 Three of our watch along to Padman. Padman. If you haven't seen the other two parts, please go watch the other two parts of this. If you're seeing this on YouTube, you're gonna see very kind of versions. It looks like the other two parts. If you'd like to see a full-on cut version though, of this part and the other parts, you can head over to Patreon, up on the description below in the pinned comments so you can go check that out. And at the end of this one, we will talk about the movie and review it. If we liked it. If not, we will leave early. Yeah, bye. Anyways, let's just get back into this all, Rick, huh? Let's do it, let's do it. It's gonna be funny. Probably not. Probably more maddening. Yes, I have a feeling I'm anticipating some stuff. I think it's gonna be similar to like a Eustman film where you're gonna have light-hearted commercial fare, but with a important and heart-hitting story. Yes. And based off of true events. Yes. Here we go. All right. Yeah, sorry. She's a sweet, sweetheart. Hello? Oh, yeah, that sucks. Because I totally, I so empathize with her. My mind, white paper, no doubt. I haven't even been married to anyone. When two people live together and work together, sometimes it happens. It's a human body. Josh happens. Hey! Badmashree, Batman. What? Yes, look. He's been given a letter. Really? The people who wanted to take revenge on you, today they'll take you to hell. Yeah, but did they change their minds? Because... I'm ready to tell God. Badmashree. But, Pari, make Lakshmi. Why didn't you tell him that you loved him so much? Why, why did you let him go? If I didn't let him go, he wouldn't be the one I do whatever I want. Pari is working in London. That must be him. Wow. That was... What a film. Way, way, way, way, way, way above what I was expecting it to be. It's what I was hoping it would be. Just because that good? Yeah. Okay. Because I was... I've wanted to watch it for a long time. It's just one of those ones that kind of falls under the rug and you just haven't gotten to it in five years. Yeah. It has Radeka, so anything she's in is pretty high up there for me. But it's as well as I was hoping it. It definitely exceeded even my expectations. But that... And I don't know how much it was true and how much was for cinematic purposes. Obviously, I like the meeting on the street. Yeah. I'm sure a lot of the plot points are true in terms of like, this happened, this happened. And there was cinematic stuff that was put in to make it an entertaining film because it men wasn't. And I need to go back and look at... We haven't seen a ton of Occe, actually. Surprisingly, we've seen a ton of videos. Not a ton of films. I want to say five or six, maybe. I think it's easily... My favorite performance of his? Without question. Yeah. I knew it. I was suspecting it throughout and then the UN speech just sealed the deal for me. That was a great scene. He's just perfect. It's a... Don't need any improvement on what he did. And like I said it during while we were watching it, shout out to the casting. Everybody was exactly right for the roles except for the white voiceover actor. Sorry, whoever you were, it just didn't work. But boy, oh boy, this is... I love this movie. Yeah. He has that other one, Toilet, which gives off a similar vibe. And who's in that one? It's Occe. Boomi, it's Boomi. And Anupam Kher. Yeah. Anyways, but yeah, the whole story of it is... One that I was like, okay, it's probably gonna make me mad because it's probably gonna be a bunch of idiots thinking that having a period is something evil or something to be ashamed of. Then that's the stigmatism all over the world in different stages all over the world, obviously. But it's still significant, like a lot of guys here, stupidly, won't go pick up tampons for their girlfriend because they're embarrassed. Why it never made sense to me? I'm like... I know. I've never understood, like, I mean, I don't, just like, I don't, I don't want to say that. Why, I never understood why blood was so like, ew. Well, there's guys that won't even carry their wife's purse. Yeah. But like, you bleed, right? We bleed if we cut ourselves. And people, unless you're screaming from blood, of course, like, you're not like, ew, gross. But like, just because it comes out of an orifices because of something natural happening with the body, it's somehow gross. It's, 99% of it finds its roots in religious dogma. Yeah. And then the other 1% of it is just if someone doesn't have a religious dogma associated with it, it just, it stems from ignorance and not being educated. Probably men not understanding and then women perpetuating that in the society as well. That happens a lot of times. I'm so grateful that of all the relationships that I have had that were very serious relationships, that every single one of the women I've been with were not at all stigmatized by their period in any way, shape, or form. Or should they be? And we're really thankful. A couple very shocked that, like the first time I went to, I was like, I need either, I need tampons or I need pads because it depended some of the ladies want tampons, some want pads. Being, a couple being shocked. Like, yeah, you're okay just going to the store to buy me my pads and my tampons. Like, yeah, why wouldn't I be? Yeah. And so it's an unfortunate stigmatism. And obviously in India, especially rural India, it's a totally different stigmatism as well when just we saw in here sitting out. I'm sure that's not every village, a village that they were doing. Then there's other reasons. There's people who, and I know some of these personally, who daughters, their moms don't talk to them about their periods or anything else about their bodies as they hit their teens. It's