 I got a couple of stupid babies saying they like the podcast. What podcast? The podcast with capital T, capital P that rhymes with pool. Cause we got trouble right here in never city. I've never done a podcast in my life. Hey, welcome back to our stupid director. This is Corbin podcasting. That's when you take P pods and throw them at fish. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks a picture and follow us to your account. Subscribe to you and like button. And today we have a video. This is called 10 top 10 Indian box office failures that became cold classics. Interesting. So, uh, this gentleman's going to be going over films that did not do well at the box office. Uh, and, but apparently became cold classics. Two big ones here. Rocky, who are a picture show. And Willy Wonka, the original with Gene Wilder did not do well in the box office. Yep. I'm surprised. Uh, only good films do well at the box. I know it's true. Your film doesn't do well means it's good. It's not a good movie and that if your film does well, it's clearly artistically wonderful. So he does talk about some that we have seen. I've been told and he does talk about some that we haven't been told he doesn't give away spoilers. So that's good. Speaking of things related to this, uh, when I asked my wife what was the biggest box office success of all time in India, she had the exact same response I did when I told her it was dungle. Dungle. She went just like that. She went. Dungle is a great movie. It is, but the biggest box office success in India of all time. Amir Khan boggles the mind. Amir Khan. Yeah. Well, it made a shit ton of money in China as good as the movie is. He's box office glory. The, the he's huge in China. Apparently Amir Khan. Here we go. I watched this movie called Babylon, which is this crazy trip. I like Babylon a lot 20s and early 30s. They did it by Damien Chisholm. Fun movie masterpieces like Whiplash and La La Land and starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Toby McQuad and so many have seen it. Have it not been so immersed and impacted. It was a lot of fun in a very, very long time, but the movie is a mega flop. Yep. Made on a production budget of around 80 million dollars. Strange to me. It's a 60 million dollars. It's a really good movie. This epic disaster. Maybe because of bad marketing, because of the heavy graphic nudity drug use and that is three hours long. There's nudity doesn't feel that I can't wait. It bought very badly and maybe in a decade from now, we're going to look back on it and call it a cult classic. And that's why today I wanted to explore 10 Indian films that were box office failures, but became cult classics. It was on 10 March. Interesting money. Great movie. Yeah, we like that movie. It's released in theaters in the weeks that followed apart from every other controversy, including getting banned in Singapore and Malaysia, two homemade bombs were thrown on money at the house and he had to be hospitalized. What any same person would stop themselves from touching any controversial topic after this. Not an artist within two years. He releases your political drama based on the lives of MGR, Karnanadi and Jai Lalita. Apart from the balls of steel, the film had Mohanlal and Aishwarya Rai making their Tamil debut. Prakash Raj taking up the role of Karnanadi after Mamuti, Kamalasan, Satya Raj and Madhavan couldn't do it. Doing 25 takes for his first shot in the film and then giving the performance of his lifetime. It also had A.R. Raman setting his studio on fire to give probably one of the sexiest Tamil film soundtracks ever. Santosh Sivan making each frame look like a painting and of course, Mani Ratnam constructing epic scene after epic scene, making it one of his top three films ever. Today the film feels even more powerful than it did back then, maybe because of the times that we live in and the films that are allowed to be made today and maybe because of its explosive nature, multiple controversies piled on top of it, it failed at the box office that day. Swades, the story of the hero that we needed but not the one that we deserve. Shah Rukh Khan as Mohan Bhargav inspired maybe thousands of really big blockbuster to return to their homeland to serve their country. But that's shocking country wasn't ready to see its biggest star as a down to earth NASA engineer who comes back to his village in India to light up a bulb. We want not enough of this star that unites audience. He does do it. Yeah, not enough spreading his arms not enough to unite the children of the higher and lower caste in the love that movie. We want to see him give us a reality check of why India is not the greatest country in the world and how it can be and we're still not ready for that scene in that train where he struggles to accept this cup of water from this kid who's selling it at 25 per se a cup. Maybe Swades was too innocent and too pure in its form. It's a wonderful movie. It also had poor marketing that didn't intrigue the audiences back then but today we celebrate the film as a classic and call it one of Shah Rukh Khan's best performances. Absolutely. It's a film that should be made compulsory viewing in every school and every college but I guess we're promoting some other kinds of films. Udhan, the early 2010s. This is a time when Anurabh Kashyap was in full rage mode both in terms of directing his own merciless masterpieces like Gangs of Wasipur and also doing everything in his own power to make someone else's directorial dream come true. One such dream was Vikramaditya Motwane's Udhan, a simple story of a young boy in a small town wanting to follow his passion and feeling to get approval from his dad and his society. And even the film failed to get approval from producers for seven years because it had no star value until Anurag Kashyap decided to produce it himself. Till date, Udhan is one of Amit Trivedi's most soul crushing soundtracks with equally moving lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya. Anurag Kashyap himself wrote one song called Motu Master if you're someone who's graduating school or college and you have this dream that you want to follow or you're completely uncertain