 Ashley's here for a review. Welcome. Thank you. Hey, welcome back to our TV direction. It's I'm Corbin. Ashley. Rick. Nickel Falls. Insta and Twit. For more juice. It's so juicy. Follow us on Insta Twit for more juice. Wow. It's so juice. It's so juice. Today, we watched the new film that just came out today in America at least. Yep. I think it's in India too. This weekend. Shupak. I'm glad you did the double H there that long. Shupak. Well, there's two of them. Yeah. That's how you pronounce it, right? I think it's Shupak. Shupak. Which means splash. It does? It does. Did not. It's very interesting. Yeah. Not to be confused with the Tom Hanks film. Very different movie. Very, very different film. If we take the kiddos to see this splash. You won't be thrilled. Yeah. But yes. Want to read the synopsis for me real quick? Sure. The trials and trials of malty and acid attack survivor from the investigation of the attack to the court proceedings. The medical treatment to the emotional healing. Shupak is the story of an unquashable human spirit. Obviously. Starring the impeccable. Call them. I think we keep mispronouncing her name. I've heard it as depicapetic. Yeah. I think we keep mispronouncing it. Every single time. Because we think it's depicapeticon. I've heard people say it. I've heard her in interviews be introduced as depicapeticon. Well apparently we're saying it wrong. Because every single time. Sorry. So I don't know. I'm sorry. Somebody please call depica for us please. Yes. Wait. What is it supposed to be? Do you think it's wrong? I don't know. It's probably. It's got to be the last name. No. It's the first name. It's not depica. Oh. Well, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Because we get called out every single time we say her name. So it's like that famous composer as well with the initials and then the last name that we always mispronounce that I'm just not saying anything about it. Yeah, I was just going to say it. Yeah. But yes. And it's also directed by, say her name for me. That's all you. You've been telling me? Megan Goldzar. And she did Drisciam Razi and Tolvar. Tolvar. Which we've heard good things about as well. A female directing a female driven story. That was the composer. Did the composer do music on films that Megna has directed? Like Razi? I'm sorry. It's not. That's the cinematographer. Oh. Sorry. Oh. Yeah. We're right. I was looking when I said the name. Okay. Anyway. Yes. So just came out this weekend with a very busy weekend at the box office. Yes. But as we lead up to, I guess the next couple of weeks are busy. A bunch of movies coming out. Yeah. What? When is Republic Day? January the 26th. Yeah. But this will be, we'll try to do a little non-spoiler. A little non-spoiler. At the beginning. Because it's new. Yeah. And so a little non-spoiler and then once we get into them, we'll let you know. And you can leave and watch the time on there and come back at that minute marker. Yes. Initial thoughts. Ashley. Don't make me go first. Maybe first. I'll say no. Oh, wow. Wow. The lady says no. That's her prerogative. Initial thoughts. Ultimately, I personally think the movie is worth seeing primarily because the importance of the story cannot be overstated. I think there's nothing glaringly technically wrong with the film in any way for me. I also don't think there's anything technically overwhelmingly praiseworthy in terms of just being labor-gasted by anything in it. I think it's delicately directed and I think the use of score was quite nice and I thought the score was really pretty and did a good job of depicting fragility and sensitivity. So I loved her clear feminine hand telling of a woman's story. I'm very glad it was a female director. Very, very glad, but I do have some things about it that I have very strong feelings about I wish were different, but ultimately the takeaway for me is the story is too important, especially I think this movie is far more accessible and less problematic for Americans and non-Indian viewers who are unfamiliar of the situation to be made aware of it. Absolutely. Everybody should be completely aware of it. Yes. Ashley? I agree. I was saying that to him in the car a little bit that I think that it was good, but there are some things that I would have wanted to change personally. I had some questions about some things because I am not super aware of what this specific attack involved and all of that. So I just have questions about that. But it's so this whole concept and that this is still happening is so important for people to understand because here in America we don't really have the best understanding of that. In that sense. Yeah. I have no understanding of why acid is sold, but there's a lot of stuff in the world and in America that I have no idea why it's still sold. And so it was actually relatable in that aspect of something, an epidemic is happening and no one is doing anything. I thought the same way. And there was a line