Woot, Jawan WatchAlong! For DIWALI!!!! I’ve ordered my coffee, I’ve fed the dog, I am ready to CELEBRATE.
Jawan! Hindi Extended Cut! On Netflix!
At 7am Chicago time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and then we can all comment along from there!
Weekend WatchAlong: Jawan! 7am Chicago Time!
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I was just thinking about you! A friend made me watch a song from Tanz Der Vampire and I thought “I bet Kirre told me about this show”
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Yea maybe I did, though I can’t remember. Great show!
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I’m here but I have to go fix a hamster problem so I may join 5 minutes late. Good morning Kirre!
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Morning! Or afternoon here!
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Umm hamster problem? I’m intrigued!
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Filmikudhi! Is Baby 2 finally old enough to let you join watchalongs again?
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Not quite yet. But mother in law just got here so I am hoping I can do it next weekend or the weekend after!
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Also, to be fair, I could probably do the watchalong with B2. It’s Mr. Toddles who is preventing it. We are in the throws of hand, foot, and mouth disease so he’s a mess!
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Is he snuggly or grumpy? I like snuggly sick kids, but frustrated and angry sick kids are No Fun.
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He’s pathetic and wailing until the Motrin kicks in. Then he’s better. He’s almost never snuggly. He did come and on his own snuggle with me a couple night ago for a few minutes right before bed. That should have been the hint that he’s feeling sick.
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He got out of his ball, because there is a small crack in the ball and the lid got loose, but he is back in it now. And I put some duck tape on the crack!
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See, this is why dogs are better.
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Oh no!!! I’m glad he is back in there safely!
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And PLAY!
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This opening is so pretty. Just, as a piece of film, it’s really pretty. Sets the tone of this being an epic kind of film with a lot of visual spectacle.
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Such a beautiful town! The ants as stitches don’t even freak me out.
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Kids throwing things at a mummy man is just mean.
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Oh oh oh, what god is the statue in the town center of?
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Kali! Of course.
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If the violence weren’t so stylized with bits of light everywhere it would be really hard to take. But it is stylized violence, so it is doable.
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Yea, nicely done
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EPIC opening!
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So he wakes up and immediately knows who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? Not even a second to analyze the situation?
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The little boy who grabbed the kife heading for his mom’s head and smiles at mummy man SRK is extremely endearing.
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The fire would burn his skin, right? It wouldn’t just burn away his mummy bandages? Or maybe because they put the weird medicinal oil on him first it created a barrier?
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Yes. I kept thinking the same thing! It is some flame retardant but inflammable bandage?
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Asking “Who am I” as everyone bows down to you is fairly awesome scripting.
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YES! Followed by SRK’s credit slamming onscreen.
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Love all the introductions!
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30 year later, I love SRK but even with make up the wazoo I can’t believe he is 29. The Dunki shots bother me because he is so made up. I love my old SRK!
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We are all impressed by the Metro, right? It’s SO much nicer than public transit I live with.
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It compares to a clean new BART train in the Bay.
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The giant command center monitoring the train is what I am most impressed with.
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YES!!! This one was shot in Pune Metro
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The split second timing required to pull this off, makes it so unrealistically cool.
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It’s the ability to change into yellow jumpsuits in moments that I can’t believe.
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Yes, we think alike on some things.
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Damn, those ladies sure did change their clothes fast!
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BALD SRK IS SO SEXY!!!!!!!
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The bald cap definitely unlocks some sort of craziness in his performance. I miss the hair, but I love the crazy!
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His hair is so dyed these days it is just a fake mop on his head. The baldness takes away the pretense of youth, rather than aging him it makes his age irrelevant.
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Would you believe it isn’t even uncommon for India… my 70+ yr old Mom still dyes her hair and my dad would if he had any hair left / he wasn’t allergic to hair dye
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This is so SRK consistent. He wants the ladies to do things for themselves and get all the credit, but as soon as they are in trouble, he will show up and save them. Did the same thing in the McDonald’s fight in Chak De!
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The police officer just scooting back without continueing to fight is hard to swallow, but I guess he recognizes SRK as his mummy man from his village, but you don’t find that out until so much later!
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I just read it as him accepting that the best way to preserve life is to do nothing.
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Killed lady has to play dead for SO LONG! THat would be so hard, I think she has the hardest hijacker job.
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She’s got that huge Burka on, maybe underneath it she’s got padding and a pillow and is just having a nice nap.
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Nayanthara and Shah Rukh are so great, both have such fantastic star power, and it never feels uneven
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I really want to agree, but I don’t feel like she radiates personality on the screen. She is more than a pretty face, but I don’t know her, and don’t get to know her in this film.
The minister on the other hand, he sits down and I KNOW him immediately!
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Well, he is a type! But also, I see what you mean, very good character actor immediately inhabits the role.
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+1 I felt this too….
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Here’s what I am wondering, having watched this movie too many times. Did he expect Sanjay to be the negotiator from the start? Was that the plan, that Sanjay would be called and they would secretly be working together? And then somehow Nayanthara got the call instead?
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OH! Maybe?
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It’s definitely why he is so good at the hostage situations, because he has a hidden line on what is happening on the other end and how to manipulate it.
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But he knew about “narmada” ji so maybe Sanju already filled him in on all the scenarios and how to deal with Narmada if she shows up
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And now we enter into Modern India’s Problems 101 – an educational film with bullets and punches and amazing acting.
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YES! And it’s so boring! In a good way. Agricultural minister, that’s the key man, not defense or something sexier.
