#want him to dance to a pathaan song

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RID HE WAS FUCKING SINIGING IT!! I AM NOT OKAY. NOT OKAY AT ALL!! PLEASE I AM GONNA HAVE A HEART ATTACK

i am never recovering from this. and like, i had shit to do, but now i'm just drowning in my own tears?!??

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Jawan: non-spoiler review

A more thoughtful review, now I've had a bit of time to think about it.

Shah Rukh Khan is the heart of the movie, so if you don't like his work, you probably won't like the movie.

Fortunately his performance is strong, and he easily carries it. The plot requires him to flex his range, which he does with confidence and charisma. He's rarely been in better form.

It might be billed as an Atlee film, but it's pretty obvious that this was SRK's dream project, and he put together his dream team to make it. I don't say that to dismiss what Atlee brings to the table, just that this project was clearly being driven by SRK's desire to tick off some of the things remaining on his bucket list. That pays off in a lot of ways, because SRK can afford the best, and that really shows on the screen.

SRK worked hard in Jawan to consolidate that he's an action star now, and he succeeded - I don't think anyone would argue it anymore. However, he didn't throw out all the old hooks. His scenes with Deepika Padukone are classic SRK, and so are the dance numbers. Zinda Banda in particular was a highlight. The song is an earworm, and the dance itself is both a spectacle given the number of dancers, and yet simple enough that even I could do it, with a bit of practice. The perfect crowdpleaser.

I don't want to spoil the biggest twist for you if you haven't seen the film yet, so I can't talk about my favourite aspect of SRK's performance in detail. I'll just say that for the last few years, he's been at his best when playing his real age, and that's true in Jawan as well.

There are good things other than SRK. Atlee's direction has all the kineticism of southern Indian cinema, and it's a spectacle that's a joy to watch on an aesthetic level. The soundtrack is fantastic. The special effects are world class.

I also like that this is mass entertainment that's not pretending to be anything else, but that it still touches on themes that are timely in India at the moment. I watched Raees just a few weeks ago, and there are obvious parallels. It's obvious that not everything along those lines comes from Atlee, even if the southern didacticism is on full display.

I do have one criticism. The plot was ambitious, and I give it points for that. I much prefer an ambitious plot that doesn't always work to a plot-by-numbers like Pathaan. However, Jawan's plotting sprawls all over the screen. That's sometimes a feature rather than a bug. It helped the film avoid some of the more obvious cliches. For example, I liked that the bad-guy's Evil Habit ended up not playing out in the way you'd expect. Anything that subverts a cliche is good with me. On the other hand, the plot was weaker than it needed to be. For instance, in a movie with so many women characters, I wanted more of them in the final act. There was still enough momentum to carry me to the end, but the ending was weaker than the rest of the film. Just a bit more cleverness in that final fight, tying it more effectively to the larger plot strands, would have made a big difference.

It was still a really great time, and I'm looking forward to seeing it again. I hope they do make a sequel. I would happily watch more of SRK in this 'verse.

[i-got-the-feels]

six recent song favorites.

i was tagged by @theinfinitedivides - thank you for this tag love

I recently watched Pathaan and BTS Yet to Come In Cinemas so my head is SHAHRUKH !!!! and BTS !!! not adding jhoome jo pathan because that is obvious with my display picture : p

Chalak Chalak from Devdas - boy, as a child did i hate jackie shroffs character in movie, and tbh even now a part of me is annoyed at him. ALSO MADHURI - no one will ever make a better chandramukhi, or devdas for that matter. yes, i wanted devdas and chandramukhi to get together : )

Dard e Disco from Om Shanti Om - this movie is so fucking nostalgic. It is the first movie we did online booking for tickets- now it is the norm but then-16 years ago (wow i am old) it had just begun. of course, first time a major bollywood actor other than salman having abs and shahrukh looked so good !

Chaiya Chaiya from Dil Se, are you a person from India or Indian roots if you dont know this song? from having it in plastic toy mobiles, to a staple song in annual days and birthday parties it is iconic. Sukhwinder singh, rahman magic + shah and malika's dance on train. I still cannot for me believe they danced on a moving train

Run BTS - it is a hype song, i need all the hype i can get, its cold, i am sleepy but i have to work instead of sleeping or watching tv shows ! the audacity

Cypher Pt 3 - namjoon saying he will this song after today in the busan concert was so hot, i d k, man but yeah

Aaj Ki Raat from Don shahrukh's entry in this song is very sexy okay?

