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Oh lovely all your patrons Very lovely And today we're doing a movie of you a short movie of you and come on everybody see tomorrow That's how short it was of the new 2022 It says 20 to team to clearly was supposed to come out last year Do the plantemic? a The new punk eyes trippity star our dose our dose D dose the originator of the dose and directed and written by Abirup Basu and produced as well correct and it's basically a laundry laundry man from the suburbs of Kolkata Finds companionship in an unclaimed red dress which triggers assistant memories from the past Yep, okay Giving away a little bit I think all it needed to say was a lonely laundry man from the suburbs of Calcutta Encounters an unclaimed red dress Yeah, don't need to bring up the doesn't even need to say that he finds companionship in it That's giving away too much giving away too much. I agree. Yes, but this will be a spoiler view. It's 35 minutes Just go watch it. It's on Disney hot star. Okay, just yeah, it's not gonna take up too much of your time Okay, yeah It's a short one. So I don't want to this is the shortest film We've probably seen that isn't called a short film. Yeah. Yeah, that like we didn't fully react Yeah, you could you could fit this ten times into Lagan But Rick your initial thoughts, please It's what I expected from the trailer. It's everything. I had hoped it would be When we get into spoilers, I'll have the ball. Oh, we are in the spoiler. Okay. That's what I said go watch Oh, yeah, there you go. So go what you liked it. Yes. Okay. Go watch it. Now. We're gonna talk spoilage It's 35 minutes. It's worth your time. Go watch it. It's on Disney hot star. So What we expected from the trailer and from punkage is If you want to see what it means to be an actor Watch and if you want to see what it means to tell a story from a cinematic viewpoint That's highly elevated and cares very much In a way that I've seen this Blueprint we've talked about the blueprint of Malayalam film We're watching this and we were about ten minutes in and I said to Indrani I said this director's got to be been Bengali. He's this is a Bengali. This feels like a Bengali film I feel like we've watched enough Film to get a sense and not cuz not just because it's taking place in Kolkata That obviously was real treat for her at one point no joke hearing the sounds hearing the sounds and at one point Oh, I think was one of the first shots We had from behind him to show the street one of these big yellow buses went by and andrani flipped out and screamed That's my boss That's funny. Yeah, and the the wedding processional moment Oh, yeah, we were laughing really hard because she said that is so accurate That is so spot-on as to what would happen and that the groom was on top of the hood But his horse was being pulled behind without him on it. So yeah, there's a lot we can talk about story-wise, but this is What do you want to talk about what do you want to talk about first cuz everything was fantastic Yeah, I where do you want to where do we want to begin a thousand lavishing the praises and agree because Um Yeah, this is it delivered on what I wanted. Yep, and it delivered right away on what I wanted Yeah, it opens with a basically a ten minute one shot. Yep of just Pankaj. No dialogue Just just just just acting or just not even acting. He's just being he's just doing it and like apparently Pankaj shed when I he because I had Sent him the trailers like you have a new film coming on I haven't heard about it and he's like and he told me about it. He's like there's nine minute one shot He's like it, but it wasn't planned, right? So my guess is the director was like just I'm going just do something just just Do what you think. Yep naturally to you that you would do in this situation. Yeah, there was there was only one moment sincerely only one Where I didn't know it was done in a way that was kind of Not just in the moment and I'd love to know if Pankaj would say yeah guilty as charged or if it really it was a genuine moment Then that's my faux pas, but I felt there was only one moment where and it my guess is they were going way longer And here's what happens the temptation for a director whether you're workshopping rehearsing it's a play Typically only in rehearsals because in a play the actors in control of the tempo But if you're filming and you're thinking this is only gonna go three minutes and the director hasn't said cut and You're just going that there's a massive temptation to Occupy the space versus just be in the moment And so it was when he grabbed the back scratcher and scratched his ear. No, I love that. I loved it I loved it, but I thought That really felt like a silent film moment It was almost a Charlie Chaplin a moment for a second where it wasn't the character just being there It was Pankaj having a little moment of But I just agree It's possible. I thought I felt that was a very genuine very possible part of that film. I'm not saying it happened I just would love to know if he was feeling like this was going a long time And he just did a little sticky thing with the scratcher He may not have my bet