 Bingo don't Bingo Bingo Bingo Bingo Bingo Bingo Go wait you organizations showingy 20 meter To come there's wanting wanting to go back to our stupid� Entscheides and some Corbin. I'm Rick keep Falls Instagram Blow That's true Follow us on Instagram and stuff you might find out some things before anywhere else finds out about him That's true. It's very very true. Okay we're doing a movie review of the new Malialum. Malialum. Malialum. I always think I'm saying it wrong still. I don't know what you used to say. I don't want to know because then I'll screw it up again. We famously said it wrong for a long time. I think I think I even put it in wrong in the the celebration song where we mentioned like eight of the industries. Oh Malialum. I think so because I'm Malialum. Malialum to Lugu. That's true because in the song I think I say Malialum to Lugu. Yeah Malialum. And then it's actually Malialum. Malialum. Anyways the new 2021 film that just came out on Amazon Prime starring an actor that just doesn't seem to be working that much. It's been a long long time. I feel like he should get more work. Yeah it's true. Like especially this year I feel like he hasn't put up. There was such great opportunities this year to put out stuff. He didn't put out any films during the pandemic. Nothing. He's been probably the most like lazy actor. We watched Malik. Now what's the correct pronunciation is because I've seen seven. It has an asterisk. Is it an asterisk? I don't know. Yeah but I've seen it's got deep meeting and it's it's I don't know. Okay but I call it Malik. There you go. If I'm mispronouncing it I apologize. But the directed written and I believe edited by say his name. Mahesh Narayanan. Narayanan, forgive me again for pronouncing that. We know from he did he directed See You Soon and edited it as well. But he also did Take Off which we haven't seen. I just know about that film and how popular that film was. Storing just a few people. Yeah it's an ensemble. First and foremost my Dost Fafa and then also his wife in this they happen in a weird order here. They do. They put it in like alphabetical weird. There she is. Yeah Namisha Sajayan. Who? She's on fire. She is on fire this year. The last thing we saw her in was the Nayakan. Yes and then and then like we've seen back to back to back with her Great Indian Kitchen. Great Indian Kitchen and also there's a whole bunch of other people but then who we just saw also the Nayakan was a Joju George as well. Since it just came out we're gonna do a little different. We normally always do just complete spoiler reviews but since it's it just came out last night we're gonna do a little bit of a little non-spoiler review in case you haven't watched it. It's on Amazon's two hours 41 minutes so. And then the second half we'll be spoiling you. I will let you know when we get to spoilers. I just want in case you guys haven't seen it yet I want to give you a little something. So Rick your initial non-spoiler thoughts. Non-spoiler thoughts. Well what a surprise that Fafa's doing good work. He sucks at acting. Gee whiz man. Oh wait it's opposite day. Yeah just what are you gonna say he's just always good. You have a very strong ensemble. Without giving anything away the film I feel like it's better as it goes on. You've got some impressive stuff. There's some there you can look for a couple of one-shot things and see if you can see the sleight of hand and the one-shot things. Yeah. It's a lot of fun. I really liked it and I felt like it got better as it went on and I am thoroughly spectacularly impressed most of all. And there's a lot of impressed by but this is the most eclectic and incredible score. The music in this is just incredible. So on a whole I thought it was a really really really good movie. I do as well. Some of my favorite parts basically if you haven't watched it go watch it. Yeah go watch it. It's definitely a worthwhile film. I think the only the only debate would be whether it's a good film or great film. Right. I think it falls into that but I don't think anybody can say it's a bad film. It's it's a very very good film. Yeah. If you say it's a bad film then you're just talking about your personal choice of kind of film. Yeah because if you're talking about the quality of it believability, cinematography, direction, acting, writing, score. Yeah. So I think it falls into the line of good to great depending on how you view it. I agree. So but I'll get to the actors here in just a second but I think the cinematography not just a single shot that it starts off with about a 12. Yeah it's 12 to 13 minutes of a single shot which is like family man ask in terms of how they did it. And at night too. But even though that was so cool it's not the most impressive cinematography I feel like in the entire thing. I agree. This had some of the most gorgeous also because people do confuse just beauty with cinematography. It's not not they're not mutually they're not just the same even though they obviously cinematography can't help it be absolutely gorgeous. We can equally talk about the beauty and the magnificence of cinematography in a Sanjay Lila Bansali film and Ananya Akashyap or Vishal Vardwaj. Yeah. And they're gonna be very very different in terms of the aesthetic but the technical aspects of the cinematography are what we're typically talking about. And the camerawork in this was fantastic. Very good. Fafa did his own stunts. I did confirm when he fell out of the room. Yeah that was him. That was him. Well and the stunt work as a whole stunt work and makeup did a great job I thought. Yeah in