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And come the key and the and come the and come the and come the and this is a directed and written by Raj Raj Rajat Rajat Kapoor Rajat Kapoor Um, I don't know if he's part of the big Kapoor family, but there's a bunch of Kapoor families and starring Uh, oh it's Directed by the the brother What? He was the director. Yeah, it looks like he's the director. Well Slap my face and call me sally call me daddy. I mean what what? I'm not gonna slap your face and do that. Uh, and it's starring, uh, San Sanjay Mishra, right Sanjay Mishra. Yes, correct 100 spence for review if you haven't watched it go watch it short film Uh, and then come on back if you'd like to be spoiled. You're not a little boy. I'm about to spank you Concentrate That's that's important rick. That's your initial thoughts. That's no laughing matter my initial thoughts Uh r s. That's those are my name initials Uh m qr P P initial thoughts on the film. Oh, I thought you just wanted some of my thoughts going on initials. Uh, I liked it I didn't love it. Gotcha. I liked it. Okay, uh, the only things about it that I didn't love Were some of the pacing to the middle point kind of got a little stodgy for me. I actually agree with you Yeah, um, it was just just I think pacing issues in the middle. There's a lot. I really enjoyed about There's more I liked than I didn't like for sure. We'll definitely get into it Yeah, I feel like it might have gotten away from itself The the main thing that I was interested in which it was this whole theory, right of him Questioning everything correct, which is great his his particular journey that he was taking in the first half of the film Yes, and I feel like the first act I mean they would they would kind of just going about life and in the daughter's wedding Right, and I just feel like at that part even though like not that it's bad or anything It's just I felt like it was less interesting than his Journey I agree and I know they had to bring it back because the initial start of the film you think what you're on a ride for Is this whole thing of the family saying that you guys can't be together and these two kids love each other And then it turns out that it's actually oh it's the dad's journey And they brought that back which i'm glad and they needed to do to see where he goes with it But yeah, yeah, so I feel like they could have cut some stuff out Maybe even made it just a tad bit short 15 minutes Maybe I might have helped pacing a little bit there in the middle. I don't know, but that's really my biggest gripe outside of I don't know how I feel about the end I have a But yeah, we can talk about yeah, I have that's I was definitely going to talk about the end And we're assuming obviously you know the ending but we'll we'll talk about that in a minute I want to talk about him. I'm very glad we found the god to him Even though I've seen him in small parts I think yeah, and I for what was it that we masan we saw him in masan Yes, uh, and I think there was something else. Uh, wasn't he in uh, um Well poop Anyway, yes, we've been wanting to see him for a while Yeah, we but because I know he is he's known for being Athezbian right he is I think he's probably a theater actor He sure felt like one he's out and uh, he's always mentioned obviously not in the star caliber because right uh, but like a Pankaj noah's Niraj and then we're yeah a respected actor and And I completely agree with that assessment. I think he's a phenomenal actor. I would love to see more of him Yeah, very natural actor. So yeah, I think he did a phenomenal job. He was very natural just like Uh, this is a high praise earfun. He's very effortless in what he's doing. It's almost this looks like him Yes, I would think this was this real guy. Um, and so that's that's that's saying a lot He was very very believable and I love I mean he was he was captivating when he was on screen everything he did I was really interested in so yeah, I like him a lot Yeah, I did too and that if you're wondering we've said this before but a working definition for acting and actually Howard fine has perfected the working definition. Are you taking his clinic? I actually are He has really perfected as as a working definition for me that I've always wanted to get Synopsized so Sanford Meisner came up with the best one that I had heard for many many years Which was living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Yeah, and for me There was something that was missing in that because if you're living truthfully in the circumstances and I don't believe you You haven't accomplished the job. So I felt you needed to add and being believable doing it To the end But that can't be part of the definition Because if you're thinking about being believable, you're not acting. Yeah, because no one goes about their daily life thinking I hope I'm believable doing what I'm doing unless you're a con artist or a liar and you're trying to do it Yeah, Howard fine His definition is living authentically within the given circumstances And authenticity means you're authentically being the character and if that is true if you're authentic You'll be truthful and we'll we'll believe you because we'll go. Ah, that's authentic. That's real The believability is in the authenticity and they're not just imaginary circumstances or the given circumstances because if you think to yourself This is imaginary. There goes believability. You can't be real. He lives authentically in different circumstances Yeah, I would just please let us know. I know there's that other one where I think it's about climate change or something It's he's he's walking in a desert. Yeah, he's walking in the desert And I feel like that's one that a lot of people said was really good as well But I know he's done a bunch of let us know what more of his we should watch because I feel like he's going to be one of those actors that we Yeah, we really enjoy and he for me near Raji. I feel like yeah very near Raji very A very different kind of actor but yeah as the same believability of like an asserted shock Yeah, he's very similar. He'd he'd go for the same kind of roles of the certain shot Um, but I feel like everybody else in this was also really