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I don't believe he's I could be wrong I don't believe we've seen anything of his I think this might be the first thing right I could be right I could be but I know I know his name and I know he's one of the big-time legendary directors Yes, written by Anurad Kashyap who? Yes produced by Ram Gopal Composed by Vishal Varbwash and then who yes, and then starring JD say his last name for me JD Chakra Barthi Manoj Bajpayee Manoj Bajpayee a ton of other people. Yes Umila Yeah, no umila Matangar who plays Vidya and yes who we've seen many many things The Sorabi Shukla or Sorab Shukla forgive me, sir And it felt like a lot of the smaller parts as well. I felt like we'd seen them have seen our own roles. Yeah, something Yeah, and that's what it seemed like. Mm-hmm, but this is a 1998 underground gangster Underworld thriller. Yes, and then we should also a special shout out to another supporting role Which is the city of Mumbai? Pretty much played a supporting character an innocent man is embroidered in the underworld after being falsely accused charged and set out to punish the Pertrazer's who subjected his life to misery I think could have come up with something better than that in my MDB. I don't like that I don't like that at all. I think it's a bad synopsis. I would not that's not how I would qualify this film No, in fact, it not only bad. I think it does it a disservice. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, that's weird That's the first time I've read that I think unless we read it during the trailer reaction. Anyways, 100% spoiler group came out in 1998 I'm pretty sure most of you've seen it if you haven't obviously go watch it come back Unless you'd like to be spoiled then stay here and be spoiled, which some of the stupid babies have actual I love you guys that you will actually stop review go and watch the film and then come back Yeah, I love that. This is one of the ones. I feel like most have seen right because it's we're late or yeah It's been a long time film. But anyways, Rick your initial thoughts. Well, I have a partial paragraph because the other half of paragraph I'm just gonna improv. Okay, the beginning of the paragraph is this a film as Important to Indian cinema as tattoo driver was to American cinema and a film that Personalizes gangsters in a genre for India as well as good fellas did for America I don't believe you'd ever have gangs of wasp or sacred games if you didn't first have Satya and I think it's very evident For as green as he was Yeah, I now know why he was an inspiration to people like Irfan No, I was and then but trippity. Yes, because I want to call him the happy gangster We'll get into him. Yeah, but ultimately I went I actually went from the beginning of the film Finding myself being a little bit bored and that was because of my own headspace at the time and making myself Stop and take my time with it and recognize where it fit in cinematic history for India. Yeah, and wound up Realizing that I not only really really like the movie. It's a it's one of the most important films I think in Indian cinema 100 and I really really like Love this movie. I'm I love most all parts. There's parts. I didn't enjoy and we'll talk about that. Sure And obviously it's not perfect because of the time and I think the quality of the budget as well Definitely definitely affected it. Exactly. We can't really help that obviously like cuz the best quality you could find Still isn't a great quality. It's like 80s films here in Hollywood. That's what it felt like. Yeah Like almost grainy a lot of the times exactly so obviously wasn't shot on the best camera No, it feels it almost feels like a film from the 70s. Yeah, even though it's late 90s because of those aspects But I love this movie. I thought it was fantastic. I thought the character This just shows why on your country was one of my favorite writer almost it could be ever who knows because everything He does he's a phenomenal writer Right story the story in this is so freaking good to make you care So good and also in terms of gangster films. It's probably one of the easiest to follow gangster films I would absolutely agree where you a lot a lot of films. Yeah, you you have so much to keep up with so many families So many names so many characters. Yeah, I agree. This would be one of the easier stories Yeah, you're pretty sure yeah, then there's a motion character main gang. Yeah, and then you the two people above them And they kill both those people. Yeah Pretty much it. Yeah, that was that's basically the story Love story in between. Yeah video. Yeah, so we'll get into all aspects is like I said, I really enjoyed this movie It was it wasn't even though it was two hours 45 or something like that It wasn't easy to our 40 it really after it got through an admission. I found myself thinking as I was watching it thinking I Am really enjoying just sitting in this world. I kind of don't want this this could go on for another two hours Yeah, my least favorite part of this film is the songs. I Not because they