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If you're on set, going to an auditions, you're going to the premiere, or you're doing the reviews, you got to do cocaine first. Yeah. It's just the way it works in Bollywood. Particularly Ranveer's brand of cocaine. Yes, which is quite delicious. It's kicking. It's kicking, it's quite delicious. It makes you take your clothes off. Hence his nude pictures. Today we're doing a movie review. Of the 2003 film, not to be confused with the other, Bahoots, out of that or out there. Yes, or the phone Bahoot. The Vahon Bahoot. I think this one probably started all the other Bahoots. Or the cowboy Bahoot. It's just directed by Ram Gopavarma. Who's that? Some good guy. Some guy. And then starring Ajit Devgan. Who's that? Ormila, right, Ormila? Yes, I'm not even going to joke about her, and Nana Petekar. Yes. Which is cool, even though the only other thing we've seen him in is the original Marathi film, right? But here's what's weird about that. I know we've barely seen him, but the minute he appeared on screen, I was like, oh yeah, I love this guy. And then I remembered, wait, what have I seen him in? And then obviously, our first everything of her, obviously, this is not really starring her, but she's in it, obviously. Orreka. Which is so, it's cool that before when I picked this, I didn't actually realize she was actually in it. So it was cool to actually be able to. Yeah, me too. I'm watching the movie and all of a sudden she appears and I'm like, what? I nearly threw out of my pants. You might be like, why are you watching it? I wanted to get to some spooky films we didn't get to last year. We did a full month of films. This, we're just going to do two or three probably before Halloween, just because I want to watch some spooky films. See if they, and I know it's not. It's not a genre that India has particularly perfected that we've known, but I like watching spooky films around October. It's an American tradition. Absolutely. And so I want to find the ones and this has come highly, highly requested. So, but came out in 2003. It'll be a 100% spoiler review. So if I go watch it, come back and we will get into some spoils. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. Speaking of spooky movies, my wife, much to my surprise, I thought we had watched it while we were long distancing, but we hadn't. She's halfway through when we'll finish it today. Beetlejuice. Oh, nice. Not really a horror. No, but it's a great Halloween movie. Oh yeah, yeah. Great Halloween movie. Some people that aren't in America don't realize that we have a whole genre of non-scary Halloween films. Yes. Like, there's like my wife. It can't be. My wife, even though she's been watching horror films with me this entire time, she, that's not really her genre. She loves Halloween, loves Halloween movies, but most of her Halloween movies are not. They'll be young Frankenstein, Beetlejuice, Hocus Pocus. Hocus Pocus, all those kind of what's clue, practical magic, all those kind of stuff. So that's a whole different genre, but yes, your initial thoughts, please. Initial thoughts for those of you keeping score at home. It is our 61st film of the year, our 268th all-time, our 36th Hindi film of the year, and our 165th all-time. Oh, wow. Yeah. So remember when we reviewed Ratt by Ram Gopal Varma? Yeah, that was also him, yeah. Yeah, which I did not like. Yeah, you didn't like that one. Yeah. I feel completely the opposite for this one. This is, and we can get into it. There's just a few things I would say right out the gate. The first one is, this is now my favorite Indian horror film that we've seen. Over Tombad, though? Yes, and I knew that was gonna be the one to bring up. And you'll see why I like this one a little bit more. If I have no qualms with somebody liking that one more. None whatsoever. And there's things about that movie. So you were, and it's artistically, obviously, bad, or obviously, yeah. Of course, of course, and that's why. And it also is a bit, it's definitely darker. You know? Yeah, it's a folk horror. Yeah, absolutely. But I'll explain why in a little bit. The other reason is, I am just flummoxed, flabbergasted, find any other adjectives. I sent to my Patreon peeps a photo of her from the film. I don't know that I've seen a woman on screen more sultry, captivating, sexy, mysterious than Reika. I, that woman's presence. Oh, yeah. I can't equate it to anybody. Yeah, she was very striking when she came on screen. Just jaw-droppingly. And like intense, and like you wanted to. It took my breath away. When she came on screen, my first thing was a shock. I was so happy we're finally seeing her in a movie. And then as the movie progressed and they kept showing her on screen, I just was good, I'd say out loud, good grief. She's just one of the most beautiful, if not the, she may be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen on screen. Astonishingly beautiful woman. And perfect for that role. So that was my, I love this movie. I really enjoyed it as