 Bandini Mountain. Man, there's to go. We're only cows have gone before. Bandini is the word for fertilizer. It was a commercial when I was a little kid. It was a guy in skis on top of a giant mountain of fertilizer. And then he passes out at the end because of the stank. It sounds like a shitty commercial. It was. Hey, welcome back to our stupid direction. I'm Corbin. I'm Rick and you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content. And you could, uh, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Yeah, do it. Button waiting for. Lots of people apparently just watch and don't subscribe. You wild, wild folk. Anyways, today we're doing a movie of you. If you did it with me, extra points for you. You can know extra points. You do get extra points if you do it with me. You lost points. Loosed? Loosed? My stool is loosed. Ooh. Bandini Mountain. Anyways, uh, today, uh, well, not today, I guess, but maybe today. I don't know if you went when you watched it. Yeah, you don't know when I watched it, but we watched the new film, uh, Badaidu. Uh, the 2022 film came out a month ago in theaters, but it just got to OTT platforms. I don't know why we miss it in theaters. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I just forgot about it. Could be. I don't know. Anyways, but it's directed by... Yes, forgive the mispronunciation. I'll get the last name more likely than the first. Uh, Khashavadan Kolkarni. Uh, yes. So, forgive any mispronunciation there. It's a whole ensemble cast, but the main two are going to be Rajkumar Rao and Boomi Pettinakar. Yeah, and then there's a bunch of folks that you've seen throughout in many different things. Most recently, it's the mom from Mirzapur and the madam from Gungabai. Yeah. Uh, yeah, it was, yeah. Yeah. Sorry, something had a little glitch. The camera, their technical difficulties, but yes. Uh, starring Rajkumar Rao and Boomi and then a whole bunch of other people outside of them, but they are the main two. Um, they'd be the main peeps. But it's on Netflix now, so if you'd like to go watch it, give it a watch, and then Rick, your initial thoughts, please. My initial thoughts. This is our 18th film of the year, our 140th Hindi film on our 225th all-time. So what do you do? When you want your society to receive and understand the truth about something that is so incredibly important, but for many of them in that society, the subject is so distasteful, reprehensible, and angering, they wouldn't even darken the door of the theater it was playing. You make Badai Do. That's what you do. Ingeniously guised in the garments of your everyday Bollywood family film. Badai Do satisfies all of those family-friendly desires, but forces you with his loving touch as a movie-making team can do into one of the most heartbreaking and gut-wrenching realities in our world today, the treatment toward and rights of the gay community. Everyone, everyone should watch this movie. And Orpo, I love you, and Mark Webber, if you're watching, DM me on Insta. Who are those people? Orpo is a long-time close friend that Indrani talks to every single day. Okay. And he's gay. And then Mark Webber was a very dear friend of mine in high school who was gay. And I remember when he... There was a blood drive, and he... He wasn't allowed to. He came to class crying, and I asked him what's wrong, and he said they wouldn't let me, because I told him I was gay. And that's here in America. And unfortunately, in certain parts of the country, that is still like Florida. My brother is there, who is also gay, and worked or works for Disney. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, yeah. I love this movie. Yep. I cheered up in this movie. I did not cry, but I felt the welling in my eyes at a few points in this film. There you go. That doesn't... I actually had the thought. I didn't say it to Indrani, but I thought... There was a point where I thought... I didn't say the words. I bet he cried. But I did say to Indrani at one point. I said, this is going to really hit Corbin hard. Yeah. It was actually wonderful. I love this film. I think this film is absolutely fantastic. It gives you mean vibes with... Obviously, that was dealing with a different subject matter. This one is even more so, I think, for the mass audience. Yeah. Even though that's my most favorite part about it. Yeah. The fact that it's genius. Even though at times I do wish it could go farther than... Of course. But I unfortunately have to understand why they did it. Yep. Even though I don't want to. Right. But I do. And I think they did a phenomenal job at every single level of this film and we'll get into so much of it. But since it's new, just go watch it. That's all. That's all you need to know is that it's a fantastic film. Please watch it. You're going to enjoy yourself. Have your family gather. Watch it with your whole family. They, who knows how that's going to be, but I think everybody should watch it. I do. I agree. But actually, my cousin is here and she is a member of the LGBTQ community. And this was her first Indian film ever. Oh, that's freaking... And what did she think? I didn't know. Obviously, we had no... That's so crazy. I did not plan for her to come and to watch this. I didn't do that. It was just the next film we were having to watch. That's so great. And so, but yeah, she loved it. She loved it. Actually, we had to stop about 45 minutes to go somewhere. You had an interval. Me and my wife. And she was like, and Leland was asleep and she was here to watch Leland. And