 Pig It's a Corbin. I'm Rick It is a Maratha film, I think Maratha six or seven probably around there probably I need to check our playlist in case you don't know I Have playlist of every movie we've ever watched in turn and I've narrowed them down to their language So all of the Marathi reviews are in one playlist Canada, Tamil, Hindi, which probably should be broken up into two, but it's not right But just so you know that but yes, Fangerie the 2013 I believe it says right here on IMDb. It's a about a teenager from a Oppressed cast I don't know how do you say that Dalit Dalit Untouchable family Who lives at a village? At the village fringe and falls in love with an upper-caste girl directed by say his name Nagraj Manju. We know him from Cyrock He directed that this was his directorial debut. He was also in the film. I don't know if you know that he's that guy I didn't realize that that yeah, he's that guy Wow The the the guy who kept playing game. Yeah, he was the another outcast essentially And then I think it's mostly starring a bunch of people who are Unknowns for the most part But yes, so this would be a hundred percent spoiler views just how we'd like to do it if you haven't watched it go watch it come back and Prepare to be spoiled. Yep, Rick your initial thoughts, please. I liked it nice It feels like a much newer film that it does an eight-year-old film It does it was made last year. Absolutely. It does So whatever he made it on whatever camera it's held up very well for that because we've seen films that were a couple like eight ten Years back. It's a much older. I had to feel like a 20 year old Yeah, this one felt like it was right out of the same wheelhouse. It had There's there's this grouping of films that have this I Don't know how to describe it other than There you'll know what I say when I put them all together parched Hela Rao This film and I guess the common denominator with them would be the village thing. What was the one we saw killer killer? Titi yeah, these are films that rock stars village rock stars that are centered on village life and but they also talk about Important issues in extremely subtle ways. They don't go Yeah, that's true. Sometimes they get big they have their they have their moments of bigness But on the whole pretty so it's subtle film pretty subtle subdued they and There was pretty much more to like than anything. I would recommend the film I would watch it again, and I thought there were some messages in there that are Messages we've seen before that need to keep getting repeated over and over again. Yeah, I liked this film a lot. I Think it's a very powerful film That in the powerful message that this this guy was trying to convey. Yeah in a lot of aspects obviously about cast but also Who's at fault? For that, right? I thought there was a lot of subliminal messages I agree about that that he made in this film and then also the ending which was it's a very hard to watch film Cuz like it's heartbreaking gets you mad it gets you mad It's it's heartbreaking the way that treated the way they treat themselves the way they treat other people And so it's it's one of those films. It's just so well done. It's a very important film I think for like everybody should see this film and I could see why I was highly recommended to us for a long time Yeah, one was high in the list, especially for Marathi for a long long long time And this one I feel even though Cider-op in terms of an overall film. I like more. It's just a more horrible film, right? This one is probably more powerful And also the message it's trying to send is I think more important Even though that one was a deep message as well and you know how I loved how that film ended I'm not gonna give anything away. Yeah, but yeah, I absolutely loved it from we can talk the main kid I think he's an unknown Just like when we watched village rock stars and that other one that she did as well. Yeah Dog on it It's a SMEs film. It's from Rima Doss I'm sorry. I can't remember but those kids with the kids and the boy and the mom that I love so much and the little gay boy Hey, he's he does a really good job Especially for being somebody who as I don't believe had much work. Yeah in the past So the director who is also a great character. I thought in this in this film Did a good job at getting the performances out of these these actors. We've seen I feel like that happens a lot more than it does the directorial debuts Have we seen any bad ones? Well, I guess the bad ones they wouldn't recommend to us I guess so. Yeah, but I mean we've we've seen some ones that have just been shocking how good they are Absolutely. This does not in any way feel like someone who hasn't directed before it feels like someone who has very good comfort level at every dimension with The partnership of the cinematography the way everything is framed and shot I thought the score was not only really pretty but really powerfully simple So many times it was Yes, and then moments where it really the score It's a really good example of a score keeping you in touch with the main characters emotional state Yeah, and when his it gets or interrupted the music got interrupted I thought that was very intelligent composition as well as direction to incorporate that in the film and in many times I remember there were times I was able to single it out and think wow That's really beautiful, and then there were other moments after the fact. I didn't recognize as it was happening the score I I just I realized that after the fact and thought that was brilliant They took me there emotionally without me even realizing it was the score that was helping me get there Yeah, I ultimately I have This is always the case teeny tiny little nitpicks of some of the smaller roles Yeah, at moments that are like come on. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna be so nitpicky that no you're not? Yeah, and now I'm gonna recommend the film there were there I had some of those issues too, but nothing that I think took away from the film anything But my favorite parts are a lot of the messages that it was trying to send obviously this family is from a a Untouchable family which obviously is an absurd concept in and of itself especially to a Western We are we like I understand what it is. Oh, yeah We know full well what the caste system is doesn't make it any less stupid and the whole concept of untouchable isn't just an Indian thing Yeah, that's gone on in many cultures particularly you want to read about anything going on old testament wise and New Testament To yeah throughout history there have always been groups of people that have been relegated to the lower levels of the echelons Where they're considered the untouchables yeah, and the outcasts absolutely, and it's it's very very sad I also didn't know as well. It reminded me a lot of Again citing Old Testament New Testament examples. I didn't I don't recall there being a big shunning of pigs being unclean and obviously The parallel metaphor of the actual pig versus the people as the pigs who are the ones that can touch them Yeah, but it was very obvious the only ones that should be touching the pigs are the human pigs Because they're as unclean as those people and then they if somebody was touched by a pig You have to clean yourself with cow urine or right very yeah So so there's all these different superstitions that went into this particular But then actually I might my my wife's family's in town now and they watched us film with me This was their first Indian. Oh cool But she my my my sister-in-law has two young children ones about 12 years about nine So they they had a lot of questions Like I saw it. I was like it's PG. I'm like it's probably fine right but the subject matters about the cast system So I'm sure you're gonna have a lot of questions as to right what the heck is going why are they being treated this way? Yeah, why why what's dark when why can't a pig touch you, right? So all this different kind of stuff, but they ended up liking the film Quite a bit. They did have a lot of questions, but yes, but this film definitely made you uncomfortable in the right scenarios Yeah, I thought it was brilliant writing because not only were Everyone so terrible to these people These people have been in their situation for so long. They're terrible to each other exactly and and I was thinking about as you said that They're starting to believe what everybody's exactly it shows you I really liked where it went because a Lot of directors and writers would have taken the story and made it be because this kid He's wanting to study and his dad's like why are you studying here a pig? Yeah You're not gonna go anywhere. Yeah, so stop it. You're embarrassing all of us Thinking you're gonna go somewhere and a lot of directors and writers would take that story and make him the hero That breaks free of the cast system. This did not do that. This showed you this is what's gone on Generationally that there's hope it gets quashed and then the circumstances that they're in and the way that they're treated Yeah, they become part of the system Even though they don't want to be part of it because that's just what they've been enslaved it a lot of symbolism About who is it folk because obviously not only is it these other people putting them in the situation and set telling They're untouchable The moment he was about to get the bird in the end his dad is the one that came in Yeah, obviously the bird was a metaphor right the big metaphor and the thing about breaking for expert Oh, yeah, but his dad in the end is the one that Kind of gotten the way of him actually getting his bird right in the end and also one of the most powerful metaphors I don't know if you picked up on it was they almost had to pick The Indian National Anthem started playing Oh, I didn't pick up on that the school started singing the national Everyone stopped you're right and they knew good observation. They knew if they kept going People would be so much more offended that they're not standing for the national anthem Then letting them do their job because that's they wanted they consider that a lot more disrespectful than how they treat these people Right great up so it's like not only is it obviously these people It's Essentially, I'm reading into it. It's India The national anthem played for a reason the director put that there for a reason of course I had all the kids there Standing and watching yeah saying yes is not just a group of people This is an entire society that have perpetuated this for generation on generation and I picked up on that aspect of it throughout Great observation about the national anthem because I myself was so engrossed in what I knew we were hitting the climax Yeah, and I was so engrossed in that I missed out on that observation But as a whole this like Jolly Khattu isn't