 So my wife just did the weirdest thing. Do tell. When I went in to see her, I gave her a kiss from watching the movie. She asked how was it and didn't ask how much did it make at the box office. That's so weird. I might have to divorce her. Yeah, really? Cause doesn't she understand the values? Who doesn't care about the box office values? Hey, well Greg George, David Rags, and you get some Gorbin. I'm Greg. And you can also Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, YouTube, content. I think it's on Patreon, follow us on Twitter to account. Subscribe if you haven't, hit the like button. Weird glass looks all warped and wobbly right there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, they're good. They're spun. I know. They're kind of spunny spun. I like it. They're kind of spunny spun spun. Spiny, spin, splank. So obviously we're doing a movie review, everybody. As you've seen, you already know what it is. You know. We don't need to be redundant. It's of the new film that just came out, Jaish by Jodair. Mm-hmm. And that's how you pronounce that, right? I would. It just came out obviously in theaters, and it's directed by... Forgive mispronunciation, Divyang Thankar. And it looks like he did some of the writing along with Anker... Chaudhry. Chaudhry. Yes. Produced by Manish Sharma. And starring Ranvir Singh and Boman Arani. Is that how you say his name? Yes, Boman Arani. And then Shalini Pandi. Shalini Pandi, and then Mudra. Yeah, and there's a few other people, but obviously this is a Ranvir Singh film. That's her, right? That's his... Yes. The Love Interest. Okay, I just wanted to check. Mudra was her character name. But yeah, so it just came out in theaters, so this would be a non-spoiler review with maybe some spoils at the end if we'd like to get into some spoilers. Correct, and we would let you know. We would warn you. Because unlike other reviewers, we don't give away what's in the film in the review. It's so strange. Our job is to give an opinion, not tell the story. That's the job of the film, movie critics. Hold on, that's a hot take. Anyways, you're reading the review and it just goes scene by scene. The movie begins where he walks into the bar and then blah blah blah. I know, we see the film, we'll get on that. And then the second act when they die. Yeah. Anyway. Anyways. But obviously we saw the trailer for this film, obviously right when it came out. And the teaser. And the teaser. And it looked like a fun family kind of quirky comedy. Maybe a comedy with heart and a message for it. And a message. It was our expectation. So that's what I was expecting. Yeah. And I don't know what you thought, Rick. I thought it delivered. I gave it a very, very solid four out of five stars. Yeah. Really solid four out of five stars. And once again, what we're talking about, I'm not saying this is going to win the awards. And it's very similar to actually how we talked about Mimi, I feel. Yep. And But I Do. And But I Do. Even though there's films that I think are obviously overall better artistically and stuff like that. And that I was like, oh yeah, this should get the blank award, right? These types of films are going to be your favorites. Just because you can go into them. And you can just watch them and enjoy the heck out of them. Yep. And I know there's a lot of stuff like, oh, no one got to see the box office. You're all gone to see OT. That's your fucking loss. Yep. Just going to tell you right now. Just go enjoy this film. Exactly. It's a fun, if you like, oh, I liked Mimi. I liked the trailer. I liked what it was giving me in the trailer. You're going to like the film. They deliver what they, in fact, it exceeded my expectations than what I was going into thinking about it. And, and I have nothing but good things to say about it. I think there's stuff in it that I would just being a pessimist. I would just prefer. I'm not going to get into that right here. Sure, sure, sure. We'll get into that in spoils. But I, the world that set up, it was totally, it was like, it was like, obviously, this is what you're going for, this style of message. Yes, it's going to make you laugh. It's, it's going to be, I really thought the pacing was wonderful. Just right under two hour film. Yep. And I just thought it really went from moment to moment with believability, with really nice pacing and the dialogue and the editing and the scoring. I thought everybody's performance was spot on, delivered exactly what casting and direction probably wanted for the story when they were reading it off the page. And I think it's a film that not only people would have a good time seeing, but should see because we'll get into in some of the more spoilers sections, some of the more salient points of talking about story and other things. But all in all, please go see it. Please go see it because there's this trend going on right now in the box office where only, not in the international box office, we're noticing the trend in Indian box office, where only the big blockbusters are being seen. And that's awful because the other films should be seen too when it's a good movie. And this is a really good movie. You can't just write off a film as like, oh, that should be OTT. No, like every movie is going to be better in a theater, guys. Everyone. Like, and also don't complain about films and their lack of originality when you don't go see the ones that do give you that lack of originality. The only thing you need to consider when you're thinking about the box office... It's just so frustrating. ...is, number one, are the great and good movies that ought to be seen being seen because the box office simply is