 Mm-hmm Comedy gold Okay, welcome back to Art of Chief of Direction Ed's Cor�면 we learned it all At the improv Follow us on Instagram Yeah get bell icon things. Subscribe. Speaking of overflowing bosoms, my daughter's a cow. And she'd be the first one to tell you that. It's not an insult, guys. She just has her second child and the amount of milk she's producing. Nope, so just don't ever call your actual child a cow. No, unless she's been calling herself that. I would do that right. No, no, no. She would readily be laughing watching this herself at home. Hi Ashley. Anyways, we're doing a movie review. Or in Ashley's case, yep, she's pumping kids. Oh my word. Anyways, we watched the 2015 Hindi film, Waiting. Not to be confused with the Ryan Gosling film, Waiting. She's actually a hilarious movie if you've ever been a waiter. It's actually quite funny. Which is about, no, I have not seen it. I've not seen it. It's like an old school early 2000s comedy, Ryan Reynolds. But it's all about, he's a waiter, and it's all about the waiting life, the relationship with their line cooks. Right. Oh, that was very funny. Yeah, if you've been a waiter, you're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. Anyways, but yeah, so it's not that film. This is a film that we saw the trailer to and it took me forever to find it. Yes. Finally found it. I was very, very happy we were able to find it. Because we were like, I think if I'm not mistaken, when I saw the trailer, it ended and I said, I'm in. Yeah. It's directed by Anu Menon. Menon. And then co-written by Anu Menon. It's starring two names. Well, at least the one, Kalki Keklin, this other guy. This other guy. Siridan Shah. He got a future. He got a late start in this. He's got a future. Let me tell you, he got a late start, but he might make a name for himself. Yeah. And there's also, well, also, yeah, we, there's two people, Roger Kapoor. Yes. Who we've seen several times and have always liked and Arjun Mathura, who we most recently saw on Made in Heaven. That's right. Okay. Sorry. I thought, I thought he was here for a second. I was like, why doesn't he have a picture on IMDb? Oh, yeah. Anyways, but there's 100 pence forward review if you haven't watched it. It's a, I don't know where you can watch it. Yeah, I don't know. No clue. It might be more readily available in India than it is here in America. But anyways, it's 100 pence forward review. If you haven't watched it, go watch it. And Rick, your initial come on back, please. 17th of the year, 224th all time, 139th Hindi set. Is that in your thing? No, I just, no. So what do you get when you combine two extremely talented actors, long scenes of well-crafted dialogue, given circumstances that are deeply human, convincingly believable, universally relatable, empathetically heartbreaking, yet also soul-inspiring, you get waiting. We'd been waiting a long time to see this one ever since we saw the trailer, as we just said, which we loved and were really excited about when we saw it, solely because the film wasn't easily available to us here in the US. And thankfully, we finally saw this feature length film that feels more like a short film. And yes, pun intended, waiting was worth the wait. So I'm in. Yeah, fully. Yeah, absolutely. I really enjoyed this film. Now, the really the only gripes I have is that I actually wish it was longer. It would have been nice to be with them a little longer. Yeah, I think at times it might have felt like I think a two hour film might have been perfect. We might have been hour 45 even might have been able to sit in some scenes a little longer might have been able to maybe do stuff. It's been really fun. I love the film. I thought the film is absolutely fantastic. But if I'm if I'm going for a gripe, I wish actually this film was longer, which is great for a great thing. It's like you're like you want you want this film to be actually longer because normally it's like they probably could have cut some some fat off here. Yeah, I feel like they could have put some fat on this thing. Yeah, it's like a short film. Yeah, yeah, it did. But anyways, yeah, so let's just get into it. Let's talk about our future toast. And this one day, one day, sir, you have your and you have to dress like this. Just like that for the interview in person, please. We'll join you. We'll do it together. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, I will absolutely. That would be amazing. If you did that, we'd join you. He's like, no, no, I'm never doing that. Anyway, he, man, he's it's it's hard to put into words how good he is because he is that good. Yeah. It's it's like when you see any legend who's just amazing at their craft. He's as good as it gets. It's like when you're talking about who's that you just care who's saying exactly. I don't know what to say here. Right. Because you're I I can't critique you because you're so like there's nothing to critique. Right. And so I'm just usually when I'm watching, I'm just in awe of how good he is. It's like when you watch the movie, the two popes, yeah, you're watching Jonathan Price and Sir Anthony Hopkins. And when it's over, and you want to talk about the acting, you're like, it's the best it can get. Yeah, acting can't get any better than that. What do you want me to say? And that's that's really pretty much every time we watch the man from the first time we saw him in the