 This I believe I could be wrong. I Think this was the first DVD we ever received How do you know this? I believe it was wow. Yeah, I think it was Wow Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction scene. It's up Corbin two years later Can you follow some Instagram to see come then? Thanks some patreon fellas to the camera in the boat I have something to say about that very fact. I believe I believe I'm right Let me know if I if it wasn't the first it was one of the first couple that we received But I think it was the first so we will eventually get to your question eventually You get there. Yeah, but 2293 you've already seen the title of this so this is a review for the I believe I believe it's Hindi film parched the 2015 film directed by Lena say Lena Yadav Lena Yadav Starring Tanish the Chatterjee forgive me for mispronouncing your first name Radhika Apte, which I and Ronnie told me it's we were calling her Radhika and is Radhika Radhika Radhika Apte Okay, Radhika. I believe that's all the trusting and running Radhika Apte Servin Chawla Lehar Khan and Reedy said yes, yes, lots of people and then it was also produced by a bunch of people, but most notably a J. Devin Yep produced this film, but yes, this is How we like to do things this is gonna be a hundred percent spoiler view. I don't know if a lot of you has seen it I don't know how big of a It seems very independent to me So that my my assumption is a lot of people have not seen this film, right? So if you haven't watched it go watch it come back. We don't want to spoil you. It's not what we like to do here Yeah, but this would be a hundred cents one of you. So yep hundred percent spoiler. Go ahead I haven't written anything because I have so much. I want to say I'm guessing a Lot of Indians haven't seen the film because Why this film wouldn't have been the film that Every Indian and stupid baby wasn't daily begging us to watch. I don't understand because for me drumroll When you take header And you set header over here for its magnificence But it has a limitation by the reason of the fact that if you don't know Hamlet or Shakespeare, you won't you won't appreciate it as much This is The most important film we've seen and the one I would recommend above every other film that we have seen thus far Even a similar one as hella Great comparison because they feel and look so similar. Yeah, the only difference between hella row and this one is This one is this one has much Much bigger balls. Yeah, this one is a absolute Kick in the nuts. I'm glad you thought that way one because I would have punched you if you It is it is I have I'm gonna go on and on and on about how much I love this film Fucking love this move. It's it's my favorite thing and my most recommended thing that we've seen thus far ever Yep Other than help other than header being what header is Header is what header is but if I was going to recommend a film that I thought Then here's the difference. There's a bunch not just for Americans, but Indians. Yeah, see most of the films we see It's like this is what the West needs to see this is what the West needs to see this is what Indians need to see Yeah, everybody needs to see this. Yeah, everybody should see this. I really enjoyed this film. Oh It was it's an incredibly difficult watch at times, but then also Incredibly touching as well. It's just at times. It's a powerhouse of Female empowerment and acting as well basically all your lead and writing and cinematography all your leads are mostly female But I mean, okay, we can just we can just get into it. Yeah, I Adored this film. I want to talk about let's talk about the acting that's just because we'd like to talk about Radhika She would have gotten she would have won every category in our awards that we just did. Oh, I already I just went into the The dummies for 2021 Clean the slate for all of them and there's seven there's already seven nominations for me for this film It They there was a bunch of amazing performances and we'll get into all of them But hers specifically she gave me a different field than she's actually given me in all of her other stuff We've seen quite a few of her things. Yeah, she gave me an innocence in this but also like a danger as well And so that usually she has a more edgy feel to her and she did a little bit But it was a lot more of a I don't know how to describe it. It was a very complex Character in this one and I thought it was beautiful though one scene where her and This I believe in it to say the same. Well, you can see the character. It's Ronnie Yeah, when she came into the hut and she was bruised up and so she started to and then she was you know Touching her breasts and all that That whole scene was so well done so beautiful The fact that you you were first like because I thought that I was like Maybe they have tendencies towards each other and they very well might they kind of just brushed over that and so it could have Been a thing but then it ended up being just two women that have never experienced The touch of somebody who loves them exactly and that's what they were that's what they were longing It's just to be touched and loved and that's what they were finding in each other whether they it's romantic Evolves into something romantic or if it's just these two friends love each other Yeah, it wasn't the point. It was an absolute well-written obviously beautifully acted scene and That was just such a beautiful moment. She I think just like the one Lena Heady did in Gemma Thrones when she had to walk down and that vulnerability she had the same thing I would I would immediately give her an Oscar for this. Yeah, I it is Unquestionably my favorite thing. We've seen her do yeah, it is it's one of the roles and I feel