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get the views are but it's a 2004 Hindi language film directed by Yash Chopra and starring just a little unknown guy named sir Shahrukh Khan yep and pretty zinta and Ronnie McCurgee yeah and a whole school of folk I'm a talk about John and Manoj Bajpayee and Anup Anup Anup Kerr just a Kerr right where Anupum Kerr Kerr yeah wait where did we see Tom Altar he had like one line who was he I'm trying to remember this would technically be the first time alter thing we've ever seen yeah but like who was he he shows up if I'm not mistaken the scene he may have had two lines it's toward that's three-quarters of the way in when Ronnie shows up to the attorney office and he's talking to her before she meets up with the lawyer yeah thank you Anup Anupum Kerr she's talking to him because he works in his office okay but you wouldn't necessarily have recognized him because he's only in profile it's a two-shot with Ronnie and that's all you get is a couple of lines that would technically be our first to think of technically film of his yeah because all I've heard is like anytime we make fun of white actors for being terrible they're like you got to watch him because he's like the best white actor and I will say he didn't see I didn't even notice anyway that's a good sign but it will obviously be a hundred percent for the view anytime we've seen a shovel con film especially an iconic one you've all seen a film yeah so if you haven't watched it we saw it on Amazon you can go watch it it's a three-hour film like all the films in from 1992 or yeah that's essentially over three hours but Rick your initial spoiler thoughts I guess yeah well I'm not spoiler at the beginning really I don't have much in the paragraph but this is our 12th movie of the year our 136th Hindi 219th all-time and even though we've seen DDLJ Khabi Kushi Khabi Gam Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Dev Das Swadesh and my name is Kanda name a few we were told we've yet to truly see why SRK is considered the king of romance in fact when Andrani and I sat down to watch this movie she said now you are about to see why SRK is SRK I went into this film with a certain expectation based on past experiences with older SRK films this movie didn't meet that expectation it surpassed it by 786 miles you like that 786 you like that thank you so much I have so many exemplary things to say about this movie that a single paragraph would be an insult from SRK to predizinta to Rani McCurgy to Big B to Keran Ker to Boman Irani to Anupam Ker to Manoj Bajpayee to the direction and scorn costuming this is not only my favorite SRK film thus far but one of my favorite films we've ever seen in one of my favorite love stories ever captured on film holy shit I'm in let me get a boot for you here where's that Bollywood bootlicker I was it was way better than I was expecting on so many levels so I don't know what you thought of it but that was my thoughts and I have a lot I can say as to why I like I also I really enjoyed this film and it was different because I went into the exact expectation of DDOJ K3G me too and then that's what I was expecting that's what I had set my like my fine artistry independent film and film festival hat to the side and just went I'm gonna have a really fun time and I'll probably be touched a couple times yeah yeah yeah so that's what I was expecting I was expecting you know the cheetah cheetah who is a cheetah moments and you play good basketball but they just they hardly ever came those moments there was very few of very very very few of those types of moments in this film and it was I'd say one of Shahrukh Khan's most grounded better performances how many babe how many times that I talk about not I just consistently was like Ronnie's so grounded Katie's so grounded SRK is so grounded this whole just everybody but I was so taken by it made me I was like yes I said at one point and Ronnie I said see I like was talking to SRK on the thing I'm like SRK bro flex the fast the spionatic muscles like this now your fans love you doing this kind of stuff it doesn't have to be the rompy-compy stuff so anyway yeah it was it was it was a it was a wonderful surprise I mean it still had that big Bollywood feel to it but it wasn't it didn't have like the I don't know what element I'm but that over the top I mean it there were melodramatic over the top moments and stuff like that but I'm talking like in the acting right where it just isn't believable anymore and it's just silly it's just silly they just didn't have that yeah it was like a completely believable and it was a wonderful love story I mean you knew where it was gonna go I equate SRK films especially this era 90s early 2000s similar to rom-com it's like but it's not a rom-com no but it's in that same genre I know what's gonna happen in a rom-com and it's I don't really go in for like to to be like impressed like I do with like a Nolan film or not at all never but I go in and I'm like this is I'm gonna enjoy this right and I'm gonna enjoy the ride and you do and you enjoy the hell out of this ride it's a three-hour film but what that Bollywood does maybe not Bollywood is exclusively but Indian films in general they make a three-hour film not feel like three hours because they put 15 