Sunday WatchAlong: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi! 7am Chicago Time!

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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.

309 thoughts on “Sunday WatchAlong: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi! 7am Chicago Time!”

  2. Vaibhavi Merchant! I notice her songs usually are more about clever concepts than dancing. She also did Ticket to Hollywood from JBJ. And Kajre Re. I mean, good dancing too, but as part of a whole mood with lots of smart things going on in the background.

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  4. Oooo, the ceiling lights! Yes, I totally want this house. And there is indoor plumbing in the kitchen, so theoretically you could run pipes to an indoor toilet.

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  5. That conversation totally makes sense to me, it doesn’t feel like she is asking his “permission” exactly more sort of feeling out how money and time and stuff will work in their living together.

    BUT! What I can’t figure out is how moneyw orked before this? I mean, she must be buying groceries. Maybe he just has accounts at all the local stores?

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    • Hmm, that is an interesting thought about groceries and all. Probably the contest would be a bigger lump sum than everyday expenses, but the “pin money” is still coming from somewhere.

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  10. Somethign that just occurred to me on this watch is that normally Suri would be considered something of a “catch”. That is, he has a good job and a big house and clearly did well in school. He’s the kind of dude we often see in movies strolling in and assuming the heroine’s parents will be delighted to marry her to him. He has ‘earned” a perfect wife and love and so on.

    But Suri is sensitive enough to understand that he has to make a personal effort, it’s not just about “job, house, wife appears”.

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  11. This part of the movie feels totally universal to me. Small town, not much going on, traveling group of dance classes ending with a competition would ABSOLUTELY get folks excited. It’s not about wanting to be a movie star or anything like that, it’s just about doing something cool and different in a place where there aren’t a lot of things to do.

    I assume the dance class team is going to move on and do another 6 weeks at the next small town and so on.

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    • This is exactly how singing classes worked during the period that I study in the 19thc. U.S. A singing master would come to town, teach for a couple of months, perhaps help establish a church choir or something locally, but the main event was to have a concert at the end of the school session that the students could feel good about and the whole community could come to.

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  12. I have often thought that SRK plays the two characters as different people rather than one and the same, but I have to say he is doing a good job channeling Surinder into Raj in this first intro scene.

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    • Yes! And that’s what the point of the movie is, he can’t make Suri into Raj, or integrate the two, he creates an entirely different person as Raj and knows that he wants Anushka to love Suri, not Raj. Raj is just a medium to make her open up to love again and see Suri.

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    • Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi!!! Or, alternatively, the dance class people are very good at noticing crushes and making sure folks get matching numbers.

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  17. This dining room table is such a classic visual symbol, and it still works. They are sitting so far apart from each other. And we can see the empty chairs showing the emptiness of their family and house. Not that a couple needs to have kids, but if you have a table like that with the empty chairs, it’s an unspoken desire.

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    • That back handle is necessary. I haven’t ridden a motorcylce, but a snowmobile often. LOVE that back handle, actually creates more stability than the driver’s waist.

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    • See, this is why Taani needs to help him buy new work shirts that show off his body.

      Or alternatively why she shouldn’t, why make the other ladies see what she has at home?

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    • Didn’t they used to make this Bump It thing to get a style like that? I never used one, but I think they were popular around ’07 so maybe they just used that

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    • Like a beehive, you can get by with just teasing the hair up/out, but it will be sturdier if you use a doughnut or hair rat to support it. Most ladies who wear the “Pentecostal pouf” every day just fold and tease it.

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  40. Isn’t Bobby at all worried about losing his friend and these late night parties once Suri’s marriage works out? Or is he just assuming he will be over at the house partying with Suri and Taani?

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  46. Part of the promotions for this movie was a youtube contest to take the lyrics of this song and create a your own dance for them. I’m still kind of sad I didn’t do it.

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  48. Huh. Even in her first movie, Anushka really does have something, doesn’t she? She does a pretty good job with the acting stuff, but her smile is just irresistible in a special way that says “movie star”.

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    • There is something about her, at first her performances seem bland, but then you can watch the movies over and over and she becomes entrancing. There aren’t a lot of people you can watch over and over.

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      • When this movie was promoted, there was a lot of focus on how they wanted to cast a “normal Punjabi girl” looking actress. Which is certainly true, Anushka has a perfect look. But I think focusing on that was underselling her acting ability, it’s more than just her perfect girl next door pretty look.

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