Woot, Dilwale! For Christmas! Kind of! Anyway, it feels Christmassy to me. And a nice relaxing way to spend a Sunday morning. Oh, and since RSVPs were low, reminder that if no one shows up within the first 15 min, I will just reschedule.
Dilwale! It’s on Netflix, should be easy to find no matter where you are in the world.
At 8am I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will go from there!
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If it’s her right leg that’s hurting, then she’s got the cane on the wrong side.
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Or is she not really hurt at all???????????
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I have absolutely no recollection ( ;
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Dad is actually kind of sucky. SRK is a much better Dad-figure than their Dad-Dad.
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Father worship. It isn’t so strong in American culture.
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Child Varun does not look like adult Varun.
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Ugh, subtitles bother me! He said “just because I am not your blood…” not “I am not your biological father”. Why not say it the literally poetic way?
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Me too, but maybe they didn’t realise it also makes perfect sense in English, and were erring on the side of caution?
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I think that’s the case. Earlier they had translated “girls always mean trouble” when the phrasing was “dusara nam hai,” which is also an expression in English.
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I have been distracted by trying to find the skirt online! I wish there were such a thing as fashion-credis.
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*credits!
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I was watching an attractive American Actor over-act the other day, and he just couldn’t pull it off the way SRK does. His puppy dog eyes at Kajol….
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This is honestly not that racist or bad. However, it is also appropriate for a kid oriented movie.
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Now she is wearing the skirt I hunted down and bought! 😀
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REALLY?!? How much did it cost?
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Not that much, I bought it second hand! I think it was about $60. It was the 2014 or 2015 collection, so it was more the length of time it took to find someone selling it that was annoying (MONTHS). Then they were in Texas (I’m in UK) so it took ages to come and then the courier on this side lost it for weeks! It was very stressful but I wear it at every excuse. 😀
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That is a great story – the kind of items have a soul story that would make it very hard to get rid of later. I deal with this as the grandparents get older and all things are emotionally valuable – yet our house is too small to take them all in.
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The idea that villains in Bulgaria talk in ENGLISH!! Aye aye aye. I’ve heard people complain about American ignorance, but we aren’t alone.
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I was envisioning them as snotty American tourists!
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Yeah, American’s wouldn’t automatically know she was Indian. There are too many different brown skinned nations in this world to know which one someone with darker skin comes from.
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My guess is, they put a bunch of treats on the ground around Kajol’s feet for the dog to snuffle at.
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I am also afraid of dogs, but I’d like to think that I generally wear shoes I can run away/climb a tree in about it.
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When I first had children I became terrified of dogs, as suddenly they became threats to their safety. But now that my kids are physically bigger I’m less bothered. I’m also better at reading the animals than I used to be. That said, even in sneakers I cannot outrun any but the oldest of dogs.
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Also, I just saw an SRK tweet! First song from Pathaan releases in 14 hours!
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This whole one-sleeve-high-one-sleeve-low thing must have been a trend for a moment and I’ve forgotten. Kriti had the same profile of blouse in the scene at her house earlier.
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Come into my ice cream parlor said the spider to the fly! foreshadowing.
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Apparently wearing a hat transforms you from a waiter to the ice-cream man.
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Think of it as stage theater.
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I have no problem with the conceit, it’s just an ice-cream stereotype of which I wasn’t aware!
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Oh! I’ve got it! Waiters are inside, ice cream men are outside, so the hat appears.
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I like the streamer holders in the background. Nice to see them outside of a highschool setting.
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I DO NOT understand why they needed to film this sequence in South AFrica? Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to film it somewhere where they didn’t have to fly to?
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But it’s suck a technically challenging sequence, maybe there was a crew in South Africa who could do the stunt driving?
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It is a pity none of my boys are awake for this scene. The 13 year old turns 14 today BTW – he’s broken (broken collarbone), so we can’t do too much for it.
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14!!!!!! He’s so old! Thank goodness you have two others who still haven’t grown up.
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Oof! I imagine that’s like a rib, where you just have to kind of wait on it to fix itself? Hope he’s patched up soon,
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This is the 3rd time he has broken it. It isn’t patching fast. Going on 8 weeks now. Super hopeful it will be better in the next 4. I signed him up for basketball in January. Stupid broken bones.
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GASP! Who ISN’T a car gangster?
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Ever since I developed long term planters fasciitis I have a different relationship with high heels. I do not see them as a sign of female power and strength, but rather a crippling submission to male ideas of beauty. So Kajol’s stepping out of the car just didn’t hit me the way it should have.
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In this case, I think it might have been partly also because they wanted that slow walk up to the car with the whole group. Kajol is such a tiny person, without heels it would ahve looked ridiculous
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Even when I was younger and comparatively supple, I’ve never been able to wear heels.
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I’ve also never worn heels, just hurt my feet too too much.
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Gangster love, when they COULD kill the other but choose not to.
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Bulgaria has ridiculous ocean roads just like Goa?
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Yes. All places that have oceans have ridiculous roads, just in case of movie filming.
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Ah, the “caution” sign placed this far up the narrow road!
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Also in ENglish – I mean I’ve never been to Bulgaria, but would their road signs be in English?
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Young SRK with all that make up makes me think of his FAN alter ego.
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Ditto!!!!!
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Okay, doing it, going to refill my coffee before Gerua. That song is too cold to watch without a hot drink!
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Spouse woke up at 5 to go skiiing in a storm and now that I’ve been awake for two hours I’m hungry. But I want hot food. Which maybe means the pellet stove went out and I need to check it. argh.
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wake up the kids and make them do for you.
