 Yeah, and we loved it because this film has Ranveer in it. Yeah, that's the only reason we liked it. That's all this film. That's the only reason it's any good. Yeah, this film is good because of Ranveer. Yep, he was the best part of it. Welcome back to our shooting director, Zed Subcorban. I'm Rick. You're close to the next one. We'll see you next time. Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time. Bye bye. We're Zed Subcorban. Woo! Fastest intro ever. We did heroin before this. And coke. And we're drinking coffee. Yummy. Today we're doing a movie review. of the film that just released called Mimi, which subsequently is Stephanie's grandmother's. That's what they call, she calls her grandma. Calls her Mimi. I bet there's a lot of grandmas called Mimi. Yeah, it's a common expression in the South. And there's a good restaurant. Well, the restaurant itself's Mimi's. Okay, sorry Mimi's, but their biscuits are glorious Mimi's. You know, you should call going to sleep, going to club Mimi's. What? Yeah. Going to sleep? Yeah, when I was growing up in like a news group, we were saying, hey man, you want to go to club Mimi's tonight? And that made you want to sleep. It was a really dumb joke, but we loved it. Anyways, but yeah, the new film that just came out, I think it was Monday, it came out early, actually. Yeah, it surprised us. I believe it was leaked. Yeah. And so they had to, they have to do that. Drop it. Anyways. Still pirate stuff. It's directed by, say his name? Lakshman Udhakar, who was the cinematographer of English English and has done a lot of DOP. And I think this is only the second or third. Yeah. Relatively new for directing. Composed by Aira Rahman. Who's that? I don't know. I don't know. And then starring... Dost. Dost, if you know, you know. And he does because he's our Dost. And then also... Creedie Sonnen. And actually quite a few other people. And then Sambo. Because it's also the mom from... Um... Say her name. Supriapathik Shahid's stepmother. Right. Anyways. So, little non-spoiler review. Then we'll get to the spoiler review. This is one, it's, I don't want to say a light watch, but it's like more of a... I don't really know how to explain it without giving anything away. Yeah, so we'll do... The front end of this, if you've not seen the film, don't worry, we won't ruin it for you. We let the movie tell the story and then we'll warn you and you can come back after you've watched it and watched the rest in the spoiler section. Your initial non-spoiler. Non-spoiler. Mary Poppins had a phrase about herself. Practically perfect in every way. This is almost practically perfect. I love this movie. For me. I'll be interested to see what you say because I think one of the things in this that would be a negative for me wasn't as big of a negative because everything else was so absolutely fantastic that this is actually for me of the new releases because obviously we've reviewed stuff that's been out a long time. And then things that are the brand new fresh releases. For me, I added this to my favorite films of all time. It's right up there for me with English of English. It's one of my favorite, it's my favorite film we've seen this year. This year, this year. But you wouldn't put it in the best film of the year in terms of like if it was for the... That's very different. I know, that's what I'm saying. So obviously if it's in your favor, it should probably be at the top, right? But if it's like, you know, we do it at the end of the year. Your best. Exactly. Probably going to be Malak, Joji. Yeah. Because this is not a film that's made for and it shouldn't be. It's not film festival circuit. It's not going to win awards, but it should win everybody's attention. You should see it. This is a film I think everybody can and should watch and would enjoy. I did really enjoy this film. It was also absolutely infuriating. I've never, not a spoiler, but I'll let you know this. I haven't been this angry at a character or characters on screen since Joffrey. That's, yeah. I was really furious. We'll get into that. Yeah, so obviously. Furious. Just know, obviously I didn't cry. Did you cry? I thought so. I thought you would cry. Absolutely. I thought you would cry. I did not cry, but it definitely stirred up and a very angry emotion in me. And I don't want to give anything away. So we'll wait for the spoiler to come. I haven't been that mad in a long time. Oh, I will say it's a very good film that I think you, it's lighthearted most of the time. Oh, you're going to laugh a lot. Yeah. It's very funny. Our host is, oh my God. He's one of the greatest actors I've ever seen. Sir, the bottom line is this. There are some actors who just will never do bad