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Still Running After That Train: DDLJ Breakdown

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It’s the train that never stopped — and this week, we’re finally hopping on.

We, along with our guest host Mitul, take a chai-fueled trip back to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, the movie that made mustard fields iconic, turned train stations into love stories, and crowned SRK and Kajol the forever king and queen of Bollywood romance.

 From Raj’s effortless charisma to Simran’s quiet rebellion, we’re breaking down what made DDLJ a cultural phenomenon and asking the real questions. Would Raj’s antics still work in 2025? Did Bauji actually have a point? And why does this film still feel like comfort food?

It’s nostalgia, debate, and laughter in one ticket — and yes, there’s a special guest on board for this ride.

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Munni: Maastani by Sahir Ali Bagga and Afshan Fawad

Mitul: Tera Chehra from Sanaam Tere Kasam


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SPEAKER_03

Muni, we're in person again. Yes, yes, we are. Welcome back. We have a third person. We do. So our friend Mithel has joined us. You've heard of his name before here and there. I think we've mentioned him. Yes. Um, just to give a little intro of Mithel. The first time I actually even knew that Mithel had any Bollywood knowledge, it was at uh the dance studio, Born to Dance. And he comes and he's like, Yo, kvita, I got talk to you. And I'm like, oh my god, what did I do? Because Mithel is a big dude, okay? Like, you get scared when he talks to you like tall dude. Yeah, tall dude. So when he said that, I was like, oh my god, what happened? And he's like, Abhishek Butchin, dude. And then he's like, you gotta stop saying bad things about him. And then he went on to this big thing about Abhishek Butchon. I'm like, wait, you you're a closet Bollywood fan? I had no idea. He's a closeted Bollywood fan. I had no idea. So, Mythal, give us some background about you and your Bollywood love. Love. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So, okay, so uh I'm an absolute noob when it comes to Bollywood.

SPEAKER_03

Not not according to when it comes to Abhishek Butchin.

SPEAKER_00

I have a lot of opinions. Well, okay, so so I grew up watching all of the classics, right? Anything that's mainstream. I don't know a lot. I don't know like what you guys do who sleep, eat, breathe Bollywood.

SPEAKER_03

Well, this is how you listen to the podcast to get your information.

SPEAKER_00

Wave top surface things, right? Um, and I'm so so far behind on some of the stuff. But the the one thing that I like and I always love about Bollywood movies that no other industry anywhere in the world that can replicate is the the fact that they can seamlessly transition between dialogue and song throughout the movies, right? And it's it's very hard for them to do that in Hollywood, and you have that in Broadway. Um but I find Broadway very boring. Um absolutely boring. I think it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_01

I mean there is there are some really good Broadway shows.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they're called movies.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, so did you guys do anything fun over the weekend, over the week? Anything exciting, middle?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, uh it's been it's just been busy. My my girls, uh, Mir and Ari are preparing for a winter piano recital. Oh yeah. So we put up uh the Christmas trees, uh decorations, we did some Black Friday shopping decorations again. We moved the piano around.

SPEAKER_03

You seem very enthusiastic about it. Are you done painting your house when your hazmat suit?

SPEAKER_00

I stopped for the holiday season.

SPEAKER_03

But there's people to do this. He is people.

SPEAKER_00

I'm the people, right? I want to learn.

SPEAKER_03

I walked in one day and I'm like, what is he doing? What is he doing? He's wearing a hazmat suit. He was like painting something.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I mean, yeah, so all of this stuff in prepared preparation for tomorrow's uh Sunday, this is December. Holiday party. Nice winter recital. So that's what we've been preparing for. So it's been very Christmas themed in the front of the house. Nice. What does the back of the house look like? There's a tree in the corner. Very good. Uh that's it.

SPEAKER_03

Nice money. What about you? How has your week been?

SPEAKER_01

I think I didn't mention this, but I went to Sonu Negam's concert. Oh, yeah. In Chicago while I was there for things like that.

SPEAKER_03

Bijria, Bijuria.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, I'm gonna tell you this. I've been we've been to a lot of concerts this last year, year and a half. We did um Kumar Sanu, we did Utit Narayan, the you know, the kisser, and then we've been to like Bachash concert. To uncle's concert. Yeah, I went to Bach's concert. I went to Sonigum's concert, and I'm gonna say this. He is a performer. He entertains, he's an entertainer. He started, the show started at 8 o'clock. I was like, it's okay if I'm a little bit late, it's not a big deal. It's not gonna start on 10. It's gonna start on time. They're gonna have another singer out. No, he started at 8:10 or 80. Not like Madre Dixon. Not like Madre Dixon, not like Bachel, not like all those other people. Yeah, he started on time, and that man sang and performed non-stop and danced. And he danced. Okay? He was doing Bijuria, he took off his shoes.

unknown

Okay, there.

SPEAKER_01

Hold on, I'm gonna fall if I have these. He's trying to dance with Bijurya with the heels, yeah, and he like, no, I can't, it's not working. So then he went, took off his shoes, and went back up the stage and came running across to do his Bijuria dance movie. He was really good, and the thing about him, he was live mixing. So if I like he was going from one song and then pulling another song in into the beats together, like when he was singing, and then the band would follow whatever.

SPEAKER_03

The band would follow.

SPEAKER_01

Like they would like they would start with one song, different song, and like and then like he would mix it, and I was just like, this is an entertainer, this is a performer, this is what you want to see. I had a he was singing a lot of Muhammad Ruffi's songs, so like for me, it didn't like I don't know all of his songs, I just know the popular ones. So like I really wanted to see Sonu Nigam songs. He didn't do a lot of his songs, but like it was still a good show. Nice what did you do, Kavi?

SPEAKER_03

Um, so what did I do? I had Saheja's piano recital yesterday. Nice, it was nice.

SPEAKER_01

Sahej does a lot of stuff. Like, I'm very impressed about the amount of things this your son does. Sahej does.

SPEAKER_03

And he's he's getting an award today at a tennis gallon. Yay! Pretty big deal. Wow. So look how excited just ball. Oh, yay! Tennis future tennis.

SPEAKER_01

And recently recently had an article about him, too.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, two articles.

SPEAKER_01

Well, uh you only sent me one.

SPEAKER_03

Well, sorry. Yeah, sent you the other one. The other one just came out yesterday. Proud Auntie here. Yay! Can I tell you what I watched? Yes, I did have it. I watched What did you watch? Dining with the Kapoors. Oh god. It is so stupid. It looked it looked stupid. Okay, it was a big drawn-out commercial about a catering business because Arman Jane is uh Rima Jane's son.

SPEAKER_01

Rima Jane is Raj Kapoor's daughter.

SPEAKER_03

Uh Adarjane.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Who cheated on Daj Adar and got married to her best friend?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Aleika.

SPEAKER_03

Her his brother.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

So all this was was about him cooking for the family and them using family recipes. And then they're like, oh, do you remember when Dadi used to do this? And oh, I my favorite was the Muchliwali, blah blah blah blah blah blah. It was so stupid.

SPEAKER_01

I heard they talk about Ghee every two minutes. We love Ghee. I've seen like that clip has come up so many, like they keep talking about Ghee. Yeah. They do talk about Ghee a lot.

SPEAKER_03

So I mean, again, it's a good background, not good. It's just a background watch. I it was a my cooking and washing dishes watch. Yeah. Uh laundry wash watch.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was just not but I heard that um Alya wasn't there. So people were people were like speculating. She wasn't there.

SPEAKER_03

Um I Sai Feli Khan was there though. He was there, yeah. Um, yeah, it was just whatever. It was a like a I liked Roshans. Remember I told you I really liked it. You loved the Rotion. This was not good. And then I did watch something that you and I both watched. Yes, whatever. Do you want to enter that?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, we can. Okay, so this movie is homebound. It's qualified for um Oscars. It it was so good.

