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We've only seen Kalki, of course, in Gully Boy. That was first. Right, and we've seen her in a couple of trailers. Hey, Kalki! From what we've seen, she's one of those actresses that we kind of knew that we were going to love. Right, exactly. But this came out in 2014. I remember when we saw the trailer for this, but it was very difficult to find. Somebody sent this one. Thank you so much. But, do you want to read the synopsis for it? I will. A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves her home in India to study in New York unexpectedly falls in love and embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery. That's a pretty accurate synopsis. I want to say it to the director. And the director is, for giving me a few minutes to pronounce it, I believe it is Shanali Bose, who also produced it and wrote it. So that's cool. And the casting director. No, hey, we love you casting directors. We do. We do. Trust us. We love you very much. And the composer, because I found we'll talk about it as well, the score was by, it looks like it's Mikey McLeary. And the main stars of it are Kalki, of course. Is it Kalki? I think it's Kalki Koklan. Koklan? I think her last name is pronounced Koklan. And then Rabati, who played the mother. Correct. And then she played the girlfriend. Siyani Gupta, right? And then I don't know... The dad. There isn't a picture for the dad. I think that's... Mia's father. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Kojit Singh. Yeah, I believe... I'm totally wrong. I believe so. Yeah, I mean, and that's the dad. I think the dad is obviously that. Without that, without them ever saying it? He does say it. Oh, he does? At a dinner scene, he's talking to the mom about the food and how he wants to have more of his kind of food being a Punjabi. I didn't even notice that. I was proud of myself. Yeah, good job. But yes, Margarita with a straw. A short little film, actually. I mean, not short, I guess, but not long. Well, for Indian standards, it's short. It's definitely the kind of runtime you would expect from this kind of genre of film in American cinema, this is the right runtime. Yes, this is what we would expect. And we can go into it. I don't know how this was marketed in India. Right. Or how it did. I was assuming it was a little independent. Spoiler alert. We will talk about details of the film. So if you haven't seen Margarita with a straw, watch it and then come back and see the movie. Yes. Unless you like your movies being spoiled. Yes. But what were your initial thoughts of the film? The first thing that comes to mind, because I have a lot of thoughts like, imagine that we have a lot of thoughts about a movie we saw. It surprised me in really good ways. Here's what surprised me. I initially wasn't really clear on what the story would be about. I knew it would focus on her and we would get to watch and see what Kalki could do portraying this woman with cerebral palsy, or any actor a herculean undertaking. Yeah. We'll talk about that aspect of her work, I'm sure. But for me, the most unexpected thing that was for me, maybe the most beautiful thing about the film, there was a point in the film very quickly where I completely forgot that we're watching a woman with cerebral palsy story. That we were just watching a woman's story. That's one of the things that my wife watches. She watches most of the stuff with me. But I was watching with her and I said at the end, I said one of my favorite things about this, I think was that it was just actually a coming of age story and she just happened to have cerebral palsy. It was hardly ever brought. Same thing with the blind girl. It was the cerebral palsy and the blindness were presented as it should be, I believe anybody with cerebral palsy or who's blind would be like, thank you for not making this the issue of the film. Yeah, everybody, this is the challenge I have in my life. Everybody has a challenge. We're not different than anybody else. And everybody she talked to, it wasn't what they brought up. They were like, oh, what happened? How do you do it? They talked to her like a person, which was great. 100%. And so you don't normally see that. Normally if there's a story about it, somebody with cerebral palsy or some type of injury or some type of disability, that is the thing. Which in a microcosm kind of a picture of the message of the film was that moment when they won the band competition and that woman says, well, basically we gave it to you because it must have been so hard for you to write anything. It wasn't based on the quality of her work. Oh, yeah. And she says, do you have anything to say? And she says, yeah. I laughed out loud. I was like, that was great. I love that. And that's basically what the film, it's like for the films that focus on somebody with some kind of a challenge like this and that that's all you're talking about, it's like, please don't make that the issue because for them that isn't, it's the big challenge that they have, but this was far more, this movie is not about a woman with cerebral palsy at all. It's a coming of age story of a young woman trying to discover who she is and what she really wants, period. And I