 Well, are you happy all of you? Hey, welcome back to our stupid erection to get some Corbett. I'm Rick. I put a little shelf. Yeah, it's nice. That's its own special little dedicated shelfy-melfie and we're, hey, she hid. Yeah. He also got such a, right. Yeah. We got some yawks. Yeah. And then we got, there was some, oh. Nice. Oh. And ooh. The best picture ever of Nassiridh and Shah. And then our little tribute to Prabhu Devan. Nice. Anyways, that's all this is about. We're doing a movie review of the new film that just came out. Wait, it's new. I thought it was from the 90s. Great quality if it's from the 90s. Incredible. But the 2022 film Love Hostile, it's still romance month, so of course. Yes. By the way, I'm not texting right now. I'm looking up my paragraph. But obviously, if you didn't see our trailer reaction to this, we were going. Goo Goo Gaga. Yes. When we saw the trailer. Yep. Directed by Shankar Rahman. Rahman, right? Yes. Rahman. Shankar Rahman. And then the. And written, partly written as well by Shankar Rahman. And then starring Sanya Mohokhtra. Obviously Vivek. I mean. Vikrant. Vikrant, Messi. And then Bobby Dole. Or is it? Yeah, it's Dole, right? I know it's spelled like deal, but I think it's pronounced Dole. I just, because I heard in Johnny Prans at once and she said it like. Yeah. I was like, okay, that sounds right. Exactly. Exactly. That happens all of the time with us. But anyways, since this just came out, we're going to do a little non-spoiler review. Yep. And then we'll get into some spoilers but we'll let you know before we get there. But we do that with new films because a lot of you might not have seen it. It's on Z5. Just came out. You can go watch it. It's a short one for an Indian film. It's only an hour 40, but it's a crime romance thriller. That would be true. But yeah, so if you haven't watched it, we're going to do a little non-spoiler. Yeah, non-spoiler. Rick, your paragraph. Well, it's our 14th of the year, our 138th Hindi and our 221st all time. Those, as you mentioned, Yeah, 221. Those who saw us react to the trailer of this movie not too long ago, recognized how excited we were for this film based on what we saw there. Not only did it live up to the excitement we had based on that trailer, but it added a cornucopia of other elements that not only pleased me in terms of entertainment value, but surprised me in terms of artistic excellence and cinematic artistry. In short, I'm 100% in the deep end on this one. Think it's one of the best films of the year. We'll remain so throughout the year and we'll be talking about multiple categories of this film when we present the dummies for best performances of 2022. Well, I fucking hated this movie. I know, I'm kidding. I'm absolutely kidding. I was 100%, I was like, are you kidding me? No, of course I love this movie. If you watch this movie, you know this is my type of film. That would have been the biggest shocker ever of all the years. I did have a few issues. I have a couple of issues and you and I are going to have the same issue about something for sure. But I do agree that it's one of the better ones of the year. I'd say this, the Pico one that I can't pronounce. Correct. And then the Malayalam horror. Yep. Those are probably the three best new films of the year. That gravy you 100%. That's at least in my opinion. Yep, and of course, obviously, it's still early. We should probably, when we get to the dummies next year, we might want to consider giving awards for the current things. It all depends on how many films came out that year and how many days out. Exactly, because like I'm thinking about the things already, just classic month. My dummies nominations are loaded. But anyways, yeah, so I really, really enjoyed this film. I think, for non-spoilers, if you just want a really fun taut. Taut. Just surprising. Yes. Well, obviously very well acted by everybody. Including, even though I know, even though I know he's not known in his career for his acting, Bobby Dole, apparently he's having like a resurgence in his career. Playing stuff like this. We'll talk about him. But apparently, like back in the day, he's like, when I called him, I think I was mistaking him for somebody else. I mistaked him for somebody else. Right. If somebody else named Bobby, I think. But when I said he was a legend, people were like, yeah, he's not a legend. Yeah, well, he carried himself like one in this. But apparently he's had a resurgence in his career playing unique stuff like this. Well, I wanted to give a shout out before we continue the casting in this. Whenever an entire ensemble does pretty much immaculate work from everybody. Oh my God, look, who casted this? I know. We have two people. It was Anmal Ahuja, and then this unknown guy that we've never heard of named Abashek of Energy. Love you, Dost. My goodness, you guys. As always, if you, you could probably just go to Abashek's IMDB and look at things he's cast and watch them just because he cast them. Obviously we haven't seen everything he's done, but everything we've seen he's cast, the acting's been superb. Absolutely, yeah. But anyways, yeah, so overall, it's a really well-acted, surprising, beautiful cinematography. Great story. By what was the cinematography? Yeah, of Vivek Shah. It's a brilliant cinematography and