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Directed by Ram, I think he's a pretty, I don't think we've gotten into him, but I know he's like a legendary director. And we've heard of him, yeah. Yeah, and then starring Mamudi, who is with him and Mohanl, the two biggest legendary actors in, some would say Indian cinema, definitely Malaliam cinema for sure. And then also the little girl's name is Sadhana. I think you are correct, and this would be the first time I think we have a film whose director and two stars only go by one name. Did Oprah and Cher ever do a movie together? And Madonna? Maybe. I don't think they were in the color purple outside of Oprah. A single father tries to raise his daughter who has cerebral palsy, or they called it spas-tick, which I think is a, I don't know if that's the correct translation, maybe that's what it's called in India. But cerebral palsy I know is the medical name for it, even as she's beginning to wake up to her sexuality. Yes. So yeah, this is a spoiler review. If you haven't seen it, please go see it and then come back and watch the review. Unless you want your movie spoiled because you should let the movie tell the story and you really should let this one tell you its story. Also, I know a lot of you haven't seen this because a lot of you are North Indian that only watch Hindi cinema. I got an idea. Why don't we do this as if this was a brand new release and let's do half of this without spoilers and then cut to the stuff we want to talk about so that people can hear half of it. Now you just want to go straight to the juggler? Go watch it. Anyways, Rick, initial thoughts. Fine with me. I didn't write a paragraph out because I would just like to stemperize. I have so much more to say about this than a singular paragraph. I can say this at the outset. Not only is this one of my favorite films we've seen, this is probably as much as Kambalanji Nights has such an aesthetic beauty to it and as artistry for me is just such a delight to watch. The level of importance I feel this film has. Definitely it's an important film. And I think it's truly groundbreaking for Indian cinema, especially South Indian cinema from what we've seen and heard. I think this movie is magnificent and it's right up there at the top of my list of if you want to see an important movie touching on subject matter that is about as important as you could possibly talk about right now, not just in India but anywhere in the world, it's this. I loved it. Yeah, same. I thought it was a really good, brilliant, powerful, important story that you don't get to see a lot and also could be done totally wrong because this actress does not have cerebral palsy. And so that's not an easy task to put somebody up to, especially a child that's only done two films. Yeah, should we just talk about her for a little bit? Yeah, let's talk about her because she's obviously the hair and the star. Yeah, so we'll get to him for sure and then we'll get to the film as a whole, but let's start with her. I thought, I haven't seen an actor portraying a disability at that age that is such a profound physical betrayal as Patty Duke did playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. I thought that her physical work was extraordinary for an actress of her age and her experience. She had, I mean, yes, I can be tremendously nitpicky in some moments where I saw some lack of continuity with the physicality she represented, but the complexity of what her physicality had to incorporate as well as the emotion her character had to portray. And what she was able to do with the disjointing of fingers that are clearly because she's double-jointed, that not everybody could do what she was able to do to make it even more believable, I have nothing but stellar accolades for this young lady's portrayal of this character, nothing but accolades. Yeah, she, I kept looking, just like when we watched, and it was not the exact same story, but a similar story like, oh, with a straw in terms of a... And I guess that's an important way to tell that story is because a lot of people almost see people with cerebral palsy or ailments like this as almost not human. They tend to see them as just broken things. And a lot of people treated her in this film as just a thing that somebody should have just murdered a long time ago, which was another thing about this film that there was almost no good people in this film outside of a transgender prostitute and a girl with cerebral palsy. Those are like the only two good people in this entire film. Well, we'll talk more about it. I actually felt, I felt her dad, for his limitations and his failings, I thought ultimately in his core, I felt he was trying to be the best he could possibly be even though he definitively had some shortcomings. I thought ultimately he handled the majority of the things he was having to deal with with what I would construe is more of a good man than a bad man. Well, no, I agree. The way he lost me in terms of being a good man... Was that the end? Was that the end where he tried to murder his daughter? I mean... Okay, come on. No, he was trying to murder himself and his daughter. That is not okay. That is not okay. Well, no, no, no, no. I don't care what he learned from it. Obviously he learned. He was like, oh, I guess I shouldn't do that. Maybe I shouldn't try to murder my daughter. Anyway, I know what they were trying to say, but he still tried to murder his daughter. So that's where he lost me. Also in the beginning, obviously his wife, who is still a terrible person for abandoning her