 We did it. What'd we do? We finally watched the Marathi movie. Yep. Hey, welcome back to our super directs, you idiots. Corbin. Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content. It's so juicy. I think we're also some Patreon followers from official Twitter account. That was juicy content right there. By the way, I don't know if I mentioned this on other videos, but people have noticed and said, well, first of all, people were really happy we mentioned languages like Tulu in the music video. And other people said, what about this language, what about this language? We know there's a lot of languages in India. I selected those eight languages because it's my understanding those are the eight languages that are the predominant contributors to Indian film on a global scale. Not that that doesn't happen elsewhere, but it was just those eight. I wanted to clarify that for people why those eight were selected. So, there you go. A little bit of the titty bit of information. Oh, what? Titty bit. Yes. Family program, Corbin. No, it is not. And we finally watched Natsumrat. I liked the way you gently stepped into that. I always mispronounce it. You didn't that time. Natsumrat. Natsumrat. It's because he said it multiple times in the thing and so that helped. Yeah. The king of theater is what that means from, I learned. Unless it means something different and the subs are wrong. Yeah, I couldn't. But go ahead and read this on outside. After he retires and aging theater, I'm going to start that over. After he retires, an aging theater actor and his wife begin to feel unwanted by their children. So basically Rick Seagal's life. Wow. That was good. Burn! Directed by... Directed by your mom. Oh, good one. Mahesh Manjikar. I don't think we've seen him in anything else. I think he's a Marathi. Hold on. Was he the director of something? No. No, that was... He was so... Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle. Okay. But obviously starring... Nenapattakar. And I want to get this other guy's name. Yeah. Yeah, Vikram Gokali. Yes. Is that how you pronounce that? Give me a tongue. And then... I knew Vikram was right. Nenapattakar. And Nenapattakar. And Nenapattakar. And it's a... This was the... I think it was the first Marathi film where you did a trailer reaction to. I could be totally wrong. It was early on. Yeah, it was a while ago and we loved the trailer. Loved the trailer. Loved the trailer. Obviously we're actors, so anything about acting, it's just like... Ooh, boy! Yeah. It's true. We're like Hollywood. We love films about ourselves. Yeah, just... A movie about movies? Yes. I mean... But yes, so it's our first Marathi film starring the... The legend from... Yes, we understand is... I think when we did this, they said, so what Big B is to Bollywood and Hindi film, this legend is to Marathi film. Makes sense. Highly so. But yes, so this will be our review of it. Probably... It'll be a non-spoiler for the review. It came out in 2016. Yeah. So... Basically, if you haven't seen the film and want to see the film, you probably should see the film and then come back because we'll just jump into it and get it off the bat. We're not good at... In our reviews, we like talking about... I must say I appreciate that they spilled theater right in the synopsis. I think you said that last time. Yeah. I think when we looked it up. I appreciate that. So I'm interested to see what you thought because this film, as I was watching it, I was like, a lot of aspects to it you can relate to very much. Not every aspect, of course. No, no. There's a whole lot. We'll get into this as well. This is basically King Leonidas, Shakespeare's King Leonidas reimagined for the Marathi. Yeah. And it's a little bit of everything in terms of the... The Shakespearean... Yeah, there's a lot of Shakespearean... A lot of Shakespearean description of King Lear and... Lear. Yeah. And he references repeatedly to Hamlet. So, yeah. And the whole... I mean... Well, as a whole, I had... This was a definitively mixed bag for me. How about you? You say it. Okay. Same exact thing. My favorite thing about it and... I didn't hate it by any stretch. That's not what this is going to be, so please know that. The two actors in it. This gentleman. Him and his wife. No. Oh, him and his buddy. Him and his buddy. Yeah. Nana Padakar. And... And Vikram Bukali. Any time, either of them, especially when they were together... Yes. Those were my favorite moments. You could tell they were elect... Like, they were just... It was funny, because I'm sure this is like... These are two legends. Right. And they were talking about being basically two legends of theater. Right. I'm wondering how much of that was real life. Yeah. Like, I'm sure they're both legends, but they were both phenomenal. Yeah, they... Those were my favorite moments of the film was when those two guys were working together. Yeah. 100%. And... And right up to... I mean, every moment they had together, like, if I could splice those moments and put them together, those were the points where I was most engaged in watching, and the two that stand out for the most are the hospital scene. Yes. That where they're doing the scene together? Yeah. That's probably my favorite moment in the movie. That was... Is that... Yeah. 100%. And then the ending sequence on the stairs. Yeah. Those for me encapsulate... Anything they were both in were phenomenal. Yeah. And he