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Uh, directed and written by Chaitanya Tom Hain, I believe and produced by Alfonso Coron, right? Hold on. I gotta adjust some stuff over here. No Who knew that wouldn't be a good idea? Yeah, uh and starring There we go. Now I can breathe I believe that's the main guy Aditya Modak But yeah, it's a self-doubted sacrifice in the struggle Converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery He strives for remains elusive. That's actually a good that is a good that's that's vague enough very yeah Um, but conveys what's going on. Uh, if you haven't watched it, it's on Netflix now Uh, like I said, it came out last year. Like I said, I don't know how to classify this Right because it wasn't anywhere last year. It wasn't in theaters. It wasn't right, but I believe it was festival circuit Um, so I don't know how to classify it if it's a 2021 film or a 2020 film I am to be listed as 2020 because I guess, you know, technically it had a theatrical release But that was stunted obviously because of code. So we've seen this director before in the marathi film court Uh, if you haven't watched that go watch that review go watch that film great film great film. Um, so Spoiler review if you haven't watched it just go watch it. Yeah, we're just going to assume you yeah, exactly Rick your next few thoughts, please So the very first thing I would say that's on my mind after seeing this without having framed a paragraph about it I have a sentence in my mind, which would be this I can't remember a time when I saw a film that screamed more loudly about important things By barely whispering I could see that right definitely. Yeah if if you've seen court you can tell this director has a style It's it is the thumbprint Uh, he he loves Slow paced he does everything everything is like reamly Just methodical the script is slow. I mean everything about him is like okay So we're the scripting The storyline as far as the what we talk about the conversations will be pretty much that'll move very slowly The change of frames be very slow and like one of my favorite moments and you'll um The cinematography and the editing is so good that you'll miss it because it's the same guy is court I'd be shocked if it wasn't Michael something and then let's check Uh, it's a different one. Really? Yeah, it's a different okay So they just work hand and glove as it were yeah because one of the performances It's I think it's the one because we're getting toward the end And I was waiting to see if he was going to do it It was an establishing shot at the back of the room, which is what he does all the time in court Yeah, yeah, and in fact the very opening of the film. I was like, yeah, is this the same room they did the recording Right, but he's he's got that establishing shot and I knew what he was going to do. I said This sucker is going Slow burn this and I wonder how long it took them to do this shot because what we've got is probably It's got to be an extended crane that's just Going at a snail pace and we're going to go from this distant establishing To pretty much zoomed in right and that's exactly what he did. Yeah, uh, I thought he did a really I I did really enjoy the film Just if you enjoyed court, I'm pretty sure you're gonna enjoy this. That's a great way Yeah, if you like court, you'll like this because once again, I think that's what we said There's not really anything wrong with the film. There isn't it's It's just if it's not your style to you to do slow films that might be your your gripe. You know what? This is a gripe, but it isn't I had to fight myself I'm falling asleep during some of the songs because they were so beautiful And meditative and peaceful. Yeah that as they kept going I was like Yeah, and I closed my eyes just to listen and then I was like Wait, I gotta cut and I would I would venture to say at least a half hour to not 40 minutes of this is just music Oh, yeah, I loved the background score of this because it's a choice for me for our dummies. Yeah Absolutely, I put it on my list of like this score of how much we love doing classical music reactions Yeah, I felt like I had to go to pre even though I'm not I'm not saying I'm a master Aided by any stretch of the image. Not as well. You're close close to a very close, but uh, not a master yet. Um, but you're a master bater kind of like this guy Well done that was quick. Um, but Yeah, no the um The score that I put behind it was So beautiful. I felt because I just have an attachment to that sound of the Oh, I forget the name of of what it is And I also got to feel like since we've heard so many great classicals like right way to the beginning. I was like Yeah, he's okay. Right. I could tell like even I had imagined if I wasn't it hadn't seen anything I was like, oh, yeah, he's pretty good. Yeah, but having heard I'm like, oh, he's about he's just about average Yeah, he's kind of just an average singer We had a frame of reference for this because of the blessing of the past two years of being exposed to so much beautiful Uh classical music and knowing the difference between the styles that are from the north and the south that we could have an Appreciation for it. We would have never had two years ago or even a year ago Yet I think there's also a lot about this that we probably won't understand in the same way that when I watch black swan I can appreciate it because I have an understanding of dance And I know what it requires in ballet But there's a certain level of it that only a ballerina would understand Yeah, and I think the same is true for this. Well, this one also just like court I think his main thing is that he likes to tell like I'm he likes messages. He has messages And this is a message for Artists, not just in classical music. This is just a a story For artists. Yeah, or actually anybody in general in any job. I guess it would I would agree That's like to say that you're so passionate about your craft But you just don't have it like you're you're just you're never gonna get to the point of being Amazing, right? You're you're probably you'll probably know the craft probably just as well as anybody. You'll probably appreciate it But you might miss not have a talent and it it showed not the not that he was bad bad expressed about the anti Was he was good, but he wasn't special and and that's one of the things it was showing like Do you keep following it? Regardless, right? Or do you give up? Yeah, there's a sign. I have two these are linked these stories