were bad songs. I thought actually thought they were really good songs. Do you mean the musical numbers? Yes, themselves. I interesting. Don't think they fit in this world And I believe this was if this was an on-your-cash-out directed film those would not have been in there Probably I think the best one and the one that didn't fit the best was the wedding where My nose was going all crazy. You didn't like the drunk scene with the guys. No, I like the song, right? It's that's that's not the thing. I I thought it's the snow bar You would have pulled them from the yes I think the songs were nice and I the love songs with between Satya and his girl. They were all nice I like I just don't think they fit in this film. I agree with you. Yeah, but I also don't I also I Think they fit Like it's a straight gangster movie Unless you're doing a straight-up gangster musical It just it takes me out sometimes when there's like when they're just singing a day outside the wedding Which makes sense because they're at a wedding, which is right Which what I think on your a cash-out when we talk to music, you know, I don't like musical numbers So it's either like it's the the noah's doing Elvis behind thing where it's like they're like a party scene Yeah, or something like that so that I believe fit and you know me I wish life was a musical I Enjoyed them. I like them. Do they fit? No, but that was the issue It wasn't it wasn't the fact that they were bad. They're good so I'm like the one of the right the beginning, which was Extremely random the first. Oh, yes. I think that was the most random. I think that was in the trailer as well We're like what the heck? Yeah going on here. It was a good song and having mom. I was going all crazy and We'll get into him. I'm really excited to talk about him. Absolutely But yeah, that was probably my biggest gripe outside of the the fact that they didn't fit outside of the obviously, I think the money hurt obviously because it was a little grainy and Some of the stunt work, especially at the beginning was real bad But I'm betting they didn't even have a stunt coordinator 100% career that but once again, that's a budgetary thing So I can't really yeah, and I've seen a lot worse. Yeah outside of that Those are the those are my biggest gripes of this film. I don't know if you have any other gripe I I don't in fact I'm gonna say something that might be profoundly shocking to the stupid babies who've been around and tell me if you agree There were moments where because of budget I could tell this was a blend of sync sound and dubs out Mm-hmm, and there were moments. There was one particular moment It's toward the latter part of the film where they've broken in to find Satya and Vidya's just finding out about Who he is and she's crying. Yeah, and you could hear the dubbed crying sound Yeah Oh, it never works because the emotional connectivity is not the same even if the even if she's doing well dubbing it She's not capturing what she felt in the moment and you can tell that the visual and audio aren't matching But I thought she was so good and was so believable in her moment that It didn't it didn't pull me away. I could I know it was being dubbed But it didn't pull me and there were several moments where I knew they were dubbing the sound But it wasn't pulling me from the believability. That's probably the first time that's ever happened for me Mm-hmm in a film is that dub sound didn't didn't pull me out Good job editors. Yeah, I guess director and the director also would be the but yeah, we could talk about everything Let's just get into my notion. Okay, right now. Okay, yeah We've seen him obviously quite a lot. We saw him first I think in gangs and then yes, and then but we I think we'd have a much better appreciation for his performance in gangs We watched it now. Oh, I think everything Would be the case But anyways after that it was I believe the professor film correct and obviously we loved it. He was a very He obviously a lot of grab tosses older Mm-hmm. He had this elegance about him on a sweetness. Yeah, disposition and then the same thing with the Sushant film. He was an old, you know, he was like the leader of a gang kind of thing Yeah, I still have that wise beyond his years. It was so fun and interesting to watch him early like the beginning of his career Being a so young. This is his character a lot. I don't know if you ever saw the I think it's called. It's It's called the professional No with I know of it, but I haven't seen it Carol I haven't seen it. No. Yes. So a very crazy type character. I loved all the little quirks He gave I did too. I loved his laughing. Yeah, his laugh His and Satya's relationship was beautiful. Didn't you love the moment when he says to him? I'm jealous of video. I 100% believe yeah If Satya would have asked for him to go to Dubai with him. I believe he would you would have joined him I believe he would have and that's what he wanted. I think he was deeply in love with Satya. Oh, you do. Oh, I do Oh, I think it was I think it was a legit man. I could have been yeah, but I'm