 This is Dr. Kabeen Raj Dev Singh. He is one of the best students ever graduated from Danny Institute of Medical Science with an impeccable academic record. May I come in, sir? Corbin Singh. Why don't you sing for us Corbin? Who we reveal we are. We, one that nobody's really been thinking about, nobody's talked about at all. Just a little one that kind of slipped in. Some of the little unknown actors in it as well. Yeah. Called Kabeer Singh. It's going to be part non-spoiler right at the beginning and then we'll do a spoiler review for you. Right. Right after that and I'll let you know just so you can hear about it because it's new. So correct. You can go away and watch it and then come out. But this is a remake of Arjun Reddy which we did not get to see. Sorry. Sorry, I know a lot of you are mad. Lost time this week. Yeah. But apparently it's a shot for shot remake so apparently we saw the same film. Yeah. I do. Kabeer Singh is a remake of a Toluga movie, Arjun Reddy 2017. That's a really quick turnaround time to remake a movie. Where a short tempered house surgeon gets used to drugs and drinks when his girlfriend is forced to marry another person. Gets used. Used? Gets used to drugs. Gets used to it. Used to it. A short tempered house surgeon gets used to drugs. Used to drugs? Not used. He gets addicted to drugs. Yeah. This isn't very good. I have a story to tell you about my bastard. I wasn't an addict. I just got used to drugs. I guess that's another way of saying that. Hey, are you an alcoholic? No, I'm just used to it. Yeah, I don't have an alcohol problem. But it's directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanda, who also directed other movies. Well, Arjun Reddy. Oh, I didn't realize that. Same director of Arjun Reddy directed this. Yes. Wow. But obviously it's starring Shahid Kapoor. Say her name for me. Kiara Advani. Who I don't believe we've seen her work before. If we have, it was very, very, very small. She's in M.S. Doni, which we haven't seen in the trailer. So yeah, this film, obviously, I think deals with... I don't know if I agree fully with that synopsis. Yeah. Getting used to drugs and alcohol. This is about, not his relationship, this is about an alcoholic drug addict, guy with mental illness and depression, who is a womanizer and slightly misogynistic. More than slightly. And that's, I think, the big controversy with this film is that people think it's praising misogyny. Right. And all that kind of stuff. I wouldn't agree with that at all. Me neither. I think this is a... Was he misogynistic? Yes. Was he a womanizer? Yes. Did he hit her? Yes. Or they're alert. Sorry. But that... Maybe it's... If somebody told me that in India, they don't have a lot of films like this that feature characters. It's either they're a good guy or they're a bad guy. Right. And this is a complex character. A complex character who has lots of flaws. Right. And this story is about a guy who is deeply flawed as a human being in multiple aspects of his life. Who does take a sizable character arc? Oh, yes. Most definitely. And he... What was I going to say? I don't know. If I was your brand, I could tell you. Thank you. You're welcome. I was going to say something. Come back to us, Corbin. Sorry, I've gotten used to alcohol. Him in this film and also I don't see this film as glorifying... Not in any way. Just because a film is a film doesn't mean it's glorifying what it's talking about. There's a ton of films that talk about awful people. Murderers? It's not glorifying murder. Right. Well, it's the same thing that people will talk about. Movies that use firearms and say that the film is glorifying firearms. Most of the time I think you have to use your brain and know what is right and what is wrong. This guy was a misogynist and was a womanizer and did hit her who he did and that was wrong. Not saying it wasn't. And it's not a trade as a good thing in a film. Yes. In fact, when it happens, you're like... And people just did that. It's awful. We can talk about that in this further review. But Shaykh Kapoor's acting off the charts is phenomenal. He's always good. I thought you were about to fight you. No, no, no. It's like with Nawazid and it was like he never had a false moment. He was phenomenal. I loved all that. The film, if you're not invested, I can see why people... When he walked out, he said it was long and I said I'm not going to say that it wasn't long. If you're not invested in this character or this relationship, which I was. I can see why people might think it's a little long and drawn out. I didn't really have that issue. My biggest issues with this film would be the score and not necessarily the songs. I love the songs. It's the editing of them. Okay, that was the issue for me. And for me, when it first started, I thought I might not like it. I actually liked the weird edits. Yeah, you think? I actually... Well, it's just like there would be silence and then the next movie was like... Well, it was used comedically a couple of times. Yeah. And it worked great with that comedically. And then it did that shift and I just was in this place of... He'd go perky director. That's kind of how I felt about it. I can see why people wouldn't like that. And I would not have a bone to pick about it and try to fight with them and say... For me it was just... He used a lot of the sound to convey emotion sometimes. And I was like the actor could have done that for me. If you would have let him do it as opposed to putting this... But the songs. Yeah, no, the songs were phenomenal. I loved the songs. As was the little... There was kind of a pretty theme. Oh, yeah. She definitely had a theme. She had a theme that kept coming back. But yeah, I would definitely say go watch this film if you want to. If you have issues with... Because a lot of people apparently have issues with glorifying misogyny. I think if you