work and you're one of them. I actually equate the man to Robin Williams and how good he is at both. He can do everything. And it's one of the things that we've said many times. Very few actor, Daniel DeLewis cannot do comedy. If you can't, I've never seen it. Correct. So like the actors that can do both, like obviously Robin Williams, one of the most perfect examples of that. And obviously they're smaller, like Stanley Tucci people like that can definitely do it. But like the really popular Steve Correll. Yeah, but here's the difference with Pankaj, okay? And Manoj can do this too. Yeah, he can. Nawaz, we saw his comedy. Yeah, Nawaz can do this too. But here's the thing that blows my mind about Pankaj. He can like, okay, I've talked about how De Niro can be a heavy and can do comedy, right? But the comedy that Pankaj does, his characters are so light years different than the other characters. If you see this character, and then you go watch Merzifer, where that man, just the click of his neck is intimidating. And the weight of his presence is powerful and strong. And at any moment you feel like something violent can happen, this man is just a softy. Just a sweet, soft. Always brings this couple scenes and we'll get into it in a minute, but he just, oh, he's amazing. I love his actor. I don't want to give too much weight. We'll give it to his brother. Just go watch the film. I think you'll enjoy it. There's a few instances that I will say that I personally just wish they would have done differently in terms of if I was making this film. I did not, so whatever. But we'll get into that. I will say this might be the best white actors we've ever seen. The bar is very low though. With that being said. I'm not going to say they're good. Correct. But the bar is incredibly low. And that's when I... She was way better than him. That's when I said it's almost practically perfect in every way, because if those characters had been as good as everybody else, that's the one, she was way better than him. Yeah, and I think he was right. Cause I think remember when we were talking to Pankaj and we were mentioning white actors, I think he was referring to this. Because this is, and it's not saying much, guys. And it really has gotten me to the point of like, I know we're expensive when we're sad. You get what you pay for. These guys were sad. That's why it's the better of the white actors that we've seen. But if they were also in an American film, I would have said they probably weren't that great. Yeah, it's because the bar is so low. Because the bar is so low, I will say they were the best white actors we've seen so far. Creedy who plays Mimi. Yeah, fantastic. This is, okay, the last time, there's three actresses. Yeah, do we want to just do this in spoilers? Well, I'm not gonna give anything away. So let's go to the spoiler right after this. Here's my, there were three actresses that we saw in the moment, real time, that we hadn't known, right? And who were really just beginning as well. That when we saw them, we were like, okay, that's somebody who's pretty special. The first one was Alia, right? Yeah, absolutely. The next one I think you'll agree that we were seeing in something in the moment, okay? So like Kalki doesn't count, Radhika doesn't count because we'd seen older work of theirs. Kuber's sake in Sacred Games, right? She blew us away, right? I feel exactly the same way with her in this. She was absolutely fantastic. And I heard one she's relatively new. And also she wasn't known for her and her previous stuff that she's done. People are like, she's not, she's not worth anything, essentially. Love her. Clearly she just didn't have the opportunity to shine or the right writing or the right writing, the right whatever. She was fantastic. You got the perfect person to incarnate the title character of this thing. There's not a moment I didn't believe she was who she was. There wasn't a moment I didn't care about her. Absolutely she knocked it out of the park with her in the role. Just go watch the film and then come back. We're gonna do spoilers now. It's definitely worth a watch. I will get into the details of some of the stuff that I just wish was changed a little bit. Now it's spoiler time. But it will make you furious. Absolutely flames on the side of your face. Let's talk about that. Okay, here are the spoilers. So remember the time mark here. Come back if you haven't seen it. Let's talk about what made us angry, shall we? Because I know it's the exact same thing. And I think it's actually, here's the reason it gets you mad is not just because of what's going on in the story but because of what it metaphorically represents. So go ahead, rant. I'm with you. The fact