 I had the earrings in. This is way more disturbing. You can have that on the whole time. Will it totally distract you? I'll wipe it off if you want. It's gross. I'm American. And you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter. It's so juicy. It's so juicy. We're drinking wine because it's nighttime here. Yeah. No to the kids. Don't drink wine in the morning. Unless you have to. And to all of you telling me to not drink on camera. I don't care. But anyway, drinking alcohol is injurious to your health. We know. I'll wipe it off. No, it's okay. That's up to you. But yes, it's a movie review of... They might be distracted. The movie magic of movie magic. So it's a movie review of... Is that higher? I think it's higher. Because of the song. Exactly, that's what I was thinking of. It's... It has been requested for a while. Obviously we just did the trailer reaction a little bit ago. But this is a... A cult classic movie from 2001. Yeah. Starring Amir Khan. Saif Ali Khan. Akshay. Korana. And directed by Farhan. And casted by his sister Zoya. That's crazy. And written by Farhan. He does not look old enough. I know. Well, he was 25 when he did. I read in our Bollywood book. Oh, this was in there. It's got its own page. It's not just like on the Amir Khan page. It's got its own page. And I read that when he was 25 his mom threatened to kick him out of the house unless he really did something that was a breakthrough in his career. And this was it. Really? Interesting. Obviously I know there's a bunch that we need to watch. I wanted to watch something a little not as dramatic. We've done some heavy stuff recently. Honestly, I thought this was a comedy though. And it was a little bit. It started that way. Yeah, but it really wasn't. I was told that this was a kind of a turning point in Bollywood from the old school very dramatic almost melodramaticness of Bollywood into more modern day Bollywood. This is a big transition movie. I remember that in all of the people who when we first started watching Amir Khan which was like at the beginning of the channel because the very first films we started to watch were his. I mean three idiots and Gully Boy were the first two right off the bat. Right into PK and Dongle and go down the list and we hadn't watched anything of his in a while but I remember this was one of those where they said you got to watch this because this was a big change in Bollywood. Absolutely. And so obviously 100% spoiler big came out in 2001. If you haven't seen this, go away come back but everybody else probably hasn't seen it. We're the last people on earth too. That's probably true. So yes, what were your initial thoughts? Let me tell you we need more bromantic comedies. This was the second one since the Deborah movie. And if you don't know what the Deborah movie is we can't hold enough stupid babies. Just look through some of the messages and stuff but this one for me is like the quintessential bromantic comedy. I liked it from the beginning and it just got better and better for me as it went on and I wound up loving it. I want to thank you for the heads up you gave me because giving me the heads up before... I watched it on our DVD and then I realized it was on Netflix and so I told Rick, I was like just go and watch it because I was going to give it to him like the next day and so I gave him a heads up. I said, okay, just let me know don't go into this thinking this is like basically Nawaz and Nsidiki type performances not a film. It's a movie and just go in turning point in terms of Bollywood so I gave him that little heads up. I didn't tell him what I thought about it especially in line with the fact that we've just come off of some films that we've watched that fall under the category of cinematic works and it helps because I'm completely guilty of going in sometimes and my frame of reference if it's a little skewed it can skew my perception of the film so that really helped me sit back and just let it be and I'm sure I enjoyed it all the more because I didn't love this movie, I liked it a lot though and that doesn't surprise me and I think you can know the reasons for it but we don't have to talk about those right now but I want to talk about some of the stuff I loved one, the music yes, the music is phenomenal fantastic, some of the best overall obviously we I don't know if it's on the channel is it on the channel? No, it's on Patreon but we reacted to one song from this sorry, it's on Patreon for exclusive content wait, the one we just did the pants? bummer but the first opening number we reacted to the college party that one with the pants, which is great but yeah, it's really really good I loved all the songs the driving and they all kind of just get stuck in your head and then a lot of the just overtures of the song, but it makes sense because a lot of it was I forget it's Mahadevan the guy who does breathless it's one of those great movies that has both great songs and a great score because I felt, especially toward the end I was really noticing how good the score was accompanying the emotion that we were jumping into I mean, not jumping, we were deep in emotion at the end tell me more about it because I went into this thing, it was comedy and then I came out and I was like this is more of a drama I did not expect this much drama in this film but it makes sense with what people told me is that it's kind of a turning point most Bollywood numbers, I mean Bollywood old films were like, you would think, they're just very very happy, very over the top right, and this is very subdued in another part that I loved about it was, my favorite actor in it was Akche was he your favorite of the three? In this film? really, my absolute favorite of this film unashamed, bromance ever since the beginning there's an emotional availability that just draws me to Amir this is probably my least favorite film of his really? I didn't think he'd get back I would prefer my favorite of his is probably what's the one with the freedom fighters, what's it called? Oh, Ragn de Besson that's one of my favorite performance of him and then I love Lagan and then 380, it's all those I'd probably love those more for his the ones that give me the feels those are the ones I like the most but yeah, I loved one, this is our first encounter of him outside of the Bollywood, and so it fit it was a very real actor it felt like none of its stuff was over-exaggerated no, and it fit based on that round table we did, it was like the Thespian the subdued the internal I believed every single moment he was on screen I'd like to see more of his stuff I did enjoy watching Saif Ali Khan and how much he's grown as an actor how much he's grown, but also I want to watch him do more comedy, man I know he's doing a bunch his physical comedy one of my