 all the many things you can point to, to demonstrate and prove that the human race is extraordinarily stupid. Mm. Daylight savings time. Hence, India didn't do it. Hey, welcome back to our stupid rags since you did some Corbin. Hey smarties, I'm Rick. And false Instagram. Instagram, Twitter. For more juicy content. Thanks, I'm page thoughtful. Twitter, can't link both. And it's called bang bang. Also, personal YouTube channels in the description below. That's an intro. How you doing, Rick? I'm great. I love spring and forbidden. We just need to leave it alone. I agree. Just spring and then let it be. Feels like Paul McCartney said. Today we are doing a movie review. I'll do it for you. The Hindi film 2012, talash. With some faces we haven't seen in a long time. With a bunch of faces in it. Yeah, a bunch of faces in it. This is, I believe actually one of our first Masala films. I think, I don't know if this would be considered a full on Masala film, but I think it's in that genre of, it was a mass movie, obviously has 10,000 stars in it. But yes, it's the, we haven't seen them here con, I think it over a year. It's been a long time. And it's been a while since we've seen Kareena Kapoor. Yes, but this is directed by Rima Khatki. And then it's apparently written by her, Farhan Akhtar, Anjar Khatkiyap, and Zoya Akhtar apparently all took part in some way of this story produced by Amir. Farhan produced it. And then starring just Amir Khan, Rajkumar Rao, Kareena Kapoor, Nawaz Ansadiki, Roni Mukherjee. There's a lot of people in this. Yeah. But yeah, so this is a 2012 film. It's a crime drama fantasy. And Spectre. Could have said. Essentially. Who is dealing with a depressing past has to investigate a high profile murder case, deal with crumbling marriage, and use the help and solace of a prostitute by the name of Rao. That gives away a little too much there. But thankfully, not everything. Doesn't give away everything. Doesn't give away everything, for sure. But it's underpins for our review. That's how we like to do it. It's 2012, so it came out almost a decade ago. So if you haven't watched, go watch it. It was, I believe it was on Netflix for us. Yeah. It should be for you. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. Went from being a film that I was enjoying and was like, okay, cool, one and done. I like it. Proof that it's a star vehicle where you're just gonna enjoy a movie because you're seeing people you love watching. Gotcha. And then the last 20 minutes came. What changed? The movie. It went from being a movie I was enjoying. You just thought, oh, I'm glad we're watching this to I really like this. I did not see that coming. The end, the end got you. I loved it. It literally gave me a jaw drop. Really? Yeah, did you see it coming? Oh, miles away. You bastard. See, doesn't that ruin it for you? I didn't, you knew she was dead the whole time? Yeah. Really? In fact, me and my wife were joking while watching it. If you've seen or read the Christmas Carol? Yeah. The Marlies were dead the whole time. That's holy. You kept joking? Yeah. I am thankful that I very often maintain a certain naivete when I'm watching a film so that when those kinds of things happen, you've really got to not be doing your job for me to get it. You and your wife almost always pick up on that stuff and go, yeah, no, he's dead. Wait, what? Yeah, and then he's going to come back to life at the end and he's going to kill her. But what did you think? Did I love the film? No. But did I hate it? No. I give this actually around, I don't know, C plus? Yeah, I give it a strong B, if not a B plus. Yeah, because the last 20 minutes, I just loved and didn't see, I just didn't see coming the fact that she was dead this whole time and that she was responsible for the accident. That's actually not the reason I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. There was other aspects that could have made me love it even more, but that wasn't one of them. I actually enjoyed the story of it because it's a very, I think it's a Hindu style of story because obviously she didn't get her last rights, which is what kept her disembodied. She was trapped, which is what they alluded to multiple times. And that's why his son was not trapped. Right. And he could still talk to him, but he couldn't, what is it, one day, just appear? An apparition. Apparition, yeah. The only people that were trapped. And so obviously he had to give her last rights at the end to release her essentially. I actually enjoyed that part of the story. I thought it was really nice. And I enjoyed a lot of the story. It was just certain aspects that was sometimes very melodramatic. And you know how that bothers me, even though I know it's a masala film. And I'm not angry that I watched it. I think it's a good one-time watch. I absolutely agree with that. And I did enjoy a lot of the performances, most specifically, no accidents. The man elevates everything he's on. It just went, you're watching it. And you're like, OK, this is nice. And then he comes on screen, you're like, well, this just stepped it up and that's it. He brings that style of weight. And then also, Ronnie. Yeah, Ronnie McCurkey. I thought she did really, really, any of that. We loved her in black. She's actually one of my, I think, favorite. And I think everybody overall, I think Karima did well. I think Amir did well. I think everybody did well outside of a few supporting characters. And my favorite thing, it's been this way for a long time. One of my favorite things about Amir Khan is his emotional availability as an actor. He doesn't project emotion. He gives you what he's feeling. If he is a projector of emotion and he's not really tapping into stuff, then he's the best liar I've ever seen. Because the things where he is able to tap into things where he is being genuinely emotional, I believe what I'm seeing is an actor using his own personal stuff and genuinely