 Look, I know it doesn't matter at all in terms of the film, but, um, that looks nothing like Obama. Doesn't even sound like him either. No, not at all. Awful. Just terrible. We're stupid reacts to idiots. I'm Corbin, and this is Rick. See what I got with me? Oh, he's got rocks. Yeah. They're rocks. If you're new to our channel, go and smash the like button, subscribe, and ring that little bell to be part of the Notifatian Squad. Okay, dude, what's my next one to follow? What's my next one? Please follow us on Instagram! It's so cute. You dropped your rock. And I did. Hate it when that happens. I know. And today... I love that you called for lime. Lime? Lime! Dang it. And today... We've been doing this for years. We have finally watched, uh... Charu Khan, man. Charu Khan. Our first film of his. Ta-da! We've seen a bunch of trailers, obviously, but this is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. And they kept telling us to go to because we've had a love fest with Amir. Amir Khan. And, uh... Who's the other one? There's one more. Oh, man. There's one more. I know. What's his name? Amir Khan. Charu Khan. And... Salman Khan. There you go. Thank you. I was gonna say... I was gonna... I wanted to say salmon. Yeah. And I knew that wasn't it. Salman Khan. See, we remembered. We're not as stupid as we look. But yes, this is the one that people recommend as Smoch. We watched first. And we were very interested when we saw the trailer. I'll link that right here. Mmm. Um... Obviously, the synopsis for this? The synopsis for this is this. An Indian Muslim man with Asperger's Syndrome takes a challenge to speak to the President of the United States seriously and embarks on a cross-country journey. So yeah, it's... And that's actually... Yeah, that's a great synopsis. Synopsis because it tells you enough to get you interested and leaves a whole lot out. Yes. And so this... What'd you think? I mean, we're gonna strap in everybody. Our reviews are always long. We're gonna be here a while. Strap in. Let us know if you make it to the end. Yeah. Set no arm. If you fall asleep. Uh... Okay. It was a ride of up until the hurricane. Yeah. And then at the hurricane, I started to question why we went off in this direction. Yeah. And then I thought later, and I'll explain, I get why we went there. Okay. And then when I forgave them for Barack Obama, I ended up loving the film. Yeah. What a surprise, India. Yeah. You gave us another film that we freaking love. Well, shocker. Well, at least I did. Did you love it? This film was... I didn't have enough of enjoying this film. Okay. Yes. But I hated a bunch of stuff in this film. I disliked several things. A bunch of things. And I can't wait because I... Let's go. We'll start with the... Yeah. Obviously, the spoiler review, you've all seen this film. Yeah. And if you haven't, go watch it then come back. Yeah. But we'll start with the stuff we loved. I loved... The reason I ended up enjoying it and forgave a lot of stuff is because of the message of this film. Yeah. The message of this film is one I think everybody definitely in America should see. I couldn't agree with you more. Because we've had a couple of 9-11 films. None have really been great. Right? I mean... Right? I agree. Any of our 9-11 films? Yeah. My favorite 9-11 film is actually Zero Dark 30. And that's not even a 9-11 film, really. That's just the hunt for... Yeah. So there haven't been a lot, but they've all been from the American perspective really. Yeah. And so it was very interesting to me to see the story of a Muslim and either just people that aren't white perspective. Right. Because it didn't just affect Muslims here in America. Right. And so it was very intriguing because we've all, in America at least those who pay attention to other people, no stories of what happened to people after 9-11. I have friends who... I was in 4th grade when it happened. You were 50. Yeah. But that weren't allowed to go to school because they were afraid of how people were going to treat them. They were Muslim and they wore the hijabs. And then people tell it like in this, they tell them don't wear your hijab because we don't want you to get hurt because of the way somebody thinks you're a terrorist because you wear that. Yeah. And also these people, not the people that wear the hijabs, but the people that didn't go to school weren't Muslim. Right. No. They were Indian. Exactly. And so it's this whole, obviously the racism in America is very prevalent and always has been and that just heightened it a lot. And you need to know for us who were here during 9-11 that yes, that kind of stuff did happen but I know you'll feel the same way and you had the same reaction. It added insult to the injury when I heard about the way people were being treated because in fact, it made me and I should have in retrospect, I wish I had. The thought occurred to me several times to like go to a mosque or go somewhere where I knew they'd be and say, you know what? The crap you're hearing in the news, that's not all of this in America. We don't stereotype you guys and assume that just because you're Muslim or you're different means that you're the people who did this. This was done by evil people. This wasn't, you can't just relegate this to a religious belief because this isn't a religious belief. This is fanaticism and watching that again, I agree with you. The perception from their vantage point was really interesting to watch. For me again, 9-11 for everybody in America is very, very deep. It's even more so for me in the respect that I was born in New York and I spent every Christmas in New York even though I was raised in LA and I remember when I saw the towers drop, I had gone to work and had heard about what was going on in the news and I saw on the TV screen, I saw the first tower go down and I instinctively, it makes no sense, I instinctively reached my hand out to catch it because this can't be happening. All the people that are in there and so we could talk about 9-11 forever but I felt that that