 Hi guys Cover your ears. Hey, welcome back to our stupid reactions. You idiot sub Corvin. I'm Rick and this is Jimmy cage And then is the buddy my stuff. Yes This is our first I believe Colab in Not interview Review movie review that we've I believe ever done On our on our channel Jimmy is one of our favorite and and Dennis are one of our favorite reviewers of Indian cinema If you'd like to check them out go check them out. I'll put their link in the description below. They're criminally under Subscribed and you guys are just a review channel, right? Yes, we are doing just reviews. Yes, excellent always thinking about maybe doing some fellow reactions for some new releases But so far we haven't done any. Yeah Absolutely, you do a lot of reviews every week. How many films do you guys do each week? I'm normally doing like three reviews and then there is this is for for one I only do one. I just don't have the time for more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah at the moment Please at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we usually try to do about two reviews a week So thank you so much for joining us. This is ongoing of our classic month the entire month of February we've been watching classics and this is actually our patrons Hindi choice for There they get to choose a movie from a Hindi and any regional film every single month any tier for us And so this was the Hindi choice of the month the 19 What is it? 1986 1968 what I'm to be says six. Did I say 69? Oh My dyslexia is happening. Okay. Sorry about that 1968 cult comedy classic put Dawson, which was actually recommended to us by the Ustaji Zakir Hussein Almost a year and a half back So this is obviously going to be a spoiler review Especially for older films. That's just how we like to do it if you haven't seen it It's on Amazon to go check it out. The Synopsis is a simple man from a village falls in love with his new neighbor He enlists the help of his musical theater friends to woo the lovely girl next door away from her music teacher That's That's pretty accurate That's that's essentially exactly what happens directed by Rick. Can you say that name for me? Yeah, I can if I'm looking at it. Do you guys know the director is Geities Faroop. I don't like there you go. Thank you. That's right starring Sunil Dokt And a whole bunch of other people that I can't pronounce including Kishore Kumar and Om Pukash I Apologize I don't I'm not good at saying names. So normally I ask Rick his initial thoughts, but you are the guests So Jimmy and Dennis, please tell me your initial thoughts of the film But you must say you can go first. Yes, okay Well, I liked it. I like it. I liked it It's not the best comedy I've ever seen. Yeah, I liked it and I was quite surprised how much I liked it because with comedies It's Yeah, it's always a bit difficult to understand them to get them if you don't understand the language Yeah, especially if it's a comedy that's Going for the linguistic puns and yeah all those things with the language and you just can't follow it But I think with this one It's it's so over the top. It's so much so so much It's not slapstick, but it's well, it's it's a bit of slapstick But it's so much mimic and so much gestures and movements and yeah screaming all the time. Yeah Yeah, it's it's it's quite it's it's quite entertaining. It's maybe a bit too long. I think with 100 150 minutes it's yeah A little bit too long and I think it's repeating itself in the second half especially The jokes are repeating but in general. I think it's a it's a very good movie. I liked it Yeah, I had a I had a blast with it. I have to be honest I think this is the third classic comedy we've seen from India. We have seen Chupka Chupka and Gol Mal Okay, and I think this was the one I think maybe Chupka Chupka maybe the better movie for me But when it comes to laughing my ass off I have to say that this is the clear winner They were scenes in this movie where I was really I think woke up the neighbors late at night And I had a had a great time with it I think that the first half is a lot better than the second because the second half Kind of goes into more dramatic territory. Yeah gets a little bit more serious and that's not Working that well for me in this in this context, but overall I was super surprised by by Sunil Dutt And we've only seen him in mother India. Yes, so this was our second exposure to Sunil Dutt And yeah, he totally won me over. He reminded me a little bit of Jim Carrey And that's just not just because of the crazy haircut that was like kind of dumb and dumbo. Yeah. Yeah, but Yeah, overall I had a I had a great time with it Rick. I Loved it. Gotcha. I thought you might Yeah, I I loved it. I um, I thought it was Every bit as ridiculous and characterized and over-the-top as any of Shakespeare's best comedies It reminded me so much of Shakespeare's comedies where it's characterization and it's just doing stuff for laughs You're making fun of people. You're doing things linguistically that I agree. There's probably a there's there's stuff We got but there's a bunch of bunch we didn't get yet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I