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I didn't know. Anyways, today we're doing a movie review. And welcome to back to classic month. Twenty twenty four. It's a classic one. It's a classic one. If you're new here, obviously, every year, except for, I think, year one, I think we started the year two, right? Yeah, I don't think we. And yeah, I think it's your two. We started classic month. And it's just when we decide to watch a whole bunch of classics in the month to get to know what has influenced the current realm in Bollywood for this one and and others, but not just doing Bollywood. We're doing all as many regions as we can get to during classic month. But also know this is not the only month that we watch classics. We watch classics throughout the year. It's just we just watched a classic. Would you consider Arthur Classic? Because I would I think it's a would be a classic. Yeah, we just watched our last month. And also if there's new films as well, we will be watching the new films that are out. So watch along is probably won't be classics. Those would just be regular. But for reviews, we're going to do classics just to for you people who don't know. But today we're doing a review of a highly anticipated film and one of the all time iconic, I think, films in Bollywood is Shree 420 420 blaze it, baby. That's it. We actually have it on our wall in case you didn't know. It's do we? Where? Hold on. Oh, I can't see it. It's right. Move, Shahrukh Khan. It's seriously. It's right there. Oh, it's the umbrella. Well, there you go. But yes, so obviously this came out in 1955. It'll be a hundred cent spoiler review. You ever watch it? Please go watch it. Come back because it came out a long time ago, so we're not going to do non spoilers here. But Rick, your initial classic thoughts of Shree 420. Well, this film by the. Father of Rishi and the grandpa of Ranbir and the son of Pithiraj, the Lord. I the first half I liked. The second half. I freaking loved. Yeah, I got better. And oh, in every way. And not that the first half was bad. It just it was fine. I was enjoying it. And it was I'm sure it was Raj Kapoor's intent to build it that way from the beginning to the end, the way that he did. Very good dramaturgy, as far as the building of the way that everything went, including cinematography and stuff that happens in the second half. This film, I understand why he's known as the Charlie Chaplin of India, not just because of a little tramp motif kind of thing, but because of the messaging of his film. And I've I've heard his other films have similar messaging. And ultimately, this is this is one of my favorite classics. And we'll talk about Nargis. I just I I love I love the film. I think it's fantastic. Yeah, it was a it's what I wanted to get to for a long time. We've seen I think I don't know if we saw every song. Yeah, I think we saw every song. Yeah, I might have seen every song. If not, if there was like one that we didn't, I might have forgotten. Yeah. Right. But I didn't know much about it outside of those songs outside of Nargis and Raj Kapoor. Right. And directing and producing. So it was a big project for him. But he I really, really enjoyed this movie. If it was such a classic feel and the little tramp, like you said, motifs going on, it wasn't like a recreation of anything that Chaplin ever did in terms of like a film. He was just doing some classic kind of like schnicks almost at times. Yeah. Almost like kind of weird. I'm like, oh, why? Why did you put that in there? Maybe just because the audiences hadn't seen Chaplin and he was maybe bringing it to them or something like that. Maybe they only added these little kind of bits here and there of of the tramp, the way they sped them up or they did those little Vaudevillian little comic scenes in certain parts of it. And so it was just like, I think, like a little nod. I think is what he really. Exactly. I think it was what it was. That's what I saw it as, too. I saw it as a tip of the cap and I saw it in the same way. For example, if I were to see Derek Hough do some choreography that was giving a tip of the cat to Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire. Derek Hough is Derek Hough. He's one of my favorite dancers and I wouldn't think he's trying to copy them. It would be he's giving an homage to it. And it I I feel like Raj Kapoor, you know, because I'm I am a big Chaplin fan. I know a lot about Chaplin and I I I just think they're very much cut from the same cloth. I bet they have a very similar DNA in terms of what they think cinema is for, what they wanted to do with cinema. And I think he just it wouldn't surprise me if he deeply admired Chaplin and wanted to make films like Chaplin, but he's not he's not a copy. I think it's just coincidental that his kind of little tramp character is it's inspired by. It's kind of like any movies you see that you could see the movie fighter or what's the one with the with Tom Hardy, the brothers fighting warrior or right. You could see those films and and you could see some of the inspiration that came from Rocky, but they're not copies by any stretch. And I feel the same way about him. Yeah, I agree. So before we get into everything else, let's talk about the performances because this is our one of the second rock for them. Second, I think so. I was looking through the list. I think it's our second Aura. Yeah, Aura. Yeah. Was there a war that was the first one? I think that's correct, because I was looking through his filmography and I think that's the one for some. I mistakenly thought he was in Pedocin. He's not. No, no, no. He has another one that metanom Joker, which is a very famous one of his. Yeah, when I was looking at his filmography, I thought was we're probably never going to get to all of his films. No, same with Nargis. Yeah, yeah, his performance. One, he has just just a great screen presence. You can I mean, he once he looks like Ren beer a lot of times. And I'm like, oh, yeah, like when he tilts his head a lot and he does like this from his eyes, like I see Ren beer. Yeah, that's interesting. I see more of grandson than I do son, actually. Sometimes not that I don't see Rishi. Is he more of Rishi? No, no, no, I actually see a little more of Ranbeer. