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Last night, obviously starring Vidya Balan, which I find really interesting that that character name is the same character name as her real name and the whole play on the V sound of the V sound. Oh yeah, that was fun. Yeah, anyway. Um, yes. And then, obvious, and, and of course... And of course, Nwazed it. Which I forgot or didn't know. I don't know, did you really, did you remember that he was in it? I did. Okay, I did. Yeah, I was waiting for Nwazed to appear. I saw his name at the beginning. I was like, oh yeah! Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I remembered he was in it and then I was just waiting for him to appear. Uh, and this was a very Gary Oldman role, too. I mean, come on, very, very much so. Uh, but you want to read the synopsis? Sure. The synopsis is this. In case you didn't know. A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Calcutta, but every one she questions desires... Wait a minute. Denies. Sorry. But everyone she questions denies having ever met him. That's a good synopsis. There. Um, and 100% spoiler review. Wait a minute. Oh, that's a great poster. It is. That's a great poster. You see the touches they did on that to... We'll talk about that in a second. Yeah, spoiler review. Obviously, 100% spoiler. If you haven't seen this yet, I think you've all seen this. Yeah. I think it's her most popular film. Except for my dad. Uh, and I want to know what was the... Because I remember you got spoiled, but I didn't know what they said. What did they say in the... One of the comments when I was looking through the comments, because I will do that. I will look after... We post one. I'll let time go by so there's comments. And then I'll go into the comments and see what people are saying and reply and respond and have a touch with the super babies. Somebody in the comments, first thing they say about the gay, she's not pregnant. She's faking it. I'm like, gotcha. Thanks. I thought it was something around that. Slat out. She's not pregnant. While I was watching it, I was like, I'm wondering if this is what they said. Yeah. Slat. I'm hoping it didn't ruin the film for you. It... I'll tell you in a second. But yes. This was a... And also this director directed Bad Luck. Yes. I know. I saw that. That there's... Which we loved. Yes. This guy's very good at directing. Very good director. This guy knows how to direct thriller. I mean, I'm sure he knows how to direct other stuff. Other stuff, yeah. The thriller is a really good thriller. The stuff with twists in it? Yep. And I was... We'll talk about that. Watching it is one because it got spoiled for Rick. And not me. It did not get spoiled for me. But I wanted to see if I could wait and he's old and see if he would forget. And so... I'm not that old. Did you know when I suggested Kehani it was the one that he was spoiled? Or did you know when you started watching it? No, I never... You knew? I always knew. Okay, cool. Yeah. But I also will say this because I had commented a reaction or two later and Stupid Baby saw I was genuinely pissed off because my motto was let the movie tell the story. And thankfully you all have been gloriously beautiful and not ruining films. So many Stupid Babies replied and said, even though you know that, please watch it because there's a lot more stuff you don't know that you'll appreciate. It's not the only twist. It's not the end all be all of it. It's a huge twist. Yes, of course. But it isn't the only twist. And I'm grateful that we followed through on it and watched it. So we can talk about one... Let's start with her. Her performance. Let's start with her. Okay guys, when we reacted to Mission Mongol, they got mad at me because I didn't put her name in the title because I knew Topsy and we've seen Topsy in a bunch of stuff. We loved Topsy. And some people got mad. They were like, why would you put Topsy and not put her? She's a god. Topsy's a peasant. Blah, blah, blah, blah. She's been acting before Topsy was even born. I don't know. I'm sure. This is our first experience with her. She's a phenomenal actress. She has amazing screen presence. Freaking tasked actress. She immediately jumped to the top of the list for me of actresses I'm excited about. Yeah, to learn more about and just let us know what else we should react to with her. But her performance was in so nuance, especially knowing the whole thing after you finish it and everything like that. All the little stuff she added and all the little details. She's very small, but she's also very motherly. Great listener. She played that very well. Great listener. She's a terrific... She never had a false moment. Really? No. I can't rant about her enough. Great actress. I mean, this film would have been great even without her. I agree. Like any... An actor who didn't put the performance she did. If they were a solid actor, the role itself was written and the story is written so well. But she obviously added... Yeah, but reading the script, she just must have been like... Same with Nawaz. Anybody in this thing must have just gone, let's get working, man. Because the script was great, the story is great. Yeah. Her performance was just as it should. And I did a little research about her. And this is one of my most favorite things about this film. And I have a lot of favorite things about this