 What do you think? I'm just playing games, bro Hey, we'll go back to our stupid director. It's this is Corbin This is Rick and you could follow all this on Instagram and From our juicy content Thank you so much on patreon follow an official twitter account ring the bell to be part of the notification squad That's how you get to know when we post videos hence what a notification is And follow our personal youtube channels links always in description below yeah, go down there and jump on the links I'm not talking about golf and Today we are doing a movie review a long Da-da-da-da-da long awaited long a very long awaited Movie review as they all are now I think They are but we reacted we reacted to the trailer on this like 11 months ago. No, we got sent the DVD Many moons ago But we get there. We're like we're like the rabbit in the hair race or you know the little tugboat I think I can I think I we get there eventually it might be eventually 2037, but we'll get that's true Today we reviewed a NAND Which I don't know that's how you pronounce it I think I'm pretty sure that's not yeah, I'm pretty sure it's pronounced like Anand I think Something like that. Yeah, I'm in Obviously it came out in 1971 Directed by say his name for me Rick, please Well, you're expecting me to already have my IMDB open. I'm expecting you to be a professional, but I guess that was too much Oh, that's way too much. I mean, do you think this is our professional reactions? That's true That's true, but it it is It is because I can tell you this I know his last name is McCurgy because he's a Bengali Yes, okay got it open. Yes Rich cash McCurgy Directed written and produced by him Correct in starring say all their names for me This this guy that we've just been introduced to named I'm a top batch Chan. Yeah, he seemed okay. He seemed okay I don't know why we haven't heard more from him because he looked very promising and I guess he just fell off Anyway, he's done anything else. Yeah, and Rajesh Khanna, which Even to now, I know we still don't know everybody was saying you think Big B is the legend Well, this is the legend before the legend. Yeah And then say the other two And then the role of Renu was played by Sumita Sanyal and then his doctor friend was Ramesh Dale Yes And a hundred percent spoiler of you because it came out in 1971 if you haven't seen it. You're not really Indian I'm pretty sure Yeah, I think this is a requirement for Indian citizenship. Have you seen? On it. Yeah, anyways But it's the story of a terminally ill man. I wish they wouldn't put that in there immediately I guess I know me too. I guess they tell you pretty soon though A story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the full before the inevitable occurs as told by his best friend That's okay. It could be a worse synopsis initial thoughts I'll give you my little paragraph for my initial thought. How's that? Is that good? All right of the older Indian films we've seen which shamefully there's like Three if you can if you make the opu trilogy one film and when I mean older, I mean like the 70s or before, right? And of those that we've seen I Still hold as far as cinematic stuff Opu has a very special place in is the number one cinematic artistry thing But this would be my number one selection for American audiences to ingest and to see I think it it the one area it lacks in realism is absolutely made up for in its many important and beautifully told messages about death dying life and living with an absolutely beautiful representation of modern Mumbai at the time and Often painfully beautiful poetic writing worthy of the reputation of Gulsar if that's you pronounce that man's name I actually have a little book of his poems Gulsar Gulsar, please help me stupid babies to pronounce his name, right? That's my initial initial impression. What about you? Oh, I liked it a lot. Yeah, I think I would agree in terms of Films if an American audience was the limited ones we've seen I'm sure there's a ton more. Yeah, we've got a gazillion to see Yeah, I think this is the most digestible in terms for an American audience that hasn't seen anything yet Close second for me, especially if you're like my wife is Sholei Obviously, I prefer Sholei more But it's only because it's my personal taste not because of anything that I think is better than this or worse than that Same same thing with me. This is I prefer this over Sholei, but it's not I didn't it's not that I dislike it It's just personal taste and I have no qualms if somebody says they'd like Sholei better than they like on it I thought it was a beautiful Telling and I thought a really good telling and I I know that I'm a tagbaksha and was like New at this point and I could see why people saw so much in him I don't know how much he did before he he put on a really different strong performance that I've never seen because I think he was So young And we haven't even seen him this young and when he became a star star. I think he preferred the angry young men Rolls that I think he was called for for a while And so this was I think a very different role that not that he was out of his stretch obviously, but I was really impressed with our first introduction to Rajesh Khanna Yes I thought he was a ball like he was basically what I was trying to figure out the entire time I was like, what does he remind me of and I'm not trying to compare him and obviously this is a weird