 Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou, Romeo? In her pants. Hey, guys, it's the Idiots. I'm Corbin. I'm Ashley. I'm Rick. And you can fall asleep! Oh, juicy. Freaking juice! It's all over my head. Sometimes you gotta wear gloves. You need to wash! And she grew, look at this. Five feet tall last time we saw her, six foot one now. It's true. And she got a new job, so that's why she hasn't been here as much. Okay, we'll get in here some more. I'll figure it out. The job is the important thing. Anyways, but today... Oh, and you're probably thinking right off the bat, hold on one second, where's Alexis? Because Ranveer was in here. Yes, it's true. She wanted y'all to know two things. She knows that she doesn't have much to say, that's her words, and that Ranveer is beautiful. That's an undisputed fact. Yeah, she watched it with us. Well, let's use two cents. Yeah, let everybody know I think Ranveer is beautiful, but wow, wow, Major Shah, second, third, and fourth. Yes. But we reacted to Ramlyda, or I can't pronounce the entire name of it. Golyanke Roslyla. Yep. Golyanke Lila Vlade, Lila Vlade. I'm gonna get up in. That was really good. I'm glad they sang it and not you. But obviously 100% spoiler review. Go away if you haven't too, thank you. Come back and watch the review. And it's obviously a Sanjay Lee Bansali written, directed, produced, and edited. And he did the score, and part of the score. Yeah. Uh, I wouldn't have- We did a lot of- When the credits were going on, I was like, this man just doesn't like anybody doing anything. He's a controller. Like, this is mine. That's Corbin Riles making a set on how I would be. He would direct it with edit it. He would do the score. He would do the cinematography. He doesn't want to leave it up to anybody else. He'd do craft services. Yup. Yes, a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with an Indian twist. The film focuses on the story of Ram and Leela, their love, lust, and the drama afterward. It's true. It's true. That's what it's about. It's actually a pretty good synopsis. Yeah. It's a William Shakespeare of Romeo and Juliet with an Indian twist, starring Ranveer Deepika, and say her name for me, please. She deserves all the credit in the world. The Priya Pathik. Pathik. What? Pathik, right? Yeah, Pathik. She played Ba. Yeah. Yes. The Leela's. The Dawn. Yeah, the Dawn of Leela's mom. I don't know who she is. We'll talk about her. I don't know who she is. If she's a legend, if she's not a legend, she sure comes across on screen like a legend. Does it mean anything if she is or isn't, but she should be. She is in this film. We'll talk about her. Because she did. So amazing. It started with just, first of all, overall impressions. What did you think about the film as a whole, Ash? It's beautiful. Yeah, of course it is. Sanjay. Let's just talk about that, for real. You start a Sanjay film and you're just like, okay, here comes the eye candy, man. Just let this, it's going to be gorgeous every time. Lighting the everything. The slow-mo used in certain situations. So pretty. Yeah, that man knows how in a similar way, there's certain directors that are very stylistic in their choices. Right. It feels like they're films. Yeah. They're films and his style is just utterly beautiful. Like, what's his face? Extravagantly beautiful. What? He directed the beautiful one with the monster. Oh. Oh. In the shape of water. Yeah, what's his director's name? Guillermo del Toro. Guillermo del Toro, thank you. He's a very stylistic director. 100%. He looks and feels like a Guillermo del Toro film. He is similar in the fact that it's beautiful, but it's more dark, beautiful. Yeah. Vivid, beautiful. Yeah, but it's a great comparison because, yeah, Sanjay is a more, he's a happy beauty. And Guillermo is a dark. Not, and I don't put Guillermo as an unhappy. No, just. Oh no, he's very happy. He's a very happy, if you don't know Guillermo del Toro real well. He's a happy dude. It's just historic, he loves his mom. He's a beautiful director. He's a beautiful director. It's not about him. But Sanjay is just, Sanjay Sanjay, it gave us what I expected from him as far as the visual aesthetic. The pretty. It's just gorgeous. Also the, I know we reacted to at least three of them. The songs in this were so beautiful, so fun. Yep. And the dance, like the choreography that you've got going on with all of it. He went on to do a full-on Bollywood, big, huge dance numbers. And let me tell you something. When Tana started it in, right? Yes. And he came in, which we knew would be his entrance. Oh, my thought was, first of all, what a freaking entrance. And second of all, because we've gotten to know him, we were watching the film and I was like, this movie is just, he didn't have to do a thing. Ranveer was being Ranveer. She's like, hey, here we go. And if we had seen this before Gully Boy, we wouldn't have only talked about Ali Abad. No. Because we