 Hello. What are you doing? Looking at a cock. Dirty. Dirty, dirty. Hey, welcome back to our series of Corbin. I'm Rick. And if you're watching this, I'm going to do it for more juicy content. Thanks for the Patreon, so I'm just going to subscribe because I'm not like my name. Oh, my nipples are ready. Always need to prep the nipples. Yes. You ever had nipple clamps on? Technically no. You're thinking about it. Yeah, technically no. I've had things that have been clamped on my nipples, but they weren't store-bought nipple clamps. Today we're doing a movie review. Very fitting opening for this film. Yeah, for this film. Perfect opening for the family-friendly. Sorry, everybody. Long awaited. There's going to be so many who saw the review and they're like, oh great, we started off with a cock. Then we, so sorry. The long awaited review for us because remember, we had been Teach the Kids. Known about this film very early on, I think. I think we reacted this extremely early on in the channel because we were exploring American, I think we were reacting to the trailer, all that kind of stuff. And we just had yet to get to it, but it's a 2017 film, Secret Superstar. Not to be confused with Superstar Rosnick, huh? When he's hiding. Not in this film. When he's hiding, he's Secret Superstar. Oh, well, yeah. If you play hide and seek with him, he becomes the Secret Superstar. Directed by Advait Chandan, who is also the director of Laos and Chhada. Yeah. As well. The movie that everybody's watching and now realizing was great. He also wrote the screenplay for this. It was produced by Amir Khan. Yes. And he also has a supporting role. He's not the star of this film. No, he's the jockstrap of the show. Yeah, jockstrap of the show. Yeah, he's the supporter. And it's starring Zehra Waseem, whom we've seen in Dangle, Skies Pink, and multiple other things. Really talented actors. Well, those three. Really talented actors. And also Mira. Yeah, Mihir Vej plays Mom, right? Yeah, who we've seen in a few things as well. And then Raj Arjun as well, who we've also seen in quite a few things. But obviously it's gonna be 100% in one of you. It's came out in 2017. Most everybody, it's actually, I think one of the highest grossing in terms of how much it made in comparison to how much it was. I think it was one of the I did really, really well. Yeah, really well. I don't know specific. I don't follow box offices. You guys know, I just, people told me that. So it'll be 100% as far as we've ever watched it. We saw it on Netflix? Was it Netflix? It was Netflix. Was it Netflix? It absolutely was. But so if you haven't watched it, go watch it. Come back. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. Well, for those of you keeping score at home, this is our 35th Hindi film of 2022. Absolutely nobody. Our 164th Hindi film all time. Wow, almost at 200. Our 60th film of 2022, our 267th film of all time. 267? 267. Okay. We're close to 300. Okay, yeah. So, what did you think I would think of this movie? I thought you'd like it. Did you not? Yeah, this is, I'm, I just, when it ended, I had been watching it and Drani was doing her own thing and I said to her, I just, I'm a sap for everything that Amir Khan touches that is family friendly and has a nice message. And there's a lot of things I'll talk about in regard to the details of what I liked and what I didn't like. Cause there were some things that I didn't like, of course. But yeah, this is overall, I have way more that I like about this movie than I don't like. I really, really liked it. Yeah, it's, did you cry? No, I didn't cry. No, I didn't cry. At the end, okay. So I saw, some people said they were, I saw Jimmy's review and he apparently watched on a train. He said if he wasn't on a train, he would have wept. Oh, I said stop with the toxic masculinity, Jimmy. Seriously, God, full toxic. If I had just been in the throes of full absorption, yes, if I had been alone, which I often, oftentimes watch movies, in the throes of passion. That explains a lot. It explains some of the ones I don't like. Because, comparison anyway. Because I got a couple of phone calls and texts that I had to pause it that pertained to stuff going on with my dad. That pulled me out of what would have been the normal flow. If I had been in it from start to end uninterrupted, I probably would have gotten a little misty eyed. I wouldn't have been sobbing. It wouldn't have been the full cry. But it did and there were some moments in it that were just too adorable to not love. Yeah, I loved this movie. I really did. Me and my wife watched it. And it was one of those films, and not like this is like, I'm not saying like a Gumbelange night. So I think it's just a masterpiece. No, it's not that kind of film. But it wasn't trying to be that film either. No, it doesn't want to be that kind of film. It was trying to give you a good message in a commercial family friendly film. Just like Mimi