There's a school in the valley that on one of the buildings. It says never get up on your dreams and I I just it boggles my mind because Yes, there are some dreams you really need to bury and I Experientially I remember as a little boy I wanted to be the I wanted to be the first guy to ever have a world series ring and an academy award I wanted both of those things and I was in Serious pursuit of baseball when I was in my teens because in the industry You're not getting cast and stuff as a teenager unless you're a big star because you're changing too fast They'll hire an 18 to look younger way before the higher a 16 year old So my agent and my dad they all said yeah, take a break if you want and I kind of did take a break for a couple years And focused on baseball. I made varsity high school baseball I was really good high school baseball and then I played college baseball But I remember two things that happened in baseball one was standing in front of a guy who was going to be a first round draft Pitcher who was throwing 95 plus and I thought I don't want to stand in front of that I thought if I was a majorly baseball player, I'd want to be going up and I did not want to stand in front of him even more I went over the next year to Pierce college where I was a music major as well after I changed from theater And I tried out for the baseball team Little late and the guy said if you have something to offer we don't already have I'll let you be on the team And I did and at the end he came up to me. He said you don't have anything to offer. I don't already have I remember bicycling away, and it was the first time in my life. I knew It's over I'll never be a majorly baseball player. There was always that possibility But it was over but for me that was really a I was happy about that. It's confirming to get that answer It's it's it's such a conundrum. Uh, conundrum. That's what the word is conundrum. Yeah conundrum um those things because like Michael jordan didn't get picked up on any of his handsome basketball teams exactly He didn't give it up on his dream. Thank god. Well, I had to because my yeah, you know, uh, but no That's one of those things just like you you can hear both things and you like And I think the the girl said it in the audio tapes Uh, she was like your father Didn't have it, but he he's he's just kept going. Yeah, and you're smarter than that though, aren't you right? Aren't you aren't you? But obviously he he he kind of just goes about his life and he shows multiple Aspects of his life when he was younger and then obviously when he's older and a little more established probably a little more polished But still he's not not really doing anything and I thought one of the great scenes was actually Uh Later in the film when they meet that guy who knew about all these other tables, right? We had to great I thought it was a scene phenomenal scene really one well done Whether directing and uh acting wise But he had a lot to say sure did he was just going through all these people that this guy Idolized and just as a young person you idolize people if you're an actor you idolize certain people right and and it's like somebody coming And they be people have been your idols for Your entire existence of wanting to be whatever you're wanting to be right and this guy's just shutting you down It's like no, they're They're really not all that right They're she never sang because she couldn't That's not that she did it because it was a mystical kind of a thing It was that she didn't want enough morning ever They defended him right you know why you would do that and then so it's it's I like the the message And it doesn't give you a either a spoon feeding and also doesn't specifically tell you in the end What is the right thing going on here? Exactly and it the the larger question aside from the disappointments you can face and the recognition of your limits Irrespective of what your discipline may be But hence disciple because that's where that comes from is living a life within a continued discipline You're a disciple of the discipline I I liked even more so and it's obviously applicable definitively with artists like this but Anything in life that you're pursuing as to why? Because the big thing for him was especially this existential crisis Wasn't just the recognition of his limitations. I think the deeper thing when he got challenged by that man was Is everything I've been pursuing false is my why false and for himself Am I pursuing this because I love this art form or is this because there's something in myself I'm trying to get affirmation in my dad. I'm doing because my dad wanted my dad wanted me too It's just what is expected of me. I actually I only have one Mini gripe and it's just it's just the choice. I would make and I'm not saying it's the better choice It's just the choice. I was anticipating and kind of wanted Was when he was playing I thought he was going to give us the same end shot as court as court And that when he got up and walked out I thought fade to black I thought that was it. Yeah, I did I did though really I loved Every single shot on the motorcycle when it came up and that that the the rug was playing behind it And then she was speaking and so it was his meditative state of driving along, right? Of course, I actually really enjoyed those all those scenes because there was a bunch of I did too And he stayed on them for a long time long. This guy does not care about your boredom Which I love I know that is Alfonso Cuarón, which is why they're very very similar Creators, so I appreciate that and then also another thing There's like that person he saw on on Indian idol I assume is what it was that she came on and then she kind of just changed herself Got got into not just classical at the beginning but then turned into like big blockbuster kind of numbers But she's made a name for herself. She's made a name for herself. All right She looks like she's enjoying herself. Yeah, and it's that question of okay at that point Do you become one of those people who? Is inwardly jealous of their success but outwardly you poo poo them because they're not High-level artistry but deep down you're like dang. I wish I was them. I wish I was doing what they were doing and I I actually do like the final After that fade out that I kind of wanted I did like the fact I thought it was very intriguing To end it with them on that there was a train or a bus they were on It I believe it was a Train I thought rain and this street musician comes on. Yeah