she was like, do you guys mind if I finish it? I'm like, no, you will wait for us. We will watch this together. But yeah, she really, really enjoyed it. But okay, let's just, let's just get into everything. Well, there's a non-spoiler section right now. No. No, we're just going to go straight to the spoilers. Okay. That's the non-spoiler review. There you go. Go watch this film. You do not need more than that. That's true. You really don't. It will, you will enjoy it. It will be hard hitting and everything in it is top notch. There you go. I don't know what else you need. Exactly. Go watch it and come back. The minute issues I might have with it, you don't really need to know going in. It's not going to. Not at all. It's not going to inhibit your experience. Not at all. In the slightest. Nope. But anyways, let's start with, I say it every single time, but Rajkumar Rao, he's so phenomenal. Yep. All the time. He's so phenomenal. He's one of the, if not one of the most versatile actor in India, but even around the world. I think if you gave him, and I saw this at the opening of this thing, and I mean this, I think if you gave him scripts that were like There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York, I think he would shock the world. Oh yeah. Well, we've seen that. I think he would shock the world. We've seen it in Omurta. We've seen it in Gangs. We've seen it in... He's an incredible actor. I think a couple other things. Kaipoche, he obviously flexed. It was different, not like a psycho or anything like that. There Will Be Blood. But he's so good. And he has, like I said, I call him young Pankaj essentially. He brings the same love ability that Pankaj can. But in the same way Pankaj can, he can do comedy and be the best at it. And he could be the scariest person on the block. Exactly. Just like Pankaj. He could do quirky comedy. Yeah. And his choices as well are very similar in terms of... I don't know if... I'm assuming it's important to him to deduce these style of stories because there's not very many in Indian cinema that I've seen so far. And he can choose what he wants to do for sure. Oh yeah. Guaranteed this is near and dear to his heart. But the two... I mean, we've probably seen what? Less than five LGBTQ films in all of India, so far I'd say. And he's been in two of them. Two of them. I can think of. I wrapped up in my head of course because they were so memorable. Yeah. And obviously so different. So I'm assuming he likes to... Obviously he looks for characters that are unique and interesting. But I think he also wants to tell a story. And also this film... No, I'll get to that in a minute. But yeah, Raj Kamar did so good in this. He brought the corkiness. He also brought the sensitivity and the loveability. He won his frickin' ripped in this. I know. He really worked hard. And there were so many little quirks in this film that he gave this character that are not explained. They don't need to be. But I loved that. I know. He makes fully fleshed out characters. He really does. And the other thing he does... Because so many of you stupid babies who are actors or love acting will ask me questions. You'll send me DMs or when I go live on Instagram you'll ask me questions about what makes good acting. And one of the most important things about an actor... And it's hard to find it a lot of the time because so often when someone's talking you're only watching the actor talking. The POV is typically them. But oftentimes in this you could see him listening. And that's one of the traits of great actors. They're great listeners. It looks like they're hearing the words for the first time. And he always, always looks like... Pankaj does it too. Most of the great actors we refer to. He always looks like he's hearing what you're saying for the very first time. Yeah, that one scene when his parents came over and he was trying to get her to go make tea. And there wasn't something said for at least 30 seconds on screen. And they were kind of just glancing back and forth trying to talk and nothing was said. That was absolutely hilarious. Okay, now let's talk about... Hold on. Yeah, I'm going to say about Rashko. Oh, okay. I think he brings so much to the character. He's the one that... I mean there was a couple moments that made me well up at the end. But his moment with his mother there at the end. On the roof. Where it was... I literally saw a man break down. And... When he... I hadn't... When I started to cry and it never stopped. Towards the end. Yeah. When I started to cry and I just kept crying all the way through. And at one point, Andrani, who was watching with me, she sat next to me and she looked at me and she was crying. And I... And I just said... Why can't they just be accepted? And she put her head on my shoulder and we cried together. It's when he's... I love the fact that he couldn't tell Sumi when he first called. It wasn't this great moment. But hey, I told them it was still in him and the phone call hangs up and then calls back and when he gets her and he finally says it, when he said... Breaks down. I told them. And breaks down. And they both did it. Done. And yeah, and she's... That's why I can't wait to talk about her. It was a great moment. Great moment. The two of them. That moment and then there was many moments towards the end like with the Pride Parade. Oh. And like the signs. The signs made me well up. Just because I... Obviously since I'm a dad it makes me think like the fact that these kids a lot of them, their parents don't accept