Happy Saturday! I have my cold coffee and my dog and I am ready to watch this terrible thing!
Ek Villain 2
It’s on Netflix! and it’s silly and romantic and thriller-y and the most available pick I could find for Angie’s celebration.
At 8am Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and we will go from there!
dontcallitbollywood 
SO much can happen in 6 months! An entire movie…
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Virgin John 😃
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Oh my!
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So I was thinking John looked more old than hot in the interigation scene, but I gotta say the man in flannel is arresting.
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Yes. Arresting is a great word for John! And yes, something about the flannel does it for me.
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I never found John to be good looking. And yet when he is on screen, he is ridiculously sexy.
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I was thinking he kinda looks like a lot of people I know – but I live in a town of athletes. When he was younger I admit to believing he was breathtaking.
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I think you are in the majority. He was a very very successful model.
To me, he always had long greasy hair when he was younger. And that was a big turn off. Clearly, I have a particular hair preference.
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I have to admit, I can’t recognize this actress. But she’s better than Tara by a longshot.
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Disha Pathani. Tiger’s on and off long term girlfriend. I think they are off currently.
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And YES! SO much better than Tara.
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Oh, it’s Disha Patani! Tiger’s girlfriend.
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She does seem good. She isn’t likeable, but she is entirely beleavable.
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Now, THAT’S Chemistry!!!!
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YES!!!
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This movie makes you think twice about a smiley face.
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So creepy!
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Oh my, there actually is a tiger. What is this movie????
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I told you
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Exactly what you needed on a Saturday morning after your sink fiasco and busy few weeks! 😀
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Grandpa says he is a Bollywood star like SRK everytime his flannel shirt is untucked, so he says it every day. But SRK no longer wears flannel. But John in flannel, man, he has so many different flannel shirts for this role! And fitted! Why don’t I see more men walking around in fitted flannel shirts? I wish his style here created immitators.
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I would like to stand up and dance watching AA too.
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WATCH THE ROAD!!!!
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Yes!
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I think John is learning bad things about love and money being connected.
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Disha looks fantastic in yellow.
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Something about the young strong Disha seducing old, shy, sexy John into giving up his virginity is kind of doing it for me.
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Ehh, it seemed gross to me. She did not appear to love him, and he had nothing to offer her. So despite his obvious lust and her enjoyment of it, it all seems a bit gross to me.
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In this interlude she is like a male fantasy. Happily dating Dad. ewwww
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Okay. That makes it more gross for me. But I liked the role reversal of a strong young female with agency and sexual experience seducing an older inexperienced guy she wants
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The thing is, the way Disha plays it, her character MIGHT have let it go if her Dad date hadn’t TOLD her too.
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But I do like that her calmly discussing killing is treated like a glitch in the fantasy.
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So Ek Villain 1 was super super dark, but had this whole “magical perfect female characters” thing going in the middle of it. I actually prefer this version where the women are just as grey as the men.
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I agree.
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I think John’s role is made by the casting. He’s shy, he’s poor, he’s inexperienced. But he’s also JOHN ABRAHAM!!!! So I can buy the chemistry.
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For me he was miscast. He is too sexy and muscular to play such a shy and timid guy
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More man buns (on motorcycle). My scissors are itching to come out. Sorry, Genevieve.
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Less hair to grip during a fight!
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Ooooooo, TWIST!!!!! Like it. You never know who is the real danger in life and who isn’t.
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That is John in the mask right, it looks like his body?
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Same thought!
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Okay in reality John would TOTALLY win in a fight with Arjun!
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100%
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FIVE-ZERO! He’s an OLD MAN!!!
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An old man you do NOT want to mess with! On of the best villians in Indian cinema EVER. (Okay you know more about this than me…)
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But have you seen his body? And let’s be real, Arjun is a cuddler NOT a fighter. He’s like a teddy bear.
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The bears can be very ferocious 😉
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He’s FIFTY!!!!
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Hey! Respect your elders. I’m only 10 years younger then him 😄
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Holy $*^&! I’m only THREE years younger. Ugh. That is depressing. Angie 40 is young!
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Loved the fast swish sound of some of the slow motion punches!
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Oh yeah, I know John’s body I actually watch some movies! Go me!
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Very difficult to put the mild mannered taxi driver into the mask wearing murder. Murdering the girlfriend okay, but OTHER people? Ehhh The movie had a task to make this beleavable.
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I’m thinking, he kills his girlfriend to “free” himself from being in love with her, and then goes on a mission to “free” other men in the same way.
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hmmm, so then he was trying to free Gotham/Arjun by murdering the singer?
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I think? Only for once he misread the situation and picked a person who isn’t the normal gross “nice guy”.
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I am going to have nightmares forever about smiley faced masks!
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OMG this sex scene is WEEIIIIRDDDD!!!!!
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It was like EVIL sex
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Going on a “it’s all in his mind” for this love scene. He has some weird hallucination going on.
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Agreed.
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The spouse just limped by and I said “Spouse! In 3 years we’ll be 50!” And he said “Don’t I know it, that’s why I want to get surgeries, I don’t want to waste anytime hobbling around”. So thank you movie and Angie for reminding me of our age.
