 Oh Who danced to that? Roddy Rekha. Oh I don't know my friend was named after that song though Her name is Monica But like specifically named after that song. Really? Yep. Wow It was Helen. Oh, that's what yeah Hey, welcome back to our stupid rakes. You're corporate. I'm Helen Falsing Instagram Twitter for more juicy context. I bet you can't follow me on Twitter. Ha ha suck it Elon But I wanted to pay eight dollars and they know they will let me now Just create a fake account verify it. You can't I know they stopped it already wait. He stopped the eight dollar thing Wonder why idiot? You know, he's gonna get sued for billions of dollars from that it's Billions it is a giant Cluster hold on fart. Hello. There we go. Sorry guys Sorry, that was if the audio is weird at the beginning. I apologize, but we'll get into it now And it's of the new film that just came out on Newt flicks newt flicks newt flicks. Yeah, yeah, newt flicks newt flicks data Probably don't actually It's out there. I guarantee it's probably out there somewhere But the 2022 film Monica Such a catchy song But the directed by Vassan Bala Vassan Bala who I think we've Know he's not the 83 director his first one the Marachaudar Nah, hey, what was that Marachaudar? That's what I thought. Okay We have not seen but Starring our Dost Rajkumar Rao and Our future dose. Yes, who has a supporting role in this ready to update and then there's a whole bunch of other It's a big ensemble cast obviously. I think the main star is our toast Rajkumar Rao though Since it is one that just came out We're gonna do mostly non-spoiling and if you want to get into some spoilers This is one. It's a psychological thriller So we'll probably get into some spoilers towards the end just because you got to talk about some stuff There but so if you haven't watched it go watch it's on Netflix and so you can check it out there Rick your initial thoughts of Monica Yeah, and I don't know that I would does it Would you qualify this as a psychological? No, no, no, sorry. I misspoke. It's more of a Dramedy actually a chroma because I think there's chroma thriller. Yeah, there's more comedy than drama Yeah, it's a dark comedy through. It's a dark comedy thriller. Yeah, I think that's better. Yeah, dark not not psychological For it it didn't live up for my expectations of from the trailer. My hopes were higher for it It's still enjoyable. There's I my favorite thing about this is the story I think if you really just are looking to have a good time and be entertained and have a few laughs You're in if you're wanting it doesn't help that right now. I'm watching a lot of really my mind is on a lot of really good High-level artistry type stuff and I knew going into this I was gonna have to get into different gears because this is not that yeah, but even still it I could I could I could predict some of the twists and turns that were coming. I wanted more Radica uptay So always always always want more Radica uptay, and I felt like Rajkumar who would he's always gonna do well with everything you give him but ultimately for me it was a one-and-done. I didn't Just get as engaged as I thought as I would hmm. So yeah, I liked it I do like in terms of like how I liked like stuff like Ludo or stuff like that. I like Ludo more I got I got into it more. Yeah, I still like this film, and I would actually I would still watch it again It's not one, but I do agree it lost me a little bit at yeah at times the when I was like at the beginning I was like, oh cool. This is gonna be this could be great. I think it lost itself occasionally Yeah, and it's probably a little too long. It should be probably two hours. I supposed to 220 I think this is one of those that could come under two hours. Yeah, probably it's very possible But there's a bunch. I've really enjoyed about this film. I love the originality Yeah, and I like the quirky filmmaking. Yeah, that Vasenbala brought to this yeah, and I Saw some people say that his first film was very similar in terms of being quirky or key kind of Because there's a lot of like I'll get into it like one of my some my favorite parts are The visual aspect of the film He made it really really print like print nuts like Sanjay Lee Binsali But it was really fun and unique to look at In how he developed his shots and fun edits. Hey a fun edit. Yeah, but see Let me you have you seen everything everywhere all at once yet. Yeah, okay, so that's the kind of thing for me It's like it's not fair to compare it But I can't I can't help because those are the kinds of things I've been watching recently. Yeah, you know what I mean Yeah, obviously I'm very little lives up to everything every while once right now That's one of the best films of the year. Yeah, but in terms of just a pure out Hindi Dark comedy thriller. I thought it did a good job. I think I think it could have done better in some aspects Yeah, there's a straining credulity parts for me. We're a little bit off the charts like like I said the visual aspects I really enjoyed it from Vasan Bala and his cinematographer There's two that are credited as DOPs so it would be Swapno forgive them a mispronunciation everybody a Swapno Sonwani and Sukash Veswaran and the editor. Yeah an editor a Tannu Mukherjee I thought they did a really good job with that whole aspect of the film because that That definitely kept me engaged at certain times because I was like this is just I like what you're doing with this It's really more original than just a strict Thriller telling right obviously there were parts that I was like yeah I know what's coming next right, but then there were actually parts that I was like What's the part toward the end there were some twists like oh you twisted it again there, too It's it's difficult for I think Thrillers have a hard time