was an extraordinarily, how it impacted them. Yeah, that's what that's all about. I liked a lot because obviously the ones that we have here all focuses on America and how Americans feel and obviously, even though they've affected everybody in America and one of the best lines in this whole film was before everybody associated it was BC and AD. That was a great line. And then you said there's now a third one, it's post 9-11 and pre 9-11 and that is a hundred percent true for everyone, for everybody, including the irony of the story of Shahrukh Khan getting stopped in the airport in real life. I've heard a lot of people say that this was like a propaganda film because he was mad about whatever happened. I don't know any of that stuff, I'm just judging it off the film. You all deal with that stuff, how you want to deal with it. So we're just dealing with the film itself but I thought that was a great line and it's a hundred percent true line and so like I said I love the message of this whole film, I also loved the message of the same thing with PK, the autism and Asperger's as the lead character in your film and the education that it brings to everybody, about it. Once again, I've never seen that outside of Forrest Gump and what's it called? Rain Man. This reminded me a lot of Forrest Gump. It had a couple elements of Forrest Gump, a couple elements of Rain Man. The spirit of it, the spirit of it was very Forrest Gump but I agreed and it reminded me as well because mental illness is a big thing for me with my dad because if you don't know my dad is battled mental illnesses whole life and I got stories I can tell you but anything where someone's mind doesn't function like the general populace, like that moment he was walking down on the guy in yellow walked by him and he just he started it's important to remember that you know he's the guy isn't crazy and the guy is not drugs, he has this thing with this he's trying to live with. I thought that was just a great little moment. And I love that so like the first part of this film about first 30 to 45 minutes I suppose I almost forgot it was about 9-11. I totally did and I was like I thought it was only. It was about these two. PK and their relationship and him having autism and Asperger's which I thought he did a great job by the way. Yeah. In terms of I'm not a mere con. That's just perfect. Not a mere con. His acting this is the first time we've been affected I was mostly thought he did a fantastic job. Yeah he did. He did a great job portraying this character. So did the kids who portrayed him young? Yes they did. Him and his wife and this I thought did really well. I know how to pronounce it. Kajoula. Kajoula. Kajoula. I heard that come out of her own mouth. Yeah she has great eyes. Dude. And apparently these guys are like the golden couple who've worked before and like she's like a legend. Yes. Gotcha. I did a little research because she as much as I was deeply impressed with him like from the get go I thought oh dude's legit. He is a legit actor. And then I was watching her and the moment for me for her she was great throughout the thing but when they gave her the moment with Sam over his dead body. Oh yeah. And she's saying come back to me. Yeah that was a great thing. She knocked that out of the park man. Yeah she did. And I'd love to know if she was given time in the trailer beforehand. If they gave it that was one take because it was such a gut wrenching thing for her to do. I was riveted to her and felt she was 100% true in that moment. I thought that she was she is there's a reason her name sounds like Jewel. Yeah she's she's preciously wonderful. It's a great man. Just so at her eyes. Yes. Yeah I also like that she has one name. Yeah I do. Kanaku. Kanaku. But okay I'm gonna go into some of the stuff I absolutely despise about this film. Oh was it the piano playing? No. And like I said it didn't ruin the film I enjoyed the film fully and I it was mostly the message of it all in there the main people's acting but there's a couple different elements to this. The some almost everybody outside of the main two actors was almost terrible. Really? Yes almost not all of them but almost. The directing and a lot of the writing and a lot of the it has to do with the stuff not with these main people. Okay. So it could have been the acting I don't know but like some of the directing I just I can't forgive it's like I almost felt like he thought I was an idiot when it was a lot yeah like what you don't need to as an audience I don't need to be told when somebody doesn't like somebody I can tell that you don't need to do stupid things like have a prison guard who you've seen the entire time when he leaves the prison go like this oh yeah okay those types of things piss me off so much I'm I am with you on and it wasn't just that there was a lot of those elements but that whole that prison guard for me was the least I thought we didn't need that whatsoever yeah I didn't even necessarily need to see he just needs you just need looks from a prison guard and you know that he doesn't like him of course I don't need you to be like I'm watching you right you tell you Taliban wearing right I don't need that yeah I agree with you okay and you make me feel like you think I'm an idiot right you're you're you're giving me something that I don't need you to be direct in terms of like saying exactly what everybody's thinking all the time I can I can decipher that yeah I agree if you're a good director you can do that yeah that whole sequence where he was arrested and then kind of interrogated and oh yeah and when he was interrogated it was awful as well yeah yeah I mean the guy who's interrogating he was like what so you believe this whole cockamamie yeah I agree coming shut up God yeah that was very frustrating oh it's and it wasn't just that it was it happened a bunch in the film those types of things mostly with all supporting characters that the writing or the acting was terrible or both and they put it in there for some reason it only