 Um, I don't know if you did any research. Do you know who the director of the 12 fail is? Like it to the industry um no well, he produced and Helped write almost all of roshka maharani films not donkey Uh, a lot of people said that's where the magic was lost. It showed uh, and he is the husband of Anupam Chopra from film companion. That's who she's married to I wonder if she reviewed it Why not, but she probably can't she'd seen it many times and she's very biased Yeah, but I think she I mean, I could like this film didn't work for me. Yeah. No, I would do that's one of the things. It's gonna be I mean That's one of my greatest dreads is to have to do A press junket and promote something that you're in That you know isn't good. Yeah, that's my biggest dread because I just cannot be dishonest about those things I'll be calling in sick those days Hey, welcome back to our steve direct sub corbin. I'm rick For more juicy content Oh, that was a accident followed by a delight and today we're doing a movie review Uh, and we're doing a review of the 1982 I believe it's parallel cinema uh film earth Sounds like a dog barking who let the dogs Off the rails, sorry, uh the 1982 uh hindi film or parallel cinema to be exact directed by I believe alley abouts father. You are correct and written by alley abouts father not the first thing of his we've seen Uh starring um say these names shabana azmi and Cool bushin corbanda and smitha patil as well as raj karan. Yeah They're the primary those are your primaries character. We've seen quite a bit more and a couple others I don't know if you remember where you've seen her. Um, I was trying to place it You've seen her older. I have seen her you've seen her older. Um this year She wasn't in uh joram. No, okay What was she in rocky irani She's the old lady falls in love with the uh, she's uh, uh, what's her what's her what's her face that they The older people she's the older lady in it Anyway, apparently she's uh, just like schmita patel is known for her acting especially in parallel cinema around this time Yeah, anyways, uh, it's came out in 1982 It's gonna be a full-on spoiler review just because you've had playing it around alongside So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it come back because it's going to be a full-on spoiler review rick Your initial thoughts of earth earth earth earth. It's um Anytime we go back Toward the 80s in indian cinema even the 90s too, but that's true today There's just so much that we are still learning about the history of indian cinema that Our our vantage point of it is is is just purely subjective and you I try to take everything into it I liked it. Um It has aspects of it that I had to force myself to watch because it just has some flaws in it, but at the time I don't know whether those flaws are are are generally as far as technicalities. I don't know if those kinds of things are really Artistic flaws versus they were flaws of the technology at the time things like editing You know things like that, but all in all I thought I thought the story was uh, very intriguing I I did think it was weird that parallel cinema had as many songs in it as it did because I know parallel cinema was known for not having songs my favorite takeaway from this is is Uh shabana asmi as as puja her performance um and I I just I love the subject matter that parallel cinema talked about because it wasn't really happening elsewhere in indian cinema at the time And I think laid the groundwork for what is today's Cinema, so I think I see it's historical importance and there's a lot of things I liked about it, but it's not necessarily one of those I'm jumping up and down about and say I want to put in my library as you know, one of the greatest films of all time um Yeah, I enjoyed this film as much as you can enjoy an infidelity film, of course, you know Right, man. I just loved watching this whole concept of people cheating on each other. It's great Um, no, you know how I feel about that. Yeah, I know I I enjoyed it. Um especially the performances, uh, and the stories of it in terms of, um They being about a woman finding herself and finding not herself and another man even Finding herself as a person and who she wants to be for the rest of her life And that's the the overall Incredibly empowering film for 1982 and for a woman. I think the the women definitely carried the film. Yes Obviously, it's a woman-centric story, but um the the shmeeta and and shim shambana. I believe right. Yeah, um And I I enjoyed the the men as well, uh, especially we're Raj's character. I thought he was a really green flag character for sure Um, which is for 1980s in India. I was like, oh, wow. He's pretty darn progressive Yeah, very much for his character. Sure is. Um, there were some obviously saying the same thing that that you saw that I was like, okay That's probably a something that's dated or that was the acting style Yeah, and some smaller roles were pretty dreadful in in certain things not most most of the scenes especially with shambana and shmeeta were Were really really nice especially especially the end Uh, when it was them two and in one scene. I really really appreciated that scene Um, but overall I I enjoyed the film. It's one that's been recommended to us a lot. Um for one these actors shmeeta we know well, but then I think people wanted us to uh When we when we saw rocky arani and we didn't know who who shabana was me was yeah, they were like We've done a disservice to uh rick and corbin the fact that this is their first uh experience Yeah, because she's done over 100 films. I saw yeah, so exactly. I would love to see why yeah, I just talk about her Yeah, uh, who just obviously this day