Happy Sunday! I spent most of yesterday in bed, and today I may consider trying to do something productive, starting with watchalong!
Jab Harry Met Sejal!!! It’s lovely and we love it.
At 8am Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will all go from there.
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I miss museums.
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Come to DC!!! We have so many and most of them are free!!!
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The 14 year old took one of those crazy expensive trips to DC last year, and they went to the art museum 3 times! Basically he had a crappy guide. I want to see the AFrican AMerican History & Culture museum.
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Aww! I am so sorry. There are so many fun museums here. African American museum is amazing. I still love Natural History and Air and Space since they were some of the first ones I went to. The art museum and sculpture gardens are the best in the summer when there are open concerts in the garden (again for free) and in the winter when it turns into a Winter Wonderland with ice skating and lots of fun Christmassy stuff!
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Oh and the FDR monument is my absolute favorite at night. It is stunning and you can walk around it forever!
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Harry and his phone, a love story that becomes a break up
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I work for a European company and even my CEO wears his suit with sneakers. It is such a European thing!!!
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Well, we do love to be comfortable while working. If it is just a desk job, then why wear high heels or non-comfortable shoes if it’s only going to make your leg hurt in the end
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I love it. I also just like the look.
I will say though that the European women in my company do wear very high heels.
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Then they have the stamina for it. I would never want to wear such high heels to work unless they are short, like pumps or something like that. Too much hassle and fear of breaking an ankle
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Completely agree! I never wore high heels and after the pandemic I will likely never wear them.
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Same for me with makeup. Only making he bare minimum effort for occasions or if I feel like it, otherwise just completely concentrating on skincare and feeling comfy and like myself
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Planters Faaciitis has changed my relationship with fashion. Heels are torture devices. I don’t even SEE them as sexy anymore. Now they look silly. I hate it when I see women dancing in heels.
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Completely agree! I am actually giving away all my heels to a work colleague because I have so many really really nice ones but never ever wear them!
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Sejal: Do you understand emotions?
Harry, inside: Maybe a little too much.
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FIRST TIME THEY PLAY PARINDA MAHI
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That jumpsuit needs a belt!
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Also SRK slo-mo walking with Parinda Mahi playing in the background almost made me pregnant.
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Sejal copies Harry’s handshake to the bouncer, showing how NOT used to this scene she is.
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Harry dumped Nikki and his beer SO fast the moment he saw the back of Sejal’s head.
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I love how Harry slips into his Punjabi accent when he is doing “dadagiri” when Sejal.
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It shows that no matter how much he wants to stay in control, he keeps slipping when it comes to Sejal.
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He also uses some Punjabi idioms throughout the film, esp when frustrated, which I love.
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Agreed!
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I both love and hate how goddamn hurt she is by the idea that Harry doesn’t find her sexy. Like yes part of it is wondering if it’s just her in general, but it hurts most when it’s HIM saying that.
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Wow, I forgot these two scenes were back to back!
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I feel like this movie is just ZIPPING along. Certainly no time for boredom.
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The sexual tension in the “Ho gaya? Ho gaya?” scene omg.
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Ah yes the YIKES CLUB with those very specific armbands
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SECOND PARINDA MAHI!
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My poor eyes search for my birdlike beloved/Her negligence does not allow me to live.
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He is so short!!
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I love her star necklace esl
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I love that simple liquid sprayed at them makes them all slip and fall!
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Harry situates himself upstairs I think so he can easily see and then reach her?
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I love that Harry is just as scared as Sejal! For all his “I’m sophisticated”, she has managed to wander into a situation beyond even him.
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The start of his true feelings developing. He wants her cleansing water to keep flowing clear, he doesn’t want her to lose her innocence.
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Harry very rarely does “maar-peet” (physical fighting), he uses other methods to distract ppl and it’s so clear in this scene.
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lovers are rarely fighters!
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And I think that’s what I love most about his characterization in this film!
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Oh Harry is so good in this comforting Sejal scene, my heart ❤
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Rupen does seem like a jerk! And Sejal is right. She is over here searching for his stupid loose ring and he hasn’t even called her to make sure she’s okay. JERK!
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And he gaslights the crap outta her in the one scene he DOES appear!!
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Second river scene – underground canal and boat-riding in Prague.
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THIS river scene is just amazing. Oh the eye acting!
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Aur love shuv ho gaya! This is the moment they fall in love!