in the movie was like, if it wasn't able to be sold, it wouldn't be happening. Yup. Right. It's against it. For other things we've heard and stuff like that. So it was it was it was interesting to see that that regardless of the issue, there's people that the opposition to it is basically the exact same for everything. Money. Yeah. And so that was really interesting. I think the story is ridiculously important. I really enjoyed that. I enjoyed Topeka's really subtle performance very subtle, which I wasn't expecting it to be a subtle performance. I didn't know anything about it, but that's not what I came in expecting. But I guess that's when you're playing this person, if she was a very subtle person, you just have to be something like a more reserved person, you're not going to have a Ranveer performance. Right. No. It's comparable to the smallness of Ranveer in Gully Boy, which is a bigger stretch because he's so much more of a hugely animated person compared to Topeka. But yeah, I appreciated the fact that I guess if she's being more accurate to the person, which is some stuff we can talk about, the the I appreciated the stillness and the smallness and the just quietness. It wasn't your fun, but that's that's like saying when you play basketball, you're not Michael Jordan. You know, it's not a fair thing to say to somebody. Well, I am. I don't know about you. Whatever. Yeah. I thought, again, nothing to jump up and down in the technique technology, but nothing blaring. The only thing I had a problem with when it comes to the something I wish would have been different when it comes to the total artistic package of the whole team was a couple of casting choices that I thought were weak on the smaller side of the roles. But that's not enough to detract me from the film, but it wasn't something that I would be rushing out to go see again. And then once you've seen it. Well, it's also one of those stories that you just don't really want to keep reliving. It's a powerful story and painful as it should have been and I could have even said it should have been a little more. Yeah, that's where we can get in this, but for non spoilers, I think you should definitely go see it. It's 100% worth your money. It's important, especially if you don't know fully about it. It's important. And also, if you see somebody throw an ass at somebody, jump on the guy on the goddamned just just stop them. OK, we're getting into spoilers now. So if you haven't seen the film, go see it. Go see it, come back and pick up this time marker right now. Because here come the spoilers. If you could do a great job. Yeah, director did a great job. It's important to there you like to know more. Stick around. Yes, it's really what happened where everyone's just like, oh, look at that. I'm watching that and I'm thinking, why is nobody knocking this ass off of that moped? Like, she wasn't the only eyewitness. But it's also, like we said, we don't know anything about this story. Right, the actual incident. So we have no idea if that's what actually happened. But yeah, it was strange to me, but it's not uncommon. Yeah, people get in shock. Yeah, they'll bring out their phones before they go and help. True, it's not out of the realm of possibility of happening. It's just not what you or I would have done. Like, no, you saw this girl clearly jump off of this motorcycle, throw something on her and there and then she's screaming in pain. Yeah, and no one jumped on her or jumped on. I'm talking to the girl with thread. Yeah, nobody jumped on the guy that was just waiting with the moped there and on his moped could have what could have been what happened. We don't know. I don't know. I don't know how people reacted because some people might not. I don't. I don't. I just remember. We just don't know, but we didn't agree with it. Yeah, I remember there was a time here and I think it was in the 1980s. There was a guy's name was Richard Ramirez. He was known as the walk-in killer. And what he did is he'd walk up to back doors in LA and if the sliding glass door was open, he'd walk in and he'd murder people. And if it was locked, he'd walk away. So people were on the lookout for the serial killer called the walk-in killer. The way he got arrested, terrifying, he went into a neighborhood and the people recognized him, they surrounded him, captured him, beat the crap out of him while they called the cops. And when the cops showed up, the neighborhood had beat the crap out of him. Go. Yeah. So yeah, obviously we would enjoy that aspect of it, but yeah, we really enjoyed that. We'd enjoy it. But that doesn't mean that's what happened. Right, exactly. And so I think it's actually pretty believable that almost anybody, except for the guy, the sick. Yeah, who came over to help with that, that would be that's very believable. Yeah, the sick. Yeah, the man who came over was a sick, but you've probably referred to him as a Sikh. Yes. Yeah, no, it's. That's not