I I just Absolutely loved it and I was on the phone with Andrani afterwards getting my dinner and said I could go home and watch this again Right now. I had a great time with it. Yeah, I I actually surprisingly really enjoyed this film That at the first I think 20 minutes got me really concerned because I I hadn't laughed once and It was it was very dramatic at first, you know They came in and they were very over-the-top and I was like, okay, this is obviously the kind of film we're going into But I hadn't laughed yet and then basically when Kish, what's I don't want to mispronounce his name Kish or Kumar Kisharkumar and His buddies basically started to come in and the scene that I friggin lost it and my wife was the tree scene. I Was just I I Literally laughed out loud multiple times during that scene. It was it was the old school duck soup The three Stooges style of comedy when that started to get and go in and I really really enjoyed that after that I do agree there. I actually wished it was a lot more of that stupidity comedy in there then them going into the love story of Them towards the end that I absolutely totally agree. I think it could have easily been even funnier if they would have just gone for the The the over-the-top dramatic like the whole even though it's culturally it doesn't make it's awful It doesn't make any sense. What do they were like? Yeah slap her and then the entire scene he goes around with his hand up and there was like the Pink panther music behind him the entire time. I was like, this is hilarious. I mean, it's awful, but it's hilarious And so yeah, I really enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed I did enjoy Sunil Dutt, but I enjoyed his his collaboration with Kisharkumar immensely during this film Yeah, both of them are fantastic with the whole slap thing I was a little bit afraid at first because I also thought oh, this could go horribly wrong But then but then he is such an innocent character and he's so charming and he doesn't Want to slap her and he doesn't want to do it and it was it was played so nicely And then it was totally fine, but for a second I was yeah, oh my god This this movies old and hopefully it won't go to that place Yeah, I think why why the comedy works so well especially the first half and it's why This this stupidity works so well is because we have this this they create this world that is so It's not a real world. Yeah At the beginning at least maybe then later when they try it to be a little more a bit more serious It becomes more real and therefore It drops off a little bit. Yes. Yes, exactly, but in the first half nothing is real they can do everything everything is allowed everything is okay and everything is over the top and and especially the thing with the trees and I'm the whole the whole the whole lip-sync scene very famous scene is I mean Yeah, that's probably my favorite moment The the tour lip-syncing scenes in the apartment first Yeah, when the girl is alone and just falls in love with his singing and then when we have this this singing battle with With the dance instructor and that's that's such a great scene And I think this whole setup with the two apartments across each other is such a great setup for a comedy Yeah, and it has a very There's something very theatrical about it because it's like this this stage and it's framed in a way This this whole window is in the center of and you have they are putting up a show for the girl and early on He says he's just enjoying the show when she's coming out of the bathroom and singing and it's a little bit like like real window. It's like it's this voyeuristic aspect and I totally totally loved all of that. Yeah, and all the whole play-back singer seduction aspect is such a great thing I think for a movie and also there's this this matter aspect because Because of this play-back singing it only works in a movie because in real life you would instantly recognize Okay, he's opening his mouth, but that's not his voice But in a movie it works and it it goes back it links back to the production of a movie because there's this play-back aspect And I enjoyed all of that a lot Yeah, I agree. I loved the singing battle scene I love the culminating ridiculousness at the end when he kills himself Yeah, and all four of the buddies go to the window and each of them in turn go like this. Oh I really want to know I want to know if Amir Khan got inspired for his character PK from Kishir Kumar's character in this. Yeah, maybe Yeah reminded me so much not not just the the beetle pond chewing either. There was so many Things facially and character-wise I wonder if Amir Khan used that as like a character study in his creation of PK Yeah, yeah, and I'm glad they brought the the stupidity back at the end with that full scene The of him dying and every single person coming in nobody questioning him just coming back to life I I'm glad they ended on a note like that as opposed to where it was right before that was a little more serious And then the the the other masters I think crying on at the outside of the wedding Yeah, I'm glad they ended on the stupidity Because I