nowadays because you've seen everything right. It's really hard to make something It's something so like I've never seen that before right film has been around and thrillers have been around since Towards the beginning yeah of cinema because you know it's a it's a fun genre to tell But I thought it did a good job with that as well as the unique score behind it all into the background Music yeah, so like very dawn Yes, and you could tell and I bet people that speak I spoke hindi speak hindi and no hindi cinema Because I think he was a lot of homage obviously I picked up on some of them a lot of homage just to old cinema Yeah, I feel like and especially with the the the score which oftentimes you can overscore a film Even though I don't consider this overscored even though in certain films if there was this much I would consider it overscored, but I really worked for this film. I when it started We are ten minutes into the film and I wrote down on my notes. I'm like overscore Where we make and then something happens and I went oh Yeah, got you and then as I kept going I basically I feel exactly the same way Other films yeah that much score. I would absolutely say you've overscored it You're trying to make up for lack of story or lack of performances Whereas this is one of those films where the score is actually a character in the storytelling It's actually supposed to be upfront as part of the Quirkiness and weirdness as much as the editing choices are as much as some of the slapstick is so yeah I think it's one of my favorite things I think it fit the editing style great in the visual aspects of the film yeah really well And I like that I think it's once again a unique choice to make in terms of like sometimes it was a very rock background music sometimes it was very like old-school kind of jazzy Sometimes it was film noir. Yeah. Yeah, so that's why I said like if it I think there was a lot of homages to old-school Hindi cinema For sure that we did obviously some of what I picked up on and like I said, it's very Towards original big be dawn esque background music And then obviously the Monica oh my darling which we haven't seen the original but I know about that song And obviously they played at the entire time, which I thought was a cool theme for it all the performances Rajkumar thing obviously did a good job. This was one that was very kind of Familiar to his character like his self. I feel like yeah He's not like the stretch of was it Ludo? Yeah, that it was a really character Character yeah, this is one of those where if we were talking to him after having seen it I would like to ask was this be honest Is this one of those things where you went through some of the usual stuff where you're? Asking questions about the character and maybe diving into some of those things or did you just show up on set that day? And just go with whatever you want obviously the character didn't call for to be now as corky as others not at all like right a cop days character which You guys know I will never stop singing the praises of radica opt a in my life. She she's she's my favorite thing of about the movie Because she came on right again came on screen right and like oh sweet. I love radica And she gives such a you like you could take her character and on on Maybe it's the writing. Maybe it was the director that that led her this way But that her performance is not how I think a normal actor would read that character No, she performed it. You know how she performed it with the same kind of comedic intelligence and originality that Pankaj would give it. Oh, yeah, very similar approach. Don't you think? Yeah, absolutely, or like like our Dost Rajkumar did in Ludo or Because I loved his character in Ludo. I thought it was so fun. Yeah, and so unique But yeah, like her straight, but also like she's always joking around But is she talking around? Yeah, she knows more about it than you do like yep. She's not giving anything away I loved her character. I thought it was so fun and unique She must have and she's the greatest actor currently acting really really must have enjoyed the prospect of What because that's a fun quick role? Yeah to do and she was my favorite part of the film Yeah, she was she was absolutely great I thought the whole bunch of the rest of the cats did really well Monica was good There was certain action actors that I I didn't love Like his girlfriend in it. I was I wasn't a huge fan of her. I thought Monica did well I liked the his look a lot of The main guy that that wanted to murder was it him the brother. Yeah who started it the son of the guys There's a there's a scene. There's a scene that's in the trailer. Yeah, that's him Secunder Kerr there's a scene that's in the trailer where the three guys are talking to one another about what they're gonna Do about Monica that for me is where the movie starts. Mm-hmm that that's where the movie started Yeah, he I went the way it was filmed once again. Yeah, I thought it was real fun and unique I loved his performance. I love his look. Mm-hmm. I thought he was really cool I thought he did a great job and I was kind of sad that he died so soon because I was spoiler. Oh shit. I'm sorry I'll try to bleep that out. I'm sorry If you just saw like a mute I I actually said a spoiler and I'm gonna try to cut it. Okay, I apologize But I liked his character a lot. He was also one of my favorite performances in it mine as well Mine as well. I thought he did a good job Where I think the the film kind of I think I don't know exactly when it is because I it's not that It necessarily bored me. It's just I was like I wasn't as engaged Yeah, that's a good description. Maybe it just got a little too long. So it's like maybe you could have tightened it up a little bit In certain areas, so yeah, it