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do, too. I do, too. Maybe because I think it's more because we know Rishi as older and exactly times younger. And so, yeah, and we've seen more Ranbeer. But I thought he gave a really good performance. I thought he did. He has great charisma, just like all the old Hollywood stars back on the day. So likable. Yeah, he has such great screen presence. And you could see why he was so beloved, but he's also a really good actor and a really good director. But he's acting right now. He gave a classic performance like old school Hollywood kind of vibe in terms of. You can't really compare to today's performances because they were trying to do different things. It was almost it felt like a wonderful life esque with the yes. What's the face? Yeah, with Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Stewart. It did feel a lot like that. And that's a high compliment. Oh, Jimmy Stewart, he's an all timer. Yeah. In a classic voice. But in the film kind of almost felt like that a little bit as well. With the absolutely. Yeah. But yeah, he I really loved his performance. I loved how nuanced it was, how I was because I was like, OK, is this going to be a classic? He's going to kind of. He's going to kind of be a dick and like lose himself and all that kind of stuff. And then he's going to get the girl and obviously that kind of happened. But there's a lot more that happened and like repercussions and messaging. There was a lot. I thought it was just going to be almost a romance film. But I don't know if I would classify this as a romance film, even though there is romance, but there's just so much more in this film than than just what I thought there would be. It reminded me it reminded me a lot going back to Chaplin. As far as the romance and the messaging and the relationships, even with the ending, it was such a tip of the cap to say modern times by Charlie Chaplin and his relationship with the the main lead character and that final shot with the two of them, you know, standing there. I just and I loved I loved the line. There were several of them, but there were some very clear messages in the scripting where one of the lines was men descended from the apes, but money has turned them into dogs. It's a great line. Yeah, it's a great line. And before we get into all that, let's talk about Nargis, who I think is one of the the most best actor and actors, actresses and all of India ever wouldn't shock me if taboo looked up to her. I think agree. She gives off I think you don't vibe as taboo. Yeah. In terms of like, whoa, she's just brilliant every single time she's on screen. She's regal. She's captivating. And she gives such a great performance in this, a standout emotional performance in this. Yep. I she's I was as equally impressed with her as I was in Mother India. I I I see why she was beloved. She is an exceptionally good actress, her emotional availability seems so genuine. I believe every emotion she's expressing. She has such I there were several times I was watching her and I had the exact same thought. And my thought was, wow, you probably don't have taboo without Nargis. I bet this was somebody that taboo really looked up to. And in the same way, so many actresses looked up to say a Maureen O'Hara or or a Catherine Hepburn. Yeah. You know, I'm certain Meryl Meryl looked up to them. Yeah. Yeah. So good. She was getting I thought all those supporting actors, they even though like some of them were like stereotypical like like old school Hollywood, they stereotypical villain. Yes, stereotypical like evil girl, which I loved. I love that. I love I did. Oh, I loved the temptress. I she was great. I loved her a lot. It was great. And I'll stare. But I wasn't stereotypical in 1935, though. That's the thing. No. And she she couple of her dance numbers. I thought you've got better hips than Shakira, man. She is just a beautiful lady, really well cast. And so the great thing about this movie, there's many great things. It's the score, obviously. And we've reacted to most of the songs just so good. But the messaging of it, I do love a good fuck capitalism story, obviously, and how, like, basically. You could take the one it starts with him selling his honesty, obviously, right in the beginning, it's very like, here's the message he's selling his honesty. That's right in the beginning, but then how it eats you up and won't won't let you leave and like corrupts you and everything around you and destroys you with the greed and the and now everybody has, like, even if they have this, like, your bet that you think they have like your best interest or hard over, they're not doing their they're just doing it for profit. It's all for the to make the make the next dollar. It's really like a fuck capitalism type story. And I it was for 1955 in India, man. It was they do that a lot, though. We've seen it a lot where they they do these we have. And obviously, I know they're more of a the communists, right? They like their way they they're not capitalist or they weren't back in the day, right? In India. India. Yeah. Like, what am I thinking? Not capitalism. The was the other term. Socialism. Yeah. You may be a communism. I got communism. I think it's communism. Let me know. But obviously, they come for more of that background. And so it was interesting seeing this. But it was I thought the messaging was so good by Raj Kapoor and to not make it all there was some in the face stuff. But for 1955, you can't really tell if it's this is like stereotypical in your face or if this is just like they this is like revolutionary at the time because of how they did it. But I love the messaging of it. Yeah, I think it was an absolutely the unspoken villain, I think here and I could be corrected. But I think the unspoken villain in this that he's giving the major middle finger to is the British, because this is 1955. And there is a lot of the corruption