correct. Correct, no. Well, you learn something new every day. They don't take offense to it. Yeah. But we've learned, they're pronounced, that they are sick. Good to know. But yeah. I was very confused when he said that. I was like, that guy wasn't sick. What are you talking about? He's fine. Got it. I'm here. Yeah, so that was one aspect I'm not going to hop on it because I was like, I don't know if this is what happened, that's very possible. My other big gripe with it was, I don't know if it's actually a gripe. Is the love story? It's true. It is true. Yeah, I found out from his honest. So they did fall in love. She did, and they eventually had a baby. OK, then I'm fine with that. Yeah. I said the same thing. I was worried that they just put a love story in something. That's what I was too. That did not need love story. Me too, and that's why I got confirmation on that. That is true. Well, it was probably my biggest gripe with it. Outside of, I think the thing that could have made this better was being more in your face, honestly. Yep. Yeah, I got a couple of gripes, and that's one of them. You share what your thoughts were because they're similar to mine. And they hear me all the time, so. Well, one, I love Topeka. I think that's how I say her name since now it's a question. But she's 34. And in the movie, they said that she was 19, which then you said she was actually 15 when it happened. Locked me who this happened to. She was 15 when it happened. So that's just for trying to be as true to the story as possible. That's a little bit difficult for me, because she doesn't look 15. Or 19. Or 19, really, especially when she was in her school clothes, she looked younger. But other than that. Well, she did an admirable job trying to embody the essence of an innocent 19-year-old girl. I didn't know that's how she was. I didn't much mind it. One, I know why you have to have a star. Absolutely. You have to have a star. Absolutely. And you also have to have an actor who can portray the pain of what you're going through. Kids, it's more difficult. To get them to. And to get that performance out of them. We were talking in the car about this. I had Andrani on the phone, too, that I don't know if she was available. I know Topeka produced this. And there's pros and cons to this. And it's not a criticism. It's just an observation of, yes, I love two aspects about Topeka portraying this character. The first one is the fact that you take one of the women who's known as the one of the most beautiful women in the world, telling a story about women who have lost their physical appearance due to these acid attacks and her star power internationally to bring attention to the story. You can't have a no-name in this role. I think a better suited person based on age who also has the depth of the Thespian ability would be Alia. She's still old. She's younger than Topeka. She's still old. It doesn't matter. They could pass for sisters at the same age. Alia could play 15. Topeka couldn't. Like I said, I think they took this girl's story and just added it to Topeka, which is fine. Agreed. Well, even they changed it. Her name isn't even, Lakshmi is the name of the girl. So it's more inspired by this girl's story. Inspired by true women. It's not more of a, this is a 15-year-old. I don't think they were ever trying to convince me she was 15. No, they were just trying to convince you she was 19. Yeah, and some spies. And the other thing for me, it's like I could believe Denny Zuko was in high school in Greece. Exactly. Now, it's supposed to be Lakshmi's story. It says inspired by true events, but it is Lakshmi's story. And one of the things that I don't understand is that the makeup work they did on Topeka, I would have preferred it to look more like Lakshmi does. Cause it doesn't. It's enough to resemble her and you know they're going for the particular idea that that's definitively Lakshmi, but Lakshmi's more deformed. And I would have appreciated a more accurate depiction of her scarring. That's my just personal preference. Both for the, when you're telling a true story, even if it's inspired by true events and you're kind of loosey-goose in it somewhat, I would prefer the makeup artist to have had a picture of Lakshmi up there. And it's like, we've got a, you know, in Topeka saying, I want to nail that. I want to look just like her. But maybe they couldn't. In what way? Maybe it would look more cartoonish and not accurate as opposed to real. And I think they were going for more real. I think with a good makeup artist it could have looked real. I don't know what their budget was. I don't know what. She produced it. Yeah, that doesn't mean it's a big blockbuster though. It's, and this is an independent film if I've ever seen one. Agreed. And if that's the best I could do with the makeup, okay. Yeah. I just, I felt, and the other thing that I would have appreciated more, and again, this is that double-handed thing of I feel this movie does a very