 Hello. That microphone's almost too tall for you. Well, yeah, I had to point it down. When I'm with you. Stop. When I went back. Hey, welcome back to our Stibbidirection Corbin. I'm Seven. And you can follow us on Instagram, and Twitter from all juicy content. Thank you to everybody who supports us on Patreon, and follow us on Twitter, and Twitter account, and subscribe, and like button, because that helps the algorithm. And welcome back. And today we're doing a movie review of the Tallugu, 2009 Tallugu film Maga de Hira. Maga de Hira? Maga de Hira? I don't know. I don't either. But it's the SS Rajamouli director. The... Director film. And starring Ramcharan in Khaja. Agarwal? I don't know. I don't either, I apologize. But it came out in 2009. So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it, come back, because this will be 100% spoiler review. And if you're wondering why Rick's not here, I might do a review of Rick, it just depends. He just has given me indications that he wasn't gonna like this film at all. He's about, I think, only about 30 minutes in by the time we're recording this. He watched them this morning, I think, and then he was gonna watch the rest. So if he ends up, you know, changing his mind or has different thoughts, but I told him obviously, if you absolutely hate it, just let me know. But I'd want to talk about this with Stephanie. But so yeah, if you haven't watched it, please go watch it and come back, because this will be 100% spoiler review. But babe, what did you think? This is your, you have seen every SS Rajamouli film except for Bahubali one that we've seen, right? Which is Bahubali, Bahubali two, you saw Bahubali two, RRR, Iga, and now this. Yes. So the only one you haven't seen is Bahubali one. Yeah. Correct. I believe that is correct. And so what did you think of this film? What if I said I hated the whole thing? I know that would be a lie. Yeah. It would be. I liked it. Yeah. I liked it a lot. It was a good time. It was. It was sweet, funny, engaging, it was good, it was a good time. Yeah. And that's one of my favorite things. I really enjoyed it as well. For all, even though it has a bunch of flaws and that's just why I didn't, I don't think this film should be reviewed that critically. I just think it should be reviewed if like, did you enjoy this film? Cause obviously it has flaws, but I'm so happy, one of the things I'm most happy with is that S.S. Rajanmali now has whatever budget he wants he can get, right? Cause he's always had the vision. The technology might not have been there even though he would try things that were very innovative for the time in India. His vision was well executed. I don't think that, I don't think the technology was... Yeah, no, the technology wasn't there. There for his vision. But yeah, I really enjoyed it. We'll talk about a lot of the S.S. Rajanmali elements, the Ramcharan elements and all of that. But let's talk about Ramcharan. You love Ramcharan, right? I do. Yeah, yeah. He's a very attractive man. She obviously, that the first thing you saw him in was Rajasthanalism or whatever that one is. Which I also liked. Yes, you did. She liked it way more than Rick and I did. I enjoyed it a lot. But yes, I like a good Ram. He's a good looking man. Yeah. Yeah, he is. And this is such a... S.S. Rajanmali has such interesting concepts for films. It's very Indian, it's very... But it's also usually on an epic scale. Well, I think the really cool thing about this was that it had the epic history story as well as your current day type modern thing intermixed. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, which I guess ego was also reincarnation. Yeah. Just a different... Not 400 years. No, not 400 years. We love the intermission little log line. So fun. Of in 10 minutes, let's jump back 400 years or something like that. It was super fun. But yeah, I enjoyed his performance. In the beginning, when it was modern times, it felt very reminiscent of Shah Rukh Khan early 2000 movies in terms of everything was over the top, exaggerated. Yeah. But... You knew there was gonna be a song. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be big. But it felt like that. That I kind of give it a pass because I like him now. And I'm like, yeah, I enjoy what he's doing right now. It's ridiculous. And over the top. But since I really enjoy the Ram Charan, I kind of give him that same pass in that time because obviously that's for the time what the style was and what they were like, he's too cool. And then looking off to the screen and all that kind of stuff. But then he gets into more of the seriousness once they jump back 400 years. And he becomes the warrior. And he becomes the warrior. And he's so good. If it was him doing the martial arts part of it, he did a really good job. I don't know if it was him or if it was his stunt double. But also his dancing and this was, as usual, amazing. Yeah, it was good. And it's, I did enjoy