 It's a long time. Salute. Ha-ha. Ha-ha. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hi, welcome back to our TV directing, it's the Corbin. Misery. And you can follow us on Instagram. If you want to see more of these content, you can follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Do it if you can, do it if you can't. Do it in your underwear and do it in your pants. That was not scripted, kids. That was straight off the old improv noggin. We are two peas in a pod, or, as some of our friends like to say, two peepies in a poop hole. That happened in this movie. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Whoops. Hey, ho. Today we're doing a movie review of the... There's no way this was Twizon 1, 2. Yeah. I know, it felt, it felt a lot older, didn't it? It was in 1995, I thought. Why did I think it was 1995? I don't know. Anyway. Because it felt that way. Yeah, the 2001 film, Changanini Bar. That was just Corbinized. We'll take it. Changanini. Changanini Bar. Had you said it. The Changanini Bar. Chodni. Chodni? Chodni. Yeah, Chodni. But I like Changanini Bar. Changanini Bar. Yeah, the Changanini Bar. Directed by... Madhur Bandarkar, I hope. If I pronounce that, then forgive me. What is it? And Madhur Bandarkar. She also was one of the writers as well on top of Mohan Azad as well, starring a no-name actress named... Tabu. Tabu. Tabu. I think it's probably Tabu. Tabu. Tabieu. Tabieu. Oh, she was in Life of Pi. That's cool. Oh, wait, she was? Wow. Who knew? Wow. There's somebody who's never seen I always take it seriously. Which is why I do it. It makes me laugh. And then as well, Atul Kankarni, right? That's how you pronounce it. Yes, Kul. Kulkarni. Kulkarni. And then a whole slew of other people. It's a big, big cast in this film, but this is Tabu's film. Yeah, it's true. Mainly, and then he would be your biggest supporting character, F of that. But it came out in 2001. It's gonna be $100 for all of you. If you haven't watched it, I don't know where you can watch it. Yeah, we really don't know where you can see this. In India, it might be different, it might be more readily available. But yeah, so it's gonna be $100 for all of you if you haven't watched it, go watch it, come back. Ricky Ornish, your thoughts, please. It's a shame it can't be seen more easily in more places. We'll talk about all of the aspects in just a moment, but overall, I loved it. I particularly liked the fact that it went in a direction I wasn't expecting. She's perfect. Not just as an actress, but her specifically in this role. I was thinking if we were gonna do, because you could do this film again. Oh yeah, I think it would be. It's an evergreen thing, but all in all, I really, really liked this film. Her best performance for you? Yeah, yeah, probably. It's hard because. Well, I know I've watched this. I knew going in that a lot of people consider this her best performance. Yeah, if someone were to say, okay, you've gotta make a decision and you were gonna tell somebody, what do you think is Taboo's best performance of all the films you've seen? It would be hard not to make you jump over at header because of the Shakespeare lover inside of me, but to watch her carry the film, because we've watched her so many times with Irfan, but what's beautiful about that is watching them, just these two actors work together, but to watch her carry this film and to carry a film that's as old as it is, that is as dangerous as it is, and she's never looked more beautiful, and she's just perfect for the part. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was like a Shakespeare comedy. Oh, wait, I mean tragedy. It was actually very Shakespearean, I feel. It was very Shakespearean tragedy. It was a very Shakespearean, especially when you reached the end. It is very Shakespearean. There's not a lot of happiness going on in this for very long if there's any happiness or just contentness or what. It's a fantastic story. It's so it's a just place for women. It's forced to become a beer dance, beer bar dancer. Yeah, beer bar dancer, which I did not know was a thing. Which is also very new to us. Very strangely dancing and people giving them money. Yeah, see, I was, yeah, she was shocked. She's like, you don't have something like this? I said, no, we have strippers. There you go, strippers and pole dancers. They actually take their clothes off and people throw money at you, not just they'll dance and then they can go get money. So that concept was just. Yeah, she said, no, it's very, very, very common and some of the seediest parts of towns. We have Hooters, but that's more their waiters that just have breasts and they bring you wings. They're not really, you're not tip it, well, technically you do, they are waiters, but. No, and like, but I guess comparably, it would be like being a stripper in a strip club doing lap dances culturally for us as far as, because for us, thankfully I had Andrani to help me understand the level that this was at for her because I was then able to put it into a place that I could rationalize, which would be like having this woman go and be a stripper in over here off Sepulveda and Panorama City and having to take off her clothes for people and do lap dances for them. That's the cultural equivalent. That's why I figured it was just too strange. I was like, you're just dancing like this and people give you