 You know if we go like, a week without a movie review, they think we're just never doing a movie review. I'm not a mess today! Hi, guys! It's Steve with Rags and the Idiots. I'm Corbin. I am Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter! It's so cheesy. It's so cheesy. Thank you all so much. And picture and I'll follow an official Twitter account. Tootie! We did a movie review! Why do I imagine you in like, wizard garb when you do that? Tootie! Yeah, not like a wizard cap and a robe. Harry! You would make a great weird professor at Hogwarts. Dumbledore. Dumbledore would, Dumbledore would, the book version of Dumbledore would do that. He would do that. Ah, but anyway, it's what we digress. We do digress. Uh, we watch... I still don't know how to pronounce it specifically. Kamini? I think it's Kamine. Kamine. Kamine. Which means mean bastard. Oh, I thought it meant mean. No, it means bastard. Really? Yeah. Okay. I like it. Okay. I like it because, uh... I thought it meant mean. Maybe, I mean like tough and... I'm pretty cruel and... Yeah, I just, I think it's funny to call a film... Bastard. Bastard in Indian culture. Like, they're pretty conservative most of the time anyway. True. Much less shoving the word bastard into your bag. Sure, but that would be applicable and I'll explain why in a moment. Here we go. But, yes. Obviously directed by the incomparable Michelle Bardouache, Hugh... As usual. Role to screenplay. Yeah. And also, it was the composer. Yeah. Of all the music and the songs and the director. Which is how he does it. Yup. And starring Kapoor Priyanka Chopra. Uh, and those were the only two I recognized. Uh, correct? Correct. Me too. I recognized the other actors. I'm sure they'll be comments that tell us where we've seen them before. There was a guy in Raggedy Basanti, so... Ah, well, there you go. There's one already. Read the synopsis for a point. The synopsis is, The desperate lives of two estranged twin brothers. Converge over missing drugs, politics, racial prejudice, corrupt cops. Then an unplanned pregnancy. That's... That's very accurate. Very accurate, but it sounds funny that way. Yeah. It almost sounds like a Ron Burgundy film. Yeah. Maybe it's because of the voice you were doing. It could have been a missing drugs politics, racial prejudice, corruption, and an unplanned pregnancy. Uh, spoilers. These are just going to be a spoiler video. This came out a long time ago, so... Yeah, sorry. I assume everybody's seeing it, but us... If you haven't, go with it. Go watch it, then come back. Anyways, but yes, this is our fourth installment of Michelle Bartlett. We have Heather, Simkin McBool. McBool. This is four. Four. Yeah. We haven't watched them car yet. We know. Very excited about that. Very excited about that. We know. But it was highly, highly requested to review also a lot of the songs that were in it, which we talked about, which I enjoyed. Yes. And who's this producer? Ronnie Scruvala. I've never seen his name pop up on any film. I didn't know he produced it. Yeah, I did. The minute I saw it, I was like, well, yeah, of course. Oh, yeah. He produced half the films in India are produced by Ronnie Scruvala. Really? Oh, my stars. What production company does he own? Ronnie Scruvala. Probably. He's probably like YRF. He owns YRF or something. Right. No, I know he doesn't own YRF. But he produces a ton. This is the fourth installment of us for Vashal Bardwash, and I can't tell you what number it is for Priyanka Chopra. Oh, yeah. Wow. No. Or... She's probably up there. They're way up there. We've seen a lot of their stuff. But I actually really, really enjoyed this film. I don't know what you thought of it yet. It's not my favorite Vashal Bardwash film, but I don't think it was trying to be my favorite Vashal Bardwash film ever. No, I'll take a what? From the get-go. I was impressed with how different it felt. Yeah, very different. From him. It didn't stay the way it started, because when it started, it was quite picturesque at the beginning, and I thought, really? Yeah. But then it quickly shifted back to the kind of visual aesthetic he gives. The second half as well is really gritty and really fast. Gritty handheld. Yeah. Which I love. I mean, that's what you want from a Vashal Bardwash film. I watched it with my wife, and she told me. She was like, I love the way he chose his art, basically, is what she said. Yeah. I love the way he shoots stuff. I do, too. It's like, I think we always make this comparison, but it's worth saying everything. I'm like, Sanjay Liwansali. He has one type of thing that you love watching. Right. Vashal's very different. But you still love watching how it's done 100%. This reminded me of even more of like a Quentin-style film, like a pulp fiction without the comedy. The gritty style that was shot in, and all that kind of stuff. What I did, I really enjoyed, because Shahid Kapoor, obviously, we've seen a lot of his best performances. I was thinking about that. At some point in the film, I was watching him, and I was realizing how much of his work we've seen now. And this was big in his career, because this was the point. Before this, he was chocolate boy. Oh, really? Yes. This was the first thing I saw in an interview after I watched the film. And they were talking to Vashal Bardwacht, and they were like, how did you think of Shahid that he's this chocolate boy? Right. Nobody can see him in a negative, which is strange to me. People would put actors in that box, but whatever. Yeah. I digress. But he was only ever the chocolate boy. So I actually thought this performance of