An afternoon watchalong! Radical! And Dil To Pagal Hai, a movie I find dull, but SRK is charming and the songs are okay, so I will survive.
Dil To Pagal Hai
It’s on Prime, and available for rent at all the places. My second least favorite Madhuri-SRK collaberation (Koyla, Anjaam, Gaja Gamini, Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam, Dil To Pagal Hai, Devdas), but undeniably a hit and important in the great Shahrukh Khan story.
At 4pm Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY!” comment and then we will all comment along from there.
dontcallitbollywood 
Howdy : )
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Yaaaaay! So glad you are here
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I got popcorn and water and am ready! Oh, and this afternoon I discovered that I am 180 pages into the WRONG scarlet pimpernel book! I accidentally am reading one that isn’t the first one! That is what I get for buying used.
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Oh no! Well, as you can see, it is a very easy read so you should be able to finish the RIGHT one pretty quickly after you start it.
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And PLAY!
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Do we not have Naina?
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, YRF logo music! I feel so cozy.
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Hi be there in two
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Yaaaay! Just fast foward the movie to however many minutes it is past 4pm, we started on time.
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Huzzah! Hope you are doing better after whatever all happened this week ❤
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The idea that things are pre-ordained is something I’ve always had a hard time swallowing.
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This movie will be painful for you
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Okay, I forgot this opening, it is pretty cool with the talking heads. But already Madhuri feels about 10 years older than SRK. Even though I know they are the same age, he just comes off young and she comes off mature.
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I was just going to say so! It is like they open by showing you how ill suited they are for eachother, and then throughout the film, they fail to convince me their opening sequence was wrong! It is like SRK is pursuing his mother.
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Kinda like Udit and Lata in this song. . .
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Ooh, I had forgotten this opening with all the couples sitting on the bench. Pretty cute c:
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OMG! Did you catch Adi and his first wife in with the couples???? It was quick, but I am sure it was him.
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I didn’t but I did catch Yash as the last couple!
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Awwwww! Last couple was Yashji and Pam Aunty!
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Yay Pam Aunty! My favorite Chopra : D
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This is the movie that made me realize spandax is not actually flattering. I’d been brainwashed by the 90s.
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Weirdly, I’m kind of into the first set of costumes in this song. The second one (bodysuits with slashes), however. . .
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NO! NO TO THE WHITE COSTUMES!!! NO!!!!
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I wonder if they went for dancer over actor for the best friend role if I it would have made the whole scenario more believable for me. I mean just thinking that SRK and Karisma are these amazing dancers is hard to swallow.
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And then I think would it fly if Juhi were in the role, but then Juhi was never an amazing dancer either.
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My subtitles had “In love’s first game of hide-N-seek” XD
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I am neutral on the 3rd costume. 4th, I am anti both knee pads and tummy shirts.
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The red ones are pretty good! And take us out of aerobics gymspace hell. I genuinely like the “le gayi le gayi” step, too.
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Where are you now?
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8 minutes, Lage Lage
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I’m at 8:18
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Ok I am there now.. somewhere in the middle of le gayi le gayi!
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SRK just showed up! I don’t buy him as a dancer, but it’s a great intro.
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Not just a dancer but a director of a dance play lol
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Karisma is miked? So she’s singing AND dancing? Talk abotu talent!
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Notice she is miked only for the last bit 😛
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GREAT SRK entrance.
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Hard to beat a jump through fire.
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I love love this song. When i watched it in the cinema… there were people throwing coins in the Indian single screen theatre… even in the balcony!
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WordPress is making me login for every single comment. WTF!!!
I love the SRK part!!
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It did that to me for about half a day last week but eventually stopped. Not sure what is up with it or how to stop it, but the error isn’t happening for me right now at least : P
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Now I’m stuck on the phone
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I solved it by logging in a new window in incognito mode. Go figure.
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Accurately eager glugging of giant bottles of water post-performance.
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Did he just straight up pour a bottle of water over his hair?
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He danced for a whole forty-five seconds! A man’s gonna get sweaty!
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Hello everyone sorry I’m late. I skipped to where he is thanking everyone…. that about right?
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Hi, Harley!
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Hello! Shelomit! 👋
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Yep, now they are sitting around talking
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“She comes in dreams”
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Sounds like Lata is about to sing
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It’s an outdoor theater? So do they just shut down during the monsoon?
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Carefully scheduled for the dry season.
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No it would have a waterproof tent!
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Just speaking for myself, I have never worn heels, make-up, and flowing white clothing while running through the fields singing to myself. Am I missing soemthing? Would this make me a film heroine?
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CLEARLY you don’t come in dreams.
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😂
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She is just a myth at this point
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Is Maya beautiful? (and in my head I think – “Yes, in a motherly sort of way”) Also she is going to get grass stains on her white clothes laying down like that.