well. It's not a perfect film. No, it's not. But for 2003, an Indian horror film, it's probably the scariest? You know, I wouldn't say it's like it's terrifying thing at all. Great jump scares. Yeah, it's probably one of the first ones that actually had some jump scares in it. It had some great performance by Umila. Absolutely, I can't wait to talk about that. And obviously Rekha, and then a good supporting cast. And it obviously had some flaws in terms of budgetary things that you knew they probably didn't get a lot of money to do this, because it's a genre that, in India, it's just, oh, you're not gonna have songs and you're not just gonna do a horror? Here's like $5. Right. Well, I'm happy, I was happy to read that it was a box office success. That makes me so happy. Those kind of things you could tell, obviously, and then they had dubbing stuff and all that kind of stuff. Which just hurts so bad. Yeah. But overall, throughout the entire thing, I was invested, I was also, there was like, no other Indian film has given me really jump scares the way this went. There's been some good ones, the Marathi one was really good. Yeah. And then I liked Rot, but this would definitely go in my top five easy of films to recommend for Halloween for Indian films. Yeah, this is my favorite. I think I put that out. This would be number one. Earlier, what was the list? I don't remember offhand. I remember you put it out. No, I know what it was. It was Tombad, it was Stree. Yeah, that's absolutely, those come to, for me, you just said them in the order for me after this one. Bulbul, Bulbul, it's gorgeous. What about Gowen, is that in your top five? No. No? That's such a can't be fun one though, speaking of speaking of Ram Gopal Varma and Urmila, which, where was it? We'll get into the direction talks. I don't wanna jump category to category yet. But I will say, the disclaimer at the beginning though, was, I mean, and Johnny explained why that disclaimer was probably there. Why? Because you know what I'm talking about. It said if you're pregnant or have a weak heart, you know, you be warned. It's not because of this film. It's because of what happened in theaters when the Exorcist was released. People literally, and that does not surprise me, that people had like passed out, had to have medical attention. That happened here in the States. Yeah, yeah. I just watched the Exorcist, so. I'm fresh off, you could tell that it was actually some inspiration of the Exorcist. Oh absolutely, it very much inspired. I'm like less than a week off of watching the Exorcist for the first time ever. So, I'm very fresh in my mind. What did you think? Oh, I loved it. It's incredible, isn't it? Yeah, it's a really, really well done, creepy film. How about Linda Blair? Yeah, she did a great job. Talk about a child actor doing a great job. It was a, I hate that film so much. It's the best, I gotta say, it's the best film that I would watch. I hate it. It's definitely a creepy one for sure. I hate it so much. Anyways, well back to this one. And you had seen this in Johnny before? Yeah, yeah, you had seen this. Okay. No, no, no. Not this. Not this. No, no, no, Buhut. No, she's not seen Buhut. Okay, gotcha. Anyways, but I know it was a box office success and all that. That's really exciting. That's great. But easily, I'd say, once again, not to say it's actually terrifying or anything like that. Not at all. Not at all. But for India, which obviously it's a genre that it's not explored a ton in India. And obviously they don't put a lot of money behind the writing, behind the production of it. This did a fantastic job for 2003 and I think it's definitely the scariest of any of the spooky Halloween films we've seen. Agreed. And also gave some absolutely incredible forms that I wanna talk about right now. Yep. Romila, wow, she just went through a whole transformation in this whole thing, didn't she? She, after, you know, the campiness of Gaon and this. Yeah. And then obviously, Renghila as well. Yes. I think we saw her in, right? Yeah. We liked her a lot in Renghila. I just like, for me, I mean, it's a small category, but yeah, make her the queen of horror right now because it's one of the great things about horror when it's written well and this was written well. I'm so grateful we'll talk about the writing, but this is like, it's a 2003 film that's under two hours that has no songs and is heroine-driven. That was not a box office success recipe. No. Or even artistic success recipe. People weren't doing that. And she is the reason the film works. If she doesn't pull this off and this is not something the average thespian can do, the average thespian is gonna do this and it's gonna look like they're pretending. I won't believe they're going through with it. I believed she was going through what she was going through. It wasn't, like, I don't think it's fair to make a comparison to like Linda Blair and the Exorcist because they're completely different types of characters. But it's a credit, not just to her, but talk about the trust