 you know what else is suspect what all the jewish lasers start in the fires out here in california they're a problem have you heard about that it's a legit problem out here guys they're actually glazes exactly they're glazes and when they shoot they say to blaze which means to burn in yiddish you don't get that reference i'm sorry sorry for your life hey welcome back to our stupid reactions eating some corbin i'm not rick false on instagram twitch it won't juice they call it it's so juicy it's so juicy it's like a page on a whole twitter account ring the bell if you know the if they know obviously what film reviewing they should know why i said i'm not rick yeah wink wink nudge nudge i'm guessing you do because you can't click on the link without seeing the title seeing the title what'd you think you don't know what you're watching when you're watching what you know uh but yes welcome back classic month uh one that we've wanted to watch really since we saw that first song of the week right which is the end of the film yeah i didn't know that it is now it makes sense but we are reviewing the 1950s i think the oldest film we've ever seen it was the year i turned 21 was able to start drinking absolutely yeah uh piassa which i believe means thirsty i think no actually thirst it's there's a twist on the title the original title with like one letter differentiation i believe it was originally thirst and then they change the title it to actually mean wistful interesting i was reading and i could have gotten it reversed so you may be you may be right it's either thirst or wistful uh but a it's a uh 1957 hindi film directed and produced and starring guldut yep uh and also uh waheeda reman and and malah sina and and reman and and johnny walker red uh johnny walker who i do believe he's he's a legendary comedian he's the guy that did the the comment of the susk yeah susk guy but he was also believing that shawarukon casino scene he was one of the guys behind shawarukon i believe oh i believe i could be wrong but he's like a he's like a legendary comic essentially cool uh in hindi cinema so yeah 1957 it's obviously a spoiler review spoiler review guys you haven't seen it it's on amazon uh which was great yeah if you got amazon prime just watch it you don't have to do anything so rick your initial uh 1957 thoughts my 1957 thoughts in the form of paragraph which also might fall under the category of a less than 60 second review oh a beautifully shot film whose primary star is the direction lighting and story itself piazza is a really beautiful to behold especially the lighting but it's also a struggle to endure especially the acting that doesn't like other classic films so much a celerative style in the art form as it distracts us from what is otherwise a powerful story as relevant today as ever it should also be noted that it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that vangallis wouldn't appreciate the poetry of a man who writes his poetry solely in hindi what it takes place in calcutta oh and he's trying to become famous as a poet in calcutta but his poetry is in hindi i was gonna say i was like i like the poetry i did too the poetry's beautiful however if he'd been writing his poetry in bangali i think everyone in calcutta would have appreciated it a little bit more it's a joke everybody uh being silly but did you enjoy the film i enjoyed the film it it was a bit laborious in terms of the sense of part of what made it laborious i don't know if it was so much the run time as it was the um i typically don't have a problem with melodramatic acting with it you have had issues with it this one for me made it hard to continue to stay engaged in a very serious story that was my only real critique of the film with melodramatic acting with pretty much everybody in the cast go to he was the least he was actually pretty he was the least he was pretty james dean esque in terms of night is is smallness for this time i'm confused how how you have issues with this and not with the film we just watched because it was a different yeah this was three years before it's it's different anyways different but yes i did it's different for me i there were there were some acting guests that i i totally agree with you that it was it was um for the time it's just what what they were doing which i typically doesn't bother me but this made for me um it it made it it didn't so much feel like a celebration of a particular here's the difference i saw in the last film that we watched the vengali one i saw more of a uh celebration of the acting that comes out of stage in vengal to the screen versus this was old uh silent film era into the sound era cliche the kinds of stuff where people do things that are are that for me for a three-hour film telling a serious story like this was made the runtime feel long it's two and a half it felt like but the lighting is possibly the most beautiful lighting in a black and white film i've seen the lighting and the direction the editing choices uh were there were just some moments that were so beautiful with the which was interesting because i remember when we saw the the musical number my thought was how shadowy things work and it felt more like orison welles yeah this didn't feel like anybody this felt like his own vision of and how everything was it seemed just meticulously laid out yeah in terms of the direction and the the writing i mean the the lighting yeah i didn't i didn't have