#kajol life

[prettybrowneyedsoul]

Will you be the raj to my simran? 🌙

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

the OG cool kids

[yourownpookie]

Zakhmon pe marham, tere naina!!

[toiletpotato]

[kepamount]

THE SUBTLE NAME REVEAL SIMI I LOVE YOU 😭

i couldn’t resist 😭

i feel like everyone can already guess my name but if you know, you know 💀

[snixxxxxxxxxx]

SRK MATCHING ICON DHYFAUSTIEDGIIDY SCREAMING

srkajol wish they were us, truly

[iamnotmereally]

-is now an srk fan🧍

[stevie-petey]

hi m thank u for ur thoughtful responses to my qs i always appreciate them so much. you asked who i picture as bug and i am so glad you asked. kindly let me introduce you to everyone's favourite girl next door from 1995, juhi chawla!!! fun fact: the guy in the first pic is a veryyyyy famous megastar in bollywood called shah rukh khan and everyone else on planet earth really likes him and one of his other co stars kajol together but unfortunately everyone else is terribly wrong and juhi chawla is actually the correct answer. also another fun fact: she was one of my first crushes ever before i knew what that was and when i did i was like hmmmm i don't think i'm going to examine what that means about me and decided i actually was just a very good feminist who took the female lead as seriously as the male lead.

oh shes GORGEOUS :(((( her smile <333 she literally radiates sunshine n happiness i would lay down my LIFE for her

she captures bugs energy SO SO SO WELL im actually in awe of your genius brain this is genuinely perfect. i can just see her as bug, especially in the third picture like thats my baby right there !! i feel like a mom seeing her newborn for the first time omb

[tsupertsundere]

HELLOO. i see you reblog a lot of hindi cinema!! i would love to watch more of it, what are your top 10 favorites?

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this might be my favorite thing I've received in my inbox.

wh I well I wh how could I possibly refuse hee hee hee hee

limiting this to hindi cinema helps!! or so I thought, before I went through several rounds of intense interrogation and several scribbled pages of notes and realized this just outs me as a baby shah rukh khan stan, which I am. I resisted every impulse to try to make the list broad and varied and kept only repeating 'what are your FAVORITES, what are your FAVORITES' and even then narrowing everything down was really painful... I feel like I've watched very many but then not very many at all.

There are another half-dozen more I had to cut with great anguish (Paheli, Ram-Jaane, the Don films) OMG EDITED TO FINISH MY FRIGGIN SENTENCE: BUT I PRESENT TO YOU AND TO ALL: VI TSUPERTSUNDERE'S TOP TEN:

Mohabbatein ("Love Stories", dir Aditya Chopra, 2000)

A young men's college ruled by a headmaster who disdains love--can one music teacher help three love stories grow, and let love tower above all? ✫ My first hindi film. Still can't think of a better introduction. Truly has it all. My favorite ghost story also!! ✧ Standout number: the three ingenues have an incredible dance sequence - it's the emotional climax of the film for me.

Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai ("Say You Love Me", dir Rakesh Roshan, 2000)

When Rohit, an aspiring musician, meets Saxena, a rich bussinessman's daughter, his dreams of stardom glimmer right within his reach. Life has other plans. ✩ Hrithik Roshan's debut - and what a debut! My first introduction to a beloved facet of hindi cinema - double roles!! ✫ Standout number: The number that takes place in Cafe Indiana, Ek Pal Ka Jeena, accurately conveys how it felt like to go to a Rainforest Cafe when I was very young. Truly thrilling!