him, which he did really, really, really well, was actually kind of like his career. One was almost chocolate boy. He was very pretty. And then the other one was, I think, the roles he enjoys playing. It's very negative roles, edgy, all that kind of stuff that he does really, really well at. But that's how I was seeing that comparison. That's a great comparison. I thought he did really well. Obviously, if this would have been the first thing we've seen of, if he was chocolate boy, I'd be like, wow, he did a really great job. But obviously, we've seen the header. We've seen Udupunjab. We've seen it hit Padmavad. We go in reverse a lot with a lot of these actors. Our first exposure to Shahid Kapoor was Padmavad, which is not a typical Shahid Kapoor role by any stretch of the imagination. No. Very, very different role for him. Then you'd have Udupunjab. Yes. He played these other great roles that he finally got out of his chocolate boy roles. He's playing what he wants to. It's interesting to see the growth of the actor. I think he did really, really well. Priyanka obviously did really, really well. Priyanka is just always Priyanka. She was actually a powerhouse in there. Every single scene was almost really emotional for her. Yes. The thing that's most surprising for me about Priyanka's abilities is that she doesn't come from thespianatic background. She came into this via being a model. But it's really clear she's gifted. And I would not be surprised if she's done homework and done work. If she hasn't done the homework and hasn't done the work, then she's one of the most talented actors who just, it comes to them naturally. There are some actors that they've never trained. And I hate saying it. They didn't need to. They just know how to act. It's very rare she may be in that boat because she's just always so present, so available. She's the kind of actor that when I watch her work, I want to work with her. She's always good. It's something we wouldn't notice because we don't speak the languages. She was actually doing Marathi. Oh, as far as her dialect and accent. We didn't pick up Gully Boy. We didn't pick up Rambir doing the Mumbai accent. I watched some interviews after we saw the film. And she had a Marathi dialect coach with her all the time to help her do it. And Shahid as well, because he had different voices for each character. Which he did really, really well for playing two characters. That's not easy. By the way, Vishal did a flawless job in filming the two of them as brothers. That fight scene? Flawless. We'll talk about that. And as far as a whole, I thought pretty much everybody in this did a solid job. It was interesting because all of his other films, there's one central guy, and I know Shahid was the central guy, but it felt more like a huge ensemble. In fact, this will take me into the one thing that is, again, what I'm about to say is the one dislike I have, which is a big one for me. But it's my deal. I don't know if it's just where my headspace was when I was watching it. I got lost a lot. Really? Yes. For example, they, Priyanka and Shahid, Gudu and Sweety are headed now to the airport after the fiasco at their wedding when her brother shows up, right? And then next thing I know, Gudu is being interrogated and I'm like, when did he get arrested? Okay, when did that happen? They picked him out of the car. Okay. There were a lot of disconnects like that. Example, when the brothers are fighting each other. Next thing I know, his brother has been caught and is captured. And I didn't understand the relationship of the guy Tashi. I didn't understand where he came into play with his, there was a lot of stuff where I got disconnected that I really couldn't follow what was going on a lot of the time. Yeah, in one of the interviews I saw, they asked Vishal, he was like, will you ever word that this would connect with people? Because it was actually, I think, a big hit when it came out and people were really, really liking it a lot. And he was like, when I was riding it and all that kind of stuff, no. And when he was putting the score together, which we'll talk more about, but he said when I started filming it, I was wondering if it would be too much for people. He says, he was like, I figured just go for it because he thought, he was like, I think the movie would be boring if it didn't have a bunch of stuff going on. Which I actually, I enjoyed a lot of it because there was what, three or four gangs. Yeah, well, not that you say that, I will say I never got bored because I was constantly in a state of trying to figure out what was going on. It's more difficult for us because we have to read the subtitles and if it's a fast-paced film, it's hard to keep up some time. Very difficult. Because obviously it's not a language and we have to read it. No, and stuff gets lost in translation. If you blink sometimes, you can miss a very important piece of information. Correct. So it's one of those things with this type of film, but he said he didn't want to, he said it's quite a simple story actually. Really? Yeah, he's like, it's not that complicated of a story because it's just these two brothers who get mixed up in some gangs and that's basically the story. He said, so he was like, so there was all this stuff going on because he was like, I needed it to feel like chaotic. Well, it gave us that. Yeah, and so like obviously that's what he was going for and I think he did a really good job. Like I said, this was one of my favorite Vishal film, but like I said, it wasn't for me for that reason alone. I disconnect with the follow of