lighting by his whole team. Agreed the whole team. And before I forget, whoever was working on Continuity, which is typically everybody, if you're paying attention on set and you know how much it matters, there's usually a continuity person. I didn't see it on the credits here. You had so many, right down to a moment where I'm not gonna give any spoilers away, but there's a character who had been bleeding and had blood on their hand that was like on their hand and then got in a situation where they were tended to and then they leave and their hand is washed, but still has some blood stain on it because that's what would happen when you let blood sit on your hand that long. Every little blood droplet from frame to frame on the face, everything was continuity perfection. Yeah. There's really, there's very little to gripe about this film and I'm not really gonna put in the non-spoilers because that wasn't really on my issues. I think it's- No, I can't talk about anything unless we talk about the film. So it's a great film. Go watch this film. It's well done in every aspect. The issues I have are minute. And one thing before we get into spoilers for those of you who have not seen this, I want you to go with excitement. I don't wanna set the bar too high, but one of the things I was surprised by that I don't think spoils anything is the fact that in the trailer we got that entertainment value. We got what we thought were gonna be great performances and direction and everything. One of the things I didn't expect was, and we can talk about this in a few minutes, was how often this touched upon deeply important issues. It wasn't talking really great. It wasn't talking about anything like in terms of like a real event, obviously. No, no, no. But in terms of, you know what they were talking about. And how these things happen. Yeah, yeah. So I do agree. The stuff we have problems with, you will get into the non-spoilers, but it's, I think if you go in with like, I'm gonna have a really fun time with a kind of almost an assassin film almost. I guess that's how you would describe it. It's not really a spoiler for seeing the trailer. It does work for romance month. It does. It really does. It still does. But Vivek and Sonja and Bobby are obviously, but I don't wanna say they're standing because actually everybody was waiting. Well, you've been thick, Ron. You said Vivek. Sorry. But yeah, so that's our non-spoiler. We're gonna get into spoilers now. So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it. It's only an hour 40, like I said. It's a real short. And it feels like 90. So go watch it. It's on Z5. Come back, we're getting into spoilers. Let's talk about Bobby Dole, man. He was great. It was actually funny. When I texted the group of ours that helps us out, right? And I said, I just put, they didn't know I was watching it, but I put love hostile fire. And I just put that emoji. And they're like, really? And I'm like, yeah. And they're like, Bobby Dole's doing some amazing stuff nowadays. And I'm like, I mean, I've never seen anything else he's ever done. But I said, I was like, maybe what he did was that he gave him like the John Wick treatment. Obviously I don't think a lot of counter eaves as an actor, as a person, he's an amazing person. But it works in John Wick. Cause he doesn't, all he has to do is shoot people in the face and not mess up his lines, right? He doesn't actually have a ton of lines. I bet he had less than a sheet of lines in the entire script. That doesn't mean he didn't have a lot to do. Obviously he's a lot of screen time and there's more to acting in lines. But I thought he did a really good job. He, and I actually looked up a picture of him. He looks so much different without a beard. I know. Oh, he had such a presence in this. I knew it was him. And when I looked at IMDb and saw his IMDb headshot, I went, that's him? Cause it didn't look anything like this character. Shout out to the makeup and the scar on the face. Yeah, everybody. Makeup, not just for the scar on his face, but the consistency, like I said, just like with continuity, there was a combination that was pretty seamless of visual effects and makeup in terms of the graphic nature of a lot of the woundedness that happens with people. And that can really screw up bad. We take it for granted. When you're in a film that's clickin' and going like this one and suspension of disbelief is just right there the whole time, you can take for granted how many elements are going right that just one of them going wrong pulls you and you don't believe it anymore. And you're like, oh, that's an awful bullet wounder. Oh, that didn't look like real brands. That never happened. This, in the way the writing wrote his character and obviously the way he portrayed it, immediately you were captivated by him and this awful person that he was playing because it starts off with his introduction. Once again, we're on spoilers. We're just hanging a couple. Incredible. Like just, and the shots of them even though they were people hanging, man, they just grip you immediately and also shock you. Cause like, obviously he hangs him and that's shocking enough, right? And then the next shot, you see the guy just falling down after he's dead, falling from the tree and like, oh, shit. Exactly. I thought