love, that's my favorite thing about this. She just happens to have a cerebral palsy and there's only a few instances where you see it affect her like when they have to carry her up the stairs, which I thought was actually a great scene. That they just kind of stayed on her and they weren't talking about anything. She was just like, I don't like to be a burden. Exactly. Yeah, the combination of don't drop me and secondarily of I don't want to be a burden on you. I wish you guys didn't have to do this. Yeah. But I was like one of the only times it was brought up, which I thought was great because like, initially when I saw it, I was like, oh, this could be a cool story because a lot of times that is the case with somebody with a disability and it's cool to see those stories. Right, where they overcome the odds and it was nice and refreshing to actually see a different take on it where they don't actually really address it too much. No. It just happened to be her family treats are the same. It's not really a hindrance on them. They've been used to it. No, and I also loved because this is something I've heard people who, whether they have cerebral palsy or they're dealing with some form of a physical, if it's a paralysis of some kind. I remember, I forgot who the woman was, but she's a woman who I think was with cerebral palsy and she mentioned that one of the things that is never talked about and people don't even think about is the fact that she has sexual desires and is sexually active. She said, because when people look at me, they think immediately of clearly that's not part of your life. Which is one of the things we can talk about in the film. I don't know how this was marketed or even, I don't know. Accepted? In India? Yeah. Or the, I don't know how much they cut out with the sensor. The, whatever, what are they called? The sensor board? Yeah, the censorship board. Because this had like the nudity of like an American film. Very much. This was by far, I noted it when we were watching your games. Right, I was noting it as we were watching it of the films that we've seen. This is the one that had allowed itself to push the envelope most with sexual expression and nudity. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. And I'm, I uh, you'll know this about me. My two least favorite things in film are just demonic horror and pornography. And there is a definite line that's drawn based on the way the director depicts it and the way the screenwriter incorporated it into the story that changes for me the purpose of sex in a film. You can tell when something's done voyeuristically or pornographically and it's a demeaning of the beauty of sexual expression. This never had any of that. I felt this was done. If you want to see the way you should film that kind of a thing I thought this was, I thought it was actually absolutely beautiful. Brilliant to do it in the way they did. Yeah. Like you said, normally with people with disabilities they don't see them as sexual beings. Especially that scene where he literally had both of them fully exposed. I was like that. I think that was laying in bed together. 100%. You're seeing a woman who was a sexual woman. Yep. And regardless of if she has a disability you wouldn't have a problem with this if she didn't. Exactly. If she didn't have a disability so I thought it was on purpose to make certain people uncomfortable. Absolutely. Which I love. I loved it too. And the very first touches of it that I didn't expect and it became basically the whole film was in early on when her brother's asleep and she has the headphones on and she's hearing the people having sex and moaning and the way they shot it when she goes off into the corner and you can see from behind that she's pleasuring herself when she's listening. Yeah. And hopefully, my hope is that a lot of people would see this and for the first time in their life go, oh wow, these people who have this in their life actually are still sexual beings with sexual desires and sexual questions and even more so than other people because like the, wow, how much. She was so cute. She was so boy hungry. Yes. And love hungry. Yeah. You know. She was. To want to know and experience what is just that, what does it mean to be human? Yeah. It was a very good coming of age story because this girl that I thought was actually incredible to do as well because most people see people with disabilities almost innocent, non sexual. Right, non sexual. They don't want different things. They kind of just take what they're given but she was going and she had a relationship and then she made a mistake and cheated on her or left the guy immediately. Yeah. Just she did all this stuff that normal people mess up within their life. Exactly. Which one of the other things I love is that you're telling a story about somebody who's not really a perfect person. Right. Who you're not really supposed to look up to. It's just this is the story of this person. This person's journey. Which I love those types of films. Yeah. I do too. You know what it reminded me of and I liked it more. I mean it could remind you of any coming of age story but the reason I like this one more for a lot of reasons and we don't need to wax long on it was the last