going with he was it It wouldn't bother me. He was completely in love. Yeah, that wouldn't bother me if that was the way he looked at Satya The way he was like he he looked at him basically you like a brother or like somebody he deeply loved And you know up to your interpretation my interpretation is he loved him Which is fine, maybe one day we'll ask Monash But anyways, I love the relationship reminded me a lot of Knicki and Danny. Oh good. Good comparison from Greece. Yeah They're like they're very the tough men But they also they they have this relationship with each other that's deeper than the relationship with anybody else Yeah, which which is one of the things I want to compliment about the film itself We can get back to Monash. We're probably gonna be here a while everybody Because I want to talk about the shawl. Yeah. Yeah, but one of the things I loved about this It reminded me a lot of and I don't mean that it was a copying at all I just am complimenting it for a similarity in the good fellas has a lot of humor Mm-hmm, right a lot of humor in it for a gangster movie Yeah, this has a lot of humor in it But it had something else that I really enjoyed and that was for a genre that is definitively Toxic masculinity, right definitively patriarchal Italian mafia films there's love and there's affection, but not like we saw with these guys I mean these guys were constantly hugging and kissing and you were you'd literally go one moment shooting each other and and screaming What's the lawyer gay? I don't know good right when he brought Satya in He was like getting and it could have been just the affection part He was getting real close and like eyes to eyes making eyes It felt like to me with a lot of people and it obviously they didn't really go any into that And it was a character trait of his No, I I thought I love that lack that just openness of Physicality and affection with each other and I thought gangster movie. Come on I thought everybody in this film was phenomenal. I did everybody did a great job There was a Satya who I don't believe what you've seen before JD Excuse me Chakravarti, he did phenomenal. Yeah, I thought he did like he brought a real Everybody in this was really small Yes, there was nothing over the top really and even though obviously like Mano's just character obviously was he was really hyper and in loved all that stuff But he was still obviously he's my mom. She's believable. Yeah, and this character could have been and what makes this character so Beautiful in his hands. This character could have been really annoying. Oh, yeah, could have been really annoying on a number of levels Yeah, and he wasn't no obviously my mom so But that goes to obviously the writing of I'm your gosh. Yeah. Yes Who knows how to write characters as we know correct. I mean and a great story. I did you see it coming? what When he got shot in the back of the head who? Oh, no, no, it's one of the things also I actually did you did well. No, I thought he was gonna die. I thought he was gonna die at some point I just did I didn't know it's gonna be in that moment by him when they're because I felt there was this false sense of security That was happening. I knew we're coming to the end of the film and I thought When he turned around the thought went through my mind. He's gonna shoot him in the head No, that actually what you want to think is a lot of that one You love that about gangster films when you can kill off characters randomly and you didn't I did not expect it It happened multiple times. Yeah, there were other times. I definitively did not know in the same way I'm not gonna say something watch good fellas. Oh same thing happens in good fellas characters that you don't expect to die Die, let's just say that that's one of the the great thing It's one of the great things about anything if like TV shows or movies if you can kill off characters Just like I mean it makes right and I just file away But and you can like catch the audience off guard that for I think it Brings enjoyment even if you love that character. It's like, oh, I can't believe they did that. Yes I can't believe they just did that well And what it is is it's it's not scripted as much as it is real because that's what happens in real life people You never expected to be gone Are gone and people you like wished were aren't when When the new commissioner Even though once again, I think it's because budgetary they didn't show a lot of the killings sometimes Yeah, when he went out and he they shot right. I was like, oh, I didn't expect him to shoot him right then I'm expecting it to be just a little later. They were gonna kill him But they just killed him like right off the bat. Yeah after his monologue About the police right which was which is another subject man. We can talk about yeah We talk really great the underworld in Mumbai. I thought between lawn politics I thought the lawyer guy who ended up betraying Monosha's Character in the end and then getting shot right really really well. I love this character I did too obviously our guy who we've seen multiple