 Pop quiz fuck Churchill, what that's it? I'm Rick And patreon their stuff I put over there don't put anywhere else. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, please do it daddy Yeah, if you want to see me put things where I've never put them before go to patreon, you know what I'm talking about nipple Nazi That's a weird way to say Churchill Well, oh wait. No, it's not it fits if the if if the fat pants fit Yep, the fat. Yeah, naked pink boy. Yeah, cunt. Anyways Winnie-churchal today. We're doing a movie review If you can't guess what it is you can't read cuz it was in the title. Yeah And if you don't know what that is you haven't been paying attention Like us. Yeah, today. We're doing a movie of the such as a ride Oh, oh, that's the Bengali say They don't they don't 1973 film I was for it. Do you have the actual name of it? Yes, it's called the English translation is obviously distant thunder Yes, but that is not it starts with an a or something. No, it starts with well crap. Where did I put? Man, I had it Where is it where is it where is it poop? Here you go. I I got it over here to her talk amongst yourselves. It is called Shani shonkette a shani shonkette A shani shonkette the distant thunder. Yeah 1973 film by such is right. Yeah We've been highly requested to one get such it right. So obviously we're gonna watch everything everything is done Before we are done. Hopefully But it's also we whenever we talked about like films that had to deal with the famine Yeah, this is one obviously that came up a lot and obviously understandably so Yes, that's what it's dealing with Yes, and because there are so few films about this event so strange to me. Yeah, it Anyways, we'll get into that. Yeah, but yeah, so if you haven't seen it go watch it. It's on Amazon. Yep So you can go watch it there. It's only a hundred Hour 30 essentially. Yep. It's a 90 minute movie. Most of his films are yeah, he clipped him He he said what he had to say. Yeah. Anyways, but it'll be a hundred cents. Well reviews So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it and come back Rick your initial thoughts, please Um, I don't like the fact that we're Counting down the films that we're no longer gonna have like as I was watching it I was thinking there's we're gonna come to a point here where we will have seen all of his films How many films does he have? I doubt I don't know off the top of my head, but but That makes me sad. Yeah, thanks that we will think we will be such a great director because he is a great director So what a shock? Love this film. Yeah There's a lot I can say about it. Where's it? Where does it rank for you off the top of your head? Man, that's so hard. That's how good he is. Yeah, it's so hard to rank I think in terms of films. I still think in terms of like How much I just enjoyed the overall film big cities probably still my favorite. I loved big city It is for me You know old poot trilogy is one film and that's that's the crown. Yeah, big cities next. Yeah But this one is this isn't my top five. This is so important. This one's this one's in my top five for sure Yeah, it may be in my top three. Yeah, it's so important because the hero though is so cinematically Oh Daring for him. It's hard to write. It's really hard to rank. We're right films got the surprise surprise This is gonna be us just talking about how great he is and how great a film. This is so it's uh, I Really, I really enjoyed this film. It's The only thing I who wished was different was the fact that I Wish it was almost in a different time. So he could go farther It's interesting. You said that because I I specifically I think he did for the time I think he went as far as he could go I think he did for the time and I think he did for the amount of money He could spend yeah, and I asked that of Indrani and she will never know No, she actually did not watch it with me. She yes And I I said I wonder if if Rai was around today And he had the kinds of budgets that are available to filmmakers right now I wonder if he would How much of his storytelling would change or if he would still keep it as Simplistic, I think he would still keep it as simple as he does. I think so I don't think the challenge I I think for him If there's something he wanted to do he would have somehow found the money to get it accomplished. Yeah And but there are so many things I think he could have done one of my favorite things about this is he takes something that is On and I think it was intentional I bet if you had talked to him about it or if there's interviews about it He took something that is so massive in its scale the Bengal famine and all of the contributing factors and the millions who died, right? Yeah And brought it down and made it an extraordinarily personal story so that you could feel the impact of this on a personal Level it's kind of like The pianist and the Holocaust where you've got a film that's focusing on one man's life Yeah, but it gives you the feeling of the totality of of the Holocaust. Yeah, I just don't understand why there hasn't been more Like because obviously it's different than obviously what happened at For Schindler's list because even though obviously millions upon millions of people died That's very similar and it was obviously done by a person Yeah, but obviously that has to do with concentration camps and all that kind of stuff actual physical abuse And I know there was that and so I feel like you could make an incredibly Schindler's list-esque film you now have have the guy who made Sardar