comparison But he reminded me of like real-life Olaf Uh Yeah, that's a good good. That's a good comparison a very happy Person, which is why everybody liked them in his life so much Um and and being around him, but I thought the whole And you've seen films like this terminally ill people that choose to be really happy But it's it's one of those stories that Deserves retelling on and off because it's such a cute story. Obviously death. Yes. It's probably one of the most human things Around because everybody's gonna go through it Um, and so the fact that you know, he's so happy and it's more about everybody else grieving and Yeah, and him being like I want to just and it's how you you would think you would want to enjoy your last days If you knew your days were numbered you'd be like, I want to be I don't want to dwell It's gonna happen. I can't really change that but right he did show in certain times his his um emotion About his struggle. Yeah multiple times. I think there's two or three times in songs. Oh, yeah, or at the very end where he was like I don't want to die He really let it come through But so you saw that humaneness side of him, which is I think a beautiful Thing to tell on film To tell that part of it But the whole of it being like everybody's grieving like how does a doctor who sees death all the time grieve? How does you know and then he becomes best friends and then how does the the females in this grief and Yeah, so I thought that whole part was just so so beautiful and I could see why people like this film so much Oh, absolutely can and I I um If I were remaking it today and we were you know, because I think so many times about how there's You know Indian films have consistently remade films from Hollywood And we've talked about how I would love to see films from India be made into american films The role that I would cast we can't use that actor Um, but I would I would put uh in the role that rogers connor played. I'd put robin williams His that he had, you know very different personality, but he had that same sense of innocence and joy, but also That the little bit of the sorrow behind there that He will look at but he there's you know when he says to uh big b That moment when he says, um, I'm not gonna basically says I'm not sharing this with other people. This is my private pain Yeah, it it didn't come across as a guy trying to hide or not wanting to share It just was this point of sometimes people do need to be alone with their struggle and that's That's okay. There's a balance because sometimes that's a really slippery abyss to go down But that it made that musical number we saw where he's walking along the beach Even even more touching uh and beautiful and I yeah the the biggest thing of all I I just was so happy to see Uh an older film in india that you could you know, you could recommend Because we so want to see people have the stereotypes that have in their mind about Bollywood shattered This is a great film to grab show lay is as well But the drawback as you I think you would agree would be this as a shorter runtime So it's a little bit more digestible. It's a little bit more contemporary in terms of the feelings and stuff But I love that. I love the way mumbai felt more like la of 1971 than it did some distance You know, it really gives you the idea of hey, you know what india's not this third world country You think it is and it really never has been guys you need to Recognize that and my only critique of it. I mentioned to my little paragraph was There's moments that and it's it's not a fault. It's just the way it was with people's cinematic development at the time Not everybody developed at the same time There are several moments that are cliched with the score where someone has a dramatic moment and the score does that Mellow drama soap opera kind of thing which at the time was completely acceptable But for today's digestion People need to recognize don't give this a 21st century parameter For what they were doing the 20th century back then that also happened in old school hollywood as well Some of the it sure did some in which is why i'm not as big of a fan of a lot of older hollywood stuff Because except for certain ones because the people that broke the mold marlon brando james dean Uh, that's why they were so revolutionary because everybody was doing this almost Just acting almost theater type acting on screen almost Um, and not just bollywood in hollywood Um, oh yeah, and then people came in and they were like no, let's let's be real Let's like right make it more realistic And that's why they were so revolutionary and then I think big b took the mantle of that as well in the industry In bollywood and and really changed the game in bollywood because he was he's always He was he was never over the top. I don't think big b can be over the top. I'm gonna be honest with you He's he's quite a small actor Well, and most of the performances in this Were on the smaller side for the most part and that's a that's a testament as well to rajah khanah because His character could have been zany. Yeah, and it wouldn't have worked And and for a character that was so Over the top he kept it Relatively grounded and that's also true We pointed that out a lot about the actor because we're both we're both actors and we've talked about how You know the silent era informed the era of sound with cliched acting and as did um other aspects of vaudeville