songs in it and so every 15 minutes you have a nice break and you're like this is fun yep and so you don't care about the three hours as opposed to I mean when they don't do it like in push-pot and it's not enough song right not enough stuff happening right so just drags this one for a three-hour 12 minute film it didn't drag for me not at all man I'm interested when we get into the plot points and story cuz we'll talk technical stuff I have a question for you about how many things you saw coming versus how many you didn't I saw you always see I saw everything every little thing okay I saw one thing for sure it happened it wasn't the knock on it although I was trying to figure out the beginning I was like okay when are we gonna find out that she was shot and then as it went on I'm like okay that was clearly just something that was happening is basically like she got shot exactly yeah I was waiting I was like when does she get shot was he framed for the for the murder what was happening that was the thing that was that was throw out let's go into the acting like we do when we jump off three to things yeah this we already said it this might be I don't know if it's my name is Khan is still a great performance of his and it's so different from everything else he's ever done and then what else have we seen him in my favorite dj yeah my favorites of his that I've enjoyed the most were I know you won't agree you didn't like dev doc yeah swadesh oh yeah that would my name is Khan yeah it probably between my name is Khan swadesh and in this one yeah I'd say as far as this most grounded yeah I'd say swadesh is probably even more grounded just because it's not a big body would feel to the film it's more of like a natural and then my name is Khan is just a so such a different style of role for for him but this man it was so surprising because it's I mean he showed the grounded moments in the other ones but only partial part of the time a lot of the times that required him and it's what's so endearing of something like DDLJ when it's campy ridiculous silly yeah yeah yeah and you enjoy that right but obviously this is just it kind of caught me off guard yes the entire thing Ronnie didn't catch my off guard I expected that from Ronnie she's a great actress yeah bottom line and she's always this good in everything we've seen her yep and so I loved her it was still sad that she didn't get show her con in the end I don't know if we're ever gonna see a film where they get together I said good I said that right as soon like right when they're at the border and it's for the end I'm like I still want to see Ronnie be with SRK I know she's not a love interest she's the hero of the film but man I want to see her I think she deserves it yeah she's done enough already she deserves to get her economy and the other thing aside from just she doesn't cease to impress as an as a stellar actress I just over and over again we was saying to and Ronnie she's so beautiful she's her her eyes her skin and I said to our said it is she included in conversations when they talk about some of the most beautiful like a shawar is always talked about I think Ronnie McCurgee is not only one of the best actresses that I've ever seen in Indian cinema but she's one of the most cinematically such a beautiful woman and this is one of the first things we we've seen another pretty one but I think she's incredible she has this unique almost a young Drew Barrymore style of face oh yeah I think she has that style of face it's like very lovable yeah very like innocent yeah and then I thought she did a phenomenal job her chemistry with what what have we seen her in they'll say we say and it was that it we've seen her in a bunch of trailers and we've had a lot of a stupid baby say like we've seen her and more oh that's right yeah they'll shut that that's right that's right don't shut that but yeah she she had great chemistry with show con and the believability factor luxury sorry she was in Lakshya as well she oh that's right she was that's right I don't do her thing right now she the believability factor for the entire cast but especially these threes we we've just talked about I I believe every moment that they were on screen I there was one moment where Ronnie was talking to SRK in the prison and she's pleading with him and I said to him Johnny I said she just doesn't cease to she never there's there was no indicating everything is genuine there's nothing that's being done for affectation I just everybody in this I felt was like in the moment and presenting us real people that I cared about very much and no shock I'm a good and I was sad when he was like left and then I realized he wasn't in the rest of the film yeah I was hoping those characters would come back yeah I wanted them to interact I thought both of the mom and in I'm a type box on the relationship with pretty yeah it was beautiful me too I thought they had great obviously Bigby's character was so quirky and unique and yeah I love their song I did like I'm gonna marry you for the next seven times and she's like no you're not you're gonna I out loud when she came over and picked up the stuff and went oh dad totally dissed him yeah so I thought their relationship was absolutely fantastic it's it's it's wonderful there and it was it was still a big