SPEAKER_03

It's a real movie.

SPEAKER_01

It's it's a very real good movie. And I think I think it it just like there's parts of it. Obviously, I cried because I don't know if you cried or not, but I cried. I I I cried, you know, I I always cry on these type of things. But for me, what there's a part of it of the movie, and um sorry. I know because I'm thinking about it.

SPEAKER_03

It was just so heart-wrenching.

SPEAKER_01

Some of it was there's some part of it so hard, but you appreciate you didn't cry. I don't cry then, yeah, because you don't have a heart.

SPEAKER_03

You're right. I like I'm like, oh, murder, no murder, no murder, I love you.

SPEAKER_01

Happy ending, you gross gross. Um, but when I watched this, right, I was like, holy crap, how privileged am I? I mean, and this movie really put me in perspective of like I'm so lucky and I'm so privileged to have this life that I do, and I forget that people aren't like that. Like I sometimes just forget that life isn't always perfect for everyone else, too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So can we talk about who's in it? Yes, please go ahead. Ishawn Cutter.

SPEAKER_01

I love him.

SPEAKER_03

This new guy named Vishal Jetwa, who I thought was amazing. Yeah. And then John B. Kapoor.

SPEAKER_01

She was pointless in this movie.

SPEAKER_03

She had three scenes.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. And three lines. That could have easily been cut. Did not even need to be there. She did not have to be there. Your angle was not even necessary for there. And I think.

SPEAKER_03

But there was one angle where she had no makeup on. She had no makeup on through all of them. Then she like smiled, and I'm like, she looks older than you and I and Mythel put together. Like she looked so plastic and old. Again, I don't know why she was in it though. Forget about her looks. For my look, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know why she was in it, but I know why she was in it. This is the Dhamma production. Okay. Karin Johar. Yeah, Karen Johar. He wants his girl to be out there in the world. And if he knew home, he needs to put her everywhere he possibly can put her. There's her storyline did not make any sense. There's no need for her storyline.

SPEAKER_03

I didn't even know what she did. Same thing her parents did. Like good.

SPEAKER_01

But Ishan Katar, amazing.

SPEAKER_03

And the Vishal guy.

SPEAKER_01

And the Vishal guy, such a good actor.

SPEAKER_03

And even all the parents, the side actors.

SPEAKER_01

All the side actors are really so good. So good.

SPEAKER_03

So anyway, good watch. I recommend it. Muni, you recommend it.

SPEAKER_01

I absolutely recommend it. You need to watch this movie. Mythical, you should watch it.

SPEAKER_00

I will put it on my to-do list today.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, please watch it. I also watched another movie called Sunny Senskari. Yes, I did. What are you doing to yourself? I know. Sometimes I just want to punish myself. Sunny Sengari Sunny Senskari Kitlusi Kumari movie. It came out over the summer and it's on Netflix right now. I put it on. It's basically watching Hampty Sharma Kidulahania, Badrinatki Dulahania. It's like Dulahania series of Varun Kapoor's sorry, Varun Dawan. He's the same person in every movie. I like him. He is the same guy.

SPEAKER_00

There's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01

He can play to his strengths. He's playing the same, there's the same character from one movie to another movie to another movie. But I will say this: it's a fun movie to watch. I don't think like I actually had fun.

SPEAKER_03

It's not supposed to be some groundbreaking movie.

SPEAKER_01

And I don't like watching groundbreaking movies. I already did one. Homebound is the only one I'm gonna watch this end of this year. Everything else is gonna be Masala movies for me. Don't expect much from it. It's a fun movie to watch.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, what about you, Mythel? Watch anything fun? So no? It doesn't have to be bad. It doesn't have to be bad.

SPEAKER_00

No, no, no. Okay, so so okay. So I haven't watched anything, but because I got kids who are now uh Arya especially is at that age where she wants to watch like just about any good Bollywood movie. But I haven't watched anything recently. One of my most recent movies that I watched that I really liked is 83.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah, with Ren Vier Singh. It's about um cricketer. Rahul Drevid. One of the cricketers, right? The cricketers, yes.

SPEAKER_00

And there's uh live um real real movie shots in that movie. Real actors, real cricketers, which is really good how they they fuse all those things together. I like those types of movies that talk more about less about love and drama and murder and you know beating people up, and more about the history of India, because there's a lot of history there. There isn't a lot of movies out that talk about that, right? So in cricket, he's a lot of people. So you like biopics. I do, I do.

SPEAKER_03

Um, I have one question for you now, Mythal. Tell me what you thought about Sayara. 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_00

I think it's a terrible movie.

SPEAKER_03

I don't have a good way of introducing trending topics again. So trending topics, please. What are our trending topics for this week?

SPEAKER_01

One of the most interesting topics I saw recently was okay, we all know how Jaya Butchan is with the paparazzis and just in general how she is, she hates taking pictures. She's really people. She hates like this is what it seems like. I don't know if it's true, but it just seems like she doesn't like people. She's always like very sour sound looking. But recently, she was out somewhere, they're telling her to take a picture, and she was very rude to the pops, apparently. She's turning around, it's like, oh, I think that she made comments about how they are, like, oh, look at you guys, you guys like don't know any better. And I think a specific comment she made like, look how you guys dress, like you dress so badly, and you come to these events and like harassing us for pictures. She said that. She said something like, look at the way you guys dress. Do you guys see how you guys dress, how you guys behave, like what you guys are wearing? Like, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_03

That's not nice.

SPEAKER_01

That's how she kind of said it. And that's what I was reading, how she said it. I don't I didn't hear the exact words, but that's how she said it. So now apparently, like they're like coming together and they're like like boycotting her, canceling her, and be like, We're not your grandson is doing a movie called Ickis, we're not even gonna go to his premiere, we're not gonna take pictures very fast. Yeah. Going back to the whole like photography and the reviewers and stuff like that, Yami Gotham, you know Yami Gotham, right? Yeah, we like her. She came out and made a statement about how, like, you know, she's sick and tired of like reviewers, movie reviewers, movie critics wanting money to review the movie and give good reviews. Oh, yeah, yeah. She came out with saying that. So she made the post recently. So, based off that post, um, the the people of Duranda, the creator of Duranda is Ren Beaver Singh's new movie that's coming out, it's a spy movie. Um, they said they're not even gonna do, they do like a critics um opening movie, like before the before the movie comes out, they let the critics see it first and let wait them to give a review of it. They're not even doing that anymore because they're like, we're not gonna do it, we're not gonna, it's just gonna go straight to uh audiences. So the audience are gonna review it. We're not even gonna want critics there. So because of what Yamikotam said, that's good, and they're gonna do that now right now. So those are the two things that are like flashing on my on my on my trending topics, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Uh so Mithal and Muni. Hey, MM. Uh, something you're so excited about that. I know, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_00

How long have you been waiting to say that?

SPEAKER_03

Just now, it just came to my head. Okay. Um, something super exciting happened. Yes, whatever. What happened? One of our um past guests, Sonia, film me Sonia. Yes, she sent us some videos. And the videos uh uh were of Shawer Khan and Kajul being in London in Leicester Square, unveiling the iconic DDLJ statue.

SPEAKER_01

I mean I didn't even know that was happening. I didn't know that it was such a big thing.

SPEAKER_03

Remember it was supposed to happen like a month ago and then it got cancelled. No, I didn't know. She told us when we're talking. It got cancelled because something, something, whatever. They um unveiled it last week and she was there, and she sent us some videos, really amazing videos. Yes. But because that happened this week, I thought, why not talk about DDLJ?

SPEAKER_01

Yes. DDLJ, like you said, was running for so many years. It's a landmark movie from 1995 cinemas. I remember this movie. I think it's the first movie that Aditya Chopra his directorial.

