 And our group, because we have a group chat with me and Andrani and Ashley, Alexis and Micah, and my cousin Melissa's in there too. So got, so makes me emotional. Got text messages from all the kids just now. Ashley started it off to the group chat. On this day, we legally got our brown mommy, Alexis. We love you, brown mommy and all caps. Happy anniversary. And then Micah, brown mommy's for the win. For those of you who don't know, they have affectionately coined that term for her, Andrani's brown mommy. I see so. You canceled. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our show, Direct So Corbin. I love you, Andrani. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thank you to everybody who supports us on Patreon. Follow us on Instagram, subscribe, like, button. Today we have a game. Yay! Sony made a force that's called Rate of the Director. So it's gonna try to get us in trouble. It's basically what it's gonna try to do. Okay. Okay. It's basically, Gonna show us. A director. And the next one, I think it's, Oh, it's just right here. Okay. You'll be shown directors from different generations and of different genre. You have to rate them to the end to decide who you consider the best in Indian cinema. Oh, great. There's no time to limit, take your time, because I know, so in other words, we'll get two faces. You pick one, it stays. Also, this is completely stupid. Because. Yeah, it is. You can't. There's different. Like, there's no way you could pick one. Well, I would do this for the sake of the game, but just know. Exactly. This is not actually true. I can't say Vishal Bhardwas is better than Anuragashyap is better than, Sanjali Libansali. Sanjali Libansali. Is better than Zoya Akhtar. Is better than S.S. Rajamuli, if this. Like, I can't do it. I will do it for the sake of the game. We'll do it for the sake of the game. This is all bullshit. Disclaimer, disclaimer, means nothing. Yes. No fact. Everything's made up and the points don't matter. Just, I need that preface. He says he's better than blah, blah, blah, blah. No, none of this makes any sense. No, just like you can't say, like, for the Oscars or something. It's all stupid. It's all a pain. Now, what we could do, because we get legalistic guys, we believe in absolutes. If you rate them based on their artistry, what everything Corbin said applies. However, you can say which is your favorite of the directors and the totality of the work that they've done. That's true. So, which the two of you exempled, I'd have a really, really hard time. Which one? Between Vishal and Anurag. Oh, yeah. That would be difficult for me. Well. In a million respects. All right, so, hold on, I'm just gonna... I mean, how do you compare, like... You can't. I could, someone says you have to choose between Gangs of Wasupra and Header. Header only gets the win for me, only because of how difficult it is to turn Shakespeare into something contemporary. All right, here we go. Ready? First one. But that's the only reason. Okay. Vikas Bahal, who did Super 30 and Queen. Okay. Or Farhan. As a director. This is obviously as a director. Dawn II, Lakshya, Dawn I. And the first one was Queen and what? Let me go back. Super 30? Then it'd be Vikas Bahal. I'm gonna go Vikas Bahal as a director. Me too. Even though I think Farhan is a fantastic director. Me too. But if you're comparing that, I'm thinking those films because we don't have their filmography just memorized in our head. So yeah, I agree. I'm gonna go him. I'm with you. So Vikas Bahal is who we have right now. Right. Lakash. It's Lakash. It's Lakash. It's Lakash. It's not even a question. Yeah. Sorry, Vikas Bahal. Yeah, but it's Lakash. Here we go. Ooh. Oh wow. I didn't expect the third one already to be. Okay, this is gonna go from favorites because you've just entered the realm of you can't say who's the better director. It's just gonna be who you have a preference for and the kinds of films that they do. We're just gonna do favorites. Let's do favorites based on types of films they do and you had to choose. You can watch these films for the rest of your life where you can't. No. He is better than... Who's better? Who's better? Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Spielberg. Who's better, Quinn Tarantino or Mark Twinship? Come on. It's just a preference and it depends on the year and it depends on the film. Exactly. For me, my personal favorite of the filmographies we've seen it would be Sujit for me. Sujit, okay. Yes. If I was saying these are the films for me that are elevative that I would wanna watch for their artistic excellence and move me and I think are important. We've seen a lot of Sujit. So I'm gonna go with Sujit as well for that reason because I could watch, even though I could watch the three Lokesh films that we... They're very entertaining. Very entertaining. Oh, yes, but I mean... I'm gonna go with... I mean, Piku and... The artistry of Sardar Uda. And there are others that I don't think are here that we've seen of his. Yeah, this is tough. Sujit Sarkar. Anya Agbasu. Ooh, yeah, he's good. He's really good. I love... I love Barfi as you know. But... Yeah, I'm gonna go with Sujit. I'm still sticking with Sujit. That's a tough one though. It is a tough one. Very good. M.T.Azali. Ooh. Rocks. Those are comparable right there. Yeah. I know a lot of Indians would definitely say M.T.Azali because he's one of... Especially millennials. I've gotta go. I've gotta stick to my gut just because of the things I disliked in Rockstar. All right, hey. I'm gonna go with Sujit as well, even though I love M.T.Azali. Me too. Megnagals are... Those are good, man. Razi and Talwar. I am too. I am too. Even though those are very good. Ramgopal Varma. Okay, Bhut. Rangila. We haven't seen company, by the way. So I don't know why that's there. Ooh. And there is a lot more that we've seen as well of Ramgopal Varma. I'm still... I got with Piku and Sardarodham and the others that still shoot it. For me. These are just the kinds of films that I most recommend, love, wanna watch over and over again. Taking nothing away from Ramgopal Varma. This is a difficult one to the... It's gonna be this way for the rest of the game. Ooh. It's gonna be this way. I'll go Sujit, but I don't like it. Me too. I don't like it. Yes, Shankar. Oh, nice. I'm still gonna go Sujit, but he's a lot of fun. Yeah. And there's a bunch we haven't seen of his as well. So maybe it'll change in the future because he makes really fun films. Here we go. Mid-soya. Yeah, mid-soya. Yeah. Hard to argue. As much as I love those other ones so, so much. Yeah, mid-soya. And that's gonna be a tough one to beat, too, in terms of favorites for sure. Envita Dutt. Oh, nice. That's a great choice. Also, I should know that name because she's a fantastic director for those two films. Kala, one of the best films of last year. Yep. Was your favorite. It was my favorite last year. Yeah, absolutely. Anna's a great choice. But it's not, once again, this is stupid and not fair because we've seen, I think, almost all of Zoya's film art. How am I not going Zoya here? We've seen almost all of... Well, we've seen so much of her work and we've also seen so much of her, we've seen the short film stuff that she's done. What? You sent me a tweet and said, "'Alu Arjun is only four awards away from an EGOT." The joke is that there's four awards in an EGOT. Sorry. That's funny. That's very funny. That's great. So are we? Yeah, we're four awards. Yeah, we're only four awards away from an EGOT. I'm still gonna go Zoya. Zoya, me too. Once again, this is stupid because we've seen her almost entire filmography. Thank you for including her because that is a worthy inclusion here. Yeah. Yash Chopra. That's harder for you. That is much harder for you. Yash Chopra, well. But you know what? It sucks. Oh my goodness, Virzara. I'm gonna have to stick with Zoya. I love Virzara. But I gotta stick with Zoya. Gonna have to stick with Zoya, unfortunately. Not unfortunately. I'm gonna have to stick with Zoya. Wait, what? Oh, that's right. Oh yeah, he's the guy that always records. He always works with Onyrog. Yeah, he's a great director. Great director. Even though all those are fantastic. Well, actually we haven't seen Joshi. Yeah, Joshi. But we've seen Udon, Trap. Sacred Games. Obviously the Sacred Games things. And there's others as well. Zoya's still. Yeah, if we're doing favorites, it's always gonna be very difficult to be. I'm waiting for the few that. Oh, Joast. Yeah, I'm gonna have to stick with Zoya. Me too. That's tough though. That's tough though. If it's OTT directors. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, if it's OTT directors, it's Roger D.K. Well, actually, Onyrog would be an OTT director as well. He would, but yeah, it's still Zoya. Yeah, it's gonna have to be Zoya. Sorry, Dost's Dost. Actually, they're South, right? Cause they're Telugu, is their main language, right? Oh, yeah. So maybe I'm not sure. So they don't know. Anyways, anyway. LJP. Oh, good lord. Um, I... Okay, if this was the hypothetical of who is artistically better, which is crazy to say about Zoya not being the artistically better director, I would say LJP. But since it's, if I'm doing favorites, what I can watch the most, her films are so rewatchable and so fun and so good, I'm gonna have to stick with Zoya. Even though, if this was the other way, if we're like, who is the Oscar worthy director out of these people, he would, he might be the best of them all. Who gets the tattoo on their back of film festival genius? Yeah, it's hard to question that. Yeah, who's gonna win all the film festivals, who's gonna win all the international awards