bothered me in that sequence toward the end where I thought let's cut to the chase and stick to where we've been you know there was a lot that happened when they were beating up the kid well that was awful that the kids in the video scene yeah that was that was that was not a good beat up scene yeah there was a lot of when when the kid and when he met big mama or whatever name is yes no like she was great I loved her Jenny yes she was great but mama Jenny when he met the kid uh and he was like are you not going to help me now what do you say no one says that in real life it it when people in film is it mama mama yeah mama Jenny and I hear Joel yeah I loved her uh but like it was mostly the directing part of this where like when characters don't seem like real people and they seem like you're making a caricature outside of if it's a comedy yeah um when they just seem like they're there to give you a certain point and it's exaggerated it makes me so mad and I hate everything about it because the main reason I go to films is to watch acting I love watching good acting and good performances and when you rob me of that it makes me incredibly upset and it's already hard for me to watch films a lot because as an actor I'm watching it of course in deciphering what what were they doing behind the scenes there what were they doing well and it's a it's a double whammy because at the same time it not only insults you it rips off your suspension of disbelief because you go from believing the characters and believing the story to you're pulled out to the fact that wow that was a horrible choice and now I'm not thinking about the story anymore yeah so it happened up a lot for me and like I said it wasn't it wasn't something calm uh fault and it wasn't the main you know they were both phenomenal throughout the whole thing uh and the George W. Bush wasn't that bad looking no no he the George I was pretty good we didn't hear him talk though yeah and so but I mean there was a couple times when they the director did a good job at that part where he didn't stay on bush for too long right yeah because when you looked at him too long then it started when Obama talked for the first time I thought oh no that was terrible no and I said that on twitter please follow us there um but then let's get back into what else did you not like um it was like I said it was a lot of the the writing um of it and then staying on moments that I don't think he should have stayed on that I think would have had a bigger impact like actually when he when she was yelling on the soccer field at summon con yeah I thought almost that could have been cut I mean shower shower con sorry um call them every other time mixing up all the cons uh when she was yelling at him because she was obviously very upset right so and um but I thought they could have been even more powerful if they would have cut it down um and it heard not and said almost everything she said and cut certain moments to where they would have been more impactful to just she said this and I thought it would have been a little more impactful I know and I give them a lot of grace because I know what they've got to do with the runtimes and their intermissions yeah I know so I I often have that thought but give them a lot of grace because I know they've got to have a runtime that's two and a half hours yeah two hours is the least they could do yeah I know but it just it now what did you think about the hurricane sequence the problem I had with the hurricane scene one I don't know how we got across country so fast thick forest yeah I know but I didn't mind that and passed all of the blockade what I did mind was the fact that they apparently couldn't get out but these hundreds of muslims and indians could get in so easily but they couldn't get out of there very easily but everyone including uh shower con and all these people coming to help obviously the government couldn't that was a whole thing but I the message of it I enjoyed because it was that the shower con came in and you decided to help and then he inspired all these other right people who decided to come help right these random people they didn't know and they were mostly hindus muslims and all those kind of people yeah it came in help so I enjoyed that message that they're all about love and and that's what they're all about it's just the logistics of it kind of messed with me it did a little bit with me now did it bother you all these hundreds of people can get in you can't get out of there did it when it went to the hurricane did you initially when I saw the hurricane part when it started my first thought was why why guys we've got a great story here why are we going off on this trail of a hurricane now and him having to go back to mama jenny and funny here do I assumed it was Katrina it was it was supposed to be oh why yeah and then I saw why later it's because they needed to show you what he'd been saying all along yeah which is it's the actions of a person and if he didn't do something it's it was a double message of don't wait for the government to do something do it yourself do it and if you're really going to be a loving person it's not what you say it's what you do that's going to define who you are and then I had a moment that was really big and I don't I don't know if the director intended this but it was the first time for me now when when I watch an American movie or any movie that's depicting something I'm really familiar with yeah I love it when I capture something that's this really deep message that maybe others not familiar with my culture get when she shows up in the hurricane place right and he sees her and they come to each other and she clearly you know she's feels bad for what she has said to him and she's hoping he can forgive her there was a bonfire so the whole yeah no they'd celebrate any holiday at that time they weren't celebrating holy but for an Indian audience to watch those two at a bonfire what it did for me having just celebrated holy for the first time I thought what