 All right, I feel so tall you look stupid Today we're doing a movie of you of the Tanuku film. I think it's a 2018 film Rajasthanalism exactly Which is I believe what I call it. It's if you harmonize it. I Rajasthanalism. I was here to stay. Rajasthanalism. Rajasthanalism? 1985 I believe is the actual name. Yeah, I think Rangasthanalim I guess. Sure. Directed by Sukumar and it's starting a bunch of people but the the main two leads are Ram Charan and Say her name for me. Samantha Ekannini. And then there's a couple other people, but it's a big Ensemble cast but it's mainly Ram Charan. He's obviously the the lead in this It's gonna be a hundred spins for a review if you haven't watched it I think most of you have it has been the second most requested to the film basically next to Bahubali too And normally I would ask Rick what his initial thoughts were. I know his initial thoughts And so I'm just gonna preface you right now if you are in for a if you'd just like to see reviews that Agree with what you what you what you think? I'm just gonna tell you don't watch this I just want to let you know You're more than entitled to your opinion to love this film. Yes. I think it's the best film ever You're here to see our opinion. That's right. This will be and we're always gonna be honest And so this is ours, but first I know rick hated it. Um, I'm not gonna say I loved it Not even say I liked it But I do want to start with the stuff I did like it. So it doesn't mean to because there is something There are some things that I like because I don't want to just just be a negative every guy hate when that happens Me too First and foremost, I think this is one of the best to shot films. It's a beautiful cinematography. It's an absolutely Gorgeous film. So is the sound. Yes the sound in the cinematography is exceptional It's I don't know what kind of camera they shot it on But it was it was absolutely gorgeous and most of the time as well I thought the score even though the placement of it sometimes by the director. I didn't agree with I thought the score for the most part was quite pretty. Yeah, well done. The song numbers were the best part of the film Yeah, and I we reacted to a couple of those song numbers Yeah, and and it's and we went into this knowing this was a a mass almost masala ish Kind of film right right. Um, yeah By the way, we have been um one of the things that Corbin's been doing which is very helpful Is he gets an idea from the stupid family that helps make the decision on the films? And he'll give me an idea about what we're going into So for example, I don't need to be prepped by anything if we're watching Satyajit Rai or Sanjay Lee, Libhansali We kind of know where we've been we may get surprised but we kind of know what to expect But because so many things are varied It's important to not go into a film when your mindset is in film festival circuit But what you're going to get is just popcorn entertainment. Yeah, and I guess because then I put an unfair Impression on the film before it starts. So he gave me an idea friends like hey, this is not award-winning stuff here We're watching a film that we're going to just enjoy The the the movie entertainment aspect of it I told the base try to try to go into having fun is what I'm exactly just enjoy I'm just letting you preface where we're not we weren't trying to think this was an Oscar film Um, because I think some people think that we think every film needs to be an Oscar film And we don't and I think if you saw our review for war, you'd know we we don't feel that way Yeah, um Ludo as great as we thought Ludo was it was more of a film. We enjoyed because it was just a fun It was a really fun film. Yeah, the other thing but was Samantha Akineni, yeah, who played Rama Laksh Lakshmi, right? Yeah, she played Lakshmi and you recognized her. Yes I did it was ego, right And what the larger thing we've seen her in the most what family man Oh, yeah, yeah, she was one of my favorite actresses in it for sure She was uh, yeah Hers was the only acting role in it that for me I gravitated toward and like also the actor who played her brother Um, but we'll get into her brother that in a second. Yeah, yeah her brother. Okay. Yeah, um, yeah So I did really enjoy I think she has great screen presence Uh, and actually a lot of people in this film do have really great screen presence um, but We have obviously other issues there. There was a bunch of scenes that I did really enjoy Um, but those were I think uh more few and far between there's one main issue in this film That I think if you would have changed that I think it would have been at least an enjoyable film And I know you might not agree. Uh, but I don't agree. Yeah, no I think uh, probably the main issue for me was the choice that Ramcharan made Uh With because it's clearly a choice that him and the director made of what style they decided to go for for this character which was a very I don't know how you would describe a cartoony depiction of somebody with a hearing disability Um, that's a good way to it was