Good morning! Fair warning, I got, like, no sleep. The neighbors had a backyard party that lasted past 1am. So if I go silent for a few minutes, don’t panic! I just fell asleep at the keyboard.
At 7am Chicago time, I will put up an “And Play!” comment and we will all chat aling from there.
Chaahat is on Netflix, nice clean easy to stream copy.
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Here! (A little early, but the film’s downloaded and Netflix is on!)
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Sleepy and here 🥱
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Howdy!
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Hi 🙂
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And PLAY!
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I am so excited to share this with y’all! It’s very wacky.
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Not sure if I’ve ever seen this. . . if so, it would have been a VERY long time ago. So I look forward to discovering it/the wackiness!
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Always a good sign (to me) to start with camels!
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I’m gonna say this is Rajastan? Lisa, can you provide any further detail? Anyway, somewhere beautiful and less urban.
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I’m pretty sure this is Rajasthan!
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Thank you! I figure anything similar to Paheli is Rajastan.
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Anupam’s attire, SRK’s name is Roop, the puppets and I saw a pink palace
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One more proof it’s Rajasthan! Anupam’s speech sounds very much like the dialect spoken in Rajasthan
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Another one! SRK mentions dal bhaati!! V popular Rajasthani dish.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, Mahesh Bhatt!!!
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Camels! Is this set in Jaipur. Has to be Jaipur. Look at the puppets
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Glad to hear that my pistachio-eating habit may lead somewhere.
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Ok definitely Jaipur. Think I see Pink City.
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Oooh, I’d forgotten this hilarious song!
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I am very much enjoying the white tourists.
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Okay, Anupam’s little cloud of smoke is pretty funny.
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So this is a traditional crossed with modern performance? I’m trying to think how it would have been sold in the hotel brochure.
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Iiiii read the Wiki and I see some sombre foreshadowing, coz there’s reference to hanging here 😭
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Plane cutout! So adorable!
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Okay, this is the start of the cool gender reverse stuff! SRK and Anupam are playing out a forced marriage which is usually more of a girl thing. Especially the whole dragging him to the marriage alter and him running away and stuff.
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They really committed to this skit omg
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There’s a mandap, there’s a pandit actor, there’s a HORSE
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Nice ! In a theater at the time theaudience laughter would been wonderful during the opening.
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And now rich westerners are trying to buy SRK to come to their hotel room! He’s totally an Innocent Peasant Girl type character.
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Ever since Filmikudhi pointed out to me the usual meaning of “biradari” I hear it in dialogue all the time. What will the society say?!
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Also known in Hindi as “log kya kahenge” 😭😭
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Ah! Treatments! in the city!
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Log being the word for people
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Okay, that laying down camel was absolutely there before they started filming and refused to move.
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I’m not a doctor, and I think I could have told Anupam that coughing up blood is “not a good sign.”
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Owwww. The irony! Bombay being dangerous.
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Also another role reversal here but more parent-child – SRK is the one doing the emotional blackmail to convince his dad by talking to his dead mum.
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Okay, I know this, this is Bombay. TATA! I like the Tata family, based on basically nothing.
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Tata was the only hospital to go to for cancer treatment in India for a long time!
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Ok so wait, why was Anupam not there for his wife’s cremation. Is this some stray detail they will never reference again? 🤔
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Yep!
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I was getting the sense that it was emotional avoidance–he’s unwilling to face that he has a serious illness now, earlier he was unwilling to face that his wife had actually died.
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Nuts raisins = handsome + beetle leaf = sweet singer, check!
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Prepare yourself for the most awkward party ever! Lots of guests who really commit to that “I am standing in the background of the shot with no expression” kind of performance.
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You’re right–this party SUCKS.
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So he has lung cancer possibly.
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But he will be fine with Treatment.
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Or oral cancer
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Ramya Krishnan!! Future Sivagami, right?
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Yep!!!!
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Naseerji is not doing well with that cigarette.
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Thank heavens for dubbed dialogue! How would you manage to talk like that?
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Naseerji and Ramya’s relationship, supposed to be a bit creepy and incest feeling, yes?
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It’s definitely, uh, intense.
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Hon Minister super sloshed and barely coherent.
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Mahesh Bhatt just can’t resist getting political.
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When Naseerji wants to be scary, he is soooooooooooooo scary! Has anyone else seen Asambhav? He plays a Gangster and is mostly kind of a joke, but when his best friend Tom alter is killed he suddenly gets SCARY
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Weaponized Febreeze!
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😂
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Oh no. What’s he going to do to the creepy minister.
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Ok phew just pitaai. Nasserji does have the vibe that he could do worse than that.
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I think when the Hon Minister is dragged out is when I would want to leave the party. But also be afraid to leave if told not to.
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Oh I love how chilling the bg music is the entire time the Minister thing is happening
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Shahrukh is really good luooking in this song, I can see why Ramya is all about him. Very innocent handsome young vibe.
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And the song’s really good, they picked the right moment that she’d be so affected by the song that she’s get “drunk” on it, literally and figuratively
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I’m mostly impressed that all of this music is coming out of that little Squeezebox instrument he has, must be some kind of early synthesizer or something. Casiotone?
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It’s the Indian instrument called Harmonium – https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonium
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Yes! Absolutely. One of my favorite instruments 😊
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Ramya is serving the vampiest looks in this scene and I’m here for it
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By which I’m talking about the way she’s looking at whoever she’s targeting. Whether Hon Minister or SRK.
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VERY different from the only other performance of hers from this era that I’ve seen (as a gutsy banjara girl). She’s really sexy here!
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Okay, BRB, getting coffee and breakfast. y’all keep commenting without me
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Gotta love the instantaneous drunkenness women always experience in Hindi movies – one big slug and she’s away!
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Stolen from Naseer’s glass, no less! “Gotta turn the drunk switch on, one moment.”
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Is the puzzled-looking fellow in the purple tail coat and ruffles meant to be the musician they had originally hired?
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Oh he’s engaging with her as the person who collaborated with his song, she’s engaged with him as someone she really wants to seduce.
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