Huh. Maybe it’s not a time change thing? But it almost made more sense when it was! I can follow like 2/3rds of the plot of this thing, but then it loses me when SRK picks up a gun.
Trailer! I actually watched it right before I went to sleep last night and I was just so tired I couldn’t face getting out of bed to write a post. I have failed you as the DCIB community. Sorry! They need to stop dropping trailers when I am sleepy!
Okay, I sort of have the plot I think. SRK comes to town and joins an English class. Taapsee defends him as being a valuable person even if he is bad at English, so he falls in love with her. She also adopts him into her little group that is dedicated to emigrating. They give many speeches about how they deserve to follow their dreams, and then end up crossing a dangerous border in order to get to England. At some point, Taapsee agrees to marry a white man (presumably for a Visa) and Shahrukh shows up and punches him to stop the wedding. Also at some point Shahrukh grabs a gun to defend them and it is all dark and actiony.
I have two major concerns/questions after this trailer. First, how will they handle the tone shift of Shahrukh/the story? Cute silly village antics in English glass, fine. And then suddenly SRK is unshaven and holding a gun on people? What happened to the sweet innocent?
Second concern, why exactly are they going to want to go to England? Or out of the village in general? Is Hirani going to actually QUESTION the Indian economy/society/etc for once? Or is he going to come up with some ridiculous reason and avoid the reality of crushing economic issues, lack of healthcare, lack of education, etc. etc.?
