 Deep knee bends. Why don't that inspire you to look at your thumbs? Hey, welcome back to our super direction needed some Corban I'm Rick. What's in the drink? You are tweaked already Not enough and you can fall through the comments You're not doing other foreign reactions and reviews. I am international stuff nice anything obviously this is India yeah and two point I was American content any other country is happening over there and I Anyway today we are doing a review of the new Malayalam piece of cinema you just nailed that out you used to struggle with that word so much and now it's like Malayalam Malayalam I don't know you want to say that's it no what I used to say don't say it don't say it no no no no don't do that to yourself no he's gonna do it I can't even remember what I used to say but I know I said wrong anyways this is Malayalam Malayalam that's what it was Malayalam there it is all right good to make sure I still knew it the new film with Fahat Faseel and directed by Mahesh Narayan who I believe directed takeoff which we haven't seen but we know a lot about and then obviously it's starring just say yeah Fahat Faseel forgive me if I must pronounce your names ladies and gentlemen Darshan Rajendran and Roshan Matthew played the other two leads I'd say in the film correct and it was also written by the director as well correct this was all shot during the pandemic I believe was 14 days and I believe it was all iPhones from what I can recall people saying I think it was actually shot on iPhones wow yeah wow everything was all iPhone you can let me know if I'm wrong but that's what I heard which one it's crazy but it's one of those things that they're all it's all done via the text to the video call that you've seen a lot before really good editing yeah yeah but this will be a well it's new let's so let's do non spoilers and then if we want to talk about we'll let you know at the end you know yeah so this will be a little because it's new that's that's the only time we do non spoilers because you know you might not have seen it anyways Rick do you have an initial thought I do I have an initial thought here's my little paragraph a film is unique as its trailer leads you to believe it will be with solid performances from everyone involved most especially a standard emotional performance by Darshan or Rajendran yeah and while the final payoff in subject matter is undeniably important how we get there and how it's presented doesn't really do justice for me to the subject matter and doesn't prove to be a definitively compelling work and I wanted to point out the for me aspect of this because I wrote down the one of the first things I wrote down when I was watching it was the importance of recognizing that sometimes there's personal preference when you watch a film versus definitive disciplines you look for in film making so continuity error that's not a personal preference that is a definitive discipline so the things about the film that didn't really resonate with me which are small are personal preference things for me I didn't I didn't love the film but I enjoyed it if someone wanted to watch it I'd sit down and watch it again yeah that's my take yeah I think it was actually a really good film and I think it's the best take on this style of always in a box like like all you know skyper via text yeah the entire film kind of thing yeah yeah lock does not fall into that category no that's a completely different thing no but in terms of like the new age it's all done text with skype yeah like by far the searching I know is one I sure locked it a little bit of it with the texting just a little smidgen of this thing was the entire film correct so I do want to shout out the editor great because this is probably the best adaptation of that style thing I've ever seen I agree I think because you almost forgot after a while that you you were watching this little thing yeah people that were in boxes and sometimes obviously they work together but it was always in a little skype or Google Google I'm assuming they sponsored it Google there was a whole lot of Google and Macintosh yeah promo so that kind of stuff so I really really well done in terms of the editing yeah you almost forgot after after a while and I think the message at the end that I won't reveal right now I think it pays off I do like it's a nice message I like I don't know if I totally like fit maybe um I agree which will we'll get into a I don't want to say that we'll get into a spoiler part toward the end so we can talk about detail because I appreciated the message me too it's just there was something there um but and the way we got there I yeah so I don't I don't know what that we'll get into but anyways definitely works it's definitely it's only an hour and a half and I actually I would actually say this I think this is the best OTT to come out this year so far I think we've only seen three so far we didn't see Luke Case but uh Galabo Sotabo and then uh the the Chara the yeah Shoshan one yes I think this is the other one there's obviously not been a lot what was that no that was an older film we saw yeah yeah the Noah's one the Noah's one oh no no that was this year that was this year that was the he's the criminal detective so yeah it would be 15 those two definitely um I think this is probably tighter than the the Noah's film this one has this one has a more enjoyable clip yes speed to it um so between those two but once they're both great definitely we're seeing go watch it yeah one of the things I would say that there's a there's a pro and a con to this film for those of us who are accustomed to these technologies and live with them every day this film is just like being at home and watching people work on the computer screen but for someone like my dad he couldn't watch the film he would get so lost in the technology he would not know what he's looking at half the time but there's millions of people that for them this is a really neat way especially when you're dealing with and this isn't a spoiler because I think this gives some of it in the IMD DB description what you're dealing with here and it's given in the trailer is is a mystery yeah and so you're getting little bits and pieces of hints of things the whole way that's done in a really smart way I think it was actually