I just realized, I didn’t get a RSVPs for this one! So if Genevieve shows up, awesome, we watch. If no one shows up, after 15 minutes I stop. But I am pretty sure Genevieve will show up 🙂
Parugu
It’s on Netflix, it’s light, it’s fun, it’s interesting, and it’s Genevieve’s favorite movie. Let’s watch!
at 7am Chicago time I will put up an “And Play” comment and we will all comment along from there!
dontcallitbollywood 
I showed up, of course!
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And PLAY!
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“Stylish Star”?
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He changed his tagline now, I can’t remember what it is. BUt yes, he was the stylish star, in Arya2 too.
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I had a dream that involved doing a watch a long with all the people in my book club, and it was a dream, so we were driving all over the area into wierd fields BEFORE people starting coming to my house and then we realized I didn’t have enough headphones for people. I am very grateful for my comfy headphones that allow me to watch TV in my not giant house while everyone else is asleep.
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I am very grateful for my small dog who curls up next to me and I can use him as an arm rest during WatchAlongs.
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This barn set gets A LOT of use in this film.
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I have a hard time believing that the master of the house doesn’t know everyone is drinking in his barn.
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I am completely lost with all the relationships and stuff. It’s a very large family, Prakash Raj is the father, and it’s a wedding maybe?
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Yes. Aunts and Uncles and who is whom is irrelevant except that it is HIS daughter’s wedding and she ran away. He is obviously the big man in town in that people hide their drinking from him and he can burn down someone else’s house without any fear of repercusions.
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It is interesting that the parents are so happy while their daughter is so sad.
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Brides are always supposed to be sad, like it’s a sign you’ve gone something right as a parent? I like that in more and more movies now we have HAPPY brides, normalizing that.
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Late, but here 🙂 looking forward to this one!
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We started 3 minutes late, so we aren’t too far in.
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Great cut, from this crazy violence in the village to a simple romance in a college that has no complications. Oh, and I love tough Mom.
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I love that sassy AA has a sassy mum.
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So right now Prakash’s men are going around rounding up all the friends of his daughter’s love interest who stole her away from his wedding.
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So this is my favorite song of the movie. I love the happiness of loving life and loving where you live. Also it makes me feel like I’m in Hyderabad.
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It’s a great song for contrasting with the Big House opening. He just has his Mom and goes out in the world and befriends everyone. Versus Prakash Raj’s house that everyone comes to and stays in and never goes out into the greater world.
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Also this outfit of a simple jeans, a tight tank and a plaid open shirt looks great on AA, which is good because he wears the same thing through the WHOLE movie.
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But, he’s the Stylish Star????
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So perhaps he isn’t so stylish in this film as his tagline would suggest.
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Arjun, the kind of man who when confronted with a group of angry men on a street, makes fun of them…
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AND also the kind of man whose mother buys him phone – still a kid.
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Plaid shirts were in vogue during filming, everyone, even in the tiny villiage is wearing them.
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Wait, so are all the college friends kidnapped together?
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Well they weren’t together when they were kidnapped, but yes, they kidnapped all the college friend, and accidentally one additional guy. Who is a loyal communist party member (which matters), but this being Netflix all his mentions of comrade are changed. Boo – his being political largely plays into his eventual devotion to strong leader AA
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Prakash and Arjun with their eye stares, they can both out intense eachother. Such different presences bouncing off eachother on the screen.
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AA, so cool, but so bent on revenge he risks all his friends lives to get in a potshot at they guy who knocked him out.
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This film brought home the fact that in villages people really do go out into the fields in the morning to poop. One of the main things I love about this movie is how less appealing aspects of life aren’t explained, but are simply there.
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A little late but I’m here! Got caught up in cooking. I’m gonna try catching up now
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Sheesh! Just get on the train! He’s messing with all his friends!
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So this actress, Sheila, she is critiqued for not being beautiful enough to catch AA’s attention like this, but I like to think the unusualness of being chased by men and fighting and then having a women pass by bent on worship transfixes him.
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With so many actors it is HARD to keep track, but the music lets you know who is important.
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Was that like a poker game on the floor of the shed?
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The first time I didn’t realize fully how much shame her sister running away brought onto the whole household. As and American I can never fully understand it, but at least now I understand why women were looking for someone to take their anger out on.
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I like that the focus on the movie is on how the shame affects the sister. Or rather, how she is punished and her life becomes worse. The unfairness of it, that her sister running away means the anger rebounds on any other young woman.
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And she ALSO blames her sister, SHE who we find out with the revealed love letters, KNEW her sister had a boyfriend, is still mad at her sister for running away because it makes her life worse. SO immature she is. Pretty much like a 13 year old.
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In her first scene she complains about having been treated as a child until today, and all of a sudden she is blamed for everything. I read that as she’d been indulged and sheltered and truly was a child. It’s arguably another interesting statement, these girls are treated as spoiled children until all of a sudden overnight they are supposed to Grow Up and become wives.
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Sadly the actions of one family member tend to colour the way the whole family is viewed. Esp if there are young women (women particularly, men aren’t as touched by family scandal as women are) of marriageable age. Which is why you’ll see in a lot of literature and film that some women cave in and marry of their parents’ choice even if they love someone else… esp if there are girls in their families whose own arranged matches in the future can be affected by that history.