them for who they are and the fact that that dad was there saying, I love my gay son. That's huge. I would like... Yeah, that's huge. That gets me as well. I don't saw all those moments but that was one of the last things on Rajkumar. His little quirky gave to this character. I don't know if you noticed that anytime he opened a door or if he turned on the light switch he always did it three times. I did not pick up on that at all. You didn't see that? No. It wasn't explained ever. So like when he flipped a light switch he flipped it one, two, one, two, one and when he opened a door every single time. I did not pick up on that. Every single time he did anything with an open or turn on. Interesting. He's like a very OCD guy. OCD. Interesting. This was all that. And there's a couple references that I'm glad we're so in the know now in terms of Indian cinema like when he was like I want him to be Mr. India and she's like you can't you're not invisible. Mmm. Yeah. I like that reference. I think it's great. Yep. And so there's so many greats and he's I'm hoping one day we'll get to talk to the man. Oh my goodness. Of course. And the other thing I love that he did I loved when he put on the mask and he did that. I laughed so hard. It was a release laugh because I was so sad when he just went yep. I said that is so good. Yep. So good. Let's talk about Bumi. Bumi. Go ahead. I just what a beautiful person to have in this role. I can't imagine anyone else in this role. Did you imagine Shreya? No. You know who she reminded me of? She reminds me of Shreya. She reminds me of Priyanka. No I didn't. See that's exactly what Andrani said too and I said you don't see the spatial the actual mathematical spatial relationship of her eyes nose chin and face and it wasn't all the time there were only certain moments like the point she had her helmet on she was on the bike I'm like you don't see a similarity I will say the her capacity as an actor especially when it was needed most which is at the very very last half hour I believed here's what I believed all of the time the most important thing at the beginning was I believed the romances and that was the sexiest blood donation ever caught on camera Yeah that did a great job That was great I love the flirting between the two of them We'll talk about the riding Yeah but I I really believed that she had really attracted to and fell in love with her girlfriend Chum Darang who we'll talk about her too and I really believed everything they were going through I believed she was a gay person I believed that they were dealing with this situation and I really believed I also felt they did a very good job they knew they had to give it the happy ending kind of thing but I loved that they didn't give it the full throttle I didn't want to see the whole family rallying I loved that a couple people at the end when they went to the adoption thing got up and left when they found out they were going to adopt because that is the reality you are not going to have everyone in your family accept you in any way shape or form it's going to stay divisive like that and we'll get into the story itself But I thought she did a phenomenal phenomenal job I would like to see I think this is the first thing she's a great actor I think that it is that I can remember if she's in something else then she shape shifts because I don't remember her in anything else that we've ever seen we've seen her in trailers I'm sure she's in toilet with the auction auction but I mean it says enough that you're holding your own co-starring with Rajkumar Rao nope she was in the Sushant military one but she must have had a small role was she the girlfriend? she stopped Bill Indu I don't remember who that is is that the main girl it may have been his girlfriend and I think from what I remember of this film and I'm sorry if we're forgetting that you were in this film yeah because I do remember liking the lead if she was the lead that I'm thinking of in that film because we really enjoyed that film a lot I need to go back and watch a review but if that is that's not surprising that she was this good more work for her in this more work for her I thought she was phenomenal in this a bunch of great moments and they all thought it was all very very subtle in this film but she brought it at the moments that she needed to and like obviously when she was telling a family which was a heartbreaking scene to watch the mom when she's talking to her dad to watch her with her mom and the mom was being an asshole and the brother who I just wanted to murder right there and then when she said I thought you would at least have my back but I thought that whole scene was great where she was talking at her dad agreed and it was just her really he was just sitting there and he couldn't really give her anything because that's probably what this dad would have done in real life shock and just he loves his daughter but the culture around him says he needs to be not accept this obviously but what she did there just on that chair I thought was so great and then she had another great moment with Rajkumar on the phone which the great thing about that again for you lovers of acting you know they weren't talking on the phone right and they might have been I doubt it they probably had dead phones in their hands because they were in two completely different locations but they'd still be on the phone not necessarily I would love to know I would say they were on the phone my suspicion is they weren't most actors I know will