I’ve downloaded from einthusan, we’ll see if that works better than streaming. But I will probably still be complaining because it is all weird.
Chori Chori
Light happy rom-com with Rani and Ajay, who wouldn’t love it? At 7am Chicago time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will all comment along from there.
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How close is Shimla to Delhi?
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8 to 10 hour drive
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!!! my WordPress avatar is from this song! From “Mera Gaon Mera Desh.”
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Soooo good!
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So this story is MOSTLY true. But I still like that Ajay isn’t buying it, he can’t just behave like everyone else in her life if they are going to have a healthy relationship.
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He is so brooding and weirdly sexy in this movie!
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Yes. That’s why I’m here. I saw the photo Margaret posted and I felt I must watch.
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Hahahaha. It is a very Angie hero… i think!
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But what is her plan? If I were living secretly in someone’s home I would try to hide and she does the oposite!
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I think she’s not good at plans. I think she just tries to talk herself out of it as she goes.
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Do you need to know basic addition to plan?
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What Margaret said. She just kind of figures it out.
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Well she accidentally bought furniture from his family so she COULDN’T hide.
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I like that Rani took time both to make the tea and do a quick hair wash.
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I love! That she just calls Ajay out on his crap! And makes it work for herself!
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I like that the grandmother knows something is remiss! But it doesn’t stop her from accepting and loving Rani!
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Ooh, I love the gradiated/bayalage-type outfit.
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Now *I* want baingan bharta. Harrumph.
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me tooo!
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Rani’s eyes and smile are just incredible in this movie!
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You know what it is? Rani is the ultimate in leaping in without thinking and just DOING something. And Ajay is the ultimate in sitting back and staying the course and being steady. He needs someone to wake him up and she needs someone to steady her.
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Oh… her name “Kushi” means happiness… just an FYI.
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Everything Rani wears at home looks so comfy-cozy.
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So young and tortured! Ajay was good at the young and tortured, and now he does the old and tortured…
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Filmikudhi, have you seen the Steve Martin original? I watched it years ago and I still remember some parts. It really dug into what is truth and what is a lie. It has the same plot down to his family owning a furniture store and that’s how she accidentally tells them they are engaged. But by the end everyone has just embraced the “reality” that the heroine has created. They fell in love, they got engaged, he built the house for her, that is the new truth and it’s true because they choose to believe it. Or something like that. Steve Martin gets DEEP.
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Yes I have seen it but it’s been soo long! And yes! I agree. She basically makes her dreams come true. I will have to watch the movie again but I remember when I first watched the hindi version I remember thinking similar to Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin, something about this movie feels more poignant in the Indian context!
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Rani’s soap-opera-type “acting”! The giant stop sign hand in the face! OMG!
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I was literally laughing out loud!
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I LIKE Shimla.
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There were soooo many pretty landscapes to admire in the background of scenes. I think my favorite was at the end of “Kehna Hai” when the whole mood suddenly changes and they’re silhouetted against the dying light along that hillside.
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Rani feeling insulted on behalf of her entirely fictional parents ( ;
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She is such a nautanki/dramebaaz!
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I adore this song! I actually like all the songs from this movie!
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You shock me! I had no idea you liked everything in this movie
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I know! Everyone is surprised! 😀
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So is their dance in Pooja’s immagination or are they REALLY dancing in front of her to make her jealous?
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I think they are really dancing. Which is AWESOME.
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This was a lonnnnnnnnnnng wait to get to a song. But I like it!
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There was the wedding song at the begininng of the movie!
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Aww a mountain song. I miss them
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Genevieve, are you still reading the occasional Crusie? There’s one called “The Cinderella something” that has this plot. Sort of. Our hero is an uptight professor who gets a job at an old fashioned small college and has to have a wife, so he asks the flighty hippie type woman who lives in his same apartment building to pretend to be his wife for a year until he gets tenure.
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Oooh, I’ll have to order that one!
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Here’s my favorite part: he’s an uptight historian but he has to struggle to get tenure because he is researching Margaret Sanger! So there’s a little something special and rebellious deep inside too.
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EPIC hair flip from Sonali.
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Why do I find Ajay so attractive in this movie?! he’s sooo grumpy!
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This song reminds me so much of Tum Dil Ki Dhadkan from Dhadkan. Looks almost like the same park.
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So we’re almost half way through the film, and I just can’t help wonder WHEN he is going to realize that Pooja is a duffer?
