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Yeah, I would say. I don't know the correct. Dior? Dior? Dior? Dior. D-E-W-L. We should ask our Mitra. Yeah, nice. Maybe he'll know. That is the one and only Mahash Kalle. Kalle. Yeah. Kalle. Kalle. Anyways. I'm doing a review of Dior, or however you pronounce the 2011 film, directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni. Written by Girish Kulkarni. Kulkarni. Yep. And starring, I mean, it's a big ensemble piece, but the- And many faces' names you'd recognize, too. The main players are Nannapethikar. Mahaa. Dilip Prabhavalkar. And I can't find the guy we- Oh my goodness, why not? From Ugly? Yeah. Where is he? Why isn't he credited on there? Because he's not just from Ugly, he's from Sacred Games. How is he not in the credits? I mean, he plays a- Not only does he have a lot of IMDb credits, he's got a huge part in this frickin' movie. And you could argue- That's wild. It's either Ham or Nannapethikar, the main- Depending upon your people. Point of view. Anyways, but obviously, this will be 100 cents for a review. It came out in 2011, obviously. So if you haven't watched it, please go watch it. We got to rent it on Amazon here in the United States. I don't know where it would be available in India. So you could go check that out. But obviously 100 cents for a review starting now. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. And I'm interested to see what Corbin thinks about this because I think you would know this, but if you don't, we don't talk to each other at all about a film once we've seen it. When we sit here is the first time we hear each other's thoughts on it. Yeah, most likely. I have only, I could have written a paragraph, but I only have two things to say about this movie. The first one is, watch it while you can. And the second one is, Nice. This is one of the most important and best films I've ever seen come out of India. Wow. Holy shit. Yes, high praise. I was utterly, the last time I found myself shocked at what I saw going on screen in an Indian film where I thought, this isn't just interesting satire. This is a voice of descent. This is astonishing me right now. The level of elevated artistry. The last time I remember being so flabbergasted that the creation was when we watched Header. So that tells you the kind of category I've used this film in. Do you know what the film choice was to be submitted to the Oscars that year instead of this film? Was this considered? This was part of the, there were 17 films ultimately in consideration that year. This was one of those films. What was sent? The film that was sent was Barfi. Interesting. And for me, 10 days out of 10, I would have sent this to the Oscars. This is a more Oscar. Oscar you mean? So I was utterly floored by this movie. Yeah, I really enjoyed this. And this movie kind of did this. The entire time for me. Crescendoing. Oh my stars. The last, I guess 30 to 45 minutes of this film are just completely captivating. Yeah, you think it's gonna be this and it's just going this way and you're fine with it. Yeah. And then you get some messaging in it and you think, is that where you're going? Yeah. And you're absolutely right. The last 30 to 45 minutes does this. Yeah, I forget exactly what it was. It's like you just, it kind of, it kind of almost an entire tonal shift that happens. And there's some brilliant scenes and we'll talk about it all but let's talk about the performances. And I need to find his name because let's talk about him. He. Oh, he. It's how he not credited in IMDb. Is he not credited anywhere on IMDb? Because that would make no sense at all. I need to find his name. I'm sorry. Here you go. Oh, I can get it for you. Chat DTP. Yeah, I'm gonna ask Chat DTP. Just a straight Google search. There he is. Giddish Kulkarni. Let me see if he's on IMDb. Okay. Oh, hold on. You also wrote this? That doesn't even look like him. That's him. Oh gee, okay. Yeah, his profile picture doesn't look like him. But I just put two and two together. He wrote this film? Yeah. If that's the identical name. Oh yeah, he did. Click on the name. See if it's the same IMDb pic. You betcha. Wow. Wow. There's a lot to talk about for you, sir. No joke. We've seen him in quite a few things, right? Yeah. And he's always really, really, really good. Always good. He's always extremely natural, very ear-fun-esque in terms of just he's very like, ease about how his performance. I mean, when you see him hold his own against the likes of Nawazid and Siddiqi and Nasirud and Shah, it tells you something about an actor. No, not Petticar as well. Yeah, exactly. Here in this film. But yeah, his performances in this was so genuine and so he's the character that you really care for. Because he's the heart of the film. It's very, I mean, this film is very PK in terms of much less commercial, in terms of like much less mainstream Bollywood. Right. I'm talking about in terms of the messaging of religion. It's more header than it is PK. No, I'm talking about the messaging in terms of the, talking about. It's PK with barbed wire. Well, that's why I'm saying that's a more commercial. But that's still about the religion and how people take advantage of it and how people skew people's bubblegum compared to this. People skew people's genuine experiences for their own personal gain, all that kind of stuff, right? But his performance was very, it was lovely because you really like, you don't know if he actually experienced what he