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.
Ok, my version just lost subtitles for the last five minutes. Looks like Akshay’s running from the police again, so I guess I know what’s going on.
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Oh you must be at the Akshay is bullet proof part!
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Wait is Karisma forcing Badshah to marry her?! You go girl!
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Yep! And she’s even rejecting his “why should we care what everyone things” with “uh, because we live in The World?” like a good practical person.
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ANOTHER SONG! Which means I guess I have time to heat up pizza
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Pea green is NOT Karisma’s color.
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I cannot explain how much I hate her outfit. The colors yetch yetch yetch!
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I really like the next outfit though!
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The blue outfit with all the detailing around the hips? I didn’t like that as I thought it was unflattering, but the blue was a definite improvement.
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Oh thank goodness she changed clothes!
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I also don’t think this color is the best on her in particularly, but at least it’s a pretty color.
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I like the blue on her. Much better suited!
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Meanwhile, Akshay has been rocking several variations of the “Accountant on His Way Home from the Office” look.
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It’s because he’s in Criminal Gang Upper Management. He has to dress the part.
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Wait, Fantasy Song Karisma is feeling guilt over going Too Far before marriage? In a Fantasy Song????
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HA!
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Wow, I guess I should have read the words.
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Hmmm… now that I think of the words of the song, I think she’s already had sex and worried about what will happen if he changes his mind on marrying her?
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So they had sex!!! I never assumed. All the nosy neighbors were right!
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Maybe? I am definitely speculating. The entire song was her saying don’t change your mind and then the scene that shows her worried about going too far, just makes it seem like maybe they had sex already.
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No matter what country, it is a universal film rule that if you plan to meet at the temple/church/registry office, something will happen and you won’t both make it. People should just always leave together for their elopements.
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I don’t care if Akshay is arrested, but I really don’t want him to miss his wedding! This shows that I care much more about Karisma than him.
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Alternative Opinion: the real villains of the movie are Karisma’s neighbors
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Definitely her uncle!
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And she had those flirty girlfriends who fetched her for the wedding party! So you would hope that there might be some non-Akshay person to stand up for her in that situation.
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It’s Filmikudhi’s Mr. Toddles!!!!! She can’t escape him!
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It’s TRUE!!! I was literally thinking, OMG that looks like Mr. Toddles.
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Awww! This connection will be fixed in my head now : )
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So he has run away, missed his wedding, didn’t go back to find her, and is adopting a toddler by the river?
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Yes. That is literally the plot of this movie.
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But they had sex, is Karisma going to be unmarried and pregnant?
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No. Akshay kind of feels like a guy who would have a condom, thank goodness.
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Why didn’t he go back to Karisma?
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I don’t think there is a reason? Plot?
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Duniya badalti hai; mausam badalti hai ) :
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Isn’t the toddler’s mother famous?
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Yep! Both parents! Shilpa Shetty from Baazigar, and Mohnish Behl from everything!
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Shilpa Shetty.
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Uncle is SO EVIL!!!!
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Mom’s name is Mamta (mom’s love). Karisma’s name is Sapna (dream). They were going literal with these names huh?!
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Why, why did he come to her so late? Stupid plot.
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She is really leaping to a lot of conclusions based on him holding a toddler.
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It would make a lot more sense for him to have a hidden child than for him to have saved a drowning kid from the river. He did stand her up on their wedding date after all.
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But why jump to “you are married and were cheating” instead of “you have a child for a variety of reasons and could still be single”
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Okay 8 year old is watching and is calling Karisma and idiot because she doesn’t “get it”.
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It’s TRUE! She doesn’t take even five seconds to ask questions.
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He stood her up on her wedding!!!
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That kid is old enough. He would have probably loved the jalebis more than the milk!
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Has Mr. Toddles only had that one thing of milk all day? Also, does Akshay have daipers?
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humans don’t poop in movies.
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Ah
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HA! Nope. He should have kept the jalebis too so the kid could have a snack later!
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Possible but not super convincing explanation for why Akshay might not have continued on to the temple: they had set a specific time for the rendezvous and he was all like “so will you be there???” at Karisma as though he feared she might not turn up and, if she did, might not stay. (Translation: dumbassery.)