I d k who I haven't tagged yet soo let me see @smudgedhenna @ardentlytess @smittenskitten @bisexualhedgehog @snimeat @pannakorn @yourstormthlaylirahh @surajmukhis @jyuubin and of course whoever wants to do it :)

[theinfinitedivides]

six recent song favorites.

i was tagged by @chameli and i had to try so hard to narrow it down bc this sh*t was all over the place originally—also offering a shameless Spotify plug if you would like to see me obsess over these in real time but that's not the point here

vainko & basti bounce, brodha v | 2022-2023 — i'm going to cheat on the song total with at least two of these entries so let me start with this one, sfjsfdnkjsdnj. got into him bc he showed up on the Spotify radio recommendations for songs like the Gully Boy OST but tbh he unironically slaps and as a bonus BB is the sequel to Vainko both lyrically and visually. personally Vainko slaps a bit harder bc the pre-chorus makes contact with a certain part of my brain that very few songs have before and after it, could just be the way i operate tho

kana yaari, coke studio | 2022 — k i may have cried to The Quick Style's official choreo MV for this (not the wedding choreo. that sh*t was the sh*t) but. the beat drop after the first verse. Eva B coming in in the second with that hijab and spitting bars like no one's f*cking business. ma'am

waterfall, b.i | 2021 — i will never shut up about this song. never, it is physically impossible for me to do so bc Hanbin??? the man that you are Hanbin??? 'waterfall 춤을 추는 waterfall / 하늘 위를 나는 듯이 떨어져' Hanbin??? f*cking '떨어짐과 동시에 새롭게 시작하는 폭포' Hanbin??? on God this and BTBT (2022) have been on loop since they dropped

god's latte, epik high | 2023 — sometimes Tablo writes about things and talking to God and not getting the answers you want and having to answer it yourself in the vein of Ilya Kaminsky's 'at the trial of God...' and you have to sit down and think about it for a while. it's fine. everything is fine. (head in hands head in hands head in my f*cking hands this is Amor Fati's long lost twin and it hurts just as much)

besharam rang & jhoome jo pathaan | 2023 — the second cheat but i have no remorse over this bc it's SRK-Deepika!!! Shilpa and Arijit what better voices could you choose for such absolute bangers, honestly. BR gives off Ghungroo vibes which might have been the intent but the lyrics themselves are very 90s Bollywood? idk idk i think i've said this before but my Spotify mutuals probably think there's something wrong with me when they see i've had this playing for six hours with no status change and they have no context as to why

way it is, way it could be, the weather station | 2015 — this song and Chammak Challo fought each other for this spot as the oldest song here but i needed at least one English song in this list and a sacrifice had to be made. i apologize profusely to the many impromptu dance sessions i had with the latter, pls know you were not spurned; it's hard to put a finger on exactly what it about this that has had me in a chokehold. is it the guitar? the sparseness of arrangement? 'the way it is and the way it could be, both are / we got back in the car'? highly recommend bc whatever it is there's something in the song and i go feral for it

tagging: @toiletpotato @i-got-the-feels @lastofthe20thcenturygirls @goblinsbriide @itsfookingloosah and @eremin0109, but pls don't participate if you feel pressured <333

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#KartikAaryan Grooves To ‘Character Dheela Hai 2.0’ In Shehzada As A Tribute To His Favorite #SalmanKhan Kartik Aaryan, who has grown up watching films starring Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan, among others, is a complete Bollywood junkie. The actor is currently achieving the success he always wanted in the same field as the three major Khans. In the viral bhopal wedding videos he was spotted dancing with Aamir Khan, and he just let the fanboy in him for Shah Rukh Khan out by delaying Shehzada out of respect for ‘Pathaan’. According to Bollywooe Hungama, Kartik Aaryan has chosen to honour the machoman of Bollywood, Salman Khan. “Similar to Salman Khan’s 2011 film ‘Ready’, Shehzada, in the opinion of Kartik Aaryan and his director Rohit Dhawan, is a complete family film. They planned to shock all the fans with a new song after delaying the movie by a week. ‘Character Dheela Hai’ from Salman Khan’s ‘Ready’ for Shehzada would be recreated following a week of idea-generating.” A reliable source informed Bollywood Hungama. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoKML56Jr78/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=