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Yeah, it's because now you have time for 20 times a day. I just made me think of a lot of questions I want to ask you that we really shouldn't talk about all right now. Today we're doing a movie review. And it's a Bengalo film. Excuse me? Bengalo. Don't they say O's with everything? Wow. Bengalo. Orgasm. It's an imbecile. How do you say orgasm in Bengali? Say it in the mic. Say it in the mic. I want to hear it. All she can think about is that. All she can think about, you know what she's thinking about is her family watches the show now. No, I've only said orgasm in English. Oh, really? Orgasm. You just reminded me of Bengalo. That just reminded me of the guy in Fleabag. Doesn't he say I'm about to arrive or something? Yeah. Yeah, I'm about to arrive. If you haven't seen Fleabag, it's fantastic. Anyways, we're doing a movie review of the Bengali film. I don't know what number we're on for Saatchi Jit. I don't either. Saatchi. Wow. It's got to be 8, 10. The one I didn't like very much. The big city, hero, stranger, the one we watched last. Yeah, I'd say. But now the music room, 1958. Yes. Also known as, that's the actual. What's the correct pronunciation? Jalsalgar. Jalsalgar. Jalsalgar. Jalshar. Jalsargar. Well, in Bengali, you pronounce it as Jalsalgaro. Jalshargar. Oh, there it is. Jalshargar. Wow. Just proven my points. Actually, my O's. An O'sh. Lots of O'sh. Why do they do O'sh so much? Why not? Are the men just that good? All right. We're off the rails. I'm sorry. This is obviously going to be out of this world. It came out in 1958. But it is. I don't know if it's on India, but it's on HBO Max. HBO Max here. I think they have almost all of Rise Collection. But anyway, so it'll be 100 cents for it if you haven't watched it go. You have to look it up as the music room. Yeah, it's very short as well. I think it's only an hour and a half. I'll talk about that in a second. But feels three, I agree. No, I agree. I was going to say, it doesn't even feel like 90 minutes. Anyways, what are your initial thoughts? So all I can do right now is measure it in terms of other Satya Jitrai films. So it's definitely not in my top three films, but it's definitely nowhere near my bottom three. It's definitely in the upper middle. And there's only one reason for that. It is an exceptionally good character study. There's so much more to love about the movie for me than not love about the movie. That's given the caveat that you have to enjoy a high level cinema and be the kind of person that like, I was thinking about just watching it. You'll like his films, same way you would like a lot of LJP's films. If you're the kind of person who when you go to a different country, one of the things you like to do is just like in the morning, get up and just sit and listen. And like stand on the balcony and look and watch. That's the kind of filmmaker he is. So I really liked it. I didn't love it. And the only reason I didn't love it is because while it's a great character study, I wasn't personally connected to the character in ways I am with other of Rai's films. Well, I think that was also probably the point a little bit. Exactly. He wasn't trying for that necessarily. I mean, this character, even though he does at times, get you to relate to him in terms of emotion at times. Yeah. He's a rich landlord who thinks a lot of himself. And but then he, which is actually impressive because normally these characters aren't ones that you can typically put as your lead of the film because this is not a person that everybody really wants to relate to. Right. He's a rich landlord that's kind of just full himself, spending all of his money and he's living on his glory days and all that kind of stuff. He's a really classist, definitely. But obviously he goes on this tragic journey and stuff happens to him. Once again, spoiler review. Yep. But then that kind of helps him realize some things or come to term with some things. Or at least you think he does? Yes, it doesn't actually fully answer a lot of it. Yeah, I don't personally think he does. I was talking about that. We had lunch afterwards and I was talking with her about it and I said. Had she not seen this before? Yeah, a long time ago. Long time ago. Yeah. In 1950. Her dad loved this movie. Cause there's a couple of things going on here. There's just the symbolism of what this guy represents. But then there's also who this guy is as a personal story. So you've got both of those. On the personal level, obviously the things he cares about are superficial. They're castist, they're classist, they're aristocracy, they're money, his reputation until his wife and kid are gone. Then he realizes none of that crap matters. I don't wanna live without what matters most. And then he reaches a place where you think maybe he's gonna turn over a