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There's actually a ton of industries we haven't got to, but this is one of the last big, big ones that we have finally to get into. So thank you for your patience. Thank you for your patience. But we are reviewing Hello Group. Is that how you pronounce it? I don't know if it's that or if it's Hello Roll. Hello Roll? Yeah, I don't know. Okay. So you beautiful Gujarati stupid babies can tell us. Anyways, but yes, this is a 2019 film. And... Spoilers, everybody go watch it. I know actually most of you probably haven't seen it, even in Gujarati probably, because it's one of those style of films. But this is one of those films that, you know, there's a big thing right now of not supporting certain films and supporting other films. Right. This is one of the films you should probably support. Anyways, it's a 100% spoiler review. Rick, your initial thoughts. I have a paragraph. Okay, good. And I have a word before we start. Hold on. Let me think of it. Hold on. Nunt. No. Oh, okay. What is that? It's just a sound. Hello. No, this is for all the Gujarati stupid babies, which the majority of you who speak Hindi, I think this is almost the exact same pronunciation for this word. But if I can summarize this film in one word, it is Sundar. Okay. Uh, which is this means beautiful. So here's my paragraph. One of the most stunning and magnificent debuts of a writer-director I've ever seen. An absolutely beautiful motion picture at pretty much every level, a folk tale that simultaneously takes you on a journey as whimsical as a magic carpet ride, then suddenly as gut-wrenching in its portrayal of stark reality is the most important of films. Not only one of my favorite films to ever come out of India, but one of my favorite films of all time, should have been India's submissions of the Oscars, and it might very well have won. Yeah, I 100% agree. Go watch this film. That could be the end of the review right there. Goodbye, go watch the freaking film. We're going to get mad. This film is available, I believe, on MxPlayer. I believe online. Uh, not- It should be on Netflix. It should be on Amazon. It should be on Hulu. Not for America, but you know, VPNs and all that kind of stuff. I actually want to thank the producers. They actually, I reached out to them asking, because they couldn't find it anywhere and I wanted to watch it, and they sent us a screener of it. So thank you. This is not a paid review. We don't do that, obviously. But I want to thank them for sending it to us. I would. If I'd been involved in this, I would have sent this to everybody. I possibly could. So, before we get into it, just go watch it. Please, tell everyone you know to watch it. I know most of you have not seen it, like I said, because one, it's a regional. Two, I believe also a lot of people in Gujarati and probably are not as seen as well, because it's an artsy film style. And this is a film everyone can enjoy around the world. And I notice the views when we do reviews, and I understand it to a certain dimension, where if we do something that was more mainstream and we do a review on that, you look 24 hours later and you're going to see 50, 60, 75, 100,000 views on the review. And when we do regional films, it's going to be 20, 25,000 at most. And hard pressed to ever reach 100,000 views. My, what will pain me, and I'm anticipating it without being a pessimist because I'm an optimist by nature, is how many stupid babies are going to ignore this review because it's Gujarati. This is one of the finest films to ever come out of India. 100%. And one of my favorite films of all time. I want my kids to see it. I can watch it over and over again. It's absolutely beautiful. It's actually won a ton of awards in the circuit in India. It beat out films like, Kumbala Ji Nights. It should. It beat out in other, I'm drawing the blank, but other films, Super Deluxe. Yeah, but other films we've seen that came out last year, that we loved and raved about and we were talking about for submission. And remember, for those of you who were around, we were talking about how we felt because we understand the politics as well, that we felt that Gully Boy was a good selection for India to use. We didn't necessarily think it was the best one as far as the artistry level. We admitted that. We said it's a really good movie. And it made sense when you talk about Ranveer, you talk about Alia, names that would be more known. Had we seen this, we'd have been jumping up and down, I think. This is a proper style film. This is what you should have submitted. This is what should go to them. And I really want everyone, I'm not joking. I immediately put this on my list of one of my favorite films because, I mean, we could, I could talk about it for two hours. Yeah. So let's get into it. Um, and just so you know, there aren't flaws with this film. I have, I can't, and there's not one. This is going to be one of those reviews. I was like, we're not kidding. While watching it, I was like, it's a practice, it's practically perfect in every way. Mary Poppins. Yeah. Uh, I was looking for it. It's one of those films that when you get to, you start, you just got the chills. When