 what we would all give to have srk laying on laying on our chests like he is on mine wow covering up cod welcome back to our stupid directorates of corbin i'm rick and close to instagram treat it without you say calm thing i don't even have words anymore i'm ace doing that yeah wow wow wow wow anyways uh today uh oh uh the reason we like this uh i've been feeling under the weather the past couple days and uh i'm waiting on a covid test uh apparently they're taking a long time with them currently because you know a lot of people have covid right now um i feel i feel good but it's uh i don't vote abundance of caution we don't want to continue the spread of of this so that's you'll see a couple of these skype videos um but this is not going to be a permanent thing hopefully i'm just negative and just have a bug but i'm sure rick wouldn't want a bug either so they're always negative today as you saw from the title we're doing a movie review of the what is this year 72 1972 Italian film uh we've seen a lot of songs from this i don't know how many i think it's probably four or five i'd imagine that we saw of of this film before we actually watched it uh directed by kamal um rory yeah um rory uh written by him as well uh starring akosh kumar mina kumari raj kumar vina uh and i mean a lot there's a lot of people in this film yeah yeah yeah and absolutely a lot of people in this film but yes it's a 1972 musical drama romance uh film it's a classic if you go on like imdb and look up like the the greatest bollywood films of all time obviously we've seen a lot of them but this is this is high up there on a lot of those lists uh and it was obviously highly recommended from a lot of people as well so obviously classic month continuing this is what we decided to go with uh obviously it's 100 cents more with you if you haven't watched it uh rick i think you watched it on youtube youtube yeah you can rent it on youtube i saw it on uh yeah i rented it on apple uh you can rent it there as well so uh there's many different ways you can see it it might be available somewhere else in india actually we they have stuff that you know we don't have it all but rick your initial thoughts please yeah and this is uh for those all of you interested it's our seventh of the year it's our 133rd hindi film and our 214th all time and i have a paragraph okay um so i'm going to read it just from my phone here of all the films we've seen classic or otherwise i can't think of one that compares to pequisa in terms of its regal elegance or most especially it's seemingly inseparable representative qualities between the life of the movie star and the life of the character she portrays it's a film dripping in camphor rosewater lavender and sandalwood it's also a film dripping in pathos profundity emotion and tears and while it has a couple of very small technical problems those aren't worthy to even to be mentioned in the same way you would have ignored a small chip in the floor of westminster abbey during the wedding of princess diana all eyes and memories would be and should be forever on the princess i loved this movie i couldn't tell from that paragraph yeah it's quite an eloquent paragraph i tried to really give a level of comparable eloquence because i feel it's a very eloquent and poetic film it felt poetic to me it felt yeah very poetic and i meant that it felt like the film is literally it's it's dripping in pathos and emotion and it's almost like i could smell the the oils that were perfumed all over the film and it had a it's just if you're a if you love poetry and you love watching a sunset i don't know how you couldn't like the movie i mean what did you think oh i liked it a lot it was it was like watching po it was no no yeah it was like watching poetry and motion that's what it felt like like obviously on every level obviously the the the dialogue and but the the cinematography the set design the lighting the acting it all felt like almost just you took a poem and you kind of put it into motion that's kind of what it felt like um and it's it's it's funny because i saw when you posted on twitter i looked at the comments and some people said this is something our parents watched when we were kids and it bored to spit out of us i can see how a little kid would be really annoyed at me to sit through it it's not a kid movie yeah and it's interesting you interesting you brought that up because i did you know we talk about juicy content so as i was watching it i posted it on both twitter and i put it in my story on instagram and said what movie am i watching i gotta tell you never because i've done that before i've taken a screenshot of what i'm watching i've never gotten the kind of response i got hundreds of messages from people excited that i was watching a couple of people thought it was moogly is on but the majority 99 percent of them we've already seen that so yeah i i was like wow this is a this is a well-known and loved movie yeah it's i think like when like i said when you go on imdb it's like one of the top five in their greatest bollywood films of all time uh up there with moogly is on and and all those films that we've we've kind of seen here in the past but yeah let's just dive into it uh what do you want to start with there's a lot to talk about uh let's start with uh i think we should just go straight to piquiza herself and let's talk about mina and i have a lot go ahead go start start us off yeah i mean first of all i did a lot of research about her personal life um because we're you know we're new to her and yeah i when i had put that post up i had a lot of people saying to me uh you really need to know a few things first of all then you probably know this the fact that she died very shortly after this film was completed and released yeah and i don't think i read this into the film because i did a lot of what i was looking for after but and if she's this way in all of her films it wouldn't surprise me but just like her character i felt like mina carried this this deep sadness that even when she smiled there's a sadness in her eyes and i don't think that was just for the portrayal of this character i think this is one of those things where her own personal life wasn't something she had to go very far to bring out into the character because i think she herself had dealt for years with struggles that were just for lack of a better term oozing out of her being and it added in a weird way it added to her beauty and i it's not something i would wish on anyone but i don't think anyone it reminded did you ever see on golden pond with henry fonda and and catherine hebron it's a great film jane fonda bought the rights for it henry fonda's daughter and it was his last motion picture