 Udubunj흠 Why are you even here, you idiot? We love you. I'm Rick, he's Corbin, Greetings. and this is our stupid reactions! I mean, I don't either. This is another review! we watched Oh, the boon job. Oh, the boon job, so I'm gonna get into it again. Which has been very requested for us to watch. Directed by, say, his name for me please. Abhishek Charlie. He was the associate director on the McBool and the Othello one. He helped with those. Yeah, he helped with both of those. Which we have yet to see, but we're gonna see there at the top of the list, like anything else. Yes. Shahid Kapoor. Shahid. We're trying to make sure we pronounce it right, because we don't want mispronunciation, like... What's the other word? Shahid or Shahid. Or Shahid or Shahid. Sincerely, the accentuation and if it's Shahid or Shahid, so... Yes, please. Please, it's important to us. And obviously... We are Karina Kapoor as well. And Karina Kapoor, who we were first introduced to in Three Idiots. Yes. And so this film, you wanna read these? Sure. Sorry for me. It's a story that revolves around drug abuse. My son's son. I never got that. I know. Well, and I say it's a story that revolves around drug abuse. Fun for the whole family. I'm gonna read it that way. A story that revolves around drug abuse and the affluent North Indian state of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en masse, resulting in a socio-economic decline. It's way too uplifting. Exactly. Good times. So, yeah, this film, spoiler, obviously we're not doing a non-spoiler review. Our reviews are almost always gonna be spoilers, so if you haven't seen this, go watch it, then come back. Goodbye. This had one of my favorite openings of any film, honestly, I think, ever. Yeah, it was great. I loved the opening of this movie. It was epic. Because it just... It was like... It was just introduced to Tommy. Yeah. And he's just doing his thing on stage. Yeah. And it really helped. I'm glad we got to see this after we'd seen Hater. Yes. Because there's a level of insanity that we saw him in and edginess and unpredictability that you don't get whatsoever in Padmabat. Oh, no, no. I mean, he is just chill and so composed, which is very similar to the way... Like, that's how we were first introduced to him, was in Padmabat. And the same way we got Ran Veer in Gully Boy. And both these guys are crazy. And his support was in Gully Boy. No, no, no. Veer was in Gully Boy. That's what we were introduced to him. Exactly. You've been confused before. Exactly. Because we said Ran Veer and Ran Veer, and you're like, you guys don't know who you're talking about. But we were introduced to this actor as a really mellow, stoic dude. But we've now gotten to know him like we did Ran Veer. These two guys are firecrackers who are maniacs. The opening was, it was so good. Tommy was just doing his thing on stage. And the song they were trying to create in this dude, something about his cock. Like just cock, cock, cock. Oh, I was dying. I was too. And then like anytime something bad happened, his girlfriend started laughing. Yeah, she was great. Like it just cracked me up so much. The amount, because I had no idea how funny this film would be. Me too. Like no clue. Especially with the dark subject matter. Which it needed to lighten it up. Yeah, yeah. I mean it's an awful subject matter. It's awful subject matter. And it, but I... A tragic subject matter. Yes. Yeah. On multiple levels. Especially starting with our second lead in Alia Bhatt. Her story, so freaking heartbreaking. Yeah. It just made me mad. Hard to watch man. Yeah. Hard to watch. It's hard to watch any film where they do that to a girl. Any film. But because I've got such an emotional attachment to Alia now after having seen her in different things. I was literally having a visceral moment of don't do that to Alia. You know? And it added to the level of impact of watching this character go through what she was going through. The fact that she's this innocent person and she was poor and then she was like, I'm gonna just sell this and then she gets... Like when they abduct her for the first time? Obducted and then they just inject her and rape her. Bastards. Bastards. So it was just incredibly difficult. But Alia played it was amazing. The way she played it was so... I mean, I don't know what to call it because the performance was beautiful. Yeah. First we're the kind of woman that's honest. Yes. She just was honest. She didn't try to play a druggy. She just... Which those are hard things to do because most actors I know yours truly included. If I had to play somebody who strung out on heroin no way I'm gonna take heroin to figure that out. So you've got to leave it to the imagination. You've got to study and you have to use whatever you can