Good Morning! I got coffee, I got a morning banana, I got a dog snuggled against me, let’s do this thing.
Paheli! Shahrukh, ghosts, stupid huge turbans, all the stuff. It’s on Netflix and elsewhere, and I can’t wait to watch it with you and complain about the plot impossibilities.
At 8am Chicago time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will go from there. Woot!
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Good morning! 😀
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Here!
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Here too!
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And PLAY!
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My Netflix is being weird but I will catch up with y’all in a second.
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This is just such a pretty and beautiful movie – love the set design and costuming
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I have discovered that when I watch without sound it is so COLORFUL and beautiful. and when I watch with sound it is almost too much, especially the super high voices of the female singers that Rani is lip sincing to. I mean the voice is so HIGH and it’s Rani!
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Caught up! We are in the middle of the first song, yes?
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yes
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The soundtrack is also so so beautiful, folksy yet also so very calming
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Forgot how much I love this song!
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I do love how the movie opens with a bang, such a great song.
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And we already have the theme of female desire being paramount, right??? I especially love the twist to the ‘sad bride” tradition. She’s happy to get married, just sad to leave her house.
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This whole song, Albie Dog has been chewing on his butt. It’s not really in theme with the beautiful fairy tale effect onscreen.
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So it looked like night when she got into the cart, but maybe it was super early morning? But then wouldn’t they have already had their first night? Timing wise I’m confused.
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Maybe it was because of First Night timing? They left super early/late so that they wouldn’t have to spend a night on the road?
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But they wouldn’t perform the wedding rituals so early in the morning would they?
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I think leaving the house is part of the rituals? So they could get married and party the night before, then sleep separate, and leave together?
This has never bothered me before and now it is all I can think about, you are right!
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SRK does too good a job and making himself totally unappealing.
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YES! This is also my problem with Angry SRK in KANK. He does it toooooooooooooo well.
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At least the ghost comes about to rescue this movie. There is no rescue in KANK.
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SRK just has to change his expression and he already de-glamourizes himself. A makeup person’s dream no doubt! They only have to do very little, while his acting does the rest
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Have you seen the pre-CGI stills of fan? HE’s Gaurav! A slightly crazy teenage boy! Even without the CGI
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I think I have seen them but cannot remember what they looked like. Will google!
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I have NOT!
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The costuming in this film is just top-notch – the little details and the colors make this such a beautiful movie on just a visual level
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NO Rani – the water will ruin all your caked on make-up!
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Don’t understand the ghost’s motivation with the footprints.
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Maybe he is practicing being a man and not good at it yet?
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So the Ghost lives in the tree and saw her face when she raised her veil and fell in love and turned himself into a bird and followed her around the water hole and practiced being a man with the footsteps but didn’t have a body to use?
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That is what I got, and it all made sense except for the footprints.
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The problem with falling in love with beauty is it is hard to believe. Rani’s friend was equally cute. And seriously, to take human form for a beautiful face that will age and wrinkle? It doesn’t seem like love.
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But then you are questioning the whole “in love at first sight” concept! I don’t see it as beauty necessarily, more her personality shining through her face.
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It’s a folktale – the romance eclipses the logic!
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Juhi, he should have married Juhi.
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Juhi musn’t have passed by there, or else the ghost would have fallen in love with her first,
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Did Merchant SRK not understand what the first night was going to be? Or I guess this goes back to female desire, Rani was all excited with her friends, and the stupid man doesn’t get what’s supposed to be happening.
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He doesn’t remove her veil so she just straight up asks him to. Kinda awesome.
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So seriously, they entered into this arranged marriage and no one thought to tell her parents that he would be leaving for five years? Did his family just want another servant?
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Maybe no one thought it was a problem? She’s gonna be treated like a queen in his house, presumably the families benefitted in a trade agreement, and so what if he goes traveling for a bit?
Although there’s also the note that his mother gave him advice about it, so at least SHE knew it would be an issue.
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I assume everyone is appreciating the radical redefinition of husband responsibilities and therefore not commenting? He is being a Good Provider but that does NOT equal Good Husband.
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I thought the Juhi character had kids? Because kids sure as hell aren’t part of a solitary life.
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She’s got kids, she’s got in-laws, she is constantly surrounded! Only thing she’s missing is a husband.
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Husbands have certain benefits that those other people just can’t provide!
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Don’t get me wrong, husbands can be great, but she sure isn’t solitary. And, my typical complaint is that literature and movies are so focused on romance, that they often forget the love between parent and child is a lot stronger.