good job of depicting the sadness and the, especially the end. I thought the ending I wasn't expecting the ending coming. But you know what? At the end, I feel like Topeka's one of the producers, I was ready. I had my phone in my hand and I was waiting for the thing at the end that said, here's the organizations that are doing what they need to do to help these girls please give. And they didn't do that for us. Or just something like that. I have to go find it, and I will. But they gave us stats, which I was really thankful for. But I was ready, and if you're releasing this film in America, there really was a missed opportunity to not give a www dot to a place you could go to instantly for this and give money to this organization and any other organization that's helping families and girls who suffered this. You know, would have loved that. Yeah. I don't know if I would ding the film for that though. It's a missed opportunity. There's lots of stuff that deals with real stuff that doesn't put it on the end. You just have to take a little effort. It's a current, it's still an issue. I know. That needs to be fixed. And there's people fighting it, depicting them the film who don't have the money to fight it. I understand. Yeah, so they could have raised money. I understand. I don't, once again, I don't believe you can ding the film for that. You can, you'd be like, I wish the production would have done that, but you can't ding the film for it. No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying the quality of the film changes. I'm saying, I wish production... Like this film goes down right. No, I feel like... A whole 10% Deepika, who's one of the producers, I think they missed, as surely as the Mandalorian missed their opportunity to make money off of Baby Yoda, this should have made me even more so by using, no, that's a missed opportunity at making money. And if there's anything that needs to be making money, it's this issue. It is nice that we know that SRK does have its own foundation, which is wonderful. So, do go support those. But yes, I did really enjoy the end of it though. Speaking of which. Because I wasn't expecting it. Yeah. Like, I wasn't either. I was expecting it to finish up with a nice... Also, was that the lawyer's daughter? That's what I was thinking too, right? I couldn't tell. Steph, my wife watched it with us and my son. I was still here. I did not sit down the entire time. But I watched the whole thing. But yeah, she says at the end, she's like, I thought that was the lawyer's daughter. I thought it was too... I don't know. And so, but I was like, who's... I think it was a nice little ending to once again, it's like, say, all this happened and a bunch of like, she won her case and they're starting to put, but... Everything is getting better, but it's still happening. It hasn't changed yet. Yeah. I like the fact that they put something that was what 30 days ago was the last attack. Literally. That's how soon they've edited this film to show you how recent... And it's probably happened more recently than that. Exactly. Which is ridiculous. If you see people do it, tackle them and beat the shit out of them. Is this the one? What? Maybe it is. I'm looking, there's two that I see that are the non-profit organizations for helping raise awareness and contributing. I think it is because they've got the film is being advertised on here and this is, yeah, this is the organization that he was a part of. C-H-H-A-N-V dot org. So are they a part of this? Yeah, that's the organization that she was working with, that Lakshmi was working with and they depicted the SRKs. Got it, got it, got it. Yeah, is that his, that's his SRKs? Well, I don't know. That's what I'm asking. I thought that's what you were saying. No, no, no, no. This is the foundation. Remember that she works with and the guy who works with it? But it's a different thing. It's this, it's this one. Got it. Dot org, C-H-H-A-N-V dot org. So if you went there, you could find out more information on how to support them. Yeah, I, I, I, regardless of the, some of it, like my, I think the biggest issue I had with it is that I honestly wished it was more in your face. And it was at times. And it was uncomfortable to watch, which you're supposed to be with a subject like this. But I wish it was. But honestly, I, and I don't know if they could have done that with Indian audiences. It's a lot different than, because accessibility. If you put this out in America, it's for people like us that love gritty Oscar films. And so you want it to be- That pushed a lot of boundaries. Yeah. And so I think they're wanting to be more accessible. So more people are aware and try to, so maybe that's what they were going for. I think so, to get more people to see it. And that's, that's fine. Totally understand that. It's an artistic choice that they decided to go with. Correct. That's the only issue, but I still, I really enjoyed the Pika's performance. I think