film because I loved it. One of my favorite things about this film is this is probably... Remember when we reviewed Devdas? I said there was levels of it that we could understand because of our appreciate nice. We could appreciate it in a certain respect now because we had had some level of immersion in the Indian culture and spirituality and everything else. But still felt like there was a whole myriad of things we didn't grasp. This was probably the first film I saw where I had had enough exposure and homework about the setting, the context and some of the underlying things that we would have previously missed where I really could enjoy this at a deep, deep level. Yeah. And we'll talk about it in a second. Yeah. But there's really nothing to dislike about this movie. Yeah. And we could talk about Nawaz as well. This guy... Oh, I have one thing I could say. We'll talk about it later. This guy. Let's go. Let's just... Hey, I know you guys don't care about Holly. I mean, some of you care about Holly. But Holly would get your shit together and get this guy in any film possible. Yep. Get him in a Bond film. He could be one of the best Bond villains of all time. Ever. Yeah. Who's his... Okay. Here's the thing. I know you don't care. He may not care. He may not care. Like, I know Alia has said that she would like to branch out and extend that. She's actually been here. She would like to penetrate the American market and cinema, which she should. Yes. She's good enough to do that. Because the level is that good. Nawazadin is an Oscar level actor who, if he got the right role here, would become a household name. It was one of the great character actors around in cinema. And freaking should be known here that way. Yep. 100%. Yeah. If you want to watch us be even more... Doesn't need it. No. Doesn't ever need to be in an American film. Whatever. We're just mad that Americans don't know about him. Doesn't know about him. And they're not going to, sadly, because they're not going to watch Indian cinema. Yeah, but we can rattle off ten names that we feel that way. Yeah. But he's at the top of my list. Yeah, he's so crazy. Because he's so good. He doesn't try. No. No. Like, he's very just natural with all of his performances. But he's so... He has the screen presence, we said before, of an Al Pacino. Yes. Just a magnetism. The camera loves him. And he is a minor role in... I mean, he's supporting, I suppose. He's a supporting role. He's a supporting role. Yeah. It's not like he's... Vidya. Yeah, she's the star. She's got the lead role. And the co-star would be the other guy who plays the cop that's alongside of him. Very, very well. Very good job. But his performances, and he had the twists of his own in this story, which was good. Yeah. Is he good? Is he bad? Yeah. So now we're talking about that they're a freaking director. Man, you know how to play a film to where... Because obviously when you do a thriller and you're trying to guess what's going on. Right. You have to be ahead of the audience because... That's how I'm watching films, especially thrillers. Yeah. Of course. You're trying to guess what's going on. Okay, that's going to happen here. Right. And I called her not being pregnant pretty early. Uh-huh. Because I was like, that's probably, and there's a whole bunch of hints that blah, blah, blah. There's other... There's a very early hint. Yeah. About double identity when she's taking the... Not the taxi ride. She's getting a ride from... What's his name? The police officer that she's talking to. The character name and the actor name. Uh... This? Are my... No. That's not it? That's not the name. No. No, I think that... Oh, inspect this with him. No, right here. Yeah, Rana. Thank you. Rana. She's driving with Rana very early. She's just arrived in Calcutta. And she's talking to him about... Your name is Rana, but it says this on the name tag. And he explains that Bengali people have two names. They have the proper name and they have the name that's more common when they're used. And she says... She says something of the effect of interesting two identities. And it's just a little... Little wink, wink. Yeah. And I called that from pretty early, but it was still shocking to see her kick in the stomach, you know? It's like... Oh! Made me want to jump through the screen and beat the crap out of her. Right? Yeah, with a nail pipe. But... And then when... I was like, she's going to take off her belly. It's... There's something like... Because I thought that... There's a whole mirage of things. I didn't get the noisement twist. I thought he was the bad guy. I did too. I thought he was part of the bad team. That's a fun thing to learn. Like, he was bad, but he's actually the good guy. Right. And then at the end, I was like, so why is she doing it? I was like... Because I thought her husband was like a spy. But it just so happened that he was kind of almost caught up in a mistake. Yeah, and died on that train. Yeah. So this for her was to avenge. For her and she lost her child because of it. Because of the strain and the stress of what had taken place. So for her, man, she rips... She knocks the gun out of his hand. And she jabs the thing in his foot. And then when she jabs the thing in his neck... I shouted, heck yeah! And then this is so badass. He's going away. She's broken his leg. And he's running it in