Happy Sunday! RSVPs were low this week, so warning in advance if no one has shown up by 7:15, Ill cancel.
Woot, Shahrukh Month!!! Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi! Best rom-com based on DCIB votes!
At 7am Chicago time, lll put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will go from there.
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Here!
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Here 🙂
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Made it!
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Aaaaa! It’s not on Netflix! One second, finding it.
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For you should be on Prime
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Sorry, computer slow to boot up : P Here!
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And PLAY!
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Pretty opening. I had forgotten about this.
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Thank you all for surprising me and joining me! I was really afraid it would be just me and Shelomit. Which would be lovely of course, but a bit hard to justify waking up at 7am.
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8am in NJ so not as bad. And considering i have to get up at 5:30 for work, this is sleeping in for me lol
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I’ll be in Jersey this time next week for work! So no watchalong for me next weekend, unfortunately.
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This is such a nice, calm beginning
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the Golden Temple and the Red Fort are my two favorite Indian landmarks. Because the name says what they are. all famous monuments should be like that.
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Along with all the other wonderful unusual things about this movie, I love how very grounded in location it is. It’s not the usual neutral “India” that you get in Hindi movies.
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I miss the old YRF…their only win in their new movies so far has been WAR and that was mostly thanks to Sidharth Aanand’s unabashed love for Hrithik and genius in bringing Tiger there
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Yeah ) : The YRF title card/opening music used to be such a comforting and hopeful start to a movie. I don’t know exactly what it means to me these days.
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Yea, also they are in their Yellow Poster Era which is certainly a choice, but does absolutely NOTHING in selling the movie or the story
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I give it a try, too 🙂
Yes, the intro fits perfectly…it’s a movie about faith… faith in love …and day-to day life
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I go back and forth between this house and Jug’s house, but I think we can agree they are the two best SRK houses.
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Surinder is so CUTE!!
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Okay, you started 2 minutes after the hour so you should be 4 minutes in?
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Jug’s house is cosier…
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It is certainly more Western!
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Pfft, as soon as you put on your mehndi you’re handicapped until it’s dried. She has the right idea here.
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How long does it take to dry?
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4-6 hours I think
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Wow. I can”t even manage the 15 minutes for nail polish!
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There’s a great dialogue in “Prem Kahani” where Rajesh asks Raakhee, “Why won’t you come over here and talk to me? Do you have henna on your feet, or something?”
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Haha, cute 😀
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Depends on how thick it is on. We usually dip our fingertips and they take maybe three hours. If it is just thin lines, it goes faster.
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Baby Nush is so gorgeous
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Takes me a moment even to recognize her! Her face is so much thinner these days.
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Anushka is so spunky! I love her so much in this.
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SRK is channeling all the anxiety he has ever felt in life into this role.
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Great Anushka intro! This is the only chance the audience and SRK have to see the ‘real” Taani before she gets sad, and we see it all in just a few minutes.
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This is a HUGE hospital room.
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ANd it appears to have a see through screen in the background?
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Damn…I have to renounce to participate directly…my posts get delayed because of the Worldpress method with my account and when I come back to your site, I have to scroll down all the already done comments…
Sorry, I really would have liked…(here 2pm and I’ve time because I’m on vacation in Geneva and have the movie on my laptop…again have to read later… (*boohoo*)
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Sorry, Claudia ) : We will miss your comments. Enjoy vacation, though!
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😦 We will try to make interesting comments for you to read later!
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This is the part where I usually pause and explain to people that we have established Taani is bad at school and in Indian culture could very well have no life skills beyond being a “wife”. And also, schoolteachers often life in school owned houses and have few savings. And the unspoken reality that this kind of disaster probably means no one will want to marry her because she is “unlucky”. So crazy though it seems, marrying SRK means she will get to have the life she planned and not be homeless. Plus, SRK is the nicest man in the world.
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I like the fire-to-fire transition.
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Surinder = best husband
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You know what this movie left out? An explanation for why Anushka cut herself off from all her former life friends. Cell phones exist, she could easily call school friends etc. I can retcon that it was just too painful and part of her cutting herself off from joy, but it would have been good have have a line acknowledging it.
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*hop* *sweep* *hop* *sweep*
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Such a nice bedroom. Really, great house.