Udan, what's his name? Yeah, if you could say films plural could be made Yeah, you can make a whole series think about all the films that have been made about world war two. Yeah and specifically focusing on The atrocity of the Holocaust talk about a oscar bait in terms of it would That's that's a film obviously that would get recognized obviously if it's done Well, correct and there are enough big players in Indian cinema It's like hey guys note to self obviously it should be a Bengali film Yeah, it really should but like it it absolutely Should be told and should be told on a grand scale because I guarantee outside of India For the most part 99 of the rest of the world have no idea No about the great Bengal famine no and what and who caused it in the same way that most people aren't aware of like As is the case in most places Histories told by the victors So in addition to not knowing that for example When we're taught world war two, we're not talk About the bombing of Dresden And the bombing of Dresden if you don't know what that is There's a very good documentary on the BBC ironically wonderfully has done it On what Churchill and America did In bombing a civilian location with no military installments Because it was going to be like it was when they were doing their bombings in Bengal scorched earth policy and the collateral damage didn't matter. Yeah So they obliterated Countless thousands of civilians Simply because they were going to do, you know, we hear about hitler. Yeah bombing indiscriminately You don't hear about America and and England doing a great quote from norm mcdonald. Obviously the the great comedian norm mcdonald r.i.p. Um, he said isn't it funny how um The good guys always won right Yeah, it's how yeah, that's that's kind of uh It's it's amazing. Yeah, good guys always won. No, it isn't it's a joke No, and there's so many factors to take into this It's a it's massive in scope and I just don't know why more people wouldn't but anyway, let's talk about I just feel like there needs to be more Like have uh sardar udam epic Film yes about this. Yeah, like there's I just I want that film because I think I need to know about this Anyways, I know I want to praise obviously r.i at first because he is the first one We've seen that's really gone into depth a little bit of of the the famine Um and and that kind of stuff, but also and for whom it's personal for the the Risks and the boundary pushing that he did yeah in 1973 when indian Indian film he had people Essentially selling their bodies for rice. Yep rape. He had um All all this different other stuff The good guys dealing with untouchables exactly everybody's almost a great character system being obliterated. Um, I almost like I know you felt about him. Uh, I really didn't like our lead guy I throughout the whole thing I you mean the character as written in the script. Yeah, not the performer No, no. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. Um, and that was interesting that he had him be That's it was character a kind of guy who's kind of almost taking advantage and like I'm a I have privilege right now Right who cinematically audiences would have known this guy as the lovable likable guy that you're rooting for And I was like, I'm not really rooting for you No, but what I loved and I mentioned this to indrani as well I love the fact that isn't it interesting That when things are going your way All of these human attributes that are one of the biggest contributors to the Problems on earth which are cast discrimination patriarchal discrimination educational discrimination just fill in the blank discrimination When you reach a point of desperation all that flies out the window What was once an untouchable person now becomes somebody that you care about because you see them as a human being What was once something you would never do in a million years because it goes against your religious beliefs Well, now you're gonna do it because without it you're gonna die. Yeah I felt like he was pretty Unflinching yeah in his his depiction of that and that's all my favorite things about the film It was really interesting because obviously our lead girl the wife Um at the beginning after she bathed she came in and she literally told the girl don't touch me I'll have to bathe again right and this is the the caring person that we're all right Without the film path and she's the empath don't touch me. I will have to bathe again And I'm like which is which is why he comes back full circle at the end It does it comes back full circle and it does for him as well because when he Says what he says about You know he touches her and says that we need to give her a proper cremate a proper cremation He's come to that place of recognizing She's every but she's a human being and everybody's dying and I I really loved I felt like a pinnacle Point for him was when the guy who was not giving food to anybody else that was asking Says I gotta give it to you. You're a brahman And he's sitting there looking at the food and he's like My wife isn't eating this All of these other people are starving And he's coming to that realization of all of these human systems we've put into place at the end of the day Really And why does it take something this catastrophic to get people to see that those things really aren't what they Are that they're just these human contrivances that are designed to feed ego and arrogance and greed and patriarchal Prejudices it's it's brilliant. I thought that scene was a really good one. He would sit down to eat. Yeah, I