Muhjse Dosti Karoge! ("Will You Be My Friend!", dir Kunal Kohli, 2002)

Childhood friends Raj, Tina, and Pooja are caught in a classic love triangle - Pooja loves Raj, but he only has eyes for Tina. When he moves away, Pooja poses as Tina as they email back and forth and their friendship blossoms long-distance. A decision made in childhood brings problems to Pooja's doorstep - as they all graduate high school and become adults, Raj returns home... ✧ Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapoor are the real MVPs here - shining stars in every movie they're in. ✩ Standout Sequence: The medley, seen above, brought me to my fucking feet when we first watched it. The characters diagetically are singing these popular songs for each other at a wedding celebrations - each song's lyrics weave in and apply on multiple levels, depending on who knows what and what they mean, up to and including Hrithik Roshan reprising Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai! Genuinely one of my favorite sequences I've seen period on film, if I could ever put together anything half as layered I'd be patting myself on the back forever.

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... ("Through Smiles and Through Tears", dir Karan Johar, 2001)

The wealthy Raichand family splits in half when elder son Rahul falls in love with a lower-caste girl and marries her - younger son Rohit watches his beloved brother disappear to England and the light in his home wither away. When he becomes an adult, he's determined to find his brother and unite them all again. ✫ These three fuckers as a dad and two sons just make a fascinating family together, let alone the kind of heavy hitting talent you get from Jaya Bachchan (indeed married to Amitji) and of course Kajol my beloved Kajol most of all. 'It's All About Loving Your Parents' is a much much much... much harder sell than I'm prepared to give - at the very least, it's all the drama I can watch in. ✫ Standout Sequence: Bole Chudiyan above is so much fun, of course, but Say Shava Shava is also a really great 'here's how fun things are when things are GOOD' establishing song. When Amitji says 'EVERYBODY' he is not asking!!

Those four films are a truncated highlight reel of the 8 or so films I like watching around the holidays!! They work really well together and I associate them with each other a lot.

Darr ("Fear", dir Yash Chopra, 1993)

Kiran Awasthi has a freshly minted college degree, a bus ticket home, a beloved boyfriend in the Navy... and a stalker. A young woman is slowly driven mad by a ruthless specter who will stop at nothing to be by her side. As she and her boyfriend escalate... so does he. ✧ Truly breathtaking. A breakout role for SRK, another hit cementing Juhi Chawla my fucking beloved Juhi Chawla as the OG expression queen. My favorite horror film. Rahul Mehra deserves to be in Dead By Daylight so he can fight Leon in a twink off. Simply the bloodiest there is. My Halloween costume next year. ✩ Standout sequence: Any time Juhi Chawla is on screen and I'm not kidding.

Chaahat ("Desire", dir Mahesh Bhatt, 1996)

When the father of a father-and-son comedy duo gets sick, his son, Roop, would do anything to secure the money he needs to restore his father's health. So when he catches the eye of a wealthy club owner's sister, he can't say no, no matter how much her desire consumes... ✫ Diametric opposite of Darr, now Shah Rukh Khan is the target!! As a carnivore girl lover I can't not adore it. ✧ Standout sequence: Chaahat Na Hoti, pictured above. This was the frame that made me sit up and go 'oh I have to... I gotta watch this movie right now. Right now.' And I was so right.

Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani ("Yet, I Have the Heart of an Indian", dir Aziz Mirza, 2000)

Ajay Bakshi is a hotheaded, loudmouthed reporter - a rival media network hires his counterpart and superior, Ria Bannerjee, to try to take him down. ✫ A gag-a-minute comedy with more gumflaps than brains, just like our lead. Juhi is heaven in this. I can only describe this as 'I think this is what the guy from American Psycho THOUGHT was going on.' Was a flop - came out right after Kaho Na... Pyaar Hai and couldn't compete - but it hits the zany button like nothing else. ✧ Standout sequence: The inventiveness of the sets in pretty much every song is my favorite. CONTENT WARNING: There is an awful anti-Chinese gag sequence at about the middle of the film. The two leads pose as Chinese reporters to get into somewhere, and it's just wall to wall racial caricatures. I hit that ff button through it myself, a truly unpleasant marring in an otherwise goofy-ass romp.