it had an incredible opening and I haven't enjoyed watching an assassin kill people and take their pictures since Bob. Yeah, exactly. He did such a good job in the writing of it was so good because you were like, I 100% believe you and they gave, this is what kind of one of the things we were talking about in the Ali, the new Sanjay film that I wanted to see this little, this little monster behind the Ali was talking. See real depiction of what these people really do. Obviously that's not what they were trying to go for in that one, but they brought it in this one. And he, man, I could see him play an assassin for the next 10 years. I thought he was amazing. I did too. And that's something I have about the film that we'll talk about at spoiler time, but since we're focusing on the acting performances right now, I not only felt that he did a great job, I felt like they filmed him and wrote him really, really well. I liked the messaging in his getting the dog. I liked the fact that he wasn't just a mindless Michael Myers because they could have just done that. It would have worked, but it wouldn't have had that extra level that took this from just being an entertainer to being something that actually, it was this weird blend of being both like this just cool movie and actually feeling like a film festival film. I can't remember a film that I thought blended the two so well, that's hard to do. Yeah, he did a really good job. He was incredible. Perfect for this character, couldn't imagine anyone else. And the way everybody, they wrote him. Obviously every single scene from the beginning, they kind of just were, you could think he could do anything. Yeah. And he did. I was scared of him. He did. He just shot everybody in the family and then left that kid to be alone. Playing the video games. And then when he walks into the hostel, because he knows she's in there, and he's just, nothing, nothing going on behind me. Mike Myers, man. Yeah. It was incredible. It was so fun to watch. So fun. And so he also, he left me with a sense of, nobody's safe in this thing. Who's he gonna kill next? And that's another thing about the film that I loved and what they did in the end to like Vikrant. Oh yeah, we'll get in that, we'll get it. I wanna talk about those two. Yeah, Sanya Mahotra and Vikrant, who I think are two probably the most underrated actors that at least in my opinion. Prinyan, brother preach of Indian cinema. Preach, brother preach. Obviously the first time we saw Vikrant was, the, Miesoper. Correct. Such a different character. And he's, he also picks, I feel, he's, I feel like he's an actor. If we've talked to him, he kind of like a lot of people we've talked to. I've talked to him 100%. He just, he wants to pick unique roles. And I believe he loves the craft. Yeah, and so I 100% believe it. I think he's a very versatile actor. I think he's a very committed actor. And her as well. I think the first thing we saw in her was probably Donkel, right? Yeah. I mean, we've seen her in Ludo and a couple other things. But man, she, I feel, is the same exact way. She likes picking unique projects and she likes picking projects she can really sink her teeth into and that really delve into the human condition. And they were great together. And they had moments together where I felt like I was watching a really, really good scene study where you're sitting in an acting class and watching two people who've worked on their scene together and you're just loving the chemistry they have with each other and that one person does something and you're like guaranteed they didn't rehearse but that came out of the moment and it was improbbed and you reacted to it and you took it and you're, they're just fun, fun actors to watch and guys can't stress enough. There were so many moments for both of them but especially for him, two things where he either had to be in emotion alone where he had to prep himself before action and be in an emotional state like when he's burying his mom. There was nothing to cue him, nothing to prep him, he just had to be there and I'm sure the director gave him time but I can't tell you how hard it is to not let a scene build you toward a moment emotionally and where you have to be believable and not contrive something in that moment to make us believe we're watching a grieving guy. And then he had to do those moments where he gave you an emotional output of something deep whether it was his love or his anger and the director did it like this. You had to be looking in camera and I can't explain how hard it is on screen for the character to look in camera and we become the person they're talking to but for the actor to be looking into a lens and get some human connectivity with that, it takes extremely talented actors to give you that. It's not easy and they did a great job, both of them. They were both, they shared a bunch of powerful scenes, a bunch of emotional scenes and they're so good. I'd like to see everything either of these actors have done. Yeah, they're too that when I, if I see their name getting elevated into bigger projects and larger things, I want to celebrate them because they're so, so good. I know we've seen, there was one last year, who we saw in our bedahel obviously in Ludo and Dungal, there was one last year that came out that