a representation of the eyeballs and bodies and seats. Not the reputation of a good film. Exactly. And then the second thing is, yay, because the more money you give to a film, the producers are going to make more movies like it. So if you don't like what you're seeing in the movie theaters, stop giving them their money and give movies like this your attention and your time and your money because it's worth it. Yeah. And I mean, I would say the exact same thing if we had seen Mimi in theaters, which I'm sure wouldn't do well in theaters. But it's like, oh, yeah. You're saying that's a bad film because it made what... I don't know the currency, obviously, and what that equates to, but it's like, sorry, I'm going to go with my high horse there. It's just so frustrating that aspect. But yeah, I thought everybody in this did so, so well, especially because a lot of them weren't like established people outside of Ranveer and Bowman Arani. Right. And I think she is. Ratina, she... I think we've seen her before. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She was the momic apport. Yes. Of course. I think she's been around a lot. But like everybody else, like I don't think Shah... Say her name. Shalini Pandey. I don't think she's been around that long. And I thought she did really, really well. I loved her in this role. I thought she showed so much emotion and believability. And I believe like... I cared about her. Yeah, I cared about her character and their relationship. And I don't know where she is in terms of the stardom in India, but from looking at it, she doesn't do that many films, and at least ones that are huge. Yeah. And it speaks volumes when you can hold your own opposite someone like Ranveer. And she does more than just hold her own. She compliments him. In the film. And I also thought the young lady... I'd love to pull up her name who she... Is it her? Is it her right here? Her? Yes. Is that her? I think so. Pretty? I don't think so. I think that's the other like friend. I mean the daughter. Oh, the little... The little... The young lady, yeah. They're not giving her credit here. She... It might be... Is it Shadhi? Maybe. Yes, that is the character name. Shia? Shia Vadia. She played a character that could easily have been annoying. Easily have been someone you're like, okay, what is this? Because the character has a lot of chutzpah. Yeah. And she did not come across that way. I really liked her character. Yeah, so did I. That required good casting in that role. Yeah. And she was very well cast. Her dynamic and Ranveer... Come on, guys. He's just... He's so good. And so different. If you've been around long enough, you should know by now, we don't say things to please people ever. We're not looking to please fans. We're not looking to please artists. If you saw our review of anything where we didn't like it, we care about the art form more than we care about the artists because the art form will always be here. The artists will come and go. And it's the contributions they make to the art form that matter. And he just continues to show he can pretty much do anything he's given. Honestly, I think, even though obviously this film is not one that's going to be like, I think mentioned in awards time, I think it's maybe one of his stronger performances. I agree with you. Just because, like, one, it's different and unique, right? Yep. And obviously, once again, we can't judge the accent stuff like that. But we assume he nails it because whenever people talk about his accents in other films, they say he nails it. So obviously, if he didn't, you guys can let us know. But obviously, too, as laymen, it sounded good, right? But, man, his versatility, I feel like doesn't get talked about enough. I agree. And like, because you could put all of his characters in one room. I agree. And they'd be so, most of them, obviously the ones we've seen, right? Yep. Like, they'd be like so different people in a room. Yes. Like, Nawaz, you'd be scared, right? Because a bunch of them are just scary people. Some of them are terrifying. I mean, Pankaj obviously has that and Rajkumar has that versatility as well, right? But like, Ranveer, I feel like he goes out of his way to make these characters so very different. Yes. And believable at the same time. Yeah. He doesn't do things that are just tricks and hokey things. He brought a ton of emotion to this. He brought so much to this. And it's not giving anything away because you see this in both the teaser and the trailer. Yeah. That this character is like in the teaser, he's supposed to be a hero that isn't a hero. Yeah. He's supposed to be this kind of very mild-mannered, meek, doesn't want to have confrontation, gets really stressed out about things pretty easily. And for somebody who has portrayed characters like with the Confidence in Ramleela or in Bajramastani or Padmavat and the place where he goes to with Gully Boyzark, we could just go down the list of different characters he's played. This is unlike other characters he's played and he plays it in such a way that he's not... The big word is indicating. He's not showing you those characteristics. He's really embodying the characteristics. I don't think he's doing something to make you think he's being shy and scared. He's really embodying the motivations of why is my character scared? And he's done all of the backstory, all of the work, all of the physicality. By the way, Bravo to wardrobe in making sure that his strength was minimized because he's got an incredible physique that doesn't work for this guy. And wardrobe did a great... As did he carrying his physicality. Because if he looked like he did