and then when sat when brando came on the scene and Lee schrossberg and method acting it The other thing is the directing as well. So like in 1971 the same year that this came out It was the same year that dirty harry came out and and and the french connection and fiddler on the roof And that even the directing style was evolving, but you can't You can't compare those for me. I did that at first. I was like, well, this isn't this Real Yeah, and that's not if anybody who would critique the film on that level I don't think is seeing the larger hole and that's my That's my only critique as a whole. I think this is a really wonderful wonderful movie Yeah, I I really really enjoyed it. Like I said, my favorite parts were probably when um Rajesh's character broke Uh, either during the song when he was singing Uh, and then big b saw him singing Um, or the very end when he broke and he was crying to her He's like, I don't want to die and waiting for me to come back and I thought the ending was phenomenal I knew it was gonna. Yeah, I knew it was gonna come too because with the recording He was like talk to me talk to me and then the recorded started playing I thought that was that was really really well done in terms of Ending it like that. Did you cry? I did not but I had might have three favorite moments I did get emotional, but I didn't have tears coming down the cheeks. Yeah, did you? Nowhere close. I had many favorite moments My first favorite moment is at the beginning of the film when He says when big b is looking at him and basically says do you realize your prognosis here? Do you realize what's gonna happen to you and he says to big b? Yeah, well, you're gonna live to a hundred maybe so you've got what 70 years and I've got six months I'm gonna live a million moments between now and when I die. Are you gonna live those moments too that the song And then those last 10 minutes of the film I think so beautifully wrap it up, especially with them in the room big b's there He's gone and unexpectedly so we expect it. Yeah, it plays and it's the two of them and it ends with their laughter Like really laughing in the face of death. Yeah So yeah, and even recounting some of it the emotion Sturs up. So yeah, I know I know a lot of people There was like people on twitter saying this will make Corbin cry because they've been trying to make me cry for A long time now and it's just yes. I have no soul if The part of Rajesh Khanna Had been a terminally ill dog whining in the bed. Yeah, that would be much more likely That would have been much more although father son stuff is touching me a lot more now than it ever did all right The club my brother that uh, welcome to the club that that obviously changes stuff when you have a child I got two quick things of trivia you may know and I know these because of of Stupid babies One, did you know that Rajesh Khanna was the father-in-law to the king of cheese Akshay? I think they've told us that yeah They did and then the other thing that's true and the big b apparently confirmed this was Big b was not known at all And when he went to the gas station to fill up his car Before the release of the film nobody knew who he was The next time the next time he went to the exact same gas station. It was after the film was released And everybody was recognizing him. That is how big This movie was and how much it catapulted big b from Nobody knew who he was to now suddenly he's the guy who was in that great film with Rajesh Khanna Yeah, I and I see why I really like I said, I really enjoy this movie I would rate if like somebody you wanted to introduce an american to an old school Bollywood film. Yes, this would be a good one to introduce them to the style that was uh, then back then Absolutely, but obviously we've seen very little And so that could change and I'm very obviously interested for a lot of reasons I would like to see because he's got a ton Of stuff on his resume. I would love to see more films By, uh, uh, Richie kesh McCurgy Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, be awesome very interested in him because we've talked about getting into other Bengali Films other than such is right And there's others. I don't yeah, there actually are So yeah, I like I said, I really enjoyed this film. I really enjoyed the songs a lot The songs were really great even the ones that we didn't see really good. I thought they were really really good Uh public service announcement Don't release balloons Balloons that you originally thought favored the shape size and color of the human male penis. Yes No, yes, you know it it kills animals and turtles. So don't do it Just like you shouldn't feed ducks bread. Just don't do it. It's not good. It's bad for them You could feed them seeds get them seeds throw the ducks some seeds. Don't feed Anyways, I'm on my I'm on my soapbox now. Don't release balloons into the air. It's bad for Anyway, take a ride that was actually uh, because Steph watched it with me. She was like, yeah, don't do that Because she's the first time seeing it Yeah So, uh, yeah, that was great. Let us know what other, um Uh, Rajesh Kana films we should watch the next big big classic we should watch and classic bollywood in general Even if it doesn't have them Let us know what we should watch down below We have a lot to watch because bollywood's been around for a little while now Uh, from what I've been told Think about it Let us know You