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"Så var det jul igjen" is an outstanding film that demands to be seen in its original language. This Norwegian movie brilliantly navigates the complexities of Christmas traditions, presenting them in a light that is both humorous and insightful. The film introduces a cultural shock that, contrary to initial expectations, is remarkably believable and well-executed. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I laughed, having braced myself for a cliché and uninspiring holiday movie. Instead, what I found was a delightful blend of wit and charm that breathes new life into the often predictable genre of Christmas films. This movie is a hidden gem that deserves a wider audience.

Jashan is over the top obnoxious as is most of this cast. Everyone is so flat, or uninteresting, or just mean. Jashan is like a bull in a china shop, he is wholly self unaware, doesn't bring much to the table. Nothing likable about his overbearing character. I was rooting for the girl to dump him. The Norwegian family is wholly inflexible and just not likable at all from the start. There is no chemistry between the two main characters. This may be technically a Christmas movie, but there is no warmth or real affection, especially at the end of the movie where they try to wrap it into a nice little funny love fest package, but it fails miserably. They could have called this Skunk, because-yes it's a stinker. Could have been better, writing was awful.

Can't believe Kanan liked this script . Or the money 🤑

While the movie touches on race and cultural differences. None of the people are not at fault. The inlaws are mildly racist, sure. But the fault is also on Jashan for being a bulldozer in the party. Like dude, you're a guest, act like one instead of overtaking someone else's party when youve never met them!

Sure Thea was embarrassed about him (cant completely blame her) , she did take accountability for it.

Jahan on the other hand was disrespectful af , typical small town indian mentality who mocks foreign culture. Like how dumb do you have to be to know that Norwegians don't like spicy. He ruins her Christmas for the family.

Instead of allowing them to get comfortable and break the ice in their time he constantly butts in with his stupid thoughts. Sad that he was the weakest character and Kanan didn't have better inputs considering he's one of the top indian "comedians".

As someone who lives abroad and likes other cultures, his character is your stereotypical Desi person who is annoying wants to make everything indian and doesn't have the grace to learn. Like dude you're getting married, Thea learned about your culture, why can't you. "How am I supposed to know that". Well, Google!

I wouldn't say the story hinges on racism as much as having to deal with a belligerent, annoying boyfriend.

The end of the movie however made me cry and only because the Norwegian cast, especially one playing Thea did such a great job portraying all the emotions succinctly with such an awful script.

Shame on you Kanan, being an indian you could've set the record straight instead of pocketing Netlfix money and bullying you to mouth lines that were crass. Then he'll release a special about how Europeans are racist when he did nothing to correct and enabled it.

I used to love KGs comedy specials, they were fun, high on dry humor and dare I say intellectual. This movie was the opposite of that.

If you hate annoying Desi stereotypes, skip this. If I were Thea, I would dump his ass and I'm indian!

Funny view on culture crash between Norway and the outside world.

Remember that there are only 5 million Norwegians, and Jul and May 17 are days where we are focused on our traditions. Our ways are a bit strange.

Jashan is representing the outside world. Nothing to do with his nationality specifically.

As a Norwegian I felt this made me think of how hung up we are on our traditions.

25% of our population migrated to USA in the late 1800s. For those left it was a crisis and the national romanticism started in Norway. Bunad, Jul tradition and more were important when rebuilding our nation's self esteem.

The cultural clash awaits as newly engaged Jashan and Thea fly to Norway to her family for celebrating Christmas. She hasn't informed her family about Jashan being an Indian, not even his full name and she wants to have a perfect Christmas celebration to find the right time to break the announcement. But his family is not nice towards Jashan with her ex boyfriend living next door to make couple of crucial moments complicated and she doesn't think preparing Jashan or giving him an heads up was necessary. Will she have her Christmas and save her love story forms rest of the story.

It's the age old love story of two people from different parts of the world, falling in love and one of them trying to fit into the world of the other. The problem is how one toned the characters are, giving little chance to empathize with any of them. Things keep getting hard for Jashan and what follows next was intended to be funny but it did not evoke any laughter. Limited India to the population count and spicy food was also not in good taste. Now characters can be self centered, but the narrative has to be balanced which wasn't the case here. This just didn't give enough to root for Thea as the film only succeeded in making me feel sad and sad for Jashan.

Why would you pack a kurta while travelling to Norway for Christmas?