Happy Sunday! I’ve got coffee ordered and being delivered shortly, the sun is out, Albie Dog has been fed, let’s do this thing! With the usual priviso that if no one shows up within the first 15-20 minutes, I cancel.
Baazigar! O Baazigar!
This is either the first or second SRKajol movie, I can never remember which. Definitely Shilpa Shetty’s first film. And it’s crazy and 90s and cute and over the top and all good things. Also, available for rent on Prime.
At 8am Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY!” comment and we will go along from there!
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And PLAY!
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Wow this movie starts abruptly! Censor certificate, and immediately crying child begging for medical care
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Yeah I was totally expecting to see the certificate and…nothing!
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Sniff. This poor kid 😭
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Yaaaaaaaaay! Another person is here!
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He diagnosed her with Massive Shock based on her pulse and checking her eyes?
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This is how pregnancies in some films are diagnosed too hehe…I’m remembering Amar Akbar Anthony now.
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Sad scene, but also Raakhee’s hair is GORGEOUS
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The Kajol credit appears immediately after the kid’s revenge-dialogue.
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There are so many Deewar references in this film but esp with the way they’re doing the kid scenes I think.
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I forgot, this movie has some awesome visual touches. Love the flying photographes.
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Shahrukh!!!! With green eyes!!!!
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I like how they specifically chose a green eyed kid for that role just to make sure we got the significance of SRK’s contacts/Ajay’s eyes.
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Oh man, I want Halwa. Is Ma still sick with Shock?
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Yeah and quite stuck in the past. She still thinks Munni is a baby.
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His voice is shaking when he starts lying about Munni and his dad 😭
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The Maasi is a neighbour who regularly checks on them. Ooooh….I like the symbolism of that coin in his garden.
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Mmm windswept Shahrukh 😍
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Man, Shahrukh is so good in this role!!! Having seen all his early films, this performance is better.
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I also like the foreshadowing of Ajay speaking of searching for something, in the car of the man whose identity he’s about to take to find the “success” he’s looking for.
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I’m amazed Johny Lever hasn’t been fired yet.
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Shilpa’s outfit is super 90s cool! As is her hair.
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“Chopra Saab toh college Gaye Hain” 😂😂
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Poor Ravi, taking her notes so she can go meet her boyfriend.
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Both the Chopra sisters have guys who are nuts over them but fated to stay in unrequited love with them, coz they both love Ajay.
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Maybe there’s a “if only he hadn’t entered their lives, it would ahve worked out as it was supposed to” message?
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Seema, like me, has a thing for nerds 😂
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Ooooo, this is what I was talking about with the “pre-Sharam” kind of heroines! He totally gaslights her later on, but at the start at least she is in control of the relationship and super forward.
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ACK! I overslept because I accidentally set my alarm to PM! I missed the first song!
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I forgive you! Glad you could make it. We are 20 minutes in
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I HATE the butt zipper!
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Shilpa Shetty is one of those rare humans who actually looks prettier older.
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She’s had a lot of cosmetic surgery / work done so I’m not sure it’s to do with age
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oooh, I feel bad for thinking someone actually looks better after surgery…
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Well I guess if it’s done well, it works. Rekha and Sridevi apparently also had a lot of cosmetic surgery
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I never understood the 80s and 90s penchant for double ponytails.
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Kajol is definitely the lead of this movie. Look at her intro!
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Kajol is entrancing.
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I like that a boyfriend becomes extra lectures.
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Daddy is SO EVIL!!!! Let the workers have housing!!!
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Baazigar has a lot of bg music that later becomes an actual song. Like how Ae Mere Humsafar has the strains of Ishq Hua in it.
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Gabbar Behen 😂
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Shilpa is sooooooo tall.
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WOW those nightgowns!
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Are these nightgowns or robes over nightgowns?
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Oh, I remember this scene! Shahrukh is soooooooooooooooo sweaty
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The stands by the race track look like the they’ll collapse in a stiff wind.
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“I had extra classes today” is making me die laughing 😂😂
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I had to get dinner so I’m a little behind
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Ah, different eyes! So this isn’t the same Shahrukh as before1
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His eyebrows are so distinctive you can reconize him even when they are the only part of his body you see!
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I love how “we don’t care” this movie is. Daddy races cars! They have multi-course breakfasts! This is what Rich People are like! It’s all a fantasy, no need for logic.
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You mean rich people DON’T have multi-course breakfasts!?!
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My mother in law is watching with me, but we both have headphones on so that we don’t wake the rest of the family, so I can’t actually explain anything to her because she can’t hear me!
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HA! Kajol just randomly strangling nad shoving a dude in the stands!!!
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She’s a firecracker.
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This is Madan Chopra’s final race in more ways than one!
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So sweaty!
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YUCH! Sweat sweat sweat sweat!
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Rich people, when you want to thank someone you buy a car from them! Also, Kajol looks so young!
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She is so young! She’s either 17 or 18 in this.
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