he won an oscar his first oscar for it but it's at the end of his life and the character in that of norman that he portrays as a man who knows he's out nearing the end of his life and and doesn't want to admit he's scared and there's so much of henry fonda's own personal stuff and when he fights with his daughter who's played by jane fonda she said it was very therapeutic so it was this art imitating life that's so close to home this is a very rare film i think in terms of the actress not only being brilliant but bringing something to the character that no one else could then or ever will yeah i thought she was she was absolutely brilliant she's extremely striking right when she she comes on screen like right when she pops off and then obviously her her she just has an amazing screen presence about her um and similar to but very different to like a shredevi or or um ashwarya very different very different but the same like oh this is i'm captivated just by you looking at the camera uh obviously she she knew what she was doing and man did she convey a lot without saying very much uh which is like kind of what you're saying it's it was it's one of those she has the it factor for sure but yeah there was a lot going on behind her eyes a lot yeah that's obviously very intriguing and it's it's it's kind of fun when you have an an actor who you know you don't there's not i mean i know she obviously she's a star and she had dialogue but it's not a crazy amount of dialogue i'd say most of the film is more kind of in silence for her absolutely very much in silence i'm afraid of being in silence and i the only one i could equate it to which was of her same era it's different but comparable is whenever i watch judy garland because of what i know of her personal life i always see behind the smile the little girl back there crying out and wishing things could be different for her and if you could go back in time you wish you could reach in and help her i felt that from her in this film and it's just odd that this character is exactly that because my understanding of her personal life was and she had been married to the director for a good period of time that their relationship was not a healthy relationship and that she was addicted to alcohol which eventually became her ultimate demise with cirrhosis of the liver and that that sadness of the personal life was just all over her face that even when she smiled there was still this this sadness that lends itself well to the role but on a personal level you look at her and there's a tragic nature about her that reminds me a lot of her and as well as like Marilyn Monroe which are different than the people like say james dean who were taken too early i'm talking about people who went through profound sadness and never got to escape it in this life and i i it it's very unique i don't think i'm very very rare in cinema to have something like that yeah and it was also a great story concept of this film for 1972 about very a bunch of prostitutes right essentially what it was uh high-end prostitutes yeah yeah in 1972 in India um and so obviously in indians might not be surprised uh by that they're like oh yeah we've always been like but it's like it just it seems like it's it's it was really progressive for the time to tell a story where this person is the heroine um and from that but i also i liked the the our male lead in this uh what was this absolutely Raj Kumar thank you uh Raj Kumar one he has a great look uh uh i think he's who's he related to um i knew this um i feel like he he is it's not who you would necessarily no it's not who you would not necessarily Raj Kumar relationally is related to you had told me earlier um that he had that there's someone currently working or was working that is related to Raj Kumar don't remember maybe i'm maybe i'm you guys can let us know in the comedy place uh i thought yeah i thought he was too but i thought he did a phenomenal job in in bringing that chemistry in the beginning uh to them and his whole character uh as well with it brought you on a roller coaster ride uh with with him he had a whole relationship i i thought he had a very unique way of being both a gentle and kind man without conveying any meekness or weakness at all he seemed like he was very strong meekness is the better word he was meek not weak because meekness is strength reserved yeah um and i believed him whole heartedly i mean i was rooting for them i believed he was in love with her i felt the whole story of him putting the note in her foot and then them eventually getting back together again which by the way everybody in case anyone was wondering don't shoot elephants um that are just standing there like what the it's like why are you shooting at them i know it's the day it's a period we're just i'll just be laughing a little bit but i i felt i felt he was great and i felt one of my favorite moments i actually rewatched the moment with indrani we watched rewatch several moments um the moment when her biological dad the uncle is shot and he's holding him and it's the whole realization going on and he says to him we're going to put you in you're going to be in the palinquin with us when we get married and i i felt like all three of them were just right right there just right i i can't imagine that when they hit cut that there wasn't some applause on set yeah absolutely they were they were so good together they had great chemistry um they're both have that that it factor that you look for and and lead actors as well for this time um so i'd love to see more of their work i mean the other part of this that was obvious from the songs that we saw but also right when it opened was the the set design and the cinematography of this thing was i'm i'm assuming this is where sanjay leal bin sali on top of mugalia zam got his inspiration for what he loves to do right i mean it has to be this and mugalia zam has to be like his like favorite films has to be and i mean there was there was a moment i took a screenshot of it every piece is artwork one of those every piece was artwork and there were moments where it was outdoors and it was like the only way you get that shot is because you happened upon a serendipitous moment um yeah it's just beautiful set design beautiful costume design beautiful cinematography the patience of the storytelling oh just just the constant oil and smoke like incense and oils everything was thick everything moved slowly every and it wasn't while it's stylistic it wasn't contrived it wasn't forcing style as much as it was just being a particular thing really impressive and the score and the music yeah and we had seen like four or five songs i think already reacted to that are on the channel and they're