that... Bastards. Yeah. I get what, obviously it's good that they told this story because it happens all the time. It's a very true thing that happens. And I did read as well that this happened to India a lot. Before it got outlawed. So I'm guessing, because obviously if this situation happened a surrogate and people that do surrogacy is so fantastic. It's a wonderful gift. Such a beautiful, selfless thing to do. Correct. By somebody. Absolutely. But obviously here we have laws against just if something happens to a child you can't just say abandon it without any repercussions. So let's talk about that first of all. Because I know this happens. What kind of an absolute piece of crap do you have to be to suddenly discover that because the kid you're gonna have has downs, you're gonna abandon it? Yeah, or wanna kill it or whatever. It's absolutely an abhorrent thought, right? Because one, that's not a death sentence. Exactly. Whether they have downs, autism, whatever the case may be a deformity, whatever, it's they're a child and they're your child. Exactly. You will love that child. Yes. Guardless. You are a selfish piece of shit. Yes. If you do not. Yes. They are so... On top of not thinking about the person you put the baby inside of. And that was for the whole thing that they do. Because so that end of itself when they run away, I couldn't believe. And that's how well-written directed and acted everything was. Because I deeply cared about these people. I especially deeply cared about Mimi and what this meant to her life. But obviously when they came back. When they showed up unannounced, I wanted to break something. My wife was yelling to the screen. I wanted to break something. And it was at that moment I thought, I haven't hated someone on screen this much since Joffrey. Where I literally wanna see them disemboweled live in front of me. Yes. Toward the end of the film when they're walking to the airport. Yeah. I was, I so badly wanna just, I was like, please let Pankaj just go fomers for right now and shoot them. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It was, it was absolutely. And I was like, I was like, this is a life-hearted Indian film. There's no way it's gonna end with them giving up the child. But they just kept going, kept going. And I don't know if I liked the ending per se. Totally, even though I was happy they didn't get the child. 100%, 100% happy they didn't get the child. I was actually upset that they got a child in the first place, because they're gonna abandon this child just like they did that child when anything happens because they're fucking assholes. I, oh God, it makes me so upset. But the fact that they just was like, we found this baby, we don't care about that one anymore. Remember when we didn't care about it before? The same thing happened. So I don't know that I liked that. I liked that they didn't get the child. I just, I didn't want them to get it. They'll be on the plane with her and she'll say something and she'll have a list. Toward the plane around. Yeah. I didn't want these people to get anything except jail and death. And here's what I feel bad for that little girl now. I was enraged on three levels. I was enraged for the story itself and what they were doing that was so incredibly selfish. So incredibly selfish. Well written because obviously it's supposed to be that way, this is a true thing that happens. And that's the second level for me. These things have happened many, many times over. They happen often. And that's the larger thing for me is I felt this movie in that section in very much a way is a metaphor for the way white people have treated India. Just considered it nothing but a commodity. Yeah. Done whatever the hell they wanted to do with it for their own means under the guise of this is gonna be good for you. Cause this was under the guise of it's gonna be good for you. Money. But ultimately it's not good for the white person. Oh well we trump you. But then they're like we can come back and take whatever we want. Exactly. Because we've got the power, we've got the money. Yeah. That for me was one of the most heartbreaking aspects of it because it had the level of I care about these people in this story. I care about the stories this represents. And then ultimately when they were driving in the car and they're crying and the grandma and the dad and the whole cast was so, so good. I thought this is India man. This is India's history. They've done nothing wrong. They've attacked nobody. Yeah. They have done something wrong. In that regard. In that regard. In that regard. In that regard. These people did nothing wrong. And here they are. And when it comes to Britain. Yeah. You know, white people