also... Not a poddaker. Not a poddaker. He had a bunch of great monologues, a bunch of great moments. Yeah. Very Shakespearean, which was what it was supposed to be. Yes. And so those aspects, I can see why these two, I want to see much more from them. Absolutely. It felt just like when I watched Niservin's shot. Yeah. In Deborah. Yes. This guy is a great actor. Yes. And so it's one of those things that I could watch anything they do because it was so enjoyable when they were on screen. Yeah. I got to tell you guys, every actor you guys have ever said to us, you need to see their work, they're a legend, you haven't let us down. Every actor we've ever seen that you have said, this is the real deal, we've walked away and said, yep, they are the real deal. Clearly solid, strong, great actors. So I would love to see more of them, please recommend that. Yes. Where this film felt a little short to me, well not felt short, it felt long. It felt really long. Yeah. So this is one of those films that, even though we've gotten used to the time length, the way the director, I think intended it was, it was supposed to be like a play. It was very play. Yeah. It was very, very play. And they could have cut it up a lot and it could have been much faster and he was still got the same impact. Yeah. But I think that's what he was going for. And also, you know, Indian audiences have much longer attention to spend than we have. 100%. So a lot of people probably didn't care as much. Right. But this was one of the films that felt long to me. Me too. And here's the reason it felt long for me because, and this is where, I like, let's do, we're going to sandwich this of the things we just mentioned that we like, the things we didn't like, and then we'll end with the positives that we like again at the end and just wrap it up as far as, is it worth seeing? Is it not worth seeing? I think one of the biggest reasons it felt long to me and probably one of the reasons why I didn't connect to the story the way from the trailer, the movie wasn't what I expected based on the trailer we saw. And that wasn't so much the issue for me as it was, I am pretty confident that references to culture, references to India, Indian replays and playwrights, and particularly some of the nuances that are very unique to this region of India and what family life is like. Yeah. There were so many times where something for the family, for example, was a really big deal and I was looking at it going, why is everybody so bent out of shape over this? Yeah. And it didn't make sense to me and what I give it is I have no cultural frame reference and so I can't, I can only say this was my observation and it really didn't engage me because I didn't see where the stakes were so high and why everything was such a big deal and those cultural references and nuances were what made it feel long and kept me from engaging and it's not the movie's fault. It's the fact that my frame of reference is so ignorant that I would really, I would love to learn more about the Marathi people and culture and writings and maybe in two or three years from now come back and watch this again. Yeah. In the same way we weren't ready for certain films like Lagann or Devdas until we understood more about Indian culture. I really feel like this came, we needed to get to it but it came too soon for me but like a lot of it got lost on me. Yeah. Well my biggest thing where it disconnected for me was actually the, it's similar to Devdas and same things we were talking about the stakes for some reason were really high and I didn't understand why. I didn't understand why. It was very melodramatic in that aspect really soap opera-ish. It wasn't these two. Yeah, that's the other aspect I was going to get into was on just an artistic level which isn't a cultural thing. Those two guys were the only actors that kept me riveted. Yeah. His wife was the next best. Yeah. One. Yeah, I agree. The rest of the cast for me was not good at all. Well I think the cast, honestly this is my opinion and I know you wouldn't agree I think the cast was probably better than in terms of what Sanjay made them do in Devdas because he made them overly over the top. Sure. Being that, that's what I mean by that but these people it was, they weren't strong actors and also like the story of that maybe I just was lost is why the stakes were so high also the score behind it was very soap opera-ish. Well, you know what it felt there were several times I'm not a fan of soap opera. Yeah, there were several times when it was really, that's why I said it's such a weird mix because you have the moments like the hospital scene and that end scene on the stairs. Well anything with these two. Right. Phenomenal. And not just their acting but the whole feel of it for me was like, ah, I'm in a film. But when there were moments when it was his kids. When the family. And the family it really felt like a intro student film project at AFI. Intro, not even a thesis level. And that disconnected me a lot. Yeah. So it was a very weird mix for me. 100%. I think I feel the same exact way but like I said any time like I was brought out of it sometimes it's like with anything that happens the background score was like distracting. Right. And the stakes thing like for example the fact that they were deeply I could tell his daughter and son-in-law were deeply offended that he would mention the sexual overtones of a