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dangermousieI am all excited about this weekend. Not only do I have two (!!!) weddings to go to, but one of my best friends is in town this weekend, all the way from Guam, for one of the weddings. The girl who is getting married, I, and the girl from Guam formed a really close-knit triumvirate of sorts through school, but even though I talk to her regularly, I haven't seen her since my own wedding, almost two years ago. So I am psyched!
I finally watched the Doctor Who episode that is set in Cardiff and involves the Slovenes. It was a great deal of fun, I adore Nine and Rose and Captain Jack, but surely I can't be the only one who finds Mickey boring, boring, boring. It's not his fault he is not an intergalactic time traveller (though hey, he could always go, so it's his choice not to be) and he is very nice, but he is dull, isn't he? I was also miffed at his 'you pick travel over me' to Rose because she could retort with equal justification 'you pick staying put over me.' Blah. Hope he never shows again.
Also, I am continuing to read I Capture the Castle and I am madly in love with the book and the crazy Mortmain family and Simon and Neil. Love.
And in my Bollywood mania, the latest movie I am watching is One Two Ka Four, a 2000 flick with Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla. I've only seen it once before, years ago. It's amazing what a difference perception makes. Now that I know what kind of movie it is, I am actually totally madly in love with it.
Actually, my opinion on One Two Ka Four can be summed up in one phrase: Shahrukh Khan has the world's most lickable collarbones.
What, you expected something profound? You think I watched it for the plot? I wathced it for sexiness and fun and angst. True, there is plot in all of this somewhere. I think it's a very loose remake of some American movie. SRK is Arun, a police officer who ends up taking care of the four children of his murdered partner/best friend with the help of a loud mouthed street seller girl who is more than she appears. There is department corruption, a drug lord known as KKV and a whole bunch of other stuff, but if you watch this movie for the plot, you will want to pull out your hair. But even though the plot has more holes than SRK has gel, this is an immensely enjoyable movie: for the character interactions, SRK-Juhi chemistry, great musical numbers (except for "I Am Sorry," the designers of which must have dipped into some of KKV's stash). Oh, and I reiterate, SRK has rarely looked so hot.
Yup, very very hot. Not only is he playing quite an unusual for him character: a violent-tempered lunkhead, who is at a loss outside of the police world, but he looks smoking doing so. I love his clothes in this one: his dark turtlenecks in the 'khamoshi' number in the quarry, his wifebeater, his black shirts. The hottest is the white cargo pants/orange shirt combo. I never even thought orange could look good on a guy before, but yum! And when he isn't dressed, he is shirtless or in the shower. Whoever made this movie, I love you.
Juhi is totally adorable, as the loud-mouthed girl, who (in a delightful aberration from Bolly norms) is the one chasing the rather 'shy' SRK. The scene where she causes a fight in the restaurant and ends up accidentally stabbing SRK with a fork is hilarious. I used to think she was much too loud, but this time around I find her totally fun. And hey, who wouldn't chase SRK when given a chance?
The picturizations are great, but they are of course helped by the fact that Juhi and SRK have great chemistry. The number in Malaysia is both funny and sexy, but the one I love the most so far (I am not done with the rewatch) is the one in the mountains/quarry. So hot, though the rocks definitely look uncomfortable.
I do love the SRK/Juhi interactions. He is clearly attracted to her: he starts out half irritated and half confused by his feelings. Of course, as the movie progresses he gradually falls more and more in love (which is why he takes it so hard when he sees her in that nightclub). But even early on, there are those little moments, as when she grabs his arm and he looks at her. And then of course later, when he sees her open the window in the morning and he looks at her and he tells her it's fine and he doesn't mean the tea she gave him. He is also just a bit shy around her, in an adorably masculine way. It actually makes sense he'd like a pushy girl, he is pushy himself.
The moment that cracks me up the most is when they are all alone and Juhi thinks he wants to say romantic things to her but he just wants her to be quiet for ten minutes so he can rest. And he falls asleep and she looks at him rather tenderly. In a better plotted movie, I'd say her quiet is a hint about her real persona, but here I doubt it. But it's cute anyway, especially since she stares at him as if he is her Chirstmas present.