this way for the three Mainlady's it's like they were they were straight up born to play those three women and I can't I Would be really hard-pressed To pick another role. I've seen a woman do that. I like more than what Roddy got Roddy got big did in parched. Yeah the That scene and then the other scene When they're in the cave. Oh By yeah, I did the minute I saw what I had to do it double because I knew he was in and I was like I haven't seen him yet. They look different each turn up and I was like, is that him the lover? Yeah, and so I started calling him Letterman. No, uh, what is it? What's his name the end of it? I'm sorry. We don't know your name. Yeah, and I don't know the song the wonder shlong. Yeah I Booked his credit as mystic lover. Yeah, no wonder shlong. Yeah, I do the wonder shlong Yeah, you know that that her that whole scene first of all and we're gonna get into the cinematography a second but when He be when when she there's two moments for her in that The first moment is when she realizes he's not gonna rape her. Mm-hmm When he just touches her feet and the look in her face and her eyes of she's never been touched like that She's always never had a man a aggressive She's just been the receptacle. Yeah, you know and she even referred to the marks of love Mm-hmm on her bruised body, right and then the absolute Wonder Prudulity to tears when not only was she not being raped, but he gently caresses her Cheeks and the tears just start streaming down her face. Mm-hmm. That's that's if this Wish this had been a film that had been made with more This just should have also that's Oscar level stuff that she also did it get a theatrical release because This was from what I can tell the first time we've seen a woman outside of OTT platforms New it's the most unless I'm wrong. It is it's the first Indian film. We've seen that actually depict Female nudity and sexuality for a woman in many respects unlike any other Indian film from any region Just the conversation that they're laughing about the phone ringing. Yeah, and that they can get pleasureed by a phone That is the most brilliant writing You sat on Shahru Khan. Yeah And all of those lines about you know, thank you for the T-Mobile whatever it was that just a joke about it vibrating And that who needs a man. Yeah, I'm mobile phone That we'll get into that yeah, but I was wondering if it because I believe the sensor board would Just not allow that they wouldn't that's from what we've gathered not only just from what we know about the sensor board But for what we've seen we've yet to never seen anything like outside of OTT platforms We haven't seen it on OTT platforms all the more reason why This film is so important and so good So I didn't look at the credits on anything until after right And I will thankfully with the dbd. There's some behind-the-scenes stuff Gotcha, okay So you can look at the supplemental footage But one of the things one of the things I didn't know I was just looking through the As I was taking notes while the film is going and I noticed how great the cinematography was without standing out Which is even more difficult Some moments of like dual focus we're both foreground and background are in focus But not calling attention to itself. Yeah, and it's just a tip of the hat It's like I I see a cinematographer I know that's not an easy shot to capture and you didn't even call attention to it Because you just want it to be a dual focus right now and give the depth and you have to Go out of your way to make that shot work. There were so many shots like that that went out of their way to make themselves work And I thought that scene with the two girls and then with her with the lover We're so magnificently Magnificently shot and it's not a surprise the cinematographer is Russell Carpenter He has a long resume including the fact that he won the Oscar for cinematography for titanic Oh, is that who it is? Yes And he's currently working on all of the avatar scenes. Oh, jeez So there's a reason this film looks as good as it does Like a lot of the shots once with the whatever Motorcycle they were running with that all the lights and then it would shine on their faces Yes, some of the most beautiful shots beautiful shots, but I do want to talk about the other two lead actresses Yeah, we consider we have two hour videos. Yeah, I sure Ronnie Was just as phenomenal as Radica, Radica Um But I had a more complex relationship with her character because she was a very complex character very very at times You're like you you fell for her, but then the other time she was being an absolute asshole She was you know, why exactly um because you know She basically bought into what you know, she's been told about you know, she had to defend her son she was basically Um rationing why her son was acting the way he was acting and and all this kind of stuff But like she was like sweet as Radica a lot of times But then sometimes she would lash out at certain people because That's still all she knew But then you know, she was still being an asshole Right, so I was like it's hard for me to love you and that was so well written Which is why I would give it a nomination for writing because those three characters those three ladies um, you know, bidgely represents Really what would be considered the hordom of the west, right? And then you have the oppressed woman in Radica's case where I love the fact that the baroness was not hers I love my wife called that she was like, uh, yeah, she got casted exactly But her character was very complex because she was she was kind of the the the Balance between the two worlds the balance between the the progressive human rights Person versus the one who was still Regimented within the traditions and what