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!
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Okay, this sequence is definitely intended to be gendered. But I will allow it because it is also just an argument for a two parent household. Adi enjoys spending time with an adult who reacts to him and talks to him differently from the one parent he always has around him.
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And I think Aish’s reaction is so natural. As a parent you always want to do everything for your kid but also know that it is impossible. Then as a single mother, thinking your child is getting attached to a father figure who may not have the best intentions based on her view and wanted to protect her child from him. This is all just so normal!
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Ah, the horrible cyclical trial of tooth-brushing and dessert.
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Remember in War when Vaani Kapoor left her daughter at boarding school SINCE BIRTH?
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We’re all thinking about him running around in socks with glass on the floor, right?
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It even makes little clinking sounds as the runs through D :
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This is unrelated, but I was recently watching the ’80s “Zameen Aasmaan” in which there were a bunch of quite typical close-ups of goondas breaking brown bottles spoiling for a fight, and then the camera pulls out to reveal that they have broken the glass into a perfect circle in the center of which they intend to fight Sanju (who had almost escaped already). Cinema!
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Oooo, now I almost want to watch that.
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It’s not bad! The main attraction is Raakhee and Rekha making intense family-reorienting pacts with each other and then having to Hide Their Secrets from the World, but Sanju and Anita Raj also get a cute young-person romance track. And beat up these goondas in a parking garage.
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The scene where Aish looses it on her kid when he’s being impossible but still is such a good mom just feels so real to me. Here I commend Aish’s acting.
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Oh, I forgot this plot point! Yeah, if that’s how she sees it, she’s right to be furious. I thought she was just mad because she thought they were friends.
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NOOO! That’s why the previous scene where she wants to box and gets upset at Adi insisting on wanting Abhi to come just all makes sense to me.
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Aish thinking he used Adi to get to him. Or wanting to do everything for your child but realizing that you just can’t. Aish getting angry that Abhi is pitying her. And Abhi trying to show that he just sincerely that he loves her.
I LOVE THIS SCENE!
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Oh, I know what this reminds me of! Jawan! Where SRK falls in love with Namrata’s little girl and then can’t disappoint her ever.
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It’s Amisha’s NZ cousin from KHNPH! And Kareena’s cousin from the parrot movie!
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Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon!!!
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Thank you!
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“If his bag had books, where would the food go?” I love that! Such a Mom thing!
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That scene makes me laugh so hard!
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The jumping jack kids in the background are terrible at jumping jacks.
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Ufff, accurate depiction of child-on-child nastiness : /
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Anyone else thinking of Chupke Chupke?
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Abhi’s comic timing when he gets to the school and jumps off the roof is just AMAZING!!!!
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My son adores this song!
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Awww ❤
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Because of the tune or the kids int he video?
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I suspect because my husband loves this song. He like most humans has a crush on Aish and calls her magic eyes and plays this for Toddles.
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Adding on to the niceness of this movie, the funny bickering Punjabi couple are also flirty and in love! Instead of just funny and bickering like in other movies.
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There are a lot of costume changes in this parents/sports day thing. Are all the parents staying at the school for the weekend?
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Or are just Abhi and Aish and the Punjabi couple staying for the weekend? Where are all the other parents anyway?
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I assume there are parents’ quarters at boarding schools for when parents visit.
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Husband: The teacher looks like she’s dressed in a way that is the beginning of a bad porn.
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Did you tell him that actress always dresses like that?
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I just said it was the early 2000s. Like somehow that just explains everything.
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Well, it does explain the shirt-hem to trousers-waist differential.
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bwhahahah yes!
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Abhi’s head is SO BIG!!! Not metaphorically, literally.
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Compared to the kid? Because in real life I think Abhi’s head is small for his body!
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The kid, but I notice it in other movies too. Especially with Rani.
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Okay, so if her big issue was thinking Abhi was using her son, now she knows he sincerely likes the kid. So that’s good!
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Given her past, she doesn’t want another guy to disappoint her son. Or have her son get too attached to a guy.
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Filmikudhi, I assume you gave birth while still wearing a full sari.
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Obviously! And full makeup!
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Speaking of big heads…. Although really it’s just the swaddle making him look that way.
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Oh no, it’s the mudslide of plot device!
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I laugh-screamed! And I had just been getting all teary over Aish’s situation, too.
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Abhi makes a crappy comment because he’s being petulant. But immediately recognizes his mistake and says that her husband being a shitty husband and a father is his fault not hers!
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Does anyone else think this actually looks really fun?
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Husband: that looks like a super fun water slide … possibly of death!
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Right??? It’s a water slide with a nice swimming pool at the end, I don’t know why they are so upset.
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Husband: there should be a slide like this in the jungle section of Disney World India!
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I have to imagine the production people had a great time building it!
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Heck, maybe it was in a water park? I feel like that tidy swimming pool at the end was a little too perfect.
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Well, muddifying a water park sounds pretty fun, too.
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To listen to this is my favorite song from the film. While the club song is by far my favorite to watch!
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Thinking about it, I think the mudslide ex machina actually makes me happier than if they had just had an eyes meeting moment. It’s so silly! And filmi! And silly! It nicely gets rid of any unpleasant depth from their last convo. This is not meant to be a deep movie.
