 Remember when I used to have to set that up? We're very mustard today. I like a couple of Dwights. You consider this to be mustard? Yeah, together. Baby poop. To our stupid rakes as you get some Corbin. I'm Rick, he follows on Instagram. And Twitter for more juicy content. It's so juicy. They both just hate it. I'm a fellow official of Twitter account. Ring the bell to be part of the notification squad. Bang! Ring it. Ring it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can do it. And today we are doing a movie review. Rick, did you watch a movie? You were supposed to. You know I did. Anyways, we watched CyRot. It's right. Is that how you do it? I know it's a CyRot. I think that's right. CyRot, okay. Which we've actually kind of already seen the movie based on how many of the songs we have reacted to from the film. Yeah, and this is our second Marofi film. Yes. It was a long time coming, we know. I think the other film, there's several films we've done this with. Well, it was the Hydroaniac DiDewaniac. That's the one where we'd been reacting to the songs for like a year and I think we'd seen every musical number and then we saw the film. I think the same thing was true with this. I think we've seen every musical number from the film and just hadn't seen the film. Yeah, and so sorry about that. Yeah, so now we've seen the film. But if we had not reacted to those songs, you wouldn't be able to see and they are beautiful songs. And we had wonderful reactions to the movie, we may say so ourselves. And so we reacted to them doing the orchestrations in Los Angeles, which was the first time that that had been done for an Indian film. I think I got blocked. Oh, then it was just Patreon. Sorry, I can't remember if it was just a song. But yeah, that's fine. It is a, read that. The synopsis is in Interior Maharashtra, a fisherman's son and a local politician's daughter fall in love against the restrictions of caste hierarchy. Directed by? Waiting for it to pop up. So I can read it properly. Nagraj Manjul, who did Fandrey as well. And then starring, I'm just gonna say the main two. Yeah, Rinku Rajguru and Akash Fosar. And I don't know if you wanna say the other because the friends and then the... Yeah, there's like three other friends as well as her dad. That's really... There's the two main leads and then an ensemble of friends and family. So finally watched it. Initial thoughts for them. I wanna know your initial thoughts because I have a feeling I know what Corbin... Okay, by the way, we've gotta just be spoiling this right off the bat, just letting you know. If you haven't seen it and you don't want the movie to be spoiled for you, go away. I... The minute the ending came, I said out loud, Corbin will love this film. Am I right? Yeah. But not just because it was a really good film. Like, we could talk about the ending in a minute, but... You're gonna have liked it more than I did. Really? Yeah. The whole why? Why didn't you, what was it? I didn't dislike the ending. I knew it was coming. Did you know it was coming? Yeah, well, I figured, because she was being dumb and inviting her... Yeah, the minute the dudes showed up, I'm like, bat, these tigers are showing their stripes. This is not gonna end well. No, not at all. So when their little boy walks in, I'm like, yep. Saw that coming. Yeah, I did love what the director did with it though. I did too. The ending. You hated the ending, as far as just... I mean, I personally don't like the thought of two innocent people being murdered in their kitchen and their son discovering the bloody lifeless bodies. That's just me. I know, but... The realism. Yeah. But what I particularly liked in the reveal was the way it was done from the POV of the son. And then he shut off the audio. The sound, the audio was totally shut off. That was awesome. Yeah. It was a great decision. You didn't need it at all. And I will say, before I had a son, I wouldn't have felt as emotional during that. I didn't cry. Oh, I was gonna say, my wife, she bawled. Okay. She was bawling. But I think before I had a son, I would be like, oh, this is awesome. I was more like, oh, this is cool, but mm, that would be awful. That's it. That's it. Orban Miles kind of ended. So, yeah. Let me tell you everything I liked about the film. Okay. All right. And then I'll tell you the couple things I didn't like. Okay. The things I liked about the film. First of all, the thing that towers and soars above everything is the score in the music. Oh, the score, yeah. It's just... And we did that in the fact that they did it in Los Angeles. And the strings of the entire thing was so unique to anything we've ever seen from India so far. And it was so, so... So I love the score. Love the score. It's just quite probably, for me, the most memorable in terms of its overall impact for me in listening to this score. And a big reason for that is because we reacted to so many of the songs on their own, including the one just purely orchestral piece, which is for the beginning of the film. And ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, yeah. I just think it's so just freaking gorgeous. It's one of the most beautiful scores I've ever heard. Yeah. Absolutely beautiful. I thought there were also moments where the cinematography matched the score. I thought there were moments where the cinematography was really pretty. There were never moments