 Oh god, he brought props. You, what's the joke? Go ahead. The mask mandate. This is what I wear. I go out of the stores like, sir, you need to be wearing a mask. I hope you didn't buy that for that. No. Welcome back to our stupid directorate in Sub-Corban. I'm Rick. You can follow me on Instagram. Instagram, Twitter. Instagram, Twitter. You can follow me on Instagram. You can follow me on Instagram. What? That's my mom's. So you're making your mom jokes for me now? Yeah. Anyways, welcome. How are you? Today we're doing a movie review of Toofen. Two point out now. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Toofen, the sequel. This is called Sarpata Parambrai. Obviously we saw the trailer for it and kind of like the behind the scenes of the training. Loved it. We saw that song, the rap song. It was almost kind of like the theme of it. That we loved. That we loved. And so we were very excited to watch it. So the way we're gonna do this one, it just came out, obviously. It's a new Tamil film on Amazon. It should be a small spoiler review. Probably, right? Non-spoiler at first. That's what I meant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Small non-spoiler. Non-spoiler and then we'll get into the spoiling. It's a little gritty, because obviously it's new. That's just normal. We always do spoiler reviews, but normally we were watching stuff from the 1960s. But when it's a brand new release. Yeah. So if you haven't watched it, if you don't even wanna watch your non-spoiler review, go watch it. It's on Amazon and it's directed by Pa Ranjith. Ranjith. Yeah. Starring. Arya. And a big, great ensemble cast. It's an ensemble cast. So there's a whole bunch of other people that will talk about all of them in depth. But Rick, your first initial non-spoiler. Well, went into this with equally high expectations as we did with Tufan. Yeah. And started off the Tufan review by saying, you can't judge a film by its trailer and that was true for Tufan. But I am very happy to say that this. You hated it? This. Why do you hate Tamil films? But yeah, exactly. This met my expectations. I really enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun. I have one little thing about it that kept me from just jumping up and down, loving it. I'd watch it again in a heartbeat. I have nothing but mostly really good things to say about it. So thumbs up. Thank you for living up to the expectations. I really enjoyed it as well. I think this is a very, very entertaining film. Very entertaining. They did it right in terms of, you know, even though there are parts that I'll get into that, especially towards the end that might have been a little more predictable. Yeah, we'll get into full breakdown in this quarter. But not like Tufan. Tufan just, you know, I don't want to bring up Tufan every two seconds, but obviously it came out a week ago and it was a boxing film. Right. Can't help it. But compare. It's hard, but yeah. But pretty much, pretty much were everywhere that Tufan missed. Yeah, this time it succeeded. Correct. So we'll go over everything here. There were some stuff that I didn't love and we'll go over that. But overall, really good film. Definitely worth a watch. So if you haven't watched it already, go watch it, but we're gonna give you a little non-spoiler review here. I thought everybody, I loved Aria, I loved his transformation. So did I. He did, you could tell. He worked a long time on his body for this and it showed. Yeah, and the believability factor is just for the most part, across the board. I believed everybody in this thing. Oh yeah. I believed all the relationships. I believed what I was seeing. I believed these people were a clan. I believed what we were seeing as far as the era. And this is one of those things where like, like most sports films, you recognize that dude didn't get looking like that doing that exercise routine. And it's okay, you understand. They go to extraordinary lengths with the top. And it's like when you watch Rocky III, Stallone didn't get that size doing those workouts. It's called Roy's. And yeah, for Stallone, for Stallone it was without question roiding. So anyway, yeah, I loved him in it. I thought he was really good, believable throughout. I rooted for him. I cared about him. I cared about him and his wife. Yeah. And again, I'm not spoiling anything yet. I also, my next couple favorites, and I don't have, do you have any characters that you didn't like? The mom. Oh, I had a feeling you might not like that. I didn't like her. Come on. Do you mean to tell, okay, I got to get into, there's a spoiler thing I want to get into in a second about the mom. It wasn't really her acting. It was the way she was written. I feel like she wasn't written well enough. Okay, okay. We'll get into that in the spoiler section. Now, I, my next favorite, and I think it's because of a lot of reasons, not the least of which being, I didn't feel the connection and believability with the coach in Tufan. The coach was greatness. Absolutely loved him, believed him. He's a great actor. I