Happy Sunday!!! Really hoping everyone is done with their stupid vacations and stupid family time and stupid other things that are “more important” than an internet watchalong with people you haven’t met in person. But if you are still wasting your life on “real world human interactions” or whatever, that’s cool too! That’s what the 15 minute rule is for.
Bigil! It’s on Prime, it’s almost 3 hours long (so have snacks and coffee), and I am very excited to make y’all watch it so we can talk about Atlee and what his Jawan version of Shahrukh might be.
In a few minutes at 7am Chicago time I will put up an “And PLAY!” comment and we will all comment along from there! Yaaaaay!
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I am in fact done with my stupid vacations and family time and am ready to interact online with people I have never met in person, but have been talking to for years! Happy Sunday.
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Yaaaaay! Happy Sunday!
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And PLAY!
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Putting together some homemade masala chai. I guess that means I’m here and ready to watch!
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Yaaaaaay!
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Apparently, smoking kills! And also liquor drinking. So this is gonna be a FUN movie.
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So many partners. Organizing making a movie must be quite a feat!
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Soccer! Does Bigil mean soccer?
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No, “whistle”!
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Oooooo, I like the look of those beach side buildings! And also this collage. Great architecture so far.
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Gems of the next gen – that is a great phrase.
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I am sensing a set up for a heroic intro!!!!!
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Whose area this is? I’m at a structural loss for understanding what is going on. Cities are divided into specific people’s areas? But it is a good hero intro.
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He’s a gangster! So they are running to the area controlled by his gang.
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Wait, what about the person who owns that bicycle? I hope he puts the chain back.
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Haha
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I bet the bicycle owner will forgive him.
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I like the cartwheel punches.
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The actor in the mirror sunglasses I just saw in another movie recently about a slum high-rise. He’s pretty funny.
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So a guy in charge of a section of city beats up fake cops to protect students who run into his area. The problem is that I can’t think that anyone who controls a section of city is a “good guy”. He is kinda cute, but as I don’t know the actor I am not yet smitten.
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You have to accept the fact that the official government is SO corrupt, the lower classes need a gangster type to protect them. Maybe think of it as a social activist?
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Robin Hood? I would like to knwo how he gained control. but his song is good about explaining his intentions.
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It’s 3 hours, we’ll have a flashback
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The guy in the mirrored sunglasses and you are who you are T-shirt I just saw that Actor in another movie recently about a slum high-rise. He was really funny!
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The south Indian actors show up everywhere!
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Oh shoot, it’s one of those subtitle people who think song lyrics always have to rhyme. “can” and “elan”?
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This song with the old ladies and kids is super cute. Also I like the fake colors.
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And the dance moves make their arms look like helocopter rotors
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Yes! This is the kind of thing that makes me think he would be a fun SRK director. All kids and olds and being the hero of them all.
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FYI, rumor has it this actor is looking into going into politics. His last few movies have been very “I love the people! I will help you!” This song is obviously about him, the actor, not the character. What with all the “fan” commentary and stuff.
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unfortunately that makes me like him less.
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OK, I think I’m getting the hang of this. I promise not to keep double posting. Lol I did finally make it to the dance number so I am a little behind. Very entertaining so far!
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Oh good! Yeah, the watchalong system is a little tricky to pick up. But it seems to work best for us.
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So, in Tamil Nadu, Christian often means lower caste. That is, the lower castes convert to Christianity to escape the caste system. With her hero being named “Michael” and nwo this Christian wedding, I’m thinking he is Christain. But interestingly, his “family” seems to be Hindu. so more backstory needed for that.
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This is the actress who is gonna be SRK’s heroine in Jawan!
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So far I like her.
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I’m trying to figure out what is going on with this wedding thing. He wasn’t wanted, but is there. So she kept not getting married because she really wants to marry him? Okay, well she said it as I was typing. It was super confusing for a bit.
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I love her! And now I want biryani.
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Remarkably empty roads
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Damn, all it takes to stop a car is to throw eggs at it. Good to know.
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I was thinking how lucky I am to have the little spritzy window cleaner function, no one can stop me.
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metal pipes be damned! The hero needs a spritzy!
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I like that he just always has a metal pipe handy.
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If I’ve learned one thing from these movies, it’s that India is FILLED with metal pipes.
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AFter Ajay Devgn’s last film this fight choreography is weak sauce, though I do like the colors.
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Isn’t it funny how good Ajay is at action and how bad at dancing? I would think the two would go together.
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Nooooooooo! His nice friend!!!!
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I fully gasped when I realized his friend had been killed.
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Okay he isn’t dead, phew.
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Gotta check on my masala chai upstairs on the stove but I can’t leave this motorcycle scene.!