does, just like Jaišta. Joe, whatever that Ran Veer one that I saw was that everyone hated that we loved. I know that we loved. Your guides are weird. I love the list you did on Twitter. I know, man. People are so weird to me. It makes no sense. But these style of films that are just so commercial, I just had a smile on my face the entire time. Well, not the whole time. Well, yeah, they're... Not the whole time. Not the whole time. But like even though there are some moments in it that they did really well, and I think the protagonist in this did really, really well in his job, or the antagonist, sorry. I know who you meant. And there were some really moments in this that were intense and awful, and you got wrenching, right? But it's still kind of like Mimi. It always went back to that happy. You knew it was gonna end well. Yes. Which I love. Rom-Coms you know are always usually gonna end well. They do. And this is one of my favorite things about a lot of Amer-Con films. And there's a place for it. To me, there's two things that cinema does in its storytelling capacity because movies are storytelling and there's always a moral to the story. One of the things that cinema does is hold up a mirror to the world and shows you how it is, or was, right? Another way is to show you how we wish it could be or how it ought to be. And Amer-Con way more than not shows you the things about the best in us and what we really wished the best of us could be. And I don't know how you can't like that. It's very easy for me to be forgiving of some of the other things that aren't expressly artistic because the goal in this kind of a film isn't to do that. It's kind of the bonus you get. It's like having a really nice dessert and then discovering the whipped cream was homemade. It's like the dessert was great, but oh my goodness, in addition to it. And I felt especially our young lady carrying the film, I thought she did an exceptional job. She's done an exception on everything we've seen. I mean the three films, right, that she's been in and I don't know what she's doing now because I don't see anything from 2019 on. I did a little homework. She's referred to, if you look her up, it says former actress. Oh, okay. Studying on school for now? No, no, no, she got a lot of hate. What? Yeah, she got a lot of hate and it has to do with religious things. If for some, in some way, shape or form, if this bullying children is fun, if this cut to Zara in some way, shape or form, if you still love acting because you're gifted and Oh, very gifted. You're a really, really good actress. Oh, very. And have been since a really young age. Please don't not pursue it. If it's for other reasons and she's at peace with that, totally cool. Yeah. But if she stopped doing it because of all of the hate and things of that nature, that's a loss for the industry because she's a very talented. Very talented. Very talented actress. That'd be very sad if she hung it up for good. Me too. Because I think, it's hard to find good child actors, honestly. She has so many natural instincts that are, she had some difficult things to do in this film. Like the scene where the dad is about to beat the mom and he tells the kids to go into the other room. Her little brother did great too. Yeah. And she goes in there and all you hear, you don't see obviously the dad beating the mom. You just hear it and then you see her reaction. And she has a fantastic, I don't know how old she is. It's not a surprise that the casting was so good because one of the casting directors is Abhishek Banerjee. But the three main kids, her, her brother. And the love interest. Yes. Yeah, he was adorable. He was wonderful. Yeah, he was great. I didn't see false moments for any of them. And granted, this wasn't the kind of depth you get for child actors in like the Florida project. But if she doesn't, if they don't bring you believability in those moments, it really ruins the power of the underlying story that's the most important, which is the struggle that this family is going through with another solid actor, man. I immediately disliked the dad. Never stopped disliking the dad. And it's a credit to how well- Raj Arjun? Raj Arjun played him. He did an exceptional job. He did. And I recognized him immediately. We've seen him in multiple things. Shamshera and a couple other things. He's a very, very good actor. He's a very good actor. He played everything real. Yeah. And he assumed as the character, this is how I do things. This is my life. I'm in charge. This is my life. I'm in charge. You should submit to that. He doesn't think he's the villain in this. He thinks he's right. He does exactly. I'd love- Well, real abuse of people do. I'd love to have the conversation with him about it because of my guess based on the final product of his work is that he's very much of the school of a trained actor who understands that you don't judge the character and that you find, that's