My goodness, yesterday was exhaaaaaauuuuusting. 8 hours cold physical labor interspersed with cold standing around and talking to relatives. Which is why I went to bed almost immediately after getting home and walking the dog (at 8pm! Which is exactly 12 hours after I walked the dog right before leaving home) and now am all bright and chipper early in the morning. And only slightly guilty for falling behind in my review schedule.
Dhanak
This is such a lovely light movie that is the perfect refreshing way to start a day. I promise it will make you smile!
dontcallitbollywood 
Pari gets to be happy for a second, so glad. She takes on too much. Related, my 3 year old nephew has started insisting on pushing his baby brother in his stroller because he is the Big Brother and it is his job.
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That is too cute!
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Oh, look at the little lady appliqued on Pari’s blanket.
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And the elephant on Chhotu’s pillow.
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Such a nice family and household!! Pari will be so happy when she marries into it.
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So I just went backpacking and my partner had a hard time with her fancy expensive new pad, which kept deflating through the night. ANd here they are, sleeping on a thin blanket thrown over concrete. My hips would hurt.
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Kids can do anything.
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Childhood helps. I slept on a concrete floor from eight till twelve and never knew to mind it. These days, it would slay me : P
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Throw a blanket over a bit of dune and I’ll sleep like a baby.
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In my head, this is what happens to these kids. Pari gets to marry into this happy loving family and brings Chottu along with her, and then she goes to nursing school or something with the support of her in laws.
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My heap is bigger than yours!
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And stick/sword fighting while pooping!
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The irrepressible impulse to touch part of an unresponsive engine, even though you KNOW it’s going to be hot.
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Ugh, little brother! You are gonna mess everything up.
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What a responsible little commuter!
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Ah yes, mausi Shah Rukh.
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They’re gonna miss the bus. This is making me so anxious.
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SO the INSPECTOR is the bad adult?! Oh the world turned over.
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Well, at least they have their tickets in hand for the next bus.
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So, the Holy Mother does close up magic? That’s fun.
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Everybody’s excited for this Rajput mustache.
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NOOOOOOOO! Kind guy was bad?! So sad.
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Why precisely is a blind boy a high-ticket item?
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He’s very charming.
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Fair!
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I’m puzzling over that as well. Maybe for begging scams?
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And he can sing too -though don’t know if kind evil guy knows that.
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This white guy is a little irritating, but I like that he’s ultimately kind just like almost everyone else.
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Backpacker needs a hat.
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OMG, I forgot about White Guy Song.
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Also his backpack is almost empty- no sleeping bag or pad? I’m assuming just clothes?
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I guess he’s counting on the world providing for him?
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Bob Ross-looking hippie dude isn’t going to traffic them, I hope.
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Nah, it’s a fake out
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So the backpacker is going to protect them right?
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They will be protected.
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No – wasn’t that bad guy? I’m too nervous to enjoy sweet kids now.
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Just gotta get through the next few minutes, and then it’s fine again.
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Unfortunately, I have also seen “Chennai Express.”
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I love Chennai Express, you are crazy.
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Wait, is nice uncle in the white car going to traffic them?
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The great thing about foreign chocolates is that they’re individually wrapped. Harder to drug!
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That’s a really intense bindi.
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Did he hide the kids? did they escape? AAAHHHH Children!!!
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And now they are all safe again! See, I told you it would be over in a second.
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*expressive camel noises*
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The gun she used looked like a stage prop. A beautiful old black powder creation.
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I like to imagine it is an ancient gun passed down through the gypsy camp and only used for very special occasions.
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These kids are going to come home with cavities.
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Pretty sure they stole a car, but they are riding away on a camel.
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Well, car needs gas, where are they gonna get that? Camals are easier.
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And you don’t want to get pulled over with a stolen car when you’re only going as far as teh bus stop.
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He’s not THAT fat.
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He does have a nice double chin.
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I guess so. I would still like a surer omen.
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That is a huge ruin.
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And the ruin looks like a much better place to live, vegetation and possible water wise, than their little hamlet.
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Oh it is someone from their village!!
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That’s why the wise woman told them to go with the crazy dude!
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Yes, fancy beard man from before! The one who told them about Jaisalmer in the first instance.
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Poor Shamsher, his affections so soon abandoned!
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They are going on about how fat and strange he is.
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“Even in bad times we sing songs of joy” – I think this is the hook that has caught me in Indian movies. It is so true.
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Finally, SRK! (SPOILERS: it’s an immitator)
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Hum, did Phoolan go on ahead of beard guy for some reason?
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To pick up his kids?
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Well, they had left together from the field. I guess maybe she would have continued on foot after the bike broke down.
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I got confused, I don’t know who Phoolan is.
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Beard guy’s sweetheart, who had been working in the same field with Pari.
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Uncle!!!!
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Chaacha!
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People are paying him to take a picture of them with a picture of SRK?!
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And the mug! The mug he drank from!
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Okay, Genevieve, it’s gonna get scary for a little bit, but then it will be okay again
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So they are just randomly walking around the desert looking for SRK?
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And it all works out fine! After a scary bit.
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“I’ve never said sorry becuase nothing is ever my fault” Little brothers are the WORST.
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Highly inopportune time to play tug-of-boy.
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Little Brothers!
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Well, this doesn’t look good.
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And now it’s all fine again!
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Essentially this same thing happened to my grandmother and great-aunt when they were kids. Unfortunately they didn’t have anything more exciting to walk to than a sandhill crane migration.
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And then Shahrukh Khan showed up and saved them?
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Just my great-great uncle, I’m afraid.
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PLEASE tell me he had a big mustache, or the masses will be sorely disappointed.
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Of course he did! He always pleases his fans.
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