 We're rolling. Diiiildi-dakadido. Do you like my mug? First human reaction to some corp. That's awesome. It's going to the board. Do you talk to the computer, cover the film, and then get it. Bop! First human reaction to some corp. Funny, funny thing about this. Where did you get that? And it's funny, your last name is Myles, so it's an M, it works. This is, I got this custom made. It's on Etsy. And I know for a fact the lady who makes them is like this Christian, she has no idea what you're saying. No, in the description it says, obviously you get a one letter, and then you can put, she said, names only. And I was like, there's no way in hell she's going to know what this means. So she made a cup, this is a motherfucker on it. It's the little things in life that bring me joy. That's so good. Anyway, there's nothing to do with what we're doing. Today we're doing a movie review. Uh, it's a... I'm going to take the watch off. It is a, uh, it's actually, we reacted to the songs and the trailer very early on. Probably within the first six months. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I think the phrase when Priyanka's happy, everybody's happy, came out of our reaction to... Yeah. Because when I watched it again, I couldn't help but feel like everything was going to be right with the world. That's been, uh, that's been on my playlist for a long time. But yes, this is actually the, even though we were going to get to this eventually, this was the Patreon May request of the month for the Hindi. Every month, uh, all Patreon members get to vote on one Hindi film and one regional. Uh, every month, this was their Hindi. Even though we would have eventually gotten to this. Yeah, I'm sure. But, uh, I'm glad they decided to, uh... But, in case you guys don't know about this film, uh, it's called Dildic Tuna. That's it. That's the actual original working title. Uh, directed and written by Zoya Aktar, uh, uh, from Belly Boy fame, uh, from us. And I think we've seen one other thing, of course. Um, but it's produced by Farhan Aktar, uh, and then starring everyone, Anil Kapoor, Shahi Fali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Aktar, and then, yeah, a whole bunch of other people that we do know as well, and, um, Vikran Masi who, uh, from Mizapur, and, uh, um, who's that other one called, um, Death and the Gun. Is it gonna be 100% spoiler-review? I'm assuming you've seen this film, came out in 2015. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. It's on Netflix for us. Um, but it's a, uh... It's a romantic comedy with family. Yep. Essentially is what it is. So, Rick, what is your initial thought? Well, and it's, it is our 31st of 2021. 31st film. 156th all-time. Yes. Our 104th Hindi film. Uh, and we're, we are, uh, tracking to do, like, we're gonna below, we did 65 films last year. We're gonna get to 100? We're gonna come real close. At the pace we're going out, we're gonna be in the 90s, we may get to 100. We try to do two a week. Yep. If we stay at that pace, we're gonna get in the low 90s, mid 90s. That'd be good. Uh, yeah. I, uh, to me, just a really fun, unexpectedly moving at times, escapist film that I thought was, uh, just, it's my, I have a bias toward this in the same way that I have a bias towards, say, eating sushi or Italian food. These kind of movies that are like this that remind me a lot of, say, You Again or Freaky Friday or even Debra. This reminded me a lot of the same kind of feeling of where you've got a rom-com dramedy that has a message. I just, I love them. So I love this movie. I actually really enjoyed this film as well. Uh, in terms of it being, I think it's one of the most, one of the first full-out rom-com style films that we've gotten. We have directed some others, but I think this almost embodies the tropes, the everything about the rom-com family drama. You could even go down to what happens in terms of what is considered the stereotypical qualities that make the differentiation between a comedy and a drama for Shakespeare. The tropes, the standard things where there's love stories and people, someone's in love with someone else and then there's a story that's made up and there's a mistaken identity. They have to forgive the guy. So there's a whole bunch of that, I just know you're getting that. I knew you'd love it because it's a dog. Telling the story. The minute I saw the dog, I'm like, Oh, Corbin's gonna love this. It was also, do you know who it was? The dog, the voice of the dog. Um, wasn't it an octar again? It was a, uh, who was it? It was a mirkan. That was a mirkan? It was a mirkan. It was? Wow. Nice. That was a mirkan. Sorry, I didn't get that. This is one of those films you could just turn on and just enjoy. You don't think about, in fact, we'll get into it. But when she left the boat, I'm like, I would literally yell, jump off the boat. She left and I'm like, okay, he's gonna go run and jump. It's not the matter of if. Of course he's doing it. You have to jump off the boat at this point and go get her. So yeah, I really will get into all of it. But let's talk about the acting first. Yeah, of all the people. I think Ranveer honestly stole the show. Even though, not to say anybody else was bad. Everybody else was really, really good. The dude, man, he just impressed me even more. Because one, this could have just been a stereotypical, you're the love interest and you'd have to, and one, not everybody can do that. No. Even though it looks like a simple role, to make it memorable, it's not that easy. There's much more that can go wrong. When you've got, and