the part in the beginning when he danced with his dad, but also the innovative of S.S. Rajnamooli to put his dad when they imposed him, is that when he was younger? Which I think they were remaking a song that his dad did in his career. And that song was a remake of one of his dad's song. And that's the one when his dad was younger. I think that was that song. I think you guys let me know if that's wrong or not. But yeah, just the innovativeness of S.S. Rajnamooli to do like in 2009. So they probably did this 2007, 2008 when they were filming this. That's pretty big for India, India and Telugu industry before Bahubali. And obviously those Bahubali R.R. kind of changed the entire game with the VFX. And there's a bunch of like, the VFX aren't good in this movie. But yeah, it's kind of fun and endearing a little bit. Something I'll say, like I was trying to contemplate which movie is better in terms of Ega or this one? Because Ega I think is more fun. Even though I thought I had fun in this one. It's just that when the fly comes in, you just have a hell of a time in Ega. But it's like a horrible VFX for Ega. But this one I think overall outside, maybe you see the beginning, it kind of had similar acting to the beginning of Ega. But this one I think has like a better romance story, better overall acting. And so they're kind of comparable I think in that aspect. I would probably watch Ega more still just because of the fly and how fun that was. But I enjoyed it. I enjoyed this as a whole. I had a whole lot of fun. And I don't know if it's, I prefer the story. I think I prefer the full circle romance in this one, more so than in Ega. I mean, we're not comparing them. Yeah, I agree. The romance in this one was nice. I liked the one, especially even when they were in the current time of, and when they zinged basically. I thought that was cute. A very Chevrolet Con-esque in terms of has to find his love, has to be. He's always there to protect her even. And they sense each other. It's like a wind blows and they know. Somebody's about to touch her and he shows up and slices his head off, or that's what he feels. He's like, which was a lot of fun as well. Very innovative of SS Rajamuli. I will say though that I think I would have preferred a grander ending. Yeah, they could have ended it. Maybe it was comedy that we missed in terms of Tolugu speak of how there, maybe it's a callback. I don't know. I also felt like it could have ended on that grander moment at the end. But they ended on them talking. They're just across. Yeah, across. It landed kind of weird for us. The end, just the overall kind of anti-climactic. Hey, throw me a rope or whatever they said. We're all safe now. We'll just sit here. But yeah, I agree. Because there was a bunch of epicness going on that it could have ended with and then it just kind of ended with a weird moment. I do enjoy the fact that a bunch of SS Rajamuli films end with a big song number. It kind of encapsulates the feel of the film in terms of did you have a good time? Yeah. Yeah, I had a good time too. Let's all dance and celebrate what we just did. We all had a good time. It was a lot of fun. She did a good job. It was Steph commenting. She was like, why is that only the men that can remember? Well, it's good. But obviously, she remembered in the end. Yeah, and I think that was the point, right? If she didn't remember then, by the time the planets aligned, she was never gonna remember. I wish she would have kept her warrior-ness in the, like a little more. She was more like just a damsel in distress in the current time. They could all remember their skills, basically, but she couldn't. She was like just the girl. Just the damsel in distress when she was like this really good archer and warrior back in the day, 400 years ago. Another character that I didn't expect to like was the, what's his face? Sheer Khan. Sheer Khan. I enjoyed it. I loved his arc. Like, obviously, he just loves love. He loves to see love. He said, you killed 100 of my men. I'm indebted to you now. Go get your girl. And then when it was present day, he's making up, he remembered, he was making up for what just happened. And he was like, I need you guys to be together. Right, he's like, I can't find my love until you're reunited with yours. I enjoyed his like cute silliness of his character, which just overall goes to SS Sergeant Mooli and what he does with his films, I really enjoy because he, similar to like, especially old school Karen Johar in terms of he knows what he is. He, like, especially in the 90s, Karen Johar. He has his style. It might be weird at times, but you always have a heart under it. And similar to, you haven't seen any of his films. Rajkumar Harani, he did PK380, it's the movies we did at the Watch Alongs too. A lot of them are very silly, but they also have a deep heart to them. His might be silly, but there's always gonna be this grandeur scale. There's always gonna be