in Ramleela in this, the character wouldn't work. Doesn't work. Because he looks like he can kick everybody's ass. Yeah. And you see it in the trailer and the teaser. They're seen in the car. And we heard it first and then we saw it in the teaser. And you're like, that's gonna be a really good scene. And it sure was. It is. Yeah. But not just him though. No, like all of them. All three of them. All three of those actors brought it and brought the emotion and believability. And you really like... Care for these people. And it never gets incredibly deep. And that's not the style of film. It's not meant to. But it does get deep. I'm not saying it doesn't get deep. But it doesn't get like... They're not trying to make you cry. They're not... This is a full-fledged family film. Even though sometimes I kind of wish they would have gone like deeper and deeper and deeper. That's just my personal preferences. Again. But yeah, those scenes were fantastic. Standing up to Bowman Arani. Yeah, who was another one who just is just so good. Even though I'm very critical of Bowman Arani in 380. I thought he was good at this. I loved him. He has such a presence. And his voice is so deep. It's not as deep as Amrash. It's at least similar in terms of how deep and menacing. Yeah, and he's got a big physical presence. So it's really... It works opposite Ranveer because he makes Ranveer seem smaller. And the dad needs to have that kind of presence. And the comedy they brought... We were the only ones in the theater. But once again, this has nothing to do with box office. That's almost every film outside of like RRR. Because we go on a weekday matinee and most people aren't able to access the film at that time of day. We went at noon, essentially. And so it's not like, oh, the theater's empty. It's always empty. Almost every film. If we ever have people and there's like four maybe, maybe four. Outside of RRR. And KGF, obviously. The first time we saw Gully Boy. The very first time we saw Gully Boy. There wasn't anybody in there. And we went back again with the kids to like a Friday night show. And then it was full. But anyway, you were saying... But yeah, we laughed out loud multiple times. Through out the film. What they did, obviously, this is, I think, supposed to be a stuff that's based on kind of real stuff that goes on in especially rural parts of India, right? Yeah. But it's, I don't want to say hyper stylized, but over accentuated. Over accentuated, right? Which is why some parts like the end, which kind of got a little like over the top a little bit at the end, I was like, okay. It's kind of the world. It's where you're going in that world. It's the world that they built. Because obviously, you saw it in the teaser. They banned soap. And so expect that. The ridiculous. Expect some of the ridiculous without it being... But it's funny. Yeah. Very funny because the ridiculousness doesn't go overboard and go like, hey, aren't we being ridiculous? It is ridiculous. And then just lets it stay there with a level of realism. That makes it even funnier. Yeah. And so like as opposed to Mimi, which stayed more realistic most of the time. Yeah. This was, I think, and I think that's because they were not playing a real village. They were playing like a funnier version of these. Because they poke fun at superstitions. Hilarious. Hilarious. Hilarious. Hilarious stuff. What they like... I don't want to give it... Why beliefs come about? How oftentimes it's just because one guy said something. Yeah. And then everybody said, okay, now that is the way you have to live your life forever now. Yeah. And then like, I don't want to give it away, but the picture... Yeah. They're like poking fun. That was just... Yeah. Like they're putting a real mirror up at times at... The cat. Yeah. To certain aspects of India, like not Indian culture as a whole, but like certain regions and certain things. And toxic masculinity. Toxic masculinity. Key, key element. Obviously a huge one. Where I think it maybe goes a little awry, in my opinion, is just at the end, I'm too much of a pessimist for what they decided to do. I'm not going to give it away. We'll get into that in spoils. Yeah. He probably liked it a little more than I always would like. He's more of an optimist than I am. Yeah. I would prefer everybody to die. Rick might not. But I... This is really... It covers some really important things. Absolutely. And it presents it in a way that's palatable for everybody. Same way Mimi and Badai did. Yeah, you could go on a date night for this and have a really deep discussion. About very important issues about women. And you could also go with your family and talk about some of the very first initial thoughts about how should men treat women. Do you think women... Beginning a conversation with the next generation of women's rights and the way things happen in culture. And funny enough, you thought this was gonna be mostly about female infanticide. Right. I feel like that's almost a subplot. Yeah. I mean, obviously, without getting into it, overall is there, right? It carries through, but there's so much more to this movie. There's so much more that they're trying to push in terms of a message that they're trying to get across. It could have been so modeling. It could have been saccharine. It could have been so over-the-top or preachy. The writing and everything kept it even keeled. This is like a boat that just stays exactly on course. It never gets off course. And you enjoy it. I, from opening frame to closing credits, I enjoyed every moment of the movie. Yeah. So did I. It's a really fun ride. And I wish more people would actually go to the