said he did but you felt he genuinely saw it. Exactly. He genuinely thought he experienced it, right? He did. He was just being himself and sharing something he experienced. Whether he did or not, I like that they kind of left that open to your interpretation. It's up to you, yeah. But he genuinely thought. Correct. He saw the God. Right. Yeah, in the tree. Dutta. Dutta. Yeah, he couldn't deny his personal experience. And so he wanted to share that with everybody. And that's obviously where the film kind of catapults from there, but I love doing the entire thing, especially the end where he kind of went on his own little journey and experience with God. Yes. And we'll talk about the scene. So much to fricking say. The scene at the end. That we'll talk about that later. So yeah, what'd you think about his performance? It was beautiful. I thought the performance is, and we'll talk specifically about a couple of other people, but I thought everybody in this did a superlative job. I believed I was watching. That's the highest compliment you can give to anything an actor does. It's just, it's three words. I believe them. That's it. I believe this was a village. I believe these people were who they were. I believe they were dealing with what they were dealing with. And I felt he was definitely, each person really represented something in the film. And I felt like he represented the heart of the film, whereas I don't know the actor's name who portrayed the quote unquote scientist slash agnostic. I think it was Dillip. Yeah, he's the mind of the film. Yeah, he's the mind. It's even more than the mind. He's the rationale, the logic, the common sense and there's, I can talk on and on and on about this, but as we stick to his performance, I thought he was beautiful. Brilliant, I would love it. I already enjoyed him as an actor over in the other things we saw him in, but this is I think my favorite performance of his, but also this is probably the most, he got the lead in this as much as you can get a lead in an ensemble film. The one we got the C.M. the most in the film, right? The story centers around his experience and what that experience, what other people do with that experience. So it's his experience, that's the center of it all. Other actors that we just spoke about, Nana, who we've seen, obviously we've saw him in, the first thing we saw him in was the thing where he was the theater person. He looked so much different in this. So much different. I almost didn't recognize that. He's clearly a thespian of the likes of, say, J.I.D.P. Yeah, Nassir, Manoj, it's just, it's so obvious. And his character was so, one of my favorite scenes in the whole thing was between him and Dilip, when Dilip, his Dilip's character is a scientist. Yeah, that conversation was trying to leave. Well, it was about to leave. And their conversation. Brilliant. It was such a brilliant written scene. The writing, yeah. So obviously the writing by Girish Guresh. Guresh? Yeah. That whole scene was beautiful because one, it wasn't something that they were trying to lead you on into, it was like every single thing that each person said was justified in their care. Correct. And what they were trying to put forward. This person was like, I get it. I don't hold anything against you. You can't stop what's happening right now. But I just can't, being a scientist myself. I can't get behind this. But then his character, Nana's character, was obviously the politician who sees something he can take advantage of and through the religious aspect, which isn't just solely an Indian thing in case you didn't know. As long as religion's been around, there's been people like Nana's character taking advantage of every single religion and people. It's just a sad fact about religion. But the fact that he was, Dilip, even though he's a scientist, he was trying to convey that it's more of a, your relationship with God is a lot more of a personal thing than obviously what they were trying to make it into this place that people come so they could give you money so the town can get money. So like, and it's all just a show. He reached down to get some soil. There wasn't any left because they had built over everything. Correct. And he told somebody to go get some soil. Right. Yeah. And they didn't build a hospital, they built a temple. No. Something that people could have genuinely needed. Correct. So like, there's so many, but it's all subtle in this. It's not like a stick right in your face. Well, sometimes, man. I'm talking like song. No, I'm talking about like in the writing of like you say some films can be really heavy handed. Yeah. This song is, I mean. No, yeah, I guess the song's pretty heavy handed. I meant that when I said it at the beginning. Watch it while you can. Well, it's been around for 13 years. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know that this film gets green lit today. It definitely wouldn't be able to be put out with everything in it because I know, pardon my French, fucking way. Yeah, because that Rajkumar film, which we didn't get to see, it was here for like five days here. And obviously it was about the stuff around COVID and they put out a whole bunch of shit that was taken out in the film in terms of like police brutality. And like in terms of like so many different things that's like, that seems essential to the story that he's trying to tell. Why are you taking that out? So yeah, there would be a thousand cuts in this. Oh yeah. Which is why we hate the censor board because you shouldn't censor people's art. You cannot agree with it and you cannot go see it, but don't censor it. Well, most of the time people want to censor art. It's because the art is saying something about them they don't like. Didn't say they were saying something about them that wasn't true. It's they're saying something about them that they don't like and they want it shut up. All the more reason it needs to be spoken. