 Come in, I know me better, man. Name that movie. Seriously? Yeah. For me? Casablanca. No. Oh, sorry, I was wrong. Hey, welcome back to our stupid direction, it's of Corbin. I'm Stephanie. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter. You sick, all ten. It's so juicy. I think it's just some Patreon. Follow us for your Twitter account. Subscribe if you haven't, hit the like button, please. How you doing, babe? I'm doing all right. Looking hot. Thanks. Tooday. This is your first review. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. So in case some of you don't know, Steph has probably watched almost, I'd say 99% of the films, 98 maybe, for at minimum the past two years of the channel. The first year she missed them because she had to go to her job. But for the most part, I think she, at minimum, she's caught at least 98% of the films. And so if I ever said anything smart, it's probably just because I stole it from her. About what she thought about the film. Wouldn't be the first time. But anyways, so today we are doing a movie review of. I can't even like see that. Manmarzian. Manmarzian. And INDB has translated that to husband material. Spitting. Yeah, I think that's a dumb name. I like the name in Hindi better. But directed by our ghost, Anurag Kashyap, a love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend, and a fiancee, whose husband material. I've always been intrigued by this film. I had starring Tapsi Panu, Abhishek Bakshan, and Vicky Kershal. I've always been intrigued because I love Anurag, obviously, but the fact that he was doing a romance film. A love story, almost like a rom-com-ish style story. And I was like Anurag doing that. Somebody's gotta get their face blown off in this love story. To my shock, no one got their face blown. Sorry, spoilers. I'm sorry. This is gonna be a hundred percent spoiler review. I'm so sorry. And 2018, we saw it, I believe, on Amazon. I think that's where we saw it, so you can go see it there. But yeah, so it'll be a hundred percent spoiler review. I really, really enjoyed this film. I thought it was such a unique Anurag take on the genre. Because he obviously, I think it was a well-made, I don't even know what I would call it, a rom-com. But it had essences of rom-com in it. Definitely, if you were just saying the feel of the film, it was probably more of a rom-com than anything. But it definitely, I wouldn't strictly say it's a rom-com. It's more of a... It's definitely drama. Convoluted love triangle. Yes. Acute love triangle, to be specific. But what did you think, babe? Did you like it? I did, I liked it. At first, I didn't know where he was going. And I was like, I don't know. But no, I did like it overall. Yeah. I have thoughts, but... Oh, you have thoughts? Oh, good. That's what reviews are about. But yeah, I thought it was a really unique take on the genre and the fact that this takes a very specific thing that happens in India, in terms of arranged marriage and love marriages. And kind of, I don't know if it strictly, like some people are calling out certain aspects of it, but it definitely shoves it in your face of some of the... I mean, it sheds light on both sides, I think, of the love marriage and the arranged marriage. Because it's such a, obviously arranged marriage is something that we can really relate to here. I mean, obviously we've seen almost 300 films now and arranged marriages are well throughout a bunch of these films, right? And so it's not like I don't understand, but it's that whole concept of allowing my family to pick who I'm gonna spend the rest of my life with is still just two Western Americans. Crazy. But obviously it's just part of the culture for a lot of people. I shave capors, we found out how to... And I think it's changed over time. It's not really like... I think it's like evolved. Yeah, it's evolved over time. And so it's not like a strict... Think you meet the day of your wedding. Yeah. I mean, I guess probably maybe some of them maybe. But yeah, it's different. But yeah, let's talk about the performances. Obviously our lead two, Tapsi and Vicky, I guess the lead three. I thought Tapsi did a phenomenal, phenomenal job. Let's just talk about it. What did you think about Tapsi? I think she did a really good job. And I mean, this isn't about her performance really, but she has a lot of characteristics and facial expressions at some times that is very reminiscent of Brittany Murphy. And I love Brittany Murphy. But her performance was great. And had you seen her in anything? I don't know if I've seen her in a movie, but I know that when Rick was in India to see Andrani... You felt sapped. We reacted, yeah. Yeah. You'd reacted to that trailer. Yes. At the beginning of the channel, like I said, she wasn't watching all of them, so she didn't see Pink and she didn't see Badla, was the other one, I think. I think she's a phenomenal actress. She was shouted out in one of our songs and all that kind of stuff. But I thought she gave this firecracker