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First we saw the Hindi film guide and then we saw the Superstar Russia come film Yep, but it's pronounce this one This one is even worse even harder It's the 1987 Malayalam film and I know I usually say between 1985 and 1980 before that but Malayalam I know is a little different. Yeah, and the golden classic age is a little bit later than the other ones and obviously I want to get to more Mohanlal not my movie Mohanlal classics that which we haven't really outside of his the one who was the green-faced man And I think we saw Eravar as well. Mm-hmm. I think these are the only three Films so far, right? That is correct unless I'm wrong. Yep. That's but 1987 Malayalam film I can't even try that's well apparently it's translated into dragonflies in the spring rain It's very poetic. Yeah, very poetic Thuva na Thumbikul And I know it's in the way Malayalam say it's not even yeah I Yeah, it's impressive, but the it's directed and written by P. Padma Rajan and composed by Johnson and Pramavurji Ravindranath and starring Mohanlal Somalata and Parvati and quite a few other people but those are your three main Casts in this film, but obviously came out in 1987 So if you once again all the classics will be completely spoilers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's classics So if you haven't watched it we saw it On Amazon, I'm sure you can find other places in India as well So go good to watch Rick your initial thoughts, please my initial thoughts I have a lot that we will be talking about obviously as usual. That's not a surprise. I liked it Mm-hmm. There's more about it that I liked and didn't like so ultimately it Didn't love it, but I liked it a lot. I stayed engaged and I really liked it I have some things that I don't like that are just showing you I had connectivity to the story There's things about the story. I just don't like oh, but then there's also some things I guess what I don't Understand yeah in the story that I don't that maybe you can help me understand in terms of the screenwriting I didn't find justification for a couple of things, but where there was justification for things. I got pissed off Yeah, I actually so I liked it. I enjoyed it. Well, they're especially our three Yeah, there's some stuff that I that I had some issues with as well and some stuff that I was like I don't Was that necessary? to be really in there and Stuff like that, but overall I really I really enjoyed actually watching Mohanlal and the other actresses Yeah, I thought this was actually a pretty pretty progressive Film for night. I mean, it's no surprises. No, no, no, exactly They're always kind of pushing the boundaries of because obviously you don't often see just obviously there's more of like a prostitute relationship, but then also them just casually having sex multiple times before the married. Yeah Do I love her? Do I love that that that story has been around for a long time? I'm a man who loves or these one person or I guess you could be a female Casablanca, right? Right that story is as old as time right somebody who loves two people and can't really decide right right To put it simply right for this film, right But so I thought that that was a really cool part like we were pretty like 40 40 something minutes And maybe an hour my wife was like when was this film made? Yeah I was like 1987 is there seems to be a pattern of the limited Classics we've seen from all over India because it really is limited compared to the amount that are there Yeah, but repeatedly it seems that South Indian films Tend to be way ahead of their time in terms of that subject matter. Yeah compared to everywhere else. Yeah, yeah Well, let's talk about our performances first and then we'll get in yeah And then we'll get into the story and the details and stuff like that Mohanlal I really actually enjoyed his performance. It was very subtle. Yeah, which is I think is his his MO. No We've seen four we have Trishyam too. Oh You're absolutely right. We saw four. That's right, which was probably is more more more recent that we've seen of his I do believe it's for maybe I'm missing one you so you guys can let me know but From the other ones we've seen it that seems to be his MO is pretty grounded pretty small But I thought he had a really interesting character here. I thought he showed a lot of emotion I thought he showed a lot of connectivity with his with his co-stars And and and things like that. I and I really enjoys before I thought it was very very subtle yeah Performance, would you think of I I agreed it made me as I always do Refresh my memory and go in and look and see where his background is and who he is personally and I I Enjoyed it. There were only a couple of moments. It's always And I don't under I I'll never understand because it's still in Indian cinema The last no intimacy. Oh just it's it's always so awkward and it hurts my heart to see one of the most important aspects of human existence be portrayed with for two reasons one the portrayal is just Painful to see and two because Movies are storytelling and storytelling is teaching. I wonder how many people have learned intimacy through films that Presented in a way that is very