![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an all-star lineup and they’ve got something similar planned for the sequel. And just as a final flex the casting director secured Pennywise’s favorite victim Jaeden Martell and the legendary Christopher Plummer, may he rest in peace. Lakeith Stanfield is here without his straw hat from Get Out and so is 13 Reasons Why’s ghostly Katherine Langford. Lime enthusiast Dakota Johnson’s dad Don is here, and so is perhaps the greatest living actor Toni Collette. Halloween badass/ yogurt guru Jamie Lee Curtis is a suspect, as is two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon. America’s Ass Chris Evans is there in a beautiful cable-knit sweater. We’ve got James Bond himself Daniel Craig, and his future Bond girl/Ben Affleck’s former coffee walks partner Ana de Armas. I know that listing off actors is boring, but just go with me here. Rian Johnson’s mystery (so well written its screenplay landed an Oscar nom) focuses on the death of Harlan Thrombey, a famous novelist, and the family desperate to scoop up his inheritance. You’ve got to love a classic whodunit, especially with an ensemble cast at the caliber of this one. Honestly I have no idea how this fever dream of a film got made, but I’ve watched it several times, and I will watch it again. And yet SOMEHOW Adam Sandler convinced Al Pacino to play himself in this film as the third billed actor, AND convinced him to fall in love with Jill! Insane. It’s stuffed-to-bursting with product placement (Dunkin Donuts anyone?), Sandler is bouncing off the walls as Jill, and the writing is bordering on nonsensical often. Send this film to the 2019 Met Gala! Adam Sandler (whose recent Hubie Halloween is also a winner) plays both Jack and Jill, fraternal twins, in this truly bonkers affair. But they are not watching this through the lens of it being a masterpiece of camp. Did it win every single Razzie the year it came out? Yes. Does it have a 3% on Rotten Tomatoes? Yes. Join Freshfields Village for our Starlight Cinema Series every Thursday in July. Indeed, no less a figure than Barack Obama quoted it during his inaugural visit to India in 2015.I will not be reading the comments for this article, because I KNOW you all are going to rake me over the coals for this one, but this is actually an incredible film. ![]() Raj’s line – ‘Senorita bade bade desho me aisi choti choti baatein hoti rehti’ (‘Senorita, don’t get stressed by the little things’) – has crossed into daily usage. The hit song ‘Tujhe Dekha To…’ sees Simran and Raj reunited in Punjab’s rolling fields, and its lingering gazes and passionate embraces are old school Bollywood at its finest. This ultimate romance also raised the bar impossibly high for guys chasing girls. facility 119602 occurred 119600 suffered 119518 pakistan 119362 municipal. ![]() The popularity of the film (the title translates as ‘The brave-hearted will take away the bride’) is reflected in the fact that it has screened daily in Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir cinema for 19 years and counting. She goes InterRailing in Europe, meets Raj and they fall in love against the backdrop of Swiss mountains. In London, Raj (Khan) is an immature young man, while straight-laced Simran (Kajol) is all set for a marriage arranged by her domineering father. Familiar themes of personal choice versus family responsibility, and of forbidden love, are remixed for the 1990s in this epic, era-defining romance. ![]()
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