I also like that Arun is not a sweet perfect guy. For one, he has a hair-trigger temper and is kinda happily violent. Javed (Jackie Shroff in a role I really like him in, probably because he wears no speedos) is not just a partner and a friend. He really is an elder brother, a steadying influence. I love the scene where he finds Javed dead and completely breaks down in utter shock, and he stares as if he can't believe it, and he has to take his headphones off because the voices in them become too loud and too many, a cacaphony of noise: that's actually kinda real, because when one is stressed and freaked, noises feel too loud.
And then of course there is the great scene where he comes directly from there to Javed's house and he is the one who has to tell them Javed is dead, and he gets on his knees before the children and can't say anything but just sobs. And I feel so involved in his pain, the way only SRK can drag me into a movie, but at the same time, I am very shallowly thinking "he looks hot in white!" How can you not like this movie? :)
I do like it that the children are not pretty in their grief. The elder daughter shutting the glass door in SRK's face, pouring the milk he made for the youngest (the look on SRK's face!), later telling him she thinks he got her father killed. And I love how the scene was so loud before, with SRK shaking Juhi about the nightclub thing, everyone arguing, fighting etc, and then when SRK hears the girl, he stops as if he'd walked into a brick wall because everything else is irrelevant small fry compared to this. I believed in his love of Javed (SRK and Jackie had very good chemistry) and I love how it's such an important driving force for his character in the movie.
Favorite scene? When SRK comes back home after finding out Juhi, the girl he fell in love with and proposed to, is an undercover cop who pretended to be someone else, and she turned him in for stealing money to take care of the kids (it's Bollywood, gotta be complicated), and he is bristling with rage and pain and betrayal and I am super-impressed with Juhi for not running or at least taking a few steps back when she sees him (she came back to explain things to the kids). And he yells at her 'where are your handcuffs?' and 'where is your medal?' and then he really invades her personal space and goes 'So, I am a criminal? I'll show you how criminals treat their women' and he grabs her arm and bends her onto the table (this being Bollywood, this is as far as it goes) and sobs out 'what is my fault?' and she replies, never taking her eyes off him 'what is MY fault? I really fell for you in this house' and he really abruptly lets her go and walks out and LOVE.
And of course the kids realize how much he really does to take care of them.
And this is unconnected, but I have pictures, so why not. Today's pic-spam is from Saathiya, a flawed but fun movie about a young marriage. I am not Vivek Oberoi's biggest fan, and I don't think he and Rani Mukherji have the greatest chemistry but it's a fun sweet movie and it's very pretty.
I finally watched the Doctor Who episode that is set in Cardiff and involves the Slovenes. It was a great deal of fun, I adore Nine and Rose and Captain Jack, but surely I can't be the only one who finds Mickey boring, boring, boring. It's not his fault he is not an intergalactic time traveller (though hey, he could always go, so it's his choice not to be) and he is very nice, but he is dull, isn't he? I was also miffed at his 'you pick travel over me' to Rose because she could retort with equal justification 'you pick staying put over me.' Blah. Hope he never shows again.
Also, I am continuing to read I Capture the Castle and I am madly in love with the book and the crazy Mortmain family and Simon and Neil. Love.
And in my Bollywood mania, the latest movie I am watching is One Two Ka Four, a 2000 flick with Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla. I've only seen it once before, years ago. It's amazing what a difference perception makes. Now that I know what kind of movie it is, I am actually totally madly in love with it.
Actually, my opinion on One Two Ka Four can be summed up in one phrase: Shahrukh Khan has the world's most lickable collarbones.
What, you expected something profound? You think I watched it for the plot? I wathced it for sexiness and fun and angst. True, there is plot in all of this somewhere. I think it's a very loose remake of some American movie. SRK is Arun, a police officer who ends up taking care of the four children of his murdered partner/best friend with the help of a loud mouthed street seller girl who is more than she appears. There is department corruption, a drug lord known as KKV and a whole bunch of other stuff, but if you watch this movie for the plot, you will want to pull out your hair. But even though the plot has more holes than SRK has gel, this is an immensely enjoyable movie: for the character interactions, SRK-Juhi chemistry, great musical numbers (except for "I Am Sorry," the designers of which must have dipped into some of KKV's stash). Oh, and I reiterate, SRK has rarely looked so hot.