and that we're like, however, Zoya has that capacity, she just hasn't done the kinds of films. I agree with you. If this is just favorites. I agree with you. Even though he is probably my top five favorites. It's really hard. I mean, especially for us, this OSR exists because of Zoya Octo technically, you know? It was the Gully Boy trailer and that film. But he is however you say a Dost in Malaya. Exactly, exactly. And a brilliant, one of the best filmmakers on the planet, 100%. Anywhere on earth. Oh, good Lord. Okay. I still go Zoya. Hold on. What do we got? Ramleela. Badmavad. Bajramastani. The Gungubai. Have we seen others? I have. I saw the Eshwarya and Salman one in the 90s. Right. What you would like parts and then you would hate parts. I, so, he is to filmmaking what Thomas Kincaid is to painting. The master of light. If you don't know Thomas Kincaid paintings, he was known as the painter of light. His paintings are extraordinary for the way they capture light. He has a particular genius and excellence in his production design and costume design and his historical epics. However, I think there is a broader, that we've seen. I see a broader scope of genre, style and storytelling. You just see more of Zoya. We just see more of Zoya. Yeah, that's true. Well, he'd know Black. He was Black. That's true. He was Black. That's right. We've entered the realms of. Here's the thing. I'm actually going Sanjay. I'm going Sanjay, even Sanjay because the film I've actually seen the most, I think repeatedly is Ramleela. I think I've seen Ramleela more times than any other Indian film. I have probably, I have seen more Sanjay Leela Bansali films than Zoya Oktar films. So, technically by the rules I've been going by. Let me think about this. I'm actually, I'm going Sanjay. Let me think about this. I'm sorry, Zoya, I love you. You would be very difficult to beat. Yeah, if someone said to me. I could watch all of his films. Yeah, if someone said to me, you can't watch, you know, it's their two films. You can't watch either one of those films ever again. What are you gonna do? To not have Bajirao Ramleela and Padma Vaat. No. I can't, I can't part with those films. So you're gonna, Sanjay as well? I, yeah, I kind of have to because I can't, I can't part with those films. I watch those. When I introduced Megan and Mikaela to Ranveer, we introduced them not through Gully Boy, we introduced them through Ramleela. Yeah, I'm going Sanjay. I'm going Sanjay as well. That's very sad. Sorry. Once again, stupid game. We love you. This makes no sense. I'm going Sanjay. Yeah. On your own. How many times have you rewatched his films? I'm gonna go maybe never. Yeah. Actually, the only one I have rewatched is because it was for the film club, is Ugly. No, but I promise you. Oh, I agree. It's, this is incredibly difficult. This is a dumb game. I don't play any more. This is a very dumb game. But I'm sticking with Sanjay because of the stupid role that I set up. But also, I don't think there's a, I mean, there's, no, the, I didn't love his Devdas adaption. No, not that I die. Devdi. Devdi, I didn't like that one. No, that's for the films we've seen, if that's our least favorite, I think, for sure. Unless I'm forgetting something. I find it interesting that you still, without hesitation, go to Sanjay Lila Bansali because of how many of his films fall in the wheelhouse of what you love, both in storytelling and in the characters you'd like to play. I know. And that's why I'm, I mean, are you forgetting Raghav? Rum or Raghav? Yeah. Well, that's why this game is so stupid. And Gangs of Wasp are one and two? If they sit, yeah. I mean, Gangs of Wasp is considered by many, including Martin Scorsese to be the best Indian film of all time. I'm trying not to just go with the answers that I think everybody knew we were gonna do anyway. I know. Everybody knows we love Anurag. He's a dosed. Exactly. We've yet to talk. You know what? He gets it just for that. So if you ever wanna play a game in the future where we choose Sanjay Lila Bansali, he needs to become a dosed. Leave that other dosed on the game already. I'm kidding. This is incredibly difficult. Cause once again, the film I've watched the most is Ram Lila of any film. But I love him as a director. I get, there's very little directors I get more excited about. I'm with you, I gotta be. The films I watch Sanjay's films more. I'm going Anurag. I've reconvinced myself. Cause I, yes, I've watched more, but I don't, I get so excited for Anurag Kashyap film because of what kind of director he is. He's both, in terms of LGP, in terms of he's at that artistic level. But also, I love his films just as favorites. Once again, I can't back that up with I've seen him multiple times. The only one I've seen multiple times is Ugly. And you know what else? You know what