really good I liked the dynamic between him and his wife the she was the the one that would kept He was the yeah, I liked that relationship. Uh, I liked his relationship with his daughter I thought she and I thought she did a good job. I thought even I don't know if he's an actor or a director I thought the brother especially the scene when they finally came back to each other. Yeah, and they were crying Yeah, I thought it was a really really good. Yeah, really emotional. I found myself Interestingly that was the thing and this only comes from exposure and In-depth connection to india over a period of time. I think I think if we had seen this film a year and a half ago What i'm about to say wouldn't have impacted me the way it did in this film And that is understanding how important family is to indians because When the brother said he was moving. Oh, yeah, you could see it on his face what you just did right there Oh, yeah, I think a year and a half ago We would have thought the case of the brothers moving out because in america would be like actually that's probably going to be Why are you living with this family anyway? Right, but when the brother said I'm leaving I had a genuine like shock to the system of Oh my goodness. They get almost like as insulting like they did something Right, you don't like and then when he left and he's just sitting there on the bed and they're touching his feet And they're leaving I thought I would never have felt the profundity Of that moment a year and a half ago Because I didn't understand what family meant in terms of how you'd live Yeah, uh and not just because that's that's what it is in indrani's home I mean her home has been a family home for 80 years cousins uncles and so on and yes like her cousins that she lives with She grew up with them in the same house their brother and sister Whereas my cousins are my cousins. Yeah, but because they grow up they call each other, you know, that's deedy, you know So that sense of wow, this is so bad It's causing the brother to leave the house. Yeah Was really Very believable and got me emotionally. So yeah, when they reunited it was very emotional. I loved it Uh, so I don't know if that that actor or I don't know if he's an actor director Both I don't know what he was first But it looks like he wrote it. So I thought the writing was very creative. That's yeah, it's a very compelling Anyway, it's funny because we just watched omg as well And that was also a kind of questioning. Obviously. This is very different kind and also a very different kind of film Yeah, this is far more, uh, but this was existential. This wasn't mostly about religion. This was right This was like socrates. This yeah, I'm questioning everything. This was an existential crisis. This wasn't a religious one Yeah, yeah, it just started with the religion part that had to be a part of it, uh, and it's it's Very well written in that aspect Outside of even though, I don't know if I wouldn't say it's not well written in the middle part I just feel like it could have been basic tighter. I don't know it could have been edited In it, but I don't know what that was. Um, but in that that aspect before we get into the ending Uh, I want and the ending is part of yeah, this part. I'm going to talk about I I I want to applaud the originality of this because for a film very original that would be coming out of Uh, bollywood and hindi Uh, it is very independent film Not box office material. I wonder how it did. Yeah, you know, I know what a bunch of awards But I don't know how especially with the ending So this is a stretch but bear with me This is kind of to me almost like not in its actual, um Not in the overall template of the film But the message of the film and particularly how it ends This is for me kind of like india's birdman so to speak In terms of the lead character is having an existential crisis And the ending is just straight up. It's birdman at the end. Yeah, you know, I Here's my issue with the end. Um And maybe I'm misunderstanding it. I would have preferred and I didn't mind I kind of I was kind of hoping for something different because I was like, okay Eventually he's gonna be like Can I die can I fly whatever and I was like, it's going to get to that place because that's that's where this theory Goes because if he he doesn't know he can't fly right because he's never done it, right, right, uh, so I was like And he was saying yeah, unless I've experienced. Yeah, I was like if you're gonna play this theory out, which is great I love that like this is an absurd Thing that's like an older man to go through. It's like I'm done. I'm Are you I know you're real because you're here, right if I've never met you I don't know if you're right. I like that I don't know if I wanted something more original and also I Maybe I didn't mind that as much as I minded when they said when he was falling They said this is not a dream, right? I would prefer them not say that Yes, whether I was like I've been fine. If like I've had this dream before right But don't clarify if this is a dream or not a dream Well, I agree with that point of view and I also believe it It doesn't work as well as the as the ending to birdman. Yeah, because throughout birdman You're in his mind and watching reality Excuse me. You're watching him shift reality. Yeah in his perspective So that there's things you're watching michael keaton do That when no one else is around you're like, okay, that really happened or is he just thinking that's happening And there's there's so many moments throughout birdman where reality is cold for you very different This never had a moment of reality feeling until the very very end. Yeah, so I'm they're clearly saying it was real But I think I would have preferred Um a birdman ending. Yeah, just actually you could have ended the same way just take out that line Like they said I've had a dream of thinking I could fly And then they said this is not a dream, right? I would have heard them just leave that out Yeah, you could have because at the end you'd be like Was this just a dream or did he just jump to his death? Right? I prefer those questions at the end of film I agree with you rather than rather than seemingly wrap it up for you and tell