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!
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You’ll be shocked, but I only just now realized this is the same movie as One 2 Ka 4. Partly because her sweet but sexy understanding talk with Aamir is the same vibe as her talks with Shahrukh.
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Aww! Aamir pretending he doesn’t know how to fly a kite and letting Vicky teach him.
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I like this song a lot but I also want to go, “Kids, cover your ears!”
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They are already acting like a husband and wife (+family)! And the (imagined) kiss!! So much cute chemistry between these two!
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So I just looked up the American original to check my memory, and it is backstage drama worthy of the Indian film industry! Betsy Drake wrote the story for her husband Cary Grant, but then before they went into production he had an affair with Sophia Loren and their marriage fell apart. Sophia was cast as his heroine, but by the time they started filming Sophia had moved on already and he was trying to win her back. So messy!
Anyway, what I was trying to remember is if there was Death and Trauma in the original, and there was. Cary Grant was the estranged father of 3 kids, his wife died and he came home to take care of them. So the kids are all messed up and clinging to New Fun Person Sophia, but Cary Grant is coming from a different place than Aamir, it’s not that he is too young to be a father figure, it’s that he has been this distant figure and now has to spend real time with them and build a connection.
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Huh. I know I’ve seen it, but it’s been years and years and it clearly didn’t make much of an impression on me.
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My sister and I were Cary Grant Megafans and watched all his movies as kids, that’s when I saw it last. It’s fine, but definitely not one of his best. Still the “wacky runaway hired as nanny/housekeeper for single Dad” plot is pretty original.
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And I’m certainly grateful to it for giving me “Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke”!
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Oh, I love this pantomimed qawwali bit.
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I love love love the romance in this movie. It is one of teenage dreams. From Aamir being a sweet, serious boy, hard worker, and takes care of kids. Juhi being adorable, and fun, perceptive, and just wonderfully emotionally intelligent. They bring out the BEST in each other.
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And they have fun together! It’s all singing and laughing and happiness, minimal angst
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Those gray streaks on the businessman’s hair. YIKES
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Yeah, especially with that widest one nearly centered, Dalip comes off looking like a literal skunk.
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One of my favorite Indian Englishisms: “mention not.”
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Now that his shirt is untucked, it’s a rectangle
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Just had a thought, modern day gender flipped version, wouldn’t it be a great Ranveer-Dips movie? Or Alia-Varun? Any couple where the woman seems more mature and sensitive and the dude more fun and playful.
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Ooh, Ranveer and Deepika could play that dynamic very well, I think.
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And Dips would be so cute and sympathetic trying to wrangle her sister’s wild kids and figure out the family business.
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I love the idea of a modern day take on this but but not sure I would like it gender flipped. What I love about this movie is that it is the normal take on the woman being the responsible one that takes care of the children, and struggling with work etc. I like that the dude is the overly serious one who is taking care of the kids and the household and Juhi is the fun and carefree one who continues to be that way. Juhi doesn’t change. Aamir learns to lighten up more. I am not sure if the genders were flipped, I would feel the same way about the movie.
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**What I love about this movie is that it is NOT the normal take on the woman being the responsible one that takes care of the children, and struggling with work etc.
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It’s obviously more gonzo, but this is the same aspect I find very charming in the second half of “Aa Gale Lag Jaa.”
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Yes! I can totally see that! Probably why I have such a soft spot for that movie despite some really BONKERS and problematic elements.
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I was thinking of emphasizing other gendered aspects. Like, our heroine can be great at her job and at a loss with the kids. And the hero can be a Magic Pixie Dream Boy who teaches her to be playful and bond with the kids and do the Emotional Labor. And the happy ending is him being a house husband forever and her being able to work without worrying about the kids.
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Ooh fun! That could be interesting.
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NOOOO, marrying Juhi would be a million times better for the kids, you fool!
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But he is going to LOSE THE FACTORY!!!! Their inheritance!!!!
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Kids prefer love to inheritance!!!!
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He’s still got that harmonium beggar nightmare running through his brain.
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Surprised it wasn’t pushed out of his brain by Mad Maya breaking into his room to grope him!
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Competing nightmares O.O
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Surely this sweater vest will safely contain my feelings!
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How can there be almost an hour left? This feels like the final conflict of the movie
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Its the 90s – there’s plot upon plot until its resolved
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Hmmm, although I expect Maya would have a lot to complain of with those kids, boredom doesn’t seem likely.
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Love the tiny red velvet upholstered chairs
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This movie is gonna convince me to do my hair in 2 French braids tomorrow, and I won’t look as cute as Juhi
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Who among us does??? Sigh.
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I am jealous that you can french braid your hair.
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Aamir is having some deeeeep feelings
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Poor Juhi all in black
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It’s still a very doll-like dress (albeit for a pretty solemn doll!), but it also seems to me like it might be meant to look like a maid’s dress.
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Pretty sure I had Juhi’s exact dress when I was 5
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Juhi is the only one who call pull off looking like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz and still look fashionable and it look good on her
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Problem kya hai? is another great Hinglish phrase
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I find myself saying “same to same” in daily life, to the confusion of many around me.
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I use ‘same to same’ too!
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Same to same!
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Kunal Khemu is fantastic in this movie.
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My sister and I have definitely gone around saying “eckdo minute eckdo minute” and “meri pretttty betti” randomly around the house a lot.
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Playful background music at the end of that scene with Juhi and the kids, prefiguring the redemptive power of shenanigans!
