Happy Saturday!!! This is a last minute WatchAlong, so I’m not sure if anyone can join. I will give it 15 minutes and then give up. But if you can join, this is a delightful insane 90s twins romantic comedy and you will like it!
Jeans
It’s on Netflix (yaaaay!), it’s a little less than 3 hours, it has a great soundtrack and beautiful young Aishwarya, and a bonkers plot. Also, lots of USA scenes so it’s appropriate for the 4th of July weekend.
At 8am Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and then see if anyone joins me!
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Gonna watch it while charging my phone coz the battery on this is low. Hdhdhhdgd this is going to be a riot 😄
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Also, the BuzzFeed video on it mentioned that they used jean cutouts as promotional material hehe
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Ok so correction – it wasn’t a Buffzeed video, it was a Netflix one featuring a few popular South Indian Youtubers… mainly for the promotion of the movie on the platform!
(The reaction vid reminded me that the film had a pretty cute caption to go with the title haha – “Cotton 0%, Love 100%” 😄)
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And PLAY!
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Love this bg music. AR Rahman was the composer IIRC??
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Yep! His relationship with Shankar is almost as long as RGV and Ratnam
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And now I’m screaming “PLAY!” at my TV because Netflix is being stupid and slow. I’m gonna have to fast forward 2 minutes to catch up.
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They clearly buy two sets of everything…even underwear
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I really appreciated the tighty whitety shots!
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It’s that guy! Who plays the evil great uncle in Bahubali!
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Nice touch with the DNA lecture!!
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This vision of America feels very Pardes-like, doesn’t it? Bright lights, fun times, clean and rich and happy. Ah the 90s!
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Yes and even the aesthetics aren’t as flashy as they’d become much later.
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YES! I tried to watch Pardes the other week and couldn’t find it with subtitles anywhere but Einthusan, which I can’t watch on my big TV, so I saw bits and pieces of it where I kinda remembered what they were saying.
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It’s a restaurant that ISN’T OPEN ON THE WEEKENDS???? Wait, they are doing residency, is their hospital also closed on weekends?
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The dad probably gives them the weekend off 😅
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I don’t love the checkerboard jackets.
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Is it a blazer worn OVER a leather jacket? Odd.
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Why is this man trying to blend lightbulbs 😭
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This is kind of a nihilist song when I listen to the lyrics. The world is falling apart, let’s just forget everything.
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All the damage to electronics in this song is giving me heartburn 😭
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I absolutely relate to the grandma jumping in joy seeing a fellow Tamilian 😄
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So is granny’s love for achar (pickles)
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I had this same issue last time I went to India! Well, not really, but I was worried about it because Indian addresses are sooooooooooooooooo long and specific. I had it written down in a bunch of different places to make sure I had it right.
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I just have to point out that Aish is so amazingly gorgeous!
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I’ve got a subscription to a community garden that gives me piles and piles of veggies every week, I may have to learn how to make pickle.
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You can make them out of meat and fish too! My mum always makes fish and buff meat pickle
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Stick fresh veggies in a pickle jar from which you have already eaten the pickles. It won’t keep so long, but it tastes good!
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Aish was clearly sinking into secondhand embarrassment all through this trip 😅😅😅😅
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Aish’s outfit is RIDICULOUS!!! She is so sexualized with the hat and tiny skirt and everything. I guess I like it that she is modern and western, but it’s also kind of extreme.
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Both the siblings have “honey” in their names. Madhumita and Madhesh
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Madhu being the word for honey
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Oh! The nectar thing the Gods eat! Right? That too?
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Ohh that I think is Amrit! And there’s soma-rasa which is basically alcohol IIRC 😄
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Visu calling this case “like chewing gum” is making me yell when I know what’s going to happen afterwards 😭
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Visu better bring Paati some oorka (pickles) fast.
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Aish is tooooooooooooooo skinny. It’s crazy when you see her from the side.
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I need to see her shoes, I think they match her outfit?