was going on with her society at the time And that that for me is where making the comparison to hella route um this This film like no other film that I've seen and because it's an empowering film On more levels than just the the women who are having daughters. I want I tried. So here's what I did I'm gonna I'll finish I'll finish this thought after I say that Uh, I immediately told Andrani and said okay tomorrow morning. I want to get All the kids together. I want to watch this and I want to watch it with you And I would like to get your feedback before I do the review And then I want to do an afterthought it didn't work out partly because of southern california eddison turning off my power For the 57th time Um So we tried actually went over to ashley's we had set up. I was gonna try and watch it But we're gonna watch it. Yeah, absolutely. And I want their feedback and I want micah's feedback, but the I wrote one of the notes I wrote down was There was a line where one of the men said society has rules for a reason And and this is the larger picture of what's the importance of this film is that it talks about Human rights and that when the traditions customs superstitions or rules over society oppress suppress or abuse human rights Something's wrong And there are rights that human beings have there are rights that women have That when those rights are being oppressed or taken away from them in the name of something other than just what is Their right to have as a human being that needs to be addressed and it needs to be changed And I felt like this did a magnificent job of doing that without making The customs and the the superstitions or the societal rules Become stereotypical bad guy stuff. You know what I mean? Like even okay Really sad Talk about shape shifter Because I didn't see any of that other character from the Bengali film we saw and that those films are two years apart Yeah, uh, so hats off because you played an asshole Phenomenal Perfect. I almost didn't want to put him down as someone I would nominate for supporting actor because I I disliked him so much characters that irks you for sure, but he was absolutely Perfect. Yeah, he was that's exactly and that that I wrote that down too about this whole Idea about manhood being about anger alcohol and abuse It was like that's the rite of passage that these fuckboys are sitting around talking about, you know How my ak 47 works good and I did her right and all of that crap It doesn't make you a man. It makes you an asshole Yeah, and it's that culture that is where rape culture comes from and where the oppression of women comes from And it's not masculinity. Yeah, uh masculinity was the lover in the cave. Yeah, that was true masculinity. Yeah, uh and the The moment where He's Uh, readie sen is with his wife, right who she did a great job as well And I'm a girl with that whole story was another great story of her hair cutting, but he says you hear Uh What's your name, uh ready Ronnie Ronnie you hear her hearing her son and his wife and you hear him before he's about to rape her Yeah, he says what's your name? And I I just wrote down sex as an intimate act shouldn't the participants at least know one another's name first And sex is supposed to be a loving act shouldn't the participants at least get to know one another first And that's the stuff of this film that for me It is the writing the direction the cinematography every single role that's being portrayed And the story It's just a freaking bottom of the ninth grand slam win game seven of the world series. Absolutely. Yeah, I love And the end even though it's not my particular taste for happy endings Even though I wasn't sure I liked the the last line I would prefer Like I think that was probably my biggest issue is that this time i'm gonna whatever I do I'm gonna let my heart decide I think I would have preferred that not be in there I've been fine with the sentiment of them just going wherever they want just I don't like I liked it I don't like that specific line. I love that. That's a little cheesy to me. I loved it, but I was like they've been through enough I'll give them this happiness They've been through enough And I'm glad even like all the women, you know, I loved when the husband got burned Radica's Oh, it was phenomenal and the juxtaposition Oh, yeah, and the Durga divine going on and the the burning up of evil and how that played side by side I actually thought I thought it was brilliant brilliant chief said if it's a boy, we're gonna name him Wrong because he's gonna eliminate evil from the world. I'm like, well, he's already starting so great job, son But that that exact Connectivity of what was going on at the festival And the narration going on in the very festival representing the fact that the divine was going to Burn and forever rid evil, right? Yep And simultaneously the evil one is being burned in the room That that is not an easy thing to do in a good way That can become heavy-handed. It was not heavy-handed. It was perfectly executed. We haven't talked about I mean we've Oh talked about me. Well, but yeah, sir being Shaola. Um who played obviously the the whore in this one She was such a she did so well One she looked very supporting actress. She is very familiar. I didn't know where I thought it Do you know where we thought it? Where I had to look it up. What was it? We've seen her in a couple things Most especially she was in sacred games Yeah, okay. Yeah, and she was also in what was the other we saw her in another film uh But I I thought The three of them were so perfectly cast. Yeah, and it was it was such a beautiful friendship that was There was The writing in this which is so so good Um between her and and her love interest. Yes, uh, he was