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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ANd I ADORE that DAddy SRK is listening to music through his son’s dramatic speech!
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Cop dude totally forgot to solve the big mystery of his village until just now when he was reminded? And ultimately it was as easy as looking up some old military records?
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He heard the name he told Alia?
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Parelal that just hit me. Azad feels a father to Suji within minutes, and that is a bond that cannot be broken despite no blood relationship, or even logic to it. Daddy SRK feels nothing for Azad despite the close blood relationship and all the logic of it. And Suji’s biological father clearly felt/feels nothing for her. So it’s a movie that privilages the parent-child relationship, while also saying that it isn’t always easy or simple.
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And while I feel the strength of the blood relationship, in that Daddy SRK protects the son he feels nothing for, it does highlight the beauty and need for the relationships without blood ties.
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This guy, he played her loyal co-worker so well his evil turn is a true surprise!
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Yes! I loooked up the actor, he’s in his 40s and has been working steadly for over a decade. So yeah, he is really good and they knew he would be good when they cast him.
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I like that this movie has no problem showing us a bunch of dying kids ina hospital, but by golly Suji is never really afraid. She’s in danger, but not super afraid, so it’s fine. THAT would be upsetting.
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Dunno how come I woke up so I’m here for the last bit. Where are you all?
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2 hours and 6 minutes
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Now 2 hours and 8 minutes, coming up on Lakshmi’s death scene.
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The “Papa!” moment is such a good laugh! And SRK plays it just right without milking it.
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He just does such a great job in all his roles. Really three, or even four. Young Daddy =1, Jailer Azad = 2 Terrorist Azad =3, Old bewilered Daddy =4. He is just great in them ALL!
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So Irani is stomped to death by women, yes? I am okay with that, he threatened Suji.
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Do they not have painkillers in the jail? Also, how does Daddy SRK know to do the paddle thing?
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AND WHY does he do it instead of the doctor Sanya?
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And why is Nayanthara still holding her hand the whole time and yet is not electrocuted?
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But also I gotta admit that I’m pretty sure operating those paddles is not rocket science. THE PADDLES are the rocket science part, us humans just stick them on another dying/dead human’s chest.
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Is it me or was this the world’s crudest surgery? No stabilizing her, just going in! I’m at the Laxmi lying in the hospital bed scene
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Yep, same place! And YES! Eeram is supposed to be this dedicated doctor and she just chops her right up.
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She was a general practicioner, not a surgeon!
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Then try to stabilize her, give her blood and call a real surgeon?
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I saw Vaibhavi’s interview yesterday and she said SRK had to wear prosthetic makeup for the younger part, took hours to put on.
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The previews for Dunki that I saw he is slathered in the make-up, I’m not a fan. I want my wrinkles! Also I’m old, so an older action hero is fully sexy. Sean Connery style.
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Yeah, Dunki makes me nervous.
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I think the double role story made it tough in Jawan
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It just hit me, none of the backstories we see are a rape-revenge situation. The female character are so much more than just sex objects, even in the bad things that happen to them.
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SO TRUE! So no one has to jump down a well because they lost their “honor”, I appreciate that.
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Yes I loved that
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This one is so predictable – we will take it from here and something will go wrong obviously
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Cocky young woman! But again, feels like the cockiness of youth versus age, nothing to do with gender.
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I felt it was a bit like – oh the girls make a mistake, clumsy all of them and now Zaddy and team has to save them. I wish they had found some other way to get the zaddy in, instead of a the woman’s gun falling off
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Bewildered DAddy came in and saved a totally screwed SRK once before, so I can fully believe he knows he will be needed again.
Moral: You can’t do everything alone, we all need to help eachother, especially when battling a corrupt government system and super rich “businessmen”.
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Zaddy putting headphones while riding a bike – isn’t this a safety hazard?!
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His existance is a safety hazard! He has no longterm memory!
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life is a safety hazard! I would be more worried about his lack of helmet!
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Car rolling- so Rohit Shetty
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Those are 2 thousand rupee notes? They were “invalidated” by the time this movie came out. Lol
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What year were they invalidated?
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The year Dear Zindagi came out. 2018? Something like that.
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This year
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Sheesh! I somehow missed that. Well, no way for the movie to avoid it then, they finished filming ages ago and must have hoped no one w ould notice.
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They were valid until September I think. When I arrived I changed mine at duty free, bought a water bottle and got the rest back in other denominations
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https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/what-indias-decision-scrap-its-2000-rupee-note-means-its-economy-2023-05-20/
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Okay, that motorcycle is a safety hazard! If it is that explodey, it shouldn’t be on the road.
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Spikes on the road, so simple and yet effective!
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Gosh I can’t watch them getting hit by the baseballs
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Santa Claus can play baseball. Suprised it isn’t a cricket bat. Must be the capitalism is bad symbolism or westernized sports.
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They couldn’t look at him and know he’s the jailer and not holding then hostage? Is there an investigator? How can they miss it?
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This mufasa dialogue got massive massive applause and whistles in India. I didn’t even hear the following samosa dialogue
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Naina brought up the 2 thousand rupee note issue, which takes me to the timeline questions! If we are 30 years after Daddy SRK went missing, that means Azad is 30 years old, and it is 2018. But Suji is 10 and Nayanthara had her in grad school, which means NAyanthara is at least 32. So I am going with it being 35 years after Daddy SRK went missing, making Azad solidly the same age as Nayanthara, and Daddy SRK maybe 64. Those numbers make sense to me. I will ignore everything that goes against it.
