smiling so much right now!
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Ohhh, I had forgotten that we first hear that song theme in the background, as fair music. (Although it may also have appeared in the synthy title music and I forgot to note it.)
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Kudhi (or anybody whose Hindi exceeds mine, which is probably everybody): is “chor ke ghar chor” a common turn of phrase? I know it from the Randhir movie of that name and from this one joke.
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It is. “Chor ke ghar chor” or “Chor ke ghar mein chor” both mean thief on a thief’s house and it is very common!
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It’s used a lot in movies where one person is a good natured con artist. Another phrase is “420” in hindi.
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Thank you, thank you!
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The upcoming song is on the Baby’s Bollywood play list and he loves it! Plus, it teaches him about cities in India.
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Juhi’s comedic expressions are just so priceless XD
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Her super jerky, awkward “dance of last resort” thing in this song kind of reminds me of how Neetu starts dancing in vaguely similar circumstances in “Humne Tumko Dekha.”
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I would estimate that I do the little arm-swinging bit from the chorus and chant “hum hain rahi pyar ke” to myself an average of twice a week.
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ME TOO!!!
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Y’all are crazy
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Well, how do you pass time in the kitchen?
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I sing 1940s American classics, like a normal person
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Harrumph : /
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Juhi’s physical comedy in this movie is amazing!
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Anytime three children agree to something, they are up to no good!
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I love watching Juhi’s facial expressions in this scene where Aamir is undressing.
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They still haven’t learned their lesson from. . . well, this afternoon, I think, that good behavior on their parts is necessarily suspicious!
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So suspicious! Silly Aamir.
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Mahesh Bhatt serving the women once more with men eye candy
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Can’t claim it’s 100% to my taste in this instance, but I sure appreciate the effort ( ;
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Yea, Aamir is more cute than hot, especially with that fluffy 90s hair
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Agreed. He was adorable not necessarily hot but still a really good crush to have as a teenage girl!
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Yea, he is the ‘safe’ one, then there is Salman in the middle, then maybe Saif as a teenage crush and then Shahrukh as jus the peak of sexual awakening in the 90s – just a theory
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I think his kiddishness plays very well in this movie–trying so hard to be the adult in this unexpected situation but still being obviously underprepared.
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You are exactly right!!! As Margaret mentioned, he’s basically 2 years older and a foot taller than the kids. So its fun to see a baby trying to be an adult.
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I think snarky dark Aamir is the only hot Aamir (Dhoom 3, Lagaan, DCH, etc.)
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Agreed, he hit his peak only in the 2000s
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Aww Aamir is a nice householder
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How is Aamir not catching on that these kids are up to no good?
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He’s only 2 years older than them and 1 foot taller! At least, that’s what it looks like
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Augh! Get this household a soup funnel!
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Oh my god. She’s just the best.
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Juhi’s tiny frustrations in Tamil are cute
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