money? Right. Okay, cool. I mean, sounds like a good gig, I'm kidding. Anyways, but yeah, I really, really enjoyed this film. It was intense, it took its time as well. Correct. In terms of just building up what was going on and then just bad stuff started to happen at Taboo after each additional thing and you're like, oh, I guess this is kind of a good thing, even though she married like a pimp and you're like, oh, she's kind of happy, but then it hits the fan again. All over again. And even worse, she just keeps going and you just feel so bad for Taboo. And you're waiting for her to finally say enough is enough and go fricking rogue, right? She never does, but still gets her heart broken. Like that final line, when she says no matter, basically no matter how hard I tried, I could never get to my future because I couldn't get away from my past. A lot of nature versus nurture in this. Huge. Well, and in this, she didn't become what she could have become. She kept herself, although she did give away parts of herself. And that for me, one of the best takeaways right off the bat and it does, I don't even think you need to have seen Taboo to get what I'm about to say. And I think it's one of the biggest strengths of the film that no other actor that I can think of could bring to it. And that is, we've said it every time and we're gonna say it again every time. At least I will. There is a regal classiness to this woman in everything she does. Iconic nose. That makes this all the more heartbreaking to watch her degrading herself and in an atmosphere where this woman who is so regal and queenly having to do something so base and beneath the stature of who she really is, at the core of who she is, not with a stuffy nose, upadiness, but just this stately regality that is the essence of who she is, having to and how awkward it is to watch her, literally head and shoulders above everybody because she's taller than them all, forcing herself to have to do these things because she has no other alternative. And the sadness, I was like, I don't like seeing Tabu like this. Yeah, it was quite sad. It was just seeing Tabu. And her character arc on this, even though it was quite interesting because she started off, obviously, after her parents died and it was so awful. Which, what an amazing fire scene. And that burn sequence. Yeah, it was a top notch. Incredible. But the fact that after that, she was almost like an unformed being, almost like she was just existing, she wasn't really alive almost. Yeah, because such the great uncle, right? Oh, just what a great uncle. Yeah, when he came over, because obviously he didn't really get hints of that before that scene. Thankfully. And then he started talking like, oh, God. Yep. Oh, God. And when our friend, Atul Kulkarni, realized what had happened, he did what everyone should do in a situation like that when you discover that someone's uncle has raped them. That's right, everybody. Stabbed him a thousand times with a knife. Yep. I was actually very happy with Atul. Obviously, you didn't know how to feel about Atul's character. I know. Because like he was just this weird pimp gangster kind of guy. What a good guy. He wasn't really, he bought Tabu to just have sex with her. And he was mad that she wasn't happy to have sex with him. And then it was like, oh, I guess you defended her. That's cool. Yeah, because I'm so happy. It was written in the way we talk about this all the time and his performance being a skilled actor, there was no judgment of the character. Even though obviously we're now getting there, I feel like he is at the level of the Pankajis. You're Mike, just your, your, your shit thing just. Say something. Hello. Sorry, guys. We had some technical difficulties there. Technical difficulties. But yeah, so. We were talking about Atul Kulkarni's character. Atul Kulkarni's character was so, so interesting because one, he's, I think, in the conversation for me for the best actors in India. Of course, yes. Kemenin, Monoj, Pankaj, Nawaz, Fafa, all those, I think he's that talented. I agree. I agree. I feel like he hasn't gotten his, his due really. Cause I'd, even though I think people that have seen him are like, yeah, I know Atul's a great actor, but I feel like mainstream, he's not in that conversation for a lot of people. I feel he should be kind of like, kind of like, he's becoming a little bit more, but he's always been below the radar for people as like Brian Cox. Oh, okay. Somebody that everybody in the industry has known for decades and respects and loves cause he's such a great actor, but he's never until like successions, the biggest thing that has kept him in people's minds, like he's going to be known for playing Logan, right? But dude's been around for decades doing great work. That, and he was also in the Planet of the Apes, the first Planet of the Apes remake. Yeah, it'd be a good one. Or Paul. But he's a magnificent actor. Or Paul Bettany before. Paul Bettany's a good example. Before Marvel. A Marvel. Yeah, yeah. Before everybody knew that's who he played. But I don't know if this was caught on the recording when we talked about this, but one of the great things it was in the writing, and it was also in his portrayal, is he's this complex character that on the one hand, you're like, this guy is a dangerous, creepy, bad guy. And then on the other hand, you're like, but