we missed and I was sad. I've heard it was like really good. A lot of people really enjoyed it but we missed it but hope she's in photograph, that's with Nawaz. Oh, right? Yeah, another person that we're not mentioning by name because we've been searching and it's driving us bonkers. She's in a shit. The grandma Dawn in this. Oh yeah, you can't find, I recognize her. We recognize her. It's bothering us that we're not remembering, but IMDb doesn't list her, Google doesn't list her, nobody lists her as far as who, her character name and her person. If they do, it's like there's no picture, there's nothing. I was like, I wonder if this is who, this is what Gunkabai was like in her later years. Yeah. She reminded me a lot of, she's a really famous actor, she was in Tenet. She was that one, what's her name? Real famous actors. Yeah, I just can't remember, I'm sorry. You guys know who I'm talking to, you've already put it in the comments. Yep. But yeah, she was phenomenal and we'll talk about it everybody else. How is this film Patakaha for Shahbar Dwash? Cause she's the lead in it, Sanya. Not a surprise that she's right. DJ Ross is in it too, oh my god. Oh wow. Not a surprise that she's worked with Vishal. Tell me how this film is because I'm very... With DJ Ross. DJ Ross on her. And I think we've actually reacted to the trailer, I just don't remember it at all. But I think we've reacted to the trailer. So please let me know this is an amazing film cause I'd like to watch it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the officer at the Love Hostel. Yes. We've seen many times. He was so goodness. Always good. He's always really good. Always good. I thought the lead police officer as well. Everybody was great. It's believable. Who am I missing? I feel like there was one that I... Oh, the daughter of the guard. Yeah. Yes. She was really, really good too. And how about that twist? Yeah. And this had so many twists. Obviously it caught you off guard many times. Many times. In terms of... Andrani can tell you how many times cause I started watching it when she was asleep. So I'm watching it with my airplugs on and I'm watching... I don't know how many times I went... Oh no! Don't go in there! No, no. He's gonna shoot you. When the two guys, when they're dancing, like they're dead. They're dead. Brains on her face. Brains aren't... There it is. I was actually really excited for that part. Not because I was actually real sad cause I thought those two actually did a really good job. That was a really interesting aspect they added to the story. Agreed. Those two. But I was actually just native dancing. I was like, I could see it coming. And I was like... Yup. Right, when he dipped her I'm like, okay, shoot him now! And then it happened. Yes. I was sad but I was happy because, cinematically, it was wonderful. It worked well. But a lot of those moments, especially at the end, the spoiler once again, when Vikrant just gets... Am I saying his name wrong? Is it Vikrant? No, that was right. Okay. Yeah, the Vek is the cinematographer. Vikrant is the... Sorry, sorry. I keep thinking I'm messing up. But when, once again, spoiler, the brother, the little kid... Who did great. Great job. That was a great element because it kind of like, even though you just, you killed the grandma, this patriarchal system is continuing with the young... Continuing with the rage in this young man. But it just... Boom! It was like, oh, shit! That's exactly how I responded. I was like, yes! I love that. The parts that I didn't enjoy were what came after. I didn't like when they met once they died. I didn't feel like that was needed. Here's where I... It didn't ruin anything. No. But I just, in my personal preference... I, the film, the minute it faded out, the gar is driving away. He makes his left hand turn and you hear... And it faded. I went, please give me credits. Please give me credits. And when another scene came up, I went... Yeah? No! I didn't like that. And I didn't like the running them down like a dog. Yeah. At all. Yeah, they... I get it. I understand the karmic communication here. It's obviously at the beginning, she said, I hope you love something so much and you follow it and... Yeah. You die. Whatever. I get it. Whatever. I would have just preferred, one, you shoot the cront, you shoot her, they're dead. And then if you want to add him, don't kill him in the end. This is actually one of the moments that I don't like him, like the... I agree. Dying in the end. Two reasons I don't think you should have killed him off. Number two, there was so much reality in this, I was hoping it would have ended on the stark reality that in this world, bad things happen to good people, innocent people are wrongfully hurt and there is no payback. There's no explanation. It's wrong and it always will be wrong. And I wanted a sequel with him. I wanted him killing more people. Yeah. So yeah, those are like the, when they met after they died, I did, I was like... I'm with you. Whatever. I don't really... Me too. I didn't like that. Me too. I would just prefer them on dead on the ground. That's arriving away. And then if you want to end with him, end with him just sitting there and petting the dog or something like that. Don't kill him. I... Didn't need any of it. Wives away, gunshot fade