about what to do in life and about the future that lies ahead. This character and this film will become your friend, your confidant, your cheerleader and your spirit animal. Guru, there was a filmmaker who said something like when there are restrictions, then the greatest stories are born. In a country like Iran post the Islamic Revolution in the late 70s, there were several restrictions imposed on the society and especially on the cinema that came out of the country. For example, there is a rule against male-female relationship being portrayed on screen. Actors playing a married couple have to be married in real life also if there has to be any physical touch between the male and female characters. Because of so many restrictions like this, Iranian filmmakers thought of a new idea. They started making movies about children and through their story, they used metaphors to talk about their society and the larger issues that plague their country. Rajiv Anshal's Guru starring Maulalad is one such superb example of how to talk about a large issue that's troubling our country through metaphors under the guise of a fantasy. I heard about that with Maulalad. For sure and maybe that time the audience wasn't fully able to understand all the metaphors and appreciate the metaphors for many reasons. But even today it's an extremely relevant film and you'll understand what I'm talking about when you watch it. I'm going to leave a YouTube link in the description. You can watch it for free with subtitles. No smoking. Even if this film releases in 2050... Don, you're a cashier. ...it's going to be a hit at all. So I don't know whether this film... I heard it's a mind. It's a mind, fuck. But for a few thousand people like me, Anurag Kashyap's bossiest attempt since Black Friday is close to our heart for its sheer atrocity to even get made in the first place. This movie is also available for free on YouTube. The title, Super Hit Hindi Full Romantic Movie. And trust me, it's not a super hit. It's definitely not a romantic movie. Instead of telling you what it's going to be about, I'll give you a suggestion on how to watch it. Just get one friend or two friends max, put away your phones on airplane mode or just switch them off and commit to yourself for just two hours without stopping even for a minute. Post the movie, go to... That's what you should do all the time, by the way. ...and make each friend give their interpretation of what the movie is about. And what... Should we do a watch along with that? No smoking? I've... No interpretation... I've actually been told you should... Oh, really? I'll talk about it later. Whoever you think gave the best interpretation, he or she eats and drinks for free and the others have to pay the bill. Are in your condom. We've seen hundreds of gangsters... That's daddy! ...but I still remember how fresh Tiaga Rajan Kumar Rajas debut was. Right from the black and yellow comic style poster, the characters and their pop culture heavy dialogues, the retro aesthetic, the screenplay, the stylistic choices, one of Yuvan Shankar Rajas best background scores ever, the use of the Ramayana to tie it all up and one of the best goddamn climaxes in Tamil cinema. The film had no stars, no songs, literally no marketing campaign. There was a heavy dosage of expletives and a lot of other factors which... Sounds great. ...the audiences away. Most people didn't know such a film released, but I was one of the lucky few to watch this film on the big screen and witness the arrival of a new cinema voice and a new cinematic movie. That was from Cinema Paradiso. I was to suggest a modern Tamil film to any non-Tamilian to understand how cool our films can be. It'll definitely be our agenda. Unfortunately, the print that's there on Hotstar really sucks. Which always sucks. Most of the words out. So this video is also an appeal to the producers of the film. Please release the uncut version on YouTube or any OTT platform that's ballsy enough to accept it. Or even I have an uncensored print lying around somewhere. Hopefully I can share it sometime soon. There's another one. There's another one. I've already released it. Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye. Deepakar Banerjee is easily one of Indie cinema's most original, most fearless voices and every film that he makes. It's so unique in its form and its subject matter and the second film. Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye starring Abhay Diyal who himself was a different genre in the late 2000s was a chilled out unapologetic biopic of Devinder Singh or Bunty. A real life super thief from Delhi. Abhay's character Lucky has apparently stolen 140 televisions, 212 VCRs, 175 shirts, 90 music systems, 50 jewellery boxes, 2 dogs and a greeting card. And no matter how many times you watch him do the same thing over and over again, with the same impish smile on his face, it's a film that never gets boring or outdated. Oye Lucky did win the national award for best popular... I've never even heard about it. Me too. Average business at the box office but its success was usually affected because it released just two days after the 26 level terror attacks. Oh, yeah. Kalapani. When I hear the name Priyadarshan, I immediately think of 2000s indie comedies like Heraferi, Alchal, Angama and Garam Masala which were all remakes of his epic Malayalam films. But to imagine that this man made one of the most haunting, deeply affecting Indian films about the most infamous Indian prison during British rule. It shows the sheer range and the versatility of... Sounds great. Is that Mohan Mohan on it? Yeah, it looked like him. And I've never had the guts to go back to the film. But even after decades, there are still certain moments that just shake me up like a nightmare, especially that beat sequence. Being the costliest Malayalam film made here at that time plus the disturbing nature of the film made his struggle financially. But it went on to get four national awards and earned a place on the shelf of Malayalam cinema's most memorable classics. Luck by chance. Hey, yeah. You know about the film industry? It's this. That was a flop? With all those people in it? Millions of young