Woot! Watchalong! Ive got my coffee, my dog, Im ready to go!
Jaanwar! It’s for rent on youtube, and possibly also free other places and it is soooooooooo good/bad in a very 90s way.
At 8am Chicago time, I will comment “and PLAY” and then we will all go along from there.
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I’m here! Are we watching here?
Here now but I realized it will end at 1 in the morning my time, and I think I’ve got about an hour more in me before I pass out. I will come back and watch the end and read your witty comments though.
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DVD cued up : )
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To purchase Jaanwar was only $1 more than to rent it, so I am now the proud owner of this “so bad it is good” 90s movie I have yet to watch.
And as I’ve got some time I have to tell you my pizza story from last night. The 14 year old has been an assistant camp counselor at a camp created and paid for by wealthy individuals and run by our friends. At they had an end of the year party at the local train museum after hours where they brought in pizza makers who made the most AMAZING pizza! it was thin crust but soft like in Napoli. I ate so many pieces!
But we didn’t know they were going to bring in pizza, so before we left the house spouse made pizza dough in preparation for dinner tonight. TWO NIGHTS OF PIZZA!
I bet Jaanwar has NO pizza in it. Poor Jaanwar.
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Oooooo! Two nights of pizza! I get that too, sort of, in that I have leftovers from dominos last night. It’s not the same.
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That pizza sounds sooo good! Now I want pizza!
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And PLAY!
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Is anyone else here?
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At least Genevieve, Margaret, and me ( :
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I’m here!
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I am here. Sorry was just a few minutes late. I will likely have to jump off early as well!
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Huzzah! So good to have you!
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I feel like we haven’t interacted in sooo long!!! I am so happy to have this watchalong! I hope your summer is going well!
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Same same! Lots of disruption earlier this year (girlfriend’s grandmother died unexpectedly), but things are starting to feel a bit settled and quotidian again. Garden growing, dissertation also growing : ) And it sound like Toddles is growing with a vengeance, too?
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Hahahah growing with a “vengeance” is a very accurate description!
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Whoa, that is an intense skeleton
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Is that an actual bird?
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I did not realize you could eat roti Evil. But this dude definitley is.
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PUPPIES!!!
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This is the least threatening dog scene I have ever scene. Just play with the little puppies! It’s all they want.
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They do look so HAPPY to be chasing the kid.
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Wow this really makes you think about food!
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Yeah, that leftover pizza is looking real good right now
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Ehehehe, breakfast already?
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The TEMPTATION
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Ooooo, the lamp is blown out. It’s symbolic!
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I hope nothing bad happens to the dogs.
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And ma is already dead!!! All that for naught.
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I’m busy typing out another dog-related comment but in the meantime this reminds me so much of poor Sunil being chased by cheerful flesh-eating beagles in “Shaan.”
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BWHAHAHA I always think of the same thing too. Also, I LOVE Shaan.
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Oh that’s nice, Evil Man runs an orphanage. With guns?
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TITLE SEQUENCE!!!!
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I like evil man’s mustache.
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OKAY, OTHER DOG THING. I recently watched (well, rewatched, technically–but I had barely remembered it) this Juhi-Rishi movie called “Bol Radha Bol.” Anyway, spoilers for this thirty-year-old not-very-good movie that none of you need watch, but it’s a double role movie and at one point you think that Real Rishi will definitely be able to convince his family that he’s Real because his faithful dog us there to confirm his identity. But it turns out that Fake Rishi is soooo crafty that he has replaced Real Dog with a Double-Role Dog!!! I could scarcely believe my eyes.
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I watched that movie in my childhood 😂
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Now I’m watching an ad for a pachinko parlor, which is the drawback of free on Youtube.
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Glaring difference between the city lights and the village opening.
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I don’t have pizza and I am hiding from Mr. Toddles so I am having crackers with cheese and fig jam, which is as close to a pizza as I have at home right now.
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Does Mr. Toddles think you don’t exist if he can’t see you?
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UGH! I think so. He starts screaming if one of us leaves the room. But, husband is determined not to give in to his tantrums. He’s also going through a phase where if we take something away or stop him from doing something he looses his mind. And he isn’t old enough to reason with or discipline so we are trying to just take him away from the situation until he calms down.
Genevieve – I will take any tips you may have for the 1.5 year old phase!!!