feeling those feelings. It was just fun to, I was taken back to three idiots watching them on screen together. I had that melancholic sense of nostalgia. And it really did go from being a film, like the way I measure films, I was doing this as, maybe this is probably my rating system. So like the ultimate is it's added to my favorite films of all time. That's the ultimate. And then the next best thing would be, I loved it so much that I recommended to people. Cause that could happen. Then the next would be, it's a one and done. So this, I thought was a one and done. Until the end. Until the end. You know, if there's nothing else to do, we're looking for something to do. I'd like to watch this with Ashley and Alexis just so I can watch them and see if they follow. See if they pick it up. That's the big thing for this. Will you find out the twist? I think that, who, I don't, it looks like Far Hunt did the dialogue, On Your Eyes did the additional dialogue. So the story was Zoya. Yeah. Which is not surprising. Not surprising at all. We need to explore her even though, she was essentially our first love in terms of directors. We loved Gully Boy. We were like raving about her. And then we didn't really watch a lot. I know she's done Dola Hakma Do, which has a bunch of other stars. Yes. That's Raffi or Priyanka. Right, right, right. Everyone has a bunch of songs. And then she also did that show, Made in Heaven. It's about a bunch of different styles of weddings in India on Amazon. Oh yeah, that's right. It might be our next series. I don't know yet. We haven't figured that out yet. But I want to get back to it. Cause I actually, I like her storytelling. I think she's a really good storyteller. And so yeah, overall I thought, did I love it? No. I think something, especially towards the beginning, I think it definitely got better towards the second half of the film, was they for some reason really wanted to put that, the same, one of the issues I had with Drisium 2, they put a lot of that over-the-top music behind it. Almost every single scene. And it wasn't as dominant as- No, it wasn't as dominant as Drisium 2. But I know what you're saying. But it just, it takes me out of it. Like, it's always been a problem, as you guys know, from Devdas, to Drisium, to whatever it is. If it's over-dramatic, I just can't get into it. Here's why it wasn't as bad for me. The acting was not that. Correct. There's three reasons why that aspect of it, and actually toward the end, I was commenting on how beautiful it felt the orchestrations were with the emotional parts. It got better. Yeah, especially when he's dealing with that whole frickin' shape of water moment under this thing. The score during that was gorgeous. And so was his reading the letter from his son. All of the orchestration and composition underneath that I thought was really pretty. The reason it didn't bother me like it does in Drisium is threefold. Number one, whoever did the master mixing for the sound didn't push the orchestral score so hard. I felt like they did for the most part in the first half. It wasn't as hard as Drisium. Number two, it wasn't combined with zoom-ins on the lens on the character. Yeah, they didn't do that. One time they did a freeze frame on the line. Yeah, but it wasn't as overt. Oh no, what's her face? Karina. It was a big mover and then they freeze. It wasn't as overt. And then third was what you pointed out is the acting didn't add to the melodrama in terms of over exaggeration. When you've got the score amped up in the soundtrack, you've got the camera zooming in. And the actor going, yeah. Then you're definitely going to get out of it. Which is why I definitely, I didn't put it as I didn't like it like we did not enjoy Drisium. But yeah, there was certain problems. There was certain supporting actors that I had some issues with. But for the most part, I thought everybody did really, really well. And it was definitely enjoyable because I missed Amir. I missed him a lot. We haven't explored Karina. And I know she's one of the biggest stars in India that we just haven't yet explored. And that's not because we'd have a vice against her. It's just we haven't gotten to her yet. And there's been, I remember talking to Andrani about Karina, we've talked about every actress and talking about Karina Kapoor and her talking Andrani telling me Karina is one of the biggest sex symbols in Indian cinema. And for me, until this film, I thought, yeah, she's very pretty, but maybe it's just my type. She doesn't strike me as sex symbol the way that Ashwarya does or Priyanka does or even Deepika does. But in this one, I thought she was really sexist. I thought she was very believable. Costuming did a great job of accentuating her shape. But then there were moments in it where it was almost so saccharine in terms of we're dealing with a prostitute and a cop. It almost pulled me out. But it didn't, it kept me engaged. And I remember thinking, are we gonna solve the crime? Because if this ends without us solving the crime. They got like away from the crime. Away from the crime. Because it was it was more about his and his wife's internal dilemma of obviously losing a child, which I loved. I love actually his and his wife's dynamic. Like we said, I think the two strongest actors were Nawaz and Rani. Yeah, I think they both did really, really well. I love their performances. But I thought that whole dynamic of, is he going to cheat? Even though I never actually felt it, I actually thought it was a beautiful moment when he was, they were on the bed. You know, what's gonna happen? And then she got him to go to sleep because he hasn't been able to sleep. Correct. Yeah, which is, as I'm watching it, I was like, you know what? This was a really good depiction of the fact that you don't have to be having a sexual encounter to be cheating on your spouse. Emotional cheating. That was intimacy right there. For sure. And I was