of her performance. I'd say that's like the only way to really describe that of this complex girl who doesn't really know what she wants. Yeah, she's trying to figure herself out. And just it's unfortunate that these two guys are trapped in the middle of her trying to figure out who she is. It was almost frustrating a lot of times. It was like, there'd be going one thing and then immediately when that thing's about to happen, she would kind of question it or change her mind or do something regardless of who it was or whether it was Lilby or if it was Vicki Kershaw. She was always questioning, but obviously that made for good drama. I thought the chemistry between Vicki and her was obviously very evident. And I thought both of them did it. And there's one scene I pointed out while I was talking to Steph. Once again, spoilers. Once she was on the honeymoon with Abhishek and she went on her run to go cry. It was almost on her for almost a minute, I feel. And I said, Anjirag wasn't really giving her any kind of slack to be anything but real in that moment because obviously he didn't let her put her hands in her face or cut. So she can, literally we saw her and if she was faking her feelings at that moment she wrote of a thousand percent notice and she knocked it out of the park. But yeah, Vicki, this is such a different role. Have you, no, you've seen him, right? You've seen something he's done, right? I've probably. You didn't see Uri Sardarudam. I don't know their names either. No, the big massacre film of the... Oh my gosh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And then, let's see, I don't know. You saw Razi, he was in Razi. So yeah, oh, Raman Raghav, yeah, you've seen, and Masan, yeah, you've seen a lot of him. Gangs of Wasper. No, Silhouette, sorry, he was, he's credited as a silhouette behind window grill. That's funny, that is credit on IMG for Gangs of Wasper. But yeah, I liked his role and I liked his performance a lot because it, one, he killed it. And many times you really saw his emotion, you really saw his love. He was also, once again, a boy in this who kind of, he loved her, I think, but he also doesn't really understand what full love really meant as well. But he was like, I like being with you. I like having sex with you. All this kind of stuff. So if you'll stay around, I guess. But then obviously he didn't show up multiple times. Well, I was gonna say they were very much kindred spirits in the way that they were trying to figure out who they were because they would be like gung-ho, like I'm there, I'm doing this, we're gonna do this. And then last minute, not show or like back out, change their mind, be halfway down the road and then turn around, like, I mean. Yeah, 100%. There was only one constant who knew exactly what he wanted in the love triangle. Yeah. And it was Abhishek. And it was Abhishek Bakshan, which one of my, I think one of his best performances for me, this obviously Ludo, I thought he did well in Guru. But obviously, I think we've said this a lot. We always thought he was a very underrated actor. But if he gets a director who gives him a good script and kind of helps him along the way, Anurag. Was it Anurag Basu? Is that who did Ludo? I can't remember who did Ludo. Anyways, but you remember him in Ludo, right? But I thought he did a really good job. Anurag created like one of the most non-toxic men I've seen in an Indian film. This whole character of kind of just giving her her space outside of, he did say, I did take advantage. I knew, I knew like, I knew you were gonna marry me regardless because I knew he was gonna kind of dip and I kind of took advantage of that situation. So obviously that's not great. But in terms of like, it felt like for the most part, he cared for her. He actually loved her. What was getting to at least loving her as much as you can in a range marriage at the beginning in giving her her space. And I thought he was a really unique character that they kind of created. His one scene where he came home late and she was like questioning him. You could have told him. Like he told me and everything. Yeah. He just, I felt like he did incredible. Yeah. Any, there's certain moments when little B yells or gets a guttural. Always. He identical to his father. He's so his dad, it's crazy. Like he, when he, ah, sounds exactly like his dad's guttural yell. It's crazy and even his face, like even his face changes. In certain moments. Yeah. In certain moments and you're like, oh my gosh. Yeah. He looks just like his young dad in those moments. But yeah, the whole kind of love triangle, letting hair kind of fall in love with him. And then ultimately she, he found out that she wasn't actually being truthful with him. Even though obviously they're in a arranged marriage, but then he was at least good about it, I think. And was like, I. I mean, he was, I mean, to be like, you can get out of this marriage, like. Oh, I'm not, I'm gonna take the blame. Right. The whole thing, like to just, and just