SPEAKER_03

I was in 11th grade.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

I just aged myself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, so let's deep dive into the movie. So the movie starts off. If you haven't watched DDLJ, I think you should go back and watch it. Um but what this movie is about um NRI in England. Um there two people end up meeting together on air on a fun vacation trip for themselves, and they end up falling in love, and then it just talks, it just shows um how conservative the girl's family is and how more liberal the guy's family is. And the conservative family, she comes in and she it has her, she's already arranged to be married to someone back home, a family friend, and she knew this from her life that you know that she's that's gonna happen to her.

SPEAKER_03

I have to do what my dad wants me to do.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, basically that I just knew that this is my this is what always been, and I have to follow what my dad did.

SPEAKER_03

She's like, Can I can I at least do this one trip? I've never asked for anything before. And her dad is Amrishpuri, very scary man, but apparently very nice man in in real life. Yes. He's supposed to be a really, very scary man. Yeah. Um a great actor. Yeah. So she asks her dad, she's like, Hey, Mauji, I've never asked you for anything before in my life, but I really want to go on this backpacking trip with my friend.

SPEAKER_01

With my Sahelian.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And also like her last trip before she gets married, kind of like uh, you know, I'm like, last time I'm gonna- I know my life is ending. Basically, how she said it, right? Like, I know my life is ending, I'm starting anew. Yes, basically. Yes. And she goes through this trip and she meets this guy, Raj. Very iconic scenes have happened.

SPEAKER_03

Can I tell you who um Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra wanted uh originally for Raj? Tom Cruise. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, whatever.

SPEAKER_03

They wanted this to be an Indo-American movie, and they approached him. They asked him, and he said, huh? And that's it.

SPEAKER_01

I don't even know what that is. Let's just forget this. I don't think that would have worked out.

SPEAKER_03

It wouldn't have worked out, right?

SPEAKER_01

There's very iconic scenes in this movie, right? There's like that train scene that I think it set the stage for like romance. I think people still do those scenes, right? They still do the train scene, they still do the palette scene, they still do all of those type of things, and it was it set this stage for how romance, I think, for the 90s is gonna start, going to happen, right?

SPEAKER_03

But it was very like, didn't you feel it was very cliched, almost like ew, gross boys? Like that's how she was acting, right? She's just like, oh god, don't touch me.

SPEAKER_01

Like, I don't think it was ew boys in that sense. I think it was ew, you're gross, not boys. I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So I think it's a little bit of both, right? So she has this uh this we this weird like evolvement with her mom in the beginning of the movie. Like the second she turns 18, now they're best friends, and she's reading out of her diary. Like I've I'm dreaming of this man who I don't know, have not seen, but I've seen his eyes.

SPEAKER_03

Very good, correct.

SPEAKER_00

Right? And so she meets him at the back of the train.

unknown

Right?

SPEAKER_00

They were they were together, they both slightly almost crossed paths at the town square, and then they're not on the back of the train. And you're right, I agree with you. Kind of like uh is a bit of a creeper breaking her personal boundaries, like all of the crazy. A lot of personal boundaries. Yes, a lot of personal boundaries, and so yeah, and then but then they they go into the car cabin, and her friend Sheena talks about like we're going to this club, and there's gonna be music and food and boys, and then you kind of see her expression. She's like, Oh, I'm excited, there's gonna be boys there. And then you you go fast forward to that location and to that dinner, and then you know, Raj shows up and then she's like, Oh, this guy's here. So it's just like maybe she's excited for boys, but just not that one because her first, it seemed like her very first impression. Her very first impression of boys was Raj. Because it seemed like you didn't talk to any boys before the age of 18.

SPEAKER_03

So mature.

SPEAKER_00

Right?

SPEAKER_03

I could see that.

SPEAKER_00

It could be uh and like the first interaction was him, and she's like, I'm put off by anything that is guy. Everyone else is okay, but not him. So I think that's kind of how it's I agree. So I think it's a little bit of a little bit of both. I think she's excited because she's going on this Europe trip with her girlfriends, and there's boys, but then then you got Raj.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, so I get it, she didn't like him, and that's fine. Perfect, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But we we should backtrack. Um, Raj does meet the dad.

unknown

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yes, we forgot this. This is key point. Yeah, key point. Interesting point is that okay, the dynamic of it, which I felt why I'm I feel so connected to this movie, because I felt like the dad was like my dad. Oh no. Yeah, my dad, my dad was very strict.

SPEAKER_02

Your dad was Amerspuri.

SPEAKER_01

My dad was Amerspuri. Hands dad, I still didn't always say my dad was like Amerspuri. It's very was very strict, a very loving dad, father, but like he was very strict. So a lot of the stuff that happened and the way his behavior was reminded me a lot of my dad. Not everything, but a lot of it reminds me of my dad. So for me, it's like like I felt seen. Like, oh my god, there's a movie about how about me. It's how our life is. My dad goes to work, we play music, my dad comes, turn the music off. He's home, turn the music off, open your book, study. I am studying right now, dad. That's what I've been doing the whole time, you know? For junior year of high school, there was a Boston trip. I had to ask my dad to go for three days, and I never have gone anywhere without unless a family home. I asked my dad, I asked my mom first, and exactly how Gazo's mom laughed at me and says to her, like, if your dad says okay, we'll see. My mom said, if your dad says okay, I have no problem with it. So I like prepped and prepped and prepped and prepped. How am I gonna ask my father? And I finally asked him, and like I did all like, you know, I'm graduating, I'm doing all these type of things, and he said, and he said, Yes, I can go. So like those things are like things that like remind me of like how like how it works like how it was for us. Yeah. So that's why like the movie resonates so much with me, because it was very much like that.

SPEAKER_03

Right. So but back to dad.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

And uh he owns a gas station. Gas station, yes. Right? Like a convenience store gas station. Yeah, yeah, right? Yep. And um Raj and his two friends And who is it? One of the friends? Karin Johar. Yes. Nerdy Karin Johar. Yes. Okay, so they were uh pumping gas, and then uh Raj is like, hey, whatever Karin's name is cut in, go get some beer. Like, and and Keijo's like, no, I don't want to, you go do it. He's like, nah, just go get it, right? So Karin Johar goes in to get some beer. Dad's like, we're closed, I'm sorry, not gonna happen, right? And so then Karin Johar, being the good little boy, I guess that he was, comes back and he's like, oh, I couldn't get it, guys. And then Shawrik is like, let me let me go try. And so he goes and he like smooges a little bit. He's like, You hey, I have a really bad headache. Can I get some like aspirin or whatever?

SPEAKER_01

And he uses the DC card. Thisy card.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, he used the DC card. He's just like, you know, if another, if uh, you know, I'm Indian, if another Indian's not gonna help. Something like that, yeah. Yeah, then you know, whatever. So then so he purchases his aspirin's and he's like, the guy's like, oh well the cash register closed, right? Dad's like, right?

SPEAKER_01

I think I think he's but yeah, whatever, but I forget what it was.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, something, whatever. The dad's like, I don't have change, whatever it is. He's like, oh well, you know, since I'm here, let me let me just pick up this beer.

SPEAKER_01

I feel so bad you have to open your store up again for me. Let me just grab beer. And the guy's like, no, no, no, exactly.