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Okay, I care about this bank loan plot/explanation SO MUCH MORE than the Dhoom 3 one! Banks shouldn’t give money to weird circus passion projects, because then they have less money to loan to tractors.
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Very difficult to believe that a murderer is giving the eulogy of his killed. But I like the India 101 class continued.
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I think of Vijay as one of those villains who thinks of himself as the good guy. He is doing what he has to do for his business, but he’s not gonna be cruel about it. So yes, he will help support the widow and child, even though he had to kill the husband. And that’s why Shahrukh is so important to him, because Old Shahrukh was the one time he lost, and got angry, and had to truly be “bad”.
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This guy is so cool! He’s got glasses, he’s an everyman, but by golly he is not going to sign off on the building permit! He’s like my Alderperson, who I love, and by golly will NOT be paid off to allow more construction in the neighborhood.
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There is a housing shortage across the nation that directly contributes to our country’s increasing homeless population. Not saying your Alderperson should become corrupt though.
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Oh, it’s opposite. We have a lot of multifamily buildings in our ward, people want permission to tear them down and turn them into single family. So she’s trying to protect the existing multi-units and prevent them being turned into Mansions for one family. And the developers really do not like her.
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The red and blue pills, I wonder why they did them. It seems more realistic to just have him shoot a man, but then I guess forcing someone to take a pill shows more control?
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And, going back to my last comment, maybe it makes him able to think “I’m not that bad”. Because the person took the pill themselves and the pill killed them, HE didn’t kill them.
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Oh come on, he knows he super bad. He’s so bad he doesn’t even have to shoot people to kill them!
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Oh this makes me so mad!!! Waive the freakin’ student loans in America! It’s a drop in a bucket to the money that’s been loaned to banks. Okay, back to thinking about farmers and tractors.
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My spouse was repeatedly denied student loan forgiveness despite teaching of a decade in a qualifying low income school – BUT just last week his loan WAS forgiven! (After teaching at the school 14 years) Basically the government finally followed the program they said they would. It is kinda huge for my family actually.
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I’m so happy for you!!!! Congrats!!!!
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I’m so happy for you! Something very similar happened with husband very recently also!
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Congrats!!!!
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Was her wedding necklace actually worth anything, or was the loan shark just being an ass?
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I think a combo of both. It would have been worth a very small amount of the loan, but he was ready to take it just to cover one months interest.
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Agree with Margaret. It’s worth a little bit. Or the gold in it is. But the government officer wants to also showcase his power and humiliate her. It’s more about power for him than even the money.
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You go dead lady, I still say you had the hardest job!
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I simply cannot imaging heading to a terrorist shoot out in a tank top.
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But she does look super hot!
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Same!!!! And I can’t figure out if she is even wearing a bullet proof vest?
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I’m assuming her vest is bullet proof, but there was a shortage of helmets apparently.
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Anyone else thought how they were just firing on the train, felt like overkill…. Just for drama and plot and bullets raining. It didn’t seem very sophisticated.
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I just assume the building they blow up is both under constrution and empty, and illegally constructed thus proving their point.
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It was an bank office they had emptied out with a legit bomb threat before hand! I made that up, but it works.
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Yes, that is definitely what happened!
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Why would SRK 2 wear bandages like SRK 1 if he didn’t know the whole SRK 1 story? Is it a psychic connection or just a coincidence?
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It was part of the disguise to be unrecognizable for the camera’s and exiting the train. He knows nothing, he just wanted to get away!!
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Atlee said – he just used every disguise possible, bandage didn’t have anything to do with old SRK
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I love that everyone checks their phone immediately, and they don’t notice the message until the next morning, like I would.
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If Vijay were smart, he would jump on this and point out that it was his money which paid back the loans so HE is the hero.
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It seemed to me like it was not his money but he has it because the banks give him 40,000 crores easily but not 40,000 to the farmers? So it may have been just capital he has access to through the banking system
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Hi hi! I am not watching the movie. But I remember it pretty vidvidly so I am joining in on the comments for a bit.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! Happy Diwali!
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Thank you!!
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Thank you!
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These bald caps are AMAZING. His hair isn’t even smooshed.
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Boo to young SRK, I want my wrinkles back!
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THere are SO MANY WOMEN in one cell!
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YES! I noticed that as well. It’s a great jail, but they still struggle with too many women in one cell, and they eat dull food, and all of that. They still have to deal with the limitations of resources.
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Hooray for jail awards, awarded IN THE JAIL! I’m just trying to imagine this in the US, and utterly failing.
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Well, they couldn’t do it in the US, because they are too busy working for below minimum wage to volunteer.
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His foster mother lady is in Tiger 3 too! I spent the whole movie trying to remember how I knew her.
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LOL
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I’m booing young SRK and his make up and wierd looking lips again, and hoping that now it is out of my system.
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The sweet old lady is a terrible lip syncer.
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I bet she is the same old lady in every version and they just used one the Tamil lipsync edit.
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Oh, and SRK sure changed his clothes fast too! Almost faster than the ladies in the train.
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I like to think they kept the poor UN lady there for hours as they did all the costumes and set redesigns and so on.
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ANd the jail becomes a dance club.
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Does anyone else think Atlee is crazy buff for a director?
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Maybe he secretly wants to act?
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Or struggles with terrible self-esteem spending all his time with attractive movie stars?
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Atlee has a great interview with Anupama Chopra… watch it. Basically he said he puts “30 odd” hero entry moments in his films…
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Did the director dance with SRK in the theatrical verson?
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Yep!
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His adopted mother looks younger than him.
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She absolutely is.
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