have done. Oh yeah. Winston Churchill. Yeah. It was so, so well done. And I don't know if they intended that to be part of the dynamic. But it was really powerful. Yeah. And it was hard to, because obviously if this situation, it really couldn't happen without a bunch of repercussions and legal action happening to the parents for abandoning a child. Because it's child abandonment at that point. Here in America. In America. If they were like, we don't want anymore because as downs it's child abandonment. Also there's a contract. So that does happen. Two, if he's four years old. So the Mimi would have obviously gone through the process of adopting this child. Because obviously it's technically not horrors. So right when they abandoned them, there would have been paperwork. And so these people would now have zero legal opportunity to take this child back. Because it's no longer theirs. Right. It is Mimi's. Right. Because the paperwork is, regardless of if it's biologically theirs. It doesn't matter. Obviously at the time that they were taking place in this. It's happened a lot to India. I've been told that they've banned this now. And so it can't, this kind of- Surrogacy? No, like there's rules and laws to protect- Good. Protect the surrogate mama. Yes. Good. And all that kind of stuff. Good. One of the issues that I would have changed, I would have preferred if they would have actually kept the child a downs kid. One to kind of get rid of the taboo of that. And also, would they have come back if the kid did have downs? And so, it was just, I thought it was, I didn't like that it was just like, oh, the baby's fine. It was, that was just, it was a false night. Which do happen often. Actually, my wife told me she said, they do tell you basically don't take the test because there's so much that's wrong with the test. Right. So it's very probable that- A lot of people don't do it. Very probable that that could happen. But it's just, if I was doing this, I would have kept the kid actually down. Here's why I like it. And I'm sure the writers talked about that aspect and made a choice. And I bet it could have gone either way because I can see pros to both. The reason I like him being kept that way is because it's a big FU to the American parents. It gives them a big, see? See? If he's born with downs, you don't get to give them that, look at how selfish you were that you were willing to give up on a kid when he didn't even have the challenge that you gave up on them all. You still have done that. It would have been, now, I didn't see the twist coming. I thought the way this is felt, they're gonna, Mimi's gonna keep Raj. Mimi's gonna keep Raj. So how's this gonna happen? And my hope was, I love the movie so much, I would have been forgiving but I really didn't want it to be just so simple where they show up at the airport and they're like, we had to change your heart. I didn't want it to be that simple. So I didn't see the twist coming of adoption. That is where I had already had my emotions here, right? When I see John with the Indian girl and I know that they're adopting waterworks, I was done and was crying till the credits, which Amazon, Amazon, by the way, if anybody in Amazon can do this, stop showing me previews of some other show when I'm only 60 seconds into the credits. I like watching all of the credits and seeing everybody who participated in the creative output, stop doing it. Yeah, Jeff Bezos, put your money on that, not your penis rocket. Good grief. I've already got enough and it was a penis rocket. I've already got enough of you advertising to me nonstop, the whole film, it didn't stop just because of the credits. The film is over when the credits are over. Yeah, I had a different reaction. I loved the adoption aspect. I was very upset at the adoption. I thought you would be. Was it too simple, too easy for you? That, and also I didn't want them to have anything. I don't think they deserve a child. I think they are garbage people that deserve death. See, that's where for me, I would rather see. No, because now I feel bad for them, they're gonna abandon that child. And he's having his diarrhea. They'll be like, no, I can't handle a kid with diarrhea. No, because for me, I feel like the moral to the story for them was they saw the error of their ways and repented and won't make the same mistake again. That was my belief in them. Yeah, I don't, I don't want them to get anything. Anyways, let's get into the other parts of the story. We kind of went on a rant about the entire thing there. Sorry about that. I hope you enjoyed it. I don't know if you did, but yeah, Pankaj, oh my God, we'll get back on him. I love this man. One, he brings a innocence to his