 That was in key. Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction to the Subcorbin. I'm buddy. You are not. And you follow us on Instagram, Twitter! Do you ever just punch your left tit? Yep, on purpose. Yeah, feels good. Does. Makes me even know that I'm alive. It's true. Not the right one. It's gotta be the left boob. Anyways, today we're doing a movie of you. Welcome back to Classic Month. It's Classic Month, where all the movies are at Classic Month. And we watched the, what year is it? 1971. No, nine. Let's go try though. No, what, the last one was 71. No, the last one was 51. The one before that. I don't know. Okay, can't take it. I roll bar. Awara? It doesn't matter. Awara was 1951. Your mom was 1951. Anyways, this is directed, we watched Golema or it translates apparently to English as hanky panky. Is that the Elvis song? My baby loves a hanky panky. I don't think Elvis sang that. Who sang that? My baby loves a hanky panky. Who does the hanky panky? Does the hanky panky. Does the hanky panky. That might've been Jerry Lee Lewis. Was it Jerry? Yeah, it's not Elvis. Oh, anyways. Elvis never did the hanky panky. Also, does hanky panky mean the same? I feel like hanky panky here is sex, right? It is. Right? Hanky panky here is sex. And speaking of Elvis and his sex life, I do believe it was Rita Moreno who slept and told, she was on The Tonight Show and said that she slept with both Elvis and Marlon Brando and did not hesitate to say that Brando was better in bed. And she said like, not like by a long shot. She said, no offense, Elvis was fine, but Brando, Brando was God-like, actors are better than the singers, I guess. Elvis was an actor. Did so many great films? He did, he wanted to be a really, he wanted to be a very well-respected actor. Anyways, this was directed by- Elvis Presley. Say his name for me, please. I just did. No, that's- Oh, the real director. Rishikesh Mukherjee. That last name might be a little difficult for Rishikesh. It is hard for me to pronounce. But we saw his directing in a non- Pardon me, I'm having my life. That's when we saw him, and this was produced by him and it's starring Amo Pelle Carr. Thank you. Say this name for me. Bindiya Goswami, Devan Verma, and Shubha Koth. Where is- Mangu Singh, or Manju. Where's- What's his face? Hmm, the stranger. Oh, yeah, where is he? Okay, he's basically the main character. Is this, no. What's his name? The main guy. This is a stranger, the lead actor of Thespian. Udpoldo. Udpoldo? Udpoldo. Ah, thank you, there he is. There he is, Udpoldo. He didn't have the right picture on there. No, in fact, what is that picture? I don't even know. It's of Marlon Brando. Right, it must be one of his old black and white films. I think it's sex with Elvis, weird, weird thumbnail. Anyways, but yes, it's our review of the 1979 film, Gol Mal, and it'll be a hundred minutes before the review, if you haven't watched it, go watch it please. We have the DVD of it. Actually, since it's the DVD of it. Oh, did I bring it in? Yeah, there it is, I brought it back. Anyways, Rick, your initial thoughts, please. I don't have a paragraph, but don't let that concern you, fans of Hanky Panky. Does anybody have to call it Hanky Panky? I want to know. Yeah, there's another, I saw another translation for it that's different. It's like mischief, it's not mischief though. The confusion would be, the theme song is bad. Yeah, so, as my basic synopsis for this is, it's not, we've had the string of classics that were like award worthy kinds of classics. And while I thought for a moment this might go in the pedosin lane, it doesn't. It's just a simple, silly comedy that when all was said and done, I'm glad I watched. If it was on again, I'd watch it. It didn't have anything superlative to me artistically, but the story was campy and fun enough to keep me engaged and I thought everybody's performances were comedically enough to be enjoyable. It wasn't roll on the floor funny, but ultimately I liked it. Yeah, I did as well. And I think it fell into the same kind of thing because obviously you never know where to go in, especially with these classic comedies. Yeah. I'm always gonna go pedosin, which is obviously the- On Maroc or Anthony. Yeah, the silly stupid just balls to the wall. I feel like, and also, this is probably way funnier to people that speak Hindi. Oh yeah. Oh, I'm sure there was a ton lost in translation. Obviously we were reading in subtitles. And if it's like dialogue, we've talked about this all the time, if it's dialogue comedy, If it's word play. If it's wordy, we're probably not gonna get it. Yep. And so that's, yeah, I'm sure you all know that, but that is, that's why it wasn't, if you think this is like a screaming, laugh out loud funny. It wasn't true. It didn't translate that in the subtitles. Although