Zoya knocked it out of the park, as did Farhan, because I understand he wrote the dialogue. This family affair is formulaic and it worked. They know how to work that formula and her direction and everybody's portrayals, especially I was interested to watch how he was going to do the comedy because it's one of the telltale signs of a good actor is can you do comedy well? Everybody did. He especially did because of all the roles in the film, his was the least grounded until the end. Everybody got really grounded at the end. We'll talk about that, but if there's any one of these that could have gone off the charts and been really cheesy bad, it was his role. It's obvious that we love Ranveer. We think he's a great actor and he has such a range and he brings such an energy to his performances. But we'll be brutally honest. Just because we love actors doesn't mean we're not going to say they weren't good in that. But he was. I think his chemistry with Anushka Sharma, I thought was really, really good. I loved them together. I was actually upset that we didn't get to see in the end them be together. Even though I assume obviously the big song, and they were together in the songs, I'm like obviously with literally at the very end, every romantic comedy trope happened within five minutes. I was listening to the song. I left yesterday after I was done watching it to go have dinner with Ashley and Harrell. And I just kept playing on repeat. So like you assume obviously they're going to end up together. And obviously all the family, even though how bad they were, their deep generations of you know, decades of problems all got, it's all gone now. In a heartbeat. You're like, that's going to happen. I expected it and I loved it. It worked so well, I thought Shafali Shah, I think I mispronounced it. Shafali Shah. You've known if you've watched the channel and watched our reactions of her she's a phenomenal actress. In everything that we've seen her in. She had such a complex role because she had kind of almost fallen into this place, which a great scene for the whole thing. But Ren Vier, when he was literally just pointing out to his parents what their problem was like that's been fucking around. That was the hospital scene. When he wouldn't leave. That was a great scene. I loved that Zoya literally just let it be silence and then Ren Vier just like looking at somebody and he grabbed the chair and he's like, I'm not moving. I loved the... I don't know if that was directed that way or if she just caught him doing it. But that was one of the best moments of the film is that moment when when she is screaming at him to get out and he's like, I'm not going to leave, I'm not going to leave, I'm not going to leave and then it gets silent for a second and he says, because dad, we know what he's been doing on his trips he's been sleeping with everybody and then dead silence and he's like, dad mom sister and you, you kind of just put up with it and then she obviously she can't go anywhere and she was like she was almost a villain at times but then she also feels so bad for her because you know she's stuck her husband's a complete asshole right until the very end of course like he's an asshole to her he sleeps around he's like the worst father that I can think of she kind of just accepted that this was her life and she also fed into his awful judgments and advice and that's where it got into and we'll talk about some of the other acting as well but as far as the messages it really did what some of the better rom-coms do and Debra did this, it's one of the things that we've talked about and relationship to other films we've seen recently that kind of just stay really shallow where this actually really got into some deep especially than the Indian culture the Indian family culture and in a way a modern way a modern way and an accessible way where this is something the whole family it's very hard to write and create a film that the whole family can sit down and watch it's going to touch on some very serious matters that the family might even sit there watching it going this is us and with you all happy and ready to go have dinner and talk and laugh, really hard to do so the writing with that in Zoya I think did a phenomenal job and then another moment, there was a bunch of moments obviously Shae Flecha had some really great Shafali Shah had some really great moments, Priyanka when she actually decided to tell him she wanted a divorce it was a phenomenal scene for her and so I thought she did really well I liked Sharma I liked her chemistry with Ranveer a lot very believable I mean I don't know who doesn't have great chemistry with Ranveer we've seen it with Priyanka, Deepika but you have to be a very think about it you have to hold your own he will overshadow you if you're not if you don't bring the energy and if you don't bring the talent the only reason he should pull back is if he's got it scripted like he did in Gully Boy in this he's not holding anything back so for her to shine equally with him speaks volumes and we've liked everything we've seen her do I do have one thing one and it's a pretty big complaint so I mark down what time it happened in the film is it 2 hours 19 minutes and 22 seconds is when the white doctor comes in hahahaha oh my goodness you can't deliver one line okay and I could see the look on the entire cast's face when he came to give the news they weren't shocked about the news about dad they were shocked where did she get this actor hahahaha anyway am I wrong? no you're not right and there was a few instances