Genevieve’s birthday pick! Which does look generally seem fun and watchalong friendly and all of that. But also, I haven’t gotten a HUGE number of RSVPs, so this is one of those weeks where I will give it 15 minutes and then call it if no one else has shown up.
Bhangra Paa Le
It’s on Netflix, it’s not that long, it looks super fun!
at 7:30 Chicago time I will comment “And PLAY” and we will all start simultaneously and then carry along from there!
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I’m typing a comment on my brother’s computer to see if it will work with wordpress, which hates my chromebooks. But my brother has a fancy expensive computer, so it should be so much easier…..
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So far, looks like it’s working!
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And PLAY
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Thanks to PRitram and Salman??? I already have high hopes for this movie.
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Does anyone else think of the crazy typewriter dance in NBombay Talkies whenever they seee the RSVP logo?
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Oh all the symbolism of a ticking clock….
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Oh cool! WWII is such a rare reference
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This looks like a lot of money put into a movie that I don’t think anyone except me watched.
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I love dance competition movies. I am surprised I didn’t watch this yet!
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Musicians are the true warriors!
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But even music will only get you so far….
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Google says, this is one of those won-but-lost battles. The Allies took the objective, but had 55,000 casualties while the Germans had only 20,000
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I am here!!! Not sure if I can make it for the whole time but excited to watch this for Genevieve!
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Also, happy happy birthday, Genevieve!
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Thank you!
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Happy Birthday Genevieve!
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Thank you!
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Happy Birthday Genevieve! Sorry I couldn’t make it – I messed up the timings
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This song is very catchy!
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So, my Grandpa was in Italy, and we have his old war trunk. He could have actually fit a whole bhangra drum in there. He didn’t, but it was big enough. So I will accept that scene as fact.
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I love a sassy Punjabi heroine!
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I like Sunny of the past so much better than Sunny of the present, even if the film is really about present day Sunny. I guess I’m attracted to tentative wartime bhangra drummers.
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Wait, is the college coach taking Bhangra seriously like it’s a sport? And the star player is just too showy and selfish to play with the team?
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Yes. It said it was a Bangra College, right? He is admonishing the girls for not matching Sunny’s energy.
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Yes. Bhangra dancing is SUPER serious.
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So far, young Jaggi is annoying me.
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But he’s the best dancer in college, their only hope of making it to the London competition!
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head smack
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I love the very public tryouts for a dancer, not AT ALL intimidating! Are all dancer really that extroverted?
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Whoa! Now I don’t like him! Too good to talk to his sweet Dad?
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But is the dad really so sweet?
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Based on what I’ve seen so far!
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I have to say, Sunny’s exagerated swagger is very age appropriate. Young men are the worst.
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They really are. He needs to be brought down a few pegs!
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YEah, this kid is a brat. I want him to meet a sassy Bhangra lady who puts him in his place.
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Warning, I am not a huge fan of the Sassy Bhangra lady he meets in the present, but she is adequate. I am super fond of past loves though.
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I hear Mr. Toddles going “Mommo watch moooovvvie? I go big poopie and watch movie with mommo.”
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Oh! He can dance to this one! And maybe someday he can grow up to the the star of the college Bhangra Team
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So far there are plenty of songs so he would like it.
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And every dance looks like a high intensity work out! If he tries to dance along he will nap SO WELL.
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Agreed!!! He loves to dance to Indian songs! Last night he just wanted Shammi Kapoor songs!
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Big Poopie!!!
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😀 He is very proud of it and like to announce it to the whole world!
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We are also teaching him to blow his nose like a big boy. So as you can imagine, bodily functions are a big part of our discussion every day!
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Enter the SASS!
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I really like her outfit. Simple but different, and perfect for Bhangra dancing.
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The costume designer did well. Also not overly sexy, her shoulders are covered.
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Wooo! The SASS!!!! Control that boy!
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In another movie I would find her irritatingly rude. But this boy!!!! He needs a girl like this.
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I can handle her because of his intro. He absolutely needs someone like her to bring him down!
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Okay… F*CK Jaggi. She has an ego but he has “attitude” which is okay?!
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Jaggi is simply NOT likeable. But she isn’t a dear one either so they can be obnoxious to eachother with impunity.