like obviously they want to be actually talking to somebody so that actor will obviously maybe obviously not in person in front of them they'll already have the phone ready for them to be there and so they can actually have a dialogue if it wasn't Rajkumar if there was somebody just doing a reading like a reader that's even worse I'd rather have it than silent than have a reader giving me a dead reading in my ear but yeah I agree she did so good and what this film did so well I mean a lot of stuff they did so well but the writing of the film was so good and even though there's moments like I said I unfortunately have to understand that the Indian culture they wanted a mass appeal exactly I get it they did I feel like they did everything everything they could but I still don't for that audience that I don't like having to accept other people's I know but you want the message to be heard I understand I know I just don't like to understand but yeah what they did with the weaving of this story and it was hilarious it was a full on rom-com remind me of the rom-com we watched at the beginning of February Barfi the one like it brought a lot of that fun happy feeling that vibe but the fact that it brought that deep subject matter which we don't see a lot but it also just played it like it was a rom-com it didn't play like it was a gay rom-com it played it like it was a rom-com which Hollywood was very um guilty of doing this type of stuff like making the gay role very stereotypical stuff like that and it was a gay movie as opposed to now obviously all industries hopefully because people are more you know the word now but the fact that this was literally you could have just put two straight people in this of course and it would have been the exact same thing of course because it just made it that people just happened to be gay exactly and it was wonderful and the fact that there was so many love stories going on yeah and I love the musical numbers they gave us that weren't the I love that they gave us the holiday like the wedding song but they also gave us your stereotypical rom-com uh you know what do they call when you when you put all the images together and it's a montage yeah and they put the montage together and they did it don't do it make it make it the stereotypical thing show everybody what they're used to seeing with heterosexual couples in these kinds of films and let them see that this is how these people feel even though it's with someone of the same gender I thought it was brilliant I would have rather than kiss hey you would have loved it you would have preferred this to have been broke back now you know I wanted it to be what it is but yeah I thought I did really enjoy the because I loved each love story I was invested in everybody with the heartbreaking Rajkumar and the first white guy that he loved and how much of an asshole that guy was when he did the bail me out thing I out loud I went no I knew it was coming and then once again Rajkumar being amazing how heartbroken he was like after he slapped because he was so mad but then he was like oh my god and he tried to save it and he did a phenomenal job phenomenal job but then I was invested in that love story I was invested in her love story absolutely was a beautiful what a great job I'm sorry I'm on the wrong page we're on the wrong page we're looking and want to give everybody the right proper credit we're on Bumi's page Chum Durang yeah I loved their relationship she did a phenomenal job was she gonna put that lock where shut up where did she a small part in Badaw had to have been I think maybe she worked in the news office maybe I think she worked in the news office where regardless she did anyway she did a phenomenal job I believed their love story and I was invested in it and then once Rajkumar switched to the other guy who also did a phenomenal job and I rewound because in Drani she had missed it we were eating and she had looked at her food and I rewound it so she could see it when she realizes that she's not gonna have to come back to get any more samples or tests or anything and you could tell she likes this girl and she leaves and she just turns around one more time and she just goes like this and then they go back to Bumi's character that look on her face I went back so that in Drani could see it I said this is so cute yes they did a phenomenal job at just making it a romcom that in multiple romcoms so obviously you had Rajkumar and Bumi's relationship that obviously and just them as friends and them like being there for each other yeah rooting for them and being so sad they have to do what they have to do but also this film incorporated like four different love stories that were fleshed out and very authentic and also built in the family relationship and I thought everybody in the family did a phenomenal job agreed it was a very similar family vibe just not as not as murdery not as murdery well put but the fact that well put the grandma was the matriarch and she was kind of controlling everything and telling everybody kind of what to do yeah Shiba from Merzapur Shiba Chada she as well as I forgot the actress's name who I referenced that we had first seen her in Gungabai the madam Seema yeah Seema they but especially Shiba the other parking had many moments of really subtle comedy mmm side eye comedy just looking over here and looking over here really quits funny comedy he's had a lot of comedy a ton yeah like laugh out loud moments yes of like when she just brought the shit in the thing it's