you what it is Yeah, I too would have and I even though it said that I still was left with something of the Really even though they said it. Yeah, I felt like I was left with Really? But I would have nitpicked preference. I agree. I would have preferred the line not be in it. Yeah, I would have preferred that I didn't like the ending. Yeah, yeah Like I said, I we're being very minutiae here guys because like we both really liked it I thought it could have been even better with these little tweaks. Yeah This is we're talking about the difference between a movie that we really like versus something that These little tweaks for us would have put it in a place of wow. This is a nearly flawless kind of yeah Absolutely, and but yeah with the writing so I thought they did a really good job because I like that that question It's a it's a very absurd question But obviously it's also can be related to like, you know religion or other things. I'm I'm of the belief always question everything I mean not to this extent like I've never heard of lie and roar, which was a great scene. I enjoyed that scene Yeah, and then they're like we're going they're like, where are you going? I have I've never heard of lie and roar. I haven't seen if he roars Well, yeah, because he goes from just having an existential crisis to actually getting to a place of total absurdist Anarchist total and I did enjoy the cheek the fact that Even though he didn't want it. He developed a following Right. I love that. He became the religious leader. Yeah, I love that. He wanted to leave Right, and then obviously he realized it, but I thought it was very creative writing that just like he became Even though he didn't mean to the thing he was trying to get out of yeah like I love that He he just did it because this is what he wanted to do when he stands up there with a sign But then the other guys come up with their own versions of this sign with him and he's like Yeah, it's the human being I guess this is what people do. I'm not doing this to get a following guys. I don't have attention I'm not talking just because I'm I'm trying to get you guys to pay attention or make things hard on you and it was Both sad and funny his poor wife everything she had to go through with him But it was also beautiful because it showed that they both really loved each other and um, some of his most beautiful moments were those moments When he wasn't talking like when he gives I it was a very sweet Probably my favorite moment of the film Is when he's listening to the old music that his wife chastises him for But he's he's appreciating it for what it is and realizing wow, I get to hear music And that little moment with his daughter when he lets her know you can you can marry him I thought that moment for him. I believed 100 talk about Living authentically and given circumstances. That was the dad having this existential crisis Who in this moment of realizing what things really matter in this world? Realizes my daughter matters and the love she feels matters So and he didn't even have to say anything. He just had to Yeah, beautiful. That was he did a phenomenal job when he didn't even have to talk Yeah, uh, a third of the film. Yeah, uh, which was great. So I really want to applaud this film I I thought the right did you score everything? Did you do your little thing? I didn't do my thing But I would if I was I would nothing would have scored under an eight for me So this would have been b plus a minus probably would have ended up with a minus for this Yeah, I definitely give it a name. I thought it with those little tweet like if I was making it I thought I would have kept a lot of stuff the exact same I would probably change the pacing in the middle a tad. That's it. And then I would have taken out that one line at the end Yeah, and and this is a money thing and it's forgivable the visual effects on the jump. Yeah, it's okay But yeah, this is not a big budget thing. No, that's probably where all their budget went It was to get it that final I bet all they spent on the film to that final scene was the same amount they spent on the cgi on that final scene So absolutely forgivable worthy worthy watch. So, yeah, if you haven't seen that I hope you're not here because we spoiled a lot of it ruin it and we kind of ruined bird mail a little bit Oh, yeah, see birdman see birdman magnificent, especially if you're into filmmaking or acting Yeah, we're a theater. It's an actor. It's an actor's movie But definitely a good film. Let us know other from him the director actor Yeah, rich Then what's else he's done? Rajat Kapoor. Well, yeah, just to try effect on this. He writes directs and accident and accidents So really nice. I just want to see he's in mulk, which we've reacted to perry He's in perry He's the dad. Yes. That's right God, we're dumb. Yep. God, we're so dumb our stupid reactions We we know what we're talking about here when it comes to the dumb factor and he was really good in that film, too Yeah, he was um So, yeah, so it looks like he's an actor is was this one of his first directorial debuts well, it's For a writing directing acting Film hold on director really really nice Really really nice job. Okay. So he's he's directed for a while. He directed short short short short short short its first feature And guys I can't I've never done it in film, but I've done it in theater and I don't ever want to do it again What I'm sure it may be easier in film, but I don't know what to direct yourself acting I did it with hamlet. I hated it because I couldn't take the director hat off Yeah, I couldn't fully be claudius because I was constantly thinking about the cues Look who's coming on when Notes to actors as they're doing their thing. I just couldn't take the directing hat off. Yeah, it's definitely uh It's definitely a skill set. Yeah, I don't know if it's different in film. I haven't done it in the film But uh, yeah, I don't know that I I don't know that I would like let us know what other films We should watch next down below and let us know what you thought of it as well And also why we're why we're why we're idiots because I'm sure a bunch of you are gonna I'm subscribed because of this one. Yeah, because we didn't even review you wanted