to black. Obviously it's not my film. Right. And it didn't ruin the film. It didn't ruin it at all. I would still watch this film and I would still recommend this film. Yes. I was just telling you my personal preference and what how I think it should have ended. That for me was the only thing... That's the only flaw for me I have is the ending is just not my personal preference. And it didn't do anything to me in terms of ruining the film because it ended that way. Yeah. That all happened. I agree. And that's... Sad because I was like, yeah. And I was like, oh. I wanted to end on like that. Yay. And then I was like, I guess, but... You know I love a film. Okay. When I'm in, I enjoyed watching it and that's about it. And I would recommend you see it. If I love a film, while I'm watching it and when it ends, my first thought is, who can I go watch this with? I typically see... When I love a film, I typically see it three or four times because I want to give it more box office and I want to experience it with people I love and value their opinion because I know it's going to blow. So I saw, I saw Badle like four times because I went back and took Alexis, I went back and took Micah, watched it again with my mom and this one had the same thing for me. I'm like, oh my goodness. I want the kids to see this. Oh yeah, they'll love it. I want Andrani to, I was ready. If Andrani was today, if we left and she said I want to watch it, I would happily start it over. Absolutely. Happily. One, it's a quick one and it just, it grips you immediately. Instantly. It doesn't let go. Yeah. Fast paced, you're always engaged and everybody does amazing. And I think it's, I would consider this, I would give it an A plus, I'd probably give it an A minus just because of the end. Just the end. Exactly. But that's a fragment. And the other thing, we touched on it a little bit and I guess we can end on this too. There were for a lot, especially the first half, I was extremely sad in some of the depictions of what was happening because it's real. In some parts, you know. The fact that people can't be together because of the way they're treated. I loved that moment when she turned the car on, the gun on the two guys. And they were afraid because that's what happens. There's people who hate enough that if you don't fit within the framework of their worldview, they will literally kill you and try to stop you. When they got to the hostel, the way that he talked to her and her husband wouldn't stand up for her. And just religious bigotry, human bigotry of all kinds and how it's just always there permeated this thing throughout that made me very sad throughout a lot of the first half. Absolutely. And those, the two actors who were playing the gay couple did a phenomenal job, especially in that scene when she came there. I legitimately thought he was scared and the other guy came there to comfort him and I felt that they were actually in a relationship together and it's just not, I mean, they show up in there in two scenes. It's not, I'm sure, I don't think they're a real couple. Maybe they are, but to do that in that quick, it's not an easy thing. They're probably gay players. And I would, this is one of the films people ask me a lot. What's a movie you recommend to somebody in the West, like someone in America? I would, this would absolutely shock to the core. People I know that love cinema but have no clue how good it is in India and would digest it because it would be more of what they're accustomed to cinematically. Absolutely. I guarantee there would be people who watch this and have their mind blown and say, I had no idea India is creating stuff this good. I'm excited to share this movie with people. Yeah, absolutely. So, and obviously all this goes into the directing of, I know he didn't specifically talk about him, but Shankar... Ramon. Shankar, and I know he did direct this film, which is Pankaj playing a, we've reacted to the trailer. We reacted to the trailer. And he, this is apparently, this is one we haven't gotten to yet. I wanted to because I love Pankaj. Of course. This is one of his better performances. A lot of people say he plays like this mob boss. Obviously it's gonna be amazing. It's a stretch for him. I know. I'm doing his Mirzapur. This was before Mirzapur too. But apparently it's like a really good film. But I thought he did a really good job of keeping everything real tight. The taut is the bet. Yeah, it's a tight. It's so gripping, crisp and edited, and there's no fat on this thing. It's lean, it's strong, it moves. The end. And the sound department, the editing department. The cinematography once again. The score, everything is top notch. Top notch. Fantastic movie. Very happy that it's as good as the trailer. Yes, thank you. It's probably one of the first ones in a while. Yes. It's been as good as the trailer. Yeah, actually for me it was better than the trailer because of all the other little surprises. Absolutely, so you guys can let us know what you thought about this film. And also let us know about the Vishal film with her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As well because I'm quite interested in seeing her and Vijay and Vishal film. So let us know what you thought about this film and what should be the next film we watch down below.