use your brain, you can know that it's not doing that. They say multiple times in it that this character... They literally call him out like you're a misogynist. You're a drug addict. You're an alcoholic. I was more bothered in a sense with the dad and gully boy. Oh, yeah. And the way he treated his wives. Yeah. And that was... That was more offensive to me. That was way more offensive to me. And obviously when he hit her. Yeah. He does hit her once. So let's go into spoilers and talk about it. Yes. But I would definitely say go see this phenomenon. Absolutely. Especially for Shaheed's acting. That's really good. And her... I thought she did an exceptionally good job. She did very, very well as well. Yes. But if you don't want to hear any spoilers. Go away. Leave now. All right, so spoiler time. So yeah, this film, the relationship... Did you like how they did the whole story? It was kind of... It started out with him basically already... I believe it was already strung out, right? Because he already had the beard. Well yeah, because they did kind of... They did flashbacks in an intelligent way. And then forward. Yeah. And then back and forward. And one of my favorite flashback moments was him stepping on the glass. And it immediately going to a foot with a glass in it. And it's actually her. Not him at that moment. It's her from the past. Yeah. And I liked those quick little... The director was like, You're smart enough to track with the fact that I just did a flashback. Yeah. That was great. Well, I will find anybody who says Shaheed is more attractive without a beard. He literally turned to me when the beard came back on. And he's like, Yeah. And I at one point, because it was so funny, the times... It was right after the moment where she's giving the speech. And the guy says something about it being boring. And he comes out and is like, who said that? And he's standing there. I turn to Corbin and I said, Don't talk about my wife. You can relate to that character. I did. I would love to play that character. That is a Corbin Miles character. Freaking much. And ever there was one. And here... Back on the thing with the people that think it's a... Misogynistic, horrifying. And we can talk about that a little more here. Films are meant to tell stories. Correct. They're not meant to tell just good stories. They're meant to tell stories. Right. This kind of story happens all the time. Correct. And so you don't need... And that can also be one of my second biggest issues with the film, which was the ending. I knew you wouldn't like the ending. I didn't... No, not all the parts I hated. I know what you don't like in particular. But... I love it. But the story... Films don't have to have a good guy and a bad guy. True. And they're both black and white. And he ends up with a happy ending or blah, blah, blah. And bad guy, if it's a film about a anti-hero basically. And I wouldn't even call this guy a hero. Films, I think that's one of the biggest issues with a lot of films in India. Their main character is the hero. The hero. He is not a hero. No. At all. No. He is a deeply flawed person who is drunk and alcoholic. Correct. And major anger issues. Major anger issues. Which is, I think, the thing that stems everything in his life. Yeah. It's his anger issues. But here's the thing. Let's talk about his character arc and continue along with this aspect of it. I saw a really well done in terms of it being believable for a human trajectory of transformation. Because he doesn't just go from being screwed up to now I'm clean and I'm great. That would have been awful. He goes from I'm screwed up, now I'm really screwed up. But I don't like who I am. The court scene goes great. In that place. He played that phenomenal. And he says to his brother, you know, my whole identity has been this. I may have screwed everything up. I may have screwed up my relationship. It's got to stop. It's got to stop. It's got to stop. And when he says I'm an alcoholic, that for me was his moment. Because everybody who is a drug addict or an alcoholic or a womanizer and comes to the realization that their behavior has been bad has to have a moment. They have to have an epiphany. It does come. And I believed that that moment for him was the epiphany moment when he said that. And I loved the way that that progressed because it wasn't just simple. It remained complex. And that's why I didn't view his behaviors as so, the way a lot of people are jumping up and down and freaking out about this. I don't understand why people are saying this glorifies it. Yeah, I think it's because they don't see this a lot. Because we watch Oscar films and so they deal with these kind of characters. This is like an Oscar role. If you're a drunken alcoholic, that's an Oscar role. Yeah, but the films we've seen, there's a lot of men who treat women like crap. Yeah. And the gangs of Wasoper. Yeah. He treats the women in his life like crap. No, wasn't it. In Sacred Games. In Sacred Games treats the women like crap. He slapped them, raped them. And there's a lot of films we've seen with men slapping women. Yeah. And it bothers me a lot. Yeah. And nobody said it glorified it. But for some reason this one is doing that. And I really don't know why. Here's why I think it is. It's because they don't believe Shahid, the guy who's really been put up as the big love interest of Bollywood. And so they're like, I don't like seeing him like this. That's not what it is. I think that's what it is. That would make sense because that's very much in line with what SRK has said about what he does with his movie choices. And knows what his audience expects of him. So he tries to balance the artistic license to stretch himself without alienating himself from the people who love him for what he's done. Yeah. So that would make sense. If people don't like seeing him be this kind of a character, then