 Our stupid reaction is tuned in for... Hey, welcome back to Our Stupid Reaction, you idiot, some Corbin. I'm Rick. No funny intro today. You, everybody knows what happened today. It's a very sad day, but we also want to celebrate the life of Irfan Khan. Yes. So that's basically all you're gonna see today is we have a bunch of Irfan Khan videos to celebrate that man and that artist, starting with this one. Right when, right, well, I heard, I think I woke up at like 1 a.m. and I got a drove of texts and messages from stupid babies about what happened. And then when Rick woke up, we were both like, we should watch something. So there also might be a marathon going on of Irfan Khan in the coming days or weeks because we just, we love that man and we wanna celebrate him and we wanna see everything. It's the same thing, it hasn't changed. We wanna just watch everything that man's ever done. And so I did a poll and the first thing, the thing that everybody wanted us to watch in that poll, it won decisively, was Pan Singh Tomar, which you're probably like, guys, you've never reacted to that trailer. You are correct. You are correct. But there's a reason for that. This stupid family that usually do our stuff, they actually subbed it for us a long time ago and it got blocked. And so it kind of just got put, I don't know why it got blocked, but it did. It just, it was never sent to us because, you know, if there's no point in us reacting to it, if it's just gonna get blocked right away. But anyways, it was a highly, highly requested. We wanted to do something to honor the man and so we watched Pan Singh Tomar starring Irfan Khan. And it's, do you wanna read the stops for me real quick, Rick? Yeah, sure. The story of Pan Singh Tomar, an Indian athlete and seven-time national steeple chase champion who becomes one of the most feared decoits in Chambal Valley after his retirement. Decoits? Wow. What a word. Yeah. I know they used that word a lot throughout the film. Decoits. Decoits. And decoits. Yeah, and I was like, had you ever heard that word? No. I'm an honors English in college student and you learn something new every day. I'm a high school English student. Yeah, Decoit is a member of a band of armed robbers in India or Burma. Interesting. So a gangster. But this is based on a true story. That is actually true. It's not like Lagann. But yes, directed by, say his name for me? Directed by Tigmanshu Dulya. Who worked on Gangs of Wasper in some fashion. I don't know what fashion that was. Yeah, I saw that as well. And I don't know what capacity he was involved. But initial thoughts, Rick? I took notes, as I am so off to do. It's, as far as the film is concerned, I didn't really like the film. As far as Irfan's concerned, it just goes to prove once again. He's, it's like we always go back to examples. There's examples of actors and actresses we've seen who were in films that we didn't necessarily think were that good, but they were their usual towering self, like Tom Hardy in Venom. Or even one of the first people that comes to mind is, I didn't like the movie Vice, but I thought Christian Bale was unbelievably good in Vice. Same thing with, same thing with, I wasn't a big fan of Alice in Wonderland, but I thought Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter was fantastic. Yeah. This, this for me was just another example. The only reason I watched this was because even in a film that for me I felt was, I have a lot of criticisms about it that I don't have any ill will toward in any way. They're just particular things that I thought I just didn't like, but every moment Irfan's on screen, he's Irfan Khan. I've never seen the man do bad work. I've really enjoyed his performance in this because it was so different from anything I've ever seen. Yeah, it was. I've never seen, I mean, I know he wasn't technically a full-on villain, but he was playing a pretty villainous role by the end of it. I mean, I'm an anti-hero villain kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. It was a great situation with this character. Yeah, it was. That I'd never seen him play that. It's usually he's the good guy, he's the straight man and that kind of stuff. And so I've really enjoyed seeing this different side of him that I hadn't seen before. And I, you know, I love when people play villains, I do. So I really enjoyed it. I thought the journey it took in it with his character was really interesting because at the beginning it was almost like a force-gumpish type thing going on for a little bit. Yeah. And then it switched to him in his role in the gang, which I thought he did a masterful job at. Yeah, he's Irfan Khan, man. Yeah, it's, and then I didn't even know Noaz was in it, but it was wonderful to see him. Me too. I know, I was like, hey, Noaz! It was wonderful to see that man. And this was an early, because it was a tiny little role, in which, you know, of course he killed it. But yeah. Yeah, he did, as usual. Irfan's, he's, it makes me so sad, because one, he's still in his goddamn prime. He's 53, way too, way, way too young. And like, an actor's prime is basically from late 20s until death is what I think. Well, yeah, and I think really for actors that are as, I have really many actors will tell you that they felt like it wasn't until they hit 50 that they really felt they had enough life experience and things to work with. And at that point, I mean, frickin' Morgan Freeman's career didn't start till he was 48. Brian Cranston really didn't start getting