in the cinematography where I didn't like what I was seeing or felt that there were mistakes. For the most part, I felt everybody was believable most of the time. I'd say 90% of the time, I believed everybody. I found myself caring about the guy and the girl. I didn't find myself. I felt the direction was solid with the writing. I felt all of that was very believable. There were things about the story we'll talk about that really bother me, that I'm sure bother you as well. The things that didn't make it a film that I love were I felt the first hour could have, as beautiful as the score was, it didn't need to be three hours for me. It felt longer than it needed to be, which is just one of the things that contributed to me not loving it. The biggest contributor for me were moments where I didn't believe the emotional complexity that I think the actors needed to portray when they were crying. There was one moment the girl had that I was like, thank you, I believe you there. And the other moments, whenever he or she had to cry, I didn't believe they were crying. I saw them indicating and that always really bothers me and pulls me out of a story and it's hard for me to get back in and it happened like multiple times. So that for me is the biggest reason it wasn't a film that I loved because I found myself on like four occasions going, I don't believe you're crying right now. And I wish I was on set and could say, okay, stop. Let's take time to work on this and see what wall is causing you to do this or why you haven't learned how to cry on cue the right way and the indicating of wiping tears away that aren't there is just stuff that totally pulls me out. But she had a beautiful moment on the phone with her mom. Well, I thought she had, I really actually enjoyed her performance and what the writers and the director did with her entire character. I thought most of the time they were believable. Really, really brilliant. Most of the time they were believable except the crying points for me, but those are like our like critical moments. Yeah, but they're critical. Yeah, it's three hours long. I know, but those are the critical moments. It's three hours long. But anyways, I loved what they did with her character especially. She in his too, because I think the reason I was, it was long for sure, but I think the reason I was okay with it was because it was basically a lifetime that they were showing us. And I loved the arc especially that she had because she came in and I loved her character. And I really liked the way her character was written. She was just a little badass heck. And she doesn't care, she will go for what she wants. I was so rooting for her to shoot somebody. Oh yeah. And so I loved that whole dynamic of, because just off the bat, you normally think that the guy is the dominant one and that's just normally how it goes, but it's refreshing to see. At the beginning at least, it's that way. Agreed. And then I loved the way they wrote her character into this arc of she's really strong-willed and she knows what she wants at the beginning, when she's in a very direct, and then when she gets out of it and she's like, okay, let's run away, she thinks it's gonna be like the movies and she's gonna be, because she loves film and so I'm sure she's seen people elope and run off into the sunset. And I liked the writing of her becoming disillusioned and suddenly wishing she was back home. Yeah, I liked that. I liked that a lot where it went there and then she was regretting it when she didn't have that money anymore and so she wasn't in her comfort zone and she almost became a totally different person. And then, well they both did. Yeah, yeah, that whole scene where they're both being just terrible to each other. I have one scene, he's doing it and then the next scene, she's like, okay, I'll make it better and then he doesn't wanna do it. Right. And then assholes to each other. Right. And then that whole scene when they go away and then they come back, which was nice that she returned. That she returned and then it moved into them as older and they've had a kid now. And then I guess she's just become stupid and decided that her dad's a changed man. And also the last thing we watched through Dan, this father makes that father look like the father of the year. Yeah, I don't think that dad would have killed this kid. Now here's something about the film I don't like, but let me clarify what I mean by that. What I'm about to say is not, I'm not saying I don't like the film and think the film is less because of this. It's a subject I don't like. It's something that exists in the world that was portrayed well in the film that I don't like. Does that make sense? It, so because I've said some things about like the biggest thing that caused me to not love the film were those moments where I saw the indicating rather than believability with the crying. And the subject matter, I get a visceral response when I see, I don't call them men, males, slap women. Whether it's a dad slapping his daughter, a boyfriend slapping his girlfriend, a brother slapping his sister, or a husband slapping his wife, it is one of the most repugnant things in the human race that I can see. And what, I know it exists. I know there's a culture that lives the way it's portrayed in this film as our honor killings. There are cultures and they're in all over the world where dads