SPEAKER_03

And then he eventually just basically takes the beer and throws money at him and breaks the Lakshmi or something. Yeah, so like, so just remember this key point that dad has met Raj early on before Kajal is ever in the picture.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, continue. Okay, so then throughout the trip, train the train trip, you talked about them going to this thing, and then like Raj misbehaves with her the whole time while she's with her friend. Not misbehaves in a bad way, but just as annoying, very annoying. Yeah, and he's like being this child of behavior, like when he like and that song from that movie, Zukjao. No, is it no? No, no, no, not that one. Is it that one? Yeah, when he drops her, yeah, when he drops her, yeah. He ends up dropping her in front of everyone, and then he wants to apologize to her the next day, and he puts water on her face.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, he's still a prankster. It's like a prankster, yeah. Like a little kid. And the drop, by the way, was uh not scripted. It wasn't scripted. He actually dropped her. Really? Yeah. So her reaction was like real like what the f yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That was that was good. So that happened, and then throughout this throughout they they they've met a couple of times because they're on the same, like, I guess, tour group or something. So so the one on the scheduled trip is that they're out of one to stop. And again, this part is weird. He's like pretending to like buy something and he doesn't care the train is missing. Why is she leaving last minute to go get a cowbell? Like, like the train is leaving. Why do we need this cowbell exactly at this? Like this cowbell. I was like, why are you doing that? So she he ends up making her late and misses the train while her friend you think this is purposeful?

SPEAKER_00

How love story starts?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I mean yeah, again, he's a prankster, right? He's a prankster, so to him, it's not a big deal. Again, he has a lot of money, he's easily probably doesn't care. She doesn't, and is like, I don't want to get stuck in a r like a place, and again, she's been sheltered, so she doesn't know how to do any of these type of things, so she has to figure this stuff out. So that happens. And while that happens, they go on this journey together. And we see a character development as a viewer for me. I saw Raj going from this prankster, this like childish behavior, to becoming a little bit more mature and adult. And you see his behavior with her change, where he realized you know, he realizes how she is, and then she realizes how he is, and they become a like a fun friend group together, and they journey together for like two days together by themselves to meet their meet, go back and meet their friends because the train has left them.

SPEAKER_03

And there's that fun song in between where like she supposedly gets drunk and then he like tries to mess with her and said, Oh my god, something bad happened last night. Yeah, and she's like, No, no, don't tell me.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like because she's wearing like his shirt or something, he wakes up, doesn't remember anything, and then you know, he starts she starts crying, and that's when he's like, I know I act behave so bad like this way, but I'm still ultimately I'm not a bad guy. I would never do something like that. You know, I wouldn't do it.

SPEAKER_03

So that's when she's just like, Oh. Okay, maybe he is actually a good guy, maybe he's not so bad. An idiotic, annoying person.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but yeah, yeah. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03

Right. Zara sa jumalume.

SPEAKER_07

Zarasa.

SPEAKER_05

Rappa me.

SPEAKER_03

So that's kind of where you see like a little bit of an attraction happening, right? Yeah, you see that.

SPEAKER_00

You see that when he Well, you you saw it when she like when she realized, okay, this is a joke, and she hugs him, and the camera focuses on the hand, because the hand's starting to go down the back of his back. And like, ah, she's uh fallen in love. Love has happened to her.

SPEAKER_02

Love who are right there.

SPEAKER_00

At that moment, she has fallen in love with him, but she refuses to accept the fact that she's fallen in love with a Joker.

SPEAKER_01

I think, I think, I think you're right. Because, like you said, it's probably she probably hasn't had experience being around boys as much. In this journey, they become all become friends. The boys, they're like traveling together. They're traveling to them, become their friends, and they're having a good time, they're hanging out together. In between, there's a lot of scenes that you show that um SRK's character, Raj, is falling in love with her. Like you see him falling in love with her.

SPEAKER_03

He looks at one picture and he kind of wants to keep it.

SPEAKER_01

He wants to keep it, and then she talks about like they talk about like their streams and she says, Well, I'm gonna get married soon, so I don't even have that type of right. Like, I'm I have arranged marriage. I think when she says that, I think it like hits him, like, oh no, she has someone. Yeah, kind of like that. Like you see that realization. Yeah, like a little bit of like, oh crap, like, oh no, like I the girl I've been crushing on already has someone, kind of like that.

SPEAKER_03

Like this could never be real.

SPEAKER_01

Um, and then there's this famous scene where they are talking on a bridge and they're going to the the train.

SPEAKER_03

Well, that's when we first hear d-a ding-ding. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

The iconic beat for that. And then she's like, Oh come on, we're we don't want to miss the train, let's go. And then he like makes a comment that, oh, I fell in love with you, or you're gonna go get married. And when he said that, she like stops until she fell in love with him too. Because she's just like what? And then he starts laughing, and then she's like, Oh, he's like, it's just a joke, and she's like, Oh, okay. Yeah, let's go to the let's go to the train. And then we're walking the train, and the f again, the that scene where he goes, like, if she cares about you, she's gonna turn around, and he does a ballot the palat, and then she turns around and he's like, she cares for me. Like, I don't know why that's an indication, but but it is Bollywood. Yeah, that's Bollywood. As they're leaving, she tells him, like, hey, give me your address. I'm gonna invite you to my wedding, and he's like, I'm not coming to your wedding. And then she's just like, What? And like, I'm not coming to your wedding. And as they're separating, they both feel it. Like they're like a month together, they realize they're both actually realizing they actually fell in love with each other. Yeah, and then that song comes out.

SPEAKER_00

I think I think Raj always knew he knew. So the the second he found out that uh she was being arranged, he had to, he had to, as a person, to protect himself, go back to being a jokester, right? Because then you don't you don't take anyone seriously. Yeah, defense. Yeah. So he does, he says the whole thing that I I've fallen in love with you, and her her face doesn't really change, but she gets shocked.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe almost to the point where it's like there's validation in that that this could be real, and then the whole thing that Sheena brings up, like, hey, you're getting married, I don't know if I'm coming to your wedding, blah blah blah. Then he has to turn back into that jokester, like you said, a defense mechanism.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Um But it shows that, but it goes so what I liked about and rewatching it, right? What I he was annoying in the beginning, absolutely annoying. But the transition from annoying to like this other character, sweet guy, it like showed there because he could have still told her he loved her, he could have still like try to convince her, but he was like, you know what? I'm gonna back away. She's already has someone, I'm gonna go away from this and walk away.

SPEAKER_03

And for her, you can see that she was she was kind of like fighting in her head like what I want, but what I have to do. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Like my like this type of so they this beautiful song comes in. All the songs are gorgeous, and this song is so well played.

SPEAKER_03

And like you were saying before we started, all the songs flow so well with the movie. No, it doesn't say all lover. No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_00

Like, um, I don't know Hindi really, really well, so I do read subtitles, but that's kind of how I can uh understand the the song and the story, but it it's just uh uh the dialogue in song version. Yeah and it works really, really with this movie.

SPEAKER_01

And it hits the trigger point that they want you to hit, right? They want you to feel like they fell in love. Yes, and they're now they're both like she's realizing it for the first time. Like I fell in love.

SPEAKER_03

That last scene where she's like waving because she thinks she sees it. Yeah, yeah. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

It's just like again, that romance that he built, and it's just it's just yesro performing. Exactly, yes, exactly. She comes home. This this part I think is dumb. Wouldn't me and her dad again. This part is dumb. I never talk in open space about anything in front of my dad. It's always closed doors. I would never do something like that. Talk to my mom like that, please. I did not have, you know, we didn't we weren't type of open roads. We weren't friends, no, no. Um, not like that. But she the moment she says, sitting in front of her in her living room, openly talking about I have fallen in love, mom. I have fallen in love. My guy that I was looking for in my poetry has a has emerged has emerged for me. Yeah, man, and I didn't realize I'm gonna fall in love. And the dad, such a bollywood thing to do. Someone confessing, and then the person in the background. Yeah, like it's it's a very bollywood, fine bother for me, right? Yeah, they're focusing on her talking and then it pans to the dad, and the music changes, and you see like his eyes. Oh no, dad has walked in until it goes. Yeah, and then the music's. As you hear the camera moving, you know the dad's coming out. You knew. Yeah, because and then mom also like her face is kind of draining too because she's like, Oh no, like what's gonna happen? Like, she's supposed to get married, and she has she's gonna get in trouble first. She will be getting in trouble because originally the daughter told her, like, I have this, I have this feeling with someone, right? But anyway, the dad comes in the pan and he reacts, which I kind of see his point too. As an adult now, I see where he's coming from. And as a child, at the time when I watched this movie, I was like, Oh my god, the dad's being so evil. But as an adult, I see what he's saying, like I trusted you and you promised, and now Well, I don't think she promised him anything.