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Oh yeah, great convo with the friend servant just there. And does all knowing dad REALLY know about his daughters, probably not.
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See the servant advising her friend not to look at the men because they will force her to fall in love with them – I mean bad advise, but still they are friends, despite their different stations.
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I’m at the part where the bride’s dad came to harrass Erra Babu’s aged parents, and given how casteism and honour killing works here…that scene did send a chill down my spine 😖
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It is interesting how this film is comic with major serious undertones. It is life and death, and yet to live we have to laugh.
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Esp the bit where the boy’s father begs for mercy as people who didn’t know what he and Subbulakshmi were about to do and insisted her family punish him even with death 😥
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Sheila and Arjun have matching gold chains, even though they are on other sides of the wall and can’t see eachother.
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And they have matching selfish confident attitudes!
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YES!
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I love how this actress acts bad acting.
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He is so confident, and yet he can’t bear talking to a woman’s exposed navel.
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Hmm. Not sure if this makes sense. Oh wait, if it’s proof she was friends with the boyfriend, that could mean she is blamed.
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Yes! All the women in the household holding her responsible for something she didn’t do had some truth to it. SHE DID know her sister had a boyfriend.
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So was she helping her sister and is now lying about it? Or is it just that the love letters were passed through her school notebooks?
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I took it to be that she DID help her sister and got movie tickets in exchange. Selfish helping.
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In this song, when Sheila appears in AA’s imagination she looks fake, which kinda goes with the fact that he doesn’t really know her, she is a fantasy. Also, love the fact that the man can dance around by himself in dirty clothes and is transfixing.
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She , the great man’s daughter just ambles around the house while all the other people around her (except men) are working.
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Yes! Because she is in the magic pre-marriage phase where her life is awesome, and post=marriage she is supposed to accept that everything is totally different. Also kind of tells us why her sister was crying before her wedding!
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Krishna is now planning to escape with the friends of the guy who eloped and I have a feeling that plan won’t work ðŸ˜
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It MIGHT have worked if he hadn’t been selfish enough to want revenge and then selfish enough to fall in love mid-escape.
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She is really only just thinking about love and how it affects her life and how it works. SHE IS SO YOUNG, and innocent. This movie correctly shows that selfishness is a sign of innocence, or at the very least youth.
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My 4 year old nephew just sent me a video about how he really really loves me because I sent him a choclate Advent.
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Yeah, food does buy love. Probly why so many of sons’ classmates are overweight. One of my kids loved me more than the others as in infant, and I said so to my pediatrician. She thought I was crazy -“You’re giving him food, of course he loves you!”
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I’m hearing pretty love-story type music…which must mean entry of heroine…
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Now I’m sure this is Subbulakshmi’s sister.
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These friends are so nice 😠They had a chance to just hop on the train but stayed for Krishna’s lovestruck ass ðŸ˜
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Just to point out, what would have happened had they gotten on that train? If they went back home the eloped girl’s family could simply come back and nab them again.
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I honestly don’t think they would have thought that far. They’re already too riddled with anxiety to think straight. I relate to them and I’d probably hopped on that train regardless 😂
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I TOTALLY would have hopped on that train. Friendship only goes so far.
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in SRK’s early acting he would often talk so fast it sounds like pingpong balls bouncing around (I don’t speak Hindi) in that scene where he trys to convince the girls family to take him into the village to search for the girl he sounded like ping pong balls too, even though it was a different language.
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So in the relationship with her servant, the servant basically told her what to do – IE the servant was NOT going into that man shed, but she would stand look out.
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ANd then the servant ran away, she put her life first, even though she did warn the Sheila.
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How does he know she’s unmarried?!
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She has braids, and no mangalsutra? So i guess he’s chancing it on that.
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Ah, thank you!
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Also he probably assumes a married woman wouldn’t be talking to men in the shed as she is, her husband would do it for her?
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And to his point, a married woman wouldn’t go out in the misty mornings.
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It’s also possible her half sari is another indicator. The outfits that an unmarried woman and a married woman would wear in the South are different. A married woman would maybe wear a bun and a sari, an unmarried woman would wear a half-sari and two braids.
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I like in this scene how AA, doesn’t assume women are stupid, he is telling her to use her head as though he assumes she has one. I credit his sassy mom for that one.
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Hate how the younger sister has to bear the brunt of the blame that should be going to Subbulakshmi, but again I know it happens. There’s always the fear of history repeating and people believing the entire family is “bad” (incidents like these are often viewed as a moral fault with the *family* values). I’m glad the dad at least told her he would trust her.
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Shame vs guilt society. In much of the world individual actions bring shame to a whole family or community. Vs. perhaps distinctly western idea that guilt is personal and the responsiblity solely of the offender.
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I picked up this concept from this book: https://www.amazon.com/WEIRDest-People-World-Psychologically-Particularly/dp/0374173222#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHenrich's%20book%20combines%20a%20startling,never%20be%20the%20same%20again.%E2%80%9D
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I’m now at the “why are you showing me your navel then” scene 😅
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Ohhhh he doesn’t even know that the girl he fell for is the girl he’s talking to hshsgsggs
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Listen I love the hero’s scared friends so much they’re legit so relatable 🤓🤓
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