Chak de! India ("Let's go! India", dir Shimit Amin, 2007)

Can a disgraced former field hockey star turn 16 proud, contentious players from all over the country into one unified team as their coach? Can each young woman play her all on the field - for herself and for her team? ✩ A sports anime fit into one film, I wish it were several seasons long. Each girl is spectacular and is a joy to watch!! ✫ Standout Sequence: The character work is where this one shines. Bindiya Naik is my personal favorite (and not just because the instant I saw her performance I went 'omg, she's playing my OC almost exactly. I'd cast her in a heartbeat!)

Fan (dir Maneesh Sharma, 2016)

Aryan Khanna is the King of Bollywood. Gaurav Chandna is almost him, but not quite - knows everything about him by heart, uses him as the light in his life, and Gaurav even looks just enough like him to boot. All Gaurav wants is five minutes of his time. Just five minutes... ✩ Eminem's 'Stan' as a feature length thriller that literally no one else could make. I can only quote this letterboxd review, because it's right: "even if there was another celebrity who could pull off tearing himself open to splash his own imposter syndrome onscreen, they wouldn't dare try...happy birthday to the only actor good enough to make his fans sympathize with his own stalker". I was SO upset to learn that this flopped. ✫ Standout Sequences: the practical and special effects used to differentiate SRK's two roles bar none some of the best I've experienced - uncanny valley is real here, and half of the horror is the ALMOST. but not quite.

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While I followed a loose, non-ranking order for the preceding nine entries, I had to save the only possible film for number one:

Om Shanti Om (dir Farah Khan, 2007)

"30 years ago," irrepressible junior artist Om Prakash Makhija has only one dream grander than making it big in the film industry - to get a chance to act alongside his greatest inspiration, superstar Shanti. His wish comes true, but, well... some dreams, one lifetime is not enough... ✫ THE BEST MOVIE THAT EXISTS. THE BEST MOVIE THAT DOESN'T EXISTS. Don't believe me? Let these ladies convince you - when I learned that somehow The Coolest And Most Sparkling theater troupe on the face of the planet staged a production of this I literally got so lightheaded I couldn't see for a second. This movie came out when I was thirteen - if I had seen it then I think it would have made a huge difference. As it was, I saw it at the second most perfect time: when I was/am also a 30 year old irrepressible junior goofball, just like Om. Farah Khan is one of my favorite directors for certain. A film about the hindi film industry, I place it last also because the more faces you recognize, songs you can pick out, movie references you can catch, the better - and it's incredible even still. ✧ Standout sequence: I can't say the whole movie (... minus Deewangi Deewangi it's the Yakuza 4 of this movie) can I??? Let me just say - long story short, Farah Khan got the idea for this film when Andrew Lloyd Weber had her to choreography for his stage show, Bollywood Dreams. She thought the plot, a poor junior artist becoming a big Bollywood star, was eye-rollingly unrealistic. She could do better, she thought... and that idea eventually became Om Shanti Om. The climax is her proving she could do Phantom of the Opera better than him, too!!

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And, if you'll indulge me... in thanks for giving me a really fun thing to do today, I have one more film: one that I think you would like, based off of the vibes of the journal entries I got to read!

Veer-Zaara (dir Yash Chopra, 2004)

An Indian pilot and the daughter of a Pakistani politician fall in love, but are wrenched apart when the pilot is imprisoned on false charges. He languishes 22 years in prison, never saying a word, until a young Pakistani lawyer is assigned his case and she is determined to see him freed... ✧ Certified Mom Movie and is an absolute banger. When I thought 'who would be a character who I could see Estelle looking forward to meeting for lunch', Rani Mukherjee's lawyer was right at the top of the list. ✫ Standout Sequence: My personal favorite, Main Yahaan Hoon, is the song linked above. It drives me Insane absolutely Insane - this depicts 'they're not in the room but they're the only thing on your mind' in a way seldom more effective!

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omg NOW I'm done for eel. This was a terrific exercise in tilling the soil in my brain - I'm really inspired by the all visual direction, the colors and depths, the sensibilities in general exemplified by the movies here, and hope to one day reflect it in my own work! I have to make the Yash Raj reshade shaders I want to see in the world.