SPEAKER_00

She's like, I want to go. She said before and you're asking for that trip to Europe, she's like, Can I have one month of my life? Yeah. And he's like, Yes, go enjoy your entire life in one month. Gila, Gino. So she did. She enjoyed her entire life, and in that enjoying her entire life in that one month, she fell in love. I don't think she ever promised to her dad, like, I'm not gonna fall in love.

SPEAKER_01

But she didn't know that was gonna happen. And you can't blame him. But I think I think he I don't think he said that you promised me that. I think it was more that I trusted you to go and behave properly. And in his mind, falling in love is not behaving properly, and meeting with a boy and behaving that way is not proper to him. Again, conservative dad, right? But believe me, if I brought that up in front of my dad, exact reaction. I trusted you to betray my trust. You know, like it would have been the same thing. So, like, I see where the dad is coming from in that sense. Like, I trusted you, I gave you this thing, you were I gave you the freedom. I gave you the freedom, and now you're betraying that freedom that I gave you. In his mind, he's she's betraying the freedom. Rigid, rigid dad. Very, very conservative, rigid, right? That happens, right? And she's just she's like, and he's like, This is it. We're going to India forever. Jumping.

SPEAKER_00

We're gonna go tomorrow. Tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, how much of those tickets are?

SPEAKER_00

I'm gonna sell my gas station tomorrow to somebody. Get that money, pack up, and leave.

SPEAKER_01

The house, the everything. We're leaving tomorrow. And they have a fucking we've we had a 12-year-old daughter. That daughter's life in school does not matter.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, yes. You know what? When I first watched the movie, and I think a lot of these movies were the same in the early 90s and beginning, where when you had a a child disobey indirectly against a parent, there was always like a slap to the face that comes like boom boom.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And then you're like, we're moving tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01

The eyes were the slap. Eyes were the slap. The eyes were so scary. Oh, I'm telling you, we're going to India. We're moving to India now. You better forget him right now. She's just crying. Like, but what did you think he was gonna say? No, you could marry him? Of course you're gonna say. Oh, that'd be the guy. Yeah, like you didn't your dad hasn't even met him yet. Like, what are you gonna say? Like, yeah, bring him over, dude. Yeah, bring him over. Let's meet him. Let's meet the family. No. He's gonna be exactly gonna be the opposite, exactly. He's gonna be the opposite, and he's gonna be like, No, get your ass together, put your packer bags, woman. We're going to India. Yeah. Basically, tomorrow. And this happens, and they leave, and then it shows Raj in his home, just sitting there, not being his like funny self, his crazy childish behaviour. Kind of depressed. Love depressed. Yeah, and his dad's like, Who's the girl? Tell me. Something's wrong with him. Automatically it goes straight to the city. No, no. He knows his child. Yeah, he knows his child. So he's like, Who's the who's the girl? And then he's like, Simran. And he was like, Who's that? And he's like, Oh no, blah blah. And his dad's like, if you love her, go after her. Tell her. You would not you're not gonna have anything, you're not gonna lose anything. She says no, right? Like, just go and tell her. So I don't know how he gets her address.

SPEAKER_00

So he goes there and he's like ringing the doorbell. He's like checking his shirt, right? Ring the doorbell, and the neighbor's lady comes in. She's like, they packed up and they left. They left to resettle in Punjab. And he's like, Oh, I'm upset. What am I gonna do now? Then he sees the I go to cowbell. He sees the cowbell on the side. Oh, she left me. A clue! A clue! This is how I'm gonna summon her before I get to Punjab.

SPEAKER_03

She's gonna lead me to her. Why did she think he was even gonna come to her house so she leaves a cowbell there?

SPEAKER_01

Apparently she wrote her address on her the cowbell.

SPEAKER_03

We know this in the middle.

SPEAKER_01

It says the Reddit says it, that that's how they're gonna remember that scene. I don't remember either. But he says that's how he's saying like a meadaho. That's why he said me'aadaha ho, apparently.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, okay. So then he buys a ticket for Desi World and goes the next day to India.

SPEAKER_01

Before he goes to India, it shows her going to India. And she's like her dad is so excited to be in India, back home to his go and all this type of stuff. And they have that amazing song in the background that's playing in the background. Oh, that's a good song. Yeah, it's a great thing. Again, another good song. Gonna intertwine. Garayapardisi is a great song that goes with the words. It's like the transition song. Yeah. But it's so beautifully done. It works with that, all of that stuff, right? And then it shows her being sad, and then they we meet her fiance, who's supposed to be like douchebag-looking guy, like all hunting and like muscle and muscular, like supposed to be like that. And Punjabi Murna. Punjabi, like they're the stereotype of that, right? They're doing that. And then they see the family, and apparently Amish Furi hasn't seen his mom in like umpteen years since they left or something.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know, because in the beginning, he's like, I've been in this country for 23 years, and the only people who know me are these pigeons.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, plot hole! The years don't match up.

SPEAKER_03

No, she's 18. There is a scene. Is she 18? Yeah, she's supposed to be 18. But there's a scene where he says, like, you we came you came here when you're you you don't remember India at all because you were so little when we left, or something like that. He says, Okay, anyway, whatever.

SPEAKER_01

Another loophole, but okay, fine, whatever.

SPEAKER_02

Plot. Yeah, plot hole, loophole.

SPEAKER_01

Um okay, she so they go there and the family, and the grandmother, I'm sure his mom, like, notices like how sad Simaran is, like how her behavior is, and she's not happy to be here, right? And Chutki is being chutki and stuff like that. Um, and then then like the then the grandmother's like, what's going on? Why does she seem seem so unhappy? I don't know. Maybe because she left all her friends and moved to India all of a sudden.

SPEAKER_03

She's gonna get married to some dude she doesn't even know.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe that could be it. Like, what do you mean why she seems sad? That is why. So um then the and then the dad goes to the mom, she didn't has she not forgotten that guy yet? She's like pissed off at her. Yeah, but the mom, like, has she not forgotten this guy? And the mom's like, it's just been a couple of days, let's just wait for her to forget, forget, and give her some time tomorrow. Yeah, give her some time, and dad's like, tell her to hurry up and forget this guy, and then like walks away. It's like it's like a they're just walking in a hallway and talking to each other and like walking away. Like, that's the conversation they're having.

SPEAKER_00

But you gotta you gotta understand, like, I understand where he's coming from because that's like the mom and now her are best friend. Yeah, and it's like it's supposed to be husband and wife versus the kid. But it's husband versus wife and daughter. Yeah, so it's like you've betrayed me. We're supposed to be existing together together.

SPEAKER_03

You've betrayed me already, now you are betraying me.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, so she has to be, and that's how Indians are. We we don't talk to the people directly, indirect. You talk to the wife or the uncle, and you go tell that person over there. I can't get involved directly. You're gonna tell I'm gonna tell my brother, my brother's gonna tell his wife, his wife's gonna tell her brother, and it's gonna come all the way back around. I always feel like the answer is no, or yes, maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Again, going back to you know how we were how I was raised and how my my childhood was like my dad, if he had to tell us like I had a different relationship with my dad, but like if he had to like tell us something where like he would go to my mom first, like go tell her to do this, and my mom be like, Your dad said to do this, yeah, and that's like no, I'm not gonna do it. My mom would she's just gonna do it like it's like a weird like dynamic, unless I wanted permission for something that I definitely needed. Yeah, his and like mama had no say in it, right? Yeah, like my dad had to do it, but like I see it, I see that happening. Like I could see my dad be like, has she not forgotten him? And my mom was like, give her some time, and then dad's like, hurry up and do it, and my mom like forget him. Like, you know, like those type of things I could see happening, you know? Nowadays it's different. Now the parents, like the parents and kids like talking. Very direct.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Then Raj ends up coming to India, somehow find like again, we're we're guessing he sees the adders on the cowbell, brings this cowbell, and knows exactly where she is, puts this cowbell on a cow, starts playing this music, and she's like ding ding ding ding ding ding. And then she's like, huh? She keeps hearing this music, right? Constantly hearing it throughout this whole time she's there. Yeah, and then one night she hears it and she's like, Where's the music coming from? She gets up in the middle of the night, runs across this field, which is scary as F because I would not be doing that.