would have recognized the stretch, because this was Ranveer. This is who the guy is all the time. This is where he became not this specific film, but this is the type of character he became famous for, similar to like Heath Ledger. Right, because it's him. This is pretty, he's a clearly beautiful man. Very pretty man. And knows it. Yes. A little air, of course he knows it. But he's a beautiful man and he, the characters weren't as deep as they were in like Badmavad or Strami or Gully Boy or whatever, but that's where you got to start. Right. And so it's similar to like Heath Ledger. He had to play those roles until he can get into his, and it's not saying this is not a meaty role, this actually had some really good moments in it. But this is, it was that style, just very different. We went at a very interesting ride with Ranveer, I think. I agree. Him and Deepika. Yes. Interestingly. And I just love them so much. We could talk about their acting now. Their chemistry is clearly on the freaking roof. Infamous. I think is what it's called. Like, yeah. They are attracted to each other. Man. They are going to make gorgeous children. Gorgeous children. That's literally what I said. That's what she said. We're watching, it's during the holy thing and they're putting the colors on each other and I'm looking at them going, you know, it would help if they weren't so hard to look at. Just to have to watch them for this next two hours is such a labor. Oh my goodness. And we've seen it on small screen. I want to see, I want to see a Sanjay, I'd love to see this again on a big screen. To get everything I'm supposed to get from his visuals and the beauty of these two people. They're just like, what? They're just, they were created for film. Uh-huh. And each other. Yeah, and each other. Their child is going to have the hair of a god. Like, both of them have magnificent hair. Their hair is fabulous. Oh my word. I want their hair. And their skin is so soft and beautiful. I love how she commented like, you don't have any hair on your chest. I know. The script, by the way. Okay, so let's talk about, I love, there's a lot I loved about the script both in the dialogue itself but also what Sanjay did to Romeo and Juliet. So can we talk about those things? Yes, go for it. Okay, first of all, the playfulness, and I bet we would have picked up on more if we knew the Hindi. It would have been even more intelligent and more playful and fun. And even more Shakespearean, because that's what Shakespeare is known for. He's using Gimbalan tundra and puns and quicks. He did a lot of it. Yeah. He did a lot of it. So much. Really well written, really felt like it was just off the top of their head. I also loved the fact that he did a couple of things with the story. He didn't need to make it, it's a tragedy, but he didn't need to make it feel that way. Yeah. Even in the end. He didn't make it feel like Shakespeare's tragedy. He reinvented it, really. He did. West Side's story took it and contemporized it. Yep. He contemporized it and added another level to it where it was still a tragedy, but it was a tragedy that was actually a different kind of tragedy. Yeah. My only gripe with the film, because I really enjoyed the film. Like I could watch this over and over. It's one of those films that you could just put on. Yeah. That's why I love it. The only issue I had and it's, I don't know if it's an issue, it's just at some point, it feels like the stakes seemed high, but they didn't feel incredibly high at some points. I see what you're saying. See what you're saying? Yeah, I agree. Like you knew the stakes were high, but it didn't feel that way all the time. Which was a really, I agree with you. That's the only issue I had with the film. I'd love to know. I'd love to know if Sanjay had to grapple with that in terms of the actual creation of the film because he had to go one way or the other. I don't know that he could have done both. And I think his attempt to begin it with the violence between the two sides was his way of kind of giving you a smack in the head to say the stakes are high. And he had to focus more on their love story. That's what I figured was happening, of course. Because he did. He really, and maybe it comes from... He weakened that part of Shakespeare's story. Maybe it comes from watching Vishal's Shakespeare adaptions. And obviously, like I said, he's a very different people and directors. He's, like you said, the composers, the ones... Well, Sanjay's Mozart and Vishal's Beethoven. Yeah, and so maybe it comes from that, but that's the only... And it wasn't all the time. He definitely got even better towards the end and he felt it towards the end. But at the beginning, it felt almost like a more playful, like, hey, we're gonna attack you. No, we're gonna attack you. We're not gonna shoot each other. And so, also bullets come down. That's what I'm saying! Oh my gosh, they were all shooting at the air and