liked him a lot. Really, every time he was on screen, I was riveted to his presence. Yeah, the wife as well. He was exactly what you need in the role of the coach. You need a guy that's gonna carry that sense of leadership, that sense of you look up to the guy who's believable, who when he's talking and he's rooting, I also want to applaud. There was both a shout out to boxing films on the way it was shot and there was a lot of new stuff. They didn't take any easy out shots. There was a lot of stuff they could do that was really easily screwed up if the actors didn't do it right. I think the whole stunt team and the cinematography team did a great job. Symptographer's great. I love the score. I thought the score was really nice. Excellent. We'll go over this in the spoilers, but I just want to kind of wrap it up here. I thought it was a very good film, definitely worth a watch. Please go watch this film. I don't say my favorite Tamil film a long time, but definitely my favorite new Tamil film that we've seen on a lot of times. Obviously we've seen really good Tamil films recently, but they might have been older. Right. The newer stuff, this is 100% by far one of my favorite ones. Absolutely. Especially even this year. I don't know that I'd put it above like Great Indian Kitchen in terms of a better piece of cinema than like that, but I put in the conversation in the top 10 currently of the best films that come out this year. I agree. It's down. If someone said to me, which of those two movies should I watch? I'd say, okay, here's the deal. Depends on what you're into. Yeah, Great Indian Kitchen's gonna give you Film Festival Oscar vibes. Yeah, this is gonna give you entertainment. This is gonna give you just pure entertainment and you're gonna feel and you're gonna be rooting for the heroes. But not to say that this didn't give you like high level acting, high level artistry. Exactly. If I'm comparing what comes out this year. Right, right, right. I could even sneak into the top five. It's just, I haven't thought about it. Me too. But it is. It's one of my favorite ones and one of my favorite Tamil recents. And the only thing, and this isn't giving anything away, if you were to split this into four acts and you have an intermission, right? So you have the first two acts in the first half. Great. And acts three and four here, right? It's gonna slow down in the second half. Acts one and two are pretty much perfect. Yeah. It is, I was thinking, oh my goodness, this is gonna be a knock it out of the park, right? It's act three, where things kind of got off the rails a little bit and then it came back into itself in an effort. I agree. I totally agree. Second half wasn't as strong. It wasn't bad. Thankfully it ended. Yeah, on a high note. It caught, there was a point, I remember thinking, ah, there's what I was feeling in the first half. Yeah. It kind of came back. But yeah, that would be the biggest gripe is that the second half didn't live up to the first half. But not in terms of it was bad. It just wasn't, I give it like, if you're given the first half of 10, you're given the second half of seven. Exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah. And I was gonna say you'd give, and that would average out. You'd give like act four and eight and you'd give act three a six. It's definitely that act three segment for about a half hour, you're like, oh no, no, don't lose it. Don't lose it. 100%. So like I said, if you haven't seen it, go watch it, please. And then come back because we're gonna get into spoilers here. Time to get spoiled. Naughty. Oh my baby. So let's talk about the acting. I liked Aria a lot. We actually saw a song of his with, Sorry, you said Aria and all I could think about was Game of Thrones. I think it's Aria. With the girl from I, what was her name? Yeah, his wife? No, the song we saw just the other day that we raving about cinematography. Oh, oh, and yes. What's her name from I? Right. Anyways, but he was in that. I don't know if it'll be on the channel because it got blocked. So it's on Patreon. But I would like to see more of him because I thought he did a very good job. I believed one his transformation. I believed, I liked his innocence about it. It was different obviously than obviously what we had in Two Fun was this big tough guy. You kind of like, okay, he's gonna become a boxer and then he's like, well, they kind of kept you like guessing for a long while of when is he gonna be the boxer? They kept choosing different people and I'm like, I know he's gonna eventually box. And it was very believable. Yeah. Very believable. But I liked that, especially in the first half. There was a lot of very unpredictableness in the first half that I really appreciated. And I thought he put on a great performance obviously not only boxing, but even when he wasn't boxing kind of the most vulnerable side. And then you kind of turned it on when he got in the rink and became like this bowl almost. Yeah, I love that about him. He was definitely a sweetheart inside. I guess, and