I understand that. I think that's what it is. But I loved it. Me too. And I love that he made that choice as an actor. Me too. He's just so phenomenal. Okay. I love you, my best friend, Shahid. Now, here's what I want to know. How invested were you in their relationship, him and Preeti? I was, but then I was also okay to let it go. Okay. I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't. If my creative... I was fine. Like we can talk about the end now. The end where obviously he came back and... And I might cry again. We'd be asked, by the way, I cried like a baby. I didn't. If I had let myself... If I was watching that at home, I would have made noises. Yeah. I would have been just sobbing at that ending. And I was actually fine with... I didn't totally understand maybe you can explain it to me. How they got around the whole arranged marriage? Did she just get a divorce or what? She just left. Okay. She just left. Three days after the wedding, she bolted. Gotcha. Okay. I don't think I caught that. The subs were white and a lot of the screen was white. And so I didn't catch a lot. A couple of times they just trick and put a sub up there like with two sentences and it was up for half a second. Yeah. It was like, hank. It was a little weird. But in that moment I remember because I was just like listening to every word coming out of her mouth. Yeah. I love that scene. Okay. I know what you don't like. But I mean at the end... No. Yeah. I didn't. I hated it. I knew you were like, come on. Don't do that. I hated it. That's not believable. I loved it. I would have ended it differently. Of course you would. I know. I would have ended it exactly the way it was. I think that's why a lot of people are upset is because they ended up back together. And so they're like, they're glorifying the fact that he hit her. No. But I think they kind of... I think he knows it was a mistake. I think I do too. It would be one thing if he was like abusing her the whole time. Exactly. And he kept hitting her. Which he was. He was verbally abusive. He was verbally abusive and it was the tension between a man being forced full and going after what he wants and being protective and saying, you're mine. There's a positive to that. He took it too far. Obviously. But he changes. We watch that change in him. One thing, if he was like the guy from Gully Boy or he was hitting her all the time. Right. And all that kind of stuff. No. If he had hit her, if it was a repeated act of hitting, it would be like, okay, you do not need to be with this guy. No. One time it was like an atrocious offense mistake. And I feel like she forgave him in the end. Also why she hit him. Which also, if you're upset about that, you should be upset about her hitting him. Multiple times. But whatever. We'll ignore that right now. But I think she forgave him and she hit him a bunch of times. I think that was kind of her frustration and forgiveness. For sure. For sure. I thought it was beautiful. I thought that was fine. I would have ended it differently, but I was fine with that. The issue I had with it was that the rest of it, it all's now up in a little bow. The dad, he was like, I was so mean to you, I was ready to kill you. But now I understand because I love my daughter and she loves you and I forgive you. Heck freaking yeah. I don't like it. Yep. Makes me want to drink. Sunshine makes me want to get used to drinking. Happy endings. We need more of them. Yes. And the thing that just destroyed me. And there's a lot in the movie that destroyed me. We don't need to get into it. But, and I'll probably start getting emotional when I, because I didn't see it coming. I don't know if you saw it coming. I did. You bastard. Are we talking about in the copies? Really? You saw it coming too? I didn't, because I'm so not, when I'm pulled in and I'm rooting. I heard you. I am verbally said it in the theater. I am, I am waiting. I'm waiting. I'm like, okay. There's no way this movie ends with pretty just being gone and married to that guy. That can't happen. They're supposed to be together. That would have been nice though. They're supposed to be together. He's got to go back to her. So when he goes back and she turns and she's pregnant. I was like, oh no, that sucks. That would be great. And then when he comes back. That's real life. Right? And he comes back and she says, you know, she gets mad and she slaps. But did you notice when he said that I can go talk to him. He wasn't being his old angry self again. Where he's like, I'm going to go and I'm going to get in the space. I'm going to tell him that you're mine. Well, he was deferring to her at that moment and saying, tell me to go talk to him and I'll talk to him. And so she finally says what she says. And then when she said, there it is. But she says he never touched me. I thought, okay, what did he just, obviously it wasn't an intimate moment. He probably just used you for the sex. And wait a minute, she's saying more than that. And when she said to him, this is your baby. I lost it. I saw it. I lost it. I lost it. Yep. I was done. So it's, it's definitely a, I didn't actually, I didn't know cause we didn't see Arjun ready. And I'm sad we didn't, but I'm also happy we didn't. Right, me too. Because I think most of the reviews you're going to see are people that have seen Arjun ready. Right. And so they know it's a shock. They knew what was coming. Right. It was a completely new experience for us. But I wanted to, one of the reasons I was kind of happy to experience this is because of how much we like Shane Pippor. Yeah. And really, really like to be introduced to this character in the story with him because we've really grown attached to his work. Yeah. And he just plays freaking lunatic, angry, beautifully. But, but subtly. But subtly and the thing I was happy for and I was, I wanted to see and I knew it was there because