this major entertainment factor, even if there's flaws in the film, or really there's, that's his creme de la creme. I'm so, because the technology is finally caught up to his vision and what he wants to do in his films. And so that that's exciting because he has these grandeur ideas. And at the time, obviously maybe if we saw this, if we were Indian and saw this at the time, the VFX might have been something for the time in India. But obviously now they're just bad VFX. But you didn't care because you were being entertained. Somebody was getting their arms sliced off, or somebody was, there was a fun song, which was by MM, the Oscar winner. MM is the same composer for this one. I love the songs in this. I thought all the song, and Rick and I had reacted to a bunch of them already. We had actually reacted to a couple of scenes. Did you react to Rom and a Cowboy Hat though? I don't remember if we did. Yeah, Rom and a Cowboy Hat was a look. Yeah. I enjoyed that. It was unexpected. It was, but it was nice. It was. And it has this stereotypical villain in this, but it's also like, it's easy to root against him. And it's like he played a villain, villain, fun and well. I think people need to learn how to zigzag. That's his one weakness, just like in Game of Thrones. You're going up against a spear. Just move to the left, like two feet, and you'll be fine. I will still say though, a loose end that was never tied up was that he never was like, hey, I didn't kill your dad. Yeah, why wasn't he, he had multiple opportunities. Never cleared that up. Even at the end, she was like, I don't care anymore. She might still think he killed his dad, but she was like, I remember you. So it's okay. I just, it would have been an easy fix. No, I didn't kill your dad, that was him. Oh, well that clears that up. So yeah, obviously that, yeah, that is a, I don't know why you just didn't say that. He had like 10 instances that he could have. I mean, even when they were in the room and she was like, you killed my dad, I saw you, I can't forgive you. He's like, I'm gonna pull a knife on you, but I'm not gonna tell you. I don't have time to tell you I didn't kill your father, okay? I'm just gonna pull a knife on you and steal you. Yeah, I do. I don't know why you didn't, I don't know why you just didn't tell him. It doesn't make any sense. But yeah, the overall, it kind of flowed well for me, even though like I would have, I don't even, you were rooting for obviously their love the entire time, but I almost like would have liked them to just stay in the 400 years ago times even more. Obviously that takes away the reincarnation element of it, which I guess you kind of need. But yeah, because my favorite parts were probably more the 400 years ago aspect. I think it was very clear they spent the most time developing that portion because it had to come full circle. Yeah, that timeline was definitely my favorite part. Even though I did my favorite parts of the present day were with them too. And then obviously when Shere Khan came back, I enjoyed his character. I thought it was super fun when he was finally, they were finally facing off and he reached in the ground and pulled out his head. Oh yeah, that was epic. That was so good. Oh, that was great. I enjoyed that. Yeah, so there's so many like epic fun element parts, just like in RRR, it's just that's just the creme de la creme of S.S. Rosamouli and just everything coming to give her perfectly VFX and his writing and his vision and the acting outside of the white people in that one was all. But I think, yeah, I will say the song when he was touching everybody's hands and all the white girls. All the white girls. They were not great. Yeah, no. Also, you knew it wasn't a white girl. Not great. I feel like you knew it wasn't a white girl. But yeah. Yeah, it's just, this is one, like I said, that's why I'm doing this with Steph in anticipation that Rick didn't enjoy this film. I could be wrong. Maybe he was only 30 minutes in and obviously it changes a lot. Past 30 minutes. So if he does end up changing his mind, I will do another review with him. But this is a film that I feel like is more just like, did you have fun? Did you enjoy it more than you should be critiquing this film very much? Because I thought it was a lot of fun. And I enjoyed the heck out of it. I enjoy S.S. Rosamouli's brain and what he can come up with. And I love Ramcharan. He's, even though he... I think, I think my son's. Leland's about to come in. Leland, you can come in. He was supposed to be napping, but he was... I don't even remember. Okay, well, Leland, come here. Yeah. I think it's very clear that he loves love and he loves buddies. Oh, yeah, he loves his buddies. Say hi. Did you enjoy the movie? Yeah, you didn't watch it. Well, we enjoyed the film. Let us know what you thought about the film. What should be our next S.S. Rosamouli film? Right, Leland? That we should watch. Let us know down below.