one of my acting coach, Howard Fine, who, you know, I'm starting back with him next week. Oh, cool. In-person stuff. I'm so happy. But one of his things, which comes from the Uta Hagan School of Acting, is you really, you must find yourself. Don't ask what would the character and do in this situation. Ask what you would do. And find yourself, and especially in the negative characters, because too often when we think of ourselves, we think of ourselves as the hero all the time. And when we're, for example, in traffic and we cut somebody off for cutting us off, we assume we were the hero in that moment. I am. Without thinking about what the other person may think of us in the moments where we're the ass. No, I'm never the ass. That's right. So anyway, I just felt he all did a really good job. I wanna shout out the mom who put on a great performance. Another great performance. Me, is there your name for me? Yeah, and forgive mispronunciation. If it's not Meher or Veej, I'm gonna assume the correct pronunciations. She did a really good job. I loved the relationship that they built from the beginning with her and her daughter. I cared immediately about everybody. Obviously she came out and you see she's wearing these big old glasses and you're like, oh boy. And then obviously she's saying she fell down and you're like, hmm. No. No, that's not right. No. But like, she did what a lot of people do. It's probably especially in India with how the culture is there a lot of times and it looks like she couldn't read as well. So she's probably not at least fully educated or I don't know. Yeah, they're captive ignorant. Yes, yes. But her relationship with her daughter, you always were rooting for it and it was almost the daughter was kind of parenting her a little bit. Very much. And the mom didn't want to stay but she saw no other option because she was like, I need to care for my children and I can't be on the streets. Right. I mean, I guess I'll just, this is my lot in life to get beat up all the time. Which this is gonna seem like a weird segue but it's applicable. That whole current throughout the film which is clearly the heart of the film because at the very end it gives credit to moms and motherhood and to the struggle of women in general. That core story is at the heart of what we saw last night which was Don't Worry Darling. Please don't, it's another film. I know this is an American film but it is a film that has been kind of hurt at the box office because of gossip and BS when you're gonna miss out on a really well done film that has at its core that it does have to do with the struggles of women. And I felt that for a family, I told it to Andrani watching it. She's asked me how I was liking it and I said they've done a really good job of making a film that's accessible to family to as young as like probably nine or 10 depending on how you parent your kid but also introducing really uncomfortable subject matter that might be the very first time a child has to be introduced to it. Like mommy, why is the daddy hitting the mom and explain that this happens and you may have some friends whose mom and dad do that and you need to understand that that's not right and love them. One of my favorite moments as far as like all of the gushy-gushy when he asks her what her password is. That got you. Oh man, I made an audible. Aw. I liked the moment when the little brother tried to build the computer back. Yeah, that was really cute. There were several super sweet, super cute moments. Yeah, and then the whole obviously storyline of obviously the new age of the internet using the computer even though there's no way her audio would have been that good. That's, those are the forgivable things. There's so many things. I was not gonna judge a film like that. That audible being that, you know, and her first video going viral like it did and all the other stuff. There's a lot of stuff that does strain credulity for sure. Well, I thought that it for a second but then I was like, this might be a famous song from Bollywood and so that that would get you. It could be. And that could get you the clicks on top of the fact that she's wearing a burka. Absolutely, we could. It's not impossible. On top of the fact that she's wearing a burka and so then it'd be probably political and so then we've talked about in the news obviously that wasn't gonna judge this film like that. Obviously they weren't gonna tell the story of this kid who became an internet sensation but obviously couldn't and all that kind of stuff. And they did, I'm very thankful for a few things. They did justify the connection to the attorney who could help her with the divorce. They did justify the moment. I believed the climactic moment at the airport. I believed that the mom finally, just as we watched Zara's character, she goes from feeling waif-like and unable to defend for herself to like, I love the moment when she tells the man, that's