child, took care of her child for the first however many years. And apparently the father was out of the picture or was not doing it. They didn't really specify what he was doing, but it was led to believe he wasn't really there or something. So one of them deserted and then the other one dropped that one off and then deserted the child then. And so there was just no good people outside of the transgender prostitute and this little girl, which I thought was kind of beautiful. Things that most people think are gross or disgusting or despicable people, not humans basically. And they described the prostitute as not a human. I think that one the driver did, he described her as not human and a lot of people did that to that little girl. But I thought that was really beautiful that those two people were like the good ones. And so I thought that message was great. Let's talk about Mohana. This is Mamoudi, sorry. This is our first introduction to the legend. And I thought this was a brilliant performance, a very sub and I don't know. This is obviously just like going in with Ranveer and Gully Boy. This is our first introduction to him. So yes, I thought this was a very good, very subdued performance by this man. And I saw no faults in his performance at all. I thought he conveyed a lot without showing, indicating anything. And then I thought he did a really good job interacting and showing different types of emotions. Like when the wife that came in and then the husband of that girl who they were trying to swindle, this guy and the girl. I thought that was a great scene where he kept bringing that guy, he called him Uncle, right? Brother-in-law. I thought that whole scene where he fell asleep right next to him was a really good sequence of events. And so yeah, I thought his performance was really, really good. I'm really excited to see more from him because obviously we know from his reputation that he is a legend. Yeah, we have nothing to measure it according to any other roles to see what he does with his different roles. But I felt this is a fully fleshed out character. Completely believable. I never doubted for a moment that he was not her dad. That was her dad. She was his daughter. They were living these moments. And the direction by Ram, do you know if it's Ram or Ram? I think it's Ram, but I could be... I think it's Ram. That's why I'm saying that. I felt the direction, which we'll get into the larger picture. And I have so much to say that I'm definitely doing an afterthought on this on my channel because there's so much to talk about with this. But yes, he clearly demonstrated that he is a very good actor. And I would really like to see more of his work. It was nuanced, fleshed out is the best word I can say. A fully believable character. And yes, no indicating, pure honesty, definitively grounded, never aware of the camera. Didn't need to perform all of the things that you just check off the list of. Can you act? Set that aside. It's not a matter of this guy can act. It's a matter of how good is this guy. Do you know how old he is? No, I didn't. How old do you think he is? 53. 68. Wow. Rock on, brother. Rock on. Has found the fountain of youth. That's magnificent. Wow, he does not look more than about your age. He looks about your age. I was going to say he looks like he's a couple of years older than me. Yeah. Magnificent. He takes great care of himself. He looks great. If he has gray hair now, and they just kind of died for the film, or whatever, but either way, the man looks great for 68 years old. Looks great. Looks fantastic. Anyways, so let us know what film of his we should get into next. He gave very similar weight to Mahanl in terms of acting weight. Yeah. He has a gravitas, exactly. Yeah. But let's talk about the direct, actually, before I get to the direction, I want to talk about one of my favorite parts, which was the score. The score in this, I don't know if you noticed it very much, but especially, God, it was so beautiful and quirky and upbeat at times. I know. It was a really, really unique score that I really ended up loving a lot. I agree. I thought the score was great. I thought the direction was really beautiful. I loved the story, and I loved how it began with him telling us the story and it maintaining the chapters, and nature is fill in the blank. Nature is fill in the blank. And massive spoilers. So anyone who has stayed around now and you don't want the ending to be ruined, go away. Yeah. Because when he started walking her out into the ocean, I thought, oh my goodness, I had the stereotypical kind of twist to a film that we've seen in some of the films we've seen where it turns into some massive macabre destructive ending. And is he really going to, are they both going to drown in the ocean right now? Because what I wanted, and I was so hurt when he got back to his house and Mira was in cooking and the guy had let her in and he, the dad, tells them to get out what were you doing in my place. I was literally thinking no, no, do not turn on her. She's the one you're looking for, man. She's the one that she needs to have a feminine role model in her life. Don't push this one away. And so when it flipped the page on us and he's talking at the end and he's talking about how he's talking about his wife and everything I literally laying there I threw my arms up in the air and went oh, yes. Thank you that you didn't throw her away. Thank you. And I loved, that's the thing that we could do a whole other video on. The subject matter of the way people who have cerebral palsy or any other disability are