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I have an awful feeling it won’t be until Rani does some huge sacrificial thing and is “rewarded” by Ajay finally loving her.
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Yes. I know I am hormonal but this makes me teary eyed!!!!
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Rani is getting all the love of the family… and yes, I am crying!
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Is she trying to glue rather than nail a fence together?
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Yes!
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Oh and now we have a song with strong tabla/drums part. Another thing I miss a lot
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me too
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It should be unhealthy that she is falling for him because he treats her so terribly, and yet somehow I am allllll for it. She needs someone to be practical and burst her balloons.
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But he was rejected from by his “true” love for being too dreamy!?! How has dream man become Mr. Practicality?
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Because she’s made him practical by being even more crazy than him!
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I feel like I do some version of myself (mostly in a professional context). I’m not great at pragmatics on my own, but if I’m teamed up with somebody who REALLY isn’t, I suddenly become Ms. Logistics to make up for their defecit ( ;
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HOW Rani can be falling in love with such a grumpy grump is beyond me, but he is cute.
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I know!!! It makes no sense! And yet I get it!
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Oh yeah, this is the most flattering kind of Rani outfit! Backless, lots of waist showing
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Baby is watching it with me!
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Don’t let her fall for Ajay! It’s an unhealthy male ideal!
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HA! Good point! But I hope she’s as bindaas and awesome as Rani!
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As always, please say hello from Internet Aunties! When will Baby get a DCIB-approved nickname, I wonder?
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I am taking all the suggestions. Please suggest away! Maybe Rani (Queen) or Kushi (happiness)? I am open to anything else as well!
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Filmichoti?
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Oh, Khushi is SUCH a sweet nickname! And ties into this movie, of course ( ;
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Big fan of the tiny children in the one-size-up-from-tiny suits.
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Wait, they are really doing mehendi? Or is this a dream?
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I don’t know either!!!! He said he’d never worn a Sherwani, so I’m confused.
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I agree with her that Ajay has been wearing clothes unusually well in this film.
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It is a dream!
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I feel like Rani falls in love with the family first! Then he falls in love with her but just doesn’t know it! And then she falls in love.
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hmmm, according to the filmy looks she has already given him she is already falling in love with him.
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So how many people walk into their Fiance’s party with their ex-girlfriend?
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Now that we know it’s a dream, I can accept it.
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I didn’t know it was a dream until I JUST saw your comment!
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You know what I want to watch after this? While You Were Sleeping. Not the Salman remake, which is fine but different. The original is absolutely this idea of falling in love with the family first and then the guy. And the family scenes are magnificent.
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I think this is the rare movie where the hero’s clothes are tighter than the heroine’s. He’s just sooooooooooooo lean and long and lanky.
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They are both just so SKINNY. A shame the vast majority of us, even movie stars, get wider as we age.
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Although I will say both Rani and Ajay have aged like fine wine. I would be delighted to see them falling in love onscreen again today.
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P.S. I love that she doesn’t change! Screw Ajay! She goes in front of a mirror and likes what she is wearing!
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To a song from “Samadhi,” no less! I like Rani’s taste in music ( ;
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I just can’t believe anyone would ever be afraid of Satish Shah. He’s Satish Shah! He can never hurt you.
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He can still fire you.
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Have you seen Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani?! He gets scary in the end of that! But that’s it!
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I was just thinking of that! They actually use his Satish-ness in that, we and Shahrukh get so used to discounting him that we msis the badness that was always underneath.
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Awww he just wants someone to have faith in him and his dreams!
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1 hr, 22 min and he FINALLY forgets Pooja for a bit.
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He is a steady stubborn man.
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Oh Ajay, give in to your feelings and do something impulsive for once!
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He started building a house for his girlfriend before she said she would marry him, wasn’t that impulsive?
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Except that was the house he had decided to build and been dreaming of for years, and the girlfriend he decided to marry 15 years ago.
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Finally Ajay starts to fall in love. But he only starts to lust after her AFTER he realized she was the only one who believed in his dreams.
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Khoobsurat! That’s what it is like! Only Khoobsurat moved faster and had that impulsive kiss that changed everything.
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My other absolute favorite movie!!! The girl doesn’t compromises and gets everything she wants in the end!
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And the guy is so nice and grumpy!
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That is a bonkers picture of Ajay.
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