Happy Saturday! I got my coffee, I’m in my PJs, I’ve fed the dog, let’s do this thing!
Satyamev Jayate 2
It’s on Prime, it’s big and dumb and fun, I can’t wait
At 7am Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will go from there1
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Call it Indian film and treat it seriously!
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You can’t unchocolate a kid! Last straw!!!
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YES! How atrocious!
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That’s a slow salat. He’s being generous ( ;
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Pray! Everyone pray together!
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Yeah, I wonder why the daughter doesn’t?
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I am crying. THIS is like seeing into an alternate universe of movies!
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ME TOO! I just said that!!! I have tears in my eyes!
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Remember in Sholay when the guy goes to pray at the Masjid for more sons to die for the village? I love that, and only a little bit think “why is there a whole Masjid for just the one Muslim?”
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Yay, another bop song! I remember this going viral.
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Cop John is really really sexy when he dances!
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Ooh, that black-and-gold outfit is so pretty!
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This song gives me Bole Chudiyan vibes between grumpy Shahrukh and happy Hrithik!
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I love how this movie is like the best of the 70s and 90s/2000s put together in terms of songs and plot
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Nice flying there, John. Didn’t even see the wires
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Thank heaven that was a sturdier table.
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It’s your daughter’s wedding, you don’t cheap out
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Thank goodness John has that doublesided tape to keep his hood on
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Thank goodness Other John got Lasik.
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BEST TWIST EVER!!! And very much like Hera Pheri, where Vinod Khanna was always on Amitabh’s side.
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Oh, now I want to rewatch that movie so badly! Such a great opening.
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NOOOOOOO! Brother Versus Cop Brother!!!
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You are about to be so happy in one minute!
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Oh wait, they are working together? What happened to police honesty?
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It’s brothers united fighting against injustice!
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Subhanallah, even!
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Exactly! Ram Lakshman, Bade Miyaan Chote Miyaan. Secularism at its finest!!
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Shouldn’t they have arranged for a fly over to collapse on him? What happened to the metaphors?
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Do you think they dedicated themselves to going to the gym from a young age because their Dad’s statue gave them an inferiority complex?
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Nope. They were born out of the womb with a sixpack.
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Mini pehelwans!
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Milap Zaveri, who also directed the film, wrote this and I want to give him a big hug and blessings on a long life for creating such a good, but also BRAVE story considering the current climate
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Yes yes yes!
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He also wrote Desi Boyz! So he has a deep understanding of John’s skills.
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Man has balls of steel! Also, I checked his Wikipedia and the guy has an interesting roster of director and writing credits like Marjaavaan and Ek Villain
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Very interesting.
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OMG timejump! This is indeed a very classical structure.
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Yea, the best kind of throback!
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Hi everyone!
Happy to see their mother’s conscious though!
I tried to watch the first hour last night and fell asleep at 35 min so I missed a big chunk.
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We are in 1 hour and 7 minuted in. It is a flashback
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Thank you and booo, too many Johns for my tiny brain!
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3 techically. One has glasses, other is a policeman, and other is the dad with the moustache
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Welcome! We are in a flashback now hence mom is conscious. Oh and the brothers are working together (not against each other). I think you are caught up.
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Thank you!
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Good to have had you, Lily!
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Also, I don’t know if you-all got it on Prime, but fooey on the people who delete interval title cards ) :<
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Couldn’t agree more!
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Mush John! This is a significant improvement, by my lights.
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He should keep it in real life. Really adds to his otherwise bare face
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You know, I didn’t think he could pull off a mustache, but he really does!
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Mush = instant adultness. It is known.
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Yep. Really adds a lot to the face even in real life, though some can look like a doofus or a 70s car salesman if cut wrong
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At one point I had a boyfriend who had always worn a beard and then shaved it. He suddenly looked like a baby. Freaked me out a little ( ;
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Oooo, this is supposed to be the 50th anniversary year! So Pardes is playing in cinemas. They could all go see Pardes on the big screen instead of fighting corruption.
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They really aren’t that identical as children, I have to say.
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Margaret – this flashback is making me think, do you think the picture next to Gandhi was Dadasaheb Palke??? It kind of looks like him.
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I’m sticking with Yash Chopra
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Margaret’s flag ticker starts smoking and explodes.
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YES!
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FLAG!
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I love love love that this movie claims the color orange again!!!!
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And in its original good intention!
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Exactly! How did critics not LOVE this movie???
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It isn’t a Ranbir film
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Too too true
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And this is why I hate him even more.
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Yea, he could never do a film like this and with this kind of a message, not unless it is about a man-child who is worshipped like a God
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Shelomit – Mini Pehlwan indeed!
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Someday they will graduate from three-wheelers to fullblown cars ( :
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Or airplanes!
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. . .is that foreshadowing? Oh dear.
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Okay, now I’m distracted. There are other countries that call it the “Motherland”, right?
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In Arabic we say “alwatan al-ummu” (basically the same thing).
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Huh? I don’t think I understand the question. But I am also not watching this with subtitles.
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The subs say the lyrics are “we are the only people to address our country as Mother”
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Ahh got it.
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Pardes, Dil Se, KKHH, Duplicate, so many movies they could be watching instead of doing this.
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Ugh, “Duplicate”? Not even for Juhi can I do that movie twice.
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And yet there are those who love it. And surely the kids would like it, because they are twins and there are two Shahrukhs! Go do that instead of protesting!
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Okay, you make a good point re: twinsomeness.
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I’ve lost track of what this protest is even in support of. Or against.
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Just for the good of the people, farmers etc. and against corruption I think
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It started with the kisans (farmers) are not able to sell their grains and are going hungry because of government corruption and laws. This got the entire country and other professions to join in the anticorruption protest.
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Either he’s gonna lift the cannon, or be shot by the cannon. But I feel like there has to be something about the cannon.
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. . . is the sardarji’s name “Sardara”?
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That would match the subtlety of the rest of the film.
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Wait, Sikh is dying of cancer? That came out of nowhere!
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Again, love the representation of Sikh farmers in the flashback.
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Any put upon farmer representation by this point I think is a positive if it shows up in a film now-a-days
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No! Don’t handshake! Not trusty!
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And I am back to having tears in my eyes!
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Everything happens very quickly and one right after another in the Past.
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And I am full on bawling! This movie is just sooo good!
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I think in Singh is Bling they have this thing about how it’s not a fair fight because there’s one of him, and not 125,000 of the others. Which is awesome. Truly, the Sikh’s have the best one liners. Followed by the Muslims. The Hindus aren’t even in the game.
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Using the turban to staunch her wound reminds me of the dargah chaddar in “Coolie.”
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YES!
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And again, the only thing that could have made this better if the songs from those movies were playing in the background!
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Yeah!!! Those musical callbacks happen in so many films–why not this one?
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This is such an Amar Akbar Anthony scene with the blood!
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Very much so.
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OMG, I’ve just caught up to you and it’s unbelievably on the nose.
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Hey! At least it an acknowledged homage and clear inspiration for this film that is VERY MUCH NEEDED
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I’m not in the least complaining!
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I know. Just excited so exclamation points come a little fast
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D ‘:
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We are all with you!
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Very impressive turban wrapping on an unconscious person. Sort of similar to the sari wrapping on poor Ma later.
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Yes. This entire scene had been full on crying.
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Okay, but do save a little of that blood, though.
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Blood blood blood blood blood. Really missing the Khoon song from AAA
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I am pausing for about 30 secs to a minute so that I am not so far ahead.
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