Happy Sunday! It’s still chilly in Chicago, I am very happy to have a nice slow morning with Tabu and Ajay.
De De Pyaar De
It’s on Hulu! And Hotstar! And einthusan! So you can find it SOMEWHERE.

At 8am Chicago time, I will put up a “And PLAY” comment and we will all comment along from there!
Here 🙂
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And PLAY!
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Ajay is so good at effortless-cool.
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Yes! And this is a great movie/role for that.
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I watched the first 58 minutes last night – Ajay was the ultimate strong silent man, until minute 57.
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Oh man, did you even get to Tabu?
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just.
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Nice hat she’s got there. It’s got sequins…I think?
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Ok I love that little moment of her hand getting stuck in the sleeve while she’s taking her shirt off 😅
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Love her struggling to get her sleeve off!
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Yes! And even before that, she messes up turning out the lights!
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Ajay is very good at watching someone with his eyes.
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What is Ajay’s relation to the groom?
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I don’t think we ever learn. Cool older friend?
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Yeah, I thought just friends too.
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Sloshed and in the bathtub
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She turned the showerhead into a PHONE hhdhshs
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I find Rakul Preet Singh charming in this role. But then, I find all Luv Ranjan heroine’s charming, he really lets them be human.
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It is AMAZING that her makeup didn’t smear at all after a night of drinking and sleep!
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LOVE ajay’s smile during her morning monologue.
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Also, just how much money does it take to have a giant wedding at a castle?
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First time I’m watching this and I’m having a feeling that she’s a slight bit inexperienced in certain things. One being the whole stripper deal where she fumbled over a few things, drank beyond her limit, and rn the way she’s telling Ajay that she doesn’t want a relationship before he’s even said anything.
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He’s just standing there like “oooookaaaaayyyy” 😂😂
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Yes. And I think she has to be inexperienced enough to fall into this relationship instead of hitting the brakes because of common sense.
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She doesn’t fall into it – SHE starts it!
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I should say, inexperienced enough to think there won’t be issues in this relationship.
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“Jo milay, hosh mein milay”. I like that line xD
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I get words bleeped out, it is very annoying.
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I love Rakul’s sari in this song. A lovely simple blush pink with a gold border and heavily embellished blouse. It’s super pretty 🥰
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How did I get so far ahead of you!!! There must have been some big scene cut in my version.
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I’m same as you! Ajay and Rakul are chatting in a bar.
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It’s all the ads on Hotstar! That’s how I’m behind. Plus I started a little late
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Me too!
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Unsure of Ajay’s relationship with his therapist, they seem more like brothers.
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I think they are friends and therapist-client, in a clear massive ethical violation.
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Cute role reversal, having Ajay be the one to catch the bouquet!
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This dude is making a great argument for her to start dating older.
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Ajay is hot here, and yet he isn’t attractive. I mean he turns himself attractive, but in most still shots I wouldn’t find him attractive, older big nosed guy and all. I just kinda love actors, and how they can MAKE themselves attractive.
Also I kinda hate Ajay’s fancy apartment door.
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Ajay was friends with the groom, and he doesn’t like being called Uncle. Does he ever hang out with people his own age?
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Well, there’s the psychiatrist?
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Are they friends?
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This speech to the boyfriend is so great. A macho option would be to throw him out, but this way actually gets rid of him. Ajay’s all about fixing the problem for Rakul, not being cool.
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I love how long this movie takes to get them together, it really isn’t just “she’s young, he’s rich”, they like each other.
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Saif and Kareena are only about ten years apart, stupid comparison.
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The non-stop FULL ON EVENING make-up has gotten on my nerves. Couldn’t they lighten it up for morning? Maybe show her without perfect hair as she wakes up? It kinda visually turns her into a barbie doll. Actually, her constant upbeat highly energtic persona is a bit barbie too.
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She’s young! She has the energy to do full on make-up all the time.
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Ajay is a cool happy guy who hasn’t had time to see his kids in a couple of years. He is rich, he could have them come to him. I just can’t slip past that. It is like I really visually want to think he is cool and happy, but the facts tell me he is weak and pathetic.
