Pathaan!!!!! Normally I’d say “if no one shows up in 15 minutes, I’ll cancel”. But I’ve been looking forward to watching this, so I don’t care if no one shows up, I’ll just happily watch by myself.
Pathaan
It’s on Prime, it’s got SRK, it is everything happy and good in the world.

At 8am Chicago time, I will put up an “and PLAY!” comment and we will all comment along from there!
I wish they’d put another song in for the club scene, sigh.
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I think it might have added a bit too much for this plot within a plot within a flashback
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I forgot we were in a plot within a plot within a flashback, my brain doesn’t bother with structural overviews!
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The chemistry between these two is just FIRE
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I want Dips pink corset look here. Just so stunning!
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For some reason, this is the one Dips outfit I can’t get my head around, It’s just Lingerie! Worn as a shirt! At a coffee shop!
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It is modern fashion! Corsets are back in style, and she looks good in them.
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Knowing that boobles was Shahrukh’s own thing just makes this even more funny
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This backstory is so Other the Top! But by this point in the film, I am here for it.
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It is the meta Shahrukh origin story, beyond the character there are just so many callbacks to his previous roles it can’t be seen as anything other than meta and what he means for India and cinema
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This sequence is Amazing!!! I love that this is his big hero thing, saving kids by risking himself, not taking down the bad guy.
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KISSSSSSSSSSS
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He’s a GENTLEMAN
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Not in his dreams that night, and you know it!
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How did they change so fast? Putting on these outfits alone would have taken me 10 minutes
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It’s always green liquid. I assume because it reads well on camera, but also that’s RIDICULOUS. Why is everything dangerous in the world green liquid?
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Just occurred to me, why is there a fire hose IN the safe? Surely the safe has sprinklers? And isn’t flammable anyway?
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Oh yuch, I didn’t need this scene.
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Why add this and not another Dips item song?
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I don;’t like this new thing where everyone speaks English with American accents. I prefer when foriegn movie English was Vaguely British. now I keep thinking I should recognice the acter as American.
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Or maybe people from other countries learn English in different ways, and thus the accent being American just means that is how the person learned how to speak English with that accent, Margaret. I am not American, but I do slip into an American or Posh British accent when speaking English depending on the situation
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Again, using SRK’s tiny tininess in the fight scene! He is faster than the big guys, and more flexible, he doesn’t have to be as big as them.
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I just got a text from Filmikudhi, her class IS playing Pathaan songs.
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My whole theatre screamed when Salman came on screen! Best day ever! And yeah, now I get the appeal. My town is full of Bhai fans, is what I have gathered.
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The two of them together is so great!
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The best 2 in 1 movie deal for all
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Dimple’s hair is still so nice thick and bouncy
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Okay, that scene is a fun add. Although it ruins the crazy surprise of the team coming through the roof.
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Sid really loves to have an action scene in the snow with driving vehicles involved
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Except in Bang Bang, when it was the Middle East and Sand. Maybe he just likes big open plains of extreme weather with vehicles?
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Yea he certainly has his trademark when it comes to these sequences
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My brother was so tickled by Deepika’s random ice skating, he’s brought it up about 3 times since.
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Oh great, this is a new scene too. So much angry yelling scenes, and no new songa nd dance scene.
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John is just such a great villain. The raw charisma, the striking looks and the great voice for such dialogues. Uff!
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It’s a great speech, but I don’t like the pox on her face. They could have said “it’s a new strain, no visible sign” and she could give this speech looking pretty.
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Yes, but how else could we have seen the gravity of the situation and how it shows up on the face, considering how it plays up at the end that visual cue is needed
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How the hell can Shahrukh have chemistry with even the person he is interrogating? Like, time and place, Pathaan, geez
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Great Helmet/Hair shake moment. very Baazigar vibes
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See, here’s where SRK starts to win. And it’s because he goes farther than John can imagine he would. Chasing him down by any means he can.
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Deepika with that gun is just LOVE IT
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This is why bad guys should never use facial recognition.
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Literally every kind of flying is in this movie: commercial plane, private plane, helicopter, jetpack, 21st-century Icarus wings…
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Just missing a hot air balloon.
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Oh, true! That would have been cool.
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I had a friend point out that this means John really truly never planned on anything besides revenge on the World. Before the negotiation scene, before getting payment from the General, he had already put the virus on the plane heading for an International Airport and set to go off right before it lands. So it would manage to infect not just the people on the plane, but everyone at the airport before they got on their planes.
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They played Pathaan songs in my class!!! So I don’t feel as sad about missing the watchalong!
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Come join us for Jhoome Jo Pathaan!
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Dhoom and now Pathaan…John really has a habit of being the villain who falls to his death
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Alternatively, Baazigar and now this, SRK has a habit of throwing people to their deaths.
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No wonder they make a good match here!
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And Fan! That was the scene I flashed back to watching this.
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FAVORITE SONG!!
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Yay! Jhoom De Pathaan!
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I was thinking, the Tiger-Zoya love story is about them running off together so they can builda life blah blah. But Pathaan-Rubai seems to be about “we really don’t care about building a life together, we are just going to have secret meetups a few times a year and not change our lives otherwise”.
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This mid-credit scene is just so great. People who left early really missed out, but if they heard about it later, at least it guaranteed another watch
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I love it soo much!
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Newsbies won’t get it, but I just love how this is just purely for those who have been fans of Hindi cinema for years and know the subtext
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Do you think they had specific actors in mind when they had this convo, or are they just saying random things?
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I think one might be Hrithik, but otherwise feels like they and we, too, know that the new lot isn’t going to threaten them in the slightest in terms of superstardom and even the ones that are called ‘superstars’ are manufactured words, but not really have such a devoted following for years like these two have
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When I was watching it for the 10th time yesterday in honor of the watchalong, I was thinking that what they are saying is kind of reflecting what I think as audience. When a new actor comes along I have interest and I’m questioning whether I can love them like Shahrukh and pretty soon I’m like naah
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Just sneaking in to say that I’m super jealous! The timing just didn’t work for me, but y’all have a blast! 😛
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Mine didn’t really work out either. But looking forward to reading the comments later.
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Thank you for this, Margaret! Loved it! Have a happy weekend, everyone ❤
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Such a great movie!!!! So glad it’s streaming, it’s gonna be a good one for playing in the background and not paying a lot of attention.
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Thanks all ❤ have a great weekend!
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