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, their whole scene was incredible. Incredible. Yeah, let's talk about the song. You just, you just spoke about the song. Oh my goodness. I was slack-jawed. I genuinely, I was genuinely going, I had to look up again when was this made and released. I was, it was magnificent. And so I just don't have enough adjectives to talk about how, for a film that so consistently is subtle to just be, I'm telling you what man, Colcarny's got brass nuts. I'm talking, this is a act of artistic courage to say something. That's why it's for me so, so high on the list of one of the best films I've seen, period, let alone and comparatively, love Barfi, love Priyanka and Barfi. She gives an Oscar level kind of performance in my consideration. If you're gonna put something in a time capsule from that particular year, Barfi is a very good movie. It's a commercial success and has an Oscar caliber performance in it. I don't think Barfi the film is an Oscar level film by a long shot. Yeah, I'd have to see the list, but yeah. This? Yeah. It's a shame. It's a shame we're finding out about it now and it's a shame that this was not given a broader audience at the time. Cause it is a, I think if there was one word I were gonna give this film, I'd have to add an adverb. Honestly courageous. And I wanna also talk about the cameo performance, which right when I saw his nose, immediately, it's an iconic nose, the nose he has. Apparently this was his first Marathi film. Oh, I think nice. Makes sense that he would wanna be in this film. I love that whole scene though. Because it was clearly obviously him talking to God. Yeah, it was him talking to God It was him talking to God and the God that had manifested itself to him via the cow. The cow, yeah. And dutta. Yeah. Yes. In the way that he could receive God's expression. Yes. And it was brilliantly, subtly written. Even though you knew, it was like, this is obviously the cow, obviously. And everything like that. But it was subtly written and beautifully written, I feel. And obviously this year's performance was obviously really nice. But I really enjoyed Garish's performance during that whole scene. He didn't say a lot. No. He was kind of just reacting. He was reacting and taking it back to what was happening. And then his whole thing after that of when he took the idol and he went on the kind of self-discovering journey that the end of the movie. The end of the film. I didn't shed tears, but I got emotional at the end. It really hit me in the feels at the end in a big, big way. Why? Because it conveyed so much of a truth that isn't just universal, but is deeply personal for myself experientially in walking with God. One of my favorite words, the juxtaposition. Yeah, you love that word. Yeah. Of... One word? It's one word, juxtaposition. Yeah, J-U-X-T-A-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-M. Juxtaposition. Wow. And it means alongside each other. Of... So the idol had been taken. And he took it because he did not want that going on any longer. So he took their God. But rather than them believe their God had been taken, they just created a shinier, better God for themselves. And the cage goes down. It's an inaccessible God. Yet they think they have full access. Yet this man who from the start of this is just a genuine seeker. He's not... He wasn't trying to proselytize anybody. All he was saying was, I've had this experience and I can't deny it. What do you think? And at the end, this deeply personal relationship with him and the beauty of him taking God and what it means to... I mean, we know what it means now after years of seeing it, the submersion of the deity after the festivals and what that means. But the symbolism of this man who embodies walking by faith and not wanting to take spirituality and turn it into some system that you can profit from or control people with. He continues his journey as it began in nature, connected to God in some way that only he can connect with personally and he lets it go because he himself has the humility to recognize God is bigger than me. I don't hold on to God. And at its most beautiful point of connection you find the realities of creation and of spirituality not within the confines of human construct but within the wonder of wilderness and nature and the created order. And him letting that go and being so happy, his journey continuing and that he's going to continue to be in pursuit of God while the others believe their pursuit is over and it's their job now to make everybody come to their realizations monumentally beautiful. I just having personally because spirituality and God is a really big deal for me and many of you know I was a pastor for a lot of years. I've spent many a Sunday in church and I have no qualms with people who spend many a Sunday in church. I can tell you I have had encounters with God more often and more profoundly in places that were unexpected and connected to nature than I did in places that were of human construct and that's why