and she's the lead in the film. Um She she did such a brilliant job her her arc in this thing was a great character great character to play and I Whether it was her whether it was the directing was a little bit of both I loved everything about her character in terms of what they because obviously in the beginning You're like, oh, this is a lovely couple and then what she did or what she was directed to do when she found out um When he was cheating on her when he finally told her Like she was just so standoffish and and like normally people Praise like, you know, when you give a big monologue or stuff like that, but what she was doing was so believable In that moment. I agree. Um, I really loved it. Um, my favorite Line in the whole movie. I don't know if you liked it as well But he came back and it was after she she was like don't ever mention her name again And then he came back and I think was asking for the divorce papers on her birthday Yeah, he didn't remember her birthday. Awful, right? Yeah, but He was like Cavita, Cavita, Cavita's not well and she just said who? I know I love that as well. I was like damn My drop straight face. Just she's like, who who don't know that person I'm not familiar with who you're talking to me. I'm not familiar with who you're talking about. Yeah I love that too. I love that whole line. Um, but yeah, her her performance was Really great. I I loved her chemistry with um, Raj And then the fact that I was like, okay, this is 1980s. They're probably gonna end up together Because obviously he's so nice. He's like he's such a exactly what she's looking for and then they flipped it and they were like I'm not looking for Anything right now and multiple things she said Even to him was like, I don't want to feel anymore. I just I don't want to feel while living I just because you've been hurt. Yeah say the other thing that I thought was really great because it's true The realization that cavita has yeah when she Looks at india and she says I've come I've come to understand something You cheated on puja. Mm-hmm. You're gonna cheat on me. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah, you will and that's the truth Yeah, you're what you're a cheater. Yeah, um, I really and I don't want to It was difficult because I read that this is somewhat this is semi-autobiographical Oh, really? Yes on an affair on an affair that that that he Mahesh Bahat had had he had this with an actress Yes, yes, this was semi-autobiographical where he is Uh, I believe he is the india character and puja is you know, that's the wife and then there's an actress And he's a film director. Oh, all those things are very connected And I didn't want to do a psychological analysis of why he did what he did I don't know if this was something that was cathartic and cleansing for him Or if it was something just being open and transparent. I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt of Irrespective of the motive of why you make a film like this I appreciate the nature of revealing something this openly For the sake of art and the sake of talking about the human condition. Yeah, I also appreciated that he didn't Um He didn't Even really as bad as indir is he didn't demonize him. Yeah, which I'm sure comes from his own perspective of having been It was pretty easy to hate him though. Very easy to hate him. He was he was he's a cheater and a liar Yeah, and selfish and But I I think my favorite part about all of it is the empowerment of of both women But especially puja. Yeah, and for her to walk with her head held high Not just I'm living on my own in a world and a place that says I need a man I'm gonna be raising a kid that isn't mine at the same time. Yeah, that is damn powerful Yeah, absolutely. Uh the the empowerment in this film is incredible is great especially in 1982. Um And we've seen it many times from india that they were like, well, they were making this Yeah This whatever year was we've seen that a lot by I did appreciate actually the um the maid character as well That whole story that too was a point of empowerment in that Your your thoughts are about the legal system of the amount of abuse She has had at the hands of that man and it eventually reached a point where it went to overflow And she was what we consider today here a crime of passion. Yeah, she probably was a good attorney get off Yeah, hopefully, yeah, but not in that situation And I couldn't I just I know it happens all the time but the amount of people telling puja Oh, just forgive him. He'll come back You know, he's a man Really infuriating. Yeah But again, how many times have we seen From indian cinema, but especially the parallel cinema these really progressive woman empowering Um, yeah, I mean go back Which I my understanding is with parallel cinema really begins with Bengali cinema and look at films. We've seen that have Empowerment of women. Yeah, it's it's huge. Yeah the uh, and then I went Fucking in there He left, uh Kavita or whatever name is and then went back and he said I'll take you back now. She said go fuck you Yeah, really, but she basically said Yeah, no, I don't think so. Yeah, I was hoping because what did she say at the end? She was like Tell me one thing. Oh, yeah, if you did if if I did would you take me back? Right, which was a great line. Yeah, I was hoping she was like, I will take you back. Tell me when my birthday is Yeah, that's what I wanted but what they wrote is probably better And I both ladies did Superlative jobs. I really enjoyed the end scene. Yeah, and shabana has a a It's the old adage the camera's gonna love you or the camera's not gonna love you And it goes it goes into more than just aesthetics It it has to do with