new leaf. Yeah, but what brings him off the roof immediately gets him to a place of seeing his neighbor as he's looking at his elephant drive by in the car. And there's the symbolism of that. And then his first turn is to go, I'm gonna use the last of what I've got to show him. And I really love his final. Do you know why he failed and I won? Because of my bloodline. And then the very last line of the film is blood. Is your bloodline now? It was a really great last 20 minutes, I guess. Oh yeah, from the lights going down. Yeah, from that part, but then also before the whole end musical number, whoever was the performer, and that was just wonderful to watch and listen to. Apparently she's a legend as are the majority of the musicians. That he made it a point to use is the wrong word, hire. These artists that are renowned and to accentuate a lot of Bengali music as long as with other music and that she is a renowned dancer of that particular style. He kind of just let her go for like 15 minutes. Sure did. Yeah. He was like, this is the movie for the next 15 minutes or so. That's one of my favorite things about him. I said, he takes his time. I said this to Andrani as well. I said, I don't know that there is in cinema right now as Balzia director other than, I mean it's stylistic as well. So the closest stylistically in Balzia I've mentioned is LJP. He reminds me a lot of Satyajit Rai in a lot of ways. Anya Ragh is Balzia, but he's a completely different style. He's just as Balzia, but it's a very different style. I don't know of anybody other than LJP and all world cinema who's willing to just slow burn you into the seat and really doesn't care. Maybe Bong. How? Have you seen this other stuff besides Parasite? I've seen some of his other stuff, not all of it. Just a small handful. And the thing that's different is that like, while he can do that, there's a symmetry to his cinematography that never gets you in a place of feeling that slow burn. Rai does that. He will give you, they're very nice shots, but they're stagnant and they're just putting you in a place and you're gonna feel this place and the inseparability I thought was incredible of the palace and the man and how they were basically, like when he goes into the music room for the first time and he looks in the mirror, which is probably his first time seeing his reflection in years and how he liked the music room has aged. What are you gonna say? He knows how to direct a movie. Yeah, he does. And like I said, I thought it was a really interesting choice of the lead is, Chubby Biswas, right? Is that Chubby? Okay. Biswas? Or Biswosh? Choby Bishash. Oh, Pishash. Choby Hoshow. Choby Bishash. Choby Bishash. Choby Bishash. I love the servant, by the way. Oh yeah. The main servant guy? Yeah. He was great. And I love the double thing on the guy. Just to let him know. You stink more than the others. Yeah, I really enjoyed the fact that he usually always does this obviously with, even with like hero, his characters aren't usually these black and white characters. No. They're complex, often times. And he doesn't make, he doesn't have the, he doesn't like have a typical hero per se, right? That you see a lot in at least current Indian cinema or maybe post-Ahmatak Bakjhan Indian cinema. But they're just these characters and he's like, I don't know if you're gonna relate to him. But this is his story. But I love that. Just like, I love stories like Abir Singh. This is not a telling of a good person really. Right, no. This happens. People fall in love with abusers and then they stay with abusers. You don't know if that abuser has changed. You hope he has. But people do that. No one's condoning it, but that's life. It's just what happens. And that's what, I think a lot of people confuse what we think about Abir Singh. They do. But. And that even bad people have good traits. Yeah, yeah. But the fact that obviously this man, from the beginning you're like, is he gonna step out on his wife? That's what, the vibe he was giving from the beginning, right? He's like, she was like, behave. And he was like, right. Yeah, I'm gonna sleep with everyone. Whatever he was gonna do, that you seemed like. No, it was very clear he enjoyed like when she, before she left, she knelt down and touched his feet and I turned to him and I said, why don't you ever do that? Cause you stand and he clearly enjoyed that. Yeah. And all of the trapping. He likes coming with the patriarchal power. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you could tell that, obviously. He wants to be the first one to offer, give an offering, which was actually a really good scene. It was. Obviously there at the end of her great performance that she gave, but the fact that he stopped and he kind of just paused for a second. He didn't say anything for a good couple of seconds. And he just, he likes the status and that's his entire thing. And I don't like, like you were saying, I don't know if he changed in the end. Yeah. At all. He might have, I think he changed from being completely sad to kind of going back to almost how he was. Yeah, that's the thing is there wasn't, his arc doesn't take him to a revelation and a character change. Almost takes him back. It kind of takes him back to where he started. And even his grieving is, like everything about him is really selfish. He doesn't, he's grieving. He doesn't care, I'm not gonna come down because, but you have all these servants and these people who depend on you. I don't care, I'm grieving. And I also love the fact that like all of his films, there is clearly, they always tell you that, tell what you know, especially to writers, write about what you know. Because no one else will be able to talk about what you know better than you. And that's your area of expertise. And he tells stories about what he knows. And I know he didn't write this, but I know there's a connectivity he felt with the story that was more than the symbolism that's there of this personal character and what he represents definitively and directly. But then also larger things like aristocracy versus lower caste. And I see a lot even of his own self-realization for himself. Like where am I? I can almost feel Satyajit Rai's self-observations about himself. Like where am I in this story? Where am I clinging to old things? Where am I looking down on people? Where am I in the exact opposite way, thinking I'm doing something good, but if I really were to stop and look at it, I'm being selfish. I feel like I just, I wish we could talk to him about every movie he's ever made. Unfortunately, you can't. And this one was actually, I just looked at it, right after the first two appoos. And then it was the music room and then he did a Harry Potter film, The Philosopher's Stone. That's interesting. Did they steal that from, did J.K. steal it from you? She did. Wow. Transphobic and stealer. Yeah, so this is interestingly very, very early. And then he went back to Appu and then did the goddess. It doesn't feel early. It's very interesting. I think he's just always had a supreme grasp on directing. Yeah, he really does. I mean, his first film was Banzai Banchali. And that's, do you know what, there was a Centurion collection? Is that what you know? Yeah, uh-huh. There's only a few Indian films on it. Most of them are his. And then also that other one but the family and it was partitioned at the time. We saw it. We loved it during Classic Month. I forget what it was called. But I think like the big cities there. Yeah, the Appu trilogy. Understandably. But it's like, there's a ton of films from all different ages, even more current, but like I think almost all, if not all, but one are all rise in the Centurion collection. But I also loved the symbolism of The Chandelier. Because- That started and ended with that. Yeah, it started and ended with that. But it also, when he starts to see the candles go out- He gets real upset about that. Yeah, well my first thought was not that they were necessarily candles. My thought was like the parable of the, the virgins with the lamps and the oil runs out. Because what it did signifies is time is running out. So The Chandelier represented two things. On the one hand, it represented wealth, austerity, I'm above you all. But it also represented the fact that you're, all of that's temporal and limited. And if you're not a good steward of those things, you're going to turn around, see you have built your foundation on sand and you're gonna have nothing left to say of your life other than here lies the guy who died with more toys and he really didn't die with more toys. And I, to me, I feel, I thought he was gonna do this, but he didn't do it. Which to me signals, what we mentioned a second ago is that the character didn't really change. Yeah, I don't think he did. Cause if he did change, I was anticipating when he went to the safe, when he said, okay, get me the dancer. And he went to the safe and he took out all of his money. I said, and Johnny was watching, I said, he's just gonna blow it all on one last fling of all that he used to love and adore and he's gonna kill himself to go be with his wife and son. He didn't though. He did not. Well, at least we didn't get shown that. No, but I think I think I think him riding off with the horse, which, you know, into the Sunset. Oh, wait, no, he died. Sorry. He does, but he doesn't. What kills, what kills him is the very, is the very thing that one of his possessions kills him. Yeah. One of his possessions. I mean, he does have that final party and he does die, but it's not, it reminded me quite a bit of the same character study of Daniel Plainview and There Will Be Blood. It's not nearly as dark, but it's kind of comparable