I think it was like a nice kind of almost, I don't wanna call it drama, but a nice drama is story that had sprinkles have come. Yeah. That's what it felt like more to me. Yeah. Except the last 20 minutes. That got a little more conditioning. That got a little crazy, which was fun. And with, you know, the movie title like Hanky Panky and a very silly, you know, photo of it, you're anticipating it to be, and it's not dry. Like that's one thing I don't expect is it to be British dry humor. It's never gonna go that route. But it was more like the situations were kind of funny and the kind of fun. Yeah. The funniest part was the last 20 minutes, I feel. Yes. Like when they actually got to like that. The climax. Yeah, the climax. Where everything's getting changed now. Where everything's getting changed now. He's climbing on the thing. She's hitting him with the pole. Yeah, that's where you start to laugh. Or, I'ma talk about John. Yeah. Exactly. I was totally shocked. I was too. I was like, is that actually I'ma talk about John? Yeah, being himself. That was really fun. Or also, I think the best part is the guy that we saw on The Stranger. Oh yeah. Uthpal Doth. Uthpal Doth. I think he is a very talented actor because he was obviously, if you haven't watched our review of the Bengali, I don't know the actual title in Bengali. Agunduk. Agunduk, which is The Stranger. Which we loved. Love that film. Love that film. It shows how much of his range he has. Cause I thought he was obviously really strong in this but in a much more comedic role. And he had probably the most over the top style of acting in the film. Everybody else was probably a little more laid back. And I don't know if it was his choice or the director's choice. And it might have been because everyone else was a bit more grounded. But I could tell it would have been really easy to pull a vaudeville kind of slapsticky humor with every role, but especially his role. It could have been really ridiculous. And it wasn't. And I think that lended to a balance. I felt like the whole cast was really balanced. There wasn't anybody that was off kilter. And there wasn't anybody that was too understated. I thought the balance in the cast was pretty good. I read basically the whole thing that the director wanted to do was kind of poke. Obviously he wanted to try his hand at comedy. But he wanted to poke hand. Poke fun at the Aristocat society. Obviously the older generation. Well he did a good job. That was the goal. Obviously he did a good job. Obviously our character Utbaugut was obviously the most kind of quirky at times. He was very stuck on his laurel, on his principles. And I thought he had some of the funniest lines. Like when after he interviewed he was like, now that's honoring your mother. He had a bunch of ridiculous lines like that. I thought he was my favorite overall part of it. But he was also, I think, the lended to the most comedy. I think one of the things that probably made it even more funny at the time was because this whole mistaken identity, I'm going to be somebody I'm not and I hope I don't get caught, has been done in a lot of different ways in a lot of different films American and Indian where people are having to do disguised identity and they don't want to be found out, especially in comedy. And I have a feeling based on Indian cinema, I don't know this historically, but I would sense this was very unique in terms of the story and it was very surprising in a lot of ways. So that for the audience this would have been not, and I don't want to say rehashed because this, I feel this concept has worked through time at memoriam. But I think we've seen enough of it that we don't have the benefit of the doubt. This is again, don't judge a classic by the contemporary standards of the day. I bet it was a lot sharper and quicker in the comedy, both with the language difference that they would understand with the original Hindi, but also I think given what storytelling was at that time. Yeah, absolutely. But I thought that even though it was one of the shorter ones, obviously since it's a comedy, and for comedies to not feel long, you gotta be laughing all the time and all that kind of stuff in the subs. I wasn't laughing all the time. No, no, and I don't feel like it was, like I said, the Pedocin style of slapstick until the very end obviously got three stooges almost out there at the end. But like if you're not, it can drag a little bit. And so obviously I think it could have benefited from being like an hour and a half as opposed to 220. I get it, it's a classic. I won't swear now. It's the runtime of the film. It's the runtime. But I feel like obviously the film did drag a little bit because maybe because I just wasn't laughing. Maybe it was probably when I was having with... When it hit the