the magnetism that comes from the act from the person themselves Because there's a lot of people who wouldn't be on the cover of a magazine as a model She would but there's a lot of people who wouldn't be on the cover of a magazine, but the camera loves them. Yeah Um And she's one of those people that just the camera loves her but anytime she was on screen I was captivated. She carried the film for me. Absolutely. Yeah, uh her and her and schmita That that end scene where where schmita is going all crazy Um, which I thought For a time where it's really difficult to grasp Mental illness without making it a caricature. Yeah, she did a great job. Yeah, she just had panic attacks Which they didn't call panic attack. Yeah, but she wasn't overdoing it and trying to play mentally ill I could really see her trying to incarnate the problems that this woman was facing where stand out and I want to shout out my hush But because this actually felt a lot of times that it was directed by a female Yeah, maybe it was because the the performances were so good because a lot of times you can tell Especially if it's a female driven story, not that females always had to tell female driven stories No, obviously that's not I don't believe that but A lot of times you can tell when something's directed by a man Just by the perspective that it's that it's giving especially on this subject matter Yeah, uh, give the the man some more leeway than he should be given sure stuff like that Well, especially if it's semi-autobiographical He he didn't take the film to make a justification for his actions at all more the opposite really it was very much Uh, uh, here's what it's like to be human. Yeah in all the mistakes that are made. Yeah um, I I The the character of raja that I did appreciate and I and I was shocked that there were A couple songs in this but I did appreciate his songs Especially I liked them especially the uh the first one where she was sitting at the party Yeah, well, obviously it was an introspective song for her basically, but I I liked that song a lot I thought it was a very very pretty Yeah, I didn't have a problem with it was just shocked me because I know parallel cinema is known for not including that Yeah, I don't think they don't have them. Yeah always, but yeah, I think a lot of the times just because At least to make them big song And the one thing I had to force myself through this is just a technical thing again It's it's part of the day was was was two aspects. The first one was there's no ambient sound anywhere for anything really Oh, yeah, and the amount of reverb they had on the dubbing was just off the charts Especially at the at the outset. There was a lot of reverb. I didn't notice that. Yeah, it was it was tough I got past it. I didn't know those kinds of things could be distracting for me. I didn't notice that Uh, anyways overall, I enjoyed the film. I'm glad we finally got to it A lot of people have been waiting for us to get to this for Numerous reasons obviously for the director for the actresses for the just parallel cinema in general for 80s Yeah, I understand that the kubishan is Very well known in the world of of parallel cinema. Uh, well parallel salmon lagun Oh, yeah, that's right there header header Holy crap, that's that guy Wait, that's the guy mind blown. That's my zipper That's the grandpa and mersiper Oh, wow. Yeah, we're done, buddy. Wow. Hold on. I'm gonna just confirm this here Yeah Holy crap what I saw and I was like, oh, yeah, that's him He kind of looks like modi in that picture actually it's on his IMDb page, doesn't he? Yeah Yeah, I did not always live up to the name kids I'm picturing his face. I knew he looked familiar to me and I thought yeah I've seen him probably in some other films, but nothing that I really would have known Yeah, that is him, isn't it? Wow Yeah, and he did a very good job. It's just he's Yeah, these are the Not never rolls that you're like, oh, I love that roll of that cheating man. No, but Anybody who did parallel cinema was a lover of the art form a lover of theater a lover of the whole Coming from Italy and France did it as well at the time and this resurgence of Realism became very very important So Thespians, yeah, I'm just mind blown Yeah, I'm so glad we just saw that his voice also reminds me at that time of nasir's voice at that time When he first walked in I was watching it and and droney She'd seen it so she was just watching a little bit with me the moment he walked in I went Oh, was that nasir? No, no, no, he didn't do every parallel cinema film rick. No Oh, he's in the crew The crew is with Karina taboo and oh and creedy I think it's about a flight crew. Yeah and diligent comes out this year Um, wow anyways Uh, we're learning every day. Yeah, exactly. Let us know What you thought about the film if you liked it if you didn't like it and uh, what should be the next parallel cinema? From the hesh from these actresses from these actors from or just in general, obviously, I know, uh, we get to a lot more 90s cinema a lot of times than 80s So obviously let us know what the next 80s film should be classic month is coming up I'd typically especially for hindi like classics to be pre 80s just because I want it to be the much older stuff Um, but if it's something that's really important, I could slide to 1985 but I would Especially for hindi. I'd like to keep it mostly pre yeah Yeah, um, just because they've been around a lot longer the history right as opposed to like malia even though they've been around their Golden era from what I'm told is 80s. Yes later. Um, so anyways, let us know what you thought about this film Which will be the next Parallel cinema we should watch down below