real coming of age story we saw in American film that people were talking about in artistic circles was called me by your name. Where you have. Ladybird? What reason is that? Yeah, but this what Ladybird for me was we don't know. Here's the differentiation. Very different opinion though. Yeah, no, no, no. Here's the differentiation. Ladybird was a coming of age story but this like call me by your name was very sexual centric. Very much who am I sexually and what does that mean as far as my identity and my sense of love and my sense of work. You gave me a little bit of a at the beginning when she was pleasuring yourself of what's that Fishman with Guillermo Lothra that just came out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the shape of water. Yeah, shape of water. Oh, yeah. Yeah, great comparison. At the beginning, it kind of caught you off guard. Yes. That she was almost part of her daily routine which I would shape of water. I made her that far. Beautiful film. Guillermo Lothra is one of the most brilliant directors. Great comparison. But now let's talk about Kalki. Yeah, let's talk about her work and the other actors. Kalki is no surprise to me at least a brilliant actress who I was looking for her to fail right in this, honestly. I didn't expect her to get looking. Exactly. You have to look for that in anybody. I mean, I look for that. My favorite actors, like Daniel, any time I saw Daniel Daniel Lothra's film, I had my arms crossed and I was looking for him to fail because he's always perfect. And it's like, you can't be perfect all the time, man. Where the moments where I'm going to see you not be believable and he's never failed. So when you're doing something like this where you're portraying somebody with cerebral palsy or you're portraying a blind person, there's always those opportunities where we're at a point as actors as to where you miss the work. Yeah. So I was with you too. Yeah. I was watching for the moments where maybe she missed it because when they don't miss it, you're just blown away by the level of focus. So yeah, I had, I have only one critique about the work she did on the physical level and it's only on the physical level and the critique is just basically, it's, I mean, frame this because I don't want to be skeptical of her because I'm not. I'm, what I'm about to say I'm saying is if I was an acting coach working and what I was looking for was the slightest, smallest, tiniest little thing we could do to help perfect the work even more. That's about what I'm going to say. Okay. There were a couple of moments for me. Only a couple where I felt she had lost the connection of the muscular work that was memory in her body in terms of what would be happening in someone with cerebral palsy where there's the mapping in the muscles that are always going to be that way. Always going to be that way. I felt there were a couple of moments where she was so in character and so in the story that the work was missed for a second, right? I saw more fluidity and relaxation than I saw the tightness in the muscle. I'm being hypercritical 99.9% of this woman's work was brilliant. Yes. Absolutely brilliant. None of what I just mentioned where I'm looking at the nuances of the physical work none of it distracted me from the story or her character or made her unbelievable. I agree. I thought I saw a few moments where I would have done the same with the blind girl. For the most part she too was white. Nobody was bad. Nobody was bad. Nobody was bad. But I thought Kalki is She's brilliant. Brilliant actress and she gave such emotion and she connected with everybody. She's a great listener. By the way the work she did on the speech was flawless. Yeah. That was flawless. That was nonstop after it. And the way she had her tongue. 100% That was nonstop. Perfect. I did want to know if she was adopted or not though. Yeah. I thought during the dance scene Yeah. And I thought to myself because we know her lineage is that she's French and Indian so her parents were clearly both Indian. Yeah. And I just got I just got the idea that she wasn't necessarily adopted but she very well could have been. Yeah. They left that open to interpretation. I didn't. Nothing to do with the story. I love Kalki. I want to see tons more of her stuff. I think she's actually one of the best actresses that we've seen honestly very underrated from what I can see Oh my stars in Bollywood. She would be for me of the actress as we've seen this woman is clearly the most underappreciated actress that I think is in Bollywood right now because her level of mastery at such a young age of the physicality and the emotional nuances that was directed in a way we'll get into the directing the director was unforgiving in his intimacy with her. I believe it's a her. I'm sorry her her which once again great job India female directors well it's just not something we see too much and I can I could sincerely and I sincerely could feel that this story was very very personal to her in the way she directed it and obviously she wrote it and did you see the little notes at the end credits where she mentioned I believe it's it's her son Oh yeah I did see that and how the wound and the light that's come and how that helped her create