tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post5443332868382449053..comments2023-10-09T10:40:10.116+01:00Comments on In praise of all things Dharmendra-related: LESSONS AND QUESTIONS FROM 'HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN...!'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-86352202464819618892011-09-12T13:59:58.331+01:002011-09-12T13:59:58.331+01:00hey itsa great thing... even i love this... and il...hey itsa great thing... even i love this... and ill love it all timespriyankahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04810812689531743202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-90305118470988173142011-06-10T14:43:20.022+01:002011-06-10T14:43:20.022+01:00Hans, this is super-late, but thank you!
Lime(tte...Hans, this is super-late, but thank you!<br /><br />Lime(tte), thank you so much for your comments. It's funny, HAHK seems to be one of those movies that people either LOVE or don't care for at all. So you are in really good company. I'm glad this helped throw more light on why those of us that love it feel the way we do. And I do understand why some find it boring as well.Daddy's Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679564351145843434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-60837367467074439432011-06-09T13:59:30.774+01:002011-06-09T13:59:30.774+01:00Bollywooddeewana just recommended this post to me,...Bollywooddeewana just recommended this post to me, after reading what I wrote about the film, and I'm very thankful. <br />You really managed to enhance the great parts of this film and defend it. My feelings for the film haven't changed a lot after reading this, I still found it boring most of the time, but maybe, when I've watched it a couple of times more, I will like it.<br />However, I do understand now, why many people like it, and that it IS likable... somehow.Mettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08094234448852441633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-84493144656432679272010-04-21T08:16:41.726+01:002010-04-21T08:16:41.726+01:00Thanks, nice and thoughtful discussion. Hope to fi...Thanks, nice and thoughtful discussion. Hope to find back here after the next Hindi movie night.Hans Meierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675553770565339630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-55990965727616457352007-09-04T11:48:00.000+01:002007-09-04T11:48:00.000+01:00That's what I figured too, Uzo - we will have to d...That's what I figured too, Uzo - we will have to do the bookings just as soon as we arrive Delhi Airport (we're getting there in the morning, so it shouldn't be a problem) - so we will settle the issue before leaving the airport. That way we'll be booking 6 days ahead - our chances will hopefully be fair, although it will prolly cost us significantly more. No need to trouble your dad - thanks for all your efforts.Daddy's Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679564351145843434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-89215390193056624922007-09-04T09:55:00.000+01:002007-09-04T09:55:00.000+01:00Let me see if my dad can help.....Or how about try...Let me see if my dad can help.....Or how about trying to make that reservation before we do the tour? So we will be booking a few days in advance?Uzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08546598626824830828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-38326018206089266242007-09-03T18:08:00.000+01:002007-09-03T18:08:00.000+01:00LOL - Uzo, you are hilarous! No problemo - now I k...LOL - Uzo, you are hilarous! No problemo - now I know what to bring to our next rendezvous. Meanwhile, no joy on the other thing o - we might just have to take our chances and see what we can find when we arrive Delhi. A huge risk, I know, but wetin man for do? Let's just hope another option emerges before then...Daddy's Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679564351145843434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-11205751256824533582007-09-03T17:28:00.000+01:002007-09-03T17:28:00.000+01:00After all the profound thoughts expressed on this ...After all the profound thoughts expressed on this page - i will brak the mood and declare - I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS MOVIE.<BR/><BR/>Yup. I confess it...(As i throw myself weeping onto the floor)Uzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08546598626824830828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-501208843044995642007-09-03T09:54:00.000+01:002007-09-03T09:54:00.000+01:00@alan: I agree with you about the haunting effect ...@alan: I agree with you about the haunting effect of the title song. It really is cool. I am really looking forward to your review - Please do some of your witty, sarcastic speech-bubble thingies (please... I'm sure you'll find loads of material for them in the movie). 'Pooja' had a wonderful smile and a lovely warmth to her - I loved the character too (I've always wondered why Renuka Shahane seems to have made no other movies apart from HAHK); and 'Rita' was wonderfully portrayed by Saddhila Chadha - I loved her cross-dressing bit and the comedy of the character was so unforced and fun.