and brothers think and uncles, it is a actual like pleasing to God to murder their daughter for disobeying them in the way that she did. And I find that so transcendently repugnant. It's not one of my reasons for not loving the film. Does that make sense? No, but okay. I'm probably not doing a good job explaining it. What I'm trying to do is talk about this topic without it making seem like I didn't like the movie because of it. I don't want it to equate to that. I'm just pointing out- I don't think anybody likes those things. No, I don't, it's true. Well, I think it's like you're explaining like I don't like murder. No, there are men who, I guarantee whether they're Indian or American or German or wherever, who will watch this film and they'll be like, yeah, put her in her place. And that's, I hate that that exists in the world. I hate that what's depicted in the film in the same way, for example, this is the grand example. I really, what I was gonna use is Schindler's List. I hate what happened in the Holocaust, but I love Schindler's List. I hate that that actually is going on in the world in places, but it didn't change my opinion of the film itself. That's what I'm trying to articulate. Gotcha. Does that make sense now? It still doesn't make sense? Okay. It's like, to me, it sounds like you're explaining, I don't like murder, that's what I'm saying about this film. It's just weird to me that you're explaining that you don't like it because obviously we don't like that. Yeah, but that's a different thing. I don't like murder, but I don't have a visceral response to it the way I do slapping and abusing women. Like the moment he slapped her in the restaurant. Oh yeah, bad. I wanted him to have, when he's on the street with her and he's grabbing her wrist, I'm wanting guys to show up and break his legs. I don't like him anymore. I'm not rooting for him anymore. And when she goes back with him, okay. Now guys can make a mistake, not that mistake. Sorry. Sorry. Oh no, I'm fine, but you also liked Kabir Singh. He made that same mistake. Did he? Yeah. He slapped her? Oh yeah, he did. So that's what I'm saying. I don't, I don't, I- Wait, when did he slap her? I don't know, he's- In the street. In the street. He slapped her in the street? He did. And then he goes to her house. Oh, I think I know why. Yeah, I think I know why. Yeah. Why what? And I had the same response. I had a visceral response to that. No, no, I agree. I'm slapping, it's terrible. And I was like, you're a piece of shit. I don't know. But it doesn't impact the way I feel about, I don't know if I'm doing a good job explaining it. No, you're not, but we can move on from that. Okay. My main thing about the film that pulled me out of it multiple times was my wishing the two leads who were believable most of the time and I enjoyed the majority of the time didn't have the capacity and whether it's their fault or not as a material to me. I really wished I had seen actors that could have gone into the depths of the emotional complexity that needed to be portrayed in those moments that their default, which is natural for somebody who can't go there was indicating because it just, I get completely pulled out of the believability of the film for me. That's my biggest gripe. But I did really enjoy the directing part of it as well because even though it was three hours, it was almost three different films essentially in those three hours. The first one was the first hour was like the love story, them falling in love. And then it's them in that relationship and then trying to run away. And then the last little bit last 30 minutes is them in their older life with their and kind of living their life now. And so I enjoyed that it helped the film move along and not feel as long. It is a long film. It's three hours, of course it's long. But then that's the only gripe because I actually really enjoyed this film. I thought it was great. Even without that ending, I would have enjoyed it. That just kind of was a little icing on the cake. I love it. So sincerely, you felt the moments that they had where they had to break down and cry. You were never, you were fully absorbed believing and drawn in with it and found it to be believable. No. Okay. But that doesn't ruin the film. It doesn't bother you. There's lots of films we've watched that has bits and pieces of bad acting, especially in the crying department. And I sat through Dev Doss and that thing has a bunch of shit acting in it. So, well, if I could do that, it has over emphasize but it doesn't have indicating in the crying. I did not have those same overall issues that didn't bother me. That's fine, like it bothered you. I would definitely watch this one over Notts and Rott again. So the two of the two Marathi films we've seen, this is my favorite. And obviously that's not a lot, that's two. No, I would agree. I would agree with you as far as the enjoyability of the film. Especially so much was so enjoyable. And I thought the director did really well, especially certain shots he did were so brilliant. That last one, obviously with the kid was so heartbreaking and then the fact that he turned off the sound I thought was brilliant. But then also there's certain shots when they were passing notes or he was trying to get her to open the note. He kind of just panned over. Yeah, those were really nice shots. And it was all, it looked like one