 You know what I was doing? It was inauguration day yesterday. I don't know what you were doing, but you know what I was doing? I don't... do I want to know? Yeah, on inauguration day, I was biding my time. HA! Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Directions and it's me Corbin. I'm Scarren. I saw Kamala Harris in a car. It was, uh, Harrison Ford. She was in a Ford. Uh, today we're reacting to a, it's something by Air Ramon. Uh, it's called Future Proof. I think it just came out yesterday. Um, but it's Air Ramon. It just came out yesterday. Representing India, India Creative Arts, tech and innovation globally agreed this. Okay. Air Ramon has launched. Bye, Air Ramon. Um, Air Ramon has launched Future Proof. Is that like Space Force? Um, an initiative, an initiative to represent Indian creativity and innovation on the global stage. Nice. Uniting multifaceted creative icons from across the world. Future Proof is a high impact series designed to elevate and amplify the country's diverse talent across the streams of art, science and entrepreneurship. Fantastic. So is this like a competition show, reality show? No idea. Uh, let's see what we can find out from watching. I love what we read. Yeah. Well, you know, love Air Ramon. Air Ramon, if you're watching, come on. I'm sure you're watching. You got nothing better to do with your time. Here we go. Movies influence cultures and cultures influence movies. There's no denying the power of the visual medium. Our own worlds are inspired and influenced in some way or the other. But the fascinating worlds we see on the big screen, from glorious superhero picks to family starters, from spine-chilling thrillers to tales of innocence. The stories we see, the stories we live, is then our responsibility to tell the right stories, bring out the true narrative. Yes. For too long, the world has heard and seen only mainstream stories, stories from certain cultures, from their perspectives, their narratives, their truths, their triumphs, their glories, their pains, their tribulations, the world honors excellence. And it is true that there is a lot from the brilliant western mainstream cinema. But there is a beauty in every culture. Yeah, the stories. We often take what we do not understand. Correct. The world is evolving and it's giving birth every second. Let's embrace that. The first Indian film to be nominated for the Academy Awards was Mendoop Khan's 1957 classic Mother India. Yeah. The epic drama was followed by a nomination for Meera Nair's 1988 crime drama Salon Bombay and Ashutosh Gaurika's 2000-mark historical drama, Laghan. All these titles were torchbearers, lunchbox, and their own right. Nominations of qualifying Indian films that the Oscars have been staggered and mostly Hindi language-centric. Yes. The representative of the linguistic diversity of Indian cinema. The length and breadth of the stories on Showcase. Our diverse culture continues to be misrepresented in cinema. Yes. Or seen through a narrow western. Oh, I loved it. Yes. We continue to be exoticized, authorized, exoticized. And at least don't think that we are a land of snake charmers, elephants, and Maharajas. That's a great video. These cute cinematic narratives have led to a sort of cultural segregation. All the worst movies I've ever made. I've never done it. Love, Guru. It's awful. That's true. Every year. The pika. The pika. A year. Massage. Golly boy. Golly doggoo. That's true. That's true. Yes. Yes. Back. Selection and nomination. Yes. As well as dissecting the idea of an award-winning film. Yes. And the variances in global visual sensibilities that meet the film from the time of its inception till it release. And the Oscar goes to A.R. Rakhman. Conceived by Grammy and Oscar-winning composer A.R. M. Han. And curated by A.R. Rakhshap. Of course it is. Green Book. Yep. More than a century of filmmaking excellence. We have our work dropped out for us. We intend to play our part to perfection. Yep. Oh, fantastic video. So I'm guessing their goal is similar to our goal. So if you guys would need any help. Anything we can do. Please contact us because we would love to assist in any way possible. But their whole thing I'm guessing is to obviously hold up a fairly amazing Indian artistry to show to the world. And making sure that excellence is being able to be seen. Right. And it makes sense that it's headed by A.R. Rakhman and A.R. Rakhshap. Right. Which are just film lovers that want to expose the world to the greatness that is going on in India, which is what our goal has been this entire time. So if they can affect how India, whoever this selection committee is for the Oscars. Yes. And can help out with that committee because they clearly need some help. Yep. Not this year I think they did a good job with Jali Taku. I think that's a good choice. But yeah, if this can affect in any way like what those people are able to see and what they're able to submit, I think that would be an amazing thing for them to do because India has films every year that should be going to the Oscars. Yes. Not just in foreign film category in terms of just the feature film category. As do other countries. Other countries. Yes. And I mean that's something I was freshly reminded watching that of what I started doing in the fall and I'm going to get back to doing because really from November to January it was very hard to concentrate on a lot of different things other than OSR connecting with stupid babies through Instagram and Twitter and staying connected to the things that we're doing and our interviews and doing afterthoughts and behind the scenes on that. I really want to get back into looking at and celebrating because some of the first international films I saw like the platform. He's in Lady and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Isn't that being nominated this year for the Oscars? No, not Portrait of a Lady on Fire. I wish. Is it not? No, it's an older film. Are you sure? Yeah, it's an older film. Unless they pulled back the qualifications for it, that would be wonderful. But and right now what I'm trying to find and I'm disappointed, I went immediately to the Aramon Foundation and there's nothing on here about bullet future proof. I don't see anything about future proof. I'm looking all over the place for it. And then when you search future proof on Google, you get websites for a beatbox beverage place. I'm really trying to find this so that I can stay connected to it and support it. And I can't imagine they created this video and they don't have a website for it. Does the video itself have a link in the description? The one that's on it. It just took you to Aramon's website. I don't know. There's a whole thing. Maybe it's not out yet. Maybe this is like an announcement video of it. Okay. Well, for whatever it is and whatever we can do to help spread the word about this thing. Aramon, would you like to come on the channel? Well, on your Akasha. I'd come back on the channel. And we would love to talk to you again. And if there's anything we can do with us, dude. Yeah, if there's anything we can do both in spreading the understanding of it as well as participating in some way with this and contributing to it in any way. This is, I got emotional watching this. I got chills. And I got, if it had gone in other directions, I might have even started to get teary-eyed because this is, this beats at the heart of what we are as a stupid family. So if this didn't get you excited, then I don't know what's going on outside of you. Yeah. So we'll do some, we'll do some research to see. Yeah, one absolutely will. What's going on with this, but this is awesome. I hope. Magnificent. I'm hoping it definitely helps change not only what India does with their submissions, but also getting the word out with outside of that specific factor, getting the word out to all the world about what's going on. And it is criminally underrepresented in the world. Yeah. And also there's some people that we either know directly or through six degrees of separation who are Academy members that we need to be connected with and help in some way, shape or form like the newly tapped members from Indian cinema of this past year. Yeah. Who the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did a great thing by changing it from foreign film to international and including in the best picture category parasite. It showed hopefully the first signs of what the Academy should be about, which is global cinema, not just American cinema, American British cinema, which is what it's been. There's nothing wrong with celebrating it. And maybe there should be a separate, if you want it, you know, the BAFTAs are for British cinema. Okay, you can do one that's just for Hollywood, but if you're going to be the leading edge celebration place and honoring place of cinema, we've got to become much broader in our understanding, especially with India. You could do like the Oscars, America and then Oscars. Like they do for the industrial, you know, they do a separate, there's a separate ceremony for some of the technical Oscars that you never see in the main one because most people won't watch where they do a technical one and give a lifetime achievement award over there. And it happens the night before the Oscars, they could do that for American cinema and then make the other night global cinema. Well, this was great. So please guys share this, try to get this in touch with them because we'd love not only to talk with them about it, but to help out in any way we can. So let us know. Let them know as well down below.