uh i actually really liked gurdudd in this but you compared him to james dean i'm i'm i'm not saying the actor i'm saying his style especially for the time especially in indian cinema okay that granted to be that granted real and believable uh yeah that's very different from everything else i've seen really at the time um so that's that's i i did i really enjoyed it there are some of the supporting yeah i can absolutely totally agree with you in terms of the melodra it's just i you're gonna get it with every film that you get exactly i know and yeah and it's not i'm really not trying to harp on that in any way i'm just saying that one thing if it hadn't been so heavy for me i think i would have been just raving up and down about the film and it would have not felt like i was having to endure it and keep watching it because i was forcing myself to versus watching it because i was enjoying everything i'm seeing oh no i i think i enjoyed this film much more than you did probably um because i actually the songs i thought were phenomenal songs were pretty uh they're the lyrics of each of the songs absolutely gorgeous it was poetry yeah it's obviously it was written by a poet the songs were they were all especially some of the moments like one of the first moments when he's singing his poetry and people are actually hearing it i too got the sense of absorption in what was being said those were probably my my favorite moments of the film are the songs with the poetry and then the last act the last 25 30 minutes from the train scene to the conclusion and the message of the film i that that for me is by far the strongest thing yeah it was a great message uh great you could remake that film today and it would be relevant and powerful yeah yeah i mean you could essentially put a bunch of people in that who they die and then they become infamely famous like yeah so shunt you could put that whole scenario in fact i'd actually love to see this as a contemporary remake because it does bespeak the uh and this is my favorite thing about it aside from watching the the brilliance of the direction is this story and this reality that's been going on this has been going on since the dark ages of how artists are not respected and people are only looking how to make money and profit off of other people and then i loved in the ending where he's like you know what i'm not going to participate in any of this you guys not recognize the reason that this did well that was after i was dead like why am i going to jump on this bandwagon of commercialism you guys are completely missing the point of art itself that that for me is the bit i'd love to see this remake yeah obviously that song that we reacted to is even more powerful obviously because it's you get the whole feel of it and there was lots of symbolism just like we saw when we reacted to it did you like the ending um i think i would have actually preferred like them like beat them to death or maybe i didn't mind it it was very classic hollywood like i love this is beginning of a beautiful friendship yeah yeah castle blonde i love that they were together i was hoping they'd be together but i was also hoping for something and the reason i'm asking is because i read something about the original ending the original ending dut wanted him to end alone he wanted he wanted vj i would like that to to to not be with the the prostitute yeah and say i i'm not participating in any of this i'm gonna live my life alone and go die it was the distributors and the people the producing aspect of it who said please don't do that the audience is gonna want to see him and the what's her name google right gulabo gulabo yeah gulabo uh they're gonna want to see them which is true they were right i i did want to see them together yeah but i find it interesting that his initial intent was very much like the artist itself it was i'm not looking for the commercial success of the end of the story yeah i just want it to end in a way that most poetry is which is tragic tragic yeah very tragic yeah which yeah i i didn't i didn't mind it at all it was it was a good ending it was if you ever seen the end of Casablanca anytime any old black and white film is walking off into the sunset yeah that's i am i'm often saying like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship yeah except there's some film spoiler alert see the western shame uh there's there's some that don't wrap things up in a nice tiny bow yeah um but yeah i really did enjoy i even enjoyed um even though he was he was very top johnny walker's character even like sure i was sure you were gonna hate that i no i did at times i liked his songs okay like i i enjoyed every single one of the songs in this film i did i thought it was they were all great that was my most and he was a very animated over the top yeah so those times yeah i do but like i really enjoyed his little the the oily song i did when like it was clearly somebody else's singing voice but they went back yeah i know i thought it was hilarious that was hilarious uh and so yeah i i really i liked that um i thought it was a great story of even though we've seen it before but for this time if like obviously you'd seen at the time the story of a prostitute being the good person the courtesan being the one yeah and and the one that he loved that sold her love away to be somebody like a rich person and have this class and stuff like that yeah obviously at that time you hadn't