 Hi. Welcome to Corbin's intros, where he explains what's going on in front of him. A disgusting man has his shirt off, with his hairy nipples out. I want to vomit. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Directions video. It's I'm Corbin. I got nipples that go into my body. Yeah, I got nipples. Thank you so much for joining me. Also, if you're mean, I'm going to block you. I just wanted to tell you that. But tootie. More power to you, man. More power to your mom. And tootie. What are we doing, Rick? What are we doing? I don't know. You want to see my Tiger Scratch tattoo? No. By my hairy nipple? No. No. Kiss it. Kiss the tiger, Corbin. We're going to get demonetized because of you. We're reacting to our trailer. It's a Bengali language. Yeah, sweet. From 2012. Want to read all this for me? I do. A Bengali language drama from 2012. Chitranganda, The Crowning Wish. Note. It's in all caps with exclamation points in front and behind. In the lead role is the writer and director of the film, Ritu Parnagosh. The film tells the story of a choreographer who's struggling with his gender identity. Bring it on. In 2012, rock and roll. And he amazes me sometimes. Like, it's the stuff that you'd think would come out in Hollywood now. Right. Because without aware people are of it now here. They've been doing these films for a long time. I know. And I've got to tell you, it's such a... It's so weird. It's because of the size of India and the dispersion of so many different people groups. Because you get everything from this to... You'd get regions of India who would boycott this film, you know? So it's just, it's... But I agree with you. Similar to America, though. Similar to America. So. We're just, that way, we're just smaller. They've been around longer. So they've had more time to evolve. Yeah, more. And they've also, it's just the space and the amount of people. I mean, they're five times as large as we are with their population. But yeah, I agree with you. That's one of the things that's most impressed us about Indian cinema, irrespective of region, is subject matter has really impressed us. And prominence of women having amazing roles. Yes, that's just... And we've seen it not just recently. India has been way ahead of the curve. When you look at the timeframe, and you look at American cinema versus Indian cinema and our exposure, India is way ahead of the curve in covering subject matter that Hollywood wouldn't touch and wasn't commercially acceptable. You guys were doing it way before Hollywood. They're like, we know. Here we go! Man, that's how she's brought up! Who's the lead actor? Yeah. He gave me vibes of, not funny-wise, but vibes of, he can bring it. Like Nathan Lane a little bit. Yeah. Like I'm thinking of Nathan Lane in, what's it called? You know, Burkage. But not funny. All right, so this is not funny. No. But he gave me, like, Nathan Lane's one of the most, one of the most acclaimed theater actors ever of all time, right? The dude is amazing. And he was giving me some of those vibes. But like, literally even more so. Yes. He also was giving me just, he was giving me Oscar level work right there. He was being very honest. Very, very honest. Like I want to know about this actor. Not trying to play it up. No. It reminded me, the honesty in what I was seeing in those short moments reminded me a lot of the honesty that Leto gave in Dallas Buyer's club. Yeah. Taking nothing away at all from both as well. Nathan Lane. Yeah. Matthew McConaughey was brilliant in that as well. But there was a level of, and it may be because his character was more feminine, Leto's character had such a level of honesty, as well as one of my favorite roles is in Rent. Absolutely love the character. You know what I'm talking about. I can't place it though. Has the great musical number bang on the drums and stuff. In what one? In Rent. Oh. Yeah I can't. And is always dressed like a woman. Yeah. And they have a love song together. Yeah. I can't. I can't. There's just, I'm so, so, so I want to see this film. Wanting to, yeah the synopsis. It's a lusciously lit I could tell. Yes. A deeply personal drama about a choreographer considering a gender reassignment surgery. The film also explores insights into how gender expression can affect families. That's also what it reminded me of. It reminded me quite a bit of the vulnerability and honesty that I saw in The Danish Girl. Yeah if you haven't seen The Danish Girl, The Danish Girl is such, it's a true story. And it's a really, Alicia Vikander and I could grief. Eddie Redmayne. I was just going to wait for you to get it. And Eddie Redmayne, which is also a true story. It's the true story of the first ever sexual gender reassignment surgery to take place. Powerful, very, very, very well done. This looks incredible. Is that the person who had that gender reassignment in it? It was playing the lead character? Yes. You think so? I believe so. Because I believe they're also directing it. Is this the writer-director? Is this like a passion project for them? Also it looks like he died in 2013. A year after this came out? Is that true? Hold on, let me see. Let me see. And is he also the lead? Yes, he's died May 30th. That's the face. That's the same person. Did he write, direct, and star in this? Is this his own story? Because didn't he say in this he died of an illness? Go to full biography. Okay. He's a Bengali film director, won 12 national awards. He won the national award. So where's the rest of his story? That's not his biography. That's just his resume. Yeah, I'm wondering, because didn't it say in the trailer that she died or had an illness at the end? Well, it gave the clear impression that that was the case. You could hear the sounds of the deep beat for your heart monitor. I'm wondering if this was like a deeply personal, real story. If this was written and directed and starred, it's probably about as personal as it gets. And it would explain why I saw so much honesty in his face. Man, I want to see this. Wow, if he's reliving stuff that actually happened, stuff he went through with his family, obviously just the struggles he went through in real life. If this is actually his story, if not the story of this person in it, who's struggling with their identity and their gender, man, that's as personal as it gets. If this is his story, I don't know if it is. You can let us know. Or if he just decided this was the story he wanted to tell, and he wanted to write it and direct it and then just happened to die. That's what happened with Rent. The creator of Rent had just a very... He died before Rent opened tragically, unexpectedly, but yeah, it looks... Is this like, did he know he was dying? I would love to know, but I want to see this. I'll tell you that. I was mesmerized by him on screen in this. He had, he was given such so honest, honest eyes. Right, honest eyes. Beautiful. Looks beautiful. Yeah, and maybe you know this, how much of Bengali cinema is focused on theater? Bengali cinema is very proud of the fact that they are high art. In terms of the artistry and the level of... Obviously, we saw... And theater is a big deal. We saw Natsumra, obviously. Yes. So is that like a central part of what they do? Yes, theater is a theater... They're just a very music, dance. Basically, anything you can do artistically, expressed to its utmost, is what comes from Bengal. That's great. Very deeply passionate. And yes, very deeply passionate about cinema being high artistry above box office. I mean, that's like antithetical to think just box office. That shouldn't even be in the mindset. And that the level of artistry and emotion connection and truth is a really, really big deal, like what we would get here with independent films, where it's just done purely for the storytelling and the wanting to elevate the art form. And theater is a big deal. That was fantastic. Very interested in this place. It's really beautiful. Send us all the information we need about what happened, not what happened, don't spoil it, of course, obviously. And should this be... I mean, we've already said we're going to watch. It's a foregone conclusion. We're watching the Apu trilogy and we're going to watch everything by Satyajit Ray. But other than him, should this be our first exposure to contemporary Bengali film? Because I would... My first blush is I would love to watch this immediately. No, I messed up because for some reason in my head, I had not some rod as Bengali, but it's Marathi. Marathi, I can't. Yeah. I had to mix it up, which is why I asked the theater question. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay. Yeah, I didn't make that connection. I'm all clear now. I'm aware now.