is that the the director was like I'm maybe not even gonna tell him Oh, I'm sure he didn't we're gonna go absolutely. He's the kind of actor you can do that with yeah Yeah, why wouldn't you of course, but yeah, I thought that was it was a brilliant way to open the film Because Pankaj knows nothing except to just how to be and yes be there, right? Yeah just and He's so obviously he it comes with experience of acting but he knows he doesn't really need to do Anything correct. He just he's interesting enough and The way he trusts his director probably and so he knows that the story is gonna be interesting enough in the character And yeah way it's film that he doesn't need to Perform he could just stand there kind of be confused as he was like obviously this guy was wanting to close up shop and And get on with the day and yep all that kind of stuff I Yeah, the full first ten minutes of a 35 minute film of just being one shot. It's always just absolutely brilliant I absolutely loved it and he is I think it was it may have been Francine Masler Who is a legendary casting director here in LA if it wasn't her it was another legendary casting director? Who in an interview when asked what advice would you give to actors when they're auditioning and one of the things That was said was dare to bore me mmm dare to bore me the other thing is Bring something to it that no one else is gonna bring to it. Mm-hmm, which is yourself Yeah, don't try to give me what you think I want to see based on what's on the paper Bring to me what you're going to incarnate when you're the character and dare to bore me doing it and because Well, most it's really weird But most some of the most interesting things you can capture on film are what are the most mundane moments of life and Most actors who are inexperienced feel they need to fill the space with something rather than let it be void of anything but just Being it was very reminiscent of Our other dos Manoj in in Al Ghira when he's listening to the music. Yes hair. Yes, that's what it seems like. Yes many minutes I forget how long it was. Yeah, but He was just they let him kind of yep do his thing I bring up this moment all the time because it's one of the first times I ever noticed it in cinema Whenever you talk about moments that lasted longer than the actors probably thought it did just so that the director could see What are we gonna get that's real and organic and unscripted is in one floor over the cuckoo who's nest when they're having the party and Jack's character just sits underneath the windowsill and I Promise you he had no idea the director was gonna go that long it goes on a long time and that's the dare It's are you just gonna be or do you feel like you need to perform for me now? Do you need to yawn and show me your tire? Do you need to stretch? Do you need to suddenly? Oh suddenly it's something in your ear. Do you need to create something versus just be and he just sits there? Daydreams at one point. He looks over at somebody and smiles at him and just it's beautiful and that's what I felt this Whole film was and we knew we were gonna get that with Pankaj We knew we were going to get what we got one of the best for a reason. He is one of the best. He is a If you want to know how to act Watch him do this film. This is how this is how to act watch him not act exactly now Let's talk about the directing. Yes, cuz Directors if you want to know how to direct yeah, and Tell a story a simple story cinematically, but yeah, and you also Yeah, I'll go. No, that's that was it watch this Yeah, the and the fact that he didn't also feel the need to tell you the full story either correct He's like this is just a little slice of this man's life. Yep, just and you're gonna see him Realize stuff think about stuff remember stuff. Mm-hmm. You're not gonna know really what it is Yeah, that it was that it that he's kind that he's kind of thinking about or yeah, I think about yeah, like I love the moment when He's just put on the really nice shirt jacket, right and he moves the hangers away And he has a flourish to the left which in the trailer was beautiful was we got rid of all those little stamps, right? But when he did that little flourish It was so out of character for who he had been for the last 15 minutes I said didn't run he with excitement. I went what's he gonna do? he's gonna perform what is he doing right now and every little moment like that and the Saying so much with so little like when he gets the drinks put through the little slot, right? Well when he gets the champagne bottle a Beautiful moment of Pankaj just being a man who's never opened the champagne bottle Rather than showing you I'm a guy who's never opened a champagne bottle He was a guy I guarantee Pankaj has opened champagne bottles before in his life But he made us believe that this man and and it said so much about this man about his status in life About what he's been able to accomplish or not accomplish and whether or not those accomplishments are because of circumstances beyond his control or Choices he's made Why is he alone? Yeah, why does he live where he does the way that he does? Does he not have a love interest and he