<BR/><BR/>@yves: Your thoughts on No. 10 are so eloquent and profound - thanks so much for sharing them. I cannot relate to those thoughts (yet), but you've expressed them in a way that makes me curious about what it feels like to have them. You're right about No. 9 of course: I like the simple way Marvin Gaye said it in 'Abraham, Martin and John': 'he freed a lot of people/but the good it seems die young/I just looked around and he was gone'. It's the brutal impact of the loss, that feeling that there is no rhyme, reason, or justification for the death of a young, healthy, vibrant and good person; that drives us to make the incorrect statement that the good always seem to die young... And you've got me thinking about how (or if) the sincerity of an expressed emotion can draw a line between sentimentality and admiration. I'm still thinking... Thanks very much for your insightful and thought-provoking comment... and I'm glad you enjoyed this post, it was fun to write.Daddy's Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679564351145843434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-27558140947540701282007-09-01T12:27:00.000+01:002007-09-01T12:27:00.000+01:00Hi Daddy's girlWow, such a nice moment was spent h...Hi Daddy's girl<BR/>Wow, such a nice moment was spent here, writing (for you, obviously)and reading (for me). Please don't feel that you're being overly cheesy or sappy. I think that, in right doses of course, we need the expression of true feelings of admiration, because today there is either too much sentimentality or too much derision. <BR/><BR/>Your question n°9 is perhaps a mistake of perspective: the young hopefuls that die strike us as having not fulfilled their promise, and so we tend to pity them (or ourselves) on behalf of this loss. But many immense people have died old too.<BR/><BR/>I was struck by your question n°10: the question of lovers is indeed something like "who am I to you?" - why have we been attracted towards one another? And: who are you that I love? How come love unveils as much of the loved one as it shows how much I must yet discover? Love does indeed confront us to this self-assessment of ourselves. If we are lucky enough to have somebody love us really, passionately, how is that actually possible - to be somebody's only love, only care, only world? Is man or woman made to be loved in such a way? <BR/><BR/>For me, this is a sign that there is something in us which is, which must be, divine, and of God, originated in God. We "deserve" this love only because in us there is something infinite and absolute, which often we cannot see ourselves, but which our lover sees ans adores. <BR/>Give us a lot of other such reviews.<BR/>cheers<BR/>yvesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-50398835079385711392007-09-01T00:04:00.000+01:002007-09-01T00:04:00.000+01:00Hi Daddy's Girl.Great review. This is one of my al...Hi Daddy's Girl.<BR/><BR/>Great review. This is one of my all time favorites as well. I really liked the Pooja and Rita characters as well. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the reference to me regarding the music. The opening song during the black and white credits is a very haunting song that always sends chills up my spine. Annette feels the same affect. We don't really understand the words, so it's just the sound of the music itself. Maybe it's just the minor chords in the progression that has some physical affect. Anyway, it's cool.<BR/><BR/>HAHK is also on my list of films to review when I get around to it. I imagine my review will be a little more irreverent.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11013518337156050036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-43838163035697078582007-08-31T14:58:00.000+01:002007-08-31T14:58:00.000+01:00Wonderful comment Carla, thank you so much - I lov...Wonderful comment Carla, thank you so much - I love your vivid description of that delightful moment... it makes me really want to go back and watch it over again. I read a review just today (wish I could remember where so that I could credit the writer) that mentioned how the relationship between Prem and Nisha was 'painstakingly' unfolded in the film - and I think this is one of the things I love most about HAHK, how their relationship develops over a number of moments. Thinking about the moment you've described, I think I'll have to revise my view - there is something special between them at the wedding. Thinking about that moment also reminds me of another moment between Nisha and Prem, when Pooja is leaving, and the way she (Nisha) looks at Prem. Yeah, I agree with you - they do fall in love at the wedding but aren't ready to admit it till later.Daddy's Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679564351145843434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36123519.post-46277419435259939382007-08-31T02:43:00.000+01:002007-08-31T02:43:00.000+01:00Daddy's Girl, thank you so very much for such a be...Daddy's Girl, thank you so very much for such a beautiful and thoughtful post about a positively darling movie. This movie is so often dismissed as mere fluff - even its proponents don't usually try to defend its substance - and I just love the effort you took here to expand upon its many and varied themes. <BR/><BR/>One thing I disagree with - you said "Prem and Nisha are definitely attracted to each other during the period of Rajesh and Pooja’s wedding; and there is a lot of teasing and flirting, but they don’t actually fall in love until after the wedding, during Nisha’s visit to Prem’s home." I think Prem and Nisha fell in love at the wedding - during "Joote de do," when they fell on the bed together - then Prem lets Nisha have the shoe, and she scampers off triumphantly, only to realize halfway down the stairs what he has done, and she turns and looks at him up on the balcony - THAT's when they fall in love.<BR/><BR/>It just takes them until Nisha's visit to admit it. <BR/><BR/>I love this movie so much! I am going to add a link to your comments to my meager review of it - this is the best HAHK analysis I have ever seen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com