like it definitely was a good like I don't really want to call it a thriller I guess but it kind of is a mystery to me more mystery thriller kind of like you're wondering what's happening like you think it's like this big catfish kind of thing and so yeah once again definitely we're seeing we're seeing I think all the performances were really good Fahad Basheel was obviously good I think she definitely stood out for me as well I knew obviously Fahad Basheel is always great of course I think Jimmy did really I think the whole supporting cast everybody did well it's Mali Alam cinema so of course they're all just gonna be good I don't think we've seen like a really bad performance outside no there's one person in virus that I just wasn't a fan of her acting that's the only time in a Mali Alam cinema that I can think of a bad actor right which is great one of the things I love about that that region yep um so definitely go see it well if you haven't seen it watch it if you haven't seen it's worth it go away yeah now work here come spoilers so go watch it I'm gonna talk about a little more now and so many of you beautiful stupid babies do that you put in the comments how you pause something watch it you did that with hella row thank you for doing that you are cinema supporters and lovers and just want to kiss and hug you anyway here come the spoilers so I don't know what it was that that because I enjoyed the entire film like I was saying I just don't know what the maybe you weren't supposed to have a wow at the end because usually at the end of these things you're like oh wow right um and maybe I just I have no idea what the little it wasn't it wasn't a no wow at the end no right but I mean you found out obviously about I guess an hour and exactly what it was it was a surprise yeah right definitely at that moment and then at the end it's just maybe the point of the film which is fine obviously was to bring light this issue which is obviously a massive issue incredibly important around the world and I love that aspect of this that right because you thought it was just gonna be like I think searching is a cat fishing like story like oh this is this online I'm meeting this person oh I think it's a different person so it led to you to believe that that was going to be the story for a while right right and then obviously it shifted right and I thought at one point that she was playing him yeah yeah me too so the shift and all of that again so much of this falls into um some of it some of it for me was believable or maybe the better way to describe it was as I wish it was different again going back to personal preference versus definitive disciplines like I would have preferred this to have been a little bit more believable in terms of the length like he just got out of a relationship and met her and a week later he wants to marry her I would have liked to have seen a little more time and get to know these people a little bit more well maybe it's because well we also know the marriage in India is a little different obviously but also apparently where they were you can't live in the same United Arab Emirates okay that's what they were out and so maybe that's why because obviously they didn't they they wanted to be the guy that he knew she couldn't be where she was yeah but you know I can tell you from personal experience would not have to be in the same room with somebody or even on the same continent with him to do it to do no I know I'm saying I think what it was was she he wanted to get her out of that situation that she was in and she was living with him what she was he had to marry her or they were going to be in big trouble like they were but wasn't he wanting to marry her before he knew any of that he was just in love with her after a week and Fahad Fasil was like dude what are you doing you might have just been one of those romantics like you Rick not after all really I'm asking Drani go right ahead after the first week we knew each other we were not even sharing our emotions with each other we were respectfully uh becoming friends anyway but again preferential for me I would have just preferred that uh a lot of things I would have preferred including with the subject matter I would have uh I'm thankful and I guess there's a room for this in the cinematic universe where you have a film that doesn't necessarily take you deep diving so that the subject matter can be broached with people who would be turned off by a bigger deep dive yeah this might like no one's no one really likes to enjoy sitting through taken yeah per se except to watch Lee and me some kick people's ass but it's it's very difficult to tell this because some people will avoid it and this is probably a good way for some people to be exposed yeah that's one of the things I really liked about the film because I don't like I like I said I don't even know what I didn't like about the film it was just it was it was like instead of being an A it was like a B plus right but I don't really know why and that's the issue and I also don't know that it was trying to be in it yeah you know what I mean I don't feel like this I feel like this was something they said this is a great concept we can film this during COVID we can get this on a TT platform especially if it was all done on why not yeah and for what I think they wanted this to be yeah it was phenomenal I it's worth watching definitely I really really enjoyed it I thought we can talk about her I thought she was probably the standout she was for me uh and I don't know if she had an incredibly for everybody I'm assuming you've seen it and that's why you're still here oh she was in virus the was she yeah she was now I was the nurse the the main doctor now I recognize her in this picture I recognize her from virus and she was really good virus well she had a moment that any of you who've tried acting to be in the position she was in at that one moment where she's on the phone and it's super close and she pretty much has her meltdown saying mom get me out of here I'm gonna die yeah yeah yeah I was at that point I already loved her in the character and believed every minute and I believed every minute of the film I believe these two as far as she was like dude after one week it wasn't that it was not believable to me in terms of the the