my seat, that's my seat. Uncle, that's my seat that she had to fight for that and she's made an example for her mom. And that in a healthy mom-daughter relationship it goes both ways, especially when the daughter reaches the age where she's starting to become a young adult. If you're a good parent, I feel you also begin to learn from your kids. They don't just learn from you. Yeah, yeah. What do you think about America? I loved it. It was so ridiculous and I loved it. At first I was like, oh, whoa. Yeah, this is a lot. Yeah, it is a lot to stomach. But then it gets better, because it opens with obviously him and they're kind of impersonating American Idol and all that kind of stuff. It gets better. But then I realized he's clearly putting a character tour on of a bunch of different kind of produce. Yeah, he's blending everything and making a character tour exactly. It's like when people do, some people do drawings of people and it really looks like them and then there's the over-accentuated drawing. He was the over-accentuated drawing. Yeah. Which actually I thought was fun to see Amir Khan in this ridiculously over-the-top. Yeah. Just flat, call everybody Bebs. Bebs. Bebs. Super hits, Bebs. Super hit. And I watched, did you watch the number and the credits? Yeah. I had to. And I love it the very end of that when he goes, that was a super hit. If you don't agree, change your taste. Yeah, and I also, because for the longest time before I, I was kind of informed before as well, but for the longest, I thought this was an Amir Khan film. This is not an Amir Khan film. Right, I did too. Obviously he produced it, but and he's not, He's barely supporting. Yeah. This is not his vehicle. This is her vehicle and the mom and the mom. And the mom vehicle. Yep, 100%. And their story. Even her little friend is more supporting than Amir Khan. Which I like the fact that you know, I didn't know if it was gonna be, like come part of his story as well. Yeah. He was just supporting her story the whole time. The whole time. They didn't really go into his. Like he, Yeah. They didn't go into, is his ex-wife lying? Thankfully. Or is it him? Thankfully. Yeah. Like, is he actually a garbage, garbage person? Another credit to it. Which he probably is, that's what I assumed he was probably a garbage. Yeah, another credit to it is, as always, you know, there's no reason under the sun, except for the fact that the theaters need their intervals to make money. That's a business decision that's been going on for decades in cinema. I get it. This film does not need to be that long. But it didn't bother me. How long was it? It was two and a half hours, a little over two and a half hours long. Oh, I didn't notice. That's the thing. It didn't bother me. Yeah, I thought the pacing was really good. The pacing was very good. It's just you really, you could trim it. And that would be one of the few critiques I have of it, if I was gonna say if there's anything I'd do to, you know. I don't think I would trim anything. I actually, You like it? I liked it. Cause like, I didn't even- It didn't bother me that it was that long. I didn't even notice that it was two and a half hours. Yeah. It was just, it was a happy, fun ride. And so I was just long for it. Where'd you get that Yankee mug? This is actually my dad's. I know, but do you bring it in? I didn't see you bring it in. No, I knew you were gonna make hot coffee. And so I brought this in to drink the hot coffee out. Anyways, go on. So, no, it never dragged for me. It's just still my preference. And it's, I know it's conditioning of what I grew up with. Two and a half hours for this type of film is long. The score was beautiful. Yeah. All the songs really, really nice. All the songs really, really nice. By our host, Amit Trivedi. I love the line when she was like, when she gets the email from Amir Khan, he's like, why couldn't it have been A.R. Ramon? Yeah, I did. I love that too. Yep. Just shoot me an email. Absolutely. And you was email. No, I did too. And what's important in a thing like this is to make sure that the songs that you claim are gonna be these super hits actually are. When he started making her do the sexy things. Like, oh no, don't do that. I love that scene. Don't do it. I love that he was fully, cause that's gonna be a hard thing to do to be talking to a young girl and like trying to make her to sell it as a sexy song. His character would do it. Oh yeah. But as a person, I would feel so disgusting doing that with my counterpart actress who's that age. Having to make those sounds with her. I would be like, this is so disgusting. But it was hysterically funny. And that too, why would that character who's clearly a prick listen to her in the moment? That strains credulity, but I didn't care at that point. I liked that. And the ballad, it's a very nice song. It's a really pretty song. Oh, the one that she turned it into. Yeah, that's why I like the fact