I looked at it and I was like, they do really, those have to come back down. They're all dead. Also, every single one of them. The really dumb game they played where they were like, shoot this. And they were surprised that somebody got shot and died. And they obviously already were struggling with aim. So that was weird for me. I was like, what kind of a game is this? Well, you're entrusting your enemy to not shoot you? Right. This is stupid. But I do think that was part of the thing, was they were good enough shots that to miss would have obviously been intentional. Gotcha. I think. Yeah, I think. But he missed the last time. Yeah, I know. Like, right before he shot that guy, he literally missed. I wanna know what you liked or didn't like, just as a whole. I think you looked some of the first stand up things for you. I agree with Corbin that sometimes the stakes weren't as high as that it, it was, you knew there was conflict and struggle, but then at times you're like, okay, it's not that big of a deal. Right. Like, it's fine guys. Just get over it. Yeah. Can't we all get along? Like, let's just have a party. Yeah, let's just party. Let's not shoot each other as much. Just try out these new things. So that was for sure part of it. I loved, like we said, all of the directing, the chemistry of the two of them, so beautiful. And I just love Deepika and her emotional, just available, like she's available. She's always, she's incredible. At all time. Yeah. I mean, I know I say that. Her eyes. Yes. Yeah, but that is. The emotion behind her eyes is the thing. Cause like her eyes are beautiful, but the emotion that she just radiates from her eyes are, it's just amazing that she'll, you can see her thinking and all of the things that she's feeling because of her eyes. And she'll be saying one thing, but meaning another thing. And they get glazed over with these tears and it just makes me wanna curl up in a ball and cry with her. Yeah. And I, we can go back on the acting for a little bit, but like I love them obviously. And I loved getting, I felt like right when they both came on screen, especially Ranveer, I was like, oh, we're watching Ranveer film again. Yes. I know. I love him so much. Me too. He's like one of my favorite actors. He has such charisma and energy on screen that he brings. Which is fun to watch him. Yes. Her too. I have become, I have become very, very big fans of those two actors. Oh yeah. And it's in a big way. And I'm excited, very excited about the next film, which is the cricket one. Yeah. They're playing the husband and wife. Oh, I didn't realize that Pika was in that with him. Oh, yay. She's playing. I love it. I believe the cricketer's wife. But yeah, they, I'm very, like I love watching them. I was very excited to watch the film again, but yes, we can talk about her now. Her. Okay. I don't know where it went. But her name is, say it again for me, please. Supriya. Pathak. Pathak. She was brilliant. I watch this with my wife. And that was the first thing she said. Ooh, she was like, who's that? Who's that? She's, she's like, obviously Ranvir and Deepika, but like she was really who stood out for her. And I agree with her. She's phenomenal. Apparently she's- She carries so much weight. She can wake up Sid, which is with, I believe, Ranvir. Okay. And then- Yeah, I will say, she'd been around for a while though. I know there were a lot of other supporting people, and we'll probably have the quintessential moment where someone will say, you didn't even talk about filling the blank. It's every review. It happens every review. I can tell you that the three people that I remembered and only mattered to me when this was done. Mm-hmm. Was Ranvir. Deepika. Supriya. Everybody else was good. They were fine. But if they had stand out, you know. All they were was there to support those three telling the story. 100%. Yep. And she was just- It's great casting because- So. She has incredible eyes, just like Deepika, so it was very good casting. Yes, and that eyeliner underneath made her so intense. Oh yeah. She is really, really good. Yep. Reminded me of the weight of, what's her face, Rick? Do you remember- Come on. In the office. Saber. She owns Saber. Oh, yes. And she was in Kathy Bates. Kathy Bates, thank you. Reminds me of the weight of Kathy Bates. Very, very good comparison. Like she's like- Go Corbin. Thank you. Yeah. Sorry for not ruining your name. Great. And you know who she really did remind me of? Many times. And this is as high a compliment as the woman could be given. And it isn't just because she was playing a mafia guy. Yep. She had some Brando kind of influence. Yes, she did. Just- It was probably unintentional. I mean, you can't really make a gangster film without- No, but even- It was a little bit of that, yeah. I made that comparison with McBool. Mm-hmm. That there was very, very, almost veto Corleone impersonation. Yeah. Ordering. She didn't go that far. There