very cartoony and that was probably my and there was I had more issues But that was probably my biggest issue was the fact that the rest of this For the most part. I'm not saying there were the ground like grounded like um, cobalogy nights But no, uh, I'm saying the rest of them were at least more realistic Everyone else was a little more realistic. He was almost chaplain. He was trying to be like like very Vovillian well over the top. It was over the top. Huh? Like yeah, like I didn't there was also that just didn't fit to me There was also that there was an added element that wasn't just slap sticky and over the top and cartoony because those are the things that are commiserate to You consider like with the three stooges. Yeah, you know chaplain really didn't get Whole other animal there with charlie chaplain But chaplain that you that was the world. Yeah, exactly of the of the time Yeah, the standard of the day per se and that was the world he built in that film Exactly and the tramp was always that kind of a character and there was always I mean One of my favorite actors of all time in that era is oliver hardy who always broke the fourth wall Stan lord will do something stupid and oliver hardy would look at everybody and go Yeah, uh The thing in addition to that was Because here's why it didn't work for a couple of reasons one It wasn't a stylistic choice for the director for the entire ensemble like we got in devdas Yeah, it was a singular event with this they wanted they want there were a few times other people as well But when you compared it to samantha, yeah, it was it was oil and water comparatively stylistically as actors that was probably the strangest thing for me and the one that just kept taking me out of of enjoying it because i'm like I don't I mean Look, I know it was the choice of him and the director to make this like To kind of him trying to be normal So he over accentuates and I know why they did it it just didn't work for me Me too And so it just kept taking me out of every single moment when he was being this happy and blah blah blah blah and like I'm like you're not in reality right now No, and the rest of this is trying to give me a different reality than the reality you're giving me And let me give you an Additional comparison of his choices that will be happy for those of you who are of the hashtag justice for rand beer Because i'm going to make a comparison to barfi. Oh, yeah, and where rand beer was doing a lot of complimentary Bafoonery that was of the silent era and the threesome just kind of comedy but what he did within that context I didn't see with rom's choices because what I saw with rom's choices there was And this wasn't a subjective thing on my my point I've been watching actors and know enough about the art form to know I would be shocked if he gave you any other answer If he was being honest about it that A huge number the majority of the decisions that he made as an actor he did Knowing he was being watched. Yeah There's one thing to make a comedic decision because I know you know the audience is going to find it funny It's another one where basically every choice you're making You know you're being watched by an audience And with a film that seemed to be serious a lot of the time and wanted to be serious a lot of time And a grounded performance by Samantha Ekineni it just it stuck out like a like a sore thumb and not a good way Yeah, and and the reason why I said I think that would have changed it for me Is because even though I had problems with the second half I enjoyed it a lot more than the first because that shtick almost went away But I basically after this one skin spoiler Once his brother died and it basically became John Wick, right? And I was like that's what I was actually really hoping for I was like, okay Just be John Wick and just kill people just just do that And so that that I'm not saying I fully enjoyed the second half But I enjoyed it more because the there wasn't really that shtick of his of Huh, what did you say speak up, please? It just it took me out of it There was only like two instances where I thought I was like, okay That was funny and it was when he was sneaking into the house And he thought he was being quiet and just everything was being loud around him That's like the only time I actually liked it and I was like, okay If you just kept that one moment and then kind of Which was obviously heightened kind of a shtick and then kind of Toned it down the rest of the time. I think that would have been way better That's my choice And once again, my personal preference is just that it just didn't work for me The his his performance. No, it didn't and I don't and it's it's not just a choice as well. I mean, it's just it Anyway, we don't need to harp on it for a long time. The the other thing for me But because there's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot for me And I don't want to spend the time just ragging on things at all but Uh, not but because that negates what I just said in addition I I Pain at storylines that are