interval, I had the conscious thought at that point. I was like, it's slow and I'm just, there's nothing uproariously funny at all. I hadn't laughed out loud once. But also it's not the same thing that when we watched that Akshay film that was like the bull, bull, bull, bull. Which I feel was just a bad film. And like everything was bad acting. Like it's just everything. That's not how I felt about this. No, it's very different. I just felt this was like, I don't know it's like a good film. It's just I didn't laugh as much as I thought I was going to be laughing. Exactly, that's the thing was at interval I hadn't been laughing as much as I thought I would. And I didn't want that to be the barometer by which I measured the film. And so I just let it be and went, okay, so I'm not laughing. And I know it's three hours, it's gonna feel long because I'm not laughing. And then throughout the second half, it just, I went from at interval, if that was the film at that point, I probably would have said, you know what? I didn't really like it that much. It just kind of felt, it continued to grow on me. By the time we hit the last act, I was like, you know what? I think I really like the movie. I think it helps that the last act was the funniest part of the film. It's strong. Right when obviously he finds out the mustache is a fake. It kind of goes into high gear. High gear. High gear. Like and it doesn't stop the rest of the film. High jinx is the word that would be used. So like obviously I think that lends itself to like, oh, that was good, that was nice. Because I laughed at the end. I laughed at the last 25 minutes. The thing that kept me connected was the uniformity of the performances being enjoyable. And I was engaged enough with the uniqueness of this story. I knew we'd have a high jinx payoff at the end and I wanted to see how they were gonna wrap it up. And based on what they had given us thus far, I thought, you've really gotta have a major screw the pooch to mess this up. This is gonna turn into a really good ending. So I'm gonna stick it out. I'm glad I did. I ultimately really liked it. And it was wonderful seeing how versatile he can be. He gave almost like a, I think like, is his name Virus in Three Idiots? Yes, in Three Idiots. Much funnier than Virus. Maybe I can watch Three Idiots again and maybe appreciate him, but I don't know. But it was as different to character for him that I think if I didn't know going in that he wouldn't have been crazy to see this first. That's exactly what I was just gonna say. If I had seen this first and then seen that, I don't know that I would have realized it was the same man. Yeah. Cause you can see his chops that he can do everything. And then also our lead who's playing the two, the two. I also love that the twin concept just never stopped. Yeah, it kind of just built on itself. And there were funny parts obviously, like obviously every time it built and it built and it built the one of the funniest women's for some reason was when he saw the girl that was supposed to be his mom. Right? And she was swinging. Yes. And he kept trying to sit down and then he couldn't, it was just really, that part was like really funny to me. Yeah. Cause obviously that's just dumb humor that I understand. And so I really enjoyed those little parts. I thought the whole Amatak Bakchon thing was so fun. Now I was hoping he was gonna come back. Yeah, I know me too. In the end in like just some joking way. I just, I thought that was really, really funny. I did enjoy the music. And it's a common theme of the Goal my head, goal my head. It's really good and it kind of carries this film through and it kind of gives you like, this is gonna be like just confusing. Yeah, from the very beginning when the guys are sitting just around on the floor and they're singing to each other and doing their thing, I do believe this, like probably most classics is that for you to really, for a non-Indian, for an American to really enjoy the classics to the utmost, I think you need to have had some exposure to Indian cinema first and Indian culture. Cause there's things now that we can pick up on that we know about, like how funny it is that he used the lipstick instead of, you don't realize that's funny if you don't understand culturally and have seen that depicted now multiple, multiple times. And so just from the very beginning, there's this endearing quality to just watching these guys sitting and talking and singing and doing the mannerisms that they do. You're like, yeah, I'm gonna probably enjoy the movie. And yeah, that's why I didn't have a paragraph because usually if I write a paragraph, it has to do with Elevative Artistry. And while this didn't have anything particularly elevated in terms of artistic excellence, I didn't see anything blaringly bad. And