he's also compassionate and sweet. But then you also figure out later by other people, he was like, he was sleeping around. Yeah. But he wasn't, he didn't judge the character. Yeah, was it all just a farce to her to write? Yeah, like that. Even though she knew he wasn't a good person. Correct, but it gives the line when she goes to the guy and she says to him what, you went from a hooligan to being a pimp, and he's like, you're gonna talk to me about the fact that you think you were his wife. You were one of his concubines. It gave some bite to that, cause there was, she's like, you may be right. Can we just talk about how this movie is loaded with examples of the worst of the worst of men? And they're still around. Men? The bad, not all men are bad, but boy are there a lot of bad men. Yeah, I thought this was really well written in terms of its pacing of this film. There was some stuff obviously that was just dated in terms of certain things that was just the style It looks like it's so much older than this. It looked like it could be an 80s film in terms of the camera quality. Exactly. Which, the audio quality. It takes place in the 80s when we get started, so the audio quality wasn't great, at least the one that we have that might just be the version we have, who knows. Cause I don't think it's a very widely available film. And back on Taboo, I feel like she's such an interesting one, obviously we've offset it overall over Korea, which is probably the best Indian actress we've seen. Unquestionably. Which actresses around, up with Meryl Streep, actually up with Meryl Streep, in my opinion. She's somebody that can be in that conversation. Absolutely. But the fact that she can be in these big massive films with the big massive stars, but then also do films like this. Like basically an Anya Rakhashi-up style film that's gritty where she's playing somebody like almost is a prostitute at times. And it's just not like an uplifting, there's not like songs and dances outside of them dancing on the stage that you can go back and be like, oh, that was, those were fun. It was, this was just a nitty gritty, depressing film. And it's so wonderful that she decides to do this style of characters. Agreed. And I feel like that was a common thing for her. Agreed. And she was like, I can do both. And she gives you emotional breakdowns that are never indicating or contrived. Oh yes, it's always real. She never shows you the sadness. She is always just sad. You see when she saw a tool dead on the table, it was a really great scene. It was obviously on top of the end. Yeah, of course, that ending moment. But another shout out as well, really enjoyed. And Andrani pointed out the actress that she first is learning how to dance from of the cavalcade of ladies. That lady was in Devdas. Remember her name, that actress that you pointed out? I forget all the actors in Devdas. Thanks. But I enjoyed, I believed all of those girls that were the dancers together. I believed all of them. I cared about them. I felt the closeness of all of them. I also was the turn in the film for a movie that's 20 years old. I was so impressed with the danger territory they went into in the last 45 minutes. It was dark. I was like, this is the kind of material we talk about in cinema today, not back then on the OTT platform. OTT, absolutely, because when everything was in the fan and obviously she was down in her luck and he was like, do you want me to call? And I was like, and she just, it was a brilliant beautiful moment by her, by the way. She didn't answer. No. She was just contemplating and I don't want to but I have to, he's my child. And then what happened to him? I did not see that coming at all. I thought they were gonna like beat him up or something. And it was bad enough that he had to do the hand job on the guy, then it doubled down. Was it a hand job or he was making them blow them? I thought it was the hand because he did this. When they came back, he went like this. Okay, gotcha. So I thought it was just a hand job but then the buddy next to him said, I ran a train on him, holy cow. Take your pants off and bend over, it's my turn. I did not expect that. Not at all, but it was wonderfully shocking. And then obviously that gave him his motivation for the rest of the- Yes, justifiable to go kill the way he does. To what they did to him. And then the fact that the daughter tried to help out the mom but then you felt so bad for having to say, I've been trying to keep you out of this. I'm literally doing this. But I literally, so the sacrifice that I just made of having sex with all these dudes, you're still doing what I didn't want you to do anyway. And how hard it is to break a cycle once the cycle started no matter how hard she tried, these things just kept happening. And one of the biggest ones was, and I'll say it over and over again, one of the reasons these kinds of cycles repeat of women having to raise children on their own, women being raped by their uncles, women seeing their sons unjustly accused and thrown in jails and raped is because of the dirty, nasty, awful deeds that are done by evil men. Yeah. Yeah, and it was, and every once in a while you get the good eggs. Like I thought it was a beautiful moment when the friend in the restaurant saw her daughter dancing and she makes eye contact with him and he's got tears in his eyes because