slow-mo. She's following him cool as a cute cunt. Oh yeah, I love that. She fussed out. And she's ready. Oh! Loved it. Yeah. Loved it. And then she just emptied her gun into it. Yeah. Just fantastic. Fantastic ending. So I can't speak enough to this director. Yeah, brilliant direction. Truly great thriller direction. Two of your films now, I believe. Yeah. The two things that immediately jumped out of you at the film. There were three things that jumped out of me immediately. First was her acting. I immediately knew this was a really, really talented actress. And the watchers, of course. Yeah, but he came later. I'm talking like... The first ten minutes of the film, she's a great listener. She's a great actress. I can't wait to watch this film because I'm going to enjoy her. This guy knows how to direct. Yeah. And I really... A really big thing for me, again, this goes back to what I said earlier in regard to having a more... A more... A deeper appreciation of this film than I would have months ago. Yeah. Because I have begun to be exposed to a lot more of what's going... Particularly Bengali film and culture in the city of Calcutta, right? Stuff that would just... I've been exposed to that. Yeah. And what I... And this particular festival and the symbolism of what takes place when the... The Durga puja that takes place in the fall. Like, see the poster? Mm-hmm. They're conveying she is Goddess Durga. Yeah. With big arms. Yeah, they kept alluding to that in the film. 100%. And I did some homework on her and discovered that, for example, if we were Indian and we were waiting for this film to come out and we saw her in this role, remember when people said Akshay was perfect for Kasari? Yeah. Because of the national pride he brings to a role? Yeah. And he can portray a particular kind of role because he's already portrayed things and has a persona. She has, at this point, already done some films about women empowerment. Oh. And he's already an actress that cinema goers would look at and go, oh, who else would you want to have play? It's like if we were doing it here, I would think of an actress that would immediately come to mind who's always playing these women that are empowered and flipping the tables on men. Yeah. I don't know in that regard, but I did have a fellow while watching it not saying they're the same actress at all, but just the kind of presence and talent she reminds me of is Amy Adams. Sure. I actually, in many respects, because she's, I don't know. Or Young Streep, even. Yeah, she has it. You know who else she reminds me of a bit? And I think it's because of the dark eyes and dark hair. There's some Natalie Portman strength going on in there. Because Natalie Portman can play a really strong woman. Oh, yeah. And she conveys, and there were times she gave glimmers of it that were so gorgeous. Like the first time she's talking to Nawazuddin, up until that point she's playing a very confident woman who's looking for her husband. But she flips a switch with him when he's saying to her, you don't know who you're dealing with. And she basically looks at him and says, yeah, you don't know who you're dealing with. And Nawazuddin just gets a little, like, what? Yeah. Why are you talking to me like that? And you know when Sy just went because I said, I get off you right now, pal. That scene was similar. The scene between Nawaz and her, just then too. Yeah. Reminded me a lot of Joker and Batman kind of just watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two actors. Two actors just do their thing. And go at it. And that's why I love it. I love it so much. Just absolutely. Two really, really good actors just kind of throwing blows. Yeah. Kind of like a boxing match. Absolutely. And so I loved it. And I thought she did a phenomenal job. And I loved, here's the other thing I loved. At the outset, I loved the, as I said, her acting, the direction. And the other thing I loved from beginning to end, and especially as the film concluded, I loved how this director utilized and made Calcutta a character in the film. And conveyed not only the sense of the culture, but as I've done research and talked with people who are from there, the significance of this particular festival at this time of year and what it represents and how this character that she portrays is the embodiment of this goddess that is celebrated at this time and that she actually does what she does during the festival and winds up going into the parade and blending in and having the colors put on her. And then at the end, it's Big B doing the narration with the goddess being submerged, which they do at the end. This was the first time I could fully, I feel, appreciate a film from India where a director was adding subtle nuances of the culture and the spirituality and a festival and tying it into the story in such a way that you recognize the artistic brilliance of the script, the story and the direction and the score and everybody together where, just like the end, I felt as fully immersed in the story and could capture the larger brilliance of the director taking the story and marrying it to this festival so that it was a celebration of both moviemaking and I got to imagine that people from Calcutta have got to be really proud of this film and the way it portrays them and their city and this festival that's so important to them. This is one