Sophomorically predictable in ways that grow definitively frustrating for me when you want to see Obviously you want to see Cinema elevated at an artistic level in ways that are magnificent that not every film can be nor should be because there is room And there is a place for just pure entertainment and enjoyment But when we're talking about something like this film where I felt like for three hours I knew what you know, here we go Someone's going to hurt somebody's sensitivities and they're going to insult somebody's family member And they're going to get mad and someone's going to slap somebody and then that person's going to get mad And they're going to hit them and while they're getting beat up a guy's going to have to say Hey, catch him and beat him up while he's being beat up And then he'll go back and then the girl who thought he loved him He'll get mad at her and hit her and then we'll wonder if we're going to be together And then when she talked to him for the first time as well He got all like a nine-year-old kid and was like, oh my goodness. She smiled at me and I It it just that we can make an entire film based on a premise like that Which is really that's pretty much what it was and we've got the A stereotypical bad guy who's being mean to everybody and then you find out he's even worse than he was I It just storyline and everything I don't I don't understand why we would want to spend You have a limited number of minutes on the planet. Why you'd want to spend it For me, it's just cinematically the intelligence quotient is so low that it is it is not only not enjoyable for me It's infuriating for me because there's so many other films That deserve to have attention and deserve to be watched and deserve to be talked about from all over the world That when I watch a film that just doesn't hit it on any cylinder for me becomes a transcendent annoyance disappointment to the point of a deep angering for me in terms of I was going to I'm not going to do it because I don't want to make a dramatic thing over it But it reminded me and I was going to read it It reminded me of the scene in the hamlet where hamlet captures Basically in the room Gertrude and he points out to her can do you realize would you realize what you're doing? You've sacrificed everything when you had let me let me show you two pictures You had this one and he gives all of these descriptions about his dad in this picture He says but you gave it up for this one and he goes to the grand extremes to explain the difference in the two Metaphorical pictures of his biological dad who was murdered and she knew and was complicit in it So that she could be with this Why would you even invest your time in this picture? And that was the metaphor I was going to give is when there are so many other films That are are meritorious and worth exploring and worth talking about and celebrating Why would you want to watch a film? other than My you know the group of people I hang out with think it's great and if you don't agree with us You're stupid which is really a metaphor of the film the film itself is a metaphor for itself and that For 30 years things have been the way that they are anybody who says anything against it you either get killed or kicked out So everybody just says this is the way things are And I feel that way about some movies. It's like you just didn't get it. You just don't like it rather than wait a minute Is there some relevance to what you're saying about This and I the majority of you who love this film are going to write me off as being arrogant Stupid, uh, why do we even need that white guy's affirmation and okay, whatever I'm never going to be dishonest with you because I care too much about the art form and truth I think he's an idiot too Not for this Everything else But uh, I do want to say just a few more things, uh, I do agree Um, but the there was a few scenes that I did enjoy it when When his brother Was being chased in the cornfield. I thought that that section of it where he was Defying physics and everything was defied. I mean, but yeah, but he got sliced up how many times and he didn't bleed out to death I just yeah, uh, but in this film I enjoyed that scene of it I thought he won once again onto the cinematography shot very well beautiful The cinematography was top notch. I wish it would have ended way differently the opening scene Which one? I thought we were off for a great ride with the very opening car crash Oh, yeah, cinematography wise and him coming out of the door and hitting his face on the rock. I was like that opening shot was Remarkable. Yeah, the the cinematographers are rough rock novella Phenomenal job and the lighting crew everybody on production was absolutely incredible gorgeous film Definitely the in our opinion the best the best part about the film. So Once again, uh, if you like to film once again, hope you weren't already here or you're understanding that people have different opinions than you But uh, let us know what the next to lugu film. We should watch and review should be down Be nice