character. It's just a level, even in Mizzapur, you kind of like, I still like you. He's a very likable person. But especially when he's playing a character like this, where he's just the scene where he was told that they wanted to get rid of the baby. And he was like, please, please don't do this. And he was like crying. And he's like, if this little baby was mine in my life, so he would cherish this child. Which was a really good thing for the writers to do. Making a child this man. Obviously he was so authentic in all of these moments. And he was so believable and so like, oh yeah, watching Grey Dacking is just one of the most enjoyable things ever. Agreed, agreed. Which is why we rave about it so much. It's just, because when it's good, it's one of the best. And I, sir, our toast, I see what you do. You know how to do comedy. And get right on the edge of it being, it never gets there. But you, in a movie like this, where everything is supposed to be real and grounded, you're still good enough and aware enough of your comedy aspects to do something purely because you know what worked comedically, but still let it be genuine and natural and come from an organic place. Especially that moment when he was talking to the guy who was like asking him and grilling him about all these questions to see if he's really a Muslim. And he's telling him, walk, well, when you walk, you walk like this and you do this. And then he's like, eh, he has another idea. He's right on that edge of becoming, if he just added five more percent, he's playing for the laugh and you don't wanna do that. That's how he's as good as they get. Yeah, as good as they get. Incredible. And just like this, Ludo, obviously he was hilarious, but a very different character, but he never plays for the shtick. Like, you know, Jim Carrey, obviously, Jim Carrey is the shtick. And he doesn't on purpose and we all love him for it. It's amazing. Exactly. It's an amazing shtick and we all love him. It's Jerry Lewis. Yeah, yeah. But like, his style of comedy is just so fricking. It's the best. It's Groundlings comedy because it's all coming, he's not playing for the laugh, even though he knows it's funny. Yeah, that's what I meant. Her. Again. She was fantastic. I hope she gets more opportunities in the future because I know, like I said, she was more known, she wasn't really known as an actor. So I'm guessing she just didn't get the opportunity because she shined in this. Absolutely shined. Yeah. I was, every moment she was on screen, I believed her, I cared about her, from the moment she's flirting with her Ranveer poster. Yeah, and we loved it because this film has Ranveer in it. Yeah, that's the only reason we liked it. That's all. That's the only reason it's any good. Yeah, this film was good because of Ranveer. Yep, he was the best part of it. That's for the end of the intro. Yeah, that should be the intro. I'm so excited. And I think there's maybe something even prophetic in that scene where she's looking at all the stars on her wall and saying, I'm coming to get you. I'm gonna be with you. If there aren't people wanting to scoop her up, I looked at her IMDB page. She has only one thing right now in pre-production. She should have 10. Yeah. She's wonderful and it's interesting. She does look tall and I talked about her being tall but that's because five, seven and a half is really, really tall. Yeah. She didn't have a false moment. I thought her labor scene was 100% believable. I saw on her face the head and shoulders coming out. I saw that going over the top aspect. I believed every single thing she was going through, I was mad with her and that's a credit not just to her which she deserves an enormous amount of credit but this is incredibly well written. Yeah. Really, really well written. It must have been a joy. Hands down to the writers and the writers. To have the script and be able to work on this project. And I did notice it was, and that was before I even realized that he was part of English or English. I was comparing it to English or English. Me too. I was like, this is very like, there's a great message, a great heart behind it but it was very shot very similarly as well to English or English and obviously when I found out it was like, that makes a lot of sense. I loved her parents. I loved them. I love seeing this side of a, say her name. I don't want, I need to know her name. Supriapathik. Supriap. Whom we loved in Ramlyla. We, she couldn't rave enough about her in Ramlyla. She's a great actress. She's on a different side of it here. Yeah. Comedic side. Yeah. But still just as good, still just as believable. And all of the confusion and it just kept piling on. That was seen as hilarious. When