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It's true Yeah, so if you want to you want to catch up on what's going on with them I did a couple of funny segments and don't be surprised if you see something with Ashley too Anyways, so today we are doing a movie review A highly awaited once again, they're all highly awaited Yes film from Tamil industry called 96 Starring BJ Sattapathy We've reacted to a song or two from it I think it was only one song the life of Ram the one right at the beginning and directed by C from Kumar mm-hmm, I Don't recognize him, but he also wrote it and then also starring Trisha Krish none Trisha, yes, oh Trisha Krishnan And obviously a spoiler of you if you haven't seen it go watch it come back if you don't want to be spoiled if you like to be spoiled You're just a naughty little boy And we do encourage you my mantra is let the movie tell the story So if you haven't seen 96 I will tell you before you watch the spoiler review highly encourage you to watch the film First so that it's not ruined and the movie can tell you the story. Yes, absolutely. So Rick initial thoughts I don't even have a paragraph for this one Because I'm just gonna I'm just gonna I'm gonna let it happen Can can Temporaneously, oh, oh, I know I'm not it That's right an unedited paragraph I found this movie to be a beautifully cinematic believable lovely Work of cinema artistry that tapped into so many universal things about love and relationship that ends on a note that is painfully beautiful by Not trying to wrap things up in a bow but present to you the realities of what happened when we settle for things in life and Also get stuck in circumstances that we don't know how to handle and have to face the consequences. I just I absolutely Love this movie same. I really really enjoyed it. You know, I love the ending. I Was wondering do you tire time? I was like, okay She's married. She has a child in a different country. I What are they gonna do here? Are they gonna are they gonna run off together? But she is a child so she can't just fully run off. She has to be there for the child What are they gonna do? What do they get it? And they kept postponing it and then it finally happened and then just ended and I was like, yes Thank you for doing that You know, I appreciate those types of endings that are just more realistic because this happens all the time Yes, it happens in India. It happens lots in India. Obviously happens all over the world different scenarios Obviously not the arranged marriage in terms of like the America But in terms of like people they get married They they're love love interests in like high school college and then years past years past years past and they end up marrying other people But they always love that other person and then they meet later And yes, so there's story. This is a very human story Uh And so I really really enjoyed that aspect of it and how how beautifully And slowly it told the story. It wasn't in a hurry To and I was happy about that. Yeah I I was so content to just be with them and watch it unfold. Yeah, I I was um and and it it uh I just I found first of all, let's just talk about You know, let's talk about we can talk about acting and directing and cinematography and then overall story You know come back to the story because to me that's the meat and potatoes of this thing is the story But let's talk about the acting. Uh, I I thought I thought they were both 100% I believed this was Ram and and jonu. I I believe them. I believed I thought they did a great job casting Them as kids both in the way they looked like them younger But also I thought the the performance of the kids was 100% believable. Yeah, 100% right. Yeah, I like totally believable I thought bj sadapathy just like he was in in super deluxe did very very very well Um, there's only one instance where I I questioned it Uh, but the rest of the movie I loved it. I thought he did a phenomenal job Um, what was that? What was what was the instance where you were you questioned it? I don't know if it was his acting or if it was what they told him to do and it was just weird to me Uh, when obviously when he was at the the party and then he was in the corner And then she came up to him and then touched him right before he feigned it again, right? Um, he was just doing this not looking at her and It was it was very it felt very forced Just in that it didn't feel like the rest of his performance to me The rest of his performance seemed so small and grounded and and I and I loved it and that was the only That's why I didn't know if it was the the directors like you really need to show me here and I'm like, okay Cool, I guess That's your prerogative But other than that like I said the entire time I loved his performance. I uh, I thought he was super Grounded I was super upset with her for shaving his beard. I thought he looked awesome with that beard That would that wouldn't bother you no it bothered my wife too like right when it happened. She's like now I hate her No, I I loved it. I couldn't wait to see him. I liked the moment Uh, I he looked he's he looks um, he's a very very attractive man very handsome man and with with a beard and without Oh, yeah, he is but it did take like 15 years off of him It really did and I felt I thought that was a beautiful thing to put in the story and I loved seeing him because I saw the student There and I thought she was lovely. I just every moment they were together I could see the history. I could sense the