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Apparently I know the movie so well that I only just realized my subtitles aren’t in English. AND the verision I clicked on apparently doesn’t have English subtitles (!?!). But I’m not sure I even need subtitles.
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What language did you get?!
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Portugese and and bunch of others with beautiful script.
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Portuguese is the bane of my life right now. My only walking-distance grocery is Brazillian and I’m still communicating with the butcher in makeshift sign language. If I need something especially elaborate, I have my Portuguese friend translate it for me, write it out on an index card, and hand it to him, because I cannot figure out the orthography : /
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I had a great uncle who traveled all over Europe with index cards. He would draw a picture of what he wanted and hand the card to a person. Of course, that only works if you have very good drawing skills.
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I have exaggeratedly slapped my throat to indicate that I wanted the brisket!
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Actually it is “Unavailable in my region” with English subtitles.
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When I went to Prime, there were two versions that popped up, and apparently I was luckier than you and grabbed the good one.
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Uff, she doesn’t even have his phone number.
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And a great eating table! Very sad and lonely of course, clearly intended for a large family that doesn’t exist, but so nice.
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Anushka’s wedding outfit does not look like comfortable sleep wear.
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But so dramatic, that’s what I look for in my sleepwear.
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And brides in these scenes rarely take off much of their jewelry! I imagine waking up in the morning with a big-ass maang tikka impression in your forehead.
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They are waiting for Shashi Kapoor to sexily remove it piece by piece.
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Bobby!!
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Is Bobby gay do we think? Or just one of those awkward long time bachelor people?
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In my queer opinion, that is a straight man’s hairstyle. But obviously I wasn’t queer in India in ’08.
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I need a backstory of how Bobby and Surinder became friends, because it just doesn’t seem like it would happen naturally on the street with their dramatic differences.
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I just assumed the teacher assigned them to sit together in kindergarten. It feels like that kind of friendship to me.
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It definitely feels like the “loud kid decided that shy kid would be his friend and shy kid just went along with it cuz he’s shy” kind of deal.
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Opposites attract, one puts sense on the other while the other pushes the other to be more extroverted when needed.
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I assumed they were schoolfriends, like from before the “ugh, different, REJECT” stage of childhood. Maybe that’s just cause I come from a small village where we couldn’t afford to be fussy about our friends!
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See, she must have been practicing to be a wife! Being all smilely and nice and perfect to your husband’s coworkers is not a natural skill.
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Anushka doesn’t make it look natural, she looks totally uncomfortable.
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it doesn’t matter…neither for the story nor for Suri 🙂 … I’m soooo happy about this movie…so intelligent and deep…
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Uff already almost 70 comments…I follow…I take at least THIS time!!!
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Now, Suri is wearing very practical sleeping clothes!
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And Anushka’s outfit looks more comfortable as well.
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I love Anushka’s speech about Surinder being patient with her
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Anushka’s eyebrows are much better now.
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The movie goes on from here, but I like that at least in this moment they acknowledge that the way she dealt with his friends WAS a kind of love. Those moments shouldn’t be discounted.
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Suri’s love language is definitely acts of service.
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I guess if you live alone for a long time you get used to facing the camera and talking to yourself?
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Always a little concerning to find that toast has manifested itself unexpectedly.
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I wish toast would do that at my house. OR rather, bread. I need to go shopping today.
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That one at least I know how to ask for in Portuguese! “Pao,” and it’s pronounced like Hindi “pav.”
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Aren’t immigrant routes fascinating? I had never thought of Brazilian and/or Portugeuse as a immigrant community before my sister moved to Mass. I just remembered that because she had a local bakery she loved where she got “Pao”.
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My particular street is in an older Armenian/Polish neighborhood, but if you go one street over, it’s all more recent Brazilian immigrants. (Though for “more recent,” I mean “within the past thirty-five years.”) My mother said I ought to be able to find Portuguese classes here, but of course there’s only “English for Portuguese speakers” available, not the other way round : {
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The bathing scene reminded me, what is our backstory for Suri’s bangin’ body? I have decided that as a child he was taught a series of daily exercises and he is so obedient he just keeps doing them every day.
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I gotta say, the Indian houses with the inner courtyards are amazing, but indoor plumbing is da bomb!
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This song is so beautiful and so soft and calm!! Love it out of all of the songs in this movie!
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Every single song on this soundtrack is so good
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