with some acting or some writing that was just cheesy but it's I knew that was going to happen going in that's every rom-com almost that you can think of all the classics ones at least that you can think of that they all have some cheesy lines and some like they all have stuff that's like completely unbelievable that would never happen but you accept it that's the genre you go in because you want to see the romance when you watch you again or freaky friday you know they're going to strain credulity you know this is nothing that could ever happen in real life and that's why you're enjoying it is because but you're also going to get real life moral lessons from it it's like great sitcoms the situational comedies have these ridiculous moments and lines that like if you watch Will and Grace there's some lines that Karen has and you're like there's no way Karen did that to her kids there's no way Karen did that with her husband and she says it and Jack doesn't blink nobody blinks but then later in the show there's like this really touching deep moment and that's what this is now I don't know if you noticed this but I noticed this so I thought Rahul Bose did a very good job playing Priyanka's husband but I did notice something so much so that I looked at it I looked it up while I was watching did you notice that whenever there were shots especially like the musical numbers he wasn't with Farhad Anil and Ranveer Farhan he wasn't with them and there was one sequence where they were on the boat and he walked up next to Priyanka and I saw him standing next to Priyanka and I realized oh I didn't realize he was that short oh was he really that short? well if you look his height up you're going to get everything from 5'4 to 5'5 to 5'6 to 5'7 he's a short dude yeah but here's the thing I don't know if this was asked or if Zoya just did it because I know they do this with Tom Cruise all the time because Tom Cruise is small he's not dinky but he's like 5'6 I think but like in the musical number the I've got Dil in my head right now I was looking around for him because he was sitting at the table and he's nowhere around until he comes down the stairs and then when he gets in front of the group they're all bent in half and he's snapping and then he's out yeah there was consistency with which he was framed in a way that didn't put him because Ranveer is 5'10 Farhan's 5'9 they probably didn't want him to seem that much diminutive in film that comes across if you look that much shorter obviously especially if you're next to big cute buff guys like Ranveer and Farhan and I think that might have been a primary consideration because if he looks that much smaller when he has the moment where he's telling Priyanka get up and do what I say and the brother and the dad are getting mad if you've already gotten this idea that he's diminutive comparatively he's not going to seem as much of a threat and physically the dude is a freaking freak of nature this guy's got like a metabolic rate this bows himself the man he's 52 but his metabolic system is a 27 year old the dude is an athlete and the dude is an amazing the thing I noticed is that he looks like Rufus Sewell to me I know that name you do oh yeah you're right you're you know what's crazy about that I didn't even remember his name but when I was watching the film and I'm watching bows in the role I'm like you know who he reminds me of and it was him but I couldn't remember the name he would play those roles it's the face it's the frilled brow he just looks like the Indian version of him great actors he's not a name but he's always in a great supporting role and he always does always does a great job that's what I imagine this other guy I think this is the first thing we've ever seen him in we've seen him in trailers for stuff and he was great the whole cast was uniform let's talk about a nil this is one of our first outside of Slumdog I thought he did a good job I thought it was a difficult role because one, he has to be a dick but also he didn't play it well, except for certain moments obviously even Zoya credit to Zoya here and Farhan I guess if he wrote him this way this guy he's awful he treats on his wife, awful to his kids he's awful to his wife and he's manipulative often you didn't feel that way until those big outburst moments which is phenomenal obviously that's what I expect because I know his reputation he's an actor and I would expect nothing less from him to not play a stereotype and I think he did a good job doing that I was expecting him to be good he was better than I was expecting and it's really easy to judge a character and play them as a cliche and it wouldn't have worked it's a testament to his prowess Farhan's writing and Zoya's directing because when he has the moment in the bed with her and he's actually saying something that seems genuinely intimate and she says to him why are you saying that, there's no audience to hear you and then she realizes that was bad for me to do if he was a completely dislikable guy you would have sided with her but I actually did feel a little bit bad for him he definitely made me question it's like oh that was sweet but also he definitely slept with everyone his perspective on what his son is there's a line in there where Roonveer's character says I'm an asset he treats Priyanka like his kids they're just assets for his company this film brought up so many points about Indian family Priyanka, she wanted a divorce there's an entire family meeting about something that's not their business and the constant repetitiveness of it's not