 What are you doing now? You tying your shoes? Tying my shoe, you got a problem with that? Yeah, you're tying like a little bit. Hey, welcome back to our stupid direction idiots. Happy Diwali. Happy Diwali to you and yours. Happy Diwali from the ceiling to the floors. Yeah, you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Thank you all for coming. And you can follow us on Patreon and follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Links in the description below. Hey, what? They should see all of the lovely little motor they look like to you. Balloons? Nah, that's not what they look like to me. Anyway, what are we doing today? Doing a movie review. Oh no. Yeah, the ongoing joke that Rick didn't watch the movie. Just wing it. We're hilarious. We are so funny. Anyways, the new film that just came out, Ludo, which is based off the game which you haven't played says it's similar to Parcheese. Ah, I put that on my spaghetti. But this is a... Say his name for me. Oh, the director? Anurag Basu. He directed, wrote it, and produced it. I think we've seen one of his things before. That's it. I was like, I know I've seen something of his. Yep. But it's starring a whole slew of people, Little B, who we have said we wanted to see in something. I did Roy Kapoor, who I believe we saw in... We saw him in... No, we didn't see him in The Comporn Sons. Who was he in Comporn Sons? Am I mistaken? Okay, he might have been. I don't know. You can tell me. And then Rajkumar Rao. And then Tripitha. I think, if we look at his résumé, I think 75% of the roles he plays have his name as the character. Is that like an ongoing joke? Because right when he said it, I was like... I know. Is that in his contract? Like every role he plays has to have that name. Which is hilarious. Very strange. But anyways, we loved the trailer. We probably thought it was the best trailer of this past year. We were very much looking forward to seeing it. So we'll give you just a tiny little bit of non-spoilages because it's new. Correct, because it's brand new. Then we'll get into it. So, Rick, your initial thoughts. Non-spoilers. Non-spoiler and initial thoughts. Loved, loved, loved. Loved it. It's quirky. It's fun. It's an extremely difficult thing to pull off. I... It's like a breath of fresh air in the midst of sensing we have to stay locked down through the winter. Something this fun and touching and entertaining and laugh out loud funny is available. I totally agree. It lived up to what I felt the trailer was supposed to be. I applauded when it was over. I applauded the screen. I love the ending. It's non-spoilers. Non-spoilers. But, yeah, I think it's actually a brilliant, also unique to especially Indian cinema who have yet to get at least to our knowledge a lot of this style which is very I want to say it has a couple elements of a few things. I'm not comparing it, but like Quinn what's his name? Guy Ritchie and the person who it reminded me of quite a bit in terms of some of the quirkiness in terms of the use of color was um, oh, boss? Who? What movie? We love him. Well, you have to tell me a movie. I know. Um, and my brain's farting on that, too, and I see his face the comedy with Hitler. Oh, Pacquotiti. Yes. Yeah, yeah, very much, very much, yes. Very much like that. So, I was one of my favorite directors watched everything he's ever done. You still haven't seen what we do in the shadows. No. That's so brilliant. I haven't. Anyways, so, yeah, I think everything from the direction to the cinematography, I thought they did a great job in each character. The cinematography even went along with what piece they were supposed to be playing, basically. So hard. Um, so that was great. I thought the score was really not of the acting. Oh, the score with the music. The acting especially by Tripathi and Rajkumar Rao. And, hey, I will talk a little bit about it, but I was shocked by Pacquotiti, man. There was not one weekly in the entire thing. Not one. So, I want to praise the director who is also the writer and the producer. Yeah. Anurag Basu did a phenomenal job making a very unique, quirky film. So, definitely just go watch it on Netflix. Enjoy it. You're going to enjoy it's got a two and a half hour runtime. It feels like a 90 minute film. Yeah. You'll forget all about COVID and elections and crap and you'll just get to escape, be entertained, be made to laugh, have some touching moments and watch some incredibly good cinematography. It's just and some really great quirky performances. Great quirky performances. It's just all good. By a lot of people. So, definitely go check it out. If you haven't seen it yet, please go watch it. We are heading into the spoiler part of the review now. Yes. There's lots of twists and turns in this film. Yes. So, we don't want you to be spoiled. So, go away. Yeah. Get out of here now because here come the spoilers. Right at the end. Yeah. No, but yeah, like I said, I loved everything about this film. I want to praise the director even more because what he did with just everything. He's got given the most credit for and I think only seen one of his and it was Barfi, which was a unique film in and of itself. I love Barfi. Yeah. And so, quirky. Like this. No. And not nearly as difficult to pull off. It's almost had like a pulp fictiony style of because they went and molded the stories together. You know what it reminded me of not in terms of its feel or genre, but its structure. The fact that we had like these different components that kept you engaged with each of the stories and they crossed each other. Yeah. It reminded me just in that respect to the success in love actually where you're connected to each of the stories in that romantic comedy and each of the people in the story. It's a really fun, underrated. We're not allowed to watch it here. She doesn't want to be mad at Alan Rickman. Why should be mad at Alan Rickman? Doesn't he like cheat on somebody? I'm not going to give away a spoiler. I'm just telling that's what it looks like. It's so