Please don't hesitate to drop me a line about anything you find interesting here, other movies you've seen, or anything else! Genuinely truly always love getting to see your work. Thank you for reading!

[whenthegoldrays]

boo i looked up the bollywood recs and theyre not on the site i was hoping id be able to find them on 🥲

(i think i am feeling burnt out from the usual c and k dramas and was gonna go refresh myself with something different 🥲)

aw nooo 🙁

okay, *lowers voice* I shouldn’t do this, but I’m gonna give you two recs that I haven’t seen yet, but come highly recommended by some lovely moots

Jab We Met, recommended by @inardentdaylight, available on Tubi. Synopsis: Aditya, a heartbroken tycoon on the verge of committing suicide, aimlessly boards a train. He meets Geet, a high-spirited girl who plans to elope with her lover, and finds himself pulled into her crazy life. It’s famous for a Really Good Rain Scene.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, recommended by @milkteawithrusk, available on Prime. Synopsis: From Europe's picturesque cityscapes to Punjab's vibrant yellow flower fields, Raj and Simran's soul-stirring love conquers everything, except for a disapproving patriarch's heart. Apparently this was SRK and Kajol’s first movie together?? Or at least the one where they became famous as an onscreen couple.

Both are supposed to be very romantic and very aesthetically pleasing, so I think you’d have fun with either one! Though I don’t know how they end. If either of the ladies who recommended these to me would like to say more, please do! And tag @chrispy-cronchy so she can see it 🙈

[sampigehoovu]

Why would they call it lust stories and have three out of the four stories be so...not about lust? Yes, lust can be varied, but clearly they mean to lust/desire/sex/bodies and yet, only Konkana Sen Sharma's The Mirror got the memo. Acknowleding Lust is just step one of being sex positive, and somehow that doesn't come across at all.

The first story tries so hard, to say sex is an important part of life, you must know before you get married, which is actually great to hear. But then the grandmother tells her son and daughter-in-law, they aren't happy cause they don't have sex. The granddaughter will not happy, if she doesn't orgasm, and the groom will make himself sad cause she can't orgasm. I get it, but the logic was so flawed and dialogues didn't even try to encompass all of the complexities that exist in marriage or even sex.

The Mirror (clearly, the one I bothered to find the name of) was the best of the lot, it got me feeling all the excitment, the desire, the thrill, the rush, and even the shame that is somehow an underbelly to desire in these situations. When she's crying in bed cause she's got a migraine and unable to orgasm, my heart just went out to her. The husband too, when he asks why he was the only one in the dark, when both the women knew what was going on.

The third story went down hill the minute he crashed the car cause he saw boobs, like sir, what are you, a 16yo? He dies cause he can't stop himself from wanting to fuck his ex-wife, who has suddenly become curvier and sexier? Even if its meant to be a dream, it was a bad one. All that chemistry between Vijay and Tamanah wasted cause it was just so slimy.

The last story was trauma porn, Kajol was wonderful, her drunken husband was true to his character. If in the previous story, the man gets punished for his lust, in this one there is no redemption for anyone. Are we supposed to not sympathise with Kajol? Cause she deserved to get out of that fucking house.

Either way, why did I watch this and ruin my enforced off day?

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

I will be ur new srk mutual 🫶 which one of his films should I watch first?

such a beautiful ask 🥺

if you're in the mood for a romance movie

1. Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge: it's as old as me and still running in a theatre after all these years. it's literally that movie. the biggest reason he's called the king of romance and there wasn't even a kissing scene in this. hasn't aged. beautiful soundtrack. and the infamous mustard field

2. My Name is Khan: 14th feb 2010, 3pm show in a single screen theatre and i had the time of my life watching my first srk movie in "talkies". i was so happy i was gonna cry finally in a theatre and wept i did. he was so fucking good in this kajol's comeback directed by karan johar. lots of tears. and some more. 9/11 background but it's a love story still. he should have won the national award and that jury will end up in hell someday :)

3. Veer-Zaara: romeo and juliet's tragedy is nothing compared to veer-zaara's. the songs the music the acting the actors the director the writer everything was just so good. a lot of people don't know this but eye acting was actually invented by shah rukh khan

4. Dil to Pagal Hai: a musical about a musical the soundtrack slayyyyed then it slayyyys now. underrated on current tumblr but i think i am starting to prefer that because DTPH is mine. i never had a crush on shahrukh but if any character of his ever came close it was from this movie. one of his sexiest characters imo. did i mention the songs were way too good.

5. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham: shahrukh really cries like children do. who knew weeping can have range. great songs great cast. kajol in orange. srk in see-through shirts. it's actually a family drama but it's fun also his mother in the movie has a superpower.

6. Om Shanti Om: no bollywood movie has ever bollywooded the way OSO did. love friendship reincarnation hero heroine villain nepotism revenge action comedy great music (and one more thing but that's a huge spoiler) it really just had everything. one of the finest masala movies ever made. it's tumblr's favourite as it should be. also this movie is how i learnt san francisco rhymes with disco

if you're in the mood for thrillers

7. Baazigar: the directors were having trouble finding the lead actor because nobody wanted to take the risk then srk told the producer that nobody can play this role as good as he can and he became the first actor in the history of filmfare to win the best actor award after playing a negative role. a cult classic.

8. Darr: it's the 90s it's the hero heroine villain era when the audiences think the people who play villains are bad people irl and dislike them. sunny deol an already established "hero" is the hero of the movie and srk is the villain a scary stalker and what happened was that the audiences really loved him instead. (my sister got scared of him enough that she started crying in the theatre and my parents had to leave mid-movie a wuss). something that couldn't have been achieved by just anyone except the future king of bollywood. oh lots of switzerland. also the legendary director of the movie kinda adopted srk and started casting him in every movie of his afterwards.

9. Fan: about an obsessed fan (not me just tbc). underrated af.

about brothers and mothers

10. Karan-Arjun: family evil rich guy poor villagers a mother's wait reincarnation revenge very 90s. used to watch it every time it was on tv. also it was shot in my state 😎

11. Main Hoon Na: a cool srk entry. action comedy friendships a whole college adopting a grown up as their big bro beautiful sarees the best dressed character who then got a make-over 🥲 (the only one flaw of the movie) a villain (which was getting rare in the 2000s) the best ending credits ever and whatnot. it was farah khan's directorial debut and she brought fun back to bollywood with her bestie <3

the only coming-of-age movie he did

12. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa: i was younger than 4 srk wasn't my favourite "hero" yet but his character from this movie was my first blorbo. my murderous rage awakened for him. the first character i ever related to was also from this movie. gangster uncle 🤜🏾🤛🏾 me. srk was so baby (he was like 28) there was also ra ra rasputin in this. srk loves this movie so do i.

[the-deadrobin]

Recently got into the classic, old, romances Bollywood has to offer, after my whole life of sticking to (mostly) Tamil movies. Started it off with Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and oops. New Obsesseion Unlocked.

There's literally no better duo in this genre than Kajol and SRK.

I mean, look at them. The chemistry, man.

(I'm going on a quest to watch all the movies they've been in together).

[purplesimmer455]

The next day, Iseul headed to the fish market while Megan went on a jog. Megan listened to some music on her phone as she jogged, and let her mind wander, thinking about gifts she wanted to give to her parents and sister Mia for Winterfest, taking Cam and Cece to tour Britechester, and her wife Iseul. She smiled to herself as she flashed back on the first time she ever met Iseul.