Bollywood film and so everything kind of he came to the realization that he was being discriminatory to women very fast yeah now I'm gonna make a school yeah so there's all this stuff yeah but in these style films that I know what you're going into I'm like I don't care about that not like I know this is gonna be kind of campy almost at times yeah I don't care I go in for the entertainment but I think that goes to a yash Chopra did yeah this is our second yash Chopra is that our second or is our third DDL J was his his right wait was it DDL J Karen Johar no K3G was Karen Johar okay 3g that's right and but the anyways it was one of our first ones buddy I know he's like a legendary director of course and all that but I thought he did a phenomenal job at getting the big feel of this early 2000s Bollywood film but also not making it campy similar to the other one no I played a really fine line with the score in terms of like the melodrama yeah so it wasn't as melodrama as like K3G was not at all but it was and it was almost endearing at this point because the because the melodrama came more at the end and it was because the actors were so grounded yeah when you have that music accompanied by over the top then it doesn't work yeah because everybody was so grounded and so many cinematic choices there were so many beautiful lighting choices especially when Ronnie and SRK are in the cell together there's some lighting shots almost like a play the way this was lit in so many instances and then when they were in the courtroom there was a moment I pointed out with a drawing she said that's such a beautiful room they've used it's so grand and I said yeah notice there was a shot right as she said it where they used it looks I'm sure it was a crane to take you up as they're showing the room from behind the judge so that you get not just the expanse from a visual field straight on in a static but to give you the flow of movement that you feel because you actually feel in a room that size yeah you feel the stretch of the room and so to give you that sense of ambiance there's that camera move and he that was done many times to give you a sense of the feel of the rooms that they were in extremely well done yeah I did a really good job at kind of catering that style of what people expected in the late 90s to early 2000s yeah from a Bollywood film with Shah Rukh Khan yeah the big they and you'd goers love the melodrama they love the over-the-top yes but I thought he did a good job of kind of blending a little bit of that with a lot of like more natural acting and shots and score and I thought so I thought he did a really really good job and the other actors so so many faces popped up I had forgotten Manoj was in it so he popped up and I went that's Manoj oh yeah of course he's and then we had well the three people that popped up that surprised me when I saw them first come up were Karen Kair yeah which we've we've seen many and is always good yeah always solid the scene that she has with SRK this goes that this is a testament as well to the writing it would have been really easy to make people villainous in some way like the mom for example could have been why are you doing this to my family why are you doing this to my daughter and when he says you're like all the mothers that scene you're she's like you're the son's here and he's like well you're the mother's there and you could see she was she was torn on the one hand she doesn't want her husband to die she doesn't want her family ruined but at the same time she recognizes this is a really genuinely good guy that her daughter's in love with and I love the fact that it kept a level of complexity with the characters it's a testament to the writing I also felt like while there was some things that were predictable it it wasn't easy choices I felt that were made I thought that everything that they did were in alignment and congruent with a really solid story and she's probably the character that I sometimes had the most problem with but that's kind of just common for me now to not like the moms and Indians I clearly just like why are you so over the top clearly just something I need to accept because it's a common theme throughout especially Bollywood films for the moms to be this big stick over the top you know dramatic she wasn't always that and I do agree that I did like her character that wasn't just a you will you will get married how are you doing this to my family right I didn't enjoy that yeah aspect to it and she didn't all she wasn't always extremely over the top and two other faces that I want to no longer call him the guy from three idiots because we've seen him so much I was such a good actor wait a bowman I keep on Ronnie it yeah okay yeah but I keep calling me sigh Cyrus and I don't think that's his name no it's Bowman and Ronnie what's the name of the character though oh in this no three idiots oh I don't remember I don't was a headmaster that's all I know him as is the headmaster from that but yeah I saw him when he showed up great to see him as well as I learned something new you may have already known this of course stupid babies know this but on a pump care care first of all we've seen him in a million things as well as he has quite a few American films that he's been in yeah but look at the last