else? He's had breakfast with us. So we're going Anurag Kashyap. We're going Anurag now. God damn it. I'm still going to go with Anurag. No more not to in your life. I know, that's so sad. Because my favorite film of his is RRR. Without question. But I'm still with Anurag. And we've liked a bunch of his other films as well. But it's ridiculous. This is a dumb game. Designed to Ashutosh Gauraka. This is designed to- You didn't even tell me what he was in. So I'm gonna go Anurag. Yeah, thanks for that, Anurag. Come on, Hasan. As a director, I'm still going Anurag just because we've seen more Anurag stuff. Yep. Raj Kamar Harani. Ooh. I'm still going Anurag. So, three idiots. P.K. Shut up, by the way. Shut up. P.K. P. Shash. He did stars, right? And he did Munabai. How many times have you seen P.K.? You rewatched P.K.? It's, I adore. I've seen P.K. six, seven times. Three idiots. First film we've reviewed on the channel. Yeah. Fantastic film. Yeah. Munabai. Fantastic film. But it's like the watchability factor. Sanjay Leela Manzali's films have a higher level. There's more people I can show a Sanjay Leela Manzali film or a Raj Kamar Harani film than I can in Anurag film because of people's personal taste. Their films are more universal. And Anurag would be the first one to agree with you on that. But the artistic... But we're not doing that. I know. We're doing favorites. But also... I can't... It's a very dumb game. Because you... All of his films are rewatchable. It's the thought of having to get rid of those Amir Khan films. I can't, I can't part with those Amir Khan films. So you're going Raj Kamar Harani. Raj Kamar Harani. I cannot part with those Amir Khan films. Okay, I'm gonna stay Anurag. But it hurts me. And this is a dumb game and I hate it. Yep. The incarnation of Shakespeare. True. I do. His adaptations of Shakespeare are the best. And the header. You're going against what you just said from... I know. I know. But anybody who knows me, my favorite thing in the world of theater ever in the history of stage and screen is William Shakespeare's Hamlet. And my favorite screen adaptation of Hamlet is Header. I feel like you shouldn't have put Vishal or Anyurag in this. To make it more fun for everybody else. Because I feel like those were the obvious things. No, and now I'm actually... I'm actually feeling the emotions as if I can't watch those other films again. And I don't like this feeling. So you're going Vishal? I'm gonna stick with Anyurag. It's Vishal. Yeah. Dost. Long time Dost, by the way. Sweet, sweet man. Shekhar Kapoor. Bandit Queen, Mr. Indian, Assumptian. Vishal Bhardwesh. This is why you shouldn't have included Anyurag or Vishal. Mani Ratnam. That's just... Goodbye, everybody. Good night. See you tomorrow. I hate this game. Yep. This game is stupid. Stupid. And I don't want to play it. So I won't! I'm skipping this one! You know what it would be like? You know what it would be like now? You know where we are now? It'd be like somebody's someone showing you three pictures of your kids. Pick one. No. It's Sophie's choice. Pick one. It's Sophie's choice. I'm angry. I'm not playing. You've ruined my anniversary. Fuck you. So you pickin', you pickin' the guy you've called one of the greatest directors of all time? One of the fathers of Indian cinema? It's Satyajit Rai. You all know it. Go away. How could you do that to Vishal? Because you don't have Vishal. You don't have any of those other directors that have Satyajit Rai. You're going at this for your son in the beginning! I don't care. It's Satyajit Rai. I don't think you know the rules of the game. Oh, it does. Thank you, old man and bearded bastard. There are many more directors that I did not include either because the simple says the work is smaller. You won't see much of their work. Just a small suggestion. Also watch anime. You guys are missing out on one of the best forms of art. Start with Attack on Titan. You won't regret it. It's really, I'm sure you get it. The anime lovers just are, they are like pit bulls. They just won't let go. Oh yeah, they love anime. Yeah. It will happen someday. Hang in there. You should watch that. The Butterflies one? No, the, what about the? That's the one I heard a lot of back when I was doing just international film stuff with the kids. No, the Prince Ram one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot what it's called. Yeah, I forget. I watch it with Steph. This game made me feel bad about life. Thank you for making the game and I hated it. Made me feel bad about everything pretty much. Don't ever make it again. Yeah. And you're blocked. And I feel like now Vishal and Onyaraga are upset with us. No, I picked Onyaraga. So. Yeah, well. He still likes me, we'll have breakfast tomorrow. Don't ever make this game again and I hate you. Thank you for making it. Josh!