he can't believe her daughter's here. And he drives her home. And that was a beautiful moment. They're on the phone trying to get a price and all the people they're talking to is like, yeah, she's used material. She's not a drink, she's an empty bottle. And it slowly comes back and the daughter's listening. And the daughter goes, and then when the good daughter just comes back home and just hands her the roll of money, sad. It's such a sad tragedy movie. It feels like a Shakespeare tragedy. It does. This entire film just as it went on, I'm like, oh man. Yeah. Yeah. It feels so bad for Taboo. I know. But it was quite, obviously, I'll sing her praises all day. Overall, she's the best Indian actress I've ever seen, I feel. I agree. Radhika Apte is up there, but she's younger. So it's hard to compare a big massive body of work of Taboo. Yeah, there's nobody in Taboo's league at her stature and her resume. All the other ladies are gonna get there. Like, Radhika's gonna get there. But she's got another 20 years of work before she can be in that conversation. Absolutely. Yeah. But the fact that at the beginning, obviously what happened to her and she was like this just shell of a self and she kind of was getting more acclimated to the world and she did everything so, so naturally and so believable. Yeah. And it's just everything you want in an actor. It's wonderful to watch. All of her transformations were internalized. And you saw the exterior because of something that Taboo had done to the character internally, like when she starts dancing and enjoying it. You can see it happen because Taboo's done the work on what's going on inside of the woman. Not just, I'm gonna dance and make it look good because she's dancing good. I would love to know the kind of, I would love to talk to Taboo and just, I could spend 30 minutes talking to her just about the evolution of her process as an actor and what she still does, what she doesn't do, what she did once that worked and she never repeated because times where she's like, all I did was memorize lines and hit my marks, I would love to know what it's been like for her in the evolution of the process as an artist because she is undoubtedly one of the greatest women actors ever on screen. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. Shout out to everybody that was involved with this film even though obviously you probably just shouldn't remake it but you definitely could. You could because the story is so, so good. Because the only thing that was lagging was the quality of the film, like the camera quality. Even though I thought some of the cinematography was actually really nice, a lot of the shots. As was the score. The shadowing behind a lot of the characters because they made everything very, very dark and I would like all that. But the fact that the quality just wasn't as good as you want it to be. Yeah, and it seemed like an 80s film. And for the day, I'm sure it was a much edgier feeling film back when it first came out. You could take it much farther now. You could and should. This reminded me of the complaint we had about Aliya's movie Gungabai where it was disnified versus what we know about the real story of the woman. I felt like this was a more authentic telling of a real story of someone who was in this world. And I just felt uniformly the casting was great. I thought the story and the direction was fantastic. Whenever you have just great actors in roles, it's gonna help. Obviously you're leaded by the best Indian actors I've ever seen and then Atul Kunkarni, one of the best male actors out there in my opinion. You want to see more of him as well. But yeah, let us know what you thought about the film, obviously. Did we talk about everything? I think we did. We didn't really talk about the score. I liked the score. It was a subtle score though. It was subtle and it was kind of lost because the quality of the sound was so poor. And that wasn't because of the filming. It was just the degradation of the quality over time and the particular streaming platform we used. Yeah, sometimes it's just the only place I could find certain things is a certain site. And in addition to the reality, I think I said this earlier that if like, I said this at one point in the film to Andrani, I went, taboo has never looked more beautiful and is perfect in the role because do you realize at the beginning of the film, she's playing a very young woman and she has to go through the process of aging, I love they did nothing to her to make her age. It was all internalized because taboo was about 31 years old when she did the film. And the character goes from like 19 to 30 something. And the only thing we got in that was the years and her carrying the age based on just internally with her life experience. So yeah. Absolutely. Great movie. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film and what should be the next taboo and a tool. Yes. I know a tool has that Marat Nathrang as well. But the only place I can find it is on Z5 and the songs are not subbed. And I've been told the songs are very integral to that story. Oh, there you go. And so that is why we have not seen that one. But I do want to watch it. So if anybody has a version with subtitles, please send it my way. For both of them and the director as well. Yes. Which will be the next films that we should watch down below.