though I didn't laugh hysterically, I thought this was original enough. I can see why they've made remakes. There's been plenty of remakes and things have been inspired by it. And I think historically, I bet if we did a really deep dive into the history of Indian cinema at this time and saw the history of comedy, we'd recognize that this was quite different for the day. Oh yeah. And I did read, I don't know if you read this, this was actually filmed in 40 days in his apartment. No, I knew it was filmed in Mumbai, but I did not know it was filmed in his apartment. Did he convert his loft or whatever? Yeah, no, I didn't know that. Yeah, he lost his own. That's his place for in 40 days. Did he convert his loft into the office space as well, or was that a different location? I don't know. Okay. But yeah. Because I love, I also love, there's a very sweet, small moral to the story. And I don't think that was the intention of the film to have a full moral to the story. I think it's just entertaining. But our main antagonist, Mr. Dutt, he gets to the place later on where they say, you know, you think that only the guys with the mustaches are the good people, but did you realize that like, John F. Kennedy doesn't have a mustache, but Hitler's got a mustache. He's like, oh, you know what, maybe right. So he does come to this place of realizing, you know what, maybe I was wrong. And then he shaves off his mustache. Yeah, and he doesn't have his mustache. The last 25 minutes is great. Yeah, it's worth the payoff. I really enjoy the last 25 minutes. It's just, I guess, if I was telling somebody about this film, I would say, if they're an American, like, and they don't speak Hindi, I would be like. And don't know Indian culture. It's just gonna be a nice, enjoyable time pass. Yeah, that's it. Probably how I would describe it. That's it. And you probably laugh some, but it's not gonna be like a hysterical rolling on the ground funny, except maybe the end is real, real nice. No, because like for all of the flaws that I, for all things I don't like about like, say, Amarath Baranthony, I laughed more in that than I did in this. That's a more dumb, false and all ridiculous. This is like more, it's very interesting, this comedy. And I bet there's a lot more tongue in cheek if we understood Hindi. Oh yeah, yeah. And obviously if we're part of the culture, there's probably those jokes that went over our head. That's one of the risky run with comedies, which is why sometimes when people do comedy line, I'm like, every culture. That's hard. If it's like Padosan, or if it's like, for me, Amarath Baranthony, or if it's like the stuff that I can get, that's just like, oh, you got hit in the head. That's funny. Right. Oh, you got hit in the balls. That's funny. But if it's like wordy, that's where you can run into some problems. And that doesn't mean it's gonna be for everyone. But yeah, I think it's a nice, especially part of Bollywood history for this time, and for him as well as a director, because I know he's a renowned, renowned director. As Shirley is. Her father, right? Yeah. Well, everybody, they're all related. Technically they are. If you wanna know if someone's been golly, you just see if there's a G at the end, and it's probably their mocker G, banner G, chatter G. That's the standard. Do you know my wife has been golly? I mean, it doesn't mean that you have to have a G at the end to be a Bengali. Though that's true though. My wife does have been golly. What? In her blood. She, her dad did a DNA test. Seriously. Like, it's like less than a 1%, but that essentially means that one of her family was probably pretty much. Somewhere, somewhere was. Yeah. And did probably something bad. That's just the reality, like the conclusion we've come to. That's probably what happened. She's like, I'd like to think it was the forbidden love. Yeah, yeah. But I was like, it probably wasn't. It probably wasn't. But yeah, they did, it was just like less than a percentage of Bengali in her blood. Family. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed that review. Let us know what you thought about the film. What should be the next comedy? What should be the next classic? And I would love to see everything this man has done. Utbaldut, I think he's a fantastic actor. And I know a lot of you may have wanted us to talk more about the other actors in the film. They all were fine. They all did good. I think anybody was exemplary. Outside of he was the standout for me. Me too. Me too. And everybody else did good. Yep, they did good. That is, well, okay, but I'm not gonna, I can't rave about anybody else except for him. I thought he was the most standout performance in the entire film. Agreed. But let us know what's the next classic, what should be the next comedy that we should watch down below.