![]() I left Ruby’s that day with Kal Ho Naa Ho and watched it at home by myself. This is his latest film.” She handed it to me. “I’ve always been partial to Shah Rukh Kahn. The woman consulted the DVDs for a moment before finally pulling a thick red and white DVD set down from the shelf. “Do you want something new or one of the classics?” She walked behind the counter to the shelves of DVDs. The woman raised a perfectly-sculpted eyebrow. “I was wondering if you could recommend a movie for me.” I gestured to the DVDs behind the counter. ![]() In retrospect, I probably should’ve been offended that my eyebrow game was so blatantly called out by this woman, but, then again, I was the only non-Indian person in the store and she must have been used to white women wandering in for Eastern beauty treatments. I must have looked confused because she quickly clarified: “You’re here to have your eyebrows threaded, right?” The shop owner finished up with another customer and walked over to me. Though I was a complete novice to Bollywood cinema, I was immediately intrigued, but I had no I idea which movie to choose. Behind the counter were rows of DVDs for various Bollywood productions. I was first drawn to the shop by the lovely pashminas, but once I was in the store, something else caught my eye. Ruby’s wares included the titular bangles-from ornate special occasion jewelry to more basic bangle bracelets-beautiful silk saris, henna application, and eyebrow threading. The thought came to me as I passed by a little boutique in the mall called Ruby’s Bangles. ![]() I’d dragged my friends to screenings of indie flicks and foreign films all over Southern California, but as I walked through my local mall one Saturday afternoon, I realized I had one huge gap in my filmic experience. Ten years ago, I was in the midst of actively trying to broaden my horizons in terms of cinema. ![]() Bri Lafond re-views the first Bollywood movie she ever saw, Shah Rukh Kahn’s Kal No Naa Ho, with some of the most thorough free-floating thoughts we’ve ever seen. ![]()
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