favorite moments just for the comedy element of it was when they were in the restaurant and he pulls the chair from the woman sitting down I was very impressed I did enjoy that a lot I enjoyed that a lot I was just watching with my wife and I every single time he was on screen, I'm like once I show you sacred, because we haven't watched sacred games with her yet but I was like once you watch sacred games you won't believe that that guy that you're seeing right here is the exact same man as the man that we love is Sartaj he has grown, it looks like Sartaj is a son and obviously he was ridiculously young in this but I really enjoyed that I really enjoyed the bromance aspect of it going and finding themselves and obviously it started off with at certain points I was confused as to what age they were supposed to be but I knew but it's like most films they were supposed to be college age but they look older than college age it's not as bad as Greece 3 year olds being high schoolers Greece is the biggest laughable high school students who are old enough to have high school kids they're wrong Danny Zuko's over there you know, Olivia Newton John was 30 when she did that and everyone else was like 28 that's the film that gave me a complex about how a high schooler was supposed to look I thought I was giving everybody such a big masculine man but I was still a scrawny little puny guy I like that a lot I think Amir Khan did really really well this is just I think my I believed him least in this role that I did in every single other one not that I didn't enjoy the film I did like I said I enjoyed this film but this is probably the one I believed him least that's funny he is just for me he's always consistent I just I can't off the top of my head pinpoint I watched him now he was the most unlikable at the beginning because he was such a I actually love those characters I know you do but he his emotional availability and I loved I loved the turn how it went from what I thought was just going to be kind of a lighthearted romp and I was fine with that it definitely switched it took a turn and I got emotional did you cry? couple times I got really emotional I got really emotional I didn't in case that was a spoiler for anybody let me clarify it I'm not talking I got as emotional I've had in some of the other films like Stars on Earth and even in PK and just recently Swades where I'm four different times of tears streaming down my face wasn't that it was tears in the eyes and just wiping them before they fall a couple of moments hold on was it with Akshay and his his girl that's one I figured you would run into that particularly when when she dies and the struggle because you're close to death that was funny this one had I think there's a lot about this film that I resonated with because it's so linked to being in love and falling in love which is my world you're in the process of that right now I'm falling and will be forever and when I watch that depicted on film and see it depicted depicted in a believable way it's really not fair because there's so many times I'm watching films in any Indian woman that shows up that someone's in love with I'm instantly thinking about the love of my life I can't help that it helped me love the film and it added to the emotions cause like when he's watching the opera and she's teaching him about love and he closes his eyes I thought that was really nice of Farhan to take us on a technical journey he hadn't done yet with the cinema of the film where he flashed into what and it's going through when he's seeing his buddies and he's seeing his parents and then all of a sudden I thought it was going to show her I didn't realize it was going to show her as that character and showed her up on there that was such an interesting moment it was almost a La La Land type totally La La Land obviously we know this was way before La La Land but that's the first thing that came to my mind of something that gets into a film but it was really interesting I was like oh, Sa'i is dancing and I thought I loved both of those I loved well I loved that that was an emotional part for me was she turns and then you see it register with Amir Khan and he turns and looks at her and you realize yeah boys in love and I loved the movie scene with Sa'i Falik Khan and I don't know forgive me the actress's name which I thought all of the women fantastic I thought they all were great do you remember their name? I totally believed all three of them as far as I believed all of the relationships that they were all falling in love with each other I loved them watching the movie and it becoming the movie where they were the characters yeah I thought that was such an interesting moment that I was like one an interesting way to cause before I was even still a lot of Bollywood films have these huge Bollywood numbers that's an interesting way to get a huge Bollywood number into a film into a film so I thought that was really interesting we could talk about Farhan because I thought he did a really really good job there was only very few parts I didn't like and I could tell you right now and I don't think it's a surprise some of the acting was melodramatic at that point not the entire time it's not like Devdas where the entire thing melodramatic but certain parts it bothers me a lot when it's supposed to be an emotional scene and then they turn on soap opera music it bothers me the use of score it bothers me a lot when that happens that makes it feel like a soap opera and I don't like that but that obviously that wasn't the whole film that was just a few parts of the film that I didn't enjoy but overall I really enjoyed this film I thought Farhan did a really good job making us care about all these characters especially when you consider how lighthearted it was at the beginning and it just feels like it's going to be a silly little comedy that you're just going to have fun with when it takes that turn I realized and there were several moments where I was just emotionally invested in the characters which is a credit to them, a credit to his writing a credit to the directing when Amir punches Rohan at the he was a much more gracious guy I said out loud punch him again that whole scene I actually really enjoyed when the juxtaposition of the father going and talking to him I want to talk about that if you want to pay us back I knew what he was going to say but I was like that's a sweet moment he was like Mary, I forget Akash Mary Akash I was hoping he was going to say that and I expected it based on what I thought the film was going to be but there's the two things for me that I think and I'd like to do more reading up on this as far as the groundbreaking nature of the film not just in the way that it depicted the genre we know that but the two things that I find