 I know what it is. What? I know why Runveer is doing this cat and mouse thing with us on Twitter. He likes foreplay. Yep. What? No. He is intimidated that our energy and sense of fashion will so overshadow him that he's just frankly terrified to come on the channel and be with us. So what we're going to do is we're just going to, we're going to start talking about Topik all the time now. She'll come on. What do you think? I don't think any Ranveer is intimidated by anything. Hey, welcome back to our YouTube channel, Greg. She's the Corbin. I'm Greg. Especially not by somebody who has four shirts. Yep. Am I right, guys? That's true. It's okay. Same like five shirts, just different colors. Here we go. Today, did I or did you do the intro? We just did an intro. We were talking about how Runveer- No, did I say hey welcome back? Yeah, you said welcome back everybody, but we didn't say Instagram and Twitter for- Instagram and Twitter. Sorry. I don't listen when I talk. 1987, starring Ranveer. Yeah, he was around then. Yeah. He's around 35? Yeah, so he's close to his birthday. Yeah, he's probably around there. Anyways. Yes, 100% starring him. But it's a, directed and written by- Say the name. Yes, forgive the mispronunciation of the name. Sigistam Sirvasa. Starring Kamal Hassan. Yes. And it's a silent movie about an unemployed young man. That's true. It's true. And it's- Pushpaka Vamana. No dialogue is I think actually what it- Yeah, it's technically- Well, yeah, because it's technically not a silent- No, there's sound. There's sound. Lots of sound. Aside from music, there's lots of sound. Lots of sound in like the real world, but there's no outside of a few inaudible speaking parts. Right. The entire film is silent, which I believe was India's first since the silent era. You are correct, sir. Right? Yep. And there's some debate about where this is actually from. I think it's originally a Kannada production. I thought it was Damu. There's that, other people say that as well. There's not really a language to it, so it doesn't- I'm leaning toward Damu for a couple of reasons. First, it's Kamal. Yeah, he's done many, many. Second, the writer-director. Was it also Damu? Yes. And the title Pushpaka Vamana is the- My understanding was it was the Damu title, and when they- This is weird. Like there was a Hindi release and it was just Pushpaka. Pushpaka. Pushpaka. That's weird. Why are you- Flower, I think it just means flower. Why not use the same title? Well, they do that all the time, man. Especially since there's no language thing. Why do you need to release it in a different way? No, so if I'm describing it to people, I'm saying it's a Damu film. If I'm incorrect, let me know. Yeah, let me know because there's- I think Jimmy, I think, has reviewed this and it's in his Ganada playlist. Really? So let us know. I don't know. I'm not saying it's one or the other because I know people get very offended if we call it one thing or another. Who wants it? Yes. But let us know in terms of the production house that- Yeah, until you tell me otherwise I'm saying it's- Yeah, I believe why you would. But anyways, came out in 1987, 100% spoiler review. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. There's many versions on- I think, actually, India, you have it on Amazon. We do not. We do not in the United States. Sadly. But it is on YouTube, many different formats as well. But, Rick, your initial thoughts. And on YouTube, I got to tell you that the subtitles were awful. Yeah, I agree. Just garbage. Just garbage. Some of the worst subtitles I've ever seen. I actually wrote down here- Oh, you made a paragraph. I made a paragraph in a while. An astronomically courageous project celebrating the genius and inspiration of Charlie Chaplin and Jerry Lewis and Peter Sellers proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that Kamal Hassan cares more about elevator artistic expression than anything else. I loved it. Yeah. I really enjoyed it as well. I loved it. It was a super, super- I don't think I know what to think first. You're like, okay, here's an Indian film in 80s. Silent. Right. I don't know where it's going from there. Yeah. And so it took so many different turns. I love it. And it's obviously a bunch of questionable things that he did to a person. I was describing it to Indrani, right? Because she didn't watch it. I was watching it while she was sleeping. And as I'm describing the film to her, she's like, you're joking. Right? No, this is real. And as I'm telling it, I'm laughing as I'm telling it back to her. Like, okay, and then after he does that, so then there's this guy who's very much like the Pink Panther movies Peter Sellers bad guys. Yeah. Who's trying to kill him with this frozen dagger and he keeps sticking it in the dummy. She was like, this is not real. Yes, this is real. It was like, and this is one of the comedies that we kind of hundred percent get because it's all physical or like stuff. There was some, it was mostly low brow humor, but there was some high brow humor. Yeah. So it's, it's one of those that we talk about, like in