theaters and support films like this. Not just wait or say films like this don't deserve to be in movie theaters. I don't get it. I don't get it either. I don't get it at all. People cry all the time about wanting better content, not remakes. Then they don't support it. Right, right. They wouldn't have supported Mimi. They didn't support, but I do. They don't support this. It's just really frustrating. And it's fine. You can like action films. I'm not saying don't so go support KGF or RRR. Do what you want to do. Also go to this. You can have both. And truly, I mean, I understand people who have the economics of needing to make a decision because they can only go to like one film a month. I get that. This is a family one. But when you're talking about, well, I could just watch it on TV because that's the easier accessibility. It minimizes the irreplaceable. We've talked about this over and over again. The irreplaceable experience, both for yourself in the visual aesthetic and the sound aesthetic of being fully immersed in a film, but you also lose the communal aspect, which we didn't get today. But most of the time you do, even if you're watching a film with four people when we first saw happening at the landmark. There were only four other people in the theater with Andrani and I, but we shared the collective experience. We gasped at the same moments. We were moving in our chairs with uncomfortability in the same moments. Or gasped at the same time. Exactly. We all had a communal. And so please just see the movie, please. So obviously that's a non-spoiler. We're getting into some little spoilers here. A little spoiler section. Little spoilers. So go see the movie. Go see the movie, please, and come back and support it, right? So yeah, a lot of really, really funny parts that I actually really wanted to talk about. Like the picture thing, when they were looking for her. And they couldn't find her because they make all these females put stuff in front of their face. So great. Which a great, you know, smack to the face. For, obviously that's a... Obviously we know that's not a full-on region thing, but you can say that about multiple different aspects of different cultural things. They did that so many times where they highlighted the absurdity of things that people live by and did it in such a way that it really shows you is this not absurd if you don't see the absurdity of this, what else can we do to help you see it? It was the slapping of the guy who's completely passed out and she just can't stop slapping him. I feel like she was like the audience at that time. Yeah, like she was like... She was. She's taking it out on all these men. On all these toxic men. Like all of us want to do, just slap them over and over again. And then he came, what do you say? It's very, very funny. So funny. But I also didn't... I had forgotten the moment in the trailer because it's in the trailer and I'm glad I forgot it when he threatens to castrate himself. I was thinking, is there ever been a film ever where I've seen a character who's threatening to castrate themselves in order to get out of a situation? And everybody's like, oh no, no, the air, the air. We need another mail. And that again, highlights the absurdity. Yeah. But there's also a great message. When Ranveer in the car was like, is she not my heir? Exactly. What the fuck does a man have to do with an heir? Exactly. Why does the fact that he has a penis mean more, he's worth more than my daughter? And it's the fact that the woman is blamed for not giving the mail when it is the male's sperm who's determining gender. Yeah. It's super, super frustrating. Some of the aspects that I didn't mind just because it's the world, like the utopian place where all these men are there to protect. I loved that. It's ridiculous. I love it. I get it. And it fit with the world of the other ridiculousness of this other world of like, I'm banning soap. Exactly. Which is why I didn't care. But it's just like, this is clearly not a real place. But you needed that farcical idea of wouldn't it be nice if there really was a place where all of the men valued women the way they should be valued? Yeah. I love the farcicals. And they made me. There's like a fight scene right at the end. And it really goes like off the rails for a second. And once again, it was nothing like that takes you out of it. Not at all. Because it's not like it was like everything is hyper-realism. Hyper-realism to that point. And then that changes. So it still fit the world. It's just I would have preferred it to be a little different. And I would have preferred everybody to leave in the end, honestly. Yeah, because we both thought the same way. It's like, should we really, should we leave? And when I think we both out loud said, yeah, you really should get out of there. Or like, what will happen to them? And we were like, we don't care. I do not care. When Ranveer started to say, I do not simultaneously, when Ranveer starts to go into that saying of, well, these guys can change. I thought, oh, this is so blindly, naively optimistic. I love it. And Corbin is very angry. It's true. I was like, but they suck. Yeah. These guys are never changing, bro. I do not believe people can change that drastically. That's just my personal opinion. But you still can hope. No. You can still hope. Absolutely not. Emanezer Scrooge does enjoy Christmas Day and carries Tiny Tim. You can believe for it. It was very that. It was very that. But obviously I love the whole cutesy thing of their kiss. I love that. Obviously they haven't had a kiss this entire. And it was a great scene where Ranveer came to talk to all those