very interesting and we've seen this a lot we've seen films coming out of India particularly coming out of Hindi slash Bollywood challenged societal norms that have been a part of what we're learning about Indian culture for example to have that man take that switch and say you're going to marry the one you love versus the one you should be arranged to there's a lot of people who wouldn't have made that choice they would have said you need to marry when we're telling you you're going to marry and the fact that depicted was we want you to be happy that will make us happy is beautiful to see as is and this for me I think probably even more groundbreaking based on what we have learned and heard not just in India but all over the world I got emotional I didn't expect Akash to be right there and say turn around to Akshay's character when he's telling him I'm sorry and he says I want to see you and he says I want to see you but how quickly can I see you and he says turn around and they both have tears and they both hug it's not a coincidence for me I saw somebody today my buddy Michael Shumpert who is one of the few guys I know would take a bullet for me and Michael is there's only two men who I kiss on the lips and that's my dad and Michael Shumpert when I saw Michael today I hadn't seen him in a long time and it was a beautiful thing when I saw this film today it reminded me of my relationship with Michael and that it's we give each other a kiss on the lips and hold each other when we see each other and we'll look at each other and that is in many respects considered a weakness in the toxic masculine of the world where physical affection hugging, crying in front of each other saying I love you sadly that's been made only feminine and it's changing it changes slowly or the only depiction of it is that you'll see gay men expressing themselves because the majority of gay men that you meet are emotionally available they're not afraid to share their feelings and it's beautiful to watch these three very masculine attractive men truly the love that they were showing each other was as genuine to me as the love they were showing the women they loved and I just thought, man that must have been mind blowing and possibly for a lot of young men and women the first time in their life they saw men opening themselves emotionally and believing it that's probably my favorite thing about the movie it was really really good it was nice to have a little kind of almost a turn obviously our preference for film is more even though it's not technically drama that's where most of the artistic stuff is that's where it goes but that makes a lot of films very serious even though this was a serious film more serious than I actually intended it was nice to really enjoy it and I would like to because people get mad if we don't point out every aspect of a film every actor you forgot my two favorite female were I like Akshay's girl I apologize he played Siddharth and she played Tara okay Dimple Dimple Kapadia I thought she was really good I thought she brought a lot to her character I did too one that was an interesting story that she couldn't see her kid because her husband was rich and he bought that moment when she broke the glass and broke the stuff and he's just watching her with that and I also thought she was well done Zoya and Farhan you cast somebody who looked like she was 15 years his senior but was also 100% believable that the two of them were in love with you I completely believed all three of these and then I also loved Akshay I'm Nina, I'm yours who played Shalina yeah pretty Zinta I thought she did really really well generally she's in Dilsi and as well in beer so a lot of SRK films so yeah I think she did really really well she was really believable like we said all Shalini and I'm ridiculously glad they never let the white people talk cheers to that my friend because right when they came on screen you can ask my wife I was like oh no Shalina or whatever she was came in and thank you Zoya and Farhan and I was like oh god here we go here they are but they never let them talk and again the actor who plays Rohan did a very good job of making me dislike him in the same way the husband in what was that film Debra huh Debra? Yes Debra and then there was another one we've seen some really good actors have some very small even smaller than supporting roles play the dick for lack of a better because it's richer it's really easy to turn those roles into a stereotype and it's suck and he didn't he found a humanity in him that was annoying I believed him to be a really selfish annoying self centered he didn't love her and is not the is it the uncle to Amir Khan is that actor not the same guy who played opposite SRK in Swades? I have no idea who are you talking about okay he's the guy who's telling the story at the end about why she has to marry Rohan and he was the one sitting at the table when he comes over for the dinner and it's just the four of them at the dinner no that's Amir Khan's love interest uncle okay I knew it was an uncle I couldn't remember who's uncle it was that actor we've seen him before and I feel like we saw him in Swades what was his name? I think this is him was that him? so if you click on him it wouldn't surprise me if he was in Swades I think that would come up though I know I would think it would be one of the top choices there when was Swades? what year? I don't know Drisham well I know we've seen him it may have been another film nope but it said he was in Drisham maybe that's what you asked about Swades I know but I wasn't definitively pounding the table for it it was in rat race yes but I actually he was a short actor he was in a short film he was racist about shorts? racist height has nothing to do with your race but yes I really enjoyed this film I would watch it if it was on if I turn on the tv and it was on I'd be like oh yeah it's just like Deborah I would turn it on and it goes on we'll watch this there was something about and funny both of those feature Farhan one is an actor, one is a director we've had a strange trajectory with a lot of actors his is strange as well his is very strange but yeah we love the movie there you go let us know what we should watch in review next we're close to 60 films yes for the year we'll have done 60 films and hopefully we can get to more next year 120 I like to try to do at least two a week and we've got a ton of stuff to watch here in America right now too these are all gifts we've got I know I was going through the list we already have we have at least oh yeah for award season just for award season we've got 40 and then the stupid babies have suggested another 100 that I learned the top of the list 100 million so we'll be doing the channel at least through next year it's a long shot