were just these little shimmers and hints of more for me, this actor's process. I felt that she was very much morphing like being a shapeshifter. Yeah. My suspicion is maybe she's done a lot of other different roles and that this was just a role. I felt like when they said cut, maybe she didn't change character. Mm-hmm. I just, I felt like this woman was just that heavy of an actor. She is phenomenal. She's so good. I would love to see her more stuff. She might be like the same thing like when we've got introduced to Vijay Raaz and like- Yeah. His weight and his presence is all there. But what do you think of the end? That's what I was gonna say. I'd like to know your opinion. I have a thought about the end and it's tied to the re-envisioning that Sanjay gave to this story. So I'll save that. What did you think? I liked the ending. I'm, I like tragedies, but at the same time I don't like them because I'm someone who loves happy endings and I just, I just wanted to be happy. I wanted them to right off into the sunset. I almost got really mad because I thought they were gonna let him live. That would have gotten me mad. Like, I was watching and I was like, and they just started knocking right in the door. Right in the door. You are not gonna make them live. Yeah, that would have bothered me because that would have been a total change of Shakespeare's intention, which is to me, you shouldn't go that far with that story. Yeah. Yeah, if you're gonna do an orientation, you cannot do that. Don't go that far. Well, I mean, we all did with... To a certain extent, but for me, I mean, the whole reason Romeo and Juliet is the story it is, is because they don't make it. It's a tragic love story. Yeah. Beautiful, but it's horrible all the time. But it's a very different, it's not a tragic love story. It's very different. What did you think? About the end? Yeah. Oh, I enjoyed it. And I think this is a different adaption of William Shakespeare because the original adaption, I don't actually think is that big of a love story. I don't... Right. Oh, you're getting into my favorite thing about this movie. I don't, I don't, in the originals, obviously they were like teenagers, right? They were real young, right? Yeah, I think the way it's depicted, they're probably, she's probably 14, he's probably 16. Yeah. And so I don't see it like, when I think of Romeo and Juliet, I don't see it as a love story. You see it as hormonal teenager. And in fact, hormonal teenager said wants to, and he even says it. Yeah. Which makes me, I think it's quite funny because I talked to her name, she was like, would you like to talk to William Shakespeare about your views on Romeo and Juliet? Because she was just a horny boy and the only tragic thing was that she fell in love with him. Right. And he didn't actually fall in love with her. Yeah. They went a little different here. Obviously, Ran Veer, I feel like I think it was hard for him to show his love, to not show his passion for Topeka. So it was kind of more obvious that you really loved her. Yeah. But yeah, the, That is, that original Romeo and Juliet, I don't know. This is my favorite thing about Ran Veer love, aside from the visual aesthetic and what we've said so far about the acting, but going straight to the core of the film and movie being storytelling and being an adaptation of Shakespeare. I, this is actually something that I think he improves upon Shakespeare's story. I agree. In that he made the two main characters mature adults who don't just become infatuated with each other. They genuinely reach a place where they even recognize, yeah, there's probably some lust that's at play here, but ultimately, I don't believe what I'm experiencing with you is lust. I think what I'm experiencing with you is what we've read about in poems and what we've seen in movies. I think I'm genuinely experiencing true love for the first time when he's drunk and he's talking about her. And he calls out to God and he says, you made millions and millions, but there's only one of her. And that for me was my favorite part of this, is that it wasn't just some teen infatuation. It was these mature people who actually seemed to have loved at first sight. And they were able to grasp the concept of it, where it wasn't just love and everything, it's that they actually thought about it and the fact that they both were then put in positions of leadership. That's it. That they had to figure out that dynamic. We love that. When she was being a hard ass. Yes. She was taking on her mom's mantle. Yes. And he was just like, yes. And he was like, almost like saying, she was saying something and he was like, and we'll never fire another shot and he was crying. Yes, because for the totality of Romeo and Juliet, you have the Montague's and the Capulets, and Romeo and Juliet's focus is only and always on, we love each other and why can't you get along? The mature adults recognize, we love each other, but