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.
dontcallitbollywood 
gotta say, I have never had an eating contest with a friend or anyone. It doesn’t actually look like fun.
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Sunidhi Chauhan update from digging through her filmography: she did the Hindi dub for Frozen and Frozen 2! Now I kind of want to find those soundtracks, I bet she was AMAZING.
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Oh! Weird.
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Their house has become more yellow…they are falling in love ❤
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yellow is LOVE!
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That boyfriend looks like a cross between John Abraham and ARK
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Dhoom music!
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Anushka I love you!!
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Love this scene for Taani. And that it makes Suri happy. Or rather, taht he doesn’t like her behavior but likes that she is feeling confident and herself again.
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Idk why this is the scene I go back to all the time, it’s so great!
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Ooo, this is very much the same vibe as the Karla scene in JHMS, isn’t it? Anushka going bonkers and SRK being a little scared.
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Aapne sizewallah : )
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Poor dye workers, having to clean all that up.
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A single bag swipe can cause so much chaos!
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She has one of thsoe serious “everything in the world is inside” kind of bags.
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Never take relationship advice from a bachelor.
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“Chhoti Behen,” right?
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This bathroom has surprisingly stylish graffiti.
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MACHO! to friendship bracelets. This scene of male tears is adorable.
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Look how many workers Bobby has at his salon! He’s a successful businessman. I hope he kicks in to help pay school fees for Anushka and SRK’s kids.
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“Macho” as a noun kind of twists my brain around.
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The question of where her sporty clothes came from is solved. Clearly this mall specializes in solid colors!
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But, SRK, you are both Raj and Suri! Integrate your identities!
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I’m having a really hard time believing gender obsessed India has co-ed changing rooms.
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I see it in movies all the time, so it must be true. Or maybe it shows up in movies aimed at audiences who would never actually go to these kinds of fancy expensive styores?
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Maybe this store owner is trying hard to be progressive in a tiny town where they live
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This is honestly one of the most beautiful songs ever created. Just love it utterly!
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The absolute best song on the album
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Did anybody get the chance to read the Hindi on the back of the truck?
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It says “hum hain rahi pyar ke, phir milenge chalte chalte,” hence her doubletake at it 😊
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Thanks so much!!! Went by too quickly for my meager devanagari skills.
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This is one of my least favorite songs, but clearly I am in a minority.
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There are aspects of the picturization that I like, but the music does nothing for me.
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Okay, you can pick only one, who is cute? Little boys with Sikh headresses or little girls in headscarves? I’m going with little boys because it makes their faces look so round.
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The little girls for me, but green is my favorite color so it’s obviously going to bias me.
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No!!! Do not use Punjab Power for evil!
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As much as I love these kind of grand gestures in movies, this is the kind of stuff that would be too much for me in real life
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Same. Previously I loved it, but now as many countries are looking at possible blackouts during winter time this just feels like a waste of resources…even if it’s very romantic
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Did I miss a joke or does everyone actually think they live in a tiny town? Do they call their town tiny? It doesn’t look tiny, it looks crowded and full of people.
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Amritsar is a town of 1 million, so quite quite large. But it’s also off the beaten track a bit. I don’t know, maybe kind of like Cincinnati? Big town, doesn’t get a lot of attention.
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WKRP in Cincinnati!
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Exactly!
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(The reruns ran throughout the entire 80s – ah life without cable or streaming)
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I think Indians just have a completely different sense of scale. Amritsar has well over a million people. People complain about “small town comedies” in Bollywood and those movies are always set in, like, Meerut or something.
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And Amritsar is close enough to Delhi to be overshadowed. All the cool stuff is gonna go to Dehli instead.
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I assume they mapped this out so it wouldn’t affect any hospitals or similar vital services. Seems like the kind of detail work Suri would be good at.
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Even if I were just cooking dinner, I would be pissed to learn that somebody cut the power to my house for lurrrrrrrrrrve.
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Forgot to mention how awesome the use of reoccurring melody is in this movie
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Anushka looks like an angel here!
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Shahrukh does the happy smile on the outside, while crying on the inside EVERY WELL
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It’s the eyebrows
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Idk, maybe it’s cuz this is the first time I’ve watched this movie in a while, but the basis of it isn’t making sense to me anymore? How is pretending to be someone else going to get a girl to fall in love with you? Besides acting like someone terrible? Or am I just thinking about this too much for a Hindi romance?