times. He's always always really really say his name We have yeah, he's always but we've seen him in so many films now So Robbie Shukla. Yeah, he's always good and he was phenomenal in this. I love this character I he seemed like an uncle of the underworld that would they were all in love. I loved the weird relationship Monosha had with his wife. I did too. Can you believe that it's weird? That's exactly what I was like I was watching I was like, okay. He's a terrible person But I'm enjoying their their exactly what I said to John. I said this this relationship He has but his wife sometimes is like he's it's so awful and then at the next moment you actually like it It's just this weird dysfunctional, but you feel like it's gonna last for a Yeah, it's it was really strange I agree like right right when they introduced them and they were fighting and then She was yelling at him and then they closed the door and then they were all like I know he slapped her in front of him and I'm like, okay dick Yeah, and then she slapped him He's like you slapped me and then later on she's like you don't buy me gifts and he makes a joke about it I did I agree and absolutely agree and so once again the writing of this by on your kashi up as we know It was phenomenal. He knows how to write scripts and he knows how to create great stories and relationships Relatable relationships to make the audience care We've seen it in every single thing that he's ever been a part of and what's specially written And what's amazing is he does it in dark subject matter? It's a really difficult thing to do because oftentimes when people are writing for dark subject matter What they're writing for is just the subject matter and he's a well-rounded Fully giving life to the characters kind of writers just must be Like so many writers that we can talk about here in American cinema Let you know that if you've got to do that the gift you'd be given with the script and speaking of gifts that are given Mr. Barbed wire Just score in this thing. I have only one complaint only one complaint Kenny G really do we have to have a Kenny G moment? There was one Kenny G moment at the restaurant. Yeah, and Kenny G is a magnificent saxophone player He really is a brilliant saxophone player. I just have bad memories of Kenny G. So it just it traumatizes me Maybe you know Do the composers handle all the music or just the songs? In Indian cinema, I don't know like does he handle the background score of the film as well Well, I don't know this or does he just do the song. I do know this. I do know that it can go either way I know that somebody can have total control of scoring songs I know that one person could do songs and another person could do score You could have several people do it like if you're Hans Zimmer, you're gonna have a team of people composing sometimes I don't know it wouldn't surprise me knowing the depth of musical ability that he has That he did everything, but I do know it's a mixed bag You know Indian cinema that you'll get sometimes they write the songs and the score Gotcha for this. I don't know. We'd have to break down. I agree like I said I love all the songs in terms of just being songs It's just that my my my gripe was that in this style of film Sometimes these songs just take me out of this world and they surely would for anybody not familiar with it with with Indian film I'm really glad we saw this I would if you're recommending this to anybody who's from the West, okay, which I think they could digest it They absolutely could but you would need to give them some understanding at the outset about a couple of things first of all Why certain things are included in Indian cinema that are the stereotypical musical number, right? And why why that was that way and also you if you compare this to American films of 1998 An American audience is going to look at this and go immediately because Technologically and budgetarily it doesn't match and it's not fair to do to Indian cinema Yeah, because now Indian cinema is now up to speed with American and international cinema But at the time yeah, they were still doing a lot of catch-up with budget and and and technology and It's it's not a fair comparison to compare it to films of 1998 You need to you need to see this film in the context of what you understand Indian cinema was doing at the time and how I read in our Bollywood book. I read the Satya pitch Yeah, and how ground-breaking Ground-breaking this was yeah at the time and still is to this day that it not only I mean yes prior to this if you didn't have the the angry young men and Big B and A couple movies. I know we haven't seen that paved the way for this. Yeah, but this not only I've I really think that's not you not only paved the way For a new kind of genre in Hindi film But I explained the Stingrani. I was talking about it It's almost like if if Indian cinema had previously been and I don't mean this as an insult It's just a growth of the of the art if it had been a tricycle with little ribbons on the side and someone was riding it These creators came over and