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Perfect translation!
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Yeah, that detail I was pretty sure of ( ;
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Strangely, not the worst way Akshay has abandoned a baby orphan in a movie. Way better than the time he left a baby in a basket in a rain storm in Heyy Babbyyy
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Ehehehehehehe : D What lives filmi heroes lead.
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I do love that there is a love separations song for the child. I have always been confused by movie’s elevation of the romantic relationships over all else, when the bonds between parents and children are so much stronger.
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Oh, you will love the second half of this movie then!
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Of course then the song turns into a separation song with Karisma…
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Oooo, I forgot this bit. Connecting his orphan misery with the baby, and he has a chance to save Mr. toddles from that fate.
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Akshay is not an attractive cryer
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Why did they pick a white kid or a mostly white kid for the toddler???
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Surely they had to take whatever kid had parents willing to put him through this?
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But it is India. There are a billion (literally) Bollywood obsessed parents and kids who would be willing!
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HORRIBLE news to report. I took a mid-song break to go fetch a piece of cake. I was convinced there was exactly one left–but they all must have gotten eaten last night. Miffed and cakeless : /
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😦
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Oh no!!! That is terrible! If there a cake delivery option?
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Alas no, although I do have a gift card that can be parlayed into cake once Downtown Restaurant opens at noon. . .
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Oh man! that is horrible.
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Does the cop hate Badshah so much because he saved his life? I mean he isn’t even the kingpin of the gang?
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1) Actual kingpin Sultan is still in Sultanpur, where Supercop has not thought to look. 2) Even from first meeting (prior to car fire saving incident) Supercop was all “I know you’re not the big fish but I still know all about your career and you deserve to be arrested regardles” at Akshay.
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8 year old is really worried about Badshah. Fully anxious. These subtitles are just at his reading level in English.
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Prepare him, Badshah is fine but has gone on a radical hair journey.
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I have to drop off! I hope everyone has fun watching the rest of the movie and a great weekend!
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Say Hi to Mr. Toddles for us! Congratulate him on his film performance!
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Ha! Will do. 🙂
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Bye! Have a good Saturday!
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Farewell, friend!
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So, Akshay called Jonny there so he’d have an audience for his monologue?
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OK, toddler is safe with Akshay and I can’t keep my eyes open anymore. It was nice watching with you all, and I’m off to bed.
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Good night!
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Sleep well!
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Wow look at the hair! So stringy! It looked so thick when it was short.
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I like the mustache.
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Isn’t it kind of hard to learn how to be an ironsmith? Did Akshay have previous training somehow?
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“You must forget all that now” Great advice from Indian movies
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Shila Shetty has blue eyes?
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Nah, I think it’s more contacts.
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Which is strange because they Shilpa who has brown eyes blue contacts and Karisma who had blue eyes brown contact?! But whhhy?!
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Ugh, grieving mothers are the WORST dinner guests.
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Alternative tagline for “Talaash.”
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HA!
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Technically I think she was actually the dinner host. But man, was it an awkward dinner.
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I’ve decided that siblings really complicate film plots, and that is why there are mostly only children in movies.
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Full on baby nudity. My kids would have killed me if I let them act in Indian movies as toddlers.
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Here you go Genevieve, a nice parent song.
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That dog is so dopey looking
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Genevieve! Tell 8 year old he should be singing you love songs and wiping your brow!
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Kid ages like 8 years but Akshay looks just the same. No haircut or growth or mustache change at all during that time.
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He got it to a good length and then started trimming.
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Side note: I always like Mohnish Behl and it’s nice to see him get to play a non-negative, non-Barjatya role.
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Same!
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Agreed!
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Even a twig would be better than your finger to brush your teeth!
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“Is the boy a girl?”
“No, the boy is a boy.”
“Why does he have lipstick on?”
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Gender is a Social Construct
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genitalia is very real however, and we saw it.
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True.
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I just laughed out loud. Sad I missed this in real time!
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So I guess in the intervening years, Shilpa has worn the family down to accepting her grieving
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Oh, and the orphan’s family is rich too!! Ah movies.
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shilpa’s lipstick matches hier clothes so perfectly. So I guess if she has to wipe her mouth, the stain won’t show?
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he he he he
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