thinking, man, if his wife walked in right now and it was that whole human aspect of the story of him and his wife and the loss of the kid, I was glad they kept coming back to it. It was the heart of the story for me. And I, but I remember thinking, okay, if this ends without them solving the murder, if we just did that to set the stage and then we leave it, I'm gonna be disappointed. So when did you find out? Like, when did you find out that she was dead? I was, okay. I'm literally, I was watching it and then I got it on my laptop and I'm in the bath getting ready to come here, right? And I'm watching it in the bath. And I am, I'm watching it in the bathtub. I don't have to, don't put your laptops in the bathtub. It was outside of the bathtub, not even close to it. Never make a toast in the bath. Couldn't come near the water, okay? I'm very wise in that regard. So I'm watching and it was when she appeared in the backseat. Okay. She appeared in the backseat and I went, wait, did she get in the car? And then I remember, in my brain, I may have even said it out loud because it goes back to him and I went, is she street? And she was gone and I went, she's a ghost. And then I look back at the screen and she's standing in the middle of the road. And I went, I was a dork. And literally like this, what's she doing in there? Is she street? She's the reason for the death. She caused the car crash. Whoa, this is great. That's when it went from one and done to, I really like this and want to watch it with somebody else. Yeah. Oh, I'm glad. Well, I'm glad. So yeah, outside of what I said, or is there anything else that you liked, disliked that we haven't talked about? Yeah, I, Nawaz adds a level of, it's like when Nasser got onto Debra. Debra? Yeah. It's like, when he came on screen, you're like, oh, okay. Yeah. He added, and I loved, he can, he liked Rajkumar who I think did again, just, he played a character who's just there to be there and be the straight guy and then be done. You know, he's not drawing attention to himself, just has a couple lines and leaves, but can carry a film like Newton, you know? And Nawazadin can do everything. He can play the most intimidating, dangerous, deep, Pankaj type of character, and then he can play kind of a goof. Yeah. You know? And he, I loved his commitment to his limp, because I kept, I was watching, I was like, are you going to keep when he was running? Yeah. And he, of course he did. Of course he did. Because he didn't just keep a limp, he kept the limp. The limp. The one he established. It was the exact same thing throughout, which was very difficult to do. And I almost didn't like for a split second when he got shot and then she shows up and he was walking like he wasn't just shot three times. Yeah, I was like, you just got shot three times, but in the end, when you look back on it, you're like, was he in the in between stage right there? Maybe he was dead already. Yeah. Dead and walking because he's seen her. Yeah. So yeah, that's what I think is I was like, you just shot three times. Right. And you're getting up and talking. And you're getting up and talking. And then I was like, okay. Dead and walking. It's probably one of those kind of things. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know. No other, and the answer to your question, there was nothing, some small supporting things as far as acting, but nothing to gripe about. Yeah. I could be real nitpicky, but don't want to be. I think this is one of those movies that's like. It's a fun watch. It's just a fun watch. It would be, when it was in theaters, it would have been a great date movie. So you could just go in with, not obviously crazy high expectations, but just going in to enjoy a film. And hopefully, not like me, and you're able to be surprised at what it is. I think that definitely will heighten the enjoyment of it. Yeah. And proof that if this had been filled with no-name actors, I don't know that it would have been nearly as interested. Yeah. It's proof of what star power does for the attention of an audience. Yeah. And I would love, we need to see some more. I mean, I know he has a bunch of films that we haven't seen, all of them. And Karina. Karina, Ronnie, is Black the only other one we've seen of her? I think so. We've seen a lot of trailers of her in it. Okay. If those are the only two we've seen, we need to see a lot more. Oh yeah. Because, dang, she was fantastic and Black. And I thought she and Nawaz stole the show in this film in terms of performances. And so I would, ah, it was, so let it, Hitchkey. Hitchkey. That was the one where I think she has like, Tourette's or something like that? Yeah. Yeah, we wanted to see that. We loved, we loved the trailer on that one. And then Bombay Taki, she's in, she's been a bunch of Shahrukh Khan ones. Yeah. Om Shanti Om. And then she's herself in that one. Bulbul? Bulbul? No, that's not the new one. I think that's the old one. Okay. Oh, that's, that's, Vier Zahra is the one with Shahrukh. She's barely done a bunch with- Karl Holm Neihol. Yeah, Karl Holm Neihol. I think, she's an actor with Shahrukh Khan. A lot. Yeah. And people are like, she's got no good. She's got a resume. She's got quite a resume. But anyways, all of them, of course Nawaz, you know that. We love all of these actors. We need to explore Karina more. Cause I think this is probably, cause what have we seen her in? We've seen her this. We saw her in, and then the Shahid Kapoor one, right? Which she hit, oh, what was that? The love story. The love story. The one that I like, you didn't like too much. Yeah, but I liked her. Yeah. And it's interesting. I'm liking her them at each, it's like with each new film I see. More and more you like. The more and more I'm liking her. Yeah. Well, let us know all of them. What's the next film should be? What should be the next Amir Khan film you watch? Let us know. Down below. And we were dead the whole time.