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Yep, that’s the point of hte second half of the movie. Tabu “won” the divorce by pretending to lose it, by being the perfect abandoned wife and dedicated mother while he was stuck being the “villain”.
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Exactly, his behaviour towards his kids is actually terrible.
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I’m at the scene between the dude visiting his girlfriend and Ajay and of course I love it 😂
“Indian?”
*nods*
“Punjabi?”
*nods*
“How long?”
*tells him how long*
“Kabootar?” (pigeon)
“Visa” 😂😂😂
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I adore the mugging scene. Adore it – but I know others aren’t there yet – so just know – an awsome mugging in a shockingly clean allyway is coming!
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YES! I also love it. Including the hurting his hand with a punch.
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With an extraordinarily FAKE punch too!
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This is such a great post-mugging scene. No magical falling in love moment or anything, just fun joking fighting.
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Their relationship creation and growth is really well done. Except for her make-up.
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Spouse just brought me coffee. He is not rich but has not moved to another country abandoning his children. Therefore my life is better than the movies!
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Congratulations!
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I kind of agree that he’s being a good friend, I think. they can’t just keep floating through this love story without having The Talk, might as well do it now.
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The deck furniture – with the wicker but not, wicker really bamboo – is super cool.
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Oooh I love the star earrings.
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To Genevieve’s point, I think this is where the movie starts to embrace “Ajay is a loser” as part of his character. He may be cool, he may be in love, but he knows he is a failure at the most important things in life.
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He just gave a busker a FIFTY POUND NOTE ffs.
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So in his little speech after the therapist frenemy bursts their buble. He says he has been a bad father. And then he says later that he is just living the day. Which is in truth a recipe for being a bad father. No one actually wants to wake up and a change a diaper while it is happening, or take kids to sports practices.
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I saw it as “once I failed at being a father, I gave up on doing anything real in my life again”. That is, he started living for the day once he was thrown out of his kids life.
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hmmm. okay.
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Anyone else getting shades of JHMS in this breakup? Everything’s perfect until a friend pushes them into reality, and now they are agreeing that they might as well end it sooner rather than later.
Except in this movie there are real-er reasons than in JHMS. Although it’s the same “we broke up for sensible reasons but now I’m miserable” follow up.
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I know a person who married and then became a father at 52. Kids are the same age as mine. ONe of my close friends growing up had a father that was in his 70s when we went to college. He was a friend of her grandfathers, who showed her mother around town when she went to college and well…. There were issues, but he was her dad, and he was a better dad than a 15 year old would have been. There is a 30 year age gap in my neighbor’s marriage. So I don’t feel age is a real-er reason. BUT the wanting and not wanting of children is.
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I actually could see a couple JHMS parallels even beyond the breakup, like how Ajay’s tendencies in a fight is to defuse a situation or how Rakul wants to push him into giving straight answers. I think DDPD’s Talk is a bit more levelheaded and less passionate that JHMS’ Fight. Harry and Sejal aren’t in the right headspace to hash things out rationally (tho Sejal really tries) and Ashish and Ayesha actually get to calmly talk about issues that they weren’t clearly confronted earlier.
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I kinda feel like that is film language for maturity – the defusing a situation rather than fighting.
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And margaret – here are the failed brakes of sensibility. They get a whole song.
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I’m at the mugging scene now and I love how Rakul’s just giving stage instructions throughout lol
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Kind of rude to her date, did she even say goodbye?
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No, it was horrible and childish, which might be the point.
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So as they arrive in India and Ajay deflects all difficult conversations with a “look at the mountains” “look at the clouds” I get the sense that he has practice in avoidance.
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Yep. And that he becomes a worse version of himself the closer he gets to home.
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Jimmyyyyy 😀
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Tabu’s entrance is fantastic!
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Love that Tabu is the terrifying sexual threat, and the young girlfriend is afraid of her, instead of the other way around.
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And with the word “Secretary” ALL cool and happy dissapears!!!
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OH AJAY!!!!!!!! Yep, he’s now the loser in this situation. Terrified of all the women around him including his daughter.
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