cool. She does not want that vision of Alan Rickman in her head. It's a fun rom-com for the holidays one of my favorite for the holidays and it has the same kind of feel. The difficulty of taking these different stories and keeping you engaged with each of the characters and the way that they blended them the way that you'd see one moment that's just this passing moment where someone's having a conversation as the main people walk by and then 15 minutes later you're in that conversation and they're the passing by survivor. I thought it was brilliant like when Tripp was a great opening when Tripp was the ghost that killed the guy and I loved that he had his gun right on it. I did too. And that shot with the green door falling in brilliant shot you wouldn't think a film like this would have as beautiful of cinematography as it had. It's easy to miss. It's easy to miss. It was extremely beautiful. This would be one of those films that have been released like in America. This would have been one of those films that right now I'd be screaming and saying, okay, Academy don't miss the level of artistic brilliance in the cinematography because this is such a quirky, funny movie. This movie deserves and I'd be jumping up and down if it got a nod for cinematography because it's... he has some shots that are just straight up like throwaways. It's like you could be sitting there getting your popcorn sitting in your underwear and he just threw a diamond of cinematography in front of you and you just didn't even notice it. It's just beautiful in so many ways. I want to talk about the performances. Let's start off with Tripathi because, you know, he's one of our absolute favorite... I think he... he's one of the best actors acting, period. Not no region attached to that. He's legendary. He's one of the few because it's difficult to be as good as he is in drama and also, frickin' hilarious. We've seen him in multiple things. Him be just so funny. Let's just look at the two things he has out right now. And how different those characters are all of that gravitas in Mirzipur he's playing a hitman but he doesn't have any of that gravitas in the character. He's a funny character without being over played in a comical sense like he was, like he didn't stream where that was a bit more over the top. The thing that he's brilliant in comedy is he doesn't play the shtick at all. That's why it's so funny because he's one of those guys that automatically has a weight just by looking at him. You're like, oh, he's intimidating but then he kind of just he does his normal like the fact that he was so happy dancing to the song and it was brilliant when they had their heads bobbing in the back I know the guys in the back of the car Once again, the cinematography was just great comedy moments throughout. His whole character and it was so different from his character that we saw on the street and I know that we've only seen the tip of the tip of the iceberg I guess with Tripathi and we've seen a couple of his things that it's extremely difficult to be as good as he is in drama few actors can do that as much as I love Nawaz I have not seen Nawaz do that and it's really really rare to have those kinds of roles happening simultaneously right now like Mirzapur is a hit show on right now and this is a brand new film that's out right now and they're completely different kinds of characters completely different kinds of characters I want to really sing the praises we got what I was hoping we would get from Abhishek Bachchan and I now want to watch more because especially a couple of the more tender moments because I believe I love the story with the little girl wasn't it great that moment with the finger and then later I know I was so mad at her very few instances where I think that would ever be okay if you were a rape victim and you don't want to tell who the father is that's one of the few extreme things if your husband goes to jail that daughter still needs to have the right to know who her father is not to be told another human being it's her actual biological dad maybe it's just because I'm a father now no I'm with you it pissed me off but I that final scene where he's there and he's beautifully directed when he just looks at her on this side and she goes to the other shoulder and then he comes around over here and she goes to the other shoulder his portrayal throughout and this is the kind of performance I wanted to see where he wasn't doing much where we just got to see him be on the screen and it just made me really happy to see him do what I had expected we would see him do in trailers and the fact that we mentioned when Big B is your dad and you genuinely are wanting to be an actor yourself it's inevitable people are going to be comparing you to a legend the biggest yeah it's like being Marlon Brando's kid so he he stood alone just in this one thing that little girl who was always with him that little girl was fantastic great casting job in selecting that little girl the entire thing was well casted and also I loved when Tripathi made him speak like I'm a thug buck which one do you want which one do you want him from Duar that was so hilarious and the entire thing kept you on your feet the entire film there was a surprise every 15 to 30 minutes both in the plot twists and also as to at what point are we going to see the characters intertwined and you knew we're going to bring this to a head you knew this was going to have some kind of a climax and I also love the narrators throughout the whole thing those guys and the moral interplay what's the moral to the story it was kind of similar to what they did in McBool Barry and Shah and Om Pori it's a very Shakespeare kind of thing to do so I love that and then obviously the graphics they did when we were hopping over a thing was great Rajkumar Rahman the India's best gems yeah he too can do anything that because such a hilarious character I loved every time he was sad he had to do it he had to dance once again the writing in this because