the parts of Padosan, a lot of physical comedy there. That had a lot of obviously, but sneeze. Oh, wow. I'm so sorry. That's awful. It's the worst. It's the worst. It's so unsatisfying that the sneeze comes. Oh, that's terrible. Very sorry. Anyways, but yeah, it's a bunch of different comedy like that. I thought their love story was actually quite intriguing. Right. And you kind of like, oh, I hope they get to that. Yeah. I loved how it ended. That's true. I knew you would. That, that he just, it went spoilers again. It just, it loses the note that she, what did it say? Yeah. And then he just live in his life. The minute, when I described the ending to Andrani, and I said, she wrote him a note as well as the flower, but the note gets blown and it falls down this grading and he doesn't get it. And he just runs to find her and she goes driving away and he just holds up the flower to her. And she said, oh, that's very chaplain. And I said, cause she adores Charlie Chaplin. And I said, yeah, here's something else. And we'll get into the acting aspect of it as well. One of the things that I found most amazing among other things is the fact that he especially, but pretty much everybody wasn't pushing the physical comedy or over exaggerating like the silent era. Yeah. No, no. This was probably the most grounded physical comedy I've ever seen. Yeah. I was impressed at that sense of really, especially with him, his sense of really wanting to embody the, in what could just be literally Jerry Lewis stupid, but it, he, he kept it so legitimate. And for him to do this at what I understand is this is him hitting the peak of his stardom. Yeah. Just going to strict or he's going up. It's even more weird than when Mel Gibson did the Passion of the Christ here. Cause when Mel Gibson did the Passion of the Christ, he was big star here known for lethal weapon, known for the Mad Max movie and being a gorgeous, like he was voted one of the sexiest men. So everyone's waiting for him to do his next big blockbuster thing. Then you find out he's going to sell finance and independent film about the last few hours of the life of Jesus and the whole movie will be in a dead language. Everybody was like, what are you doing? Turned out to be the biggest grossing rated art film of all time. Yeah. And that is the comparable chutzpah that he has of, okay, I'm a big star right now. I know what they expect of me. Yeah. I'm just going to do what I want to do. I appreciate the fact that obviously this had a lot of amashes to Chaplin and the old cartoons. Even like the pink panther as you've been very pink panther at time. Very pink panther. You even had some. Without copying. Yeah. Same thing with Chaplin. It was just, it was inspired by. That's one of the things I appreciate. You could tell they were getting their inspiration from those classics, but this was its own original thing and stories and performances. Yep. I didn't think anybody was trying to be the tramp. Not at all. I didn't think anybody was trying to be any of those different characters that have been famously made by other silent artists. Yep. But I felt they did a really good job. And the whole storyline is so interesting because obviously it's this guy who finds this drunk. Ducks this drunk ties him down. Yep. Basically drugs him. Yeah. Because we could live his life. Drugs him. Like it happens in old Hollywood films as well. Like there's these questionable things that the morally reprehensible. Our heroes do in all old school types of films. But obviously at the time he was just like, oh, that's funny. And now you're just like, he did what? Yep. Yep. He kidnapped a guy and literally for days. But it was also very Laurel and Hardy Three Stooges. Yep. Yes. That like at one point when he's putting the alcohol in him. And then when he's sitting on the toilet, he still got him gagged and he's doing the gag with the toilet. The guy who's all bound up is just giving him a look like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's so much to love about this. Yeah. It was really interesting. I did see somebody say something about why that was the poor man on the rich man. Because apparently on the walls of Kamal Hasan's place, he had a Karl Marx. Karl Marx. It's in my notes, right? Yeah. I wrote down here. I said that is a Karl Marx poster on the wall of his place. Which was apparently big in that time in India. And so like, if you have researched Karl Marx at all, what he feels about the poor to the rich and what that means. So that might have been one of the parallels. Absolutely. Especially if they have a poster. And that's what I meant by this combination of both high brow and low brow humor. Yeah. Because that was the high brow aspect in the middle of a low brow segment. Yeah. That was really smart. One of the funniest movies that made me moments that made me laugh out loud. And it's just a testament to the fact that Kamal Hasan was doing what is, I refer to what is groundlings comedy. Because there's schools of comedy here that a lot of the SNL alum have gone to. And they just teach different approaches to