I don't know if it was intentional by the director I thought what an absolutely brilliant touch to position them in front of a bonfire when in Indian culture the entire season of holy is about forgiveness and new beginnings and restoration of relationships it made me emotional yeah I didn't get that yeah that it was it made me emotional for two reasons I thought it was beautiful and the fact that I could connect that dot because of our exposure to what's been going on in India that for me was like one of the highlights of the movie for me I did enjoy the fact that I would love to talk to an Indian person about this film and know the differences that they saw in the film yeah me too us obviously here in America me too saw because I'm sure the experiences are obviously totally totally different obviously they're both blind too especially if they're in America they've experienced this kind of probably hate from people absolutely especially depending on where they are in the country absolutely um and so different things we noticed different things they because obviously I'm sure when like if an American film depicted Indian president or an Indian public figure and just like we did with Obama and Bush yeah like because they were like yeah I don't think because a lot of the comments I got when I commented on it on Twitter was like that doesn't really matter right it just you know it doesn't but it's just something I noticed and I'm sure they do the same thing with people for sure people in films with that that they know very well but when I was watching what Obama was doing I thought that is that's something Barack Obama would do oh yeah I mean that is something he would have done is that if he would have if this situation had happened that is something he would have done yeah yeah 100 yeah um but yeah did you cry uh I cried a couple times okay nothing like I did in some of the Amir Khan films you see but I cried when she had her moment at wanting him to come back I mean I just how do you not when you've got kids and I I immediately empathize and put myself there over my kids and since it was a boy I'm thinking what would it be like for me and I know that I'd love to know where she went as an actor because using substitution and emotional recall who was she was she using something from her life what was she using to give us such an honest portrayal so I cried there and I actually got teary-eyed with that usage of the fire and the bonfire together and I did not see the stabbing coming I mean by any stretch I thought that was a little weird but yeah I didn't see it coming I thought you'd love that because it wasn't tying it up in a bow I was just wondering why people didn't see oh I was wondering why people didn't see this guy with a knife coming I cried in the third place the third place I cried because I just mentioned the stabbing yeah I'm gonna probably cry now when she's in the hospital and he wakes up and yeah here it comes and he says can I have a hug yeah and he hug and she hugs him and that's the first time in his life a tear comes down his cheek yeah no that was a good moment I I almost had a problem with that moment really because it it tied it up in a bow you hate that or was it more than that and autistic people and asperger's people don't drastically change like that because of how their brain works I get it it doesn't matter if it's in a really emotional moment okay a regular I get it I get it I mean I'm sure it can happen I'm not saying it can't happen no but all the autistic people and asperger's people I know in my life even if it's this big moment in other people's life sure they're not going to change who they are because that's not how their brain I guess I totally understand I was like he wouldn't say that but it didn't optimist in me I know it didn't bother me yeah and it didn't ruin the film right it's just that's the issue I had with that I was like I don't get it kind of believe that I like and what they were it's cinematic and it's all this kind of stuff it is and I just believe that all things can end with the happiness I prefer sad endings I'm a Hufflepuff he's a Slytherin I prefer sad endings yeah it makes me more happy but yeah no I enjoyed the film uh I would definitely recommend it but we didn't even there's so much more to talk about like we didn't even talk about this had the same kind of messages that say pk did yeah it did challenging structures but this had a this had a bit more um whereas pk really appealed to you on an emotional level I did love how it showed how intelligent asperger's people and yes people with autism are they're usually smarter than most people love the scene in the mosque yeah oh yeah that was an act of that when he's no no you're a liar you're a liar when he started talking about the diff that that was one of my favorite moments the different interpretations of the story of Abraham yeah that was a great scene that was a really well written and really well put together that was one of my favorite scenes in the whole yeah great moment I really because I you don't see that and obviously an an american director or filmmaker probably couldn't do that scene justice no especially if they're not muslim or hindu or somebody who's they in that culture no you know who could do it is someone like a mel Gibson in this regard or a spielberg because they do such uh in-depth painful homework that I think they'd get it right but you'd be better off telling it from the vantage point of someone who is way more familiar with it it's just it's in their dna yeah so we obviously enjoyed it I there's some stuff I hated some stuff I really loved but I hated but I ended up enjoying the film as a whole and I I'm glad y'all recommended it to us please let us know what of his next films we should watch I wanted to can't wait to see him again I can't wait to see her again I absolutely love both their legit heavyweight great actors yeah great actors please let us know and uh it's not that's right from the uh epiglottis from the epiglottis yeah