Yup, very very hot. Not only is he playing quite an unusual for him character: a violent-tempered lunkhead, who is at a loss outside of the police world, but he looks smoking doing so. I love his clothes in this one: his dark turtlenecks in the 'khamoshi' number in the quarry, his wifebeater, his black shirts. The hottest is the white cargo pants/orange shirt combo. I never even thought orange could look good on a guy before, but yum! And when he isn't dressed, he is shirtless or in the shower. Whoever made this movie, I love you.
Juhi is totally adorable, as the loud-mouthed girl, who (in a delightful aberration from Bolly norms) is the one chasing the rather 'shy' SRK. The scene where she causes a fight in the restaurant and ends up accidentally stabbing SRK with a fork is hilarious. I used to think she was much too loud, but this time around I find her totally fun. And hey, who wouldn't chase SRK when given a chance?
The picturizations are great, but they are of course helped by the fact that Juhi and SRK have great chemistry. The number in Malaysia is both funny and sexy, but the one I love the most so far (I am not done with the rewatch) is the one in the mountains/quarry. So hot, though the rocks definitely look uncomfortable.
I do love the SRK/Juhi interactions. He is clearly attracted to her: he starts out half irritated and half confused by his feelings. Of course, as the movie progresses he gradually falls more and more in love (which is why he takes it so hard when he sees her in that nightclub). But even early on, there are those little moments, as when she grabs his arm and he looks at her. And then of course later, when he sees her open the window in the morning and he looks at her and he tells her it's fine and he doesn't mean the tea she gave him. He is also just a bit shy around her, in an adorably masculine way. It actually makes sense he'd like a pushy girl, he is pushy himself.
The moment that cracks me up the most is when they are all alone and Juhi thinks he wants to say romantic things to her but he just wants her to be quiet for ten minutes so he can rest. And he falls asleep and she looks at him rather tenderly. In a better plotted movie, I'd say her quiet is a hint about her real persona, but here I doubt it. But it's cute anyway, especially since she stares at him as if he is her Chirstmas present.
I also like that Arun is not a sweet perfect guy. For one, he has a hair-trigger temper and is kinda happily violent. Javed (Jackie Shroff in a role I really like him in, probably because he wears no speedos) is not just a partner and a friend. He really is an elder brother, a steadying influence. I love the scene where he finds Javed dead and completely breaks down in utter shock, and he stares as if he can't believe it, and he has to take his headphones off because the voices in them become too loud and too many, a cacaphony of noise: that's actually kinda real, because when one is stressed and freaked, noises feel too loud.
And then of course there is the great scene where he comes directly from there to Javed's house and he is the one who has to tell them Javed is dead, and he gets on his knees before the children and can't say anything but just sobs. And I feel so involved in his pain, the way only SRK can drag me into a movie, but at the same time, I am very shallowly thinking "he looks hot in white!" How can you not like this movie? :)
I do like it that the children are not pretty in their grief. The elder daughter shutting the glass door in SRK's face, pouring the milk he made for the youngest (the look on SRK's face!), later telling him she thinks he got her father killed. And I love how the scene was so loud before, with SRK shaking Juhi about the nightclub thing, everyone arguing, fighting etc, and then when SRK hears the girl, he stops as if he'd walked into a brick wall because everything else is irrelevant small fry compared to this. I believed in his love of Javed (SRK and Jackie had very good chemistry) and I love how it's such an important driving force for his character in the movie.
Favorite scene? When SRK comes back home after finding out Juhi, the girl he fell in love with and proposed to, is an undercover cop who pretended to be someone else, and she turned him in for stealing money to take care of the kids (it's Bollywood, gotta be complicated), and he is bristling with rage and pain and betrayal and I am super-impressed with Juhi for not running or at least taking a few steps back when she sees him (she came back to explain things to the kids). And he yells at her 'where are your handcuffs?' and 'where is your medal?' and then he really invades her personal space and goes 'So, I am a criminal? I'll show you how criminals treat their women' and he grabs her arm and bends her onto the table (this being Bollywood, this is as far as it goes) and sobs out 'what is my fault?' and she replies, never taking her eyes off him 'what is MY fault? I really fell for you in this house' and he really abruptly lets her go and walks out and LOVE.
And of course the kids realize how much he really does to take care of them.
And this is unconnected, but I have pictures, so why not. Today's pic-spam is from Saathiya, a flawed but fun movie about a young marriage. I am not Vivek Oberoi's biggest fan, and I don't think he and Rani Mukherji have the greatest chemistry but it's a fun sweet movie and it's very pretty.