of my favorite films we've seen. This would be at the top three, top five of films I would recommend to an American who has never seen 100% any Indonesian cinema because it would be a good blend of what they know because it needs to be something similar in terms of style of film to something they're familiar with. You can't just show them Devdas. No, they would, or Lagan, they would lose their minds over that. You need to be exposed more but this kind of film, I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't taken this idea, honestly. They're really good but the idea of it doesn't work. The acting is all brilliant, the directing, the score even. It's a subtle score but it helps the film move along which is as impressive as a big score. And even as we're learning, because we've learned before we started doing the channel we just knew India and then we began to realize, oh there's East India and there's South India and there's North India and there are completely diverse differences of the rural versus the urban and then there's... And so this regionally, the Bengali of this I know reading some notes because we haven't jumped into this filmmaker's work but Sajit Reha, if I'm pronouncing his name correctly the legend of the Bengali cinema, we did the trilogy thing that we had done that they haven't seen because as happens... Well, Patreon has seen it. Yeah, Patreon's seen it. It got copyrighted. It got copyrighted but it'll be here. There are apparently hints and little celebrations that this director does that are shout outs to that director's films. That if we were watching, for example, a contemporary director who started doing some things that were Hitchcockian we as American cinema lovers would go I loved his shout outs to Hitchcock. Apparently this director and that makes me... I can get emotional. The love he has for the artistry and the cinema of this region of India is just to me as about as beautiful as it gets. Yeah, I would love to delve one more into her obviously and then his work as well. So let us know for both of them what of her films we should react to next or watch and then his films as well. Yeah. The only thing I didn't like... There's a second one. Yeah, there was. You know what? I learned this about it. Talk about success. They filmed this thing on a shoestring budget of about a million American writers. Oh, wow. That's not a lot. And it made 15 million in its first couple of weeks. Really? Yeah, American by ratio. The only thing I didn't like about it were some of the really small roles were bad. Really small. Like the secretary at the office that they went to talk to every once in a while who had maybe five lines. The guy at the Mona Lisa at the front desk. I'm talking... That's super, super, super, super nitpicky that I wouldn't even mention to people when I'm recommending the movie because they probably wouldn't even notice. That's me being uber critical. Those didn't bother me too much. Yeah. I'm being uber. I just got to pinpoint it to say that's the only thing that takes it from being just almost a perfect film for me. I give it an A plus. A plus. 100% of it is an A plus. One of my favorites. One of my favorites just again. I would... I'm actually going to because you know who... You shall not be named. She was like, you watched that without me? And I want Ashley and Alexis to see this as well. I would put this, for example, because it's similar. It's the exact same way you do. When I'm recommending movies to people here, I will tell them which ones I think they'll ingest because it'll be more palatable to their cinema appetites. Like, I think Gully Boy is extremely palatable for American cinema. Yeah. This one even more so. This one even more so. Because of the runtime. Exactly. Yeah. And so is Pink. Yeah. And so is Badla. Very similar. But, example, as much as this is similar to, say, Pink and Badla because it's a thriller, it doesn't have the legal aspect of it. But this one is so much more immersed and sapping and ripping with Indian culture and Bengali culture. It's just fun too. I mean, thrillers that you don't know what's coming is fun. And even with somebody who got it completely spoiled once again, I didn't. Yeah. Even with the spoiler, you can still enjoy it because it's such a well-made film. This movie has an impact for me that's much deeper because I have had a particular focus of what I've been looking at and reading about in regard to Calcutta and Bengali life and Bengali filmmaking. And that ending picture for me where the goddess is being submerged and the symbolism of that and knowing what that means and knowing what this particular festival means, this had a much deeper impact on me that if I had watched this three months ago, wouldn't have hit me the same way. I mean, it would have been a good film. It would have been a great film. That's what's beautiful about it is it's both a film that the average American can see and love but the person who's going to become immersed particularly in this part of India, it was like a providentially beautiful moment to see this movie for me right now. So let us know what else we should watch and review next of his films and her films as well. I absolutely want to see so much more of her films. Both of them. Both of them. And obviously, you know how we feel about Nawaz, but of course we're going to watch so much.