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I kinda like her refusing to leave commitment.
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Another great skirt!
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Most of Kajol’s outfits in this song I find weirdly unflattering, but the maroon skirt is GREAT.
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Poor Kajol, I mean you can do a lot with silk long underwear but I’m not sure the costumers thought of that.
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Have youw atched the making of for this song? She was FREEZING. there was a coat handler who came up and covered her as soon as the shot was over, but the rest of the time she was just cold.
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Of course she was freezing – she is wearing a bare shirt on icebergs!!! But if they had put silk long under wear on underneath she would have been warmer and we wouldn’t be able to see. Yet somehow I suspect most costumers based in Mumbai don’t know about silk long underwear.
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Maybe ther was some local female crew member who pulled her asidea nd helped her. And then they became friends and Kajol helped her leave her jerky boyfriend adn encouraged her to fall in love with a nice Indian crew member. And then the same crew goes to India to shoot and she and the Indian guy have Misunderstandings, but it all works out because Kajol takes a hand and solves things, and then she hosts their wedding at her house.
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Varun’s tailbone must be aching from falling asleep on concrete so often.
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Maybe that’s why he keeps walking with his butt sticking out.
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Ha!
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Uff, so much stairs-climbing just to get to church.
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I’ve seen this church in so many movies! But I never thought before about actually going to it, just “place you have a big movie scene in front of”
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Kriti is so tall.
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Is it more meaningfull with giant cards because it shows the person put the effort into making the cards pre-speech?
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that’s certainly the reasoning I put in to graded class presentations. BIG COMPLICATED VISUALS, shows more effort.
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Like in “Mann,” where Aamir gets the kids to convey his apologies via sandwich board.
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Or RNBDJ when SRK turns off power for a whole city.
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It is so nice to see non-overmakeuped older SRK, though red was not his color.
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That car is NOT flattering on SRK! Makes him look like a little toy man in there.
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So it kinda makes sense that two former Indian Gangers in Bulgaria would both move back to India, because they are Indian after all. ANd it makes sense that they would both move back to Goa because it is the most European area of India. Thus I feel this movie coincedense is actually plausable. Mind you I would still like the film even if it wasn’t.
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But does it make sense that their younger siblings would randomly meet and fall in love???
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Assuming they share personality similarieties to their older siblings, yeah. I mean it is actually more realistic than all the gun fights and kick fights we’ve been watching!
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Kind of fun to see Vinod and Kabir together here (at least if you’re me!).
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Sorry, vinod Khanna onscreen sent me down an Osho rabbithole for a second there. Did anyone watch that Karan movie about Sheela?
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Hadn’t even heard of it until this moment.
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All you need to know is that Vinod Khanna left his family and career at it’s peak in order to join a cult. And then came back a few years later, but it was WEIRD.
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LOL, I know about Osho, I mean the movie you’re talking about ( ;
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Oh good! That seemed very off-brand for you, to not know about it. Yeah, Karan did a movie following Sheela’s return to India and it looks like a hot mess.
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Yeah, that sounds like a. . . difficult topic, even for someone better acquainted with ideological nuance than Karan.
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I didn’t realize he actually made the movie – I had heard discussion about it pre-production and hadn’t heard any more.
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Yeah, it went straight to Netflix and then disappeared.
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SRK & KAJOL – SO GOOD AT EYE ACTING. Best Jodi ever.
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Anwar and Shakti, secretly in love this whole time, dreaming of adopting a kid to raise together, now finally have a chance to leave their loyalty to SRK and start fresh and follow their own dream with the randomly appearing “brother” of Shakti and their little sweet shop.
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So many things in this film harken to SRK’s real life. Loosing a father, caring for a sibling, for life. Kinda like the story was written for him.
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SRK in muscle shirt ahhhhhhhhhh. That was nice.
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I love Anwar and Shakti!!!!!
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I was too in stitches throughout this whole television scene to keep up with your-all’s comments!
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Laundry for the household in a muscle shirt. This movie is pandering so hard to female gaze.
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And I thank it for that!
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I’m not certain exactly what “top and front load” (on the lid of the laundry detergent container) would equal if read sexually, but the framing sure seemed to want us to notice it O.o
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Oooo, SRK should be brand ambassador for homegoods! Imagine him, all sexy and bare arms, talking about how he loves to cook for his family on this new electric stove, and how this vacuum cleans the floor so well, and so on?
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WHY is KRITI’S TOP LIKE THAT? Like, it’s overalls that just end at the waist?
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Overleasts?
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HA! Or, Overfourths.
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My grandmother used to work as a secretary for a little Methodist church in north-central Kansas, and I swear every one of Boman’s outfits in this movie is something the pastor would have been delighted to wear.
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This sounds like a fun pastor.
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He never met a patterned suit jacket that didn’t speak to him.
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The one thing that annoys me, they show the man doing laundry – but they never actually show the actors working out. Yet to keep those muscles they clearly HAVE to work out everyday. To stay thin, don’t eat, but to get muscles that takes actual activity – and movies never show it. That frustrates me. And the super tones female bodies like Deepika’s those take a lot of activity – and the movies never show it. I like fantasy, but l prefer less fanatasy when it comes to human bodies.
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So I’m watching Bake Off, and one of the recent seasons has a baker whose body is as good as SRK’s in this movie. BUT! They make a point when introducing him of saying that he spends 2 hours in the gym every single day, that and baking are his two favorite things. Also, he works as a nanny. So basically, he is delightful and I love him, but also I love the Bake Off producers who told us upfront what it takes to look like that.
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Maybe she was happy being single! Maybe a woman doesn’t have to be married to complete herself!
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