the husband talking it was his mom, it was her parents the in-laws and the constant framing of what will people think and that pressure and the stigma very brave not only to put in a film but to put in a film that's like a family affair this is accessible to people it's not like an art house film that of all these people aren't going to see they should put in a film that I'm assuming this was a big hit I'm assuming it made a lot of money because obviously with all these people in it we didn't talk about Farhan he had a small role and it was halfway through the film when he finally showed up I knew he was in but I thought him and Priyanka had good chemistry that scene that they had in the room was very believable I don't expect anything less from Farhan even though we haven't seen a ton of him that's what I expect I expect him to be really really good he already started at that echelon and was like I know what to expect from you and if you don't bring it I'm probably going to be upset and a real credit because the writing and direction, the combination and the brother sister working this well together if you guys happen to be watching this the writing and the way that the pacing of the film for a film that is it's over two and a half hours isn't it? it's almost three hours most rom-coms don't work that long but this never got boring it stayed crisp, it stayed believable well paced the funny wasn't done just for the laughs and I even felt the writing of the characters who were the ancillary family that were there on the trip like the guy who had had the heart attack I didn't feel like they made any kind of a hollow caricature of a person they did their best to flesh these people out as best as they could I thought he did a very good job this was very different from the other roles that we've seen him in because death and gunge and then Mise-Bourg, they were very similar very shy, reserved smart characters this guy was more of a normal guy I thought he did well I'm trying to find her here I thought she did an excellent job in the role that she played in the relationship she had with Runvir where is she? I don't know her character name was Noori right? Noori Noori I can't believe I didn't pick up on the fact that that was Amir Khan I don't know why she's not in the IMDb credits here that's strange, she was kind of a big part she was a very big part, she's a supporting part in that I'm trying to find the name Noori here was that a nickname? maybe is this her? No that's not her, right? I don't know and the music guys it was as enjoyable for me the title song and the other songs and even her song when Runvir is falling in love with her it's got that 1920s feel to it the song composition and production quality was hairspray level good and the song was when Anushka Sharma was singing on stage Runvir finally figured out she was a dancer and then Priyanka got up and knew every step I know, that's so good she just happened to know every step knew every step loved it and yes, when Priyanka's happy everybody's happy and she looked just so beautiful and every single thing she did and so many times where the art scene of Zoya was there there were some unrelenting close up shots and some of the more intimate sequences I'm super interested to watch obviously of Runvir, I love Runvir he's another little notch in his repertoire of how many different roles he can play which I greatly I'm not saying he's like Nawaz I think he could get to that level absolutely but I think he's a really talented actor who has a versatile and also an energy that he brings that very few have and that brings a lot to a character but the fact that he can play this role play the role in Padma Va play the gully boy play the Bhaji Ramastani role and then there's a bunch that we haven't seen like Simba which obviously we know is a big masala film but I'd be interested to see how that is because like this is almost like when Heath Ledger played in 10 things they hit about you it's just a fun film it's not a film that you're going in expecting great but they can pull out great performances in those roles that's what great actors can do and it makes me love him even more and you might guys be like there's Runvir by, yeah we love him and I think it's warranted it's not unwarranted love and yeah I agree with you he isn't and I don't even think he'd put himself in that category and I don't even know there's need to make a comparison to it but the biggest thing for me was how this was able to highlight everybody in this their capacity to do comedy drama, ensemble, camaraderie you could also feel not just, I think the ease of working because everybody here knows each other and has done previous projects together I think this must have been a really really fun shoot you could feel the energy of the cast I want to see more of Zoya she knows how to put together a film and do it really well also cinematography, it was beautiful I thought whoever the cinematographer looks like it's Carlos Carlos Catalan who there were some shots that were so good I didn't know if they were using drones and cranes it was like now you're showing off all around just a fun film one of my favorite romance comedies right up there with Debra for me I can't wait to watch it with Ashley and Alexis it's just when you sit down this is going to be a lot of fun and you'll just enjoy it let us know what's the next Zoya and obviously all these people beer, Anil, Priyanka, Shafila Shah all of them one of them I know we're stupid everybody knows your name what the next film we should watch is down below