uncomfortable very unnatural very not real So it's just those moments were the only moments. I felt weren't believable every other moment in the film And that was for everybody not just him, but I I Not surprisingly very Impressed with his work as an actor in this. I don't know which moments you're talking about but anytime they tried to kiss or be Intimate, okay, but what like even in the water Yeah, no, I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that. No, that's it was very Indian I'm laying in the talking and conversing in the water. It's fine But the moment they would go to do an embrace and a kiss It was always shielded and stopped so you couldn't see the kiss and you knew they weren't kissing Indian cinema Unfortunately, I get it right. I get it, but that which immediately you knew that was but you knew that was gonna happen That's just what I did. It's still doesn't allow me to just set that aside and believe people are kissing when they're not So yeah, I was I've that doesn't I mean obviously I I would prefer people to you know be real Yeah, do what people do in real life. We've been watching Indian cinema for like four years now So I it'll always it'll never not bother. It just well And it always bothers me because I know every role he plays when I go in I know before I go in that SRK's personal preference is always going to trump that character's needs. Yeah, I think that's the audience's preferences for India Yeah, I just it's obviously whatever But yeah, I know I enjoyed a lot. I get it. I understand your your gripe there But I enjoyed a lot of like in terms of like Cinematically them laying in the water and they're conversing as long as they weren't kissing the talking in the land around I get it. Yeah No, but that moment like when they're laying on the beach and he's laying on her I thought there was a lot of for Indian cinema a lot of like more intimate moments than you would normally get At that time as well. Yes shirtless guys. Yes. Yeah, and obviously like the fact that they were laying in bed Under the sheet under this clearly just had sex primarily right sinfully. Yeah And so there was a lot of those moments, which is kind of why I caused a little Progressive for yeah for sure for Indian cinema agree I appreciated that but it's talk about the ladies as well because they were both phenomenal agreed and I Will talk about the story in a little bit, but they're both both of their performances Which one was the Parvati was the prostitute right? No, no no Parvati was the first one that he Who he proposes to in college and Claire and Clara is the one who is the he sleeps with the virgin the prostitute. Yes I loved her performance Clara. I thought she a lot of innocence but also a lot of Beauty beauty and power. Yeah, sexual power for she was supposed to be a virgin here But she was convincing in her portrayal I believe their chemistry together all of them. Mm-hmm. I believe and Parvati's character had a little bit more of a of Interesting dynamic obviously. Yeah, Rada, and I I wish to I do wish there was a little more in depth of why she fell for him eventually There's a lot of more things that I have a lot of questions about not just that but other things as well that are But similar it does happen in yeah, it's in a quite a bit. Yeah of the like They don't have any interest and then now they're interested, right? It's kind of something that you just like to kiss again, you just especially in older films, especially in older films Yeah, it's just you just accept it. It's just what happens. You don't have to like it But you accept it that way it happens, right? Yeah, Parvati and sum sum a lot for give us if it's mispronounced really strong Good performances, and I love their chemistry with Mohan. Love. I completely agree. I just never ceased to be Impressed it seems by all of the ladies that we've seen in classics and everything else Women very well, I mean not every aspect of women But in terms of often putting a woman's story a strong woman at the forefront and I will say Though we talk a lot about The the male actors that we admire and respect a lot part of that's because as male actors Those are the people we look at in the roles that we would want to play and things of that nature, but If we probably did a very deep dive into it We would find that more female performances are superlative Yeah, then male performances in Indian cinema that we've seen they just never cease to just hit it out of the park Yeah, I loved both of them. Yes, I did too, and I was there with the two I mean those three are the movie. I was invested in What the hell was going on me to the Claire was a very Jenny character from Forrest Gump Hmm. She like loved him, but then she just left and she left but I would come back and then she would leave Yeah, it's I described that as Jenny from yeah, and Rada for me was the cost she of the film. Yes I was as angry with him as I was with run veer in bhajoo bhajurama Stani Yeah, and just thought at the end Obviously if you haven't seen this You shouldn't be watching now. Yeah, I did not like the ending So for the same reason I didn't like what happens in bhajurama Stani It's all about Rada for me and the fact that he did it again And he says to