seen a lot but we have seen it a lot now right um so i can't really docket for that because it did it yeah one of the first time it was like it was very early on and for very much of i mean if you look at the history of artists especially actors and poets society has for the most part relegated them into the echelons of the outcasts which is like the world's oldest profession yeah and and for most of history the the world of the the prostitute has been the main outcast of society right and it's not a coincidence and i love any story that takes the people and we've seen it a lot we just saw it and parched the the the courtesan or the prostitute who actually has a heart of gold yeah and is the one who sees the good and other people prize prize the people yeah and i love not only that she loved him and his poetry but the idea the whole corruption aspect for her and she's a prostitute the whole corruption aspect for her when she brings the poems to the publisher and he's like okay how much do you want for these and she's like i thought i'd have to pay you to publish these the whole concept of making money off of the art form for her was just totally foreign yeah that's my the two things that make me there's only the only thing i disliked about it was how the melodramatic acting for me kind of made the film didn't kind of made the film drag for me other than that it's i'm glad we watched it i recommend it i think it's absolutely worthy of the the accolades is received most especially i can't say enough about his his direction and his use of lighting it's funny because most often in black and white you appreciate people's uses of shadow pitchcock orson walls those are my two favorite who've used the medium i haven't seen anybody use black and white where i was so impressed with the way they used light yeah um yeah he did it he did it really well great job obviously that you had some technical issues with cuts and like transitions to other times but we had that in and i think i'd be classic we've had currently that we've watched yeah kind of had that issue it's just they didn't have the editing software i mean technology they also just didn't it wasn't and that was the filmmaking i also love one of the shots that isn't a lighting thing but one of my favorite shots that sticks out in my mind for this whole film is toward the end when he's about to leave and the wind is blowing and in the room all of the papers are just blowing palamel all around the place and it really did bespeak in that visual this ultimate culmination of everything of his life's work just being scattered to the wind and vanity in his mind and i thought it was a great physical representation of where vj was in that everything that he had created all of his work in the same way that early on everyone treated it literally like garbage yeah it was literally garbage and she's standing there watching him walk away in that sense of and how many times we experience this all the time do you see a work of art that you wish the world would appreciate and no one else is appreciating it but they're jumping up and down and they're counting the box office that's that's why this movie is so good also another scene that i really enjoyed was the the big dream number scene like it was a big massive you know what i wrote in my notes we were watching that and i thought i wonder were they thinking about this in three idiots when they did but not that uh the mind of me of that i'm betting this film inspired a ton of other um films yeah for generations but that was a really cool yeah it was very different very different feel yeah which i don't know if it was one of the producer's idea as well i saw it like oh this is three idiots right here yeah but it was it was big it was mac those are some like right when you see it it's one of my favorite things about old hollywood old hollywood or whatever industry it's not believable the sets they're on but they're absolutely gorgeous and they're fun to look at yep it just has this classic feel to it that just kind of makes you feel like um there's a bunch of obviously old hollywood ton of mgm ones that just the the big sets it doesn't look like real you know you're looking at a skype background and you know that there's elephant doors on either side of the sound stage but it's got its own uh unique beauty about it i agree yeah yeah so i i i really enjoyed this film i thought it was super fantastic i'm looking forward to seeing more gududut in acting and directing uh so i don't know how many he did each like i don't know if he did more acting or yeah i don't know either did he only act in his films i don't know well i originally there was someone else he had intended for the role all right who he couldn't have do it i forgot who it was but it was a big name alia kapoor um maybe there was somebody he that he wanted to have do it and then he he did it i think from the insistence of everyone else involved with the production and distribution and producing um and i i anything else that he's i want to i'm most especially impressed with his mastery of black and white and being a director who i've not seen again use lighting in a way that if i knew first thing i would think about when we're going to watch a film is i can't wait to see what he does with lighting in this yeah yeah so very worthy absolutely a worthy one so next let us know what should his films what should what's the next classic we should watch uh down below