From stalwart commentors Schrodinger’s Cat and Mnemosyne:
When we first meet Rani (Queen) her wedding preparations are in full swing. It’s day of the mehendi (henna) ceremony, a day before the actual wedding. Rani is full of verve and spirit and has a family that dotes on her and she is getting married to Vijay. A perennially popular name for a Hindi movie hero. What can possibly go wrong?
Plenty, we soon find out. When the London-returned Vijay makes his first appearance, we find that he is no prize. He wants to call off the wedding because he considers Rani gauche and no longer cool enough for his fancy self. We see Rani crumple before our very eyes, her freshly applied mehendi flaking off as she nervously clutches her phone. As she returns home crestfallen with her chaperone and younger brother Chintu, hugging herself, clutching her sweater, you just want to give her a hug.
Pay close attention to both the mehendi and the ugly sweater (her security blanket) she is wearing, they are a guide to Rani’s evolution throughout the movie…
Click over for the rest of SC‘s review!
And from Mnemosyne, aka The Insufferable Movie Snob — “Movie Club Poll: Dark Comedies“. Should she review Unfaithfully Yours (the 1948 version), To Be or Not to Be (1942), or Young Frankenstein? Click over to view trailers, or to vote in her poll.
(Note from AnneLaurie: Apologies to Schrodinger’s Cat, Mnemosyne & the Weekend Movie Club fans for not posting this sooner, but things were a little busy. Hopefully next week’s post will appear on Saturday or Sunday afternoon.)
CarolDuhart2
OT, but very, very important if you haven’t already registered. While I’m pretty sure most commentators have already done this, some lurkers may not have. Also applicable if you have moved from state to state.
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amk
the deadbeat’s ceiling is 35%. you heard it here, first.
schrodinger's cat
Thanks AL!
Mike J
@CarolDuhart2: Washington’s deadline is tonight at midnight.
Mike J
@Mike J: And yes, it is important. We want to run up the total, and we want the statehouse.
Baud
@Mike J: This. No mercy rule.
Mnemosyne
If you have not yet watched Queen, you can rent it from Amazon for $3.49 in High-Def or $2.99 for Standard Def.
(And that link goes through the Support This Site link above, so John gets a couple of pennies, too.)
West of the Rockies (been a while)
I enjoyed the whole review. Sounds like a rewarding movie. I hope it comes to our little art film theater.
amk
Trump’s Second Debate, in Brief = All Lies
schrodinger's cat
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Thanks you! In addition to Amazon,
you can also stream it on Google Play. That’s how I saw it. Its a 2014 release, so I am not sure that you will be able to see it in the theater.
Kangana Ranaut is an amazing performer, I have seen two movies with her in the lead, and it was like watching 2 different people.
Kangana as the headstrong, acid tongued curly haired wild child in Tanu Weds Manu, returns.
Here she is the song Move On, she has just separated from her stodgy and boring husband.
ThresherK (GPad)
Has anyone here seen a little animated movie from a few years ago called “Site Sings the Blues”?
I voted for “Unfaithfully Yours”, because Preston Sturges.
schrodinger's cat
@ThresherK (GPad): I have heard of it but haven’t seen it. I am not a fan of Ramayana.
ThresherK (GPad)
@schrodinger’s cat: Thanks to autocorrect, that came out wrong. It’s “Sita Sings the Blues”. I knew nothing of the story which frames the movie, I got in thru the jazz singing on the soundtrack, by Annette Hanshaw, c. 1920s.
It is as unique as that sounds.
amk
more popcorn.
schrodinger's cat
@ThresherK (GPad): I used to hang out on the blog where the maker of that movie was a regular commenter, that’s how I know about it. I will check it out. Thanks!
Ramayana is one of the two Indian epics, the other is Mahabharata.
mainmata
I know that Dems vote more in Presidential years than mid-terms (really bad trend) but it is absolutely essential that they get out in the battleground states. Except for VA, CO and PA all others are GOP controlled states and they will definitely try to game the vote.
Mnemosyne
FYI, as of right now, Young Frankenstein and Unfaithfully Yours are tied with 9 votes each. Vote early, vote often!
Hillary Rettig
@ThresherK (GPad): even though I understand that he was a jerk in real life I always had a thing for Rex Harrison…so Unfaithfully Yours
MomSense
Loved this movie. Going to check out the full review. Thanks SC and M.
MomSense
@Hillary Rettig:
Me too. You’ll be happy to hear that his son Noel was a sweetheart. He sang to me on my sixteenth birthday.
Procopius
I’ve just gotta say that video looks like a Polish wedding.