her at one point even I don't know how I'm gonna behave when it comes to this girl, okay by I Wanted her to turn around and leave at the train station when he turned and saw her because again he Went behind her back to go see this girl and the only reason he's not with this girl is Because she got married which by the way really really healthy reason to get married. I wrote it down One of the healthiest reasons to get married is so that you ensure you're never with the person you really love Perfect wonderful. I want to go to weddings like that all the time But that showed you my investment that I cared so much Yeah about these characters and I got pissed so much of when they did things that yeah No, I just watched the first season of Wyatt Lotus fantastic series if you haven't seen it, but like right so you saw season one Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we're one or two episodes into season two. Okay, great great But there's love not gonna give anything away, but there's one couple That the fact that they end up together in the end kind of pissed me off. Yeah, you know who I'm talking about I do because The guy just had the most punchable face Every single time he pissed you off pissed me off every minute so with Adrani and I we were so mad and did a great job Yeah, oh great job fantastic job. Yeah, that's often but any that's not this about yeah But the I get what you're saying And it was in Casa Blanca if you haven't seen Casa Blanca very some Very different story very different story, but in terms of like a female loves two men and She can't decide who she wants to be right one stable once she has more passion with correct and it's similar It's right. I mean he probably has more passion with with Clara And that's obviously evident and so maybe he was following his penis a little bit there But oh yeah, but I get it at the end that I'm like one Clara you could have Come back and you guys could have gotten married don't understand why you couldn't I don't know why she left in the first place Yeah, this is very Jenny. That's yeah, but she wasn't a Jenny. She was a very innocent virginal girl She wasn't this rebel. She wants to go Explore the world I think and she won't be tied down so she didn't love him No, I think she loved him, but she also similar to Jenny Jenny pissed me off and yeah But Jenny was screwed up. She's not screwed up. Is this an Indian film? So she had screwed up and she didn't have to be as screwed up It just seemed like this very innocent virginal girl Who loves this man so much that she's willing to give him her virginity? Just bolts. Yeah, but I there's multiple scenarios that part at the end. She was like, I don't know what I'm gonna do I was like, oh Yeah, I don't know if you should say that yeah But it's once again, it's also part of Indian sentiment Indian culture in terms of like he meets a girl I'm gonna marry you right up right off the bat. Mm-hmm the other girl kind of just putting up with male antics because They live in a village. It's a male dominated world. You're just there to be married to a man, right? Oftentimes especially right when this came out and so yeah, I was like shocked that she still stayed I was like, he's he's here right at the train station. He wants to leave again You said he wants to never do that again. The ending didn't piss me. I like in terms of like bothered me Justice for that justice for Rada justice for Kashi Because I was just like yeah, he's probably gonna fuck up that relationship anyway And I have another question about him early on in the film as well Hmm. So if he was so committed to his own promise that he would not sleep with a virgin unless she became his wife and he loves Clara mm-hmm Why why didn't he marry her? Well, I think he obviously wanted to and I think well also that that when she came back Yeah, she came back so when she came back But then she kept leaving as well because she was like I don't because I think he accepted that she didn't want it and so he was just happy to be there with her and Because she asked she's got on I thought of what I would do if you proposed again That's what she said obviously when when she finally came back, right? And I think he just accepted that This is the relationship. They were gonna have yes. See that that's where the comparison Is your romantic as well? That's because he's like for example use it just the logic of it all the Jenny comparison Jenny from the get-go You see why Jenny is so screwed up and why she can't be with someone she loves and she's always Undermining her own best interest and it's heartbreaking to that extent because if she could just heal They'd be together. I Didn't see I don't know if I didn't have any issues like that. I Think she was a free spirit in terms of I got that vibe from her Well, she came to him. He didn't want to be tied little with mom. Yeah, she wanted to experience the world I think is what it was really what I think she didn't really love him. That's fine. Yeah, obviously she left So I think at the time she was like I think I love you, but I also want to experience the world So and I think a lot of people can relate to that in terms of they're not ready for commitment They might love somebody but they're