kicked that off the road and got on a Harley And it not only caught a new genre, but I think what you see right now That's why I said in my paragraph about you have sacred games And you have gangs of wasp or because of this and you have no was and you have no was and you have a trip on Yeah, yes 100% and you have the kinds of things we're seeing on the OTT platforms Because this is the kind of film that people got to see at the time in the history of Hindi cinema and go You can do that. Mm-hmm. I guess you can do that. Yeah, let's do that But I so I can't I would put that in like one of the greatest films in Indian cinema history as far as its influence Yeah, you know, oh, yeah in the film just by itself. It was You because after after you get into it, you kind of almost don't notice the exact quality anymore That's what when I got past that beginning and said stop it. Yeah, don't judge it. Let it be what it is You get past you get sucked in and it's just a really good Absolutely, so we haven't talked about the director Obviously we kind of have because he's part of all of it, of course And I thought he did a masterful job What he had at the time. Oh, especially the end that whole Right around the ceremony at the water and there was one spectacular shot of them coming out of the movie theater Mm-hmm into the Bunch of chaos he did really really well. Yes, I I said out loud beautiful shot So Yeah, he and he he handled all the chaos really really well And I thought he did just a phenomenal job overall in the film I would like to see a lot more of his work because I know he's a legend Of anything and I did read in that Bollywood book as well every character And this is based off of real people or somebody that he read about. Yeah, and he also I'm sure you read as well He he was very he let the actors improvise when they wanted to which I think added to the believability And I have these characters I wonder how much of that on your own picked up on watching him direct Because we know that that's something that on your own likes to do with his directing is he just likes to let the actors Go and see what he can find. Yeah, I think it's I mean I know some directors are Really picky, but I think that's the best way to do it very easily. You can have your script and that can be your guideline This is where we're this is the forever taking right, but you can swerve sometimes to make it a little more believable well because directors know Oftentimes the gold is found in between the words and you get moments that if you allow them to happen They're gonna become the stuff of legend the most iconic one not maybe one of the most iconic ones is Midnight cowboy doesn't hop and cross in the street. I'm walking here Mm-hmm That was a real cab driver who really did that and they just kept the camera rolling and thankfully John Voight stayed in character And I'd like can we also we got to talk about this moment? This is for me, and I think it's this in Indian cinema It's the moment for Indian cinema that I think is comparable to Leo standing on the Titanic saying I'm king of the world Oh, when I was just standing on that rock say I'm the king of Mumbai. Yeah Next time we come to Mumbai I gotta go to that rock. I want to do that moment right there It was a lot of beautiful the way he depicted Mumbai. Yeah, I thought was really really well done And he made it he made it like a lot of the whenever they went off and talked or they went to the beach a lot a lot To the which it's a city. Yeah, and it made me want to do some research And I did some on because he said this is based on characters real people really I thought that note at the end Yeah, that was interesting. Wouldn't that interesting his director note at the end? Mm-hmm. I love that because it just you already felt it in the film But that little note at the end was just a little just as bad for Satya. Yeah, as I do for the people He killed well It made me want to look into the history of the underworld in Mumbai And and the mafia and when it began and how long it took rude and what it was really involved in which is a whole other subject But clearly did this research clearly had a great team What else can we say? Yeah, we enjoyed this. We enjoyed the movie. This is really really good. Let us know what other Manoj, Pashpayee, obviously we're gonna watch anything on your watch. It's ever done. Yeah, anyways, but Ram Ram Who says Ram go over my let us know next film of his because I know he's a legend Yeah, I don't know what other films of his we need to watch though. So please educate us as well as What is a precursor? I think I know the answer to it. I think it's a D. Wah Dwar. Yeah I think that's probably the precursor to this. It's probably most of I'm attack back John. Yeah, just which we've seen the trailer. Yeah, then we see a scene from D. Wah Yeah, we did. Yeah, so I want to know the angry and man precursor to this that kind of Inspired Satya. I'd love to see one of those as well or something from a different region Yeah, but let us know down below which film we should watch and review next