aging him. Yeah they did a great job of aging him and a couple of other people they did some small wound makeup that was very good and very consistent. I think the score was very really nice. So good. And so I'm just kind of going vague over I think the only thing that you could you could take away is if it I might have been left to wanting just a little bit more at the end just that with my gangster films that's what I want. I want I want a little more which I think a little cathartic. Yeah it's probably Martin Scorsese's fault for making that gangster genre something that you know you're expecting a certain something. You're at least expecting a few things to shock you in a gangster film. Yeah. Oh this guy definitely had some shocks but I feel like the ending surprises. Yeah it definitely had some surprises in was like whoa that just happened right. Which was really really fun. So that's I think it would be is it a little too long sometimes. I don't think so but I feel like I've heard some people say they think it's a little too long. I don't think so. I don't think it dragged very much. I don't think it dragged either and the only thing that would probably differentiate the good to great for for me and others is not really fair to the film and it's this aspect of the film and I'm not going to give anything away but I had a I had a lot of stupid babies message me on Instagram and do their best to try to give me some context about who this is what this is the stories that are being combined and why it matters. Yeah. And it's not the film's fault that we're ignorant to a lot of that stuff. Yeah. Another aspect for me they're especially in the front end of the film and it's again it's not Molly Allam's fault. It just is what it is. There are times when they talk so fast to Molly Allam's fault and this is one of them. They talk really really fast. Where I'm doing everything I can to keep up with what they're saying and I don't see a face or I don't see a shot. It's so unfortunate. So the combination of that with the deeper aspects of the the culture this region these stories are lost on us and that's that's a shame but it on the other hand it does make us want to go more. Yeah. And that's a good thing. Overall I think a really really good film. I think everybody should go see this film. Yeah. Performances cinematography score direction all top notch in this film so definitely go give it a watch and if you don't if you want to be spoiled now stay if you haven't seen it please go watch it and come back now we're gonna get into assuming you've all seen it we're gonna get into more nitty-gritty here here let's start with the performances Fafa you know he's one of my favorites oh and I did figure out the I think the most actor we've seen the most he's getting up there but it's Irfan or it's Amir Khan. I think it's one of them especially especially if you include him as a dog and right yeah but anyway yeah sorry we've seen quite a bit of Fafa as well yeah and he's so good because he's so he's so different even though I think to the untrained eye some people might think he's like always the villain creep kind of weird guy yeah but like that's very vague on the very like all of his characters are completely different and this is nowhere near what Kumbala Jinai's character is. Not at all. It's nowhere near what Joji this past year was. Exactly. Even the three films he did this year see you soon it was nowhere like Joji and this is nowhere like Malak. So I think he has such a talent and such a range and I would I would like to see him and I think I saw somebody say he wants to do like a DDLJ. I love to see that. Like the big love over the top. I love to see that. Which you know is wonderful but his performance he did a great job just like Nawaz did like in sacred games or in gangs of doing the transformation from being really old yeah to to when he was much much younger yeah one of the better one of the better aging processes like when they go back in time and you see him and he's fishing he's got the longer hair and no beard yeah I was like dude you took 20 years off the cap just it was great and he's just great it helps that he can play those ages right it's kind of and obviously makeup does help but to age him down a lot yeah and obviously being able to I'm assuming that's his real beard I'm assuming it is too it's it's epic beard which he looks great you know we'll say this ad nauseam over and over again I would love to talk to him to discover what his process is if he shares that not all actors share their process I'm a big advocate for you know this isn't it is movie magic but there's nothing to not share why not share your process it's really a wonderful enriching thing to find out what makes an actor tick and the actors we've spoken to who share their process you learn something every single time yeah and I think that's a testament what you just mentioned about his capacity to play different ages is this clearly a result of his process because he doesn't indicate he doesn't do things that are external alone I'm sure everything he does comes from first of all script and then it's internalized with something he's done with backstory or other things that make it something that he's not even thinking of because it's just a part of who the character is like I'd love to know how much time he spent in the cell mmm just getting acclimated to a way that feels you know he's the kind of actor wouldn't surprise me if he spent the night in the cell or something yeah and the other one we just mentioned her a moment ago his wife who we've seen in