women, which was a ridiculously sad scene. It was very sad. Not just Ranveer's. I'm talking like. No, the moment preceding. Came up and was like, okay, what is he about to see? And then you came and it was like, oh, this is awful. This is where all these women have to come to. Silently support. Silently support each other. And they don't like try to do anything. They don't try to give advice. They just, they're there and they cry, which men can take a lesson from. The analogy I'd give of this film in those moments, his monologue, which was beautifully, believably brought and written so well. And the women come around him. I just, the writing and the whole thing I thought was so well done. But the analogy I have is like, this is the, you know, the story of the little tugboat that's like, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. All of these other behemoths that are the box office juggernauts or these giant just Air Force airplane carrying things. And then there's a film like this that's just going by with this little flag, but I do did that too, the rainbow flag. And these guys are carrying their little flag. And it's like, yeah, we're a little funny film, but we really believe the message. And if people talked about it, maybe we could start change. Like the movie itself is the little kiss. Like, like if people just allowed themselves to experience this little moment of this film, especially younger people, they might begin to understand, wow, all of these things are really wrong, the way women are not protected by men, but they're controlled and abused. And for ridiculously stupid reasons. So it's the little film that could- Do you love that Bengali? I adored that. And I want to know- Shout it out the exact line that she said, by the way. I knew she was going to say, the I love you line, what I want to know is because they said, they only talk to each other in movie lines. And what I want to know what the movie line was, she quoted when she's above him with the knife. And she says, like, I am the power or something. I guarantee that's a famous movie line. Yeah, let us know what that line is. But I thought that whole thing was hilarious. And this film, even though sometimes you can call these style of films predictable. Right. But you can call romantic comedies predictable. And it's like, I knew the mother was going to change. Of course. I knew that. Yeah. I knew they were going to be together in the end. Yep. I knew the father was probably going to have a turnaround moment at some point. Right. Or at least in a little way. Yeah. But these style of films, they're strictly for, to one, entertain you. Right. This is an entertainer. This is an entertainer. And to give you a message. Correct. This is not one that's trying to be like under-hunder-hun and trick you. And oh, where's it going to go? Right. This is just like when Harry Met Sally. You know when, spoiler, this has been around a while. So you know they're going to get together in the end. Right. It doesn't make it a bad film. Exactly. It's just, I see people complain about that sometimes. Like these style of films. Or like rom-coms. What do you expect? Like I'm sure if it works in a rom-com that it kind of, but that's not really the point of rom-coms. No. It's like going to a fast food place and expecting them to serve you filet mignon. That's not what you go there for. You're going to get some good food. You're going to get some food you're going to really enjoy, but it's not going to get five stars on the food network. You know. But that doesn't mean it's not the place more people are going because they like it. Yeah. So, and I really appreciated, he reminded me of, what was the movie with Rithik where he played the teacher? It's a true story about the teacher. Super 30. Super 30. I knew I was like a super deluxe, deluxe 30. Where we pointed out, he toned down his dancing capacity. He did. Ranveer had to do it in this one too. Oh, big time. In a big, big way and did a great job at toning that down. At the very end when Bowman is holding the baby and Ranveer in the next movie was doing, I was like, I feel like he wakes up every morning and does that dance. Exactly. And then that really cool when he's doing the awkward little, he's, I'm going to film the camera and I'm going to do the dance number. That dance number choreography was so, like if you put that side by side with his entrance in Ram Leela, doesn't even look like the same guy because the body movements are so different because that character needed to be different. So from start to finish. I'm very, very, very happy with this film. Me too. It's, we always say it. We never go into a film wanting anything to be bad ever. What do I say every time I'm walking to the car? I hope it's good. Yep. Every time I'm walking to the car with a car, I'm like, please be good. I hope it's good. Please be good. Please be good. I'm rooting for you, man. Please be good. Well, yeah. And that's almost every film we go to. Every film. Why would you want it to be bad? No. Because you're sitting in one place for two to three hours. I know. I love movies. I want the next one to really bring the art form down. Just bludgeon it so other people say movies are bad. I want to be discouraged and wonder where all the good movies are. Yeah, it makes no sense to me. But anyways, let us know what you thought about the film, please. And if you're still here, I hope you aren't if you haven't seen the film. But if you're still here and you haven't seen the film, please just go support the film. Yeah. And be nice to women. Before it hits OTT. Yeah. Let us know what you thought about the film down below.