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How is there one more hour of this movie? What else is there left to happen?
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I expect some sort of twist, like the singer isn’t dead…
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Okay. I haven’t liked a single song in this movie!!! And I (and my toddler) were so excited seeing Kanika Dhillion and Baadshah.
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I don’t understand how ARjun got all his father’s money? Or why?
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Because love isn’t about winning? I am so confused with this movie.
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Not a fan of the purple outfit on the girl. But she also has great hair.
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Ah the 8 year old just snuggled up to me, and the 14 year old was just guilt tripped into refilling my coffee truck, and now the 11 year old has snuggled next to the 14 year old all to watch a movie where the main actress starts out dead and people kill eachother. So sweet.
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coffee cup, but a truck of coffee wouldn’t be bad
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It will teach them about toxic masculinity, it’s a good Learning Moment.
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They are also all watching with the sound off, because Grandma and Grandpa are still sleeping and we only have two headsets!
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This makes me feel better. I haven’t censored anything my toddler watches yet. But also, he does not really pay attention to anything on the TV besides a 10 minute sign language show from PBS. However, I might need to figure this out in the future, right? My parents never stopped us from watching anything we wanted to I feel the same about my kids. But my husband grew up with much stricter rules.
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My parents never censored us either, but we had terrible nightmares when we got scared. Probably just depends on the kid. Mr. Toddles might be a tough guy afraid of nothing.
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Yeah. Husband and I both hate scary movies. And we are both total wusses. So I can’t imagine we would subject Mr. Toddles to anything too scary.
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For context, we were up scared all night after ET. Also, The Little Mermaid. they are SCARY!!!!
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The Little Mermaid has a 16 year old getting married to an adult. That is a bit scary. But I get your overall point.
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Ursula, too scary.
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One of the 14 year olds close friends had nightmares after watching the Lion King in kindergarten.
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I watched Lion King as an adult and I had nightmares about the stampede. Till this day, I fast forward through it.
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Oh and since having a kid, any scene between a child and a parent where the kid watches the parent die really gets to both me and my husband. We were recently watching National Treasure Book of Secrets (another silly kids movie). In the beginning of the movie there is a very brief scene in which the father is killed and the kid has to escape and both of us got disproportionally emotional watching that scene.
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My hubby and I love crime series and we always watch one during dinner. My son grow up watching them too, and for some time when he was 5 or 6 his fav play was to be a detective who must solve the murder case. The victims and the victim were his teddy cats.
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Aw, that’s so cute!
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I love this.
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The time jumps are starting to disjoint me.
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Oh, I got it, he’s gonna realize the love he faked really did change him or something.
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Confused, who beat up Arjun?
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I think the groom and his friends from the wedding at the beginning.
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Okay, and the bad actress realized she did love him regardless of his destroying her relationship possibilites and he realized she loved him so he loved her? How human of him, and how like us to believe that love will actually change someone.
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I know I’m being silly, but doesn’t it feel like they should have an ACTUAL CONVERSATION WITH WORDS in which they express their feelings?
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But that would be logical and not on brand with this movie.
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They are in the rain – how appropriate! but I have no idea of the timeline of when this conversation is taking place.
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The “mera pyar adhura hai” (my love wasn’t enough) is just such a cliched line.
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This is my fav part of the movie! Mohit Suri magic. I love this guy when he makes romantic scenes
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Arjun arms 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
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Oooooooooo! So this is the thing John would have seen and misunderstood. Because relationships are more complicated than “I buy you things, you never leave me”
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I have no idea what you are referring to. I must have looked down to type too long.
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Arjun chasing after her car saying “I love you, don’t leave me”. But it was a complicated moment of messy break up emotions, not just a simple “she’s leaving him for another guy”
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Ohh, and John saw that, or he was the driver, and I was so focused on ARjun I didn’t notice!?
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WE didn’t see John, but I am guessing he was the driver. He overhears couples fight and then takes revenge for the dude.
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“That’s the guy from Paathan. Is he playing the villain?” – 11 year old
“Uh yes, yes he is.”
“Does he always play the villain?”
“Often.”
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I feel like the 11 year old in particular would have good thoughts about boys who think girls owe them friendship.
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“Okay that woman is gorgeous”
And I am no longer allowed to quote my children.
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Was that the 14 year old? Is he growing up? I don’t like it!
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No it was me and I was going to type down the response but then got attacked and to get the computer back I had to promise to never quote my children.
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Don’t mess with that guy! He’s a taxi driver but he works out!
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Okay. I have to go deal with a very fussy toddler while husband deals with two crazy dogs. Be right back.
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Probably angry because no Badshah songs in this movie.
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Life and movie watching don’t often work well together. Give the toddler a zerbert for me.
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Oooh, I learned what the term Zerbert means now. He has a great belly and cheeks for it.
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WATCH THE ROAD!!!! AGAIN!
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Is she making up a story or is it real? The boys and I don’t know. Oh and laughter – this seems like a mind game – nothing is real.
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Her whole existence seems like a mind game, a fantasy from start to finish, even with the betrayal.
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This is the guy who said God took his girlfriend, right?
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Yep! And then blamed Arjun.
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