comedy. So like Second City in Chicago has a different way they go about approaching comedy. I'm familiar with groundlings because I've done some studying in classes and stuff at groundlings. And one of the things about groundlings comedy is you never ever play for the laugh. You play for the believability in the moment. And the hilarity of the circumstance is what makes it funny. And he did that in the moment where the magician comes over and he grabs one of the canes and he turns it into a handkerchief and walks on. He comes over, grabs one of the canes, the way he did it and the look on his face and then running because he got in trouble. I laughed out loud. I thought it was brilliant. There was a lot of really funny moments like when they were in the apartment and they picked up the wand and the guy rose all over the town. I thought it was actually really well done for 1987. All the magic. I thought all the magic was fantastic. Yeah, he picks up the wand and it makes him go up and then drop back down. It was awesome. I thought it's one of my actually... He's done a lot of really good performances and I'd have to really... How long have we been seeing this? All the original playing shows and automobiles. Hey, Ron. Naya Khan, I believe, which is the gangster one, right? And this one. And is there another one? I don't know. See the four or five, right? See the four or five. And so I'd say either... I don't know my favorite performance of him because this is kind of... Even though it's a really good performance, obviously his performance in Hey, Ron, I thought was really, really good. I can't take anything away from Hey, Ron, of course. I... That... Naya Khan, I thought for a lot of time, even though there were some issues that we had with that film. I thought an issue was him. Yeah, no. But this is for me both my favorite... Oh, granted. We've only seen, like we just said, you can count on one hand. This is my favorite thus far, both of his films and... His performance. His performance, yeah. I think it was a... And part of it is the importance level in the sense of... He... I was talking with Indrani about this as well. The... The courageousness in... It isn't just in India. It's in every industry, but especially in India, where the hero is expected to do certain things. That's our case talked about how when he's made some stretches that he would like to make, he's aware of what his audience wants. Yeah. And it's very clear from what we know of his legacy now, because this was in 87, but from here on out, he just continued and became known for what is he going to do next. Not, he's going to be this, what we expect him to be. It's just, I'm going to push the envelope wherever I can, whether it's in dancing, music, special effects. I'm just going to make whatever I feel like I want to make, and I'm inspired to make creatively. And I absolutely now, I'm beginning to see kind of what would be, for lack of a better term, the sunrise shining of what everybody says is so important about him, not just in Indian cinema, but cinema as a whole. Yeah. And it's one of those things again, I'm like, wow, I used to teach theater and I didn't know about this guy. Yeah. It's amazing. Yeah, he's super, super interesting, because all of his films, even the little that we've seen, all so different, his role. So crazy different. Like you have obviously Marlon Brando's character in Naya Khan. Right. That even though we really didn't enjoy the film, the plane change in automobiles one, but it wasn't his performance in that performance. He's so different. He's the only thing that just walked away liking. And then It's so weird. Obviously, Hey, Ram, which is a huge spectrum of a role. Yeah. And then this, God, I think there's another one. I just can't remember who it was. I do too. I feel like there was another one. What was the one with the dancer? No, we haven't seen it yet. We've only seen the trailer of that one. We've seen a lot of songs. And songs. Okay. I feel like we've seen that film. I think it's a to-look about him being a classical dancer. Right. And so I do want to watch that one. But it's, it's hard to find a, also I laughed out loud because it was constantly happening until we realized what it is that he's listening to the Shaolin martial arts sounds to fall asleep. Yeah. And I read somewhere and I would love to see apparently there's a segment and kill bill that Tarantino does that is a tip of the cap to come off the song. Really? Yeah. Well, I know that he's wanted him before. Yeah. He's surprised me because I think Quinton, he's like, he's like he knows everything about film. Yeah. But yeah, his performances are so diverse and he, I know this about, he loves to push the boundaries, not only in performance, but what they do in film. Yeah. In every way. Technologically. And he can do everything in film. He could literally, and he may have done this, he could literally do everything in a film. Yeah. Just let him, just give him everything, camera, lights, sound, editing, the choreography, the songwriting. And he could, he is a one-man motion picture