it's way more complicated than that. Even when they had that fight, and they have the fight from their family's sides and say, well, your side's always on that and your side's always on that. And then they realize, can our love actually survive this? I love that maturity. And then also at the end, then being able to realize that their love is hurting their people. That it's not just, we're hurting each other. It's like, no, we have this level of responsibility where I've got my family and you've got your family. And yet, I can't stop it. I'm in love with you. Yeah. Where it's like, oh, I can't. I got the writing and that was really, obviously the acting was top notch. And I love watching Ranveer just cry while he was saying all that stuff to her. So I thought that was brilliant. There was one part that I didn't know how I felt about it was when, what's her face that we love? Ba, when she kind of came around. I don't know how I felt about that. I don't know if I liked it and I don't know if I hated it. Cause I didn't know, I didn't want that much tie up in a boat. Well, you know what I like about it? Cause I'm with you. I mean, she did a great job in that scene. She did a great job. What I like about it is that Sanjay kind of threw us a curve. And that was one of the contributing factors that made me worry they won't die. Like, are you kidding me? I really thought, is he gonna turn this into a Disney ending? Cause I love Disney endings, but not for Romeo and Julia. So it actually, for me in retrospect, cause I didn't think about it during the time, it actually made the story more tragic for me. He was able to take their story and not make their story so tragic, but make the whole of it tragic because... Because they could have. Here's what he did. And I would love to talk to him about this. The tragedy of Romeo and Julia is the fact that if both of them had simply known what was really going on, they probably wouldn't have died. She wasn't really dead in the original Romeo and Julia. He can't live without her. He kills himself and then she wakes up to find her true love and he's dead so she kills herself. It's just that timing of the tragedy of if they'd only known. He erased that from them and gave it to her and made her the one who said, this can be, they can be together. I've ordained that we can unite the families and they didn't know. And they go forward with... I liked the way they did it. And I loved them killing each other. The, I know, that was... Tragic, heartbreaking, awful, but I loved that they did it. Yeah, specifically with Ba or what is Supriya. I think I'm saying that right if I'm not correct me, but the thing that changed her, I love that it went, the thing that I really liked about it, and I did question it a bit at the beginning when I first seen it, but that the thing that made her realize everything was a child and she's a mom. And it was a kid. Great point. And it was like, for a moment she realized, this is my baby girl. We need, I need to remember that it is not just guns. It's not just killing everybody. It's not just wars and strife and all of this. Great observation. I'm a mom. This is my baby. This is a baby who's getting to see what I'm doing. And how can I do this as a mom? Yep. Yeah, so, yeah, I loved it. Me too. I'm definitely watching it. It's one of those movies that like, as opposed to like, Header, which I loved it. It's probably one of my favorite films. Nothing comes close to that or yeah. But like, I could probably watch this more. Absolutely. It's one of those kind of things. It's way more palatable and it's way more enjoyable. Just the musical numbers and of course there's the musical number with Priyanka. Yeah. But. I don't know how I'm cheating that. It is really, yeah. I would, for people just becoming introduced to Indian cinema, I would put this early. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Dying more palatable. Right up with three idiots. The way we were exposed to first three idiots and Gully Boy and PK and Dongle. And then we started to get into some of the meatier stuff that was beautiful from Sanjay like Padma Bhat, right? This would go in the forefront like that. Header would either go toward the later part. No, it's just done there. Love for Shakespeare. Well, there's two things. It's love for Shakespeare and it's also, if you don't understand Kashmir and you don't understand some of the parts of life going on in India. But the main thing I would do, if I got a thespian, I would take them straight to Header or not, I would do not pass. I would make it their first Indian film. It's that good. Let's look at this one first, then all the fun. I would watch this one, if this was on TV, I would be as giddy as a little kid and go, oh, get the popcorn, it's time. Get the popcorn. That's what we should watch in review next. And what do you think of the film? And we'll watch anything that has these two people in it. That's fact.