it was personal for me. My biggest gripe with this film and it's mostly just the length of it. Which is the common thing I read which did not bother me. I think you could have trimmed down the beginning parts a little bit and made it two hours instead of two hours 23. You could have. It did not bother me. I think it could have been a little snappier. Could be. Because obviously it's a slow film. Obviously that's what they wanted the film to be slow and I'm not saying it should have been slow because I enjoy slow films and I enjoyed this film but I think you could have made it even more impactful because I don't ever want somebody to be bored in a film. Right. God damn Martin Scorsese's next film is going to be God damn four hours. You know it will be. No it is. Oh is that the run time? Four hours? Not a surprise. Four fucking hours. Oh Marty. Oh my God. He thinks everything he does he just shits gold. Anyways. He needs somebody to come in and not be a yes man is what he needs. Anyways. Anyway. That's not what this is about. Dude that's my only gripe with it. Every other point of this film is absolutely brilliant and I always whenever we watch a Marathi film I'm like this industry is so I mean every industry is very unique in their own right I feel like in India which is so unique right but Malayalam we always give credit to such uniqueness and such artistry. Right. This is always incredible artistry but it's more like theatric theater. More theater. Absolutely. I guess makes sense there's a big theater community and where this could be a play. Yeah. I mean looking back obviously not tomorrow which is This would make a magnificent play. The first Marathi film I think we saw was Natsumarat which is Nanapettika right. Yeah. A play. Sairat. The factory one about the film. Yes. Mahesh Galle film. Fandry. Court. Court. The disciple. Gala. Jogwa. Marathi has so many beautiful movies that would translate so seamlessly into plays. The horror one. Swash. Swash. Yeah. Or however. They're all like really like high level artistry but it's all more like plays. 100%. But the artistry just like in Malayalam is always really high. Very high. As elevative as it gets. The acting. Yeah. But it's just in a different way. And we didn't even say this. One of the players in this film that you could miss but you shouldn't miss. Especially at some of the shots at the end is the cinematography. Oh yeah. It's absolutely brilliant. It kind of shows off there at the end too. At the end it really. That shot of him with the statue and the moon. Yeah. I love the score of it. Oh me too. Not just the song. I enjoyed the score. The whole score. Even I've all the little the small roles. Small roles. Yeah. And he was supposed to go off and marry. I enjoyed their relationship. I was sad that they didn't end up together. I laughed out loud several times. Yeah. And I feel like there was a lot of comedy if we spoke. We would have Marathi. Yeah. Or New Village Life. Yeah. We would probably get a whole lot more. I feel like there was a lot of subtle comedy in this. And I do think, I mean the most obvious messaging in it and you alluded to this early in this review about the messaging of this is not though it is definitively Indian, the messaging of it is is anywhere. Yeah. And as it pertains to hear the messaging, that's why if this movie was done now it could resonate so strongly with the Academy in terms of the biggest thing I harp about all the time, both publicly and privately is this war cry in so many corners of America right now for theocracy, for the imposition of one's religious views upon the population as law. And not only do we have that in our first amendment to not happen, but it's astonishing to me in a world with four to five thousand different kinds of belief systems and five major world religions, many of which have different interpretations and texts and denominational affiliations that are counterintuitive to each other that only one of them would say it's my way or the highway in terms of population living together. It boggles my mind and should not happen. And that's one of my favorite messages from the film is it makes it very, very clear that not only should you not tell people what box to put God into but then you ought not tell them that you live in that box and can't come out unless they live the way you expect them to according to their beliefs. Totally agree. It's a beautiful, beautiful film. Very little outside of the runtime that I could say bad about this film. But let us know what you thought about the film and your thoughts and what should be, I've only gotten to probably total Marathi films. If I believe it's the first one this year I do think this is like 13. If my memory serves me correctly from the list. And they're all so good. They've all been wonderful. I mean, I love Sairat and I know you didn't love it as much as I did. But that's a lot more modern. We've seen a lot of older Marathi films. But man, it would be hard to put it together at top five because they've all been incredibly good. But this one for me I can say without question. This is my favorite Marathi film that we've seen and this is in my top five of favorite Indian films irrespective of industry. I love this movie. We've seen. Love this movie. Over 300. We have. This is right up there bumping the ceiling up against Heather for me. This is that good of a film to me. Wow. Yeah. Anyways, let us know what the next Marathi film should be that we should review down below.