hold her while she's processing and like give her as much space as she needs. And like, I don't, that's just an insane concept. Yeah. To think about. I mean, I understand it's a arranged marriage. So they didn't know each other very well, but just to think about like, if that were me, like I don't think I could be like, just take your time, we'll figure it out. Like you can leave. I feel like, what the heck, man? You can tell your ex-boyfriend we just had sex. I'm like, what? It's fine. We're all cool with it here. But I did like the fact that Anurag kind of wrote this whole thing. And it was kind of almost, because obviously in like the notebook, it's who was the other one that she was going to marry? Was he a stable guy? Was he nice or was he mean? No, he was very nice, he was very sweet. So it's almost that kind of story a little bit. But in that one, she went with the one she had more passion with, which obviously in this story is Vicky. But obviously there were different stages of their life. But it's actually very similar to that now. But I was gonna say, there's different kinds of loves. So you experience different kinds of love with different people. And she was saying to him when he finally came around and he's growing out his hair and he's becoming whoever he thinks she wants him to be. And she's like, I love you and will always be thankful that you were my first love. But it was like very much just a passionate love. Like there was nothing like at its core holding it together, except for... Passion. Yeah. They were yes in love passionately. But there was like, there was nothing else to hold it, which is something she was almost right at when she was in the car with him. Like she was almost there. She almost hit it on the head. And then just like flew by it. I was like, oh, you could've arrived here so much faster. Yeah, and then obviously you have to live with the fact that if you do go in that route of going with the guy that you're not as passionate with, are you going to eventually resent yourself or not going with the one that you do have that passion with and you just have a boring life and then you're resentful later? But I would... Going with the safe one. But I would venture to say the love that she would have with him when they get to that state would be so much deeper and intimate. Because they grew that way. Yeah, because the passion would be there when the passion needed to be there, but when the support and like deepness and intimacy that is just like, you know, cause the world can rock you to your core. Like when that is needed, like it'll be there with that relationship as opposed to the Vicki relationship. Yeah. So you think they'll kind of eventually grow into the being the passionate relationship. But it did take a very interesting look at, she was like, I know what you look like, Naked, but I don't know if you like Fritters or I don't know what else she said at that moment. But it's like, that's one of the crazy things that like to people that haven't been accustomed to arranged marriage, like most people, at least in America, it's like, you don't even know that person, like at all. Well, it's like, that's like something I said to you, is like, it's mind blowing to me to think that like I would be married and like just meet this person and then be expected to sleep with them. Like, I mean, that's just crazy to think about. Yeah, I mean, it's like shock when like people date for just a few months and then they decide to get married in America because like you don't even know this person. Yeah. They could be a murderer. But yeah, the, God, I forgot what I was gonna say. Oh yeah. Yeah, that happens to me all the time. ADD, you know, you live with me. But yeah, another aspect of it is I loved all the music, which is something you don't typically get in an Onurug film. I loved all the music and all the dancing. Yeah, especially towards the twins dancing. And we loved the whole aspect of the twins, right? And I was like, what's up with the twins? And I looked up some things and some people on the internet said it was just, every single time they showed up, it was one of them was like kind of dealing with something they were confused. And so they would see the twins kind of, or they would be dancing behind them or something like that. So they were kind of visual representations of the dilemma or the confusion. Or like the two aspects of the personality. And I was like, that sounds correct to me. I could see that being their thing. If you guys think of a different theory for the twins, you can let us know. But I thought they were really, apparently they're like really famous, like they, especially the beginning ones, were dancing on the street, were like real famous twin kind of Indian dancers. But they, I thought they were all really cool. And like the main theme, what was the main theme? The, it came back like a hundred times. I mean, I don't know what it's called. No, like the chorus line of it. I don't know. Cause I think