like all of a sudden, once the daughters have hit teenage years, the moms don't know what to do with them now because they're not their little girls. And they just, the girls wind up having to learn about tampons or pads from cousins or other friends and not from their moms. It's sad. It's very, very sad. I also feel like, and I'm looking forward to it because I have a daughter, obviously. So it's going to be a totally new experience for me because I grew up with brothers. So I was, I don't have a stigmatism about any of it but I was never taught about it either. Right. It's just, I mean, my dad was never anything to stigmatize anything like that. Obviously two really good guys. But I'm looking forward to not only obviously, my wife obviously being able to tell my daughter about what to expect and all that kind of stuff and supporting her in that way, but also teaching my sons, be like, this is a woman's body. This is what's happening. It's nothing weird. I'll tell you what's really great. I was an only child, but I was raised by very open parents. So it was never stigmatized. I spent several of my teen years when my dad was married to a lady who had daughters and Donna Denise were two years older than me. Everybody was really open about it. And Micah grows up at the benefit of having two sisters and I live in the benefit of that all of the women in my world have always been open about the fact that when it's that time of the month, it's that time of the month. My daughters have absolutely no problem when they communicate in some respect. For example, Alexis and Micah may be coming over to watch a movie and Alexis will come over and she'll just say, I'm not feeling too great because I'm on my period right now. Great, cool. It's just, it's not- And I don't know when specifically this was. I'm guessing early 2000s, the story at least, because of the phone I'm guessing. Cause it's- Yeah, late 90s, early 2000s probably, but I'd love to know statistically, I'm sure it's not a hundred percent. Yeah, still, yeah. And they're- Especially rural. Especially rural. Obviously in the cities, I'm sure it's- But like you said, even here in America, there's a lot of people in different places like don't even want you to talk about the fact that, you know- It's- No one wants to- They won't even talk about it openly. Or men get, it's like, the woman may not have to go sleep in a different room, but the man is so repulsed by the fact that his wife's on her period. There's just zero intimacy with them until her period's gone because it's just so dirty. Yeah, your generation, not you supposed to know, but your generation and people older, like whenever, it's happened many times, and it happens like with being a dad as well, just because I think the dads of your generation and older were just so terrible. Many were. Usually, but like they, like, I will be pushing my children by myself and I'll be like, oh, you're such a good dad, just by, you know, pushing my children. Right. Literally not even the basis of being a father. Right, yeah. Or like, I'll go out and buy my wife tampons, I'm not hiding it or anything, they're like, oh, you're such a good boyfriend. Right, it's like, why is this- It's just to be normal. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Good thing is with younger generations, as always, things change and progress as they should. But let's get back to the movie, obviously. Akshay, my favorite performance, he did a phenomenal job. Beautiful. If this came out this year, I would have nominated him for a dummy. A hundred percent. I thought he did so well. Radhika. You know my feelings about my girl, Radhika. And she had a hard role. She did. Very emotional role, really a role that she probably couldn't relate to very much either. But she clearly didn't judge her character. Nobody did. Everybody clearly portrayed these characters in ways because I'm sure for most of these artists, the ones who had to portray the really closed-minded people were personally themselves turned off by the character. And you can't do that when you're portraying a character. You cannot judge the character. And I felt everybody was, that's why it affects you. The reason you get so angry is because the actors are doing such a good job portraying the reality of these people. And yeah, Radhika's Radhika. She just doesn't turn in a bad performance. She just doesn't. And this is our bulky. And we've had an interesting relationship with him. Might be my favorite film of his. We've seen a few. So we've seen, this past year, with Lost Stories 2. Part of Lost Stories, yeah. We didn't like his show very much. Dears and Doggy. Oh, he's a producer, sorry. Producer. Yeah, we're just directing credits here. Look, filter the nine directing credits. Wait, what is it? Ah, Chini Coom. Oh yeah. Another really good one. Chini Coom's very good. Yeah, I like this one more than Chini Coom. Just maybe because it's more modern. That one had a lot of budgetary constraints from what I like it. Six different films, too. Yeah, very different. Both really good. Yeah. And he has other ones, Pa, that we need to see, obviously. Shamatabh with Dhanush and Hamatabh. But, and then he did another one. Boy, stupid babies. Thank you so much. The last four, five watch alongs have just been superlative. Yeah, and that's always, obviously, better. Yeah, any movie watching experience. But anytime I can walk away from a film, not only having been personally moved and thrilled by it, but it's the kind of film that you are excited to share with other people, to share the story, especially when like this, that's true and share the great performances. This is one of those treasures of excitement where I just wanna share it with everybody. And