factory. Yeah. And does them all like at peak level. Yeah. Until I thought he did a really good job of, of portraying the emotions of a character and being funny and in a way that like, not all actors can do that be hilarious and be a character actor. And I thought everybody was that way. Like even the magician didn't get hokey. I really enjoyed her. I thought, I liked that. And he did a good job with no dialogue coming up in a really good love interest in story. I thought very much so. I was invested in that. So was I. And I really liked watching the magician do his pretty solid tricks and sleight of hand throughout the movie. I did, he was a stereotypical silent era villain, right? Oh yeah. But I thought it was funny. So funny. And that's what, that's where the big Pink Panther stuff came in. Yeah. That was, that felt very Pink Panther. When he goes to throw the thing and he sticks it in the electrical thing and gets electrocuted. It's like, that is so Peter Sellers Pink Panther ridiculous. Yeah. And how, one time he just smiled because something was going to work to his, he was like fiendish. And I just laughed because he made that dumb smile. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was Govinda first actually. Did you really? I was like, is that Govinda? And I was like, no, it's not Govinda. But like, the fact that, I was in the ice daggers and in an open room and nobody noticed like three times. What, one of the reasons I laughed among many was there's this moment toward the latter part where he's back testing out his frozen dagger throwing and his fricking dummy that he's using, which why does he have to go to such great lengths to test his ice dagger? Stab it in a pillow. He builds a human dressed completely and he had the legs crossed standing with the legs crossed over. Why? Just because it was insane. Yeah. Loved it. And then there was the Scooby-Doo moment with going in and out of the doors. Classic. That was phenomenal in the hallway where he's coming in and out. That too, those whole segments reminded me a lot of the disorderly orderly with Jerry Lewis. If you haven't seen that movie, if you haven't seen a lot of Jerry Lewis, just check your brain at the door and learn where Jim Carrey got what he got. It's from Jerry Lewis comedy, just over the top ridiculous physical comedy. But again, as much as I saw Pink Panther and Chaplin and Jerry Lewis, none of it fell copied. Yeah, it was its own place. Which is a credit to our writer-director as well. We're talking a lot about Kamal Hassan. Oh, yeah. I thought he did him. The writing and directing was just as good as everything else. And for a film that's right under two hours, right, it kind of, you kept going for something that had no dialogue. Yep. Music. Yeah. I thought the music was a really good thing to do. Not only obviously making it like funny moments like those quirky sounds sometimes when somebody falls or whatever, but the score behind it as well. Score was great and there were moments where the score drops completely out and you just let it breathe for a minute. Yeah. As well as, in addition to all the other things that contributed to it being an enjoyable experience, is, so you've got this great writing directing, you've got all these grounded performances and then you have someone over again about how we dislike dubbing. Mm-hmm. We want sync sound. I wouldn't want this sync sound. This worked better because it had over-dubbing. Yeah. And some weirds. One of my favorite dubbed moments and the whole thing, I was dying. It was so funny. Toward the beginning of the film when he's learning who this guy is and we are learning who this rich guy is and he gets on the phone and calls his wife and the camera shows the pictures on the wall of two people having sex. Mm-hmm. But the sounds they're making are ooh. Yeah. Ooh. Oh, yeah. Ooh. Ooh. As the camera slowly panning down. Yeah. I was fantastic. Yeah, that was great. So I was pleasantly surprised because I didn't, when going into it, I was like, okay, I'm interested because obviously it's an old Indian film that's silent with Kamala Sun. It's intrigue enough because you don't have any idea what I didn't even know how much of a comedy it was going to be. Right. And so it ended up being like a really, really funny. Have a fun. Really good film that I would recommend. I think anybody could sit down and enjoy this film. I totally agree. Especially if they're a fan of old school film. And if this happened to be on, which sadly, like we said, it's not here on Amazon. I believe we will slowly get there where the world will become even smaller and smaller and you'll get films like this that this was on. I would be thrilled. So fun to just watch the silliness and laugh. And it is a very cute story. Yeah. So let us know what should be our next Kamala Sun. Yes, please. We have a lot to get to for Kamala Sun. Yep. Once again, I think we've only left like four or five. If there's one we're forgetting. I know. I feel like we're forgetting an important one. I feel like there's one. But yeah, what should be our next Kamala Sun?