you start getting to the end of it, you're like, you're going to end this as well as it's all been, right? Because what you've done, the last time I felt this way about a movie, when it was coming to the end, was Header. When I was like, you have done such a perfect, not just good. Everything's been so perfect. Please don't screw this up. Yeah. I felt that way when we were, when I knew we got 20 minutes left. I was like, you have made a masterpiece. Please end it right. And when it ended, I just, I sat, I sat like I would in the theater, just watching the credits roll going. Yeah. I want to, let me go and talk about, let me go and get into everything. I'm sorry, since we're, yeah. Sorry. Once again, if you're still here and you haven't watched it, watch it, turn this off. This doesn't matter to you right now. Turn it off and go watch it. Thank you. And don't be distracted. Allow yourself to be absorbed and go on the journey. But the ending, really, really good. It was also one of those moments that, you know, I'm glad they ended where it is, but you're also wondering, okay, what just, what happened to them after this? Right. Right. Because my, I'm not an optimist. I'm a pessimist. I'm like, okay, so right after this, they all, they kill them all. They kill them all. I don't know what, right. Because I know it's folklore, I don't know what the folklore is after. Right. But I'm sure there's a bunch of villages like this that, you know, oppress women, and all this kind of stuff. It happens all around the world. Women have been oppressed since the beginning of time. Yes. So it's still going on just like that. Yeah. It's one of those films that makes you mad. Right. Extremely, extremely mad because of the hypocrisy of it all. The fact that these men who are all goddamn morons, all of them. Not, well, our drummer wasn't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The village people, sorry. Not the, not the, we'll get to the drummer guys. Yeah. And there was one other advocate in the village, the one who constantly was saying, see why we have such a great chief? It's because he's actually educated. Right. Exactly. But anyways, yeah, the, they're all morons and they oppress women, but they pray to a goddess. Exactly. That is the underlining hilarious hypocrisy that they made, that the, the, the, every single time they press women and then they're like, okay, now we're going to pray to the goddess. Yes. After treating their women like, like, perhaps garbage. Right. So genius by the writing and directing. Magnificent writing. Well, I don't know if that's part of the folklore or whatever. The, the, the writing. Okay. Can, can we just talk about, this is this, this director, Abhishek Shah. This was his debut. First film. Yeah. I meant that. One of the most extraordinary debuts I've ever seen. If this was a film that had happened here in America, right? People would be talking about That's a picture. Who the heck is this person that wrote and directed this film and who are these actors that were in this film? Everyone would be talking about this film. It would be nominated for everything. It would win Best Ensemble at SAG and they'd be applauded for being these newcomers that just rocked everybody's world. And the messages of both the women, which is powerful, but also how it's so poetically, beautifully, without a heavy hand, addressed superstition and did so in a way that was like I thought the scene where the woman had lost her baby. And so two of the women in the village who were strident and legalistic were saying, you know why? We know why. It's because of her and because of the women dancing. And she said, why would the goddess punish my innocent because of them worshiping her? I'll tell you whose fault this is. And that was heartbreaking. Unbelievable. That moment when you figured out that, oh, yes, of course it's that. Yes. And I thought she actually had a great line. That woman, I believe, she said something along the lines of if God punished you for all of your sins, there wouldn't be so many men in the world. Yeah. Or something like that. And I was like, that's good. All the wars in the world have been started by men. Just a little tidbit for you. And let's just rape. I think it's highly weighted into the males being the predominant. Anyway, anyway. But let's, oh God, I want to talk about all of them. But let's talk about the drummer man. What is his name? Because I can't find his picture. Okay, what was his name? What was his name? Is this him? I think that's Muji, right? Muji? Muji? I think that was Muji. Or was it? Oh, Puss. I think it was Muji. I think it was. But the guy who played the drummer, man, was he fantastic. Fantastic. Oh my God. In a very difficult role to pull off because you could be, if you're not a good trained actor, you could come across so melodramatic, feigning insanity. He had to literally, he reminded me of the difficulty of what Russell Crowe had to do in Gladiator. If you haven't seen Gladiator, cover your ears for 10 seconds. I'll point when you can take your ears back off when he shows back up and he sees his family, right? Okay. Now you can, okay. That is very hard to do and be believable. There wasn't anybody in this film for any frame of film I didn't believe. Oh, 100%. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody was fantastic. Everybody. I felt, and I don't know if they were all non-actors or if they were, or if they were actual actors and they just, I don't think they put makeup on, at least didn't look like they put makeup on any of the women. No, and just how many moments were so beautifully shot where all you hear is the tinkling of the water bases they're carrying or they're walking out and all you hear are the goats bleeding and they're doing their thing and every single one of the women, I believed, little girl to oldest, that, I read that that village, they built it. It didn't exist. Oh really? They built that village for this. So everything about this is created, but I felt like we were dropped in to this actual village with these actual, in the same way that this is a high compliment. I felt the characters in this were as believable as the characters in Fiddler on the Roof, that after years of watching it, I don't even think of Topol anymore, I just see Tevye. You know what I mean? Yeah. These, I believe this is a village in India and this is a real tribe with these real issues and we just got to sneak in and be a fly on the wall. The music. Yeah. Oh, the songs and the music were so fantastic. Oh. And this whole thing. So the composer Hold on. Say a thing. Mahul Surti. Mahul Surti. He did a fantastic job. Magnet, everything in this was Oscar level. Yeah. But the, that the drummer man I want to talk about again. I thought his character was so fantastic because he showed up and you get, you should get, you knew the new girl was going to give him water. Of course. You know, she's, she's not been scarred by all these men yet. Right. But when she gave him the water and then their whole relationship because obviously the women they don't want to get in trouble. They don't want to get hurt. So they're going to get the crap weed out of them. Even them, like all of them not talking to another woman who's just a widow. Widow. Yeah. Which is so stupid for the men to be like, don't that line. I'm just like, I just tell the women not to talk to her. What? What? Right. I don't, because when you've lost your spouse what you really need is to be isolated and alone. I mean, that is clearly the hype involved. Yeah. So she did fantastic. But yeah, the, his whole, when you, when you find out about him, you just, I, I would have, it would be really difficult for me to believe he's not a lesbian. Oh, he's got to be trained. Got to be trained. He seems to be a, if he's not a legend in Gujrati cinema, I'm sure he's been doing theater from. Got to be trained. Yeah. He's just, he has one of those presents. He has that, the talent. Yep. It's one of those things, like when you see, Mano, or when you see other actors, or you're like, they know what they're doing. Yep. Sure they've trained for a long, long time. He's, he gives me that vibe and his whole trajectory with, you know, you're thinking, you know, he's gone crazy a little bit and you know, he has, he's looking for his, his wife. Oh man. And all that kind of stuff. And then the, the end, in part where he just, he wants to be burned alive. That's what I was just, just thinking of. To be with his, just like he, just like they went. I guess he felt bad that he wasn't burned alive with his, wife and daughter. But yeah, he, I don't know if he learned this or if he knew it as well. Right. It was convincing to me. It was very convincing. And you know, I can be critical about the music, the musicianship. You know that, don't you? He's, he's kind of critical of, yeah. Because he knows how to play piano. True. But I, I'm also, whenever I see somebody playing, you know, like in Whiplash, for the majority of the time, they get that 100% accurate. So you can, you could tell if it's fake to me. He's great. So, so good. I loved the relationship with him. The fact that in the beginning, he turned around so that they could dance, so they wouldn't feel. With his back to them. Yeah, with his eyes on, just to say thank you. Yeah. And then obviously the main girl, the new girl. Yes. She was the main one, but all of them were fantastic. She has, all of them have great presence. Beautiful screen presence. All of them. All of them are very beautiful. Have great screen presence. And oh, like if they're not actors, this is some of the greatest performance by a first time director, and not 100%. 