SPEAKER_00

She ran quite a bit. Yeah, yeah. Like that shot of her running down. I'm like, that's a long way. Football field. I'm like, that that music that the instrument he's playing is quite loud. It must be very quiet. Only the all you're hearing in India is the cowbell and him playing. Yeah. It's crazy that she ran so much because I think it was like dusk. Like the sun's about to come up, and she ends up in the mustard uh seed field, and it's bright day. Yeah. I love it. I love the cinematography of how it goes from just barely morning, the rooster hasn't roosted yet, and then in the middle of the field, and she had to leave the house like quietly, people couldn't see her. All this stuff had to happen.

SPEAKER_01

So they don't notice that she's missing.

SPEAKER_00

I know that's they broke. Oh, it's no.

SPEAKER_01

And then he plays the music, she sees him in the iconic scene. And I think that's where the the the hand pose, the arm pose where Shah Rukhan started.

SPEAKER_03

And but there's a little bit of drama about that field, remember? So the farmers of that field would not let them shoot.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_03

Because they were like, you're ruining our fields. Like, we don't know what this is, like we don't know who you guys are. Like, Shah Rukhan was not Shah Rukhan. Kajal was not Kajal at the time. So they were like, So Shah Ru Khan went to them and said, Hey, listen, it's just for blah blah blah, however many minutes it is, and we just need a few shots in this field. We promise we'll compensate you, blah blah blah, whatever it is, and that's that's how the shoot came to happen. Because Shah Rukhan sweet talk.

SPEAKER_01

So she goes, they hug, they have the most fa one of the most famous romantic songs of all time. And then now they realize it that they this person love they love each other. And how Bell brought them together. And they get together and they have this song, and then she's like, we gotta run away. We can't be here. Let's just go. And he's like, no, I didn't come for this. He's being a good boy. I didn't come for this. His child or the childish guy is gone. He's being a good mature man. And he's like, no, I didn't come here to just come steal you. I'm gonna make your father felt like like me. I want them to like me. I want them to give you to me, and that's how I want to do it. I don't wanna, I always wanna run away with you. And she's like, no, you don't know my family. And he's like, no, no, no, you don't know my skills, right? He's like, you don't know my skills, what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_03

Look at how we changed it, like yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01

Like, I exactly like you don't know my skill. You he's a British-born boy. No British boy born born boy knows what's happening in the- with a very good Daisy accent. Yeah, a very good day accent. Also her, too, raised and doesn't have any but anyway. That let's forget those type of things. We got the semantics of it, forget that. Yeah, but he goes into this jungle, sets a trap for Kuljeit, and Kuljit somehow ends up going to this particular trap that he sets up and gets hung up upside down. And this is a this is a boy born and raised in Punjab, okay? The fact that a British born man can just come and trick him, trap this man.

SPEAKER_00

Who's the hunter who got hunted?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, who got exactly got hunted. And then like Sharikhan pretends to be like a lion and blah blah blah, and then saves him, saves the day, and now he becomes besties. Now they become best friends, they're hanging out by a bonfire, and they're talking and drinking beer, and like I'm from England, and I have all this money, I want to use this money to build up a factory, and then cool G's like, oh my god, he's from England, he has all this money, like he's gonna be my best friend now.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, hey, my fiance's from England. And then the two, you gotta go meet them. Oh, you love each other. Okay, great.

SPEAKER_01

So bring this man into his house, right? Shah Rukhan manipulates this whole scenario in like five minutes.

SPEAKER_00

In five minutes. I got money and I got power.

SPEAKER_01

That is the power of Shah Rukhan.

SPEAKER_00

I got 10 million pounds. Maybe you get some of that 10 million pounds, and he'd be your best friend. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, fast forward a little bit into the into the house. He brings him in, so they start introduces all the stuff, and then you kind of see him like you see Guji talking to his dad, like, he has ten million pounds.

SPEAKER_01

And the dad's like, Oh my god. Oh, come over here, welcome, you're my son. Well, so while he meets them, he he meets Amrish Puri. Amrish Puri. I know that's I know you. And he's like, No, you don't, no, you don't. I don't know you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_03

I've never been from England, I'm from here. Because he didn't realize Amrish Puri was her dad. Exactly. The man from the gas station. Yes, the one that was his new girlfriend's dad.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he's like, ah, it's not gonna work for me here because the dad recognizes him. Yeah. Shark recognized, like sort of, but not 100% at that time at that moment. Yeah, and then Shark, and then like, oh no. And then he goes, then Kuljit takes like this is my fiance, he'll say hello to her, so she says hello. Oh, and he introduces Shark as like my best friend. Yeah, this is my best friend, my like my He came from London. He just came like you're from London too, talk to them. Like, Kool Jit wants to hang out with his best friend, you know, this the man that has yeah,$10 million. And uh sorry, 10 million pounds, right? Not even dollars pounds is a lot more money than dollars. And then he and Raj is like, no, I'm so sick, I can't go anywhere, blah, blah. So he kicks Kuljeet out, and the next morning he starts his plan to make everyone like him because now he's doing stuff for the house. Like he's like, Look how nice I am, look at me so lovable. Again, manipulating everyone to like him. Meanwhile, Kuljeet's sister slowly is falling in love with Raj. Yes, that's right. And she thinks that Raj likes her because he sends out bad signals, okay? He's sending out mixed signal signals to this girl to this girl, making it seem like he likes her too, or he's interested, whatever it is. And what? Yes.

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Oh god.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, tell us, Mithal, you just groaned. I don't I don't understand.

SPEAKER_00

That's a long ass groan too. I don't understand how Preeti, which is Guljit's sister, all of a sudden. Like she falls in love with Raj just the second she sees him. So it's love at first sight, shout out to the. She doesn't know, she doesn't know he has 10 million pounds, or he doesn't have 10 million pounds, but he doesn't have to be a good one. Everyone knows that he has 10 million pounds. Right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, the whole thing. But the thing is that whole gown knows he has 10 million pounds.

SPEAKER_00

But I don't like the fact it was like, how long was they? Like they said the engagement was in two days, and then the wedding was in in two weeks. So like Raj and Simron fell in love in four weeks of time. Yeah, that's true. That means Britty fell in love with Raj in what? Like five days?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, but that's a Daisy. But that's a Daisy thing.

SPEAKER_00

But it's like the the fact that that her her dad knew that he had money, what, and then you fast forward a little bit, a little bit to time jump uh a couple scenes later, it's like I need to talk to you, right? I want you to marry my daughter. Like, where does that come out?

SPEAKER_01

That's a daisy thing, though. And I've seen that.

SPEAKER_03

I've seen that because it's like you gotta watch more daisy dramas.

SPEAKER_00

But it's quick, but it's it's it's uh not the the way you do it, right? It shouldn't be um Preeti's dad talking to Raj directly, right? It should have been like this this roundabout roundabout way of getting to have that conversation.