think that that kind of just encapsulated the entire film And I really and I think obviously if we were native Indians or Hindi speakers That obviously there would be a lot more we'd be able to laugh at I'm sure there was like dialects comedy that and Word comedy that we just didn't pick up on not being native speakers, but I obviously the songs which Were there was I think 20 of them. It felt like Songs but Yeah, they they fit so well and they were so enjoyable and Rick, you know where we've heard We've heard him actually quite a few few times, but you know where we heard him first. I think Kishore Kumar I don't remember where we heard him first sholey. He's the singer and sholey. Oh, well Yeah, I do know his history is much more profound as a singer than it was as an actor You know, I looked it up Yeah, he has like over 1000 credits on IMDB as a playback singer and he died fairly young age 58 and I'm still yeah over 1000 credits as a playback singer and I think honestly he completely steals the show in the movie not not just the singing but his facial expressions his body language. There's this one song that was actually Improvised I think because the the choreographer didn't show up and then Kishore Kumar just said hey I'm doing something. Just follow me. Yeah, and how it's actually regarded as one of the funniest Indian music videos And yeah, he's he's fantastic I also read on IMDB in the trivia that Memud the producer and also the actor who played Master G and Zuni that we're afraid that Kishore Kumar is kind of stealing stealing the thunder And they cut some scenes. Yeah, they cut they usually cut some scenes down to the version that we now But it but it didn't work anywhere because he still yeah Was the character the most beloved character. Yeah Yeah, and at the end I was thinking at the end was when Bola is lying dead on his bed I was thinking what's what's the what's the plan here? How is he going to get out of this one? And it's a but it's also I also thought nobody knows that it's only a fake suicide Beyond yeah, and everybody's so sad. Yeah Nobody questions it when he comes back to life The the issue I had I obviously a lot of the actors you weren't really you're not really gonna judge them My but my least favorite was probably the girl I wasn't a I didn't I wasn't a huge fan of her Comedy style I guess Would be the whole thing But that's that's one of the old because obviously you're not gonna judge this film very harshly in terms of People's acting the the writing because it's all supposed to be very over the top and and very Dumb essentially, but she was one of my only gripes I just wish they kind of had a Stronger actress for that in any any outside of the obvious stuff any downsides to this film outside of the length I Actually liked her a lot, but I didn't I think her character was super underwritten I mean it goes a little bit with with the territory with this kind of movie But there they were there was this scene where she's having a test at school Yeah, and that goes wrong and then her family's like and she always fails and it's better That she doesn't study and that was a little bit like that's not aging that well The wonder why it's even in the movie except that it maybe Increases the tension that she's getting married, but it was like a little bit antiquated. I think her What sorry? No, I was gonna say that that scene he was just talking about where the wind was just blowing on her desk Sorry I just I love that I think her I think her best scene is the one is her first Not the song on the bike, but her second song when she dances in her when she comes out of the bathtub And then she dances in her room because she has this She moves she moves so strangely and it's really funny and I think in the most times He's she's only reacting to the things that other people do and not so much the one who? gets the gets the gets the comedy out there from from from her character, I think so yeah In Compared to compare to Soonie that's character who is all over the place and all the other guys for us to yeah, yeah Yeah, I I I loved her. I loved everybody in it Gotcha, there wasn't a thing about it that I that I disliked I particularly the standout And I think this is universal for the past 50 years is Kishir Kumar and he actually he reminded me and the film reminded me also I don't know. Have you guys seen Mel Brooks's first film the producers? Yeah, yes This reminded me quite a bit of the same kind of ridiculousness of the producers And he reminded me a lot of zero mostella and that is a very High compliment in terms of just ridiculous over-the-top comedy And yeah, I this is for me. I Really I also think it can't be under Stated or I mean overstated that the difficulty of pulling this off Yeah, his comedy is always just relegated to oh, that's got to be so easy because it's you know, it's just funny I really do equate this and in my heart like I have two Shakespearean films for me now Now obviously header was based on Shakespeare's Hamlet and that's an actual interpretation of the text This to me was as good as any of Shakespeare's comedies. It had the exact same Ridiculousness and I've read that a lot of people don't think this movie could have been made today because of political Correctness and being woke because there's a lot of insults going on that people today would get bent out of shape about some of this yeah That there was one moment where where the girl says something like your parents can go to hell Well, and it seems like everybody's fair games in this they're they're insulting the Rajputs they're insulting Everybody it seems yeah, which I loved. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So well, I'm glad we all liked it. That's that's that's that's very fun because It's it's we had just dropped a review that we didn't enjoy For a film and and those aren't as fun to do as films that that you enjoy talking about And you just enjoy watching especially classics that people it's ingrained it like if somebody had watched Like singing in the rain and then gave it a bad review It's it's it'd be like one of those things, but I'm glad we all liked it especially for our first collab review So did y'all case did you guys do a review on your channel of this? No, we we just recorded an intro sequence So we will post an intro sequence and then link to to this to your video I just want to add two more things one thing that I also very much liked Is that the framing? I think the compositions were quite interesting because you have those This this group of five friends with the Suni that in the center and there were so many shots in this movie Where all the all the friends were in the same shot and it was always full and it it was just very interesting and Dynamic and because a lot of it. It's it's an old movie. It's rather slow paced Yeah, it's not super artful when it comes to to the compositions But because of the colors and the staging there was an element I just it was it was quite fun and the other thing I wanted to mention is that This is actually a remake of a 1952 Bengali movie Pasha Barry Oh, I think we should notice this because otherwise people will eat us up in the comments And I looked at I looked up the movie because it's on YouTube button absolutely horrendous quality I just skipped through the movie to see if it's super close And there are some things in the original that are here as well Like there's this cut to the donkey when That was the moment where I was fully on board with the movie I left so much and Yeah, there are there are some similarities for example the slap is in there the beating the suicide at the end But overall I mean I just skipped through the movie But overall I think the tone of the Hindi remake is much more is much silly and unapologetically Yeah, funny and then silly I think it's I think it's nice that this movie has this element of this this Element of people screaming of people talking of people who can't sing all this that goes goes from the talking And it also has those scenes like you Corbin you said like it's it's like a bit of the Marx Brothers and it's a bit Stooges it also has so many scenes that are I'm Looking like they could be from the silent era if you just take the just take the dialogue away all the umbrella The umbrella scene when they when he walks behind her the umbrella Maybe make it black and white. It's just it's a scene. It's a scene from this from a silent movie It's it's and that's perfect because we have these both those both levels. It's cool Yeah, yeah, and Jimmy to piggyback on the technical things you were talking about like with the framing of everybody Which was always perfect. Nobody was ever blocked. I loved, you know They had to do a couple of exteriors like when he gets beat up They're out by the fountain, but for the most part I loved not just the setting with the two apartments But that we were constantly seeing the cycle of the sky with the clouds that never moved so that you're constantly reminded This is a farce. This isn't real. This is Ridiculous and I thought I just I thought everything about the technical aspect of the art direction and production design was perfectly Complementary. Yeah Absolutely. Absolutely. I would actually love to see more acting from I know he can sing obviously and there's a beautiful singer but more acting from Kishore Kumar and And I don't know how many things like this he did but I Fell in love with him in this film. I thought he did a phenomenal job Well, and I read I read that Sunil Doot that a lot of fans at first were not pleased because this was so outside the box Of what they knew him to be type-wise They didn't like to see the guy that was typically the hero playing a buffoon as it were but But he's clearly beloved now for this role. Yeah, absolutely Well, let us know what you well, I'm assuming all of you have seen this film Let us know what you think about this film down below. Let us know what's the next classic We should watch and go subscribe to Jimmy Cage's channel. I will once again link it in the description below Jimmy Dennis you want to say anything? Thank you for having us. Yeah, thanks for a lot of fun. Yeah, it's great that we all love the movie Oh, yeah, at least liked it a lot. Yeah, and yeah Cool, great. Absolutely. Thanks for joining us guys. Thanks