playing while he's sitting That was your last establishing shot. Yeah, it was and I I understand it because that is really and I I can't imagine what it's like in this particular discipline of artistry because there are certain disciplines that are having a Higher level opera and ballet and classical indian music. Yeah for sure I would say are comparable But there's another layer added to this that I don't find an opera in ballet Which is the aesthetic and the sense of it being divine Worship and being connected to the eternal. Yeah There is a spiritual aspect to opera and to to to all of the arts because they're I can wax on a long time about that but for this particular discipline it's uh All goes back to the why am I doing what I'm doing and I thought the our lead actor What's his name again for giving for not remembering off the top of my head? It's uh aditya modak. I think so. I think give me for not remembering. I think he was actually just a singer I know this is his first performance ever. Well Right, so good job him. Good job director really really good job I think he hired him because he was a singer and so obviously you you kind of have to you for this kind of role I'm going to have to like hire a singer like if you're doing a skating movie. You can't hire an acro who doesn't skate no You like him, but it's gonna not be realistic Yeah, so you kind of have to get somebody that's in that world. Yeah And he did a phenomenal job directing and this guy acting Being at his first performance. I thought it was really the cinematography was like we said the score was was wonderful and haunting at times Yeah, yeah, so it's one of those things it's I some of the american idol was a little cheesy Uh, but I think it was probably on purpose Like that was stylized to be like this really cheesy quirky. Yeah, um, not like they're all faking it all the judges are Simon Simon cal all yeah, yeah, yeah all those people That's really the only thing but i'm pretty sure that was on purpose as well Yeah, I think I think it was and I love that he really didn't give you as an audience member A clear answer a clear answer. He allowed you I I think anybody who sees this and has a particular frame of reference can walk away feeling their frame of reference It's right how enforced absolutely, right? Yeah, because that's I think what good films do you they leave open to questions and dialogue They I hate when films spoon feed you What they're trying to tell you right as opposed to leaving it up to the audience And you could still get that to that point that you're wanting to tell but you didn't have to spoon feed me Right, I think it's a much more satisfying Watching experience for the audience it is and you do see the growth in him and again This is where I mentioned at the very beginning of the review how it says so many things that are Profound and it screams them through a whisper. Yeah, so the way he tells us that this guy Has changed in this journey He does it in a really Really simple way we've seen all these shots of him on his scooter listening to the woman in his ears and then All what we get is this Yep And that's the way he lets us know a profound change just happened in this man. Yep And that's what you get throughout the film. Yeah Just if you're not if you fall asleep listening to the beautiful meditative music You'll you'll miss and i'm sure there's a lot of stuff we miss because it's so small and so subtle It's like looking at a It's like looking at a bunch of leaves that are falling. You can only catch a few of them at one time I bet there's probably a bunch of things absolutely and a rewatch you might you might catch again And I love this director. I can't wait to watch more of his his work I feel like he's definitely not but I mean with court and now this he's just I don't know. I don't know if those were actually four years apart and he does one film every four years, but I would believe it Uh, I'll no look uh disciple Thanks consulting producer short. It looks like he had a short film. Yeah So those two well, he has two qualities that make for great directors and that was his director debut Yeah court. He has he has it's I understand why Alfonso Coran was interested in him Because the two qualities he has about that all great directors have among other qualities First of all is you can you can see their dna and what they've made It's their film and you know, ah, this is their film and the other thing that's connected to that They don't give a damn They're gonna tell the story they want to tell And however it comes out is however it comes out like Tarantino I think there's actually a line in this about that. Is there I think he was it was something about There's a hundred people in the audience. You know try to please every single one of them Or they're like, yes. Yes. They're coming to see you right exactly. Are you trying to please them? Are you trying to are you doing it because you need to please the audience? Yeah, are you doing it because of your own? Then that's my Tarantino quote. No, he was asked about his process He was at a round table and he he said my process is this I I I write first And I just write my story And then when it's done I I have to love that so much That it could be done as it is And I could go to sleep and for the rest of my life I would just know people could read that and I'd be happy with it Those are the ones I make my movies Where I'm completely sad. I don't he doesn't feel this I've got to do it that way. His process is I've gotten the writing out the way I want it written and I'm not thinking about the movie when I'm writing I have a story I want to tell and then once that's done I'm going to make that a movie Yep. Yeah, that's why he's a great director so Great film. Let us know what you thought about this film down below and let us know what the next Marathi film Marathi, I think we said the other day Marathi Bengali and Malayalam are Three very consistent in terms of artistic as was Assam, even though we've only seen two three Why do I do that all the time? Why do I forget the one all the time? Assam was The cannibal yeah, and then two from Das Bill of drugs and yeah, Bill and we love sorry. I don't know why I'm forgetting. It's always three But we've seen great ones from all of them. I'm not saying those are the better ones I'm just saying artist like we had a consistent film festival style films those three Give it to me all the time. Yeah, let us know what the next Marathi film that we should watch is down below