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And the reason this plot will keep chugging along for another hour!
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I quite like Maya’s get-up here.
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Juhi changed clothes! Now she is wearing an adult sari instead of girlish dresses
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But it’s a costume!
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Again, brilliant choice. She wears the adult sari as a costume, because her dad makes her, or in her fantasies… never by choice to show that she is an adult.
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She has a sari also during her brief fantasy scene in the rain song (the part where they’re playing with the sparkler, etc.). But if I recall correctly, the sari turn doesn’t happen “for real” until the leadup to “Ghoongat Ki Aad Se.”
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And her fantasy sari had puffed sleeves, so it wasn’t totally different
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I just added my analysis to this in the comment above.
“Again, brilliant choice. She wears the adult sari as a costume, because her dad makes her, or in her fantasies… never by choice to show that she is an adult.”
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Pretty sure Aamir would have had to start having kids when he was 12 to have a kid as old as Vickey.
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I think Junaid might have been 6 or 7 this year, so at least Sunny is possible!
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Go Aamir!!! Way to stick up for Juhi!!!
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Yes! Moral fiber! And he’s been very conflict-avoidant previously, so it can’t have been easy.
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AAMIR!! YOU AND YOUR PRACTICAL PUBLIC DECLARATION OF LOVE!!
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Don’t waste food! You are about to lose your factory!!!!
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Party pooper ( ; We’re aiming for something like equilibrium between responsibility and playfulness, I think. (Had it been my choice, I would have tried to get Maya and Dalip out onto the porch first, though, for ease of cleaning.)
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Go Juhi! Kissing Aamir first!
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And the combo pigtail-face-hiding, squealing, jiving!
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Perfect young-ish adult romance!!!
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Yay, I love this song! It runs through my head all the time.
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Me too! It is just so perfect!
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I remember thinking Aamir looked sooo good in this white shirt and vest!
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IT just feels like a little doll’s outfit to me
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I mean you are an adult. That makes sense. These were the musings or a hormonal teenage girl!
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Marionettes!
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I thought this was such a romantic song!
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I love the flipped gender roles here again! Usually, it’s the poor girl who falls in love with a guy who ends up being rich and comes to the rescue. But here, Aamir is poor, falls for Juhi, and she happens to be rich and wants to fix his problems for him! And best part, in the end, they end up fixing the problem together! Equal partners!
This is one of the best movie EVER!
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Albie Dog is bugging me too much, taking him on quick walk, y’all have to catch me up when I get back. Tell me if Juhi ever wears NOT puffed sleeves in the next 10 min
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Setting the timer ( ;
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You know the meme with the lady with math happening over her face? That’s Aamir in the midst of this Tamil-heavy reunion.
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Aamir turns down the check, explains that he loves Juhi, and then tells Juhi that he is waiting for her but let’s Juhi handle her own dad.
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So good! Support the woman but know that she is capable of handling her problems.
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This scene when Aamir is vulnerable and the women come to his rescue makes me tear up every time!!!
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It strikes me as very old-fashioned in a way–the kind of idealization of workplace solidarity that you more often see in midcentury films.
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Yes! And I give it to all the actors. It just feels so vulnerable, and real, and everyone has tears in their eyes. It is just an earnest, heartfelt scene. Nothing especially special about the scene yet it is so memorable to me because of the emotions.
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It could totally happen in Japan, I think? They’re big on company loyalty.
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We should thank Mishra ji, then ( ;
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He said it couldn’t happen in Japan, though!
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Earring girl’s name is Roshni : )
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Urgh, Maya is so annoying!
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Back! Albie Pooped, what did we miss?
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Well, Juhi wore two dresses with puffed sleeves, as well as her current jumper-type situation over a non-puffy button-up. Also, the shirts have been stolen.
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Nooooo! Stolen shirts!!!!
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My favorite scene in the movie. Aamir is all vulnerable and sad and broke and the women come to his rescue.
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I remember! Now, picture it with Dips at machine works and all the macho tough guys who’ve been disrespecting her suddenly feel bad and call her “Memsahib”.
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Is a bright pink dress the best outfit when stealing a truck?
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Well, last she had known, she was making tea and snacks for the seamstresses, not stealing back a truck.
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Tiny, seriously, control freak Aamir is definitely a little bit hot!
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If that’s your kink, go watch Sarfarosh after this.
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Did you seriously think I have never seen Sarfarosh before? I LOVE that movie. Plus, Sonali Bendre is one of my all time favorites!
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Of course you have seen it! Just saying, if you want to keep the vibe going, rewatch it after this.
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HA! good point!
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The higher the house/factory are valued, the more time they have to spare, thank goodness.
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I have no faith in aamir’s ability to win a fight in this movie, or any other movie except Ghulam.
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Wait, I thought it was Juhi who knew karate?!
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TWIST!
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This same thing happened to my dad about four years ago, by the way. He was rolling down the highway, when he suddenly noticed his right front wheel rolling AHEAD of the car, having broken completely off the axle.
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That sounds terrifying. Hope he was okay.
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He was in a rear-wheel-drive car, fortunately, so he was able to stop without a problem. He told me the main thing was that the situation seemed to surreal to actually be happening, so it took him a while to react!
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Phew! Glad he was okay and everything was fine. And yes, I assume it is very surreal.
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😮 Terrifying!
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Shelomit – the kids listened to you. They took the food fight outside!
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That’s maturity for you!
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