films recently she again has proven that she's she's a very very strong presence Namisha yeah Namisha Sajayan and forgive me for mispronouncing that yeah she's she's impressing more and more the top actresses in India absolutely I think she she does a phenomenal job in this that she's done in everything for I think the first thing we saw and unless I'm wrong was just this year like I think I've just been introduced to this year in the great Indian kitchen which we talk about Malayalam cinema this year yeah like just they put out this Georgie great Indian kitchen Naya Khan yeah I was thinking to myself watching this and like okay so they're like the cricket batsman who's just hitting sixes just yeah there's a six there's a six there's a six yeah I thought she did really her and Fafa had great chemistry great chemistry totally believable and she brought a good element of like she was very feisty and like she she wasn't putting up with with obviously Fafa and and his his even though he wasn't the stereotypical gangster no and I think that's why this film a different a little from a normal gangster film because it wasn't like just murder happening everywhere no in fact it felt oftentimes more like it felt more like a his character was more akin to like a civil rights leader than a gangster yeah you know it just turned into that obviously once once again spoiler when he did kill that guy yeah and so that puts you into a different level and so you're basically the dawn of the the thing nobody wants to mess with you nobody's gonna gonna turn on you that's probably one of my favorite qualities of the film is that it's gangster film that's not your typical gangster film which which is might be why some people including probably myself it was probably a little bit of prejudice of a normal gangster film that I you know gang's wasp or I expect right those big nois yeah right moments in it that those that make me so happy yeah but it never got to that which is not the film so I wasn't trying to be gang's a wasp or in terms of you know how gory it is right it was just trying to tell this guy's story right and I thought it did a really good job at that I did I thought it did too I also thought it did a very good job I'm sure there's a lot of messages from the film that we missed like I said a little bit earlier but one of the things that was very clear was how oftentimes not just in India but anywhere in the world there are tensions that rise up that are presented by the media and the government's as having been religious tensions yeah they were really instigated by the government yeah the law or the media yeah and they they already took an area where it was combustible but was a piece and to to further their ends they throw a match in the midst of it and innocent people die and out people on the outside looking and watching it think oh my goodness it's just religious tensions but what was really going on was a lot of corruption yeah yeah yeah but anyways yeah I thought she did a great job Joju George even though he had a really small part he's even though we've only seen him I think this in Naya County I think we saw him in something else and it was really small role yeah wasn't he in virus I think it was virus a virus I think he had a small role in virus there's like six or seven people that were in virus that were constantly going back to yeah but let's see but this was also very different than I can in terms of he wasn't as animated he had to be a lot more reserved yeah a lot more within himself yeah that was a script direction or if it was a choice but I'm excited to see a lot more of him because he's a very natural actor I feel like and very strong I feel like he he can hold his own with Fafa he can bring kind of like a kindness to a character but also a meanness like he did in Naya and Naya can yeah and so he has he's quite the range but he has almost an innocence about his character that you like even if he's not the greatest guy like in Naya County right you he has this almost likeability about him and the team very clearly that has worked together before I understand I was told this from some stupid babies that this film was actually done they were doing it prior to COVID and they had to stop production on it and while they were in COVID did see you soon so this was actually before see you soon even though see you soon got an earlier release it's very clear in the same way that when you watch the most notable one is obviously Scorsese and Spielberg those guys use the same people over and over and over and over again and you can see the comfort level so does um uh grief John Lasseter no John William no no no freaking come on Django and oh Aquinn thank you John Lasseter they use the same people in their creative teams and it shows them in the work yeah that it's it's not a coincidence this is a good film you have the same people working together you point out at the beginning I love the score in this I thought it was one extremely unique but also extremely powerful and furthered along the emotion of the story I like it stood out as one of my favorite parts of the film me too it was so varied at times it sounded like the action sequences in a in a mission impossible uh yeah at Sushin Shiam so I wanted to shout him out he he created just every kind of possible feeling and flavor and I'm sure we don't even know the half of it in terms of cultural references and things that he did that were tips of the hats to probably wouldn't surprise me if he did some things that were definitively Muslim definitively Christian definitively Hindu yeah and