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Poor Madhesh, not even his own people get his name right 😅
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A “stomach wash”? I don’t think that’s a thing. You really aren’t supposed to eat before surgery!!!
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Also people saying Maghesh I think may be an indicator towards how often h in words of other languages gets replaced with g in Tamil.
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The shoes DO match the rest of the outfit!
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Paati’s like, I’m probably going to die tomorrow anyway so let me enjoy today
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I think Dadi’s dress is actually better than Aish’s
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Paati does look great in that red gown
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Also I got reminded so much of her in Julie in those Western clothes!!
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Wait, she’s in Julie? Is she the Mom?
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The older film…the one about the Christian girl who gets together with a Hindi guy and has a kid out of wedlock.
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I think it was released in the 70s? I’ll check after this film ends.
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Found it! 1975
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The only other movie I’ve seen the Paati actress in is the Hindi Hulchul where she is HORRIBLE. I mean, a great actress, horrible character. I have a hard time thinking of her as trustworthy here and not about to start a vicious family feud.
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She was the lead actress in Julie…that was the film that made her famous. Sridevi was in it too as her younger sister!
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Really? I just assumed she played Moms straight through. Now I need to look up young Julie photos.
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I just thought “wow, Aish looks really great in jeans” and then I remembered that’s the title of the movie!!! It all comes together.
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The goofy family side-kick is a better dancer than the twin hero actor.
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Omg they got the wrong name 😭
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How DO you goof up something like that! 😭😭😭
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American hospitals are useless
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Glad Aish has a nice serious black dress for Serious Scene. they really are using Aish and her clothes as 50% of the visual interest in this film.
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I got very worried when she splashed water on her face during the operation that she would smear her make up.
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At least the Madras hospital wouldn’t mix up Karishma and Krishnaveni 😭
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Best practices in America now is to confirm and have the patient sign and initial the area that needs the operation right before it happens. I had to do that with my bunion surgery on my foot, it felt really silly to use a marker to initial the correct foot. But apparently that is the only way to avoid these issues!
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Did they REALLY need to slow-mo Visu throwing those papers on the desk 🤧 Was it REALLY that necessary
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I’m just so impressed by all the doctor’s linguistic abilities. They can totally understand him even when he isn’t speaking English!
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Look how nice these white doctors are! Makes me feel good to be American.
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Ok I do like the way the hospital tried to handle it. Is it the bare minimum? Yes. Did it still feel good that they took full responsibility and tried what they could to fix it? Also yes.
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Two million dollars!!!!! Maybe put that check somewhere safer than your book?
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Why is she so happy when her grandma has to have a second surgery? And how can Grandma be up and about so fast after two brain surgeries?
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They are making Grandma cook right after she gets out of the hospital????
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There little singing game makes one grateful for playback singers.
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I do love Aish in these cute summery dresses. She looks cute.
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This scene is killing me, I gotta go quick get coffee and a snack
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Good Lord Madhu I’m sure you could find better keepsakes than rubbish off the floor 😭😭😭
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I love the Rakkamma song!!
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Madhu has also figured out how to tell who is Ramu and who is Visu I think.
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I’m feeling bad because I haven’t! But then I remember it is actually the same actor, so I don’t have to
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I take that back! She mixed them up at the airport.
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Clearly the guy she was about to confess to was Ramu coz Visu is looking a lot more glum, sniff
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Nachiappan is a lot nicer now coz Madhu’s not a non-twin about to marry one of his twins yet!
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Visu…you coulda just bought the flowers later! 🤦🏽♀️
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It’s the duty free! It’s not going to disappear!!
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Now it isn’t Madhu having secondhand embarrassment, it’s ME!!
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The airport scene lost me. I realized I didn’t really care about their love, and only liked Aish’s character in that she was nice to look at and I could have cared less about the twins. So I’ve been half watching, while gardening and cooking ever since.
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Yeah I feel like Shankar spent too little time building up that romance in his need to move ahead to the main conflict about the dad’s obsession with twins. I do find them sweeter during their confession and after that but I can barely remember how they got to that point!
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