I've seen it in other roles he's played, especially believe it or not. And at the end, when, when the walls were down and he actually got emotional as she was talking to him, I needed to see that from him. The investment. I believed 100% that these two people were in love with each other. Believed it 100%. Totally. Yeah. That was just really, really well. Yeah. And I didn't know it was a love story. Oh. It taught me by surprise. Yeah. I didn't know it was supposed to be like this big love story. Big love story. Maybe why people are also upset because they don't think people that have problems in their life should be in love. Yeah. It's true. No one, not only the people who deserve love should have love. People are perfect. They never make mistakes ever. Those are the ones that deserve love. The broken, they don't need love. They don't deserve love. I just don't get it. I don't either. I don't get it. If you don't like, if you didn't like a film because of that, that's your thing. That's fine. I didn't see any glorification of anything. I saw it as all, it was all bad. No. I love characters like that because that's how real life is. Yes. A broken guy. People's stories deserve to be told regardless of if they're good or bad. Yes. And this guy showed the progress of going from being a broken, angry person. And I believe part of the reason he was able to get through to the other side of all that was because of her. And no, he's not a perfect person. There are no perfect people, guys. No, he's far from a perfect person. No. It was actually, maybe you can explain. I thought it was a very similar relationship partially in terms of notebook. Do you ever see the notebook? No. Oh, never mind then. Yeah, never mind. I wouldn't know. It's an awful relationship. Is it? Let's see. I hate that relationship. People think it's like this big rent. I'm like, they have a terrible relationship. No, I've seen movies like that. There are people like, oh, I love that relationship and that love story. I'm like, that's not a love story. That's a poisonous relationship. This wasn't that at all. At the beginning. At the beginning it was the way he was initiating it. But in a notebook, she is that way to him. Ah. She's like a verbally and emotionally abusive person to this guy. Yeah. Yeah, there's some films I can't catch any off the top of my head right now that are. It's like, why are you guys rooting for this couple? This is a really awful, unhealthy relationship. But yeah, I would say definitely go see it. I would definitely give it a B plus A. For me it's an A. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing, and again, this is the fricking, I really wonder, they have to have done the money comparisons to see, is it better for the theaters in India to have the intermission breaks so people can buy the concessions and things? Or is it better to have more show times because the run times are shorter and sell more tickets, which is more profitable for them? I'm guessing they've done the math, which is why they had a big uproar about don't take away our intermissions. Because I think this movie would have benefited from, and I've grown accustomed as you have to the runtime, I would have liked to have seen this clipped by at least 25 minutes, at least pacing wise. It could have been. I could have seen that. Yeah. But it doesn't deter me from it? It didn't bother me that much. It doesn't deter me from it. My only thought of that was how potentially, and I was thinking specifically about an American audience because I know you do too. Yeah, American audience. I want to see films from India seen in America. The theater could have and should have been full, and it wasn't on opening weekend. No, we got recognized in the bathroom. Yeah, we did. We really did. But one of the deterrents to Indian film is going to be first, obviously, the subtitles, and we can't do anything about that because you can't fix stupid. No. Second is the long run times because Americans will see the runtime in about three hours. Is it an Avenger film? Yes. Because if it's not, why would I do that to myself? Yes. And that's where I'm like, on the one hand, I wouldn't change a frame, but on the other hand, it's like, man, to make it more accessible to a broader audience. In certain films do that. I think that's why you see a lot of two hour films. Yeah. Yeah. Now. For sure. But yeah, I understand what you're saying. Yeah, I would definitely go see this film. 100%. 100%. Well done. Good job. And this girl, I really love this girl in this. And the director as well. Yes. The director did a great job. I thought, we don't need to go into all the other things we've done long enough, but as far as, we didn't talk too much about her. I thought she was beautiful. And I thought, I believed her as someone to fall in love with. She didn't even say very much. Didn't need to. Exactly. Didn't even need to. If you didn't say a lot and you had that emotion come out for her. Yeah. She doesn't really say much until the very, very end. And then she just lets it all spill out, which made that scene so much more powerful. Which is very similar to Brokeback Mountain with. Yeah. Yeah. Very good comparison. Very internal. Internal work. Internal work that there does come a moment where they just can't take it. Which for her, I thought it was beautiful and it was directed so well. I would love to know if the director used multiple camera shots on that park bench sequence so that they could just capture everything in a moment. Yeah. Rather than try and get it from his vantage point and her point of view. Because that just felt like it was a singular moment, especially for her. Because that moment for her is her cathartic pinnacle moment for her character. And I thought it was beautiful. Yeah. So, yeah. See it. Go see this film. Cabir's. Wait, hold on. Your Corbin's saying Corbin's saying out.