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Oooo, right, for those who missed the first 30 seconds, we have established that this is a Soulmates universe with a Magical Mystical Connection.
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Hey, Auntie is Simran’s mom!
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Yeah! And I am guessing, not that much older than Madhuri?
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18 years older
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17 years, if Wiki has got them right–not as egregious as it often is.
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Wow! Either Madhuri’s matronly vibe is strong, or Farida looks ridiculously young or both.
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Madhuri’s matronly vibe is super strong. Even in the photos of her when she was a 15 year old baby she looked mom-like.
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There was a choir performance at the Elementary School yesterday, and it sounded not to different from Uncle.
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LMAO. Did they at least drone their harmoniums on the correct note?
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Nope. Singing on key does not come naturally apparently.
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The translucent clothes were very scandalous in my conservative family.
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I wondered about that! It was scandalous to me watching, but my American Desi friends said it was normal.
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Maybe for American Desis… completely not. Constant mumbling in the movie… scandalized. For me I don’t even find them pretty or suiting madhuri so it is annoying
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Mostly I find them more weird than sexy, but Karisma’s thing here of translucent blouse over patterned chola is pretty fetching.
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Is just me or does this friendship seem completely staged?
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So far the whole movie feels stagey to me. I think I have to get into the vibe of it.
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I did not buy the Akshay and Madhuri friendship but I guess the whole cassette thing must have been not having their dates at the same time.
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Whoa! Karisma bare back! Scandal! although a great way to show how casual they are together.
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Pretty sure there were big whistles! 😛
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Madhuri is not built for Spandax, have to say. She is built for saris.
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Yes!
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So true! They make her, and her amazing breasts, look SO BAD in this film.
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The dancer painting in Karisma’s bedroom I never noticed it before.
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This song is Shiamak Davar and we were so looking for it everywhere after the movie. Pre internet couldn’t find it for years and years
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As in he’s singing
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Oh cool!
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Anjali, just marry Uncle Kapoor’s son. You know him, he is presumably nice, you have things in common. Don’t hold out for The Only One For You.
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Gosh this arranged marriage crap is so YUCK and her counter argument even more YUCK. But my 13 yr old self was very taken in… neither holds true in my adult life. No soulmate and no arranged marriage 😛
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Godddddd I want an indoor hammock.
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Go for it!
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I think Karisma is the best character in the film. No wonder she won a National Award
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She is logical and rational and open and honest
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I don’t think Karisma is necessarily the most skillful actress, but she is always giving it 100%. That effort really pays off in roles like this where she’s meant to be the “boring” girl or otherwise not whom you’re rooting for.
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Maturity-wise SRK & Karisma’s characters are a perfect fit.
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So why is there a car in the studio?
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It is saying cool without the cool necklace
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YRF just has the one set for dance studios and garages. For real, I actually think thye used this same set re-dressed for Dance Pe Chance!
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Have you noticed how often SRK is grabbing Karisma and she is making an “ouch” sound? I think it’s supposed to just be “he treats her like one of the boys”, but Karisma gives such a vibe of delicacy, and since she never hits back, it has an interesting undertone of “he doesn’t realize how fragile she is and how much power he has over her.” I think that’s one thing this movie does really well, Shahrukh realizing Karisma loves him and worrying about that, without leaping to marrying her or doing anything, just feeling responsible.
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It seems to me like a cousins type of vibe…. definitely not him even seeing her as a woman / girl
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Yes, absolutely! This is one of the earliest roles where I felt that “sexy tap on/off” talent. He can play totally unsexy with a costar just as easily as sexy, and that is HARD. Jawan, Chak De, with Kareena in K3G, and with Karisma here, you believed his character absolutely did not see the women around him as sexual.
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Yes!!!!!!!! Love him 🥰
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Very well observed!!!
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Wonder if he’s gotten accustomed to it from doing it in RL with women falling all over him
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Good point. I’ve certainly seem that in interviews, he will tun on a bit of flirty-flirt when appropriate, or not at all when it isn’t.
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Yes!!!
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Love this song! SRK so cute
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Gotta say that beige is not a dreamy color.
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At least it’s not spandex.
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I think Madhuri’s white salwar with the split sides is the most flattering/least weird costume for her so far. If only they had made it a color. . .
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IF SRK is choreographing these in studio rain dances he is a dreadful choreographer.
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SRK is really good at the dancing in this song. Because it’s the sort of “conversation and acting while dancing” stuff that he does really well. The “I am a precise choreography genius stuff”, not sure if I buy that.
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You know, I don’t think I’ve ever gone shopping with my spouse.
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I feel Karisma is way better dressed. And again this pic has a subtle message that the guy goes for the woman who dresses in Indian clothes, not western
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True!
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