depth of feeling There were so many beautiful moments in this that were so touching um Little tiny things like when she was sleeping and he just watches her for a minute And then we know what this means. You know what I'm going to refer to He prays over her and then he does this And does the The breaking of it, you know, we know what that is such a loving caring beautiful thing to do to her and then The stick shift when they're coming to the airport and putting her hand on his hand And I obviously This was extra painful To watch because I know what it feels like to have to drive to an airport in india and Somebody's going on an international flight and you're not going to see each other until you don't know when that personal aspect of it was Did you cry? Oh, like a freaking baby. Really? You did? Oh Like a baby Yeah, I cried I cried several times in the film and I especially cried the last leg From the moment she put her hand on his stick shift I was I cried from there to the suitcase closed and you saw the credits go up I got emotional when I'm when he pulled that shirt out with the ink on it Oh Yeah, I yeah, I cried a lot in this movie. I didn't not it's not a shock Like like there was no point where I was like oh almost You know that's just me that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it and I didn't of course not But I did really enjoy her performance. I thought she was phenomenal. Uh, I she has she has great screen presence Magnificent her her eyes not as big as ashwaryas or shidevis, but her she does beautiful eyes that are captivating Uh, and so I like her a lot. I would like to see more from her. So if you could recommend absolutely both obviously vj Both of them. I want to see I want to see more of his he he has He has a screen presence and you'll know what I what I mean when I say this He has a screen presence as well as an emotional availability that is Telling yeah in his eyes. He must be a delight. He must be a delight both of them must be a delight to work with Especially him because he is so Emotionally available. I sense both of them neither one of them have walls that seem to get in the way I never see them indicating. I never see them performing. I don't ever see them aware of camera I just believe that that's why I would love to see more of their work because well, we've seen we've seen what he can do With these two completely different kinds of roles. I mean come on from super deluxe to this. Yeah I'm completely different characterization Yeah, deeply impressed. I liked him a lot. I loved her a lot I thought the supporting cast was pretty good, especially the kids though like you were talking about I thought the kids did phenomenal All the kids did really really which is not usually the case Correct. Yeah, and let's just the other thing that I I was so deep throughout. I was so deeply impressed With the symmetry and the lighting and the beauty of the cinematography throughout Yeah, my wife said uh that every single frame looked like a photograph Every frame there was this there was this mathematical symmetry that comes Perfectly especially in the opening which is obviously we had reacted that opening sequence where he's taking pictures, right? But throughout there were so many just Hats off to see prem kumar and the cinematographer is 100 Jayaraju and en shamuga sundaram For your attention to detail and what I I would equate to a Spielbergian sense of uh making sure every I can completely see the painstaking work of Getting that in frame and putting the actor And setting the camera and we're gonna we're gonna make sure that the lighting is coming in there so that and if it isn't exactly right And it's it's um it has a different aesthetic beauty than say a sanjay lila bansali. It's More Spielberg realism kind of thing for me. Yeah, um So just gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous and then I agree with you as much as I the optimist The romantic in me I really wanted to see these two together And hurt so bad that they couldn't be Especially the gorgeousness of the story Yeah, the story weaved in there the how many times he went to try but then didn't succeed And she was waiting for him to come to the wedding and he actually was there. Yeah Which is the cautionary tale inherent in the story of Hey, everybody See bray. Yeah Don't settle. Did you just say say what you need to say? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely man. John mayor say what you need to say Don't settle If if you love someone tell them if you take the risk if you think someone's If you're in love with them and you want to be with them, don't let them get away Show show up to the wedding and stop it go to the girls school and don't accept no for the answer Don't don't let the shame you feel of moving away Because your dad lost his job and you don't have the money distance you from the person that you deep in your heart Believe you were meant to be with and then you look back on your life and go I'm not with the person I was supposed to be with because I let fear stop me from doing the thing I wanted to do and having her have a child Was perfect because that was the deal breaker that was because she said He said to her Are you happy and she was honest and said i'm peaceful He's a good man um But I married him because I settled and I was waiting for you to come Stop the wedding man And I because I I feel like if he she didn't have a son she would have totally stayed with him 100 percent It's it's the writing