like a half a kilo of shit she brought the whole thing in and then obviously there was wordplay wordplay and then Rajkumar's character I thought was just hilarious he's constantly afraid he's gonna get found out and like he gets a cousin oh she's not Mike of course she's not her cousin it's my cousin and I thought it was really the way that was filmed by obviously the cinematographer and the director himself of like when the mom came over and Rajkumar walks in and they switched to a different more intense camera angle and it's just a pan and you're like what? yes and then you saw a boomy walk out the other great choice other great choice was that moment of not just that dead pan but utter silence that was brilliant it was we've just changed gears now and now we're in a very deep really I feel like I said it in the paragraph they did a great job and scoring as well of taking us into the dark underbelly of what is a really awful evil treatment of people and wrapping it up and serving this to you in a palatable way really difficult to do yeah absolutely and the there was I don't some of the issues I had it was not really issues I don't think they knew how to end this film it seemed like there was four I knew we were going to talk about the ending I knew we were going to talk about like it was surprising because I liked every ending like in terms of you even like the one year later job though is that the adoption yeah yeah I like what they did in the scene okay great honestly I didn't even see them say it was one year later I just thought it was a couple weeks later but there was like four moments in this film that they went full black and I was like okay we're going to end here I thought it was ending at the parade it could have ended when he told her yep and so I don't think they knew when to end it and they were like we've got to incorporate this and so the reason I think they do because and I agree because I was disappointed when it faded at the at the parade I was ready for credits when it came up I went oh no don't ruin the ending why are you back I really was like why are you back but they had to touch on because I don't remember them doing it they had to touch on the words and saying that we're not legally able to adopt and touch on that reality because they were talking about it throughout but they got back to the subject okay now we're out we obviously can't be married but what are we going to do because we want to adopt and we can't like I'm a single woman they would let me do that but the fact that I met I'm lesbian I'm disqualified now legally I thought that was important yeah it was and like I said I didn't mind any I was like there was like four of them and so I thought it was but I loved the parade I liked the ending where obviously the dad brought he was like the child should be with his mothers and that moment with them and then the fact that Rajkumar's character he was like I'm not asking you to be the dad I just want you I just kind of want you with me yeah and I wonder I wonder if that was a moment where maybe it had been and I'm just a speculation but these are really great moments where you get to see behind the scenes I wonder if it was scripted for her dad to maybe get up and be closer to her and it could have been like the man playing her dad said I feel like it would be better for me if I stayed and we maintained this distance what do you think because that was a conscious choice and I felt it was a really responsible realistic choice in that you see he's grown and he's changed and he's supporting but he's still he's still not all there yet just by placing him in the chair it's like he's there but he's not there and I that's another little thing I love and I loved all the songs I thought the wedding song was great and also the fact that they incorporated a vine I love that I love that did they just incorporate that? I loved it and the little quirky comedy stuff going on like we're gonna do a kick and oops oh I hit her in the nose then the next few minutes later she's there with her nose bandaged up on you son of a bitch I thought all that was great I thought it was a very enjoyable film I think one of my favorites of the year absolutely I think it's such an enjoyable film it might show up in my dummy noms which is strange because too often comedies are overlooked are overlooked but this is good enough that I think it merits talk about in regard to some of the best performances of the year also gay people are people just want everybody to know that and also just because homosexuality has been decriminalized does not mean you are done they deserve to be get married adopt children and live their fucking life without you butting in sorry I agree I'm not but I need to say my piece because whenever I bring up stuff like this people are like it's decriminalized that's not enough great movie and the whatever needs to be done in the courts to change the laws there's no there's so many kids that need homes and there's no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to be in a home where the home is going to be providing what they need economically and giving them relational love and that doesn't need to be a consideration on there as to whether or not the two people in the home are heterosexual as long as the child has a roof and has love and has provision does anything else matter nope and that law needs to be changed absolutely anyways let us know what you thought about this film and if you didn't like it you're wrong yeah absolutely you idiot