SPEAKER_01

But the but I don't think it's that because Preeti is in love with him that he offers his daughter, like you should marry my daughter. I think they generally think this is a good guy, that I want my daughter. And she can go back to London. Exactly. So I think I think in his head it's not, oh, my daughter likes him. I think in his head, like, uh my daughter needs to get married. This is a young man that's eligible. Why can't I offer? My son's new best friends. My new son's new best friend. Why can't I? Why can't I? I think it was more that I don't think it was because Priti liked him. Raj like somehow like maneuvers, like you said, the dad's like, hey, you should marry my daughter, and he's like, doesn't know how to say no. He doesn't know what to say. Because he wants them to like him and he needs to stay in this house to make the other family like him. Yeah. So he's like, Oh, I don't know, my dad's not here, I don't do anything with my dad. And then all of a sudden, suddenly Anubama marriage.

SPEAKER_00

Shows up, magically shows up on the house.

SPEAKER_01

Magically shows up, yes. And then magically is in that house and agrees to this arranged marriage to Prithi. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's right, yep. Because he assumes that Prithi is simply ready.

SPEAKER_01

His dad's like, he's like, oh my god, dad, what are you doing here? And then Kulji's dad is like, we've agreed to this marriage, and and he's like, Yes, I'm happy. And why are you waiting for my approval? You know I let you do whatever you want. And then they go into the room and he's like, he's like, This is not the girl that I want to marry. It's the girl that's over there getting married to someone else.

SPEAKER_03

But we forgot how Raj kind of makes Amrish Puri like him.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Right? So he goes to the to the farm and where um Amr. The fields, the fields. The fields. Amishpuri used to feed the pigeons in Leicester Square. Yep. So of course he's gonna go back to his pin and find the pigeons there and do the same thing. Yeah. So Raj is like, hmm, this man is very scary, but he cannot be scary in front of pigeons. So he goes and walks with him and does the same thing, and they start talking, and then I think he Amishpuri sees some goodness in him.

SPEAKER_01

Something. I think he sees the connection. Connection. Again, manipulation connection. Okay. So this all happens, and all of a sudden, the they have another iconic song, Mehindila Gakiracana. Yes. Beautiful song, iconic, still plays in all. I guess and goes flows very well with the movie, right? The Karvachat scene where she she wants to be fed by him. He's like, I don't want, I don't want Koji to go do anything. Make sure it's you, make sure it's you. So she pretends to fate and he feed feeds her water. And and then mom sees that. And then mom realizes, oh no, this is the guy. And at first she's like, oh no. But then she's like, you know what? This guy is making my daughter happy. I was wondering why my daughter was so happy the last holiday. All of a sudden, now I know why she's so happy because it's this guy is here. And then she like takes both of them to a room and says, gives them all the gold, and says, Don't say anything. You must run away. You must run away. You don't understand. And then Raj is like, no, like being very mature. And the mom's like, no, you gotta run away, you gotta run away. And then like they're both Data, they will kill you. He's a hunter. Yeah, exactly. Like, like though you guys don't understand my husband, and she's like, No, your husband doesn't understand me. Like, very overconfidence here. Like, don't like you, like and he's like, No, I'm not gonna take her away. I want, I want her to be given to me. Like, I don't want to do that. Like, I don't feel that's correct.

SPEAKER_03

I want to do this right.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you know, whatever. So that he doesn't want to do that. So that happens, and then it shows that all of a sudden the grandmother gets Amishwee's mom gets really sick. Yes, and they think that she's gonna die. And the grandmother's like, hey, um, since the house is since the she's literally just going across the street, what's the big deal? Let's move the wedding up a day, let's have the wedding. And all of a sudden this happens. Chaos. Chaos happens. Everyone's getting ready for this wedding the next day, and she's sitting there staring at a picture of them two together. Very Bollywood. This is very Bollywood, right? This picture flies off of her hand. Like she leaves a picture, again, very, very like so stupid. Very stupid.

SPEAKER_00

Very like like it's very Bollywoodish, but there has to be a at some point in the movie, there has to be a connection. He's never gonna catch the two of them together because they're always on the third floor of the roof, right? Yes. That's where they you see each other. The magic third floor, no one else goes there. They're hiding in different areas, they're they're very cordial.

SPEAKER_03

They're discrete discreet. Very discreet, right?

SPEAKER_00

But upstairs they're not, and so there has to be um a mechanism that triggers the the end of the movie.

SPEAKER_03

The end of the movie at this point, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Two hours and forty-five minutes into this movie, right? And just the Bollywood of the flying of magical phantom wind comes inside the house, pushes the photo out.

SPEAKER_03

The correct with the two people.

SPEAKER_00

Correct with two people down in their courtyard.

SPEAKER_01

It goes in.

SPEAKER_00

Nobody else sees it except for the city. It flies all over the place.

SPEAKER_01

It flies all over the place in the courtyard. It's flying down all over, and no one gets it but her dad gets it. Again, very amateur move of leaving a picture of your like that's something I would not do. Amateur. Very amateur move. Like a picture of you and a boy, even if he was even if he was in your boyfriend, any picture should not be out there knowing your dad. Knowing your dad is. Exactly. Exactly. She did not know this. We don't know what's supposed to happen. We again, we don't know what there would be. We think there's a wedding. We yeah, we we don't know like what the decision was actually gonna be, because we don't know if we're gonna run away. But he shows him walking, coming out, and then Baldev just starts attacking him, like smack one after another after another. Like, how dare you think, how dare you think you can marry my daughter? Like, you do you even know yourself? Like, you're not you're not on her level, you're like beneath her, blah blah blah. And he shows like one of my favorite scenes, uh, Kajal running down the stairs, like, no Babuji, no Bauji, no, no, no. And then she grabs him, like, I told you, I told you we should run away. I told you to run away. Stupid, you stupid man. And then, and he grabs her and he just says, No, no, his maturity, no, I do not want to run away with you. I don't want to do that. We can't live with without the blessing of our families, without our blessing of our parents, and without the elders blessing us, we would never be happy. Priti is like crying.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, because Yeah. She's not getting married anymore, but even in London anymore.

SPEAKER_01

And then Kuljit is like mad as F because again, everyone of us manipulated her. So I understand why they're upset, right? He picked us. And then it shows them leaving, it shows Raj is like, I'm so sorry, I'm gonna leave. Raj leaves. Meanwhile, Kuljit gets really mad, takes his friends, meets Raj at the train station, starts beating him up with all these people. And while all he was very like Basigar bloody. Yeah, like Basig. Gross, yeah. Exactly, very gross seed. Yeah. And then it shows like him getting beat up, but in between him getting beat up, his dad has left him in the train station, has gone and argued with Ammushpuri, has now come back to this and they're still fighting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

The train station must be next door.

SPEAKER_01

It must be like the way DCA, it must be like DCA or how DCA is from my house across the street, right? And then like, and then he's he starts fighting like how dare you beating up my kid, and then like as he's fighting, he gets hurt, and that's when Raj gets up. How dare you hit my dad? And like starts fighting them.

SPEAKER_00

Ends up with a shotgun.

SPEAKER_01

Ends up with a shotgun, starts fighting everyone, like beating them up really badly. Like they kind of like feel dejected, like it's not gonna happen. Like, let's just let's let's just leave, it's not happening. Yeah. And he's like walking away and going, they get on this train. They don't go to the hospital. They go exactly. They get on this train, everyone is there now, like everyone's there, both families, Kuj's family's there, Amishwur's family's there, and they're getting on this uh Sharu Khan is leaving, and then Kajul, Kajul and her mom, and the sister come in and they're like looking at each other, and the train starts moving very kind of with tears, and her hair is all crazy. Yeah, it is. And then like she's about to run towards him, and the dad grabs her hand is just like, Where the hell are you going? Where do you think you're going? And like, but the whole time the cut the eye cut the eye contact between Amir Spoti and Sharukhan is strong. Like they got this eye contact going. Staring contact. The staring contact going. And then the she's like, please, please, please, Bauji, please, please, that's my life, that's what I'm gonna be with, that's what I'm gonna be. All of a sudden, looking at him, he feels something and he just lets her go. And he goes, and he goes to his daughter, like, go, go live your dream. No one's gonna love you as much as this boy's gonna love you. Go be happy with him, and just lets her go. Iconic scene, how it started, how it ends, uh her running towards a train station, him putting his hand out, pulls her up, and then they're they're together. And then shows like the family, oh it shows Amri Shui's family really happy, and Kuljit's family, like, what the fuck just happened? Guljeet's like, what just happened? Like, wait, like they're like, What?