people from small towns with big dreams in their eyes land up in Mumbai and spend years trying to get the right contacts, get every drop of energy sucked out of them as they travel in trains between different, different auditions without much money to pay for even two meals a day, let alone they rent in a big city like Mumbai for a pigeonhole of a house that they have to share with maybe 10, 20 other people. They do this for years until they realize, I guess this isn't happening. Some go back to their hometowns and some still live in delusion. It's a world of blood, sweat, tears, hunger, anxiety, jealousy, and the most surprising thing is someone with a tag of nepotism on their head to create one of the most genuine films about the shiny, hollow world of the film industry. Zoya Akhtar hasn't made a single bad film in her career but still, I believe that her most finest, most rewatchable film is her first labor of love which the world failed to recognize back then. Finally, Rocket Singh, Salesman of the Earth. Really? Recently, while watching The Romantics on Netflix, which was a doggie series about Yash Chopra Yeah, if you haven't seen that, we didn't watch long, it's on Patreon. It reveals that on once, YRF blocked it. YRF is creating some of the best in the blockbusters. There was a time in the mid-2000s post the multiplex boom where they invested in much more smaller, much more intimate films. One of those investments was Rocket Singh, Salesman of the Earth, which wasn't a profitable investment per se, but it went down as a simple, heartfelt story from a world of people Yeah, we've seen it. If you haven't seen it, we've known nothing about their lives. Salesman. Ranveer Kapoor as a Sardarji playing a rookie, Artadok Salesman right in his second film goes down as one of the bravest decisions of a star kid but beyond him, every single character wins your heart in this sweet, focused film, reminding you We liked it. Rishikesh Mugharji and Basu Chathri movies from the 70s and 80s about regular, middle-class, office-going men and women trying to make their place in a big city like Bombay. If we as an audience don't support such good films, obviously, Hindi cinema is going to make project after project which are safe investments. And those were some of my favorite Indian box office failures that became cult classics. I know there are many, many more films that we can talk about. Maybe we'll do a part 2, a part 3 of these. Share your favorites in the comments. But for now, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Nice job. Very nice. Yeah, really well put together. Didn't feel like he spoiled anything or talked too much about the story of any of them. Well done. A bunch I knew. We knew, obviously, that we've seen. I'd say I think there were about half of them, probably six of them that we'd seen, I think. And others that I had heard of, some I hadn't heard of at all. So like a couple of Tamil ones in there, Malayalam ones, like the one in Mahanal where he was in the jail was really, really interesting. And then the one with Zadi Shroft, I think it was a Tamil film. As well, let us know about them if we should be with a watch. Yeah. The No Smoking, because that's been on my radar for a long time is No Smoking. I heard my understanding of it is that it's a mind fuck. Okay. And I asked, and you guys can let me know if your opinion differs if like if No Smoking would be a good wash along and somebody said there's too much going on and you need to be focused. Stay focused. Okay. That makes sense. If you think differently, let it let me know. But like apparently it's one that's like a real, you have to think where you need to really be paying attention. You have to be, understand what exactly just happened and you still might not understand what happened. That's why it's been someone on Yarkasha. I'm very intrigued. Yeah. And then John Abraham in a film like that. That's one, it'd be interesting to like watch that and have thoughts and then if Han Yerag would just come on again like we could do a podcast with him about just talking about. Yeah. That's not a bad idea the next time he's here. I wonder if he would even do something like that in terms of going in depth about what his film was about because some filmmakers just aren't about that. They're not into explaining their films. Yeah. Because once it's out of their hands it's your decision. Well, he would, based on our experiences with him, I think he would or he'd say yeah, I'd rather not talk about it and he would just be honest about that. And maybe do a double feature of this and Bombay villain. Yeah, we're really wanting to see that. I've wanted to as well. Yeah. That'd be a fun thing to do especially if we had a heads up enough notice before he got here to do that with him. That would be, that would be a lot of fun. That would be a lot of fun. But yeah, some of these are kind of insane. Swadash, one of ShowerCon's best films in my opinion. He still has a lot of commercial, great songs. Obviously they're not the big numbers, but they're great songs. He puts on a great performance and it's all patriotic. Yeah, that's a thing for a film that's so honest about some of the things that at the time we're needing to be fixed with India and just being honest about that. One of my favorite things about the movie is it ends with so much love for India. So I don't know why anybody would be bothered by talking about the truth and yet walking away from how I feel about America for all of our problems that are huge and need to be fixed. There's still so much to celebrate and that's at the end of Swadash. I was filled and I'm not even Indian. I was filled with so much pride for India at the end of that. Yeah, shocking. Yeah, absolutely insane. Great video. Go, OkaFollow. Yeah, really well done and forgive if I've mispronounced this. Ronik Margotil. I don't like his channel name 94.7 thousand subscribers. Yeah, bump that number up. Bump that number. He's a good content. I think. Telly love cinema. Some of the stuff and also let us know about these films if any of these films are ones that we haven't seen yet that deserve a watch. Yeah. Please let us know what they are down below.