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Love that Aish still has love handle even with a teeny tiny waist. I am so sick of seeing washboard abs in recent films on both men and women.
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Ha! Just this morning I resolved to start doing core exercises! I will try to hit the sweet spot of “my lower back no longer hurts” without overdoing it to washboard level.
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Ugh! Yes. I have to do core exercises with having back to back kids also. I am not worried about washboard abs though! 😀
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LOVE the upcoming scenes with the mom and Satish!!! This film just does not follow the normal trope and I LOVE IT!
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Satish asking Abhi’s mom: Are you thinking about retiring?
Abhi’s mom: NO!
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Abhi’s mom: If you have thought through this and you think you are right, you have my blessing! PERFECT RESPONSE!
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Are they just hanging out alone in her bedroom??? Tut-tut! That’s for shaadi-gabaat! (spelling?)
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This scene. They are in bed together waking up. Adults have sex! Makes sense!
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So, I’ve been told that is the length sari’s are supposed to be, allllllllllll the way down to sweep the floor. They aren’t that long on me, and I’m the same hieght as Aish, so she must have hers made special.
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I am Aish’s height and they are floor length on me. Hmmm!
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How tall are you, Margaret?
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5’9″
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I think Aish is about an inch or inch and a half shorter than you. I am between 5’7 and 5’8 and I always thought she was around my height.
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Was Aish dating Salman at this time? So is she playing opposite her current “brother-in-law” and future husband in the same movie? And her brother-in-law is kind of playing the personality of her boyfriend/his brother? This is SO META!
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This is when things ended with Salman and he was being a psycho!
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Aish has a lot of pillows.
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Yaaaay, I have to go feed cats! Which means I can avoid this horrible man and this horrible scene!
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Her ex is Arbaaz Khan?!?! TBH one should know better.
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Hahaha yes!!!
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I LOVE that Satish wants to help Aishwarya get a divorce and start adoption papers for Abhi to adopt Adi.
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YES! It’s one of my favorite moments. And he makes it so easy for her, not just getting the papers together but being very cheerful and matter of fact.
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I don’t think I’ve run across the name “Namrita” before, by the way. I keep thinking of her as “Nirmata,” and then when people say her name it registers in my ears like “Ummm, Amrita. . .”
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I think it is Namrata or Namrita in the way it is spelled in Hindi/Marathi. It is a very common Marathi name. I think of Namrata Shirodkar.
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Who was another beauty queen, right? So I almost wonder if it was a reference.
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Yes. She was Miss India.
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. . .this makes me realize I’ve also been mentally calling her “Nirmata Shirodkar”! I need a hard reboot.
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HAHA! 😀
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Back!
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I think we can all agree that there should NOT be a railing-less staircase on top of one of the stone arches of Impossible House.
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With candles everywhere!
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Another good convo with Satish and Abhi’s Mom! They are both making valid points, the Mom isn’t saying “she should be a good woman”, she’s just pointing out that it isn’t as simple as Satish is trying to make it.
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Satish… I LOVE YOU! He is legitimately angry at Arbaaz. He doesn’t care that Arbaaz is technically still married to Aish. Arbaaz never fulfilled his duties as a husband and Aish gets to be happy!
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I can’t decide if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that they make Arbaaz a little gray instead of all black. I don’t like the idea of pressuring us to “forgive” him for being selfish because now he is all in with Aish and Adi. But on the other hand, it gives Aish a real choice, she gets to go with Abhi because she wants to and not because it is the only practical decision.
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Yeah, I like what it’s doing for Aish.
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I love that it is gray and not black. I love that it is manipulation and gaslighting. It is about emotional abuse and not physical abuse.
It also explains why she would marry him in the first place. She didn’t have a family. His family gave her a family. But then HE destroyed it and she moved on!!!
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The conflict in this movie isn’t that the parents or parent figures have an objection to Aish being married before. The conflict is to get her out of a bad situation with a person she is technically married to who abandoned her and now expects her to welcome him back because he’s a man and her husband.
It’s that as a man, Arbaaz just expects Aish to be single waiting for him to come back and being grateful when he does. He just doesn’t understand that she would move on and be in another relationship. It is about a manipulative emotional abuse. It isn’t about physical abuse. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Abhi’s mother calling just to tell her, she gets her and she IS SUPPORTIVE of ANY DECISION SHE MAKES!!!!
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Okay, Ma comes awfully close to saying “stay with Adi’s father, it’s the right thing”. But she does end with “we all support you” which leaves it open to Aish doing whatever. Or even her reassuring that the family (who are also her employers) will let her choose whatever she decides without repercussions.
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I got the complete different read on that. She calls as another single mother another woman. As someone who just wants Aish to know that she understand and supports whatever decision she makes!
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Oh doy, that convo also points out that Abhi understands exactly how much Adi needs a father figure because he didn’t have one. Probably had the same teasing at school etc.
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Yes. And hence Satish and Abhi had already started adoption papers for Abhi to adopt Adi.
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This part of the plot would legitimately work in any culture! And in fact I think it has been the plot in a lot of American TV shows (I can’t think of movies but that is probably just because it’s too complex to do in 90 minutes). Your first love/the parent of your child, it’s a big deal! It’s the kind of thing that could shake a seemingly unshakeable current relationship. Without any stupid “society” pressure or anything to make it happen, just human nature.
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