in that the guy doesn't die any different than he was before, irrespective of his losses. That he's still all the way to death. He's clinging on to the things that were his identity, my bloodline, what matters to me, but this is a far more, you're gonna be way more compassionate with this guy. Way more understanding. I think he did a good job as well. The actor himself, it was funny. At times you could really see all the makeup they put on him. Did you notice that? Yeah, I said to Andrani while we were watching, I said, he looks a lot like, if you were to blend Rudolph Valentino and Bill of Legosi's face together, and both of them had that quintessential black and white makeup on with the lipstick and the eye shadow, he just he hearkened back to those days of the silent era when the leading guys had that look. I loved it. He did, he did have that. And I thought he did a good job. I liked the actor's performance. Yeah, I did too. Especially towards the end. I thought everybody was good. Oh, yeah. Even the theatrical melodrama that's from both stage and silent era, it wasn't so over the top that it was disconcerting. It actually was kind of endearing. The melodrama a little bit in some of the, like when he gets his son put into his arms and the guy falls away from the screen and he has a moment, but it was still good. But yeah, I enjoyed this film. It's a lot like. Yeah, where does it fall for you? Probably in the middle. In the middle, that's what I felt. I think my favorite's still the big city. I think that one was just. I loved the big city. I loved the big city. Absolutely loved the big city. The hero is also up there for me. And as the stranger. Yeah, so as the stranger. I mean, he, all of us are really good. They are. And Opu has a very special place. It's hard to really. So does the short film. Two? Yeah. Yeah. That's just a great short film. I've liked every single one of his. The big city is really hard to get any better than the big city. And I know this one. It's actually, whenever you look up rise, like people making lists of like, such a rise best films. This one actually is usually in the top three. Yeah, it doesn't, that doesn't surprise me. For a lot of people. I'm pretty sure, you said this was your dad's favorite Rye film, yeah? In my my family. Yeah, I love this film. Yeah, it's top three exactly what you said. I can see why. Yeah, I absolutely can see why. I know there was one that you didn't like. I think you should probably rewatch it again. I think you might like it again. Yeah, I've liked every single one of his films. That's the only one I didn't like. Yeah, I know. But you're dumb. Well, you didn't like Devdas, so. Are you really comparing Shahrukh Khan's Devdas to Wasatchi Rye film? No, I'm not comparing the two in that way. I'm comparing them in the way you liked and disliked them. Just proven my point guys. Just a fucking idiot. Anyways, let us know. There's one actually that I do hear about. It has a lot to do with the Bengal famine. Oh, really? Distant thunder, but that's not the name. Yeah. Do you familiar with this one, Anjani? Distant thunder. Is it the Bengal name? Yeah, it doesn't show that. Well, you could read it and know. You can't read it. It's blurry. Oh, it has a Shumitak. Yes, Shumitak Chatterjee, Sundia Roy, and Bobita about the famine. Yeah, I don't think I know about this. Oh, okay. But yeah, I know a lot of people talk about that one. Cause whenever we've talked about like seeing films about the famine. Yeah. That one gets mentioned. That's very late. That's 1973. Yeah. He composed, wrote it partially, so the screenplay of it. Oh, it's originally not. I found, he did that a lot. Cause the one we just watched, this one, Music Room, is a short story. Yeah, it's a story. It's a short story. But anyways, yeah. But he changed it a little bit. Yeah, he did. Yeah. I'm assuming we have quite a bit more of Rai's work to get through. I think so. How many films did he do? Don't know. Five, seven? No, I think it's more close to the neighborhood of 25. You think so? Yeah, if you include shorts, it says at least 25. That's really funny. You're the internet. Okay. You're not supposed to make at least. It specifically says at least 25. That's weird. You know what happened? Big brother heard me and then just put it in there. That's the way it works now. The Music Room, Goopy, Gunny, Badja, something. I don't know. My wife just slapped her face with her hand and she's holding her palm against her face. It's a real knee slapper. The mystery of the pink. Reminds me of your mom. The mystery of the pink. Pearl, sorry. A story by Sacha just blah. And then, E.T. Yes, because they stole it from him. That's true. Does Spielberg even give credit to that inspiration coming from him? I don't think he's ever, well, talked about it. 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