Debra film with that colky in that thumb as well. I want to see that reaction again. We talk about it a lot and our response to who was that guy? That guy's clearly a thespian because you can tell if you're an actor, you know actors, you can tell instantly if they're good at what they do. And I think it's training. I think it's so funny. It would be like it would be like somebody who didn't know somewhere else seeing Sir Anthony Hopkins in something and saying, who was the guy who had that little scene because that guy is really good. That's exactly what it is. Yeah, he all of his scenes were just so good. He brings such an honesty and such a such a believability to everything he does from the little Debra dad that he was to the little dad in the Depeca film that we just watched to Wednesday to literally anything we've seen him in. He can do it. He can carry a film. He can partner in the carrying and he can play a small part and he will always do them all. Exactly the way it needs to be done. Yes. The Mutt and Rogan Josh. Well, we've seen two. That was when he was at the dinner table, right? Yeah, I'm talking about the one where he and that girl in the restaurant. Another great one. Yeah, everything he does is so good. So like it's hard to say enough good things because I want to but none of them are just like when you're talking about who's not just a carestain or are the great artists at art dancing or whatever. There's nothing you can say it can be worthy of what you've just witnessed. Yeah, it's really the only thing you can say is that there's he's as good as they get. Yeah, he really is as good as they get and it's so amazing to watch him and Kalki in this film because obviously she's an amazing actress in her own right but obviously she's holding her own with and wait, I had no doubt that she had no doubt obviously with Sir Niserdan Shah but she did an amazing, amazing, my favorite scene, I don't know if it's your favorite scene was the one at the car when they finally, when they started yelling at each other and we'll get into the writing and why I love the writing so much in this but I thought because you believed both of them and you could see their both perspectives from this and I thought both of them were playing it very honestly. Very honestly. Yeah, I thought they were playing it very honestly. I felt like the fighting they had with each other was extremely justified which is a credit to the writing and whatever improv was going on with the writing. I think the resolution to some of their conflict was very believable. It was exactly what the trailer advertised. The trailer made you feel like what you were going to get was a really wonderful relationship film that's going to focus on dialogue and scenes with these two people going through a really hard thing and they're going to have a level of bonding that happens going through a shared sorrow and that's exactly what this gave you. I thought every moment was great and it's a it really is a credit and said this about some films. This is not happy subject matter. This could be a turn off to a lot of people if you talk about the fact that hey you want to sit through a movie that has to do with two people watching their most precious loved one going through a traumatic health thing that's going to probably result in their death. Yay! Fun times! But what's so great about it is their struggles were very human. They both had different struggles even though they were going through the same thing. When they both said you can't relate to what I'm going through, they were both right. So it's just a lot of fun. I could watch it again right now just for watching Kulki and Nasserid and work together. Absolutely and the writing in this was so good from on every level I feel like because one it was funny, it was nice, it was relatable, it was sad, it was intense, made you angry, but I can see the perspective of every single person which is just good writing. It's not one person is a good guy, one person is a bad guy and you're like okay they're just writing it because right to be the but you fully fleshed out characters when they were having the argument I was like I see Nasseridun's point. Fully fleshed out characters. I see Kulki's point here. I also loved what they did with Rudgett, his character. The fact that so and it's not really unfortunate that's how doctors have to be like the fact that they're he was like you gotta kind of put on you have to be nice and firm and you have to let them know what you're doing but obviously in the next when he leaves he's talking about what he's having for dinner because this is his job right and they're they're desensitized that's that's not a bad thing it's there you they kind of have to kind of have to be a police officer yes anybody who's in the crazy line of work where they see a lot of death unfortunately you just kind of have to be that way and I love that they wrote that in as opposed to just having a doctor who's like oh I care so much when they probably don't yeah I mean they don't want your person to die but this is just a job as well and there may have someone could have a complaint I don't someone could have a complaint that maybe the story was a bit simple in terms of what really goes down in the medical world like if we were to make a movie about this in American medicine right we could really go into some details about how jacked