all amazing but like this is one of those films that every single song is incredible and it's so beautiful and it's it kind of key continues the poetry theme of the entire film i feel oh i absolutely agree absolutely agree um it's just a delight i could turn it like when i was talking to andrani about it afterwards because she had seen it long ago yeah we were watching some musical numbers and stuff i could have i could have watched it again yesterday or the second time yeah absolutely uh the the the whole score of it was all amazing the the writing like i had said before which is very progressive for 1972 in in bollywood in in my opinion uh was was really great this is almost like a pretty woman but like more serious obviously yeah essentially um uh then then that movie right there but yeah it's this was a grand on an epic scale and i could see why you know the those comments that you got in your in your twitter feed i could see it especially if you're not into slow moving films but if you can buy in and are just like i don't obviously this is our our style of film we really enjoy good acting good writing great cinematography like it's almost like a san chelib and salih film i could watch this just to watch what's on screen like the visuals sure like you could just do that and then on top of that they've added some great performances great song numbers um so it's it's not a fast moving thing so if you're if you're a kid i could see exactly like if you're like i what i would equate it to is parents often when i was kid watch Gone with the Wind and that thing is long that is a long film yeah so as a kid you can't appreciate that style of film it's sure it's just too slow it's about stuff that you don't understand um and so i i kind of equate it to something like that uh because when i was a kid i was like oh my mom always watches Gone with the Wind i don't want to watch Gone with the Wind yeah and or the Ten Commandments yes uh or stuff like that but obviously as you get older and you could appreciate poetry right because kids kids don't really appreciate poetry um this is one of those films that and and i was thinking about um man we've seen a lot of really good classics this month this has been this has been a great classic month uh really has and especially with like the um set design and cinematography side of stuff yeah just been knocking it out of the park it's been left and right just one six after the other and like and like one of the things as well i there were a couple of small technical issues i don't even get to talk about we're very i'm talking about three or four but one that i do want to point out that i thought was great and it's small is the that whole climactic scene where she's dancing and then she looks up and Raj has left and she knocks over the lamp the big chandelier lamp and starts dancing through the broken glass and then her dance is so unbridled and so primal and painful great scene great dance what that shot as she's going through the glass you see her go through the glass and then halfway through the singular shot her feet start to bleed and and runny said uh how did they how do they do what did they do did they have an apparatus up her pant leg to slowly let the blood come out through her under her feet because it's it's seamless it looks like she danced across and started bleeding yeah i was wondering how she did that as well did you ever figure it out nope yeah i was i was trying to figure it out as i was watching i was like this is 1972 so it's probably made 1970 ish 1971 and in india and so like for props they they were still like they were still movie magic back then like it was like you can't put in stuff CGI like you can now yeah it's very practical effects yeah i didn't i was like did she have something maybe in like the ball overfoot that like right or or did you have like i don't i don't even know yeah if you guys know how how that scene because that was really impressive i'm glad you brought that out that like that whole thing when she was dancing across and in halfway through she started bleeding it was really really impressive um how that was done so if you guys know any this would be a fun one uh for for some movie magic like behind the scene stuff if they ever have any stuff like that for old films sure sure another moment i just want to mention that i thought is like the central point for her name i thought the reveal of her name was beautiful it's in that moment when she's being asked what's your name and she won't say because she knows if she mentions the name she's going to be notorious you know that high-end horror and she won't speak her name and he turns to her and calls her pure one and she looks at him it's an emotional moment for him to i love that it's called this and i love that that was the reveal of the name it's just yeah great absolutely great uh lived up to the uh to the height when also like i i looked on youtube because i was like somebody else has had to have reviewed this before no one wow that's a shame uh obviously there's a bunch indians who have seen it obviously um obviously i think this is like one of the ones that like they've all seen but like you know how like we've reviewed show lab reviewed all the god like all these other films that are classics and there's always other reviews that are people who have done it before and like jimmy obviously jimmy watches a lot a lot of films but yeah there's nothing that i can find on youtube of anybody reviewing this film uh so hopefully maybe this will get some people to watch it because i think it's definitely one that's absolutely worth a watch by everyone if you're not a child uh yeah if you have to be an adult to watch this one yeah not because there's sex or anything but just because of the its slopes mature yeah it's like a fine wine kids can appreciate wine it's like it's like kids kids would rather have an ice cream they don't want crème brûlée and this is crème brûlée i'm not a huge fan of crème brûlée i don't like crème brûlée but it's not amazing that's if you think it as an example of while you're dumb anyways let us know what the next classic should be it's been a fantastic classic month and obviously yeah this is not we're not going to only watch classics during classic month so the the tirelessly we will watch classics we watched mogulia zham in like july of last year so let us know what the next classic i'm sure next classic month we will get to a lot more classics uh because i i do enjoy classic month i think it's a fantastic thing help us better understand bolly than undutch bollywood but indian cinema as a whole and and how it's grown and so i really appreciate it so let us know what should be our next classic film down below