just about a regional and area Yeah, it is a regional thing. Yeah, but it's a much broader larger not just even Indian thing This is a universal thing. Oh, yeah, it's about just any place anywhere certain ways Obviously America has very yeah bad history of treating people certain way don't frickin does still still do yep And also the end I loved it You know, I love those types of endings that leave you with questions But not only obviously did he stand up for himself and his family, but but what did he throw it at? He didn't throw it at this guy. He threw it at the audience, right? They didn't like you it's it's to assume that obviously he's starting at the guy But it went directly at camera correct and that was on purpose very much It was very much on purpose that was the final frame that you saw and what it really did in that moment Was again what I love about the reality of the movie versus it becoming something that was The happily ever after yeah, I liked the fact that on the one hand he is standing up for himself Mm-hmm on the other hand He has just sealed the deal. Yep. He has just literally sealed the deal by I have fully immersed myself into this system I am defending myself, but I am separating myself from everybody By being a part of this and throwing this rock and you know what happened if he's hitting this guy You can just finish up the story here. Yeah, he's he's not eradicating himself. He's just solidified it. Yeah, he's like, I'm done Yeah, literally knows what's gonna happen. The rocks is emblematic of the solidification of I am now fully in this And I wanted to get out of it and I yeah It's very very right at the camera to because that was a lot of symbolism is I'm not I'm not talking to the director Like I'm not talking about just these guys. I'm talking about you right now And yeah in whatever way that you are perpetuating the system that allows people to be oppressed this way Right just same way like if there was a film about the certain type of slavery or racism in America And they ended up with a similar shot, right, you know what that would be saying Right. It's talking to Americans about how are you perpetuating this system exactly? Yeah, it's assaulting you Yeah, the point is are you getting the point? Yeah, and while I was comparing this to All of the other films thematically and feel-wise because it felt like those films Yeah, the intellectual capacity of the script in the story is far more reminiscent of me of Jolli Cattu Yeah, in terms of seeing something played a big we have an animal That's that's that's part of the process and who's the real Animal in this like who's the real pig in this and what is a pig? So it was a very I really really like he got a big message to get across and also I think he's a good actor He's my favorite character. Yeah, not gonna know. He's the director. I love that. That was the one kids Like person he looked up to a friend. It was another outcast Of society and he's really the only one that came through for me brought him the drum At that one point and he was there to support him Nobody else was was doing that. Yeah, and and the other thing we haven't even touched on either is the I love the little love story That also ends with you knowing you didn't get there never gonna be together She never knew no and she never will because he's probably dead Yep, and if not that he's been untouchable who's gonna grow up and treat his son the way his dad treated him It was a beautiful moment when he was in his in his dream and he was Wanted to live out. Yeah, they were cuddling they were they were staying out in the sun as well as the other one Where he's in the well? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just a very very well done film very well done very good message I would love to see more from him I'm assuming he's done more because obviously with the success of this success of Cyrat Looks like the essay of the rain and we've got such a great handful of films that we could point to not just Big Films that people would know like I would always recommend to folks if you want to see something just beautifully epic You're gonna watch Bajorama Stani or Padma Bhatt as one of the first ones I'm gonna recommend but then for those who are the lovers of small cinema and film festival cinema We have a huge list of Extremely good films and I would include this in the list of films that we Marathi is I know Malayalam is up there in terms of just everything being very artistic and being really high level Marathi Is right there right there in terms of just like I mean if you look at we so if my play is the correct This is our sixth Marathi film and there are all every single one of those probably when we like least was the not so Not even that but the performance was good. It's just the film overall didn't strike us as well as the others did right Cyrat yeah the factory one which I loved so much Court that we both thought was great Keela and then this one and this one. This is a great yeah list for the Marathi films and it's I know it's a smaller industry Yeah, but I'm what I think it's like since obviously it's in the same state as as Mumbai is And so Bollywood, I think a lot of the independent ones get Marathi. Yeah, probably and so the very artsy Yeah, genre. I suppose. I don't know you guys can let me know but those finish fantastic I love this film. So let us know what the next Marathi film we should watch down