SPEAKER_00

DN exactly it's crazy because you think about like that two hours and 45 minutes of the buildup of what's gonna happen got all compressed into like 15 minutes of like Gulbreit, you're just you're just a guy. Guljeit. Guljeet, you're just a guy, hunter, not really important, you know.

SPEAKER_01

What what in the end, what to me was also strange was that was like they just give her away, there's no marriage, there's no nothing. That wouldn't fly in any no, there would not be flying like wait, what?

SPEAKER_03

But again, three hours and four minutes, right? So they had to cut they had to pick what at the wedding scene.

SPEAKER_01

What what would be the emotionally get to their audience?

SPEAKER_03

Like for us, it's like okay, they're going and they're gonna live happily ever after.

SPEAKER_00

There wasn't a lot of bad in the in the movie. You liked it? I mean, I like it's it's a classic movie.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know, so I I was telling you earlier, I was like, it's not even when I watched it the first time, I'm like, okay, it's a good movie, but it's not like oh my god, this should be running for the rest of my life in a theater. I didn't I didn't feel that way about it, but it's a good movie. Yeah. And I love that Shah Rukhan and Kajel, that pair was like kind of iconic.

SPEAKER_01

That's where their pair became a hit.

SPEAKER_03

That's why they became they became a hit pair.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. But like for again, I've already said that, but but for me, because it resonates, it's so close to your life. It's like so close to how we grew up. Yeah, except for the meeting Raj on the train chain, any of that type of stuff. But like I'm watching that for the first time and feeling like, oh my god, I'm seen.

SPEAKER_03

Again, it's a good movie. I to me not great, to you, great. To you, you loved it. Indifferent. It's good. It's good, it's good.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's a good, like, foundational movie of how Bollywood love happened.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, guys, it's a blindy, windy time.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_03

Fans and outsider actors alike have been complaining about how Star Kids have it easy. Sadly, that's not the case with this Star Kid son of actor parents who are now divorced. He has been dejected over the dismal failure of two of his movies, which were released directly on OTT. He has been getting no work owing to negative reactions. He has been shadow banned from a prominent nightclub owing to his behavior. His career-related issues are likely the reason behind his unruly behavior. Can you guess the actor?

SPEAKER_01

Do you think you know?

SPEAKER_03

I have absolutely no idea.

SPEAKER_01

I think it's uh Ibrahim. Correct!

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so apparently he was shadow banned from a club. I because of his bad behavior?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yeah, that's weird. It is it is kind of sad because before his movies came out, he was like everywhere. Everyone talked about him. He's always in pictures and pop uh videos, and like people always talk about this great stuff, like oh my god, Ibrahim, Ibrahim, Ibrahim. Now you're so cute. Now you don't see so much of him. No. Uh, and I think it's because of the movies failing so bad, like failing so badly. Like it's like it was so bad. But I also feel bad for him and Sarah because they both have not had like any big good movies, and they're like not in the spotlight as much as the other Nepo kids are. Um, or like bad Nepo kids are, right? They're they're everyone's everyone else is there except for them too. And I don't know if it's a failure on like Dharma's side, like they didn't they're not like giving him the right type of promotions and things like that, or like putting him out there like hey, they're putting other people out there.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, second blind. A superstar's big budget spy thriller is up for release. The trailer got a great response from the audience, and the advanced bookings has been averaged. The superstar seems supremely confident about the movie's outcome based on the rushes of the movie. As per sources, he is considering making a risky financial investment in the director's next It's a superhero epic. To be fair, the director's debut movie was a blockbuster. He has since played a key role in the movie's success Bankrolled by the Studio. Can you guess the render? Duranda. But I don't know the I don't know who the director is. Um the director is I do know it's not telling me. Okay. Aditya Dark. And it's Duran there and Remir Singh.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yeah. Remir's saying, don't make financial things on the movie. Like just stay where you are. Like don't try to put more money into something else. Yeah. Don't do that. Just keep your money and just make money.

SPEAKER_03

Just just and don't talk. I think don't talk. Oh, he Oh, it's a controversy. The Rishab Shetty thing. Yeah. For Cantra. Yeah. So you I know you guys have not seen Cantra. It's very, very good, but there are some scenes in Cantra that are amazing that this actor, the actor of Cantra does. Runveer Singh tried to impersonate him. Or tried not impersonate. Like, I don't think he meant it in a bad way, but it came off very badly.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know what he was trying to do, but apparently he's dip the character is depicting a god. Yes. And then Ranveer Singh makes fun of that.

SPEAKER_03

But he's not making fun of it. He's saying that wow, Risha Pshti did such a great job, but then he did the facial expression, but he can't do it as well as the act. And Risha Pshetty even told him, please don't do it. Yeah. What's the name of that movie? Kanthara. Kanthera. It's really, really good, I think. Um, but yeah, anyway, Ranvier Singh's always getting in trouble. I don't know what to say. Alright, you guys, it is vow time. Um, I'm gonna start. My vow is a song called Joel. It's by um Manu and Anura al Khalid, and it's but this is the acoustic version. Okay. It's really pretty, very nice.

SPEAKER_01

Beautiful. That song is so gorgeous. And they've done so many versions of it because it's so good. I love it. Yeah, it's a great song, Joel. Um, my song is another one, uh not another one. It's also a Pakistani song called Mastani. And the singers are Zahir Ali Baga and Afshin Fawad. I was I haven't found anything that I like recently, so I had to like jump to a different area. I haven't found anything nice. So this this came up on my thing. I was like, I really like this song, Mastani. Very nice.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, Mr. Menacing Mythole Menacing. What is your vow for the week?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so uh I like I said, I listened to uh Pandora and I have an elder ticket. Pandora Radio Station. It's my go-to.

SPEAKER_03

As Spotify loves RG Singh too, the rap, apparently he's number nine worldwide. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So uh and I listened to a lot of this stuff uh to and from work and when I'm traveling within the state of Virginia. So one of the songs that popped up on my feed was from Sanam Didi Kasam called Terachera.

SPEAKER_01

Very pretty song. Pretty song. Yeah, very pretty.

SPEAKER_00

The doublas are great in that in that song.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. That movie has great songs, so we should listen to the whole thing. Alright, guys. Well, thank you. Mytho, thank you so much for joining us.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you for having me on this very long podcast.

SPEAKER_03

I'll talk to you tomorrow at the studio too.

SPEAKER_01

Like, share, follow, bye. See ya. Wait, I'm sorry, I was researching something. What is what is he complaining of?

SPEAKER_00

So I think So like what is a distance? I think I think they Love does not conquer all. At all. The end. It has to be chaos.

SPEAKER_03

And I'm like, her ear looks really weird. Okay. Why does her ear look that way? And I'm like, does my ear look that way? It doesn't.

SPEAKER_01

So I travel to family a lot. I don't travel like for leisurely type of stuff. I do I do travel.

SPEAKER_02

That wasn't really.

SPEAKER_01

Sorry guys. I gotta travel for great.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, wicked. We'll tell you about Wicked. I fell asleep in the first act. No! Yes. I found it absolutely boring.

SPEAKER_01

So the arts are not for you.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_00

And you sneak in Taco Bell and you're eating and you watch the movie. Hamilton.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, closer. Do I gotta go all the way here? No, no, because I mean, you gotta put it.