everyone should still go see this film. Absolutely. Like that, we would talk about this in the car. I would have liked to have seen, because I can't imagine there wasn't a lot more to Lakshmi's story in terms of the surgery she went through and the emotional trauma and how long it took for her to finally be okay with being out in the film. She seems to get through it pretty quickly. Well, I think what they were trying to actually go for was her as a acid survivor. A survivor and advocate. Yeah. That journey of just becoming and her now living a regular life. Right, and talk about the issue more than about her personal journey. Yeah, and how this person who wasn't an activist became an activist. And so I think that's more where it was going as opposed to showing the full struggle. Correct. And they could have, but I think it's a two hour film. For a subject matter like this, it would be hard to sit through that for a long time. Thank you for the runtime. Cause any longer than that with this subject matter and I thought she did a really good job with use of music and other things to take something that could have been really hard. And boy, buoy it, make it lighter in spots. There were moments in this that just pissed me off, obviously. But like a lot of times when the reporters were asking stuff and... Yeah. It just... Some of my favorite moments are the moments that were depicting her with the girls in the film who are actual acid attack survivors. And I couldn't, I wasn't looking at the pica. I couldn't take my eyes off those girls. And the old, we talked about this in the car, the old adage of that beauty really is not what's outside, it's inside. I saw two things in that regard. I saw that in the pica. You can tell the picas, the reason to picas as pretty as she is is just because she has the physical attributes of beauty. Cause she does have that, but there's something inside the pica that comes out in her artistry that you can see, I think is one of the reasons she... I can't be unhappy with her as the choice. And also the other girls in this, there was literally a moment where they're laughing and I was looking at one of the girls and the pica's talking to her and the thought just naturally came into my mind about what a pretty girl she was. And that's another... If they had gone more into the real nitty gritty, I think they would have lost a lot of people. Yeah, it is different releasing films in India than it is releasing films here. And apparently on the controversy side of things, I don't know if this is true. I heard this, that one of the people who was instrumental in Lakshmi's victory isn't depicted or thanked in the film and she's actually speaking out about that. I don't know if you could inform us and let us know. Obviously the stupid family's loving. So no divisive or ugly comments about anything going on with controversy around it. Please, just my favorite Ricky Gervais quote, just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right. Again, easily. My trigger blocked and screen shot and put on Twitter and mocked. Yep, yep. Oh my. My blocking trigger finger is really working well these days. But yes, go see this film, support it please and let us know what you thought of it down below. And I wish, I honestly think I'm hoping there's gonna be a lot more films like this of important issues that are really gritty and not, because this is not a normal Bollywood format. No, for a film. It's not. And as far as the issues concerned, apparently, yes. Here in the United States, the only people who purchase acid like that are like science labs or construction sites, and it's regulated by OSHA, which is our Occupational Safety and Hazard Association here. You can't just go by acid. You don't just keep acid under the sink? No. In India, it's used all the time for common cleaning. There's the thing called bleach. Exactly. Much safer. And nicer for the environment. So the country that has all of the tree planting and cares about the environment, guys, you should get rid of the acid. Yes, I know there's factories that create the acid, and that means that the people who work in those factories, if there's less sales of the acid, those people are not gonna have the jobs that they're gonna have. Well, maybe the bleach companies can hire them there because the bleach sales will go up since the acid sales have gone down, and that acid won't be available for any frickin' schmuck on the street to buy and throw in a girl's face. I have spoken. And that goes for a lot of products. But anyways, let us know what you thought of the film down below. Yeah. Go support it. Yeah. And... And good job to Pika. Good job to Pika. And what's the director's name? Yeah, and she did. Magna. Right? Yes. I think he's waiting for you to say the last name. Yeah. The last name as well is the first name. Magna Galser. There we go. Magna Galser. Well done. Also, I can't wait for 83. Ran for your into Pika's cricket. Oh yeah. I see it.