it was in English. But anyways, the one that kept coming back, and it was by our, our toast, Amit Trivedi. So no shock there as why it was so good. But yeah, I thought all the music and he, the way he, we also talked to him about this in the interview that he doesn't like to do musical numbers just that have no addition, like they don't have anything really to do with the story. Oh, just to have one. And so it was kind of cool to see Topsy kind of break into dance, but it was kind of, I was like, she's dancing cause she's at a wedding or at a, at a something. But it was like, just to see this style of film coming from an Anurag Kashyap film. It's just, it was wonderful to watch. Oh, he did a great job. Yeah. It was great. I really enjoyed it and... What were the aspects you didn't like? Well, like I said, in the beginning I didn't know where he was going. And I was kind of like, oh my gosh, am I gonna be like mad about like her choice or like what happens to these poor guys? Or like, I don't know. But no, I enjoyed it. I would watch it again. Yeah. It's, it was, it's one of those that I think it's probably his most rewatchable film. But that goes for most rom-coms. At least rom-comish genre. Because you're, you're happy in the end cause you don't always want to watch Ugly. You don't, you don't always want to watch Gangs of Wasp or even though they're obviously like superior films. But they're not ones that like, you don't always want to watch The Godfather. I know you haven't seen The Godfather. But like, this genre lends to rewatchability more which is why a lot of people's favorite films are rom-coms because it's just, it's an, even though this is not, I wouldn't, it's still not a, even though technically I think it would fall under rom-comish genre more than any other genre, it's still not a full on. It's, it's still not in your Akashia film. Right. It's like, it's like one of those that you can just have on. Like if it's like when you're like, like doing Folding Laundry and like you just want like that comfort thing on, you'll turn on something that you just know you're going to feel good. This would be one of those. Yeah. I would say so. It's got good music. It's got, I mean, it's got love, drama, it's funny, it's cute. Yeah. And I think another thing, the writer and the director. Cause it looks like, even though I thought Anyurg usually tries to write, but it looks like Kani was the writer of this film. Kind of also poked at some of the intrusiveness of families in Indian society and how they deal with either marriage or range marriage or just asking questions like that one that asked her, how's the honeymoon going? And then she kind of. And then she went off, yeah. She was like, I didn't ask her about her honeymoon. But it's, yeah. Would you say there's one culprit in this relationship that was more to blame than another? In the love triangle? Or do you think they were all kind of equally? Well, Vicki and Tapsi will obviously go. Yeah, I was going to say it's them. I mean, that's. But then also he was still agreeing to the arranged marriage that he knew that she probably didn't want at the time. But in his defense, he asked her straight out at their first meeting, are you ready to get married? That's true. He did. And she said no, but then she showed up and got married anyways. It's true. So. She did. Once again, she didn't know what she wanted at all. She did not. She had zero clue what she wanted. And I was wondering if they were going to have them get together in the end. And I knew I kind of shocked me because I thought they were just going to leave it open ended. But then when they finally, once again, spoilers if you're still here, weirdos. And when he was like, we still have we have still have like a reservation or whatever and cash me at the end. And so it's assumed that they get back together and kind of hopefully fall in love for real and live happily ever after. Or she leaves and goes to Australia to get making. Who knows? Who knows? But yeah, I think it's, I think it was a really, really good film. I really enjoyed this film. It's not really a shock. There's only been one On Your Rock film I really haven't enjoyed. It was Dev D. Dev D, which is shocking. Because of On Your Rock and the amount of people in that that were really good and all that kind of stuff. And it's just so beloved. But maybe I just don't like Dev D. The story. Maybe that's it. Who knows? Anyways, let us know what the next film we should watch by On Your Rock or others. Yeah, this one, we almost got to this one in romance month. But the new films that came out are and stuff like that. I think it came out, right? Romance month was February and you have like all kinds of stuff coming out. Yeah, that was a bunch. Anyways, but let us know what the next film should be that we should review. Which one do you want to review? A Shah Rukh Khan film? Yes. Stephanie loves Shah Rukh Khan. I love Shah Rukh Khan. She's a Shah Rukh Khan stan. Anyways, let us know down below.