Finally the actual watchalong post! It’s time! I got my dinner (butter chicken! I made it myself by pouring sauce from a jar onto chicken!) and I am very happy.
Kuch Naa Kaho
On Prime for rent, or other places! Hopefully we can all sync up because we WILL have costume comments and I want to make sure we are looking at/talking about the same costumes at the same time.
At 7pm Chicago time I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and we will all comment along from there. If you are late, just fastforward and catch up!
dontcallitbollywood 
Did you notice the shiny stripe along the side of her pants? I hate it.
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Took me a while to figure out if the horizontal blue stripe was a part of the pants or the blouse.
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I like that Abhi is weirded out about “picking a girl” based on “bio data.”
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I can’t not say “biodata” in my best “Race” movies voice.
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And it’s a not-creepy solution, meeting the girls with a young woman of the same age makes sense. Way more sense than having Satish Shah line them all up for him.
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Aw, again Abhi is being protective without being macho
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Not a fan of the translucent kameez : /
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Wooo to the meta commentary on film tropes! There could be another version of this movie where the heroine is a scammer and a golddigger who he keeps trying different scams on and she keeps one-upping him and going along with them until they realize they are in love for real. Like if she reacted in this scene with an even scarier reincarnation story.
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No, not the return of Babloo. . .
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She is definitely reacting sanely, unlike all those other movies where someone hears a previous life story and just goes “oh, of course! Makes sense!”
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Yes. The natural reaction should be to be scared and run away!
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Oh! My favorite song coming up! It’s so stupid and catchy and stupid.
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When I was visiting my nephews, I told Nephew A that I was wearing my hair in a “ponytail” and he laughed and laughed and then had to tell his Mom the funny joke. I guess “ponytail” is a funny name for a hairstyle the first time you hear it? And if you are 4?
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It’s perhaps a lot for the club, but I do like Poonam’s necklace.
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I like that Aish tries to tell him information about the girls so Abhi can find a real connection with them.
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More interesting cast facts! Pony is played by a TV actress who ended up marrying Ram Kapoor, and the two of them played Varun’s parents in SOTY!
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They speedran the whole sitting-on-the-floor portion of a night out!
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Here it is! My favorite fun silly stupid song! Not only is it catchy, not only is it an early 2000s crazy club setting, but there’s a little mini-story in it!
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Again, Aish and Abhi take this girl’s feelings seriously and want to help her.
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AHHH LOVE THIS SONG!
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This is the first thing Aish has worn that I really dislike!
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And Abhi is in LOOOOVE!
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See, I said right at the beginning she had amazing hair! Makes men fall in love as soon as it touches them.
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The standing still in the middle of a dance floor when suddenly in love is a trope, but it always works on me.
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Okay, putting laundry in dryer, don’t let anything exciting happen while I am gone!
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Can we also talk about the fact that Satish is shown as a single father and Abhi’s mom is shown are a single successful women and mother. Yes, I get that both were married before and widowed. So I still like seeing it.
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Lil Cousin is very cute c:
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Kavita is Kareena’s friend from Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham!
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What’s up with the quotations/sayings inside of the bottlecaps? Is this a cultural moment that I have forgotten?
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I think Coke actually did something like this in India and US I think. I vaguely remember this.
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And I think the point was to find ones that say free coke. I think…
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I guess I didn’t drink enough soda!
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Neither did I, but I remember people at school did,
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Same. In the vague memory.
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Whoa! A real-life Babloo? I mean, Adi???
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Back!
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Ooh, I like the image of the red-clad dancers on the black rocks from high above.
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Aish Butterfly moment! Which was used in I think Eros Entertainment DVD ads? Anyway, I saw it a mollion times.
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“Kabhi zulfon se”–the acknowledged source of Aish’s powers, a la Samson.
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Pale yellow is NOT Aishwarya’s color.
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So these flap-pants are being butterflies, I suppose?
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This cowboy outfit is AWFUL!
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Thank you for saying it so I didn’t have to!
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It harms me!
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hahahaha
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I don’t think anyone could have picked out more hideous outfits for Aish to be in in this song. Besides the black one!
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So many scratchy translucent fabrics! I feel like I’ve got a sympathetic rash.
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YES!!!!
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I don’t know if this is true or not, but I have a memory of one of my college friends talking about how this song was so cool because it was one of the first filmed in western Canada, big fields and stuff.
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Oh, interesting. The open field scenes definitely do have that Great Plains look.
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Just looked up the date on “Koi Mil Gaya”. . . same year as this. So the hoodoo song would have been out around the same time.
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Abhi is left handed! I did not know that!
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And once again, Abhi is just being a nice guy. He sees a little kid in trouble and jumps in to calm the situation in a way that won’t scare the kid.
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Last summer there was a Parakeet named George Hollywood who lived on a beach in Chicago pretending to be a pigeon. He hung out with the pigeons and did everything the pigeons did and they just accepted him as a pigeon. Maybe they thought he was just spray painted?
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The Exotic Bird Rescue did manage to capture George before fall, but I hope he escapes again and returns to his Beach Life now that it is warm.
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I love it when human observers name and follow the exploits of random animals : D
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He was on Hollywood beach, I can’t remember why his first name was decided to be George. Probably a good reason 🙂
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He is looking out for the kid but then he compensates him for his loss. Abhi is the best!
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Aish is really bad at playing mothers. Which is odd because she seems very natural and happy BEING a mother. But whenever I see her playing a mother onscreen she feels too frantic or demostrative or something.
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Aish’s watch in this scene made me wants a men’s watch. Till this day, I wear my husband’s watches.
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This dialogue is so real between Abhi and the kid. I love that he is honest with the kid in as much as he can understand without making it awkward. And Adi confides in him because he trusts him. I love this scene!
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NOOOOOOO! The weird house structure strikes! The letter flies all over instead of just falling on the floor like in a normal house!
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So practical and no big deal about it! Satish is just “oh right, she’s a single Mom, but she manages. Horrible husband”
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EXACTLY!!!!
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Again, no one thinks twice that she’s a single mother raising her son. Single parents all around in this movie! LOVE!
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And Nikki! Being all “hey, you should get married!” Just treating her as another single young woman, not a Indian Woman Marries Only Once thing.
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YES!!!! Just you need to find happiness and find love again! Again, how it SHOULD BE!
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Abhi thinks she’s married and immediately stops himself. He realizes that her husband isn’t in the picture and he’s back to loving her. Doesn’t care that she was married, that she has a kid. Again, how it should be!
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Yep! But it also makes him think a second. Not in a “this is impossible” way but in a “this is more complicated than I may have thought, let’s take a second” way.
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Yes. And he processes that by stepping up. Not continuing to brood or make her have to “earn” his love or any other annoying trope.
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Oh, I like the lace braid look.
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Me too. Also, Aish is just plain home clothes looks soo amazing! Stop putting her in scratchy sequins!
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The other trope this film avoids, which could be SO EASY, is the “look how wonderful he is for falling in love with a single mom and how amazing she thinks he is for doing it”. They set it up that he is already in love, it’s not a pity thing. AND that he still assumes he has to court her and so on, not that she will fall on his neck as soon as he proposes.
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YES!!! Husband and I just discussing this! He fell in love with her because of her! Not because he pities a single mom! Which is so annoying in other movies.
Also, he meets the kid separately and forms a genuine friendship with him. He doesn’t meet her kid knowing it is her kid. He just likes the kid!
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Wait. Is this the outside of the impossible house???
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Yes! It’s Aish’s cool single Mom apartment.
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