this story she in the way that she directed the film in the use of the score in the use of the visuals and everything else it was a really it had a woman's touch that's all I could say 100% it had a woman's touch I think a woman had to direct this honestly yeah it had a woman's touch and it allowed her to get into the space of the character that was pretty cocky had nowhere to go in this no she was straight up on her all the time all the time she had no nowhere to hide no and once again cocky never had a false moment in terms of emotion not ever I thought she was brilliant yep I would love to sit down and talk with her and oh god it would be a dream to act with her oh yeah to act with this woman she gives you so much the fact that we saw her in gully boy and it's such a different character than this yeah but even in gully boy we recognized that's why we were so impressed by her because again my favorite moments for her she was great all the time but the real intimate moments she had with renveer when he's admitting that he's in love with alia's character yeah cocky exudes she exudes what all good actors need to exude which is the transparency of self the sharing of what and this let me tell you something from an acting standpoint what she had to do not just the emotional bearing but she had to bear a lot of herself in a way physically that most people would never want to be seen publicly yep and I'm not just talking about the nudity I'm talking about the reasons for the nudity and to be presenting herself in a way where she's naked that for cocky is probably not the way she would want the world to see her naked yep you know not her most flattering self no and that's the bravery that great actors need to have I can't praise her enough yeah and I can't praise the directing enough I also want to praise the mother as well who I can't put on a brilliant performance beautiful with her shelf in front of the mirror yes I thought that was a brilliant moment like she just she didn't really she didn't say a word and she was just she broke your heart yep and it was just such a brilliant moment and then any really any I thought the relationship between the two characters was really well done the man very incredible yes so believable as the the dad too even though he didn't play a significant role I really believed this family he was very rejected too he still loved his daughter he wasn't this domineering you know even even the playfulness when he said I don't want you to go to New York and the mom was like well we're going to go with that and then the whole cricket match moment where yeah yeah yeah you ask her exactly and then also the the love interest as well the sight yep she she did really well very well I love that yeah and then the part I didn't like outside of what we already talked about it was sometimes very predictable a little bit and then there's of course always some side characters that are usually white but but there's the record done in the pawn shop when the guy was like oh it's 900 something and then he was like oh I'll see what I could do 50% that doesn't happen right and then also the what a really bad moment two really bad moments the weighty the waiter the waiter what was that come on oh that's a great choice I'll be right back in New York you think no that waiter I was like seriously he wasn't even on screen seriously oh god but you know that was awesome you said but I don't know how you felt about the ending but how did you feel about the ending because I am fine with the emotional wrapping up of the ending right I hate the date part of the ending okay I hate it like right when I was like okay she's going on a date you know of course we assume people probably the wheelchair guy or something like that or the girl but then she came up and it was just a mirror and I was like out loud said shut up I would have been fine if like she was just just doing her life just randomly going on and you know going to the store doing something and end it like that and just her life goes on now see I didn't like the fact that she was sitting in front of a mirror having a date with herself because she found herself it's exactly it I hate it I liked don't be that on the nose I don't like that I know you don't we would have gotten that without you doing that I know I agree but it doesn't bother me that it didn't ruin the film like I said I love the film I just hated that part of it and I it didn't bother me because I think the intent of the heart of the director who also wrote it was there and yes was it a heavy handed depiction of what we already knew yeah it was but for me it didn't bother me because it just was the picture of what this really was even the way she looked at the end that she took a full arc that resulted in her coming to a place of feeling more confident in who she was and who she is and yeah but I I'm being in front of a mirror on a date I know like I said it did ruin it for me it's not like it was Howard Mentor mother ending he doesn't know what that means but it was I still really enjoyed the film I'll tell you what comparatively which I didn't really like I'm using this comparison again to call me by your name which was a movie that for the most part I didn't like the film but