that noticed when he walked to the restaurant and he goes to the table he throws the water bottle and it lands on the table behind him standing up the writing in this obviously I think is definitely the star of this film because it's definitely an ensemble it's this whole thing really is on your own buses he's the star love to see more from him because I know we've only seen this is now our second with him but I would love to explore him more because he's such a unique director and he takes risks and his writing is so brilliant in terms of one dialogue and all the twists and turns you get so how hard not did you laugh how hard did you laugh two moments there were many I had two moments that made me three moments at the end that made me just laugh out loud when he got hit with the car showing other things and saying this is what it will be for us and he gets hit by the car I love a good I forget who did it first it might have been Mean Girls do you remember Mean Girls I've never seen Mean Girls it's not like a chick flick it's Tina Fey it's freaking hilarious but that's the moment I loved how they just ended I loved that I loved how she takes him around to the trunk his look and then how Raj Kamaral looks at him and it's not the look of how are we going to get rid of the body it's the look of oh he's really gone I get her now oh cool we're free and then in the credits Tripathi's in a wheelchair he didn't die he's just dancing with her in the wheelchair so good laugh out loud funny he just keeps living so good he doesn't die he just doesn't die I genuinely feel like this is a literal cinematic blessing in the world right now if there's something that people need who are stuck inside and it's now fall going into winter to be able to have something like this to take your mind off of everything that's going on and have a lot of laughs a lot of fun appreciate great writing this is this is really a gift and I want to praise the women in this as well the oh everybody and this was fantastic Pinky who reminded me a lot of Kuber say didn't she a little bit was she one of the girls in Dango she was wasn't she I can tell just the minute you said that that is one of the sisters yeah that's one of the sisters in Dango she was also one of the no we're done the one with the curly hair I'm gonna go to it was the other sister yes hey wow wait okay so one was Bobita oh I know exactly which one was which because the minute you said she was in it I knew who she was so she's the other one wow yeah we're done well they did a great job oh on your box it was in this who what character did he play the director he had a cameo he did his wait a minute who was he was he the bald dude with the wig let me see he might have been the whole the guy who worked at the hotel the guy who worked at the hotel yeah who goes to try to steal a thing and beats her up I wonder if he does because a lot of directors do that they like to have a little cameo Quinn loves that yeah but yeah that might have been him that's that's hilarious but yeah everybody in this did did so so well and I want to once again the writing Basu in not being because especially sometimes in Indian cinema like the way I thought like if they were on the this girl was in a porn the way I thought that would go in Indian in India right he took it a completely different direction correct and so I like it when you you don't you surprise me with the writing yes not in terms of just like somebody gets in the car but in terms of not doing the normal thing I'm used to people doing yeah with that kind of story yeah and but both of the window would rush around the female in that one and then the one with the sex the sex tape yeah story was I thought really brilliant when they brought in the the husband who you thought they were going to get all mad right he was a lot of surprises yeah lot of surprises that you didn't think we're going to turn the way that they did yeah and yeah I'm guessing him as a writer doesn't like those those things as well he's like I don't want to be boring like that get case in point when he breaks the guy out of the hospital I didn't see a crane coming did you and I didn't see Tripathi jumping on no and joining him oh my god that's so funny yeah really really fun oh so much fun lived up to the hype yeah I am so glad definitely of the films that have come out this year best film of the year 100% and the Noa's favorite film of the year the Noa's one was up there as well but this one I think I love this one way more absolutely that one was just that was a good film this is I think a great film and so I think I'm hoping everybody I agree and this truly is like with the 10 picture category at the Oscars this is the kind of film that would be it would be a contender it would be a Tika kind of a film where you'd be like a Jojo Rabbit where you're thinking to yourself they may not do it but they should this will be a lot of people's favorite of the year absolutely obviously this won't this won't get to the Oscars sadly if it was an American film it would it'd be talked about it would definitely be involved with Ensemble for SAAS but like the Globes that's one of the things that's frustrating with the Oscars is if Jojo Rabbit was made in India it wouldn't have made the Oscars for a film that's why it was interesting to see Parasite get in there because it had had a level of quirkiness to it where ordinarily what the Academy has looked at particularly they've always done this with Best Picture but particularly from any international film because they want poignancy and they want power and they want something that's like exposing the raw underbelly of absolutely but a film like this would be appreciated and loved by audiences but it could be really underrated for its artistic merits which are high high high level high high level I want to see more from the director everybody involved little B Junior B we call him little B I like that one better but let us know what you thought about this film down below and happy Diwali