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If I am a jeweler, I’m springing for unbreakable glass cases.
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I feel like humans are overgrown crows, always wanting shiny things to bring back to our nests.
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I appreciate the the shot hitting the guard was nonlethal.
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“Rangeela” hoarding in background : )
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Singularly ineffective security guy.
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1 against 3!
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Evil Man has a very distinctive interior design taste.
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Looks like they brought out the entire police force to stop a small jewelry store robbery.
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I was thinking the same thing! It’s always property crimes that get the attention, never crimes against persons.
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yes. ANd they KNEW it was going to be robbed and still got there too late!
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I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this first meeting. It actually feels like a street song, and Karisma is so charming, and Akshay is so gaze-y
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But why? Why is she in the middle of the street?
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Busking! She’s gonna ask for money at the end.
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Um, a woman is singing in the middle of the street?
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This is actually realistic! Buskers in the alley.
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The lack of women in the audience gives me the creeps.
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And is also accurate. When I was in Bombay, I was constantly aware that I was the only woman on the street. It wasn’t everywhere, but it was way more common than I was used to.
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Awww, Karisma is so glow-y!
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She is glow-y! And I’m usually not a fan, but I am happy to watch her here.
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I have a real soft spot for her. She often got very blah-blah flowerpot roles that could just be outright boring, but to me she is charming enough that I enjoy watching her even in a really underwritten part.
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Same! And this is a really fun role for her. Totally ridiculous, but lots of juicy scenes.
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Seems like you always see Karisma in these neon colors, but that might just be because she was in movies in the 90s.
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I feel like her dressers are always trying to draw attention to her light eyes, also.
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Makes sense. She looks great in the green.
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Okay, I would not want to fully recline right on that street.
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Ashkay in early movies doesn’t bother me, in fact I kinda like him. But I HATE him now. When he was younger he stood straighter, he didn’t have the odd slouch posture he has today.
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Karisma’s expressions in this song are sooo good!
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Akshay’s hair is so good in this movie. I feel like back in the 90s he could be stunningly handsome, or just okay, and it all relied on the haircut.
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Yes! His hair and his eyes (contacts in this movie) work! And then he had to go ruin it all in the second half!
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The background music is hilarious! It almost drowns out the dialogue and it shows you JUST how you should feel.
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I was just putting in a thing about that! And did you notice they even used the old school “dingle dingle dingle” sound for when jewels are onscreen?
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And the clicky-clicky for Akshay’s rubber-soled shoes in the parking garage ( ;
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the background music: Too much, or delightful?
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It is perfect for this particular movie! OTT just like everything else!
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The world is a very scary place ALL THE TIME according to this music.
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Oh, I had forgotten that her name is actually “Sapna” after that song : D
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He’s got his B I O D A T A
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HA!
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BWHAHA
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Wait wait! It’s Hot Dad from Humpty Sharma! Yes? Does anyone else recognize him?
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Yupp! And the Colonel from War and Pathaan
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And the incredibly scary rapist from Dushman which I now don’t want to watch because if I do that’s all I will ever see him as because he was so good in that role!
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“I’m now out with a shroud on my head”??
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My version does not have subtitles, but wow, that is some translation!
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So the bullets are hitting the ground, thus the clouds of dust. But also, bodies are falling? Is it Dust Poisoning? Or do the richochet and then actually hit people?
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Can’t you see the little red dots on their torsos?
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This is why you pick “behind the whatever-it-was-called quarry” as a rendezvous spot: dramatic dust cloud potential.
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Oh my, Akshay’s face calling the name of his friend! I just adore overacting.
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This is definitely the movie for that!
On a separate note, how was Hawaii?? Or have you not gone yet?
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We don’t leave for another month. But tomorrow we go to Utah!
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Ooh, I love Utah! Such lovely landscapes.
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Oh! My crime podcasts have taught me it is the home of MLM scams! Don’t get pulled into an MLM while you are there.
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Oh wonderful! I hope you have fun!
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Not the telephone lines! Now all those people will be without telephones.
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How are they BOTH walking away from this??? Where they even wearing seatbelts?
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So everyone was wearing seatbelts right?
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Same thought again! You and I are very in sync this movie.
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oooh save the cop who was chasing you! Fantastic.
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And then he puts a gun to your head! Oh great again.
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