brilliance that that made that the deal breaker. She couldn't do that to her kid She probably could have said you know what? I'm gonna just take a risk and i'm sorry if I hurt you but she couldn't do that to her child And you see that in that moment at the airport, man When they're standing there and you know they want to give each other a kiss. Yeah Yep, but they don't because they have too much respect He has too much respect for her She has too much respect for her husband. Yeah, she has too much respect for him. And so she just touches his face I'm getting emotional again That was that was actually one of my favorite moments. I thought because uh You know, it was unexpected the way she just grabbed his face Right there at the end. I i'm wondering if it was improv. I I guess it could have been uh Well, I guess we'll never know unless we talk to her But like it was really it was such an interesting moment and my my wife She said she just doesn't want to see she doesn't want him to see her cry is what is what she's doing probably And so grabbed his face put it down and then walked away and I was like that's I like that a lot Because you know, it's it's often you don't want to seem cliche because you know There's been millions of movies. It seems like that you know leave at the airport kind of things And so you've seen you've seen all the goodbyes before Oh, yeah, and so it was it was nice to be surprised in a scenario like that and then for the film to just end I thought was a beautiful fitting beautiful for for this for this film So painful, but so right because so often As much as I love and believe we need to see happy endings because life does have happy endings Life also is full of endings that aren't happy and you need to find the happiness in it and be thankful like at the very end I found it to be so painfully beautiful that he had Another little memory to put in his box. I thought it was weird that she just left her clothes What's your husband gonna say you're just coming you come home and you're in another man's Oh Another thing to mention is the music of golden the vasandra who did the score the music was phenomenal Beautiful beautiful beautiful good. I felt like we've heard that singer before Uh, whoever the singer were in this probably Probably have and I got before we forget it as well um, I really hope We're probably preaching to the choir when we say this in terms of who's watching this right now But maybe somebody is watching this a year or two down the road, right? As much as we talk about making a bridge between American cinema and indian cinema and ensuring that as many Americans can start to appreciate and understand the beauty of indian cinema Oh indians Please get past to this whole bollywood hindi and regional vivisection and Bias that everybody has because both sides on both sides both sides Please support each other consider yourselves one film industry who's doing beautiful work And you're also doing crap nobody's perfect and support each other because there is some beautiful stuff That's coming from all over india and for those of you who You know, you can't please everybody But I just I look forward to the day when everybody in india will celebrate every industry in india because We continue to be impressed the more we see from every area in india You know americans get accused and it's true and it's rightfully so you know You don't watch anything that's not in english because you don't like reading subtitles, but I feel That's everywhere It is everywhere It is everywhere. I see it in the comments all the time and I block them every single time just because I'm a dick like that Uh But like the the fact that people like they say These are the people I don't react to bollywood crap. It's all crap do regional or Don't react to anything south indian. It's all crap. It's all crap, right And and so just like Yes, there's crap. There's crap in south india. There's crap in north india. There's crap in east india There's crap in south india. There's crap in bollywood. There's crap everywhere in hollywood There's also gems everywhere. So support those gems Every actor has done bad work It's some shape or form. Maybe not brutally awful, but they've they've not they've done Daniel day lewis. I've seen him do not great work Uh, not every director does great films. So this whole Everything that they do sucks and everything they do is great that Infantile lack of maturity needs to get set off to the side and people need to start opening their minds to the reality That you're missing out on a blessing in your life By not opening up to as much of the regions and the languages and the filmmakers as you possibly can because All of these regions we've hit hindi, tamil, malayalam, marathi, assam, bangali and forgive me for anybody I didn't mention We're we're encountering stuff that's enriching my life and encouraging me and making me happy to see Great actors great writers great cinematographers that more people need to know about doggone it So that's our soapbox But let us know uh once again these two actors what other films of theirs we should watch Um, please then also the next tamil film we should watch we know we've criminally under watched tamil films It's not been on purpose. I know a lot of people think it is. It's not You know, we like good cinema. So, uh, please down below tell us which film in tamil We should watch next and upvote it so I can see it so and then I can try to find it as well Uh, so let us know down below