was judging him real hard Of course What's wrong with you? Yeah, like you could literally take all that back with you Exactly to your wife and you're just about to stuff your face you cunt and one of the other things I really enjoyed I don't know if you felt this way or if you were a step ahead with with rye Did you assume Who the rapist was? We weren't shown the face. Oh And I know what he's wanting us to think as an audience. He's wanting us to think it's the it's the scarred up man. Yeah But it wasn't no Yeah, no, I didn't catch it. I didn't I didn't yeah, I didn't see that either. I thought it was the scarred up guy Yeah, because which is another such an interesting the the way obviously rye decided to handle that character as He he's a garbage person, but also he's Technically still and he's not going out and raping people It's almost a transaction for him It is it's manipulative. It's yeah But it's like the way like for 1973. He's handling Someone who you could essentially qualify as a conniving rapist, right? Right essentially because These women don't really want to have sex with them. They're doing it to feed their family So they don't die right and he knows that yep But he's also aware the fact that this is really the only way I'm gonna get physical intimacy because no one wants to come near me Yeah, it's it was really interesting how he decided to handle that character and again all the character and again, that's also That's the thing is he made all of these stories about these singular people be emblematic and analogous of the whole sale horror that was the the famine because That was a big deal with particularly women Many who had to leave the villages and go into the city and the only way they could subsist Was to sell their bodies because disgusting evil men of all ilks. There were indian men that did this There were british men that did this who took an opportunity and went oh you need to eat I can feed you if you have sex with me Yeah, and and then it's super interesting how obviously the the the woman who did end up having sex to get the rice From the scarred up guy when she came back to our lead actress And the lead actress was judging her right and I was like Really right you're judging her right now right? She's trying not to die exactly and you're all over here with your privilege and you're and yeah And if you didn't have that privilege who's to say you wouldn't have been doing that To be right here with me. So I thought it was so so good of of rye to make this such a Real but complex not just a oh, we don't have rice and yes We're all dying even obviously there was that and I thought there was so many good things He did with that like at the end he didn't show anybody's face. It was just there's all these faceless shadows of people, you know the the migration or the Them them just dying the powerful shot of the little girl dead right there the powerful end shot as well He did such a good job with this. I just I wish It would be more of a there needs to be a contemporary Telling needs to be a contemporary telling that is the reality of the horror that is as the horrific as You know, obviously the emirates are yeah, they're in sardo even more thing But you could stretch it out into an entire film Or series no just to give it to obviously, I don't know who the the big bengali director is of the day I think it needs to be handled by a bengali. I think it should be told by bengalis for sure, but this I just I just don't understand why it hasn't like this is such a this is part of the history And it's a huge part of history the sad the sad reality as to why it's probably not been told as of yet on the Scale that we know it can be told. Yeah, no one cares enough really you don't think so Maybe why else wouldn't it be made? I have no clue. It's for the same reason We've never heard the story until we started doing this channel And why if we talked to a hundred americans 99 out of a hundred would probably tell you They've never heard about the bengal famine and that's because not enough people care to tell the story Unless they're indian, of course, obviously they'll probably know. Yeah, it's just it needs it It needs for the sake of history not repeating itself and for the memorialization of those who died Do you think it's it needs to be told with the horror intact? Do you think it's also because obviously indian cinema Is more geared towards happiness And happy Feelings it is fan because obviously if you're like, hey go see this film aware millions upon millions of people die That's not really a box office draw Yeah, especially if it's not going to fill you with nationalistic pride Um, if it did have that aspect to it, I think it would be more likely to be made and seen But granted I could be wrong because obviously look how much money cash me your files made it did but that movie is Particularly made not just in the telling of the story But it is made with a particular viewpoint and it does have a very particular national Yeah pride because of how many hindu's there are in india you could have national pride with this just you obviously Could if over it how it was told, but if you're going to tell it in the totality of its complexity There's going to be quite a needs to be Schindler's list essentially and there's and there's going to be quite a bit Of unflattering depictions of people in indian power. Yeah Now the bulk of the responsibility fully falls upon britain and america. Yeah, but Um, but I thought all the actor did really obviously Um, yeah, so we've seen