So, I left off at the song, right?  So, song ends, and Varun gets a bucket of water in his face.  Because he was sleeping leaning against the car in the garage instead of working or even being awake to prevent the theft of a car radio!  Shahrukh chides him gently, Varun is very apologetic, but again, not that scared. (part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here, part 5 here, part 6 here, and part 7 here)

And then cut to the first comedy sequence!  Oh boy!  In one of my earlier reviews I mentioned how these feel like a whole different movie that had been forced on to the original, better, film.  And I am standing by that!

Anyway, here we are in another garage with even more eccentric decorating (a bedazzled skull phone, for instance).  And here is Sanjay Mishra, with unusual hair and an American pop culture t-shirt (I don’t remember what it is in this scene, but I know later it is a very accurate picture of Heath Ledger’s version of the joker.  That kind of thing).  And here is Sidhu!  Varun’s best friend/honorary brother!  He is also the thief that is tormenting their garage!

(this phone)

He and Sanjay Mishra (character name, Oscar Bhai.  Ooo, Christian!  We really are in Goa!) have a conversation about how much money he will pay for the car radio.  I am briefly interested in his comic dialogue stylings.  He uses the sort of rhyming, alliterative style of talk that is part of classical Indian poetry.  Think Jackie Shroff in SLB’s Devdas.  And the last two words of every line are a matching pair of brand names, like “nokia-blackberry.”  So it is kind of a cool combination of classical Indian literature rules, and modern India’s brand obsession.  But after about 2 minutes, the novelty wears off and I am done with this character.

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