streetcar named Desire at that dinner and it was like you just embarrassed our whole family and so for us culture really it's like what? What? And the same thing with teaching his granddaughter how to cuss back the level of offense that was taken just for me was like Yeah I get it it's a much more conservative. Right. Which is not, that's why I mean as much as I didn't like that and couldn't connect it's one of those things where I really feel like this film is a Marathi film it needs to be seen through Marathi glasses and I've never worn those before and I want to get adjusted to what it looks like to see something through a Marathi lens. Does that make sense? Yeah. Because this is I don't think this was ever made with an intention that may have been to be a global film or even a film that would be more widely accepted outside of this particular audience because I feel like it is it's thumbprint is Marathi What do you think? Yeah I feel like it could have been if they would have stuck more to the main guy and the theater as it's not Marathi Yeah. Which is what the trailer gave me the picture of. Well I know that the thing was theater imitates life is basically what the whole grain of the film was Right. The king of Leonite I'm not, I know I'm familiar with it I've never read it I've never seen it anything like that but I'm familiar it's basically a slow descent into madness like most of Shakespeare's things. A lot of these tragedies are just some guys slow descent into madness which is this guy couldn't cope with not being on stage anymore basically and that was his life. Yeah there were some interesting lines about acting some of which I when they talked about being an actor some of which I completely agreed with and others I passionately disagreed with and one of them like for example when the guys it was very touching like when he walked into the theater and saw it had burned that I know that how I would feel especially if that was my theater that I had done all that work in and then that moment where somebody came in they were there and the authority was there and he's losing his mind and he says to the cop says this is my domain this is my kingdom and I could so relate to what that guy was going through it's a it's I kind of wish I kind of wish this had been a one person movie Yeah that could have been really interesting and where he enacted all of the characters and maybe we had flashbacks or something but we never left that theater that's what the trailer baby thing. Yeah that's what I thought it was going to be. Yeah and it became more of a soap opera melodrama family. Yeah which disconnects me. Me too. But like I said I loved any time basically especially in his older self not like none of Petticoke whenever he was in his older self going mad really enjoyed that any time this man was on screen I don't know what else has he done because he was so good he was exceptional Oh he's in the acce and there were some really beautiful lines in regard to just their moment that was another really nice moment when they're cremating his wife's remains and he's not going to leave until the skull cracks you know and which anybody familiar with Hamlet that moment for me was like this is kind of that same moment that Hamlet has when he's holding up poor Eurik skull he says how many times did I look in these eyes which was something I really enjoyed all the Shakespeare references Yeah and talking about the daggers and all these people and that's why I really my first impression of it when it was over sincerely was just oh I'm glad that's over because it was a work of labor to get through it because I would like to learn more about the playwrights in India who have contributed some of the things they quoted that I know just went over our head and why some of these societal norms that for us aren't a big deal but for them would be deeply deeply deeply offensive and we want to get that framework and come back into it again and watch it again with that understanding Well we'll watch other Marathi films the Saurat will probably be the next one though we've seen a few things from it and we want to get to everything guys like for example for you Bengalis we are we've already talked about where we want to go with that so we're we're getting there guys we're getting for all of the regions we're going to represent you yes we are we are getting to all of them so we are sorry but yes please I definitely especially if you are from India I think you would definitely enjoy this film more you get so much more than we do yeah you get it way more than we do I would watch it just for the performances of those two men yeah that's why the watch it do watch it don't watch it I would say do watch it for Americans I'd say don't watch it yeah mm yeah it's tough maybe we can cut it up with their performances yeah I feel like I feel like you would need to have friends I would say I don't feel prepared to watch it yeah so I wouldn't tell anybody who doesn't know anything about Indian film to watch this yet yeah but I'm hoping I'll get to a place later on down the road where I'll watch it and go ah now I get it yeah so but yeah let us know what you thought we've done the comment section below and please help us understand these cultural references educate us and even know that are the Shakespeare's of Indian theatre I want to know who those people are 100% let us know down the comment section below