again emotionally I felt a really great pacing which is a testament to Mahesh Narayanan in his direction and editing because the pace of the film did what you anticipated film to do when we reached our climax and then conflict and resolution the all of it with the score really made especially the sequence beginning when uh Freddie comes into the jail yeah from that moment all the way to the nurse coming in yeah I felt what really all up until this son was I at one point noted the score was getting me when he's talking to Freddie and he starts to cry and Freddie's crying who by the way the actor who played uh I thought he did a great deal no Freddie was a son he wasn't with the guy at the end yeah the guy the the the kid in the cell on the cell with him right I don't know his name but I know you talked about Freddie was his dad the buddy who gets shot in the leg right yeah okay he was great too I liked him but he reminded me of the the um um in in family man the the the yeah partner the partner to Manoj absolutely did but the the the son the nephew who got burned on his chest yeah I I felt that he was everybody was really solid I say that and I think about how that nurse was really solid yeah everybody was really good I'd have to go back and look it was probably the one we didn't enjoy Bangler days it was probably the last time in a Malayalam film that we we saw people that we were just like then we I didn't enjoy it wasn't like a natural thing because especially now I think a lot of people are calling this like the golden age of Malayalam cinema it just surprised me it's just they they're putting out so much great content it's it's like they're run by a 24 right it's very very true but yeah um I I liked him a lot yeah uh and and the the the friend the um um there was another one uh that I lost it but yeah everybody in this I thought did a really really great job um as far as the the editing which is done by the director I thought he did a great job with the pacing with his editing and directing is two almost three hour film to me did not feel like no and considering all the dialogue this thing had to have been 250 pages of script I mean this thing must have been a giant script yeah uh and again no dead space I mean even for for as long as a film I really don't think there's anything in this I would want to take out of it yeah you know I really feel like they did a good job of editing it and keeping it moving along I was enjoying myself the whole time and it just it got better it kept you engaged engaged just the word I kept going over and over again like one point and Johnny called me she didn't watch it me with it she said how is it and I said I'm engaged yeah just I'm I'm enjoying watching this thing and seeing what's happening yeah yeah and and that's a testament to the directing editing and all that kind of stuff so overall I think I would give it probably a 7.5 to 8 I agree it bore it's exactly right on the cusp it'll be great yeah because I think if you get past eight you're you're in the great territory yeah um so I put it just in the and I you could if you want to argue that this film is great I would I would like to hear that argument and I wouldn't bother me yeah I wouldn't bother me at all it's just I wanted maybe something that little little extra push like in in um gumball of genites at the end when sure flips sure sure sure I think that's one of the things even though it's it was already a great film before that yeah that little part right there like yeah this is incredible well and that that for me does it I'm not so the the the cusp from good to great for me isn't that aspect but the cusp for me is what I mentioned earlier regarding I feel like there's a lot I don't understand yeah yeah for sure that if I did I'd call it great yeah because it would be like for example I can't think of a comparable film but let's say somebody was from Milwaukee and they saw a film about Milwaukee history yeah I I wouldn't know yeah but someone from Milwaukee would go oh they nailed it or like for example when we saw gully boy people said run veer really nailed the accent we couldn't get the accent I bet there's a bunch of that that if we know we call it I think it's great but in terms of just this year gradient kitchen joji naikon or this as far as which one which one's your favorite gradient kitchen I thought you said joji was because when we reviewed joji you said joji you like joji more than you know what you're absolutely right because of the adaptation inspiration from Shakespeare the clip of the runtime yeah you're right it's joji but even still it's incredibly close yeah it's still too it's like if someone said to me which should I watch joji or the great indian kitchen I'd say yes just watch both and watch this one and there was another one that came out that we didn't enjoy but a lot of molly all in one yeah I don't want to say it okay because they hated us for oh okay never mind kitchen too oh yeah that's right sorry but apparently we don't understand molly all himself apparently or we don't even pay attention to anything other than hindi films that's true because you know rendic yeah just run veer and ollie just all it matters to us I was about to say something terribly right there you it's gone off the rails let us know what you thought about the film uh down below and what should be the next molly allam film that we watch and we need to watch more fa fa well how many more does he have it's all a lot it's only the halfway point of the year he has what three or four films out come on let's get three of them out let's go