of Ram Gopal Varma. There was one moment where she's first really manifesting the fact that what's going on here is a possession and not a psychiatric event. And Ej is holding her down as well as the maid and he just wouldn't let up on the shot. And I was like, when are you gonna cut this? And he just wouldn't cut. It just kept going and going and she never blinked. She stayed in, this must have been exhausting. Oh, for her? I'd love to talk with her about her preparation, what she had to do throughout the day to keep herself aware of what she was doing and ready. And she had to be emotionally ready because it looked like, obviously, like I said, I just watched the Exorcist and so that obviously a little girl, phenomenal job. But this one, man, it seemed like she was like, just intensely almost like emotional the entire time. This is a much different psychological parameter and complexity. She was like demon, this is a possession of somebody who wants her revenge. It's a little different, obviously. She definitely granted it was probably shot out of sequence, but a good actor's gonna plot their thing and know where they are. And there was a pretty straight trajectory for Reagan's character in Exorcist. She's pretty much, she starts here and just starts the whole way. She doesn't get that luxury mid-scene. She has to go all over the place and make us believe, one minute it's a sleepwalking thing, one minute she's possessed, one minute she's having a vision, one minute it's maybe a psychiatric thing. So much more difficult in that regard. Great, great job. She did such a phenomenal job. Best performance of her for obviously, we've only seen three things. So that's not saying a lot. I feel like she brought the same intentionality with Kaun for just for whatever reason that only she and the filmmakers could talk about. It was a bit more over the top and campy. Where is this state grounded? Yeah, yeah. She did a phenomenal job also, a phenomenal job on her makeup as well, making her look, her eyes. Tired, crazy, possessed. And she was slowly becoming that woman. Yeah, she did a really good job. Next performance, even though she's not the star, I wanna talk about Rekha. This is our first film of Rekha's. Obviously heard a lot about Rekha from her acting and her beauty to obviously her off the camera stuff, which is unfortunate that's the first thing I ever knew about Rekha. But she's a phenomenal actress and this is just a small supporting role of her. So I can't wait to see the rest of her stuff. I wanna see everything. I wanna see everything she's ever done. And my hope would be she might one day consider talking to us, because I know she doesn't do interviews. I can understand why she wouldn't. Because what I've read about the way she's been treated, I wouldn't do interviews either, at all. Come to us, we don't do interviews like that. Yeah, because too often, and I think she's probably a good case study. Granted, I haven't read any books about her, but I've read enough to recognize that she's very much like the quintessential example of how often the media and the paparazzi prefer to enjoy the public humiliation of a celebrity rather than focus on that person's artistic merits. It's pretty sad. Yeah, it is very sad. Because she, like, right when she came on screen, it was me and my wife were like, oh, Rekha. I straight up, I'll show you the picture. Here's the picture that I posted. It's from the film. This is a good grief. This is her from the film. And I'll probably post this on Twitter and Instagram later, but I put it on Patreon. And when I did, I put this as the caption. I just put wow and said, one of the singularly sexiest, smoldering, and utterly captivating women ever to grace the silver screen. Rekha in Buhut literally took my breath away, wow. Yeah, I mean, a fantastic performance, a powerful performance. Did you, how, I got one of the best compliments I could get, I had this zoom thing with the casting director through SAG, and it was a pretty intense scene, and it required, if you read the text and interpret it the right way, you're gonna be still, a lot. And that's the first thing he said to me was, I appreciated the stillness that you had for him because that requires that in the scene. How magnificently still, she controlled everything, which is what was needed for this character. Yeah, she had power. Because she conveyed, I am not some run of the mill, fly by night, don't know what I'm doing, person who's trying to con people with some spiritual guru thing. I am a fricking queen in touch with the invisible realm and no one's gonna mess with me. Yeah, like right when she came on screen without saying a word, you could just like, just like when like a nassir comes on screen, you're like, mm, this guy's bringing some different weight, right? Same kind of thing. And so I'm so excited to see the rest of her work when she's actually the star and like. Yes, I wanna see everything she's ever done. I'm instantly a massive fan. Let's talk about the rest of the cast here. Ajay