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Harry’s loving eyes would melt icebergs
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And in the Romantics Aditya is the one who pointed that out to him! “There was something in his eyes”. I will watch other Indian films, okay specifically ones with Ajay Devgn, and they zoom in on the eyes SO MUCH, and yet I never see the eye change.
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I see it in Ranveer Singh too, or maybe it’s just when he looks at Deepika.
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Yea, Shahrukh knows how to use them
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He knows he is in love, it is in his eyes
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He’s falling in love!
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His thumb on her forehead…my heart!!! 😭
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I love how this conversation is ALL FORESHADOWING
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Everytime I watch the god scene I can’t help but start singing “tujme rab dikhta hai, yaara main kya karoon”
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I love Harry’s boldness in tearing down the banners. I would be way too timid to ever do such a thing, especially in a country that wasn’t my own.
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The “practically speaking, what should I do if they rape me” really knocked him sideways and my heart is thumping straight outta my chest. Also, Sejal is def practical, but some of her practicality is more what she THINKS being practical looks like.
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Jee Ve Sonhayee!!! So haunting in this flashback scene
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The way he uses the banners and the windows of the river boat, I feel like he’s really tearing down his traditional tour guide life. these are places he knows with large groups, tourist traps, and now he is just using them as a place to take care of Sejal. Is this the last time we really see them visit standard tourist places versus little cafes and stuff?
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Sejal’s involuntary hand action when she sees Harry lying on the floor 😭
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The shot of wheat – maybe I have now seen the film to many times, but couldn’t they have gotten some different shots of wheat? I mean are all the memories really going back to a single viewpoint?
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Trauma is repetative? It started to rain the day they were filming wheat?
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Well, those shots do come back in the end, so it is both flashback and foreshadowing in a sense
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The dupatta he sees in his dream is a bit different from what Sejal finally wears. Either Kulwant’s or his mom’s when he was a boy.
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In this scene, Sejal’s hair looks markedly lighter. I wonder when they filmed it.
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Well, it doesn’t look like she just spent a night on the cement! Otherwise I would tell her to sleep on cement more often.
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She spent the night SLEEPING WITH HER TRUE LOVE!!!! It does wonders for your hair.
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She doesn’t love him yet.
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She just doesn’t know it yet, the hair reveals all.
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He really loses it when Sejal refuses to let go… sniff.
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Also his nickname back home was Ranjhe.
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I couldn’t tell if his nickname was Ranjhe or if he was using it as the term “lover” to refer to himself.
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I’m convinced the way he acted it that Harry was re-enacting how his mom or some elder would comfort him as a child. Mostly the hand movements and body language
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I really like this song but I don’t like how different the voice is from SRK’s real voice.
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Fun fact about Nurmahal: the dialect of Punjabi they speak is called Doabi, which means ‘between two rivers’.
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Ooh I did not know this. Thank you!
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Also, Noor Jahan is my absolutely favorite queen!!! I so wish someone would make a fun movie with her in it. I loved the TV series on her!
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Ooh I think you’d be happy to know that the monument they shot in that village was once a “serai” that Noor Jahan built for travellers to stop and rest 😃
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OOOH thank you! I love this!!!
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Me too!! I think it adds to the already existing symbolism in the film surrounding travel and journeys!
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After the line in Safar, I’m convinced that someone from his village who was in Canada helped him run away, then left him in the lurch once they were there
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The middle part of Radha has so much foreshadowing istg
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See – clueless Sejal hits the problem on the head. Sexy Harry who has lost his ability to connect with people IS LONELY. So simple and true. She is brilliant!
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Completely agree! I absolutely love Sejal in this movie and Anushka’s acting.
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Sejal in her masterclass on how to sum up a decade of trauma in two words – You’re lonely!
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Harry is a black coffee guy. So many espressos!
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He has to have the caffeine energy to keep walking for hours with groups, so that figures
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Either that, or SRK the person put that as a condition of her character in the movie, so he could continue drinking unlimited coffee.
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Good excuse as any, since the shoots are hours long. One needs the energy from somewhere
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Hawayein…the most romantic falling in love song ever
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It is such a great use of music in film! Harry is fully falling in the beginning and by the end of the tune Sejal is too (though with less self awareness). Damn. Such a good movie!
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And the lyrics! So meaningful!
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My sister and I were both saying that Anushka is the only after actress after Preity as the most crush worthy women for women! Even now when I watch old Preity movies, I can’t help but just smile.
I am sure it comes from their military family upbringing and innate confidence!
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I have crushes on Kajol & Aishwarya. And I think I have a crush on Sejal more than Anushka. Though I give her RESPECT for creating Sejal.
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