names of Anupam and Kiran the mom oh they actually married yep oh really their husband and wife oh that's cute yeah I didn't know that that's cute I like that but they were all great the score was phenomenal yeah we weren't able we've reacted to a few songs and they're all I think on patreon because that's why RF yeah you're not gonna see that yeah but it's there like I said that what what Indian films do well in their old three-hour films about every 15 minutes from the opening of the film to the very end you're gonna have a song about every 15-20 minutes yeah to kind of keep you engaged and like this is this is a great entertain this is but didn't you recognize I was so glad we had words for the songs because sometimes we'll get movies and there's no words for the songs most of the songs weren't item numbers they were carrying the story along and I loved that about this movie and I loved every song yeah there when when they were kind of spending a day together and then when he went to with the SRK to meet his family and their their songs and then towards the very end I mean I loved it when the minute the Punjabi started dancing they didn't need to even say anything I'm like there's the Punjabi yeah party absolutely yeah so I thought all the songs by the composer Sanjeev Kohli and Madan Mohan it was also Lada as well yeah this was a wonderful obviously we didn't do it on purpose obviously we gonna watch this regardless but the fact that we got to hear Lada and one of her most probably famous films yeah I was wonderful to hear her voice two other technical shoutouts for sure that were standouts I was very impressed with the smallness and the simplicity of the makeup and the aging process that they did I felt like makeup aged SRK and pre-D really well they that's very hard to do it can usually look really bad and you just forgive it because it's so so hard to do and while well the CGI on the bus going down the thing was not good I I love the times especially at the end when spoilers so soon you've all seen this when she came to the courtroom and they're reunited the when he sees her and they transition to the way they used to look about 20 times yeah yeah and the first time they do it when he's in the jail cell and he he's young SRK holding on to the window and then it transitions to him in the prison that was that was pretty clean that was pretty clean now I have a question I know the answer to did you cry no no we're close did you like a baby I cried a couple times so did my life we were just we were there like this and I turned her at one time I said if I I have a lump in my throat if I wanted to I could just be bawling right now because here's when I called obviously I knew not a film Ronnie I knew that Ronnie was gonna go find Preeti and bring her back and I said I said I can't wait to see SRK's face and what the music's gonna be when she comes walking into the courtroom I knew that was gonna happen yeah but I cared about these characters so much and I cared about Ronnie McCurgy's character getting this to happen and winning this case but especially this love story my favorite thing about the story is that it's a love story that's based on what you're willing to do to lay down your life for the other person versus fighting the world to be together it was I'm willing to give up my world for the other person which is really the essence of true love it's not it's it's not about you know greater love has no one than this than to lay down your life for somebody else and the fact that they both did that and he didn't even know she did so when they got reunited and they did that flashback they're seeing each other now in the present but what they're seeing is the way they saw each other at first that whole song the minute they saw each other and through that whole song that's when I was crying in the courtroom yep in the courtroom I got emotional I almost started to cry when I saw that she was taking care of his mom and dad's place and that she'd been there the whole time but I cried there and then I cried at the very very end when they were at the border and they leave and I think they were at the waga border they were definitely we've been there the minute they saw it but we have been there but yeah I probably for the last 15 20 minutes of the movie I was in Johnny and I both were just really oh absolutely 100% like I said I enjoyed you know oh you know so the first time was the courtroom you know what had happened the second time they're standing at the border and Ronnie pulls she the minute she pulled out the little silver can't contain her I looked at it Johnny I went oh no cuz I knew he was gonna take it and he was gonna put it on her and I thought that's what that that got me to even right now I'm getting emotional thinking about it so yeah I cried like a baby no I did think that I've never seen SRK look better than you when he was dirty and bearded and hair in the jail it's so great he popped I'm like oh you look good SRK started we started watching it last night right so we got about a halfway through and it was getting really late didn't want to get sleepy so this morning right as I'm about to make in Johnny her morning cha and get her you know she's still laying a bed and she hasn't really she's awake but she hasn't looked around watching about