Devgan, I thought did a really good job. Great job. He had the, I don't wanna say easier role, but in comparison to O'Leila. He did, but what he did that was so, it's not easy to do. Mm-hmm. He's a star, hero, Bollywood actor, allowing himself to play supporting. He's a lead, but his character's really supporting in this. And it'd be easy to try and make it. By the way, there's one of the scripted lines, don't call your wife stupid. Remember that, I'm like, oh dude, whatever. Stupid. Yeah, stupid, but I felt he did a very good job in what the role provided, and it again, could have easily been not, I believe this was a married couple. I believe that they were going through where they were going through. And his fear of what his wife was going through, I thought he did a really good job. Obviously, Ajay Devgan, everything we've seen him in, he's always been a strong actor. Everything we've seen him in. We've always liked him and Nani, Nana, which I didn't actually recognize it was him, because when we saw his, we've only seen one of the film of his, I think, and it was obviously his Marathi film, when he was the artist and he did a phenomenal job, right? Right. He was so much younger here. He was so much younger. But he also still brought the weight of being a thespian in that cop role. Yeah, credit to the casting. The casting was all with people who could act. And even, I wanna see it give her credit, the maid. Yes. I thought she was really wonderful. She was so beautifully creepy at the outset. Yeah, I wanna talk about that. There's a couple of things I really wanna talk about. What do you think was going on with the maid? Cause like the entire time, she had this creepy vibe going on. I know. Obviously, she was a maid of the other house. Yeah. So maybe she knew, but I was almost like, is she possessed? It's a credit to the writing. And the writing duo, I believe, was behind Swadesh. I looked that up. Leilit, Marathi and Sameer Sharma have credits with Swadesh. I think that was intentionally done in the same way a magician will do. I forgot what the term is, but they'll do something over here because they don't want you to see it. Slide of hand? Yeah, it's more than the slide of hand. It's a diversion tactic where they're presenting something over here to make you think this is where the main story is, but the real story is happening over here. I think they did that at the front as a writing technique to make you uncomfortable. I also loved, we're gonna blend disciplines here, but you never know if it was the director of photography's decision or the director. Ultimately, the director okays it, but did you notice when they first, they being AJ and the realtor, when they walk into the apartment for the first time, the very first shot in the apartment, they've changed the lens. It's a slightly, I don't know what lens they used, but they changed the lens on the camera so that it had a slight bit of a distortion and the edges came out, not fishbowl, but close to give you that sense of something's off about this room. And then the angles changed. A lot throughout the film, so many angles that made you uncomfortable. And also, what do you think is going on with the doll? Do you think it was just, I don't know who kept moving it, and why they didn't notice what they kept moving? I know, I kept moving and appearing in places. My suspicion is that just because there is, in both folklore and superstition as well as definitive spirituality things, connectivity between physical objects and spiritual things. And I think that's, it was linked to the kid. To the kid, that's what I thought too. Yeah, it was the kid's toy that he was probably holding just before he died. Now it was one of the budgetary things. Some of the makeup was really good, but we were- I can't wait to share that. When you focus on when the kid, it literally looks like he's wearing Halloween makeup. I know. And the zombies in the movie theater were like, okay. Those are background actors in like store-bought makeup. That's obviously budgetary and stuff like that. The neck snap. Oh yeah. Come on. That was great. Is that some of the better- So good. Which is one of the recent, one I've been, I've seen I think 20 horror films in October now, because I'm just trying to get through all the classics that I've never seen, because I never watched horror, because I always thought I'd be scared. And I found out most horror isn't actually scary. No, most horror isn't scary, it's just you like seeing fun kills. And this one had some of the most fun kills of any Indian film. Especially that one. Obviously, I think it was a prosthetic head. It was really well done. But like- Totally snapped around, little blood coming out of the ear, and they just let it sit there for a long time. When it came on, I audibly went, oh, yes. Yeah. I loved it. That's one of the things I wish. Because obviously there's an audience for horror films in India. Yeah. It's just nobody wants to put outside of now, like since Sri was successful, they're doing obviously, which