to try and replicate that. I'm sure she did a lot of homework. It shows. I mean, she did a lot of homework to be a realistic junkie. And the same thing with him. They have to play somebody who's a coke addict. Yeah. That's not an easy... Those are some things that are hard to portray realistically especially my thought would be as an actor I've got to do this well enough that anybody who's ever been strung out on heroin or coke has to believe me all the time or I blew it. So I've never been strung out on heroin or coke. Thank God. I thought they were beautiful. Both of them. They for me actually were better than the film and I liked the film but I felt that their performances stood out even above the story. What did you like about the film? There were a couple of times and again, I liked the film. There were a couple of times where the message of the film became a little bit heavy handed in the proselytizing in the social message it was trying to send a little bit in a couple of spots for me. Where? The specificity would be in moments in the first half of the film really. In the first half of the film, particularly when we were with Karina and the guy who plays another cop named Sartaj. Yes. Right? Yeah. There were moments of wanting the viewer to recognize the tragedy almost like a don't say no to drugs thing and that for me kind of pulled me away. I wanted to stick strictly to the personal storylines. I know what the filmmaker had to do to try to convey to us that this is a legit problem in this location in the same way that Mexico has its issues. It just told it to me more than it showed it to me at times and that that's my only critique of the film that I didn't like. As a whole of the film, I thought the film was extremely good. I didn't love the film. This wasn't one of those that I'm like putting it way at the top of my list. I don't know maybe if that was a censorship issue because I know from what people have told me that this ran into a bunch of censorship issues. Did it in India? Well, one thing that was clearly obvious when he's on stage and he whips it out was clearly they had to... They held back on that. I mean they didn't even show him from the waist up. That was just at his head. Yeah, and so a lot of people said that they had to taunt this movie to be able to watch it. So a lot of people said that messaged me on Instagram when I showed them that I was watching it. They said, yeah, we had to watch this through the taunts because it got so many... It had such controversy. Interesting. I don't know what the controversy would be. Would this be on the level for... Because I know India's censorship for their films is way stricter than the rating system here. Oh, yeah. And would this be on the same level of say, like, Wolf of Wall Street got a lot of buzz for how graphic and raw it was. That it was almost NC17. If you're not familiar with that rating, that's one that people don't even make NC17s anymore. But it's above rated R. And I wonder if it was that kind of controversy where it was like borderline, this film can't even be seen based on the rating system and the censorship board? I don't know, maybe. But that's what a lot of them called us. But I thought this film was absolutely... I loved every second of it. I was in it. And I love this character of Tommy. The two of them for me, taking nothing away from Karina's character, who's the actor who plays Sartaj? Oh. Because they were both extremely solid. Dejit. Is that it? Dejit. D'Sanji. Yeah. I'm close, I hope. Very solid. I knew it was coming, by the way. When she arrived and his little brother's freaking out after she had said let's have coffee, the minute she showed up, I said out loud, she's dead. Yeah. Yeah. I figured they would do something like that. She's dead. But the Shahid... Yeah, Shahid could work. I don't know if that's how you say it. I'm just questioning whether that's how you say it. I know. I thought his performance was amazing. I loved every second of it. And it was so interesting and different and I thought he played it really well. And I thought the director did really well in terms of... So many funny scenes. Just laugh out loud because when him and Aliya are locking eyes and they're about to... and then people just start coming and beating him. Yeah. They're looking at him. Yeah. Just shots like that make me laugh so much. You're so macabre. I am. The only issue I had with this film and it wasn't right away. When the end happened, I was like, yes. Yeah, all the shooting and the murder and the death. Yeah, and then it was just... The end was Shahid Kapoor running and he's like, at least give me your name. Right. And then it was, I think, his nephew crying or something like that. No, it was Sartaj's little brother. They're looking at each