five minutes of the movie and then the song where Preeti is she can't which I thought was brilliant the way they depicted the song when Preeti she can't stop thinking about him and he's appearing everywhere she looks yeah I thought that was a great way to just say she can't get him out of her mind the minute he starts to sing no joke and Johnny's lying there the minute he starts to sing she goes you may not know this but that was her young girl crush was SRK so it was fun watching her crushing on SRK yeah I asked her said if you made a SRK you're gonna be a little gobsmacked she went oh my yeah and I could I could obviously I could see why obviously it's a perfect film for romance month oh obviously it's it's it's it's the essence of romance and I think we already got why SRK was like the romance king but this one is on another level of like just all there's no there's no Tom Fullery going around there's no nothing high school we're high school students now and this is mature this is like and you get some of that in like the the second half of hey right and that surprised us you get some of the love in K3G and obviously DDLJ but this and this is your favorite SRK film yeah this is as much as as much as I love Swadesh Dev Das and my name is Khan the there are too many things about this did I mention costuming you haven't yet no big big gorgeous costuming that's what I meant in my opening paragraph that it would be an insult to divulge whatever I think about this in a paragraph because I could talk for 15 minutes easy just about how gorgeous costuming and jewelry was in this film but yeah this is for me and obviously I'm fresh off the film we'll see over time what happens but as much as I love Dev Das my name is Khan and Swadesh because I love those films this one because of how grounded SRK is because of how unilaterally great the cast is the technical greatness the greatness of the writing and the score on the costuming and then that irreplaceable moral to the story of the fact that this is a love story of people who sacrifice everything in order not not so that they can get what they want but for the they both did what they did for the benefit of the other person he gave up his life so she could be happy and then she gave up her life for his family yeah yeah and I love about shower cons films they're very rewatchable I guess it's similar to like a rom-com rom-coms are obviously very what you just watch them for the feeling you watch them so you can be happy you know everybody's gonna get together in the end yeah I'd say that about all of all of I mean at least it's especially the the big Bollywood ones like DDLJ K3G, Kuchu Jodahai this one ones that are the big over the not over the top all of them but the big numbers you can do like if it's on you're like I'm gonna I'm gonna watch this I'm gonna enjoy this absolutely I can do that with all of those maybe not my name is my name is kind of even though might be the better performance it's not as that's one to enjoy the technical yeah it's not as going on watchable as some of these other ones correct you could sit and enjoy this song oh yeah I love this song yeah my name is Conn requires you to kind of focus on what is occurring whereas this one you can do that but you can also just sit back and just enjoy being in the film and there's there the more we watch of him and this one my wife is absolutely right if someone were to I wouldn't want this to be their first SRK movie I'd want them to see a few other ones yeah then and I would say the exact same thing I would say if you want to know why SRK is SRK and she even asked me at one point she said do you find SRK to be a very attractive actor like because he's such a superstar and I said it's interesting not in the way like people look at Rithik and they're like oh my goodness you immediately see how beautiful the man is there is a quality to SRK that transcends physical he's a very handsome man yeah but there's a rough handsome he's like he's almost like an every man he's that he's and and I really believe in this film captures it because what we've seen in his speeches what we know about his personal life that the man himself SRK is a good man and these kind of roles you can't be this role as well as he is unless you're sharing something of yourself that's actually it's like Tom Hanks yeah there's a quality to Tom Hanks that makes his characters so kind and so lovable because Tom Hanks the man is a kind and lovable man yeah and that's why it's more than just the arm spreading thing now it's even there's a charm about him and a kindness about who he is that makes you want to root for him and makes you fall in love with him so I yeah sold absolutely well thank you so much for being patient yeah really so and I'm sure and I know why I know for a fact there's many more Shahrukh Khan films that we need to get to yeah but what should be our next Shahrukh Khan and pretty Zinta and Ronnie McCurgy is is there one that's worthy of a watch that Ronnie and SRK actually get together in the end my wife tells me there are is it worthy that she's nodding back there come on I gotta I gotta see Ronnie win in the end with SRK yeah I just like gotta see what let us know what the next Shahrukh Khan film should be and the next romance film maybe they intertwine down below