not ready for commitment as well. Well, that you are a romantic very and so you want You need that well, I don't realize that love. Yeah, well, I think I think I don't think there's anything non-realist about people not wanting to commit That's no no, of course I wouldn't say there's anything unreal about them not wanting to come in that that part of it didn't bother me but one part of the film that I just didn't understand of that whole them Pranking the guy and going to oh saying they were gonna kill him, right? Oh, no, they weren't pranking I don't I don't know that there's ever been a more uncomfortable torture scene Then bending his toes. I But I don't think I've ever seen anything more brutal But I just had taken a guy's toes and bending them hard in the back seat of a car That's almost unbearable to watch. No, I'm just saying like that whole scene. I was like I didn't like Even understand the need for it very much. I didn't understand the need for that character period in the story Yeah, yeah that and it made me dislike Mahan was character. Well, I think they were trying. I don't I did this I wanted to move Yeah, I but I think they wanted to show his like male ego his ego like when he's with his friends and how But we already got and yeah, I know I agree. Yeah, I don't think this part was needed agreed That whole sequence right you and it may be in the book and it's you might disagree And you might be able to tell us why but that hole I think you could have cut that whole scene out in a little over two hours and agreed probably a better runtime there How'd you like the Paul Simon and Whitney Houston music? I did notice that Speaking of music, yeah, loved the score. I did too. Yeah, both like the two songs So the main like the actual songs I thought were really really nice. I did too and they didn't that's another thing about South Indian films I feel most a lot of them are Roger Yeah, and I feel I feel a lot of the songs fall more under the side of a um Moving forward of the story. Mm-hmm. Yeah, then just a standalone item number to delete and entertain They have those yeah, but the majority of them propel the story forward and they tend to be this collage of Moment, yeah, then just a standalone and I thought the theme for them musically was beautiful. Yeah, I just I thought the score was fantastic Yeah, yeah, so overall I really did enjoy the film There's some issues obviously we had we obviously talked about yeah, I'm glad we're we're getting to some more mohanlal classics because I know he's one of the greats if not the great of Malayalam cinema him and Mamoudi probably are the two like that are yeah, I think people would say are like the kings of Acting in Malayalam cinema. Yeah, of older. Yeah, Malayalam cinema And so I would love to get to a lot more because everything we've seen him and we've liked him his performances absolutely All very different Drisham choose probably my least favorite, but that's maybe because we didn't see the first one We were expecting something different right all that kind of stuff, but especially if it's older stuff of the the Irivar which we loved which is money rotten. I'm right Then the the green face one which I was harder for a foreigner to Understand the whole story, but his acting was clear that it was really really good. Yeah, and then obviously this as well I think he gives really good performance and so do both of the ladies They do and I I really appreciate it and I don't know how true it would be to the original material because it's my understanding It's adapted from a story. Yeah, and I I did Recognize and appreciate a couple of things one being The intentionality with which this was directed and I could feel a lot of times you watch a classic especially and you can feel the love of making the film how how Hard they try to make things look nice and I I did appreciate the symbolic Nature of rain. Yeah, and how it when it was there what it meant and what it means for the Unpredictability and the lack you can't control feelings that you may have about someone as they come to you and the lack of the rain at The end I that was not obviously missed on us in any way, and I thought I would just mention that Yeah, no, I'm glad you mentioned that. Yeah, the rain was a big character character in the story entire film. Yeah And we have a lot of rain here right now. We sure do. Oh, we've been dry for a few days But thankfully it's we're getting more about to get a little more rain. Yeah, but yeah Really enjoyed the film. Let us know with the next Malayalam classic whether it's Mohanlal or others Yep, cuz I this might be one of the oldest Malayalam Probably is and thankfully available on Amazon. Yeah, which was a surprise But And didn't have much problems with the subs it seems it was a little problem with the graininess of the Yeah quality of quality of the the actual picture. Yeah, it wasn't like blur, but like they had like red going over I think it was I think it's just deteriorating a little bit by the time they digitized it. It was old. Yeah, yeah But other than that it was I thought they did a really fine job So let us know what the next Malayalam film should be Mohanlal or others and what you thought about this film down below