there were moments of it that were brilliant like the dad monologue that's the best part of that film the other part of the film that I loved that is more your liking is the way it ended with just Chalamet having his emotions that just tight shot for an eternity and all we see is Chalamet coming to grips with what he's experienced and there's no resolution in what he's experienced as of yet he's still grappling with what he went through I the romantic in me and the one who believes that there are things in life that you do get a resolution on and you heal from and you grow I like the poetic nature of the director you don't need that heavy handed that's the time I hate that heavy handedness and I really liked the use of the score I felt that the score complimented the film in ways a lot of scores don't and that the music gave up the music was clearly supposed to be it wouldn't surprise me if the director had talked with the composer and said would I want the score to be I want us to hear the melody of this girl I want people to connect the music to this girl and feel a connection that when they in the same way that when you hear the theme of Forrest Gump all you think about is Forrest I felt that the score was done in such a nice way that it carried the fragility of who she is the fragility of who she is because it was mostly just that piano thing without a lot of accompaniment to give you the sense of there's a fragility and her physicality but it was consistent enough to show you that she's not a weak person it just really encapsulated for me what a score for this kind of film should be I thought it was an exceptional job exceptional job I agree most of this film I completely loved I'd give it a B plus to an A honestly I'd probably give this an A like in terms of artisticness it's not going to be one of my favorites in terms of like I could watch this over and over again but a lot of great films aren't like that exactly, no this one's this one's heavy yeah this one's heavy I liked it as much as I liked English with English but I'd much rather watch English with English yeah, English with English much easier to watch much easier to watch but they're the same for me in terms of quality quality movie they're very I would give it a B plus to an A honestly really really good I would recommend this to anybody unless you just like action because there's none of that if you don't like just watching actors and just dramatic and human beings evolving then you're why are you watching this channel exactly but I would 100% recommend this film go see it one last thought I was wanting to see where and why it was called Margarita with a straw and I you know she obviously ordered the drink the Margarita with a straw but that for me I think that's a beautiful title for the film because it too encapsulates everybody has a Margarita everybody has a Margarita everybody has a Margarita but hers is different because she's different I'm so glad I'm remembering this quite possibly my favorite line in the film she has just told her mom after she was doing her mom's hair that she's bisexual and she's sitting at the table and her mom is angry because remember her mom's reaction is yuck yeah actually that was great reaction her mom's reaction it was a beautiful honest reaction it was awful but it was honest it was great I loved it because normally you think of something that somebody would react to and it's like how dare you write she just said yuck that was brilliant I agree and then that next day she's at the table and she's using the little thing she's about to say the words and she basically says this to her because her mom says to her it's not normal yeah and she replies I've never been normal so what's the difference about this now I thought that was absolutely brilliant and I think that was another as heavy handed as you felt the mirror thing was I love the subtlety the transition of her mom because what I think happened was that moment resonated with her mom she doesn't say anything but how can you not miss the fact that what her daughter just said is true all my life I've never been normal why is this any different yeah and when she's on her deathbed basically no this is another actually part of it all she does is ask her how's kind of in the asking she's letting her know I know you love her and she matters to you so that's why I'm asking yeah I love that all the rest of our the film wasn't heavy handed outside of a few no just the mirror but also that reminded me of some one of the extras that I literally this is what happened when the mom shot died and you heard she's dead now bye give it a moment I think they know what that means like that oh maybe like why wouldn't it happen she's gone get out of the room yeah I agree that was like hold on let it breathe a minute you don't even need to say it yeah they understand what that means exactly but anyways so yeah just reminded me of that thumbs up great movie go see the movie Kalki you're a great actress of course you're watching this yeah you're a great actress we'd love to talk to you about the craft we'd love to work with you come on the channel anytime you've got the chops to get some awards in your 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