shot but it kept just going to different scene and it cut in between the walls. Yeah, it just kept panning. So a lot of shots in the cinematography I really enjoyed in this film. Another thing I really enjoyed was I felt that the supporting cast of his buddies were all 100% believable. There's been times where what I'm about to say has happened and I've had a really big ripe about it where there's multiple scenes in this where he in particular is getting a snot kicked out of him by the brothers and the family members of her. And there's been films we've seen where people are getting a snot kicked out of them and they miss, it's awful. They did a very good job of staging all of those scenes. I thought every single one of them was believable. The dad, he's such a terrible, terrible person. Oh man. Just such a bad person. Well, and that too, we didn't discuss this in addition to the slap bank. It was a great scene when she called her mom. Yes it was. That was a really good scene. I was actually hoping they would cut to the mom more because I wanted to see what she was going through. Clearly she doesn't give a shit. She was like, kill my daughter, I guess. Or it just happened without her knowing. It may have happened without her knowing. She may have given them a guess. She clearly told the dad about it. She may have been in on it. She knew that the dad said, if you mention her again, you will feel my wrath or whatever. True. And so I knew that he was done with it. True. And so I was like, why are you calling your family? And so I was mad at the girl at the end. Me too. Because you were so smart for most of the entire thing. And why are you offering them tea because these guys are here to jack you guys up? Yeah. But the two other things that we didn't really talk about that are portrayed in our poignant, primary point of the story are the caste system and the differentiation, which is a universal thing because whether it's caste, it'll be social strata. It'll be economic strata, where people are prejudicial toward other people. And I correct us, if we're wrong, I think it does a pretty good job of portraying what it really is like in parts of India where there is still prejudices based on caste as well as corruption that can take place in any particular place where you have power, but particularly anybody who's in politics. Like that scene where his son slaps the teacher and then is like proud of his son for doing it and lets them know he's gonna get away with that because I'm a guy of stature and power in the village. Yeah. Can't relate to that here in America. Yeah. So, yeah, all in all, I thought there was more to like about this film than not and some things about the film to love, some of the best overall score and songs of anything. It's especially like, there's songs like Yajwani or the one we just watched, Yajwani, Higuani, that's what it was called, right? Yeah. Those are just fun, big, huge Bollywood numbers. These are some artistically just beautiful overall scores and just songs. Agreed. And they were already on my playlist. Yeah, I agree. I think this is a better film than Not Some Rod. If I was to pick between the two, I kind of would, there's no comparison for me. I just don't love it because the primary thing is the indicating moments that pulled me away, which I'm hypercritical than other people. So I get it. And if it doesn't bother me, it doesn't bother you. That makes sense. As much as I, again, I won't communicate this right. I hate watching women get slapped because I know what exists in the real world and I get a visceral response to it. But again, we need to have films that talk about it. So it's that love-hate relationship. The runtime was a little bit long for me. It could have, for me, helped if it wasn't as dragged out. And I think part of the reason it felt dragged out was I was dreading any other moments that were gonna come up of emotional import where they were indicating rather than really giving me something I was believing. And even though I knew it was coming, I hate that ending. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I just hate that ending. Oh, no, it's good. It ended and the little kid's there, and I'm like, oh, and he was good too. Yeah, he did. He did do a good little kid actor right there. I liked him. I like, I think he did very well. And I don't know if the director helped him out by turning off the audio or what, but I thought it was brilliant to turn off the audio. And it was a great choice. I don't think you need any music behind that. No, I don't think you need sound to understand what that kid and your sympathy to that kid. And for a film that has been using score and music so powerfully to convey who these two are to silence the music, that's probably the best directorial choice in the film. And in a theater, it must have been shockingly stark to go from, especially for people who didn't see it coming. Anybody who didn't see it coming, this would have been a punch to the gut. And I appreciate their artistic license. I appreciate movies that end this way. I know you love it, but I like movies that have the endings that say dreams do come true. Realism. Realism. So very excited to watch another Marathi film. So please let us know down below what we should watch and review next in terms of, in general, and also what should be the next Marathi film we explore down below. Yeah.