While she is still squinting, trying to wake up, we have already noticed that she is in bed, that she is in a man’s shirt, and then we see, with her, that Shahrukh’s clothing is spread out on top of the sheets. And the audience is right there with her, actually ahead of her. Her eyes widen, her breathing catches and speeds up, this is not like her panic during “Ruk Ja” when it was mixed with anger and excitement, this is true panic. As she wakes up and looks around, Kajol starts to panic, ever so slightly. It’s always the romantic fantasy, not the reality. But you don’t usually see the morning after, the result of these actions in the harsh light of day.
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And of course honeymoon songs always go pretty far, in Doosra Aadmi (the movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkilmight be based on), you see Rishi grab Neetu from the shower, and then the room flood as they stay in bed, not noticing. We don’t see Dimple arranging her clothes as they leave. There’s plenty of indications that “Hum-Tum” from Bobby goes pretty far if you think about it, but it’s all just in a song, it’s filled with metaphors and fantasies. I can’t think of a shot that explicit in an Indian movie before. And at the very end of “Zara Sa”, he gets drunk, and carries her off.Īnd now we see Kajol waking up, looking disoriented, wearing a man’s shirt. He arranges for them to spend the night in the same room and never apologizes for it. He casually talks about dating non-Indian women, he flirts with Kajol’s friends in front of her. He drops her and steps over her at the end of “Ruk Ja” (something which Kajol-the-actress did not know was going to happen, so her shock and anger is real there). We’ve already seen Shahrukh’s Raj break a lot of rules with his interactions with Kajol. I’m going to try to set it up as it would be for an experienced Indian film audience, who has never watched this movie before. I think I was mostly confused? But this was also just my third Indian movie, so I didn’t quite grasp the undercurrents. I don’t even remember it really registering for me, at least not the first half.
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It’s hard to think of this scene as people would have seen it the first time they watched the film. Anupama Chopra argues that it the thesis scene, I would argue that it is a combination of this scene and the post-song scene in the mustard field.
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This is the most “problematic” scene of the film, and possibly also the scene in which the thesis statement of the film appears. Prepare yourself, this post is going to be very very long.
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(part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here, part 5 here, part 6 here, part 7 here, part 8 here, part 9 here, part 10 here, part 11 here, part 12 here, part 13 here, part 14 here, part 15 here, part 16 here) Woot! We made it to “Main hoon Hindustani!”