fantasizes because his heart was broken and he can't risk again Or did he never ever risk in the first place and we're never given answers to that Yeah, and what was wrong with his neck? Yeah Seems like he has eggs a lot of neck problems He had neck problems, but that was that because it was being used the way Robert Shaw's Limp was used in the sting because that was a real injury did Pankaj really have something going on with his neck Or was that scripted? We don't know I have no clue and it doesn't matter because it was believable Yeah, everything about in what do you what did you what was your interpretation of the full story? What do you think what was? Okay, well what I love I love that we don't know if she took the dress or not Yeah, I Think he lied you think so I think he kept it Yes, a hundred percent. I don't think he gave the dress back. I think that was her dress But I think he kept it and it wouldn't surprise me if the little Russian Bobblehead doll was another comparable thing where someone had left it and asked if it was there and he was like Mm-hmm That's mine I like that or the poster above the bed. Yeah, it was probably left by a little kid who wanted it and he was like But Maybe he did give it back and I think the ultimate story was about the choices the combination of what makes us who we are at certain stages in our life and This complexity and amalgamation of we're a result of the choices we make but we're also a resort of the circumstances a result of the circumstances that we've been placed in and Sometimes you're in a place where you faced insurmountable odds and circumstances And it's just very tragic and sad that you've gotten to a place where you have a sense of loneliness and you have unfulfilled dreams However, there are people who are in those places that are there because they chose it and they had Opportunities that they didn't take and they've reaped what they had sewn. Yeah, and I think it was purposefully left with the lesson of We are who we are because of choice and circumstance And you can't judge this character because I haven't given you enough information You have to decide what you think and therein lies a personal bias you probably have. Yeah, right? Absolutely. Yeah Yeah, I like that interpretation of it. Yeah, and I don't know if that's the intent, but that's what I felt Um, I also another thing I really really enjoyed it was the uh cinematography of of the entire thing I thought it was actually very damn good. Uh and and just the color the coloring of everything whether that was By the editor or the cinematographer, but the cinematographer deep Met car. Mm-hmm, and then through punch hole punch hole. Yeah I I I thought it was absolutely gorgeous for such a small film that it looked so Not like obviously sanjay. We obviously that's the epitome of just that wouldn't have worked. Yeah, but that that wouldn't work gritty Gritty beautiful. Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't we always we always use the two extremes of the just the street dirt raw Of anurag and like the polished beauty of the thomas concaid lights of sanjay and everybody kind of falls in the middle of that And and then there was such interesting angles. They decided to take with some other shots as well Which I think is probably one of the more fun things for cinematographers and directors to come up with because obviously film has not been around for It seems like ever now, right? And so every angle it seems like it has been done in film before right so to keep one yourself Creatively engaged and the audience yes, you have to create Different ways of filming things so it seems kind of new and unique and in every way I mean I felt this as well Um in this same vein Remember we mentioned the fact that it was only 35 minutes long and I loved the fact that it was kind of this like rebellious There it's the length it is because we didn't have a length in mind when we started this thing We just created it and had something we wanted to say it could have been two hours. It could have been nine minutes It just happens to be this length for no other reason than this is how long it is I felt there was a almost Not that this was the highest intention of the film but within the film's intention And it was with some of these choices of not just framing but the slowness of pan There's this one pan that goes and you see the crumpled up newspapers that are sitting there And the fact that that's not a stagnant shot, but a slow pan is We talked about this before it's it's showing you A window or a mirror about the human experience and that's showing you That's that's the amount of time he's spent those are his papers He's been reading and it's not a stagnant shot showing you something in moment It it's conveying the sense of the slowness of the way time is moving for him But simultaneously time is slipping away from him And I felt like those slow it was there was never anything that was done very quickly with the movement There were some hard edits One of them made me laugh out loud Which was when he had he had gotten a little drunk and he fell asleep And then all of a sudden Hard cut to the foot with the sunlight