is great, it's fine. And I'm not mad at that genre. And I'm not mad at that, right? But people want to see horror. There's an audience for horror. There really is. I hope, I see a lot of things in Ram Gopal Varma's IMDB that's in production or pre-production or just script or pitch. I know a lot of people think he kind of went downhill after like the 2000s, Ram Gopal Varma. Okay, so. I don't know, that's just what I heard. Please, like grab the mantle and be the Mike Flanagan that just embraces this because you've had success. Yeah. Count Anstree. Yeah, I just can't, I would love to see this just held onto and have the one person do it that like paves the way for everybody else to come in and do it. Because the other thing that I love so much about the story, the minute they started bringing up the sleepwalking, I was waiting for the stuff that I was gonna go, nobody did their homework. And thankfully the writers and everybody did their homework because yes, sleepwalking can come on. If you start doing it as an adult, it's usually a result of something, some trauma you've gone through. And then yes, if that wasn't resolved, you'd go to psychiatry. And a psychiatrist would easily think she's got multiple personality disorder. That all was very believable. And I loved the representation of the psychiatrist and Reika's character of being the fight that happens where psychiatry completely discounts everything of the spiritual and the spiritual discounts everything of the psychiatric. And it's very hard to tell where the two have Exorcist did it as obviously because he was Pure demonic possession. Yeah, yeah. That's Exorcist. Well he did that too because he was the psychiatrist first. And the second thing is a really great, great one. And there might be some people who don't like this because they don't like mental illness represented as like a possession or something. It shouldn't bother you if you have a, no, there's people who don't like that. Like real heavy duty supporters of mental illness awareness don't like horror films having people who are possessed being talked about as if they have a mental illness. Well, I have a dad who's battle mental illness his whole life. And I feel like I have a level of authority I can talk about in that regard. And the reality is throughout human history they've always commingled because they always affect the psyche. So it's what psychiatry comes from the Greek word that is the soul. That you can't separate the two. So I loved that. I just thought about something when she was sleepwalking and she went into the neighbor's house and she was just sitting there staring at the old woman. Why? I don't know. I just remember this. There was something about that woman. That woman. And what that woman was doing. We never got that answer though. I love that. No, we didn't get the answer, right? We did not get that, not to my knowledge. Yeah, there's a couple of things that we didn't get. So I love the change of lens. I knew the first jump scare was coming as she's going up the stairs. I knew it was coming and it still got me. Yeah. It still got me. Me and my wife both were like got a little and I was like, oh, nice, you got me. Normally they get those in Indian horror films. I love the angles. Oh, I love the transition. There was a moment where the camera was doing a spin on the outside of the apartment from below and then the edit took you to her in the bed and the same speed of spin was on the camera. Beautiful transition. I loved the, okay, the change of lens, multiple person, oh, the other. Sound design, I thought was spectacular. Great job with sound design, including making the big stuff scare us and making little things. Like there was one moment where she was cooking bacon in the kitchen and you could hear the sizzle of the bacon. It was just really well done. I know it was 2003 and I know it was Indian cinema but I absolutely loved it when she had taken the shower and was flirting with AJ on the stairs and she's barefoot and she's like, yeah, I'm horny and he's like, oh, wow, yeah, right on. But then he never kissed her on the mouth. I'm like, come on. It's Indian cinema. Kiss her on the mouth. What? Nah, kiss her somewhere else. Yeah, that too. Anyways. She just had a shower. So that is, Where's all the flavor? Yeah. Anyways, so that is our review of the Bahut. Love the movie. Very fun movie. Love, very glad we finally got to it. This is one that I think after last year and then any time I bring it up people like you should watch Bahut. I'm glad we finally did, if there's other kind of spooky films that we can watch this Halloween. Like I said, I'm probably watch two to three before Halloween is over. Let us know what that should be. And obviously, I know obviously Silsa with Amitabh Bakshan and Anjaya and then there's Urmila, whatever that one is called. Very famous. Yeah, all of her stuff. She has a whole bunch of other stuff too. So let us know what the next of hers or Mila as well, AJ as well. Let us know what you think about this film down below.