wasn't like I said like you said two hours a little under two hours I think it would have been a perfect time. I think I think it would have been nice and in zippy Yeah, but that that was probably the biggest drawback from me loving of the film and like raving about I think the similar way we raved about Ludo because I really enjoyed Ludo. Yeah I think that one was under two hours out if I want to I wouldn't be wrong or if it's not they just did a really Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised In how that filmmaker did it, but I that would be probably my biggest flaw with the film Yeah, I I there there are movies. We've watched where I'm you know The ones that I've not liked where I'm watching it and I'm just it's laborious and I'm just wanting it to end I would yeah, I was never in that place with this. Yeah, I did get to places Especially as we were reaching toward the ending point It was the second half where I felt like we were just getting a little bit long Yeah, and I was I just kind of lost the engagement. Yeah, where I felt like okay, I Checked the time like okay. I got about 30 minutes left and I'm waiting I knew there'd be some more twists what helped were that there were more twists I couldn't say yeah that did help but it lost some of that like remember it starts really in the three-guy scene Yeah, and it's quirky and you're thinking okay, and you can forgive some of the things that are straining credulity because this is kind of farcical and Then there were a couple points. I was like, okay, that's just That's just straight up ridiculous. We could have had a little more forethought than that That's maybe some people find that funny like for example. Well, it's a spoiler We should we get into spoilers at this point? Yeah, we can okay We're gonna get into spoilers now. So if you if you haven't seen it go see it. Yeah, go go watch it's on Netflix Like I said, it's yeah, it's a it's a good watch. I don't think you're gonna regret watching it I I think there's a lot of people who love the movie. Yeah, I could I've already Lee understand that It's it might be totally different with different subtitles as well Yeah, so we know that that changes and references that we don't understand that probably keep you engaged that that we didn't Maybe yeah, cuz I know there's like musical stuff Actors shout outs and different kind of stuff that we just we don't know yet And I'll tell you this that there are times where it just in life Especially, you know after we came out of COVID and everything else where you're wanting to watch something That's just gonna tune out the woes and the and you just want to be entertained and laugh and Just be have your train of thought be locked. This is absolutely your kind of once again Shout out to our Dostaraj Kamar of now This is like two I think good films of the two to the better films of the year obviously But I do which I think is one of the top five films. Yeah, it's so so good And then I think this one is a good entertainer a lot of people I think we'll really enjoy it and it went straight to OTG which I think it is good It's a good thing for this good for us as an OTT Even though like I would still support it if it went to theaters But I think it's good that it went to Netflix I did too and that was another thing for me where it didn't And it's nobody's fault but because so many of Raj Kamar's films, especially but I do Have with it in the midst of the fun and the funny Some message this one didn't have that no it didn't no and I was I was kind of hoping and waiting for that to happen And then had to go okay, it's not that oh, yeah, I was never it's not that I was never expecting a message But the lead character was prepared to murder but like I love hilarious So the thing that I had mixed feelings about I loved were spoilers now. Yeah, where I watch it Go watch it he comes up from behind him and grabs his feet and throws him over the edge of the building Yeah, I love that but then when they showed him hanging by his hands off the thing I was like oh If the whole thing had been as ridiculous I would have I would have been more okay with that but that that sequence for me and then coming down and They don't question what he took off the When he takes the thing off the windshield to wipe off the bird poop all of that was like really we couldn't have Thought that whole process through a little bit more or maybe there are some people to find the absurdity of that to be funny Enough that they don't think about the credulity aspect But that that was a part for me where it started to get out of my interest zone toward the second half Yeah, I figured you'd have an issue with that but I I've seen the I'm falling and then they think they're dead trope, but he's something through cinema through It's been a long time that that's that's been a thing so that one was a weird one because he was he was he was going over he flipped over and so his hands were technically still by the Because he flipped him up here. And so his hands were still by the the the bill. Oh, yeah I'm not saying it's not a stretch I've seen that stretch. Oh, yeah throughout cinema, of course for a long time. So I was It works for me with like Charlie Chaplin It's been in action films. Oh, no, I understand where it's just it strains credulity, but again, this is an action film This is you know anyway. Yeah when like certain people Died like I knew obviously because they didn't check I was like, I know that's not Monica Exactly, and I knew she was gonna come I knew when they showed us when they when it wasn't her Yeah, that I'm like, she's not dead. Yeah, she's not dead But I was sad they blooped it out earlier That when he died I was sad because I was like, I liked his character I wanted to yeah see a little more from the dynamic of all of them I've seen the three of them. Yeah throughout trying to kill her and they can't yeah That's what I was kind of hoping for that I wrote a lot of fun But then like when Monica died when she actually died right that did shock me me too. I was like, oh, okay Cool got another twist that I didn't see coming. Well, I figured she would die, but I just didn't in that moment Right, I was not me too. I didn't exit. That was a surprise Obviously towards the end way that the big whole thing was like she the kid would have actually been your your yeah It all goes back to the father. Yeah, I didn't see that coming. Yeah, and then Radica's whole kind of thing there at the end Cuz she almost she went from like very playful and then it looked like she was like almost In on it. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah Which I thought was a nice twist. Yeah And so I think there was a bunch of good stuff that kept me engaged throughout I think it could have been cleaned up a little bit to make it like a Really good one. But like I said that also could have been there might have been stuff in that part that lost me Like my engagement a little bit that are more References in Hindi or like there's stuff that's going on in the back because I know I saw something like when an actor came on I forget which actor it was like the song behind it was actually one of his songs from earlier in his career I can do so. There's probably a bunch of different probably a bunch of that. Sure. I'm of course but That would be my biggest gripe, which is I think a fine gripe for a film To not have like I don't have really a big performance gripe with anyone There were just smaller characters that I didn't love Their performances, but it was few and far between most of the actors. I think did a really job I think it could have been even worse if the filmmaking style wasn't as fun and unique Yeah, and and even like I don't know if it was the staging or what it was But sometimes in movies like this there's a really wonderful rhythm where things are just getting crazier and crazier and crazier And they go off the rails. Yeah, and this never really did that I felt like I got crazy for a minute and then it came back and I got crazy for a minute like His fight scene with Monica didn't really Entertain and make me laugh or anything as much as I felt maybe they were trying to It was fine, but it wasn't hilarity for me and I wasn't like wow That's ridiculous with him crawling up the thing and the belt and then she's throwing stuff She's throwing stuffed animals at him and he's hiding from it There was just I don't know what it was that could have cleaned that up Maybe it was because at that point I was already starting to drift in my engagement. So I don't know. Yeah, it's possible But yeah, overall I like the film. I would watch it again but you know you guys down below tell us what you thought about the film and Just looking at Roddy go update I love well can we can we close just by talking about Like little things she did that I would love and my suspicion where it was just the natural it was never the same take I Love when the very first time we meet her when she says that thing which is in the trailer when she says yeah I can't help it that I'm pretty yeah, but then when she gets up to go leave I don't remember what her line is but she does on this physical Pushing on Rajkumar and does it strong enough to let him know, you know if you and I got into a fight I could probably take you she does this really strong like Push on him and she like kind of laughs that he she pushed him so hard My suspicion is that wasn't scripted and that was that take that may not have been there before and that's the fun and the Greatness of watching someone like her and that's what I wanted more of them together them together I mean, I just could have used a whole film just a two of them when you have the two of the in my opinion best actors Indian cinema Acting along each other I also I also loved and I don't know if it was scripted or it was just Radhika and the actor Forgive me for not knowing his name, but her partner her little sidekick that was there. There's the moment where they're talking to Rajkumar and Making it clear that they probably know something because they have a witness who was blind and she's telling them that whole story And there's this great moment There's two of them in that scene where she looks over at her partner And he looks at her and they have this inside joke between each other and like we know stuff He doesn't know but they never say anything and it lasts for quite a while. It's like this Yeah, I love the really great. I love the whole corky. Yeah of her name. I There's a reason I rave about her Because she's amazing. Yep, and she's so so talented Give her a I mean granted she probably could have won an Oscar for her if more people saw a parched her performance and parched Yeah, she's that caliber. Yeah, easily. She's above a lot of Oscar winners. Yeah, she's she's I would really love to see More films like parched. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and anything she does I just this didn't have enough Radhika up day for me Nothing has enough radical What is she working on hold on what is going on past films Past films. It's just not showing anything right now in Pre-production which can't be possible Oh, she's with UTA. Oh, yeah, she was in Vikram Vettel just barely though Mrs. Uncover What's Mrs. Uncover? I don't know Akshay Kapoor Oh, I like that. Oh Is it like an agent Tina thing? That's exactly what I was thinking That would be cool. I'll be great. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film and what should be the next Radhika Opte Rajkumar Rao And other films that we should watch next down below