his legs until he was in his late 40s. There's a whole slew of actors that people didn't even know. And Irfan already had 150 plus credits to his resume and could have had he been here graced us with another 150 films. Yeah, he's such a, such a talented, talented man. And this film as well highlighted that. Yeah. I thought it was a great performance for him. In the parts that I actually really enjoyed the film towards the end. And it's not a film that I really despise. It's not, it's something like that. I think the major problem with this film is how they did the pacing and the cutting of the timeframe. It made it very difficult to follow. And also, cause like you're like, okay, we're getting the story and then they do a cut. And I think we're years ahead now. Yeah. But they didn't make it clear. And that's, I think the biggest flaw with this film is the cutting or the editing or the weaving together of the story. It just, it felt even though it was a two hours, 45 minute film, it felt rushed almost at times in terms of them trying to put stories together that didn't go together like seamlessly for the audience. Yeah. Yeah. And we're coming from a completely naive point of view. Maybe it's not that hard because he was a real figure and maybe a lot of Indians know about him. And so maybe they, they was like that. They're assuming the audience already knows about this man. And so two Americans who know absolutely zilch, trying to follow along while they're doing cuts between years and you don't know what year it is now, it makes it a little difficult to follow for me. I agree with you. And I felt, I didn't have any problems at the film in terms of, this may sound like a contradiction, but it isn't. I saw their attempts at what they were doing. So I give them a grade A in terms of, I could see what the director and the cinematographer were trying to attempt. It felt like they were very inexperienced in what they were doing, very inexperienced. There was, that was a big, one of my first notes in this was very odd disjointed both film edits and score edits that just were very incongruent. And then there was a lack, I wrote down a lack of tonal symmetry and thematic congruity frame to frame and composition to composition with the score, which just to me evidenced inexperience with the filmmakers understanding the pacing and the flow of a film, which is not easy to do. So if you are working on a film, and I could be wrong, I mean, I looked at their history and their resumes and I think they don't have a long list of experience prior to the film. And it also, because of that as well, this did not feel like a film from 2012. It felt like a mid 1990s film. Yeah, at certain parts it felt like that, yeah. Yeah, it felt like a film as far as the evolution of cinema both in Hollywood and Bollywood because films, the films that were around in 2012, in both here and in India, we're talking Django, Argo, Life of Pi, Gangs of Wasiper, English of English, Kahani, this does not feel like it's a contemporary to those films in any way, shape, or form. Yeah, I agree for the most part with, especially the first half, that it definitely felt like that for me. I think the best part of the film is when they stopped doing the cuts and it was full on him at the end with the gang. That's the best part of the film. Traveling along, because they weren't doing the weird cuts and I could keep, I was like, okay, we're in this timeframe and I know where we are. And so I think that's why it works so well. And I think that's why I think the biggest problem of the film was the cuts and the incongruent, at least to us Americans, feel of them piecing it together like that. Like I said, we know nothing about this man. It might've been really easy for you guys to follow at the beginning because you already know his story. We didn't, and it was hard to follow because of it. But the end, I actually really enjoyed, and I thought, especially there at the end, all the acting was really, really good, all the writing and I thought the action sequences between them and them running from the cops and all that stuff, that was really compelling. The last what, 45 minutes, I guess it would be, of the film when they were doing the hunt down basically. Yeah, I think my favorite thing, obviously, apart from the beautiful artist that is Irfan, who I've never seen do bad work and it's funny, this is a film that I wouldn't recommend, but I would still tell you, if you wanna watch Irfan be his usual beautiful self and you just like watching that man on screen, which virtually everybody in the world who's seen him does, you can watch him in this and he'll carry you through the whole film. The other thing besides Irfan that I like, and I say this all the time, is this is clearly, especially with those end credits when they dedicated the film to all of the forgotten athletes. And that's the reason they wanted to make the film and that's why I don't wanna sound contradictory as much as I felt like this was inexperienced in certain respects and I didn't understand, not just time, space, continuum they were juxtaposing, there's the word, but just the rhythms and the beats of a film, I could feel the intentionality with which they wanted to tell something that was really important to them. I could feel that, not just cause I knew it was coming in the end credits, but that help to underscore, they really wanted people to not forget and that's not just an Indian problem, that happens here in America, guys, we