100%. Because a lot of them don't have pictures on IMDb. And so sometimes that means that they're new. That's not always. But the fact, like if this is, they're all new, that's insane. This, really, this is one of those things. Okay. Let's pound the pavement. The way that Corbin and I have felt forever about film in America, before we exposed to India, right? Whenever it became Oscar time, we did this last year, when the films that aren't the big commercial box office things get all of the attention, but a movie like Lighthouse is ignored. It pisses us off. Because we love the industry, but we love the art form way, way more. We can, there doesn't even need to be an industry. People are going to make the films, and people are going to watch them. This, for me, is the perfect example, and we've had quite a few. From regionals. Yeah. But man, oh, man, oh, man, if this doesn't get you fired up and make you jump up and down and scream, for the world to pay attention, and for all of India to pay attention and go, would you please look at and celebrate the magnificence that's happening around you, that should be getting the attention? This is the kind of stuff that needs to be made and put in theaters and reach, you know, box offices of a hundred times its success and people are talking about it. This needs to get seen by as many people as it's all war. Way more. Yeah. You should flip the attention. Yeah, it's... War should have gotten the attention this did, and this should have gotten the attention war did. And we like war. It was a fun, there's popcorn fun movies. You can guess both. Let's talk about some other films that were just pure crap. That people went and spent the money to see and actually say is a good film, and nobody knows about this film. And I don't know also if it equal, because it came out really, I remember when it, the trailer, it was like end of November, I think, that when the first trailer came out for this. Yeah. So I don't even know if it qualified for the, we're just speaking from Americans, like I said, we know mostly you don't care about the Oscars and that's fine. This is a selfish thing. I don't even know if it qualified for last year's Oscar because it came out so late. Or if it had another run. Right. But if not, try to get it in. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. If it didn't and it can, I don't know. I just know every single one of you. I watch every foreign film every year. This would have wiped the floor last year. Wiped the floor. Yeah. Wiped the floor. And I would have been mad based on everything I saw from last year. I would have been mad at that. As wonderful and fun and quirky and groundbreaking as Parasite was, if someone said to me the rest of your life, you have to watch this film or Parasite, I'd say it's not even a contest. Not even a contest for me. Even Come Along Tonight, I love that movie. But if I had to choose, this one for me. Well, it depends on the mood. For me. Depends on the mood. Yeah. But this one for me is, it's about as good as movie making gets. Well, yeah. I think they're both basically A pluses in terms of filmmaking. This, I can't rave enough about all the actors being absolutely brilliant and believable. Wonderful. The cinematography. Oh, yeah. So many nighttime things. And I'm sure this was shot on a shoestring budget, I'm sure. But it didn't look like it. Not at all. And sound, so many times, even the attention to detail. I've got it for Abhishek Shaw and your editor and your sound people. The attention to detail. There were numbers of times when the men and the women were dancing and hand claps were involved. And it always matched the music. Always. Every single time. And the difference in the way that they were directed when the difference in them first dancing and what that was like, versus them having to join in their homes and then the defiance in the final dance in the rain. And the power of that. And I'm getting emotional thinking about our drummer guy in the rain looking up, you know. This is one of those films that you get invested really easily. Really quick. Well, it's not hard. There's a bunch of women who are extremely oppressed by a bunch of moronic men. And so it's easy to root for them. But the film does a good job at emotionally investing you in it. Obviously I got, like, you got the feels when you got to know about the drummer's story and his family and how they couldn't save them. Right. And then he wants to be burned because, you know, I would feel all those same things if, you know, my family burned up in fire and you know, why didn't I burn up? Right. I could absolutely see wandering in the wilderness like we're like, you know, traumatized. Yeah. And by the way, for all of the men that played the dicks in the movie. Fantastic job. You did a fantastic job. Yeah. We're calling your characters dicks. Right. Not you. You did a, you did your job. You did your job. Just like Umbra- This is all the other thing I- Right. Umbrajan Harry Potter. One of the most detestable characters ever in cinema is Umbridge from Harry Potter. Right. But the reason is because that actress did one of the best jobs I've ever seen. Absolutely. But I despise- It's hard for me to watch that film because I hate her so much. Which was very important because of these, if the men had done too much and then over the top, it would have been cliched and it would have ruined the movie. But because they were really believable. I thought it was really interesting that her wife, the main woman's wife, husband, sorry, was actually, it will use an army. So it means he's actually seen some stuff. Right. But he still had these warped views. Right. From, obviously, I'm sure growing up here. Sure. But even usually just like that one guy who, the advocate guy, I forget their name. Right. I apologize. Yeah. You know, he's gone to the city. Correct. And so you get to, you know, see different points of view. Right. You