everything. Yeah, but I think that's mainly, it might be a lot, I think it's a lot of people's favorite Vishal film because we tend to like barely dialogue driven. Obviously if he's doing Shakespeare like he's done multiple times, we love that because there's so many great moments for actors and all that kind of stuff. This was more of an ensemble piece, but I think he did a, like there's certain ensemble pieces like there's John Wick, like it's not an ensemble piece, but it's like that kind of action movie, gangster flick. But Vishal put his own spin on it, which I really, really enjoyed. And I didn't ever get lost, but I could definitely see how you would. Yeah, I was lost most of the film in terms of how did they end up there? Why does that person care about that one? It wasn't enough to make me, like there's been times I've been watching films and I've been like, okay, just end already. It didn't do that to me. I just was very frustrated with, I wanted to be more connected and invested in the characters, especially since both Shahid and Priyanka and the guy who plays her brother were doing such good work. Yeah, a lot of the gangsters did really, really good work. I've seen the gun scene where his crazy friend is in there and they're going boom, boom. That was a great scene. Yeah, Vishal does a really good job. We can go into him now a little more. He does it really good. Obviously in the interview he said he became a director because he wanted to write and score his own films. So he said, I basically became a director so I could do those things. Have the creative control to do that. Which I was like, hey, more power to you, exactly. You do a great job. If you could do all those things so, so well, why not? Of course. And that goes to show you the link and how important it is for directors to have a really good relationship with the composers and how intimate that relationship typically is with the person doing the music composition and the director. If you study the relationships of a lot of directors and their composers or a director who is a composer, they're like, they got to be like that a lot of the time. Yeah. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. No, no, no, no. But yeah, I thought he did so, so well with so many aspects. I love this entire score behind it. Yeah, great. The music was great. As with the songs. The songs were really catchy. Yep. And the club scene with him and what I was thinking of. The friend where they found the guitar and how they're going to have millions of dollars. So that was great. I thought Vishal did a flawless job with the fight scene. Yeah, with the two brothers. Because you know he didn't have Marvel money. No. Because obviously when Marvel, you know, they've had, we've seen fights where people fight each other. Yeah. It takes a lot of money to make it look really, really good. It does. And I know he didn't have a small budget. No, and he had a great stand-in for Shahid. Yeah. But like every single thing, it was just flawless. Yeah. With, you know, every punch where he went over here. It didn't look like he was just trying to cheat. No. The other thing that Vishal did is he didn't give us the money shot. Like, look, I'm doing a movie with the same actor playing two guys. Yeah. He did reveal it that way, but it was never just over the top. Look at what I'm doing. Yeah. He did a very realistic, believable job portraying the two brothers. Yeah. It was quite seamless in that aspect. I think I really enjoyed that part of it a lot. Shahid got jacked. Yeah. This is the biggest he's been in. And he also got waxed. He got jacked. He did. He got waxed. He did. And the, I just, my favorite thing of this, because I agree with you, this wouldn't be, I would definitely, obviously, Hedder is my favorite Vishal Barnach. Yeah. But it just was, again, it underscored for me the, first of all, the gritty, dirty nature of the way that he directs that I love so much. And the same way of the most, I think we've made this comparison before. My two favorite directors of film that influenced me growing up are Scorsese and Spielberg. And very much the Shah and Sanjay Leela Bansali are very much that same way. If you look at the works, Scorsese gets a bit dirtier. And Spielberg can. I mean, saving private rhymes, I'm pretty frickin' hard to watch. But, and they're both really detailed. Yeah. But attention to detail. Spielberg never has, like, I hate using the word dirty shots. Right. Exactly. They're all very clean. And those he does like Sanjay. His shots are typically quite clean. And they're beautiful because of it. He has a mastery of cinema that his lighting and everything, like there's so many times I watch a Spielberg film and I'm just, I fold my arms and look and go, that is so beautifully set up that shot right there. Same thing with Sanjay. Whereas with, there's a much more, there's a visceral nature to Scorsese and there's a visceral nature to Barnach. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it fits this forum. I compare him most to Quentin, I think. Yeah. Quentin likes to do dirty. The only difference is that Quentin is so dialogue heavy. Yeah, he is. But yeah. But I think he does. He does. This wasn't dialogue heavy, but some of his other ones are. True. So like, obviously all the Shakespeare ones. Hey, I was gonna say, if you're doing Shakespeare, it's gonna be dialogue heavy. Yeah, that's how I would love to work. I would probably love to work with him. I mean, I would love to work with Sanjay, of course, but he's probably the one I would love to work with probably the most. Just because of the, every single film of his I've seen, I've just loved and just, he's so unique in terms of. Wow. And you just put me in a, in terms of Indian cinema. What would you do? What would you do? Oh, I would work with both of them. No, no, no, no. There you go. They're both shooting films at the same time with roles that you would love to do, but you've got to choose one because their productions are happening at the same time. Which one are you doing? I know the answer. I know the answer. Well, here's the thing. And forget it. It's not like Nawazidin's in one. Well, who's in the other one? Exactly, no. No names. No names. No names. It's no names and. That's impossible. I know. I'm just, I'm wanting you to solely think about, it's an opportunity. Artistic wise, I would love to work with Vishal. Vishal Vakaraj. I know. That would be your choice. And it would mean nothing for you. You'd be sick that you're not getting that opportunity with Sanjay. Oh, no, no. You guys imagine. Exactly. I would know. But he's your cup of tea in the same way she hits the kind of actor, the kind of roles that you would resonate to work with. I would be interested to see his roles before this. Because he was, you know, chocolate boy. Right. Which is still weird for me to say. It sounds racist to me. It does to me too. I'm still not used to it. I know you don't mean it that way, but for us it's like. But anyways, yeah, I would be interested to see his work before this, to see how much he grew and the kind of roles that he got put in. Yeah. It was similar like a Heath Ledger got put in to certain roles that he didn't really want. But you know, you gotta do it. Right. At the beginning of your career. Yeah. And Priyanka is just, she apparently, she turned it down originally. She turned this role down. Because, do we know why? She didn't think it was a prominent enough role at the time. Ah. But she was a career choice wise. But yeah, she was a huge Vishal fan. And so she wanted to be. So Vishal flew to Miami. Had she done Seven Kun Moth? No. This is Priy Seven Kun Moth. Yeah. He flew to Miami to convince her. She's a smart man. Yeah. He is. I want to just watch everything she's done. Yeah. And I'm really looking forward, I've said it before. I just think that she is an undiscovered jewel in American cinema for sure. And I'm really looking forward to two things happening with Priyanka. The first one is the time where she's able to get into a role and show America in American film, the chops that she's got and be a part of the awards conversation. Yeah. Which would then see a larger bridging of the gap that she's already starting to make. Whether you like it or not, if you're here in America, you could mention Shahid Kapoor, Rithik Roshan, SRK. Most people aren't going to know who you're talking about. You mentioned Priyanka Chopra. They're going to go, oh, Quantico. Yeah. That's just the way it is here. So she is definitely somebody that can bring... You know she's been promoting belly-boying? That doesn't surprise me. She's been hosting multiple screenings of it for people in LA. That's fantastic. That's fantastic. She's not even part of the film. And when she had The Sky is Pink, which sadly didn't do well here, you know, she did everything she could. And to their credit, wherever she went, like when she was on Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy talked about her film as a film. And when he played a clip from the film, he played it in Hindi with subtitles and didn't promote it as an Indian film. It was Priyanka's film. And man, let there be more of that and bring to the gap. Yeah. But yeah, this was... I really enjoyed this film. I would definitely watch it again. I would recommend it. Like I said, it's not my favorite Vishal film, but it's not... I would still recommend it to people. I actually think it's quite digestible. Yeah, I struggle with that because I was going to say I would recommend it to Americans, but it would be the subtitles that you got lost in. Yeah, I was so disconnected. If it was in English, I think most people could follow it. But obviously... I don't know. It's one of those things. It's sadly one of those things. But I don't think... It's a very familiar film to Americans. It is. As far as pacing, as far as the feel, it is. 100% And I think... I bet you're right. It's probably the subtitles that would lose people. I would be... Example, if I'm on a long flight to India and this is on there and there's really nothing else for me to watch, I would revisit this again to see where I disconnected. And I don't blame Vishal. I really... It may be the editing. There may have been some editing choices he made that really disconnected me and jarred me because that wouldn't surprise me from Vishal. He's the kind of director who would be unapologetic if he made an editing choice that really didn't sit well. Because he's not interested necessarily in the rhythms and the pace being clean. That's what we love about him. He's dirty. I love him so much. Yeah, so I would definitely revisit it, but that was my only... My only should rim was that. Please let us know down in the comments what's the next... from Shahid, Priyanka, especially Vishal, it's probably going to be Omkara. That'll probably be the next... That's for sure. And I think with Priyanka, it's going to be fashion. Isn't that the one that people just keep saying over and over again we should see? Yeah. Especially... Yeah. So... What? What? Nothing. There's something going on in your mind in that one. When I said fashion. Yeah. What do you think? What do you think?