Megan had met Iseul while at a sorority party with her best friend (and her ex-girlfriend Amira’s cousin) Kajol when she was 18. She ran into a gorgeous and handsome girl around her age, with short swoopy black hair that was shaved slightly at the back, dark brown eyes, an angular jawline, and a mischievous smile. They talked and flirted and she introduced herself as Iseul Kang. Megan was feeling pretty bold so she asked Iseul to show her how to play pool properly, and Iseul agreed. Iseul had rolled up the sleeves of her leather jacket and she’d leaned close to Megan, putting her arms around her as she showed her how to hit the billiard balls with the cue stick*. From there, they ended up kissing against the pool table, and Megan asked Iseul to go back to her place, which she agreed to. Megan had amazing woohoo with Iseul, and asked her if she wanted to date casually and just woohoo and Iseul said it would work for her. Megan ended up falling for Iseul in those few weeks but pushed it away, thinking that it was just lust and nothing else. She got back with Amira for a short time, but quickly realized she was in love with Iseul and she broke things off with her right as Iseul showed up to confess she loved Megan too. They’d been inseparable since then and although they had their ups and downs, Megan was so happy and was with the love of her life.

Random note: I’m still playing the alternate universe with Megan and Iseul. I haven’t opened the main save with Megan and Tess since December and I feel kind of bad but this save is so cute that I keep opening my game and playing it instead. 😅😄

[jalebi-weds-bluetooth]

Have you seen this interview?

Barun Sobti & Sanaya Irani | Episode 18 | By Invite Only Season 2 | Full Interview

Any thoughts?

Hey I have,

- loved their bestie energy

- cracked up whenever either one is like completely flabbergasted by the other one 😂

- THE URGE TO WALK INTO THE SCREEN AND FIX BARUN KA HAIR AND FACE (he was in his bhaloo bear era)

- Sanaya looked so pretty 😍 (lol I remember even the caption of his and sanaya’s pic is tintin and a shady guy 😂)

- SO DISAPPOINTED in the interviewer that they didn’t just focus on IPK and the excellent camaraderie between them but constantly talked about whether or not Sanaya & Barun dated each other ??? Like wtf? Because even a wiki search will let you know that Barun was married at the time of IPK and Sanaya was in a steady relationship. You could see Sanaya really keep her irritation at bay when at one point she even said “shame on you Renil,” as a joke but really she was not having it.

Like to be honest that’s the thing I hate mostt is associating IPK and their great chemistry to whether or not they dated when they were in separate committed relationships. Like I’d get it if both of them were still single and people went like”omg get together you guys have such a vibe!”

I mean again it’s none of people’s business but I get people shipping 2 actors who are still single.

It’s like asking SRK and Kajol if they were dating while doing their films when the whole world knew that SRK is married and Kajol was then in a steady relationship with Ajay.

And if anything they just commonly laughed how people perceived them to be together because of their great chemistry (the whole interview of Dilwale team at Kapil Sharma show is hilarious when Varun Dhawan retells he was so shocked to see Gauri and SRK together chase he thought Kajol and SRK were married 😂)

But Renil literally kept pestering if Sanaya & Barun had an extra marital affair and that was disgusting.

It was a question that shouldn’t have come up in the first place at all. Renil knows better than that tbh. In fact they could’ve laughed how people similarly thought those two were having the SRK-Kajol thing of as if people thought they’re a pair in real life because of their chemistry.

So I really wished they were interviewed by Rajeev Khandelwal or anyone else tbh just because of this very point.

Best,

- JWB

[nandiniiiivyas]

Thinking about the desiness of just sitting in your balcony scrolling through Pinterest, and thinking about poetry. Why is it that poetry comes to me when I least expect it, like love? I mean, I was just sitting outside minding my own business, thinking about the horrors of living on my own, while also imagining the ultimate DDLJ life Kajol lived in London and suddenly it hit me. That I’ll no longer have the privilege to feel Diwali like I did, to celebrate Holi in the lanes of my city, to eat pani puri from the nearby shop, to go on shopping sprees at clock tower, to just go on random walks and appreciate the heritage of my city. Isn’t it sad? Yes it is, but I also cannot wait for Christmas to happen to me, to feel the chilling winters, and hot chocolate and warm blankets and law studies and polo matches and art gallery dates. Oh I can’t wait to feel alive again, while also feeling like a version of me is dying…slowly.

-Nandani Vyas