treated by society and how you then get into she is treated exactly the same way prostitutes are treated the transgender community is treated the homosexual community is treated I mean we can go down the list of people who are not treated with the kind of dignity and respect they should be treated even though they don't fall into the category of what you socially deemed to be appropriate for you they're still a human being and I like the spastic in America guys stupid babies may not know this but the term retarded and the term spastic 50 years ago were actually used all the time and they're now considered really rude to call somebody retarded even if they have cerebral palsy you don't define them as retarded and you definitely don't call them a spastic that's insulting but I don't know again you call by the medical name the medical name that the medical problem they have even it's gotten to the point here where you don't even say someone has a disability a lot of people don't like that terminology either say yes this person has cerebral palsy leave it at that yeah treat people as people exactly but yeah the direction in this was really beautiful and I'm looking forward to watching more from rum because I loved the Quentin Tarantino uses the chapters a lot but this was a very different use of the chapters some of them were very very short and they kind of gave you a linear timeline that was kind of really easy to follow and I thought that was great I really enjoyed his little incorporation with the score and everything like that so yeah I'm really looking forward to watching more from him and I loved the scene when he went to go see his ex-wife oh man yes I thought that was a great scene great scene where he didn't end up actually saying anything to them but then he said when he went down if they would have asked even at all about her well being I would have asked them to take care of her yeah he was still at his wits end trying to give her up somebody else's problem and then he tried to drown his daughter and we have the whole other issue that we could talk long about which I will in afterthought is the whole issue about parents talking to their kids about their sexuality and the development of their sexuality and that one moment when the guy says yeah what else are we supposed to do with her we call her fingering herself and I thought it was beautiful I loved the moment when he was trying to do what he could for her and that moment when she went in to put the pad on he was really hoping she could do it herself not because he felt shame helping he wanted her to be empowered to take care of this as she was becoming a woman and that was probably one of my favorite things in this was to watch this man and see him want his young girl to he was coming to terms with my little girls becoming a woman and I want her to become a woman what can I do to help her become a woman in the midst of this other challenge she has and it wasn't taboo for him even when he's in that place and he's talking to the woman about wanting a male prostitute that got me emotional yeah that was and that's something I think really great films do is to question what you think is okay yeah I would probably wait a few years before I get a prostitute for my daughter right 14 seems a little young but but I think that was a really good scene one because the person he was asking would act I think everybody would act that exact same way if somebody was like right at face value you'd slap him in the face too are you kidding me right now but when you discover where he is and he's at his wit's end and he has no one to turn to and he loves her so much he's willing to go against everything he ever thought was okay and not okay in the hope that maybe this will bring a solution for my girl I just thought it was incredibly well done it definitely raised a lot of interesting and important questions about life without people with cerebral palsy and stuff like that and so I thought it was such a brilliant film and so I'm really glad you guys recommended it and this one was I think this one a lot of people the people that have seen it rave about it it's one of those rave about it but most people since it's I think it's more of an art house film cinematography was fucking gorgeous even the stuff the way they used lighting a lot in the apartment as well the way they used lighting was really interesting there are so many elements of this film that I really really enjoyed and I'm glad we watched it was this I was just going to say this could have been and it might have been was this considered a candidate for submission to the Oscars I'm not sure because it could have been yeah it definitely could have been and it could have done very well could have done very well but as we know there's a lot of politics in what India submits it's that caliber of film for me it's that caliber that I would say if you want to see one of the best Oscar level films that covers important subject matter plural, lots of it it's a great film and do you guys consider this a Tamil film or a Malalium film because because I've seen people ask what are you going to watch the Malalium film Paranbu pretty sure it's Tamil pretty sure it's Tamil some people said since he's such a huge star they've kind of just adopted it into because anything that Mamoudi does is considered Malalium but anyways let us know what you thought of his film down below and let us know what film we should watch and review next from Mamoudi and Ram as well and yeah go watch Rick's Afterthoughts I'm sure he's going to do it alright I am