creation of the movie it was just like dude why are you I was like behind the seal you've been with her a week and what are you doing but that moment was exceptionally difficult and was unforgiving in the direction and the cinematography to just be right here and you be because camera catches everything and if you're false for a millisecond the camera will pick it up and I she wasn't false oh no not at all I thought she did a brilliant I would love to know how this was directed yeah if it was in person or yeah it was all because obviously at certain points there was a bunch of people in the same shot like it I don't know if they car or at the airport I don't even know if they were actually at the airport or because he kind of did almost faked it a little bit right to make it look and so there was a lot of people together so I don't know how they did all that but you know I heard the crew was like real small like 10 people or something like that yeah would have to be so I it'd be really interesting to talk to the director like how was this shot I like how was this directed think about all the issues that they had to entail with I would love to find out how they handled I mean you can fix a lot of stuff lighting wise and post it with color correction and stuff but some stuff you can't but sound as well I mean the sound issues they could have run into yeah and I want to shout out the editor I don't know if they have them right the editor uh yeah mahesh oh it's like he edited it holy shit that great job holy shit I didn't great job are you an editor by trade first because that's impressive they are really impressive because like I said I almost forgot after a while that we are still just watching little Skype boxes essentially me too and texts and some because I've watched an episode of modern family and they did this kind of thing and I didn't really enjoy the episode I was like okay let's get on to the next episode where everybody's together this I was like okay cool I like this they should go done a really good job I mean it was I guess a little unrealistic sometimes how quickly they could have obtained the information right well not that oh okay well I mean I guess but yeah um like they worked as a security firm so I just assumed they had a bunch of you know access to whatever um but like the uh you threw me off oh I'm sorry what was I gonna say I don't know you said sorry I totally pulled you off your train of thought what was I gonna say that they we were talking about that you were watching oh like um how they just left the camera on so I don't know like yeah because obviously no one would just leave the camera on but I'm guessing what I came up with is that this just the camera's point of view is that it's still this person um on the camera not that he's still on the call on right uh he's just yeah like the government went to bed yeah kind of like the government can spy on you if the camera's not kind of thing right that's what I assumed they were doing me too I just didn't assume he just like left the camera on the whole question because I had one thing again that this falls in for me it's just personal preference this is not about disciplines and filmmaking uh what did you think about the score throughout the film Lee was giving his opinion yes um I do I liked it I didn't really notice or like I I think I noticed it was there but I also didn't like it didn't bother me ever okay um yeah it didn't bother you I didn't feel it felt um over scored oh really there were moments I would have liked things to have breathed a little bit more interesting um I didn't notice anything and I think I know why though and it's a delegate line to to to draw yeah I didn't notice that and if you're going to error on the side of one I understand why you would error on the side of putting more music in the knot because so much of this is driven by these visuals and it would be very natural to be concerned that you're going to lose people after an hour and 15 hour and 20 of the same visuals of yourself yeah and that you want to keep engagement at a level that's going to maintain an emotional stability and not lose them but for me cinematically I much prefer less as more when it comes to those things again personal preference it's nothing wrong I didn't notice too much of that see that's that's why it's just personal preference yeah so like I said I'd probably give this and I once again I don't even know why I give this a B plus I'm right with you it but like I I don't even know what was there like not there maybe just like a a little I don't know maybe I just like to be more in your face like style of films but like you said I I think this is actually great because I didn't when people watch this film you don't think you're going in to see a sex trafficking film right so that's great that's great I love that yeah for just some reason I was just like if it was like maybe more in your face I enjoyed those types of films that like especially with this subject matter I want to be like kicked in a face especially this is this is a film so we often talk about films in India where stupid babies will say I wouldn't be comfortable watching that with mom and dad or I wouldn't be comfortable watching that with my son and daughter no I think this is one yeah I think most people that they would be very comfortable watching yeah have opinions and at the end realize they just were introduced to the subject matter of trafficking and maybe really cause them to think and discuss as a family for the first time yeah if it has that potential wonderful again my personal preference is I like deep diving into hardcore subject matter and just getting raw in your face but there is an audience in a place that might not otherwise be exposed without this uh I think it's the best if not the second best with Nawaz yeah I think those are the two best those are the devil tea films yeah of the OTT platforms of this year yeah this is definitely a high definitely uh I believe you're here I hope you've already seen it yeah let us know what you thought of the film down below and my son didn't take his second nap he's a little cranky right now uh let us know what's the next molly all film and the next for hot for seal film we want to see everything the man does everything he does let us know down below