coming through the holes in the door I laughed out loud at that hard edit. There was there was a lot of really good edits great edits Like there was one where I forget what was right before but it was something that was a little more hectic And then it went to him on the bed on the bed just laying there looking up I love the I loved that the pov was in in lens that it wasn't off to the side But that whenever he was looking up at her he was looking at us and obviously The book ending of the exact same Wording of the lady who has the name Lali on the radio Saying the exact same words front end and back end This is all about time and the passage of time and how our choices and circumstances interweave with time and Sometimes we get what we don't deserve and sometimes we do get what we deserve and but and the other thing about the drunk sequence Actors you want to know how to be drunk on film watch pancash Do anything on film just watch pancash because he's not I believed 100 percent the man was drunk. You'll you'll find 100 percent. He'll find people who can do Different things, but you won't find anybody who can act better. No, correct They'll they will simply give you a different interpretation. Yes, and that's the only thing that would be enjoyable and watching it comparatively But there's not an actor alive That you could put in there who would do it any better. It would just be different Yes, absolutely. And I you could put him in any conversation you want. He's one of the greatest most naturally gifted actors I've ever seen and I'd really love to know why them all Yeah, and I love that. I don't know. I also love that. We don't know if he kept the dress Um, and there was I do love films that just let you let it you have so many unanswered questions Yeah, um because it just doesn't feel it was like you can figure you can It's just a slice of life. There was a dangerous line. There was a dangerous line And I'm glad they said it but it was a big risk Right after he finished ironing and the other shirts are picked up and the red dresses left behind He has his first like real line and he says something to the effect of Looks like you're like me. We've been forgotten That was a dangerous thing to say Out loud because this is all about show not tell but I felt like it worked I felt like that worked and I think the reason it worked is because of the actor saying the line That could have been that could have been somebody going. Hey audience. Here's the message and it wasn't I felt that it was an organic moment I'd love to know If they had a conversation even about that if maybe maybe pankaj felt like why am I saying that? Because if my reason for saying it is so that the audience gets the message Then we've killed what we're doing because nobody ever says something for what audience in real life There is no audience But if I'm really saying it because I think out loud and we can justify it and I think they did Yeah, and this character obviously did talk to him. Did talk to himself. Exactly. That's what justifies And I loved We only were shown the bodily headed russian doll thing One time in a slow pan before he did the thing where he's standing and he just looks over and he goes And you knew he was doing it to her once again pankaj's neck deserves an Oscar always The best neck in the business. There's there is no better. There's no better neck in the business than pankaj I don't know how he gets to work it so well, so we could we could our review could be longer than the film Anyways, I hope you still not here if you haven't seen it. Please go watch it if you haven't and Yes, let us know what you thought about the film and if you didn't like it, you're wrong. Yeah I don't know how man. I don't know how it's like oh the actor you shut up. You're lying You know who might not like it and I love that this film is that way because one of the things about it that's I I didn't really didn't finish the thought on the the revelatory aspect of it it it forces A world right now that needs an edit every two seconds and needs the dopamine hits of their social media all the time And needs to have this special effects and the CGI and the quick and the it forces you to just sit and watch A slow pan a nine minute with no dialogue thinking A slight tilt of the head. I love it. It's my favorite. I love it. Uh, anyways, let us know what you thought about the film What should be the next pankaj Uh trip at the film actually there's uh, and I would love to see this director Yes, uh, I love say his name for me, please Abarup Basu and forgive me if I have mispronounced that in any way You did a phenomenal job. Uh, the the one that I I keep hearing of pankaj is the what was it called not gang's wasp Or we've already seen from the from a past film with his yeah, it's called. I know when I see it. I'll know it He's another man. He's another man who could be a great bond villain. Oh come on Um Yeah, we've seen the trailer for that A lot of people say that's a really good performance of his underrated film Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film and what should be the next pankaj and this director's films that we should watch Down below