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Why, why why why kill the short guy?
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Ho ho ho from Vijay sounds like a rooster crowing
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I was thinking of Sanjay as an interesting casting because of the prison connection, but it just hit me taht he was also called a “terrorist”. Huh.
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Hero entrance, even if you don’t know the actor, you know he at least USED to be famous! Ah, I love the ugly old Indian heros.
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Yeah, Sanju Baba is super ugly-hot! The most ugly-hot of all time.
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Gosh I can’t tell how to tell these are ugly. Like SRK was called ugly in his early career… I just can’t see the ugliness
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I love me my BALD man! Go bald go bald go bald…
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Are these bullets fake? Nobody dies with the bullets raining
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Maybe they women knew they would all have really good body armor?
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It is the movies, people have really bad aim in the movies, except when they have really good aim.
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I just watched Tiger 3, which follows the standard theory that the hero can just outrun bullets. There may be a machine gun shooting at him, but he just needs to run really really fast.
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yes 100%
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So how did Azad jailer man get all the guns for his inmates?
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Because he was secretly working with Sanju the whole time!
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I loved thot scene with Sanju throwing pebbles
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The Indian citizen jibe – aadar, voter , pan card – how indians living for years told to produce documents to show they are Indian citizens
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I’m just so worried about DAddy SRK during these negotiations…
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VEry UNfatherly to send his adopted daughter out into the fray!
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Clearly I am heartless, 100% of other people have had that reaction, I did not think twice about it.
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I did not think of it at all, I felt yes that is obvious so send the kid who obviously won’t be hurt in this
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Debate eveyr time I’ve watched this movie with someone: Should they have sent Suji out instead of literally anyone else? Didn’t even occur to me on my first watch, but yes, I guess it is a little dangerous to send out a tiny child alone?
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It makes for great cinema, but I can’t imagine an actual parent ever okaying it. The first instinct is always protect.
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It was not because he knows Sanju!!!!
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I bet voting machines aren’t stored in a centralized place???
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Oh, I thought this through! If it’s literally in the middle of elections, then they would have to travel around the country to each state for voting. So you just have to hijack the convoy. Also noticed on later watches, it’s the same road as the money trucks, on purpose. The money trucks are going to pay off the voters just ahead of the machines arriving in other trucks.
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Love it how they are preempting the questions re: logic of machines being held hostage to make the plot convincing
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Did you notice when SrK said head of state his lips said “president”?
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Yeah, I’m thinking there were hot debates over what term to use!!! Head of State is brilliant, because you could argue it refers to multiple people.
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Nope. Thanks for the heads up.
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I believe India has a Prime Minister, and a President, two separate roles as check and balance to each other. So “Head of State” is a nice dodge saying it could be either one.
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Except the president has no executive powers. Think of like the monarch in England…
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The theatrical version didn’t have the mobster threatening Vijay. And I think that was a good cut. I don’t need Vijay to have the excuse of pressure on him or whatever, I am happy with him just being evil for the sake of being evil.
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The mobster is weird. I mean Vijay is essentially the mob, there isn’t really a difference between his corrupt businessman empire and the “mafia”. So having this other with a pet leapard is oddly James Bondish, and less India 101.
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I like the original concept of Vijay literally selling his country to the highest bidder. But there’s no need to follow up on that idea, it lives for itself.
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It’s a lecture, but one of the few movie lectures that works.
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SRK wishes Sanju Happy Onam… clearly they are acquainted and in cahoots!!!!
This speech so apt ahead of election yr
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I assumed everyone knew what Onam was. Of course I didn’t so I just looked it up, and I guess it is only a Kerala holiday?
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Yep! It’s a huge Kerala holiday, which makes me wonder if this was all to get the southern audience.
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Yes … basically it is a nod to SRK knowing that Sanju’s character’s wife is Malyali (from Kerala) so therefore they are acquainted
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And clearly he is going after the southern audience! Oh right, I wanted to look up if Sanju’s wife is actually Malayalam. And…..nope! Muslim, born in Bombay and grew up in Dubai. I guess she could still be Malayalam heritage? but I’m not finding anything.
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No, it is just the character’s wife in the movie. How he says earlier that he needs to be home by the evening for Onam with his Malyali wife
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My one critique of this film’s political statement, it is only in this speech that SRK mentions education reform! I would have liked if we could have had a whole hostage situation about the government schools just like the hospitals.
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You want a 4 hour movie!?!
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Yes! With a scene where the education minister is challenged to pass a standard school exam using only the resources available to public school students!
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The ministers are often illiterate so that could go sideways. Besides how to create a life and death threat out of it
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Well if the kids are alive then they can get an education – away from chemical toxicity, their farmer parents dying and/or hospital inadequacy. India has still high mortality for babies and mothers in child birth etc
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Kalee is named after the God Kali who helped bring Daddy mummy SRK back to life to save the village, so of course he can’t kill Daddy SRK!
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How does he hear DP calling out Vikram? In his heart?
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Of course!
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Most iconic dialogue!!!!!
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Fully believe Dips ghost would be there ready to wake up her bewildered husband to save their son.
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Great performance from SRK doing the shift from the automatum no memory or feeling Daddy SRK to suddenly a whole person again with his feelings back.
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The kiss thing is so so cute and lands so well for me.
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This fight has so much “flying”… they are suspended in the air for way more than seems natural with gravity
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