his wife finally shows up. Yeah. And they look at the kid, that's your kid. No one, who's the dad? Wait, he has three wives? No, no, no, no, no. Brilliant. Pankaj was just brilliant. Just brilliant. Right. The white guy was a little weird to me a lot of the times. But like I said, they were probably the best white actors we've seen. Outside of maybe that one in Cyra that died really early on that we liked a lot. Yeah. And also I'll never forget it was a very, very small role but in Rang de Basanti. Oh, okay. We really liked him a lot. But once again, they're sag. So it makes sense that they're the best we've seen. Yeah, what you pay for. But I just felt that they weren't on the same level as everybody else. But it was great that she knew Hindi. Like fully, I thought she, her strongest things were actually when she was actually in Hindi, I believe. Yeah. So that was good to see. I enjoyed that. No, and I agree. They weren't... It's hilarious that she is higher on the star meter than like Supriya. Oh, I know, I know, let's... We might be higher than some of them, which is ridiculous. I know, we actually are. And it's ridiculous. Stupid. It's ridiculous. Anyway, go ahead. But they are, they were, as we saw on the trailer, we were like, and thankfully... Yeah. They didn't ruin it and that's good. They didn't ruin it. That's good. That's all I can ask you. And that is the only thing about this that doesn't make it like absolutely perfect is that comparatively, I didn't feel as enamored by their performances as everybody else. I was enamored with everybody else, including her best friend. Yeah, she was great. Have we seen her before, she looks... No, and she's got a huge resume. Does she? Yes, she's done a lot that we've seen her in some trailers probably, but she's... She, you know who she reminded me of sometimes? Both in just her screen presence, but also her believability and her skill level was till the time. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, she did great. Everybody did so good. The writing of the thing. Oh, Ayer Rahman. That was the other thing that I had to mention. Great songs. That was great. All over the music. Great big Bollywood number right at the beginning with the... Yes, and he, but he also, let me cause it's Ayer Rahman, man. He's gonna give you exactly what you need on the funny quirky things and give you funny quirky music. He's gonna get a theme that he's gonna be able to interweave throughout. He's gonna give you what you want on big musical numbers. And that's that for me too. I thought it was a wonderful inclusion to introduce her as, not just the actress, but for us to be introduced to her the way the couple were as a dancer. Because when that number started and we're really getting to see her for the first time, I was hooked immediately. I was like, wow, this girl is captivating. I really wanna get to know who this person is. Ayer Rahman, he gave you exactly what you need for this film. Yeah, this film was a wonderful surprise. Not obviously we liked it from the trailer, but the first time I heard about it was a week ago. I didn't expect it to be this good. Yeah, I was expecting like, oh that was a nice film. A fun rom. Yeah, but it was like a wonderfully enjoyable, furious film. With a lot of heart. Yeah. A lot of heart. So make more of these. And a great message. Also, I did hear, this is a kind of an adaption of a Marathi film. Oh. Okay. I did hear that. So I know some of you are gonna scream that in the comments. I do know that. I'm sorry we haven't seen it. I just heard about this one a week ago. Yeah, exactly. But I hear that's more of a dramatic take as opposed to this one obviously because it's more on the rom-com. The rom-com feel. Well, not really rom, but more of the calm. Yeah. And this one. It feels like a rom-com. But I loved, and I loved at the very, very end, the final quote when it said, there's enough children that need to be adopted that it could make up nine countries. It was like 125 million orphans. Yeah. Brace my heart. But yeah, let us know what you thought about the film and what should be, we need to watch all of Pankaj's stuff. We'll watch everything he does. And anybody from this, anybody from this, from Sai Tamhankar who played her best friend and from Kreeti. Kreeti, yeah. Anything she's in, I wanna see. Yeah. I believe in her. And, Supriya. Of course. I love you. And anytime, I mean, this is what, second or third time he's directed something. Yeah. Absolutely. Keep directing. Yeah. And Ehrman, keep composing. You're gonna go get there one day. At least just, you probably found a groove. The rom-com thing, just stick to what you know. Let us know what you thought about the film. Down below.