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Never THINK during movies!
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Like, Taani hardly interacts with Suri as Suri for the majority of the movie, so I just don’t understand where the logic is behind getting Taani to fall in love with SURI
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Well he is trying to know HER. And get her to come out of her depression. But yeah, the creation of an entire different person is problematic.
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I think it’s a two part decision. First, she decides that she wants to stay married to Suri and try to make it work for real, even if she doesn’t love him. And then once she understands that Suri=Raj, she falls in love.
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I don’t think you are thinking too much. It’s a complex concept, the idea is that Raj is there to wake her up to love by giving her a fantasy, like a movie hero. But once she is awake, she has to figure out if she can love Suri or not. It goes back to her first speech saying she truly doesn’t think she can love again.
SRK also gave some interesting interviews about how he sees this relating to his stardom. He creates the fantasy Raj lover for women, but in real life it is the Suri’s who they marry and appreciate.
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It makes sense to me as a way to cheer her up/shake her out of the mourning period, but as a way to improve THEIR relationship, no.
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Also, is there an established aged difference between Suri and Taani? I know SRK and Anushka have a 20+ year difference in real life, but idk if the characters are that far apart. I’d say Taani is maybe 20 and Suri is at least in his 30s.
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I think Suri is supposed to be considerably older. The way SRK is dressed and stuff, pluse she complains about hearing about SRK her whole childhood. Which makes me think he was her father’s advanced student when she was a little girl.
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We’re all collectively choosing to ignore this sumo business right? or is it just me?
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I am paying attention to it only enough to point out the Sumo Wrestler has Harley Quinn tatooed on his arm.
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My family was watching Sumo wrestling the other night. The kids were fascinated and confused. But they hadn’t finished their homework so it got turned off after about 10 minutes.
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This goes on for muchhhhhhhhh longer than I remembered.
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I’m on my phone until this is over lol
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Sumo over, now we get one of the few Suri-Taani scenes!
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Her anger is a tad confusing. Is she mad that he has a personality?
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I read it as primarily being concerned for him getting himself into a dangerous situation for no (to her) clear reason.
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Ah, and then she would REALLY be alone. She has no one.
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I think it’s that he purposefully did something in which he was going to get seriously injured for her sake, and she doesn’t need or want that. Maybe also a guilt thing? That because he did it to make her happy, it’s her fault?
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Good point. She didn’t ask for it–he just inferred that she would want the Japan tickets that badly without consulting her.
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Anushka is making me feel bad about the cleanliness of my kitchen.
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I was either gonna be really lazy today, or clean, and now I feel like I should clean
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She’s cleaning her pain away.
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Does this pair never think to bring umbrellas with them? We see other people on the street with umbrellas!
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And yet Anushka used an umbrella to cross the terrace in her own home. Maybe they leave all their umbrella’s at home for navigating the stairs?
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I underrated Anushka’s performance in this before. She is a force.
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Explaining the plot to the 13 year old now. He is bewildered.
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He is not alone
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That “I don’t see God in anyone” line hit me differently this time. It’s not that she doesn’t love anyone, it’s that she can’t see the goodness in the world any more, no faith in God or humanity or anything. Seeing God in Suri isn’t falling inl ove with him, it’s understanding that there are good things in her life still, and feeling hope and faith.
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Am I tearing up because of this or because I’m tired?
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This is the beauty of the dawn watchalongs, you are so much more emotionally open.
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This scene works as TAani wanting to escape reality, right? She isn’t in love with Raj, she’s in love with the fantasy. And the shift is when she learns to find happiness in REality again.
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I think a lot of it is the appeal of a clean break, esp. the promise that they will leave Amritsar.
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Which is what she did when she married Suri! Clean break from her previous life. She just keeps running instead of facing her feelings.
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Such a feminist speech! If your wife isn’t happy with you, your duty as a husband is to set her free.
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AAAH!! My favourite scene coming up!!
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And now I begin to cry!!! Shreya’s angelic bell voice just adds so much
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You could also say that this is the miracle. We, the audience, know everything Suri has done for her, the way he has been a God of sacrifice and unasking love and so on. She doesn’t know it, but the miracle here is that she is allowed to feel it without that knowledge. Does that make sense?
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I think it’s important for him to see this change of heart as being God’s or hers at least. Otherwise he will want to keep playing puppetmaster and “fixing” their lives through these deceptions!
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