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Dance as foreplay is my favorite kind of dance.
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Dance as foreplay AT A WEDDING!
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In the US weddings are the time to bring out all your sex jokes, is it so different in INdia?
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Oh, weddings are totally where you flirt and so on! I think. At least in movies.
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If she is won over, I no longer like her.
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But is she really?
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Okay, I will give it to Sunny. Kaptaan dances with so much joy! And feels like a completely different person!
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I think I was halfway though the movie before I realized they were the same actor first watch.
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HA! I love that all the stuff related to the Indians feels historically accurate, but they care so little about bothering with British history, they mess up when the Queen was Queen.
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I never noticed, but my British history isn’t the best either!
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Sorry. Mr. T and Baby K are both down here so I missed it. Did they mess up who the Queen was in 1944?
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They messed up that there WAS a queen! There was a king in 1944. The Queen was a teenager in the army herself.
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Yeah. My Indian history around that time is good but not British history.
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By 1944, pretty sure they were putting anyone with a pulse in a uniform. He’ll be fine.
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don’t worry, dance will “save” him
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That is accurate. Also also the time when the Indian resistance was also at an all time high.
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I love that in movies poets and dancers become the MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE in society. I wish reality followed are more closely.
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How can the battle be in 10 days? Unless they are fighting on the pacific front, it would take more time than that to get to a battle! Maybe he just means that’s when the transport is leaving?
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I’m pretty sure this movie is not obsessed with history, at least not any history that doesn’t involve Bhangra.
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I LOVE past love interest! She was in a Shah Rukh film, and I haven’t seen her since…. Of course I haven’t looked.
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I like the past song soooooooooooooooooooo much better already. Actual melody and clever lyrics.
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I think Past Love interesting is Shriya Pilgoankar? Her Dad is a very hard working longtime Marathi-Bombay based actor. He was in Sholay as a teenager and a child actor for years before that, and now does a ton of character work. I love her, but sort of odd that someone from a well known Maharashtrian acting family is playing Punjabi!
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Nimmo – Sachin’s daighter!!!
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This was where I first learned that people brushed their teeth with twigs. I suppose I hadn’t really thought about it before, though the price of plastic toothbrushes has long mystified me.
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And charcoal. My dad used charcoal as a kid to brush his teeth.
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Is anyone else reminded of the past storyline from Phillauri?
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Yes. I think the Punjabiness and music is very reminiscent of Phillauri.
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I was thinking about how Diljit and Anushka bonded over their art
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Oh the ghost and married to the tree movie, I had forgotten that one…
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The tree they are dancing around is spectacular, a fitting place for love to bloom.
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Mr. T is entranced with this movie so far! He is also alternating between feeding my Baby K and playing with my hair!
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What is he feeding Baby K? Food or fingers?
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Formula in a bottle. And weirdly Baby K is also entranced with this movie. I wills end pics shortly!
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Is the stealing the shoes thing a common wedding tradition?
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In north India it is.
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Yep! The girl’s side steals the grooms shoes and then “sells” them to the boy’s side.
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I’m worried about the school team intermural rules. Can she just sign on as a transfer student last minute and no one will question it? This seems very iffy and immoral.
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There is NO MORALITY in dance competitions. Margaret it is like you’ve never seen a dance movie before?
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You’re right, you’re right. It’s a Win At All Costs kind of lifestyle.
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They are going to fall into that well! THEY ARE GOING TO FALL INTO THE WELL!
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I love how obvious the plot line is of them all scurrying off as soon as they know the name of his love interest, and yet, it is still funny. No one had time to fall into the well.
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Mr T is now singing watching movie to the tune of frere jacques. He likes making up songs to that tune.
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Fun tidbut for Mr. FilmiKudhi, the Star Trek fan. They use that song a lot in TNG too 🙂 Picard sings it.
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ooooh interesting!
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The cinematography in the past is awesome, so dreamy.
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Mr. T loves the tractor with the wheels and the sheep… baaa
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FilmiKudhi just sent me a photo of Baby K, funniest/cutest part is that she is holding the bottle just with her lips, no hands. Looks like a big cigar waving around in her mouth.
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She REFUSES to hold the bottle. She will do prayer hands every time we try and put the bottle in her hands!
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Love a scary tiny Granny
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