that her song that she writes that goes viral. And then. Did she write it or she was at a Bollywood song? Or no, that she covers. Yeah, whatever it is, that song sounded good enough that I believed it would have gone viral as well as the ballad version of his song. It's a credit to the songwriting team of Ro-Hit and Amit. I didn't know if the ones that she was doing on YouTube were her songs or if. I don't remember. I assumed they were Bollywood songs that she was covering. And that's actually why she got the traction because if you put a song title, it's gonna pop up. If it's a popular Bollywood song, it's gonna come up on people's feeds. That was actually. And did you notice? What? Did you notice? What? She really plays the guitar and the notes. I saw it and I was like, Rick's gonna be happy. And the notes matched her fingers. I was like, Rick's gonna be happy about it. Because it doesn't matter if you can really play the instrument if the notes don't match the fingers and they matched very nicely. Thank you, director. And her, she clearly learned. She did, but it's also, it's in the hands of the director because you could, as is the case, like on the hunt, he knows how to play the piano. But did the notes match? Come on, revive it three years later. We need more. No, never. Yes. Never talk to me ever again. But yeah, overall, I really love this film. Me too. Cause I strained to put it, I don't know if I need to have to, I guess. Like if you're ranking Amir Khan's films. The rest of his films are him and the lead. Yeah. I don't include Dildak Nadoo cause he's just a voice of you. So that's not his film. It's not. It's still a very much it's an Amir Khan film. Yeah, kind of. But I don't include that like if I'm ranking his films. No, no, no. But I'm like, he is enough in this that I guess you would have to include it in his films. I would. But this would be, I mean, I don't know where specifically, but this is one that you just, I enjoyed fully. I gotta tell you, I have a really hard time ranking the films. Amir Khan's films. Yeah, because. The last, the last one we watched was your least favorite though, wasn't it? Yeah, I just didn't like that one where he was the soldier in Kashmir and I don't remember the name of it. Oh, Fana. Yeah, Fana. Yeah, Fana. Did not like that at all. Yeah. But the immediate ones of Three Idiots and PK and like stars and by, not by Shiromastani. Yeah, I'd have a hard. Rang de Basanti. I'd have a hard time. But this one would be one that would probably be one of the most easier watches of all of his. If I'm pointing people to the one that is the most elevated artistically, it's Rang de Basanti. Yeah. But if I'm talking about the ones that are stereotypically Amir Khan heart, which Lawl Singh Chhada is up there. Yeah, Lawl Singh Chhada is up there. Way up there for me. Obviously, you wouldn't do this one for like performance. You'd be like, okay, this is not his normal. He's putting on a shtick. Okay. No way. This is a great film if you had like, like if you had a family who wanted to know, is there a good Indian film that our family could watch together and we just enjoy and it would make us feel good? I would, this would be way at the top of my list. This is up there with like the Mimi's. Mom. Not mom, sorry. English, English. English, English. Yep. Of the world stuff that's just, you watch it, it's gonna have a good message, but it's gonna be, you're gonna be happy most of the time. Exactly. And get great performances, especially from the kids. And I guess this director likes that style of film because Lawl Singh Chhada. Yeah, like Stars on Earth, Lawl Singh Chhada. Well, he didn't direct like Stars on Earth. Oh, but it was part of it? He was just part of it. Okay. Cause I think like Stars was actually Amir Khan. Yeah, Amir Khan directed that one. But I think he had another one as well. Or maybe not. But yeah, I guess he likes nice films. Yep. Secret soups are, short film, Lawl Singh Chhada. He's probably been working on Lawl Singh Chhada for a long time. Probably. And hopefully it will be continuing its wave of popularity streaming because it deserves it. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film. If you like the film, if you hate the film, if you hate us, let us know. Yeah, all it'll be about. It's fine. And what should be our next Amir, hard to believe, we have a lot more of Amir Khan's films to get to. Crazy. And would love to talk to you, sir. Yeah. Really would love to talk to you. Yeah, that'd be great. And to her again, if you wanna act, please do. Please keep going. Please. Stop bullying children as well, you fucking weirdos. So weird. Yeah. Ah, you're a child. Well, you know. What's wrong with you? Well. What's wrong with you? It's a problem with a lot of the world of the human being for eons, which is predominantly, well, if you read up about it, you'll discover a lot of it has to do with religious sentiments. I don't read.