we've had several in a row that are just the kind of film I wanna go share with everybody. The score was great with our... Great score. Pondu. I'm at Trivedi. Yeah, beautiful score. I also thought Sonam Kapoor, who... She did a great job. She did a very good job. I don't know if that aspect of it was true, like I said, but I could believe it could have been true. Could totally believe that and believed her. And it was one of those circumstances that you absolutely have no problem at all. You recognize that happens. Why wouldn't she in some way? Why wouldn't he in some way? Yeah. Find her attractive. Yes, I'm trying to fix, I was like... Oh, she was in Sanju. Bog Muka Bog. Bog Muka Bog. She looks like Depeke Badacon's sister to me. Her nose is so similar to Depeke Badacon. But she did a great job. She did a great job. So did her dad. Almost everybody did a very good job. I never like it and people have pointed out. She's like, you don't think people have told me because whenever somebody is bad on a movie, like in terms of like their character. The character being a bad person. And then they kind of get a kind of redemption in the end a little bit. I always hate it because I don't like when bad people are... Yeah. You're not a fan of redemption. They're like, you don't think people can make bad choices and have redemptions? Like depends on the person. So for Corbin, redemption has a measure of grace attached to it. I feel here's the thing. There's a barometer of the grace extension. I also don't think people change very much in life. Actually change. So that's like a personal thing I have is like, I actually believe when somebody shows you who they are, that's who they are. You should believe them the first time. And if they change, they're probably lying. I'm a pessimist. That's a pessimism. Yes. So that's where that comes from. Yes. Is that I just think most people are lying. I do believe for her character arc, which was really wonderful and the differentiation between her and the other people who I believe were just applauding him for his success, not because he changed their minds. The majority of what she did was driven by fear of shame. But that's I think most of like all the women or it's the fear of shame. A lot of them it's the fear of shame but for a lot of them as well, it's also she had it as well but the predominance for her was the fear of shame. That was her primary motivation. The primary motivation on the others, fear of shame was there but the primary motivation for them was this sense of what's right and wrong in a religious context and a righteousness context and what is considered unholy, impure and irrespective of what you say to me. I don't care what evidence you give me scientifically. I don't care what kind of logic you give me educationally. You're wrong, I'm right and you need to stop what you're doing. She didn't seem to have that. She had some of it. That's why her redemption arc for me made sense because I felt like the driving force behind her and everything was she was willing to set aside much of it for her love for him. She just was so pressured by all of them and the fear of being shunned because of shame and there's women in that situation, she said it. She said, I'm gonna kill myself because of this shame. It's really sad. We've seen it in films. Yeah, it's really sad. I'm really thankful that the redemption arc brought them back together because they clearly loved each other. They really, the whole reason he started this was because of his love for her. It was all for her. Such a smart man to be able to make this machine and to, like I said, certain things, obviously I don't think there's anything wrong with being capitalistic to a point. To a point. To a point, to make a living. But on certain things, I don't believe you should make a profit on basic human necessities. That's why if people wanna charge for water basic human necessities, like if there were more females in Congress and in government, more women's issues would be free for them, like there's a pink taxes, what it's called in the United States on feminine products. Yeah, or just I've said it over and over again, the insanity, the fact that the United States of America has codified in our constitution gun ownership as a human right, but not healthcare. Mind bogglingly stupid. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah, great, great, great, great film. Great film. Really great. I was probably at the top of my Akshay film list, I think. And we've seen some good ones from him too, but we still haven't seen a ton. Everything. Radhika, there's the reason I call her like the best actress in India, or at least one of them. For sure. Because she's, and this is such a different role. This is like a conservative. Female wife role. But she normally plays the corky roles. Yeah, but she is so built internally as a human being like a Kalki Keklin on her Instagram and stuff all the time. There's this constant and she does ads for feminine products. You know, this means a lot to her personally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely great. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for watching with us. I hope you enjoyed it as we did. Let us know what the next watch along should be for an Akshay or Radhika or bulky as well. Films that we should. Or Sonam Kapoor. Sonam Kapoor. Yeah. Let us know there. If you're seeing this on YouTube, you saw a very cut up version because of copyright reasons, obviously. If you'd like to see the full uncut version though, you can have it a Patreon. Yes. I'll put the link in the description below in the pinned comments. You can go check that out. A bunch of other stuff over there too. And on to the next watch along.