Sunday WatchAlong: JHMS! 8am Chicago Time! Come One, Come All!

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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.

405 thoughts on “Sunday WatchAlong: JHMS! 8am Chicago Time! Come One, Come All!”

  1. Also Harry’s response to Gaz for the kidnapping is as much disappointment as fear. He’s genuinely disappointed that this nice immigrant guy is resorting to violence.

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    • I don’t know, being knocked out is fairly threatening. And a gun is a gun, a small timer can kill with it and is probably more likely to kill with it than a successful crook.

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  5. Just astounded that Sejal never thought to dump out her purse before. She must be so much more organized than I! Of course, she is also at least 20 years younger. She hasn’t yet learned that when you loose something you should always dump out your entire purse.

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    • She also dumped it out violently this time. I’m gonna assume the ring was caught under the lining or something and a superficial empty and refill wouldn’t find it.

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  6. Thanks for the fun watchalong, ladies! Hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend.

    Margaret – I hope your day gets better after watching this movie.

    I am off to watch Shehzada! 🙂

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    • I NEVER saw it on my own, but it wasn’t pointed out to me on the last watch a long and I have to admit it is a possibility. But I’m fairly certain that after seeing Sejal get dressed up and head out in Prague, Harry knew this trip was more about her search for adventure rather than a simple hunt for a ring. He always told her searching for the ring was pointless.

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  9. Sejal’s outfit, that amazing leather coat, that dress, the total lack of high heels. She just looks amazing. And she looks like a woman, not a girl. As she realizes her feeelings she grows up in fashion.

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  11. Oooh I forgot to mention – Harry’s birth date is 29th August 1980. He’s a Virgo male. My Linda Goodman loving ass is already assuming Sejal is a Scorpio because they pair well with Virgos.

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    • Sexy as he is, there is no way I can believe that is a man born in 1980 – that is only 1 year older than my little brother, a millenial. Just give him 3 more years, I could have believed he was almost 40, but not really mid 30s.

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  20. Love the wholesome way he flirts with Sejal here! It’s not sexy and hot and courtship, it’s “you are my partner, let’s get this party started together”.

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  22. Also, this is the SWEETEST wedding! I love that Irina’s parents are totally into dancing and celebrating, while also still wearing their German suits. It’s very much “come as you are, enjoy”.

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  23. There aren’t that many Punjabis in the crowd, I like to imagine they just sort of put the word out to literally anyone in the community who was available and all these emigres showed up to be part of Mayank’s family.

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    • It is sad that a friend’s encouragement actually forces a break-up. I have unfortunately seen it happen TOO MANY times in real life. Now if I think two people should stay or be together I KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT! But I am older than Mayank, I would have done the exact same thing.

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  29. there’s a great moment I just caught, while Sejal is talking, you see Mayank looking at Harry very worried and tense. Like, he knows Harry won’t react good to this, even if Sejal is just speaking honestly.

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  31. Also Sejal only realized how much Harry meant to her after she returned to India…I think at this point she’s thinking more of the family and pleasing them. Rupen doesn’t even factor; he’s an afterthought.

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  32. I think we can agree part of the reason The Fight is so horrible, is because it’s also so necessary. Like, they are ripping up a wound that has to be opened in order to heal. Mayank started it, and that was a good thing, they had to have the Hard Conversation, test themselves, and then end or decide to keep going.

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  35. Also the thing is I think when Harry asks “do you want to be a ghatiya cheap aurat”…what he’s really saying is, “do you want to turn into ME???”

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  38. Rupen is the MOST BORING MAN ALIVE. And he is only doing this because her sister forced him, and he’s doing it in his work clothes because he can’t take that much time out of his day.

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  39. I think it was right to show Rupen, but not until now. If he had never been seen, he would have been more interesting then he deserved to be just because of the mystery. And if we’d seen him earlier, we wouldn’t have fully understood what a miss-match he was for Sejal.

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    • I think Sejal was the punching bag of her family. The only one who cares about her is her sister. I’m not sure how family dynamics like this get started, but clearly she is NOT a favored child.

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  41. You know…in this scene she’s still trying to get him to figure out they need each other. She’s angry from what he said, yes, but she loves him and knows what his limitations are…and still feels the need to signal that he deserves a chance.

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  42. Genevieve got me thinking about what if Harry had said he wants Sejal to leave her whole family and home and join him in exile, that that would be a terrible thing to ask someone to do. And I think Genevieve is right, Harry sees that as what he is asking, and that it is a terrible thing to do to someone you love.

    But if Harry had more faith in Sejal as an equal, he could have just said “I want you” and let them figure out together what that looks like. And I think that’s why Sejal is so angry. She knows their relationship is crazy and impractical as it is, but she wants Harry to just talk to her and trust that they can figure it out together.

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    • I think you touched on something that is true, in that Harry doesn’t see her as an equal. But he would never want her to be equal to himself because he hates himself. It don’t know how long it will take him to see her as an equal, but it could be multiple years into their marriage. But with that equality will come his own sense of self worth.

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      • I think the fact that she canceled her wedding without needing him to ask is gonna go a long loooooooooong way to solving that problem. She broke her marriage on her own, for herself, no Harry needed.

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  43. The thing about her last line is that she’s telling him that from now HE needs to do the searching. He needs to be proactive. What’s you’re searching for is searching for you…but you HAVE to take the risk of stepping forward a d searching!

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  45. Oh! Sejal thought! Her mother never comes up. Her father yells at the tour company to force Harry to take care of her, her sister is on the phone, but no mention of her mother. Maybe that’s what it is, she has a sucky Dad and her mother is dead, so in this large family she somehow is lost in the mix.

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  46. Sejal is shown in a grey shirt trying her makeup and shaadi ka joda. I’d like to believe this was the moment she went and broke things off. When they were trying her outfit.

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  47. I think the third time was either when she said “what is the point” before he says tour guide line, or her “you have to search for the thing you want to find” at the airport.

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  48. Now I’m thinking about Sejal’s family tree. We know it is a huge family, and we know her Dad and her sister are the only ones who seem to have any interaction with her. What if her Dad isn’t that powerful either? Like the 3rd or 4th son? She has no mother, she has a million cousins and aunts and uncles, it’s a business as much as a family, and she just gets lost in it all, the problem child.

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