our medical world is here but there were some questions ahead but they covered what was more universally true yeah because I think pretty much everywhere in the world you're going to have a lot of these exact same issues and I feel like had they had gone into some of the more political kinds of aspects of it I think it was wise not to yeah it was more just about nissar and her relationship yeah and and touched on it enough to let you know yeah this is there and this is a real problem I was curious how the doctor could just do what he wants when the person who's in because obviously in America that if colky said I don't want to have it even if he did not agree obviously he couldn't do it because him and the hospital have been sued out the acid right obviously the hospital would take over the doctor and be like you can't do it if she says no right so that's can he do that in India well unless that's the that's one of the questions I had I was like because obviously you know that couldn't happen here well it couldn't unless the person doesn't have a specific like if they don't have an NDR for example which is a do not a DNR do not do not resuscitate if they don't have anything particularly legally verbalized oftentimes it is up to the doctor to make a decision about something and the family doesn't have a say in it because there's nothing legally and that does result in lawsuits and some of them go either way depending on circumstances usually they go in the way of not getting sued yeah just because insurance for hospitals exactly I didn't know that anyway but I I liked it because it was a nice conflict that scene where she came in and had the friend and and uh Rajat who's always a fantastic I feel like they always wanted to play an asshole though yeah but he's always he's always looks great as he can do that but not he doesn't it's credit to the writing and the things that he does but it's a credit to him and that he doesn't make these stick figure caricatures of being the you know he wasn't just the antagonist in this and what I loved was we mentioned this earlier they both have similarities colky and nissier but they also have differences and I loved that the conflict that uh Rajat the doctor what he had it's interesting because his character name is the same his real name is the same as the character name of her husband Rajat but he has a fight with both of them for different reasons and I love that I thought that was really intriguing yeah it was the writing on this was so good and like I said I just I feel like they could have expanded a little bit because obviously it was funny at times when colky thought he was cheating on her and then he turns out it was just this park guy I love that I was like well take me clearly they could still be sleep good but then uh the whole realization of when nissier did job admitting that got me emotional something that had he the mistake he made 30 years ago 30 years ago um and and wanting to tell her and then and that was what was what made that so emotional is because first of all that he's doing it period that he's been carrying that but what it meant in the moment because it was great that they did it when they did because what it tells you is that's part of the reason he needed her to stay was because he couldn't let her go without her knowing the truth and that was one of the main reasons among others that he was saying she's got to be alive so not only is it sad that he was saying that for the reality of it but it was also him acknowledging the fact that as much as I've been fighting you're probably going to go and I got to say this now and this was one of the reasons I needed you not to go yeah it was really so blue because of my uh my wife's her uh dad's parents uh been together since they were 16 they're now I think in their low 80s been together a long time um and she's been on to Alice for a long long time and she's just had a heart attack and all that kind of stuff and so she's been ready to go right she's not on she's not like on best right and stuff like that but she's she's been like like wouldn't she ever she was asked for Christmas this huge like what do you want she's like I want to go to heaven yeah so but obviously he he's not ready to lose his best friend right and all that kind of stuff is so heartbreaking yeah obviously you you understand him I was like I don't want to lose my best friend obviously I don't I don't want to live this world alone without you right and you understand her I wouldn't want to live on dialysis three times a week exactly it's absolutely terrible things I thought I was very believable what they what they did mess with Nazarene obviously he was playing it so truthfully and his wife was so good dead on the dead on the bed yeah well and the other both of them for though their roles were small I really believed when we got to see these flashback moments of them with their spouses I really believe these were marriages that were happy wonderful marriages and the primary thing that they had in their mind and I really appreciated as well the sweetness of the bonding between Nasirudin and Kalki that allowed them these moments of respite that in the house when they were dancing and drinking yeah and lay and and even little moments like little moments like this like getting to know each other and how in the waiting the the blessing of them getting to know