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Just let it play, we will catch you up
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Oh no!
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Love the girls. Very uppity and angry.
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The old man cuts in front of all the women who have been waiting becuase they are “in an emotional state” – stupid patriarchy
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YES! That stood out to me too.
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I love Tamil movies. The focus is on the national competition because Tamil Over All! Show those horrible Delhi people! No concern about beating anyone outside India, just taking down the North.
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Noob question, i’m posting through the website is there an easier way to comment, like are you all using an app or something? Finally got my homebrewed chai smells wonderful!
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If you have the wordpress app, it’s easier to comment. But harder to type complex messages. so everyone has different systems.
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Oh, and you can also login to wordpress and follow this post to see all the comments updating.
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Very jealous of your chai! I’m drinking iced coffee because um, the coffee was cold so I might as well make it colder. If I turned on the coffee grinder I would wake everyone up.
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I can post the recipe. It’s not too hard to make you just need all the spices. I brew it with cashew milk.
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Based on this movie I’m going to assume India plays the Mexican style of soccer where forwards are everything, teams revolve around one man, and they usually lose.
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I was gonna ask you my soccer questions. Starting with, this is soccer? Yes? That is the sport?
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Was trying to remember what this style is called, they go over it in the show Ted Lasso. That’s where I’m getting all my soccer knowledge from!
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DOUBLE ROLE!!!!!!! Older Vijay, who is much more “gangster” and serious and less light and fun! Again, Jawan will be like this I betcha.
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Wait WHAT? he is supposed to be a different person now?
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Yep! In one Atlee-Vijay movie, he had a TRIPLE role. And 3 separate heroines. That was confusing.
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And now we are back to original character but IN flashback to meeting of the love interest whose weddings he always breaks up.
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You are absolutely following this movie. Just gotta let it flow over you.
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Okay we went from a 2012 soccer flash back to him going into a rival’s area to kill the rival with a knife? Becuase the rival killed his friend? And why is the rival a rival?
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Aha, no! We are still in 2012. This is our hero’s Dad, who is a lot tougher and rowdier.
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So he inherited the city area? It is like Royal fiefdoms?
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Yep! His Dad protected the “area”, so now he has to.
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Great heroine intro
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Nah her intro was walking down the aisle.
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OK, I’m in the app but of course I missed everything going on. Lol! Why is this woman beating everybody up? And I caught up on the comments too, flashback, got it!
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Some guy inappropriated made a pass at one of her friends so she had to beat him up, with the hero’s soccer trophy.
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Because she is THE BEST!!!
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There is a lot of stuttering in Indian movies. I don’t mind, but it seems a common Indian film trope.
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Maybe it’s because of all the double roles? It’s an easy way to identify which character is which?
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Is stuttering supposed to signify something in Indian film? As someone with an occasional stuttering issue, it makes me wonder.
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See, Dad is nice! Grandpa was horrible, but Dad is trying to break the cycle and raise his son to be a good clean sports person and inspire the neighborhood.
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Was there a grandpa? Was there a third role I missed?
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Just Dad was talking about how he was raised to drink and fight and stuff by Grandpa, but it made him want to raise his son differently, real change only comes when you act better.
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So the fighting guy who got out of the car that was grandpa?
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No, that was Dad. But Dad was raised on violence, so he decided to raise his son to be all clean and good and a sportsman.
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If you ride a motorcycle into a girl’s school she will fall in love with you and break off all her weddings if you are in attendance. Good to know, I’ll tell my boys, I’m sure it will work out great for them.
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Yep, seems like that’s all she wanted.
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Why is there a lecture about illusion in a classroom with a skeleton?
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Their playback singers are GREAT! Although her singer doesn’t sound at all like her, but the voice is beautiful.
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But of course their love story didn’t work out because 10 years later they aren’t married and her dad keeps trying to get her to marry other people.
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Just looked up the song, it was the female singers big break. She’s another young interesting singer that Rahman discovered. He really enjoys playing with interesting new talent. She was 21, and in college writing a dissertation on classical carnatic music.
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I like all of Donald’s T-shirts! Do these movies sell merchandise from the movie like T-shirts? Sort of a semi-serious question lol
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I wish! Indian film doesn’t seem to have learned the value of merchandising.
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I’ll give the actor credit, he is doing good in his double roll, they seem like different people.
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Notice that Dad has a big old cross, and he is flanked on either side by a Muslim and a Hindu. Love the Tamil hard core communist cross-religious stuff.
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Now that we have a moment of soccer=soccer-soccer, I’m gonna go get coffee.
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Oh but your wrong it is soccer = life thus the cut back to his father and negotiations to bring peace to the warring fiefdoms.
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Who is the Jackie Shroff dude watching the game?
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