great. He was he was really good as well I was super sad because I didn't quite understand. Uh Did he actually want to be her pimp? Or did she just interpret that because she didn't want to be married because I thought he was proposing and I didn't he did say I will handle the business But I I guess I didn't take that as I'll be your pimp, but I guess I could have been that could have been what he was saying I don't know. Yeah, I I I don't know the way it struck me in the scene You know what? I knew it was going to be him at the bus stop, right? Yeah, it was like it's going to be him and I was really hoping What we had seen which is he loves her for her. Yeah that he was just going to tell her that I think him telling her that was his way of Trying to point out all the positives to get her to say yes Terrified she's going to say no So rather than just outright say I love you for who you are and I want to spend the rest of my life with you Because she could easily say no to that in his eyes It was I've got to present this to her in the most marketable way possible and get her to get a yes And then when she says yes, I can really open up my heart But the mistake was yeah, she took it the way she should yeah I didn't know how to take it because I was like I didn't think that's what he was saying But I don't think it could have been I don't know But yeah, it was very complicated It was such a complicated relationship with all three of them because they all had that that tension of Do they do they romantically like each other right or do they just is this just a beautiful friendship? And I like that they left that I like that like even the scene like we were talking about at the beginning It's like You don't you don't know you don't know it was it they might have romantic intentions down the road But also the way I took that scene was it's just a beautiful. They want it to be touched. They want it to be Love they feel like a woman who who is touched by someone who loves them Yeah, and so but you don't know and I love the vagueness of that Yeah, I love vague writing and um and the larger picture for me where I said comparatively with hella row because hella row is also about Human rights and it's about the rights of women. This one has bigger teeth and bigger balls because it it does It cuts both ways It's the kind of film that I know western people could see And be moved by the artistry and moved to the level That would make them be I think blown away at the level of artistry in India But I think also what would be really important is For there's so many people that I know in India who either come from places like this or are in places like this Where there is this there hasn't been an advancement and an understanding of human rights And human rights are actually something that While there were natural rights human rights on planet earth really haven't become an issue except except for empire like The king says this is the way it's going to be so the roman empire said Well, you'll get these rights because this is our law, but they weren't based on inalienable rights And this film touches on that aspect and it stems from the woman and the rights that a woman should have But that goes to all human rights and how there are inalienable rights that transcend kingdom And country and it's why the united state the united nations has a charter about human rights and there's international law But that's my lifetime I mean 1940 after the holocaust And then the 1970s is when international human rights actually began to become Part of the conversation in how many years of human existence So human rights have just begun to really take hold and this is one that screams about their importance. So yeah, we Obviously loved it It was a phenomenal film It actually cemented my Even though it was basically already my thought that ladica is my favorite and I think the best actress in indian cinema Uh, obviously taboo and there's a bunch of other I can't argue with that are phenomenal, but she We will see everything she does just like nois and just like one though Is we will see everything they do eventually She actually I just saw her director of debut was this year. She directed her short film radica. Yeah, radica I couldn't find where it is. I don't know if it's nominated for I'm sure it's going through festivals and stuff But I would love to see it And if you if for some chance at any point down the road you happen to be Watching this you magnificent thespian I want to applaud not just your capacity as an actor, but I want to applaud and I know you agree your guts to live privately in public with this role And to shed every wall in order to Advance a message that was so important with your fellow castmates I can think of no other role I've seen a male or female actor do that was more brave more daring more honest and more captivating than you in this film. Yep. Absolutely and writer director um Lena yeah Lena Yadav Make more movies like this. Yeah You pretty much made a perfect film about this subject matter and you wrote and directed it and I don't have enough accolades. Yeah Uh, and so let us know what's the next radica film we should watch and and these other women as well I want to watch all of these ladies and read he said even though he was smaller in this Obviously, we loved him in his his other role and it was one of the best roles that he get you gave it the award He was my he was my runner-up So we think he's a very talented actor. So we want to see more of him as well and please and of course the wonder schlong always He won't forever in my head Handle the wonder schlong. So when the day comes that we get to interviewing Are you gonna call them the wonder schlong? I will a hundred percent call you