each other just something as simple as she's when she said to him like uh shiv you said fuck look at you and the jokes about twitter yeah and uh and how sometimes they were both right sometimes they were both wrong and just the the the beauty of their shared and waiting is a perfect title yeah for this for this film the fact that she was ready to give up because she knew her young husband who they just they hadn't been together as long obviously as these other people right but she also knew that he wouldn't want to live as a vegetable right um which once again is totally understandable yeah I wouldn't want to live that way right so it's it's wonderful when you have writing that you believe every single angle that people are coming from yeah even and and then the conflicts that they've come this guy's been with his wife for 40 years and he's like why would you want to give that up yep why would you want to give this relationship up you didn't you don't love them you just go kill them you don't love them and then you also understand gulky he's like he wouldn't want to live this way I know he wouldn't want to live this way yeah and it's it was just absolutely wonderful to watch yeah um like I said the only gripe if you can call it I could have stayed in this world longer and I could they could have gone a little even deeper into the pool but it's not a yeah it's really it's I think it's an A plus film I think I did too and it's really wonderful that the score of Mikey McLeary is the one who did the score for it who's done quite a few scores including gully boy thank you very much oh did he really I didn't even realize it till it looked it up nice but this is one of those films where you don't even notice the score yeah and that's wonderful this is the kind of film that needs that it needs that this film could have been ruined with melodramatic scoring we've seen it before ruined but it had the opposite it had the kind of score that you don't even notice and then when it's over you realize wow the score just added to the ambiance and didn't detract in any way and there were a lot of moments of absolute silence just quiet um which needed I also thought her friend who came to support her did a lovely job I really believe their friendship I really believed the things that she was dealing with I loved it I also loved the they allowed you to watch the journey they were taking especially Kalki's character spiritually without it becoming preachy or pontificating in any way like when she shows up to the temple and the guy is there and he's so happy she's there and said he's been praying for her but for her it was like yeah she's she was there for her moment and he did well too he did a great job and then when she told her friend she was chanting and her friend was like you are there was a genuine happiness born out of her personal experience for it so every again fully fleshed out people I also like the attention to detail they had given a lot of things like uh when she went to the the hotel room for the first time after everything and she got his bag oh my goodness and Steph was like put on the put on the shirt smelly shirt and his first then the first thing you smell and then she put it on when she that's my wife was like that's exactly what I would have done exactly and it made me wonder as well because I in a moment like that I would probably not that anyone would have to but me just as an actor I would ask for yeah a shirt of andranis probably just so that I could myself because it would trigger me smell is such a powerful emotion um and it is exactly what someone would do and it was that again is a testament to the writing of these very human believable people going through real circumstances in and you haven't seen afterlife but that's one of the most wonderful things about afterlife and the tweets that rickie dravese is getting someone just straight up tweeted him and said I didn't take my life because I watched afterlife and many messages of I just lost my mom I just lost my dad I just lost a child and afterlife came into my world and it made me appreciate and accept what's going on and move forward and this I think this is the same kind of a film that that anyone who's gone through this kind of experience or is going through it would feel it would help them not feel so alone and another moment um in terms of continuity that I liked for the writing when colky was in his place and went to the bathroom obviously was undone there was no hand towel because I didn't guys guys don't think about that stuff yeah I didn't notice that they don't pick up on that they don't put out hand towels for people to why that's a good pick up on a woman thing to think about yeah because they're just like you wipe your hands on my on the towel I absolutely I don't you always see these things coming but when she passed out in the bathroom I went oh crap what and then when she woke up I went ah nice nice did you know that was a dream yeah of course you didn't know can't pull a Corbin well it and then it kind of almost went immediately to Arjun was there and so I was like yeah I kind of knew it was a dream of course immediately um but yeah fantastic film yeah absolutely fantastic so hats off to everybody for Anu for for directing obviously Nisair and and uh are those cokey uh I don't know if you yeah anyways let us know what you thought about the film down below