get to, oh, women have rights. Crazy. And all this kind of stuff. And to even question, like back to the superstition side of things. There's a difference, and I'm not going to wax along on that, but there's a difference between having something that's a belief that's grounded in something superstitious versus something that's faith-based based on fact. And it doesn't have to be definitively factual in order for you to be a verifiable belief. But the concept of questioning what you believe, you know, at least having a moment and being able to recognize, you know, why do I believe what I believe? Why do we do what we do? Well, you don't question that. Because you're afraid to lose the power. You're afraid to be wrong. That's one of the most powerful things in this as well. Just, I gotta try. There's nothing bad about it. Costuming, lighting, sound, music, direction, art direction. I don't know if it has it. Production design, editing. I'm sure. Okay. So it says gross is 141,000. Like I said, these numbers are always wrong on IMDb. But I'm sure it's close to that because this is one of those films that not a lot of people go to see. Which is a shame. It's a shame. Because I'm also sure this wasn't, this was probably shot on a shoestring budget. But like Amiz, who shot on a shoestring budget, in video quality, it sometimes looks like it was, right? It did sometimes. Yeah. And you're totally forgiving. It doesn't diminish the film. Not at all. We love that film. This didn't even look like it. But I'm sure it had this similar budget that Amiz had. No, this, yeah, when we say it was Oscar quality, we're talking about the fact that this, this could be held up frame for frame to any of the films that were nominated last year at every level we're just talking about. The quality of it, including, you're absolutely right. Yeah, it was gorgeous. The visual quality of the film was gorgeous. Beautiful, every frame. And so many beautiful combinations. Like, I love when they told us about the drummer's story with his daughter and his wife. He didn't dumb us down. He assumed our intelligence as an audience and just immediately, I had to ask myself, oh, wait a minute, we're at, oh, got it. We're flashback. And I love that he knew we were smart enough to track with him. So this did win the National Film Award of India. So the, and that's like the top of the line as it deserves. And I think it, I think it beat out, like, I just want, I just want to see, see what else comes up against. I know Combined Knights was, uh, uh, sorry. I just, I just want to know. Right, who else it was up against? Well, if it was 2019 and at the National Film Awards, clearly Gully Boy. Or do they do it, that it's just one, the regional thing, which would be nice to see them just celebrate all of India? Yeah, I don't know what it was. But it beat out a ton of films that were fantastic. Yeah, I'm sure we're all really good from last year, including Combined Knights, which, you know, how much I freaking love that movie. And I think it's one of the best films I've ever seen. And it still is, even with this, it's just obviously a very different style. A totally different style of film. Which you can have both, which is why your film was so lovely. Exactly. But like you said, we love this movie. It's so fantastic. We love to see so much more Gujarati cinema. And any cinema, you know, we just, Man, this writer-director, please, please do more. You are gifted. You were made to, to, to make films. You created an absolutely spectacularly beautiful film. And Stupid Babies, please, please, please, please. Watch this film. Share this film. If you don't feel the same way we do about it, I will be completely shocked. Yeah. If you don't see one of these films. Unless you're one of those people that, you know, has a low intelligence and thinks it's boring. Can't help that. Sorry, if you, I mean, if you like, if you just like films that are like war. Yeah, I mean, there are some people, I guess, I, I know people who, all they want to see, like using it in American film, and thinking for somebody I know who, and Lighthouse isn't a good comparison, because I understand Lighthouse is very, compared to this. Oh yeah. This is, this is so universally- Oh. Digestible. It's releasing by anybody in the world. But, but they would rather see a Jason Statham film than this. Sorry, you're vomited a little bit. You're gonna have, you're gonna have people like that, but man oh man, I want our world to be a place that celebrates this, more than it does just commercial bombast. So yeah, we liked it a little bit. Just a little. It's funny. I knew you, I didn't even doubt you would. Yeah, it's obvious. When you, when you, when you see greatness in cinema, it's very easy to recognize. It's simple. But let us know the next Gujarati film we should launch. I don't know if this man has done anything else, or if it's, I've seen a few names of, let's see, wrong side of Raju, I think is one. And there's others, obviously. But I know it's a small industry, like the Punjab as well. Boy oh boy, do you guys have big shoes to fill with your number two that comes from Gujarati Cinema? So who's gonna follow Elegoo? Let us know down below.