many obviously times in a poo and others Sumita, right? That's a yes. Sumita. I think he did a really good job He made me kind of almost dislike his character almost immediately. Mm-hmm. He was almost this elitist kind of Yeah, just the way he talks to everybody Calling us students fools. Yeah, you uneducated fool. Don't ask me that. Yeah, don't like Yeah, he definitely made me not like him But the two like the r of you say our main girl She did really bobeet bobeet bobeet then it's my understanding that this was like a great opening shot of her in the water as well It was her one and only Internationally known film. Oh really? Yeah, which is surprising. She's really good. She was really wonderful And uh, I thought the entire cast but but then this is the other girl that ended up sleeping with the the scarred man I played um chute chute. I don't remember the character's name chute. Uh, chute. I don't remember Uh, yeah, chute key. That's it. Thank you. Um, Sandhya Roy, Sandhya Roy, I thought did really really well as well Like I said, I thought everybody in it did really well It wouldn't surprise me if he hired just a bunch of locals again For sure. I feel is what like that's one of his calling cards Is outside of maybe your leads. Yeah, mostly the rest of your cast the smaller cast Especially with this it would be I need you to look a certain way. Yeah. Yeah, I'd imagine right? Yeah I mean my favorite thing about rye And virtually all of his films, but especially this one, especially opu Even uh two the the the short film. Yeah, he's so minimal. Yeah, he is everything that he does He's minimal in the scope of his cinematography. He's minimal in the Uh, the scoring he's minimal There it was surprised me. There was a bit of exposition at the front of the film that shocked me I was like, that's not typical of you. However, this is taken from a book. Yeah, it is so I think he was probably wanting to engender some of it as authentically as possible. Yeah, which probably had some exposition Yeah, I noticed that as well. Um, but It's just Cinema and film doesn't get any better than Satya Jirai. It just doesn't it's probably top three for me Um, the the ones I'm thinking even though I've enjoyed everything going of his films Uh, but and this is probably if you're talking about importance. That's what I was just thinking. It's probably the most important It's the most important of his Uh, but now opu has a level of importance because I feel like in terms of cinema history You know cinematic history and Bengali history. I mean, I feel like that movie is the quintessential Mark of rye and it's so Bengali that like it's like Taking that film out of the canon as the number one Is like removing fish and rice out of Calcutta as part of the culture. You know what I mean? It's so essential. Yeah to who he is and and Bengali cinema unless I'm forgetting some I think my my top three would be big city Uh, the hero and then this probably unless I'm forgetting one that that that we watched that I like I said, I've liked all of them. It's really difficult to rank his films Another one that I love for different reasons and it's because it's Feels like a play Was the stranger. Oh, yeah, the stranger was amazing and that that's again. That's my top five It's probably all of his films are my top five, but the thing that would push me like artistically Script some of the performances some of the dynamics and some of the interesting rod sterling stuff He does cinema cinematography wise um the hero Trumps this yeah, it's so unique for but I feel like this trumps the hero In the fact that it takes something so profoundly large and minimalizes it without losing any of its profundity Yeah, and no film he's done is more important. Yeah without question. It's like Spielberg Spielberg's made a lot of great films. I love he's my favorite director of all time I'm looking forward to the film that's coming out. He'll never make a film more important than Schindler's list Because that can't be forgotten dress apart Close second. Yeah close second because I mean look at what we did to the dinosaurs. Yeah They would have been here if it wasn't for us. It's awful. Oh We are the church held to the dinosaurs. What's true? Uh anyways Let us know, uh, what you what you thought about this film Uh, what should be our next rye film that we should watch? Uh, obviously, I'm sure he has many many more that we need to do and Any other films that go into the the famine as well. I think earth with amir khan 1947 I think or maybe it's the part it was about that I don't know if it's about the famine or if it's about the partition or both. I can't remember It's about one of them though. I like it goes into the that thing But if there are more let us know and I feel like just if you're a filmmaker watching you just Make this make this into an epic story man All you need all you need is somebody with the passion to tell the story And get ignited by somebody who sees it and wants to help it like a non-yerog wood, you know Or or an s or k with the power of red chilies to say I'll I'll I'll fund this Yeah, I I feel like somebody out there has got a script has a treatment has something There shouldn't just be one film about this. We should have five internationally known films about this massive massive Humanitarian man made I know there was a cyclone and some stuff But the majority of the deaths that happened here were man made during world war two Anyways, let us know what the next rye film should be and what you thought about this film down below