I am so so so so SO excited to share this film with you! It’s not just Shahrukh, it’s the whole crazy melodramatic plot, and the stacked cast, and EVERYTHING.
It’s on Prime, FINALLY. Prime has it at exactly 2 hours and 29 minutes, so if you find it somewhere else, just make sure it is the same length.
It’s also 99 cents to rent, but I’m thinking you will be willing to pay 99 cents to see this film? With Shahrukh being a baby and the cast being crazy?
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I have this on DVD, because it wasn’t available on streaming for YEARS! Also, here, obviously. 😀
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HERE!
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And PLAY!
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I am so excited! This movie is amazing. Not good, but so entertaining.
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Oooh – they had an English translation of the title!
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Ooo, I forgot Kabir Bedi is in this. He is shockingly tall. Makes Shahrukh look even tinier.
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I’m really looking forward to seeing a younger Amrita and Dimple.
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Shah Rukh Khan!!! First onscreen credit!
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Okay, the first words he speaks in a movie are “Hi Dad”. I feel like there’s a whole essay to be written about that.
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The husband actor heading to the airport was HUGE! He towers over everyone.
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Kabir Bedi! He’s a really interesting guy, very cutting age and unconventional and stuff, and also does a ton of character roles.
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Okay, why are wedding turbans pink? Is pink actually a traditional color of love?
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I DON’T KNOW! I just know they are always pink.
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I think they cast people to match Kabir’s height, and now SRK and the poor Mom actress look like tiny people.
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The Mom especially! It is a movie of giants.
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Spicy sour sweet – basically a girl should be edible. A biscuit like his friend said!
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I am not terribly impressed by the dancing, but I am VERY impressed by the stage set!
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You mean the rising clamb shell – a stage with an elevator shaft temporarily set up for a wedding?
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This singer has the voice my husband makes fun of. Squeeky high. But of course SRK’s love look is so good you forgive her assault on your ears in solidarity with him.
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Hema directed this, and she has a whole second career as a dance teacher and doing shows and stuff. HOW DID SHE LET THIS HAPPEN???
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She cast her students and they weren’t actually that good?
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Possible?
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This movie, THE DRAMA! the CONSTANT DRAMA!!!
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He interrupted a dance number for a phone call!?! Well I guess it was an important call….
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Turns out, if she’d gotten to the phone 3 minutes earlier, she could have learned who her real mother was before her “mother” dropped dead while talking!
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Aw, Kabir Bedi is being nice to the performer he hired. What a nice man!
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Wow – to be told your mother isn’t your mother over the phone! While your mother is on the her death bed, and you miss her death! Wow. A lot has happened in a very short period of time.
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If she was cruely forced to dance all her young life, I’d think she’d be better at it.
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Did she say she was cruelly forced to dance her whole life? Did I miss that?
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Just the little mini-flashback where her Mom threw away her magazine and made her practice.
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Ohhhh The mother gave her a brothel – so she was raised in a brothel? Is that why she is so comfortable hanging out with bare shoulders. Scandalous!
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Yep! And her Mom was training her and keeping her safe and now she has to protect herself.
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I like this Lucknow house because it isn’t as bare as most of the houses I see on indian films. And I guess I like wallpaper.
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Lucknow, the dancing bells, the whole thing is saying she is part of an Tawaif family, raised to be a dancer and eventually make a lot of money sleeping with men. Which I don’t know if was still happening in the 90s? But I will go along with it for the sake of this movie.
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Damn, there is SOOO MUCH I don’t know! Genetically based prostitiution. I hadn’t realized that was a thing.
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Yep, the girls are raised into it generation after generation. And there’s a whole thing about if you are super high class and dance trained and stuff, you don’t lose your virginity until you are well into your teens and it is a whole elaborate sale system. So we can assume that our heroine was raised ina brothel but not yet OF the brothel.
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I think our heroine is a bit over dramatic about EVERYTHING, but I also like her.
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There’s a video of Shahrukh reenacting the disgusted expression she made when she looked at him first. Have you seen it? Poor shahrukh got so much judgment for his looks in his early days.
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But of course Shahrukh isn’t like those other men! He doesn’t want to buy her with money, he just wants LOVE.
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Wait, what does SRK’s dad do?
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Industrialist is all we know. I’m thinking he just hired a really good dance troupe for his daughter’s wedding?
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What is Laila, she is a toy! And I think she is a toy dancer with VERY BIG BOOBS. At least she looks DDD in that white strapless dress. Giant breasted dancer. Ouce, no wonder she wasn’t good at it, it would be too painful to jump.
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Or, she is an actress saying all of this “I’m not a toy!” dialogue, while also stuffing her top.
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I truly do not believe Baby SRK could win this fight. He is a little baby.
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But the pimp is shorter than him! So he has the height advantage.
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I think it is convenient that the pimp is NOT a giant like all the men at the wedding. That way SRK can actually beat him up.
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Who is playing Laila?
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Divya Bharti
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Divya Bharti. She was a rising star and was also in Deewana with SRK. She died shortly after this, falling out a 4th floor window. It’s not clear what happened exactly, suicide seems unlikely, but it’s possible she was just very drunk and slipped. Her husband at the time was Sajid Nadiawala, who is now a big deal producer. In some of his movies he has a little clip of Divya at the beginning.
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Hey, it’s Farida Jalal!
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18 years ago kidnapped, brought to the orphanage when she was 3, so she is 21. I must be jaded to be thinking she is old, I expect this story to have a 17 or 18 year old heroine. Maybe it is her over the top dramatic behavior, it screams teenager.
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In real life, the actress was only 18, so maybe you are just very good at guessing ages!
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Is she that over the top really, for a girl on the verge of being forced into prostitution who has just discovered she has no idea who her mother is, plus the adoptive mother she knew her whole life is dead? I can imagine I’d be more dramatic about this whole thing!
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I don’t think you can ride bicycles like that over rough ground?
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If it is hard packed you can. But soft and sandy = no way.
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ARe we in a flashback or are the women having fun on a bike ride in the present day?
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Flashback! Pre baby Divya entering their life.
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WAIT, is that Dimple in the blue?
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Yes! They fiddled with all their looks to make them seem “young”.
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So she didn’t meet him for the first time when he crashed into her, they knew eachother from before?
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Yep, she was biking to meet him, and then they crashed.
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Do we think the matching fabric on skirt/blouse/scarf is on purpose to show the closeness of the friends? Or just because the film production got a deal on that fabric?
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Why not both? 😀
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Ooooo, this was right when Amrita married Saif! This must be an in joke, having her boyfriend be a prince.
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Honestly, Amrita looks terrible.
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Dimple is great. She does the awkward teenager well.
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Who is the third teenager who flirted with the principal’s son?
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Soni Walia I think? she’s the least famous actress, and hte principal’s son is in his first movie. Hema got big names for the other two couples, and then failed with the third.
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Amrita does not look good in this shirt, but I love her performance. So cute!
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It is true, it is a good performance, even if she looks terrible.
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Have we all recognized Principal Ma’am? She’s horrible Grandma from Kal Ho Na Ho!
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Ah, I couldn’t figure it out! Thank you!
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Youth is like a car without brakes!
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Hema has some sound recording issues.
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I think Principal is talking about sex. Yes? Little does she know her own innocent son is one of the potential sex partners!
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Wikipedia tells me this is based ona super hit miniseries “Lace”, which now I kind of want to track downa nd watch. High society! Fashion! Drama! Secrets!
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I life before sexting, you got to have uncomfortable conversations in front of your mother.
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Well, these girls are totally not worried about breaks on their youth. Boyfriends are dangerous! Be careful!
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