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Here’s where I start to think about how you could TOTALLy make this movie set in the present day. Girl gets married to a man with a Good Job in UAE or Dubai or whatever. No one sees the issue with him leaving for his job almost immediately after the wedding, so long as he is making money and sending it home. Girl is miserable, Ghost appears. Or, in the modern remake I wrote for a Silly Sunday once, Girl is miserable, Neighbor appears and pretends to be her husband because none of the people living in the apartment block have ever actually seen her husband.
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The ten year old has been loving my grandmother’s clip – on earings, he would be jealous of the male fashion in this film.
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Clip on earrings are so fun! We were debating what to do with my Grandma’s, maybe I should send them to my nephews?
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The golden jewelry box with it’s drawers and pockets probably help with the draw. They were in my parent’s basement for my niece for years, and finally this summer I took them because I was worried my folks were going to take them to the thrift store. The boys, and the neighbor kids love them.
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When we were little, my Mom bought a ton of trashy lingerie from the thrift store for our dress up box, which we and the neighbor kids LOVED. Bright colors and silky and lace adn stuff. And then my Mom realized some of the neighbor ladies assumed it was actually her old lingerie and were thinking “my my! She’s way sexier in private than we thought!” and she felt like she ahd to explain.
Anyway, I assume no one is thinking they are your clip on earrings.
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What I’ve come around to is that at this point the Ghost himself doesn’t really have a plan. He does this on impulse, and once he has taken the form of a body and experienced life in a human body, he is overwhelmed by the emotions he feels and ends up trapped in this lie and this household. Because otherwise, he’s just an idiot who came up with a terrible plan.
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Well love does make some people idiots, I presume ghosts are no exception
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Genevieve! Your point about love of a parent for child! It’s feeling the love of a mother that starts him into feeling more than just trickery and games in this new life.
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Just the most calming song
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Is Rani wearing one necklace or three?
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I think it’s one huuuge necklace.
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I think one? Or at least there is only one clasp, does that define a necklace?
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It’s one, it is just a very interesting mixture of colors and sizes.
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Oh Shahrukh with your eyes!! Romancing mode is on!
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The first time I saw this film I was not an SRK fan. And I thought he was so ugly (mind you he is introduced as ugly). But now watching it as a fan, I think – “what a glorious man”.
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I just watched a colorized version of an old blacka nd white movie with a friend and it was so FUN seeing all the bright colors on clothing. I think we assume the past was dull and colorless just because old stuff fades. I love this movie with everything from the wall painting to the jewelry just being almost gaudy in it’s colors! As it would have been when these buildings were lived in and these clothes were worn.
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Okay lighting person, I see what you are doing, only putting his eyes in the light and the rest in shadow!
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The background music for this is just so haunting! So perfectly Rajasthani, yet so subtle as well
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Puppet ghost narrators – definitely a weak point in the film.
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But Authentically Rajasthani! Maybe they were put in for the Rajasthani tourism board? To encourage people to buy puppets?
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Amazing sex scene!
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YES! conveyed what was needed for the rest of the plot to work, without ever taking their clothes off or having them kiss.
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Nipple alert!
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Warning you now, I will be headcanoning like crazy to try to make THIS GOSH DARN PLOT WORK. For example, that whole conversation about ghosts not being ticklish, I think of as a sign of how this ghost has fully inhabited a human body and human experience more than a “ghost” normally would. Being ticklish, telling Rani the truth, feeling something when greeted by the mother, it’s all part of the same transition from Ghost to Human.
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Paper is EXPENSIVE dude!!!!! Terrible merchant.
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Duplicate, Paheli, Rab Jodi movie are there any more SRK double role movies I’m forgetting?
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Fan, Baazigar, English Babu Desi Mem, Om Shanti Om, Don, Ra.One, Dilwale.
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That is a LOT of double roles!
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And that’s not even counting stuff like JTHJ where the time jump makes him seem like a different person in the second half!
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Fan
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So much jewelrey! I feel like the women are walking around with 30 pounds of jewels.
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You should watch Ponniyin Selvan when it comes on Prime on Nov 4 or right now on einthusan in Tamil – lots of jewelry that just drips from the women, basically walking advertisements for the looks they have. Puts this movie to shame in the sheer amount on display.
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I find this “funny” scene boring. But I will tolerate it because it’s part of the whole folktale thing. You always have the Fool who Sees the Truth.
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This rose scene is so wonderful in both VFX and romantic level
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This is just like my instacart and Prime people! The bring stuff right to my living room.
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The earings are so big I feel pain in my ears!
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