get- That's a worldwide problem with the Olympics. That's a worldwide problem, you get gold medalists that the entire world is celebrating who end up, same thing with professional athletes, you get pro NFL players who wind up homeless and they're forgotten, but it's especially disappointing and I can understand this as we've learned more about India to have someone who was a national hero be forgotten. Yeah. Yeah. So that's like other besides ear funds, brilliance, it's the importance of a story of something like- There were a lot of parts of the story that I really enjoyed, basically he became his father, essentially he became the rebel and he was kind of, which is why I don't fully call him a villain because he was almost forced into it with the system. Cause obviously these people murdered his mother and beat up his child for some crops. That moment, he said at one point, he said, turn the radio off. I become the national champion for them and no one talks about me, but now because I'm a bad guy, the whole country's talking about me. Yeah. I would understand that conundrum is mine. I liked that a lot. I did really enjoy his relationship with his wife. I did too. I thought it was cute. I thought it was adorable. I did too. She was insecure about him showing his legs. He was a horned dog, man. He's like, every time he saw her, he's like, come here, baby. I thought that was great. Obviously Nawaz did well. That man can't be bad. I challenge you to send me something where Nawaz has done bad and I will tell you you're wrong. I don't think it's possible for that man to be better. It's the same with Irfan. He's one of the few, there's a very small handful of actors, maybe a dozen or so I would say at the top of my head because even Daniel Day-Lewis, as much as he is for me, the quintessential greatest craftsman I've ever seen in my life as a shape-shifting actor, but he's not good in nine. He does his ample best and I applaud him for the attempt, but I've seen him do not good work. I've never, there's a few actors for Anthony Hopkins is always right at the top of my mind. Nawaz is there now and Irfan is there. I've never seen Irfan be false ever. Even there was a moment where I was watching him in this film, it's a very small throwaway moment. He's just listening and all of his other bandit guys are there and he gets up from where he was sitting and he stretches and I watched him in that moment do that stretching and I was, again, I just, I did this. I went, he probably didn't feel the need to stretch. He has to make us believe he's stretching. It's a throwaway moment in a shot that's wide and I believe that he is tired from sitting for a long time and he's not indicating, he's not being false. This guy was made to be a thespian. He's just a beautiful, beautiful craftsman. The most effortless actor I've ever seen. Effortless, effortless. It's ridiculous how effortless, effortless he makes it seem. Yeah, him and Sir Anthony Hopkins for me are the two most effortless actors I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, and I think it's telling the people that have worked with him, like there was that quote that I sent you with Tom Hanks. Yeah. Tom Hanks walked up to him, first day he worked with him, he says, I'm gonna steal everything from you. Yeah. Basically, which he's like, I'm gonna start talking softly. I'm gonna make people wait for the words to come out of my mouth and I'm gonna be the coolest person in the room. I don't know if you've done this, but I have and I'm sure I'll do it the rest of my life. There have been times I've been working on something, whatever it might be. Even something as small as just like, there's a couple of things I've done where it's lip syncing a scene from on TikTok and you're more focused on the lip syncing but you're actually re-enacting the emotional connection, right? And I've had the thought, be earphone small. I mean, that's a constant thing in my mind in terms of his capacity to just be natural and small and do nothing and make it. That's the hardest thing that people who don't understand the craft of acting. The hardest thing to do as an actor is to not act, to be small and allow yourself to not perform, to have the camera rolling and know all eyes are on you and you have the trust in the craft and everybody else around you to just be. It's, he's as good as it gets. Yeah. And did you catch that moment? It made me really sad in the film. They were getting out of the, in the car when they shot. When they were getting? No. Yeah, okay. So remember the person that was in the trunk? Yeah. Okay, right at the end, I think either he was talking or it was on the radio and somebody said the famous Bollywood actor died today. He has been battling cancer and died in the hospital for the past two years. That was the moment where the guy shoots the guy in the car and the other guys in the trunk. I didn't hear that. I was so focused on the dialogue. I did not hear that. Yeah. Well, I read the sub. Obviously I don't understand Hindi, but I was reading the subs and it said that and it just made me really, really sad. Oh. Really, really sad. But yeah. So we love you Irfan. Yep. So much, you're very, very missed. Yep. Thank you for leaving your legacy and your art behind for us to love and appreciate. You will live on forever because of that. Amen. But please let us know what Irfan Confim we should watch next. Cause we're gonna watch them all. Cause that's all we're watching. Our stupid reactions tune in for the