they're very, very different characters but that's one of the endearing qualities about Rocky is that Rocky, he's a collector on the docks and he's a washed up South Paw who gets this weird random shot at the title that he at first doesn't even think he can have. And then as you get to know him, his relationship with Adrian and Pauly, there's this really tender moment of the night before he had like Pauly. You got it. And there's this moment, the night before the fight where he's laying in bed with Adrian. And he's like, and he just admits he's scared. And you realize this is just a good guy, very different character, but I felt that same type of appeal. This is just a good guy. I loved his relationship with his wife. Loved it. Loved her. And when I griped with the film, I thought she was underutilized a little bit, especially in the second half. She was really wonderful and their relationship was wonderful. When she came on, right, she's beautiful, but the first moment that I was like, yes, was right after the wedding, she got up and danced because she wasn't allowed to dance there in the wedding. I loved that scene. And then obviously when she confronted him, not, it was before the drinking. Yeah. But when, about his life being just about boxing. Just about boxing. Right. Right. Love that scene. She did a great job. I loved their chemistry. I loved that she was a strong woman. She was like, I don't need anything from you. I need to acknowledge me. Right. I'm your wife. Yeah. You're behaving poorly. Yes. So I thought that was great. I thought in the second half, she was underutilized in terms of just, She almost became the mom of her for a while, just crying and I get, I get why. Don't, I'm not saying I don't understand why she was doing that. I just wish it was written differently. Like, so she's like, just, she wasn't just whining in the second half. Yeah. I think what they were trying to do in the writing, and I get it, is they wanted to show he hadn't really changed and gotten worse than what his mom had foretold was gonna happen, happened. And so now what the mom saw, the wife is seeing. I get it. I wish it was written differently. I agree. I would have preferred that. But I loved her character. Their chemistry was fantastic. It really was. And then, like I said in the beginning, the coach. Oh. I don't think we've seen anything. If we have, forgive us. And I know there's, I know for all of you, the millions, these actors are very well known. A lot of the cast have been around a long, long time. So forgive us for just being introduced to people that I'm sure one day we'll look back and go, remember when we didn't know who they were. Yeah. I'm sure he's one of them. He was perfect. Yeah. He was great. He's very subtle in his, but he's also brings a weight to his presence. And he also didn't try to be, Mick either. Cause that's always the struggle for me when like, if you're in a boxing, obviously it's going to be compared to Rocky or Raging Bull, right? Right. And then if you bring in a coach, kind of like, two fun day, even though I enjoyed the coach and two fun, but like it was, you can, if you're, if you have a boxing film, and then you have a coach who's this rough and tumble kind of guy. It's like, okay, now you're trying to be Mick. Right. I didn't feel like that at all. Not at all. He was a hundred percent his own character. And he was great. Yes he was. I'm sad when he was in the jail. Another character I absolutely freaking adored was Rose. Yeah. Let's talk about that scene. That was probably the best fight in the whole thing. And I loved his fricking shenanigans. Yeah. His dancing is hip thrusting. I laughed out loud several times. One of my favorite things about the film because that's not realistic, but I loved it. Yeah. It may have been, the other thing I love about the film is we're getting some history into the world of boxing and a place in the world where we're not familiar with it. That's a true story. This is based on true events. Yeah. In this part of the world, in the 1980s, and I didn't know there were clans. Was Rose real? Yeah. I believe this was a real character. Well that's crazy. Who may have been a kind of circusy character. But I never, if that's true, then great, you can let us know in the comments. But I loved it because I was like, this is so interesting. I've never seen this before. So great. I was almost running a dodge ball and like he was doing this. I was like, it's a bold strategy cotton. Let's see if it pays off. It is so good. But at the same time, he wasn't just dorky Joe. He was a believable boxer. And that fight scene was probably my favorite in the whole film. I agree. Even though there was quite a few. They were all good. Which is something once again, that this did much better than two fun ones. Had great fight scenes. Also at the end, one of the best parts of the end, it was a great training montage. Great training. I don't feel like we didn't get a great training montage in two fun. No, you know what the difference was? Again, it felt