Happy Saturday! Time for a nice watchalong with some nice nostalgia, for those of us who grew up reading Archie comics.
The Archies
On Netflix, beautiful looking, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music, and Zoya direction, couldn’t be bettered.
At 6pm Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and we will all comment along from there!
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I’m here and The Archies has been downloaded!
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And PLAY!
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Awww, 90s Archie image!
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It’s just like Death in the Gunj! Except (I hope) not insanely dark!
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Yknow part of the promotions for Archies over here was a huge poster with stickers on the newspapers. All the usual Archies comics stuff. The milkshakes and burgers, the skates, and the Archies band but with the cartoon versions of the actors. My daughter took that and stuck the stickers all over the wall 😄
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Loving the movie so far, but if Agastya is doing this, who is running the family tractor factory?
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WOOOO, RED CHILLIES COLOR!!!
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I am here… where are you at?
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Title song getting over now!
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The accents take a little for me to get used to but it’s lovely so far!
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Looks like I’m 2-3 min behibd
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We started on time, so coming up on 7 minutes, opening song.
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Ok I fast forwarded to 7 min!
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How do you like this Veronica’s mom’s American accent?
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It’s perfect, which is kind of surreal to me! I’m so used to British accents instead of American.
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Yes I was impressed. She’s a canadian-indian actress so must have already had it – Kamal Sidhu – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Sidhu
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This is the sweetest
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Interestingly, it’s Hermione who makes the suggestion to choose Green Park as the site for their project
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Hiram also implies she was from America
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If you started late, Riverdale is an Anglo-Indian small town with a few loyal long term residents. The heart of the town is Green Park, where every resident plants a tree when they turn 5. Archie has a band, The Lodges just moved back and Veronica has rollar skates. That’s basically it.
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Pop Tates!
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What time signature you guys at
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11:23
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Yaaaaaay, Betty and Veronica are friends! That’s the part I like, not the stupid Archie rivalry.
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Ok I love how Veronica and Betty are friends already.
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Does Dilton have a crush on Reggie?
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Watch and see!
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That white dress was so obviously oversized
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Reggie actor is my favorite of the lot
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Me too!!!
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The “we always share everything, right” dialogue between Veronica and Betty….the foreshadowing 😅
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Agastya’s white / grey / colorless lips are annoying me
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Looks washed out
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Suhana’s sexy dance – What do you think? Seemed to be a bit too much effort to me
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Loved the bit where she and Betty are dancing, I really like that they’re taking opportunities early on to lean into the friendship even though Veronica is clearly supposed to be established as enjoying the attention of all the boys here.
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Agree!
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I just put up a comment! I liked it, it felt like a young fun unapologetic intro for Suhana the actress. And the effort felt right for the cahracter, she may be acting cooler than everyone else, but she’s still just a teenager trying too hard.
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Yes… I was just referring to more just her dancing technique…
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Teenager trying too hard fits right in!
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I mean that explains it 🙂 thank you
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I love this as an intro for Suhana to film! She has gotten so much grief over the past few years every time she wears a short dress or a bikini or ANYTHING, and her she is just happily owning it, being young and free and sexy.
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And I like the sequence before it too where she’s discussing “cute” vs “sexy” with Betty. She wears the cute dress, then says “no, I don’t WANT to be cute”.
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I was half hoping Betty to be blonde!
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I loved the small sad singing bit Betty got which is probably also supposed to be her diary entry 😢
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Weatherbee!
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Mr Wetherbee lol
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Cutting chai!!!
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I only recently found out who was playing Gomes and I was so happy 😁
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YES!!!! I just looked it up because I thought he might be Fred Andrews. Such a touching tip of hte hat to the community as well.
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Who is it?
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I haven’t been able to identify the character Gomes yet, I think they said the name too quick. But it’s Jamie Alter, Tom Alter’s son.
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Ahan!!!!
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Jamie Alter
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I’m such a fan!!! I met Tom Alter once at a poetry night and Jamie is a favourite channel of mine on YouTube ❤️
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The little kids def have more of a desi accent.
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Archie calls his parents by their first names?
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Same thought! I bet there’s going to be a big moment later when he calls them Ma and Pa.
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I KNEW THE GANG HAD A SURPRISE PLANNED
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Reggie’s Dad, who gave the speech about the responsibility, is played by another multi-generation Anglo-Indian. Totally on purpose to give him the speech about the culture.
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Archie! Ronnie! Missing your bff’s birthday for a date! Noooo!
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Is this a dream song?
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I was wondering the same thing! I think this is going to be a confusing movie where the songs aren’t fully dream or fully not dreams but in between.
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Ok I love the structure of this song! You have the typical romantic lines from the couple but the side couples are commenting with what they’re actually thinking.
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I feel like Suhana has some of the SRK camera-only-looks-at-him charisma!
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I’d love it if they featured “Sugar Sugar” somewhere. That was the original Archies song 🤩
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Are they singing for real?
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I don’t think so?
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Archie is so annoying and Betty doormat… it was the same in the comics? I forgot
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Depending on who was writing the story, YES!!! Veronica gets to have fun, and Betty is always just “nice”.
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Betty knows this guy is bullshitting when he says Veronica is “old times” 🤧
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I’m really enjoying the way English everything is woven in to their lives. The lyrics and dialogue are all half and half and their lifestyles are too. Indian culture runs so far away from acknowledging the Anglo Indian community, and at the same time so fast towards learning English now.
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Kareena and Karisma come from Anglo Indian line too.. Babita’s Mom was Anglo
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Absolutely, and I can absolutely see it for a community localized into one hill station (since hill stations could be a bit apart from mainlands and have strong localized cultures) and I can absolutely see that anything outside of that culture is a smaller part of the subculture there, not as largely acknowledged. So you have Shammi Kapoor, Betty’s dad listening to a Hindi song etc…there’s some level of acknowledgement but it won’t be too obvious and you have to look for it
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And Archie making fun of his Dad’s Hindi, and his Dad trying harder at it. Some real acknowledgement of the duel identity struggle.
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It is Suhana singing! Just found it
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So cool!
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Yes she has sung a song! Although it ended so quickly before I could absorb it
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That tingling feeling? It’s common sense leaving your body.
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Brilliant! 😀
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Funny enough, Betty’s songs are the only English ones IIRC so far. I wonder if she’s the songwriter of the group.
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Ethel actually sings all her own songs!
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