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 
If you want to separate us, kill us both, but if you try to separate us I’ll go to the cops…
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I didn’t realise until now that AA and his BFF Babu will become brothers-in-law by the end of this film 😂
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Power, the sister finally took power into her own hands in the middle of the Hyderabad streets, but that power meant a willingness to die.
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So amazing that she was the one to give the speech. Especially after all the background of how she wasn’t “at fault”, he was the one who chased her, and so on and so forth. Maybe he chased and started the love story, but she was the one who decided to elope and she is the one standing up to her father now.
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ANd she walks TOWARDS AA, such a powerful symbol, without words. I love visual dialogue.
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WHY is Sheila wearing a puke green, I don’t know the term, scarf thing with a teal patterned skirt? Why would the costumer do that?
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The environments are so different!
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Her servant is her confidant, she can tell her things she can tell no one else.
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ANd the fact that her father overheard just adds to my sense that in India there is NO PRIVACY!
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There is a small part of this story that reminds me of Gautham Menon’s Vinnaithandi Varuvaya/Ye Maaya Chesave
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Particularly the discussion of how marrying against your family’s wishes can affect the way other girls in the family manage their relationships. In that film too, Trisha’s/Samantha’s character has her doubts about the possibility of her relationship with Simbu. In this film there is a similar discussion but it also encourages the viewer to think about the circumstances of the elder sister and explore the nuance in her situation, not just see how it affects the younger sister.
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I love how unnerved Prakesh is.
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Prakesh and AA, two great eye actors. I love it when movies have multiple big talents.
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WHy did Meena change? I thought you were supposed to get married in red?
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I had the same thought! And her red sari was so nice too.
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The flowers in her hair are incredble.
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Ok love how that small comment the mom made in the beginning about “wheels beneath his feet” makes an appearance again here 😄
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So happy for his first daughter’s marriage, appropriate that now he is as anxious/upset as she is.
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I like the progression you see in the dream sequences from Meena’s PoV. The two previous ones have her running, or simply reacting to his presence. This particular song (with the blue sari) has her play an active part in the song. Also interested symbolism in the chain making an appearance. Kinda makes me think that he is a free spirit who WON’T mind being “tied” to the people he loves.
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He better not send her back to her father!!!! It’s Meena’s choice.
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It is his life too, marriage is a decision for TWO people! ANd look, she changed again, why orange now? So weird.
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“I was very happy even in that dingy shed” – I think that is one reason I am so drawn to this film, the happiness in bad situations. You know I still miss the pandemic, and how I was able to go on daily adventures with my kids, tubing down random canals, finding ladybugs literally in desert cracks.
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In the mist again ❤
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Ohh, look, finally the dad puts family love over community shame! It is a painful sort of joy.
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Well, that was lovely! I still don’t like that Arjun switched to doing what Prakash wanted instead of what Meena wanted at the end. But it did mean that Meena got to give her Dad the ultimatum, so that was good.
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I’m looking at the scene where Prakash breaks down in front of AA and wonder if that changed his perspective a bit. Because it really hurt him to see PR in that state too.
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He switched to doing what SRK did in real life, he switched to NOT walking away from family. Of course SRK never just let Guari marry someone else!
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And Gauri’s family wouldn’t have done that anyway! I mean, they were sending her to college and stuff, they weren’t trying to rush her into marriage so she would be “settled”.
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True, she did not grow up a village bumpkin.
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That was a really nice film. Great pick Genevieve, thank you!
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Seeing that dingy room that Subbu and Babu stayed in really broke her dad in a fundamental way damn 🤧
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It was exactly what he was trying to avoid, I mean he clearly put material happiness over personal happiness. So from his perspective his daughter must now be miserable.
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So I don’t know, Marget if you see why I like the movie now or not. I was mostly me commenting. And usually I am alwasy making fun of films, but I guess I love this one so much I forgot to look for all the silly things.
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Don’t worry, I wasn’t commenting because I was busy watching! I did like it, and I see why you like it, it has the saltiness that is why I like Telugu films so much. Not afraid to show reality of society without judging it or speechifying. And with heroine’s who have strong wills and voices.
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I think that in 90% of AA’s movies the heroines have “strong will” only as a two diminsional character trait, and their existence is barely necessary for the movie. Sometimes I feel like a mannequin could play their role. But AA is so charismatic that I typically enjoy the films anyway, but I don’t love them.
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Happy Sunday everyone, thanks for the watchalong!
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Thoughts on the final part!
1. I do get the feeling that the final ending is to ensure that no matter what happens, when Krishna and Meena get together, there is less suffering from both ends – theirs as a couple, and PR as a father who feels he already lost his eldest daughter.
2. The mom is telling her son to fight for his love and I love her so much for it!
3. I also love how their love transformed not just them but their friends. Like there is a bravery and confidence and a fierceness about them now.
3. Meena has his roller skates!! Love the symbolism of that too.
4. Oh no!! PR overheard!!!
5. The role reversal of PR breaking down when Meena does the same thing as Subbu in touching his feet is so so good 💜
6. ALL the role reversals at the end really make this film!! The friends who called themselves self serving now insist they would give up their lives for AA, but it is AA himself that considers that act (which he did for Babu and Subbu) a mistake. Babu and Subbu eloped from the wedding without telling anyone, but in AA’s case, both AA and Meena themselves eventually chose to be honest with PR, which encouraged him to make the choice to unite them even though most of the village would look down on PR himself for BREAKING a match for his daughter. It really gives you a sense that AA and Meena’s love (but also with the questions that Subbu and Babu’s love already raised) changed not only them, but everyone around them.
Thanks so much for this pick, Gen and Margaret!! Really enjoyed watching this ❤️
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I love your insight into the friend’s bravery increase! So true, and something I never put my finger on before.
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