and desire for money and wealth at the expense of truth that I believe he's saying we were taught this. This is not who we are as Indians. This is what the British brought over here, among the many things that they did to ruin our place, because the reason they came here was for profit. What they did to us was for profit. And what many of us felt we had to do in order to survive and thrive with them ruling was to be dishonest in order to profit. And now that they're gone, which is why I think the song is such an important song clearly for not just the film, but in cinema history in India, the whole song about my hats from Russia. My my my things from Japan, but my heart is is Hindustani. Yeah. And and it's it's the it's the same motivation. It's the capitalistic hunger to to just have more and more at the expense of truth and rightness. And I just I loved I loved the use of the progression of the cinematography and the visual effects in the second half. He got so chaplainesque and so even Orson Wellian in his. There's this one shot. You'll know it immediately where he's holding the money out. Yeah. And the POV is from him and Nargis is in the middle. And she's that representation of a true Indian of goodness and rightness. And she's were pulsed by him and he's trying to justify everything he's doing. And his the montage that went over his face of all of the things that this the lying and the profitability could bring him. I just thought, damn, his the chaplain comparison isn't just the little tramp thing. This man is a movie maker. Yeah. Another thing that I really was impressed by was some of the VFX that they were able to do. Like, I think it was right after that scene when he was drunk and he was being an ass and he was coming in and trying to justify everything that he had done with money. And then when he was leaving and she started singing the song and her basically her stance was right there because she was like, I'm not moving, but her heart or her soul came out basically. I thought that was really cool, really cool visual that in 1955 in India. I was like, oh, that seems really impressive to me. And one just a great visual representation because obviously her soul was singing beautifully and longing for him to like, I love you. Turn around, please, just look at me before you go. And but her outer is like this asshole. I guess you just standing there. She's like, I'm not moving. I am like, so it's like her her heart and her mind was telling her to obviously very different things. I thought that was a cool. And there was a couple other visual things that happened in the movie that I thought were really, really cool. Yeah. It's again, such a beautiful transition and so unexpected from the first half of the film where you get into it and you realize, oh, you've been holding your cards close to the vest here, you filmmaker. I didn't see any of this coming in the first half. Yeah. What I'm really interested to know what you thought of the ending. Where she came back. No, not the very ending ending. I mean, the climax, the very, very climax. Part where it felt very. Yeah, it felt very wonderful life is what it felt like. Did you did you want him to be dead? I kind of knew he wasn't that's not the question. I always prefer people because I know you my first thought when he jumped up was I thought, oh, Corbin's not going to like. If it was happening like today, it would bother me more. Sure. 1955. One, I was expecting it. I was like, he's not. He's not dead. He's not dead. He planned that whatever. Because I was like, he's planning something. So this entire thing is a plan. Right. And so I was just kind of expecting it. And so when it happened, I was like, yeah, there you go. And then the whole ending of crowd coming together, helping helping him out. Nick, if you haven't seen a wonderful life, it's going to great Christmas movies and great movies of old Hollywood, ever all time. Yeah, great film. But it had that feeling of communal support and touch on so many different issues. I also loved his like the lady that gave him food right in the beginning. And she kind of was almost a mom figure. Very much. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was so well written, too. They brought everything back full circle. You know, there's stuff that's happening at the beginning. You're thinking to yourself, is this just filler for a three hour film? And it's not everything comes back later on that happened in the beginning. Everything from the toe being revealed in his shoe to the the pathway versus sidewalk and the people. And just it's a really I wouldn't cut anything from this film. I love it in its runtime. And I think it is one of the best classics we've ever seen. Yeah. So that that shot of them walking down the street with the umbrella is I have already I've already seen that, I think, in many songs and then just in the the lore. And I didn't read the Bollywood book. Did you? I'm sure there's a hole. I bet there is a section. I haven't read that thing cover to cover. I'm sure it's in there. And I also wonder if there's anything out there in the internet world of of I hope Charlie Chaplin got to see this thing because I think it would have really made him happy. Chaplin didn't die until 1978, 77. Maybe. But so world cinema was a lot smaller in terms of its ability to things. It was. But. Him being a film lover and spending so much of his life, especially the latter part of his life, because America was an asshole to him in England and with with the rise of Satyajit Rai. And in Indian cinema, I would. It wouldn't surprise me and I would really hope and love to know not only if you saw it, what do you thought? Because I can't imagine Chaplin wouldn't have loved this movie. Yeah. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, it's really nice. Good start to classic month or classic months are usually really, really. Yeah, really are. We rarely have ever seen a classic that wasn't worthy of us being told. You got to watch this. It's one of the greatest of all time. 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