like, okay. So the training montage, they were always this way, but especially in Rocky Four. The Rocky Four montage wasn't for practicality of training. It was so that you could see what Stallone's doing next. And Stallone could show off what he's doing next. Then as a kid, I was like, oh, okay, I'm going to try that. Oh, wow, that's crazy. I felt that with two fun. I felt this was far more rooted and grounded in what they probably did. I bet they did dig in the dirt. I bet they did carry logs. And I like that it was not only him training, but it was his rival, who I thought did a great job. He was excellent. I liked his character a lot. So did I. I liked his character a lot. I believed all of the relationships with Tina and everybody. I know there's several things we probably missed. One of them was probably genius cultural references that we'd missed because we're not familiar with the culture. Little things. I know somebody sent me a shot, a screenshot of when he said I made you your favorite beef briani. And I know that there was some significance to that. That would be over our head. As well as the political undertones of what was going on that day and age. When that government was just kind of... Yeah, now for our vantage point, it was okay, that's what's going on. I get it. We know enough about India to know that government, things of that nature, corruption, can get in the way of all kinds of daily life. But I'm sure there's a ton we missed. For what it's worth, I didn't feel lost. No, not at all. At all. I feel like that's one of the strengths of this film as well is that even though it's two hours, 50 minutes, right? It's a three hour movie. It's a three hour film. Outside of that third act, it does, you don't feel it. You're engaged. The entire time. And you care about these characters. And you want to see what's, especially like the first, almost an hour, he doesn't, you don't see the guy boxing at all. Right. You see other people boxing. Right. And that's what I was like. And you're learning about him. Yep. Learning about his character. You're learning about this whole culture as opposed to just, this is our hero. Now he's going to box. Right. It was kind of almost organic. And how it came about. It was. And I genuinely had a sense of, I think he's going to win, but this movie could make him lose. And I liked it. I knew Farhan was going to win. Yeah. I would have bet everything I can on. I never doubted that for me. I never doubted for a second that he was going to win in this. I had a moment of, he might lose. And that was good to have that moment. Yeah. You know? I, the mom. No, yeah, no. I already said my piece about the mom. I feel like, just like in the third act when the wife became just like, she was crying all the time. That's what the mom was the entire time for me. So I was like, I don't care about you. I don't, I don't feel the connection between you and your son. You're just yelling and crying the whole time. And I get it. It's a cultural thing, but I just wish it was written better. You see, okay. I, here's when I knew I liked the mom. I didn't like mom. He gets in the fight. I don't remember what time it happened. And they immediately clipped to her beating the crap out of him with her broom. Yeah. I laughed out loud. I thought that was phenomenally funny because at that point, that's all she's doing. And anything he does, her response, she's the one person slapping and yelling, slapping and yelling. So after this climactic fighting thing, you're right. Wow. I wonder how mom's going to respond. Well, you don't even get a lead in. You don't even get to watch him walking up to the house. They just cut and he's in the middle of being beaten by mom. And I, I fell and I just, it's just difference of the way. I don't think you're wrong is what I'm saying. It's just for me, it didn't bother me that she was like that. I didn't feel like she was empty and hollow. I felt like it was born from her fears about what happened to her husband and her hopes for her kid. And then she kind of backed off and said, great, you're marrying now. Let's see what your wife thinks about it. She's going to realize the same thing about me. The thing I would have liked to have seen more, I guess better written and it's in the third act. She made for me too quick of a transition from all of her life being against it to supporting him. I think it could have been, I think it's believable to get her to the place of saying, I'm for you now. Cause that happens to Adrian and Rocky too. Adrian doesn't want him fighting, but she makes that transition and it's believable. I felt like that transition for her happened too quick. Yeah, I do too. I totally agree. But that's a small complaint. Very small complaint. And then at the end, it is just a little, little predictable. But I liked the end. Like it's a boxing film. I knew the hero's going to win. It's not a lot of boxing. I was expecting it. You can't really fault it for that. If it's a boxing film and your main hero doesn't win, that I've not seen that film. I don't believe on that warrior. Well, it's Rocky. Oh yeah, I guess. Sorry for the spoiler, but it's been out since 1976. So in the first Rocky, he doesn't win. Yeah. He just goes the distance and that's all he wanted to do. But for the most part, this was not predictable. And I did. Oh, there was another thing. I guess it's not about the film unless they did it. The censorship. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up. I would have loved it if they would have given Arya that moment after he's been stripped of his pants. And so you literally see him there naked. It took, it takes away from the point of them actually doing that on screen. It's like Kesa. Yeah, just like Kesa. The exact same thing happened to me. I saw it and I'm like, it's a butt. It's a human butt, guys. Yeah, you didn't even have to show his genitals. Literally his butt. We all have them. I was gonna start writing a lot about it, but I didn't want to. I wanted to stay focused on the film. I'm sure it's not about the film. I'm sure it's the censorship thing. But this is part of the problem, aside from the fact that you've heard us say this about Arya. One of the reasons so many people have sexual hang-ups and many of those hang-ups become sexual perversions where people act out because of it is this weird voodooing of the human body and the actual act of sexual expression. And it's that kind of thing that it, what it does is that's why in America we have a rating system. You know you're gonna get nudity if it's at a PG-13 or above. And if it's a rated R, you might see frontal nudity. It'll tell you. And it'll let you know in the rating. It'll say it's this rating because. So if you don't want to see that. If you don't want to see it, you don't have to. But nothing in real life, I've never had this happen in real life. I've never been like walking on the beach and I look to my left and there's a guy bending over to pick up his towel in his shorts or halfway down his ass. It's never kind of like blurred out on me while I'm looking at it. So the believability factor suddenly goes, I'm involved in this really important moment. And it takes away from the actor's vulnerability in that moment. Completely. Because you shouldn't even have it in there if you're just gonna do that. Exactly. Just like in, what's it called? The one that you mentioned. Kesa. Kesa. Yeah. With Irfan and Tillo Tamar. Full top off in front of. Like I said, it's not about the films. I don't want to run it too much. The censorship board, you know, our feelings on it. It's just, it, it, it, it. I'm glad you mentioned that. Because I wanted to bring that up. But overall the film I thought was really, really good. I was so happy that it lived up to that for us. Cause obviously there's some times that you'll love films and we just, we don't like it. We don't get it. Right. And then you guys think we suck. Right. We have preferences based on something other than the artistry. That's your prerogative, whatever. But it's always great when you obviously, I hate watching films that are bent. Exactly. And for me, there's a level of, you know, if I adore a film, it goes on my all time greatest list. So this doesn't go on my all time favorites. But this does go into the list of films that I want other people to watch with me. Probably on your all time favorite tamo. Oh, that's for sure. Yeah. That's for sure. But like I'm showing my mom a lot of Indian films for her to get introduced to Indian cinema. And she loves combat sports. Loves watches it every night. All forms of it. And I watched Warrior with her, not an Indian film, but I want her to see that film. And I want her to see Dongle. I want her to see this. Especially since this would, she's now ready, I feel like the branch away from the stuff. She's getting introduced like we did. She's only seen some of the Hindi things. Now I want her to get into some of the other regional things. And I think she'd love this, especially when I let her know, hey, it's gonna be three hours, third act, it's gonna feel a little wonky, it'll get back. That's all she needs to know. Yeah, yep. But a really good film. Let us know what you thought about it. What should we be the next of any of these actors of their films that we should watch? And what should be the next tamo? I think we mentioned it. I love the score. Yeah, we did at the beginning. I thought the score was really, really good. They kept bringing back the main theme of the kind of the beginning part, the kind of used training. Throughout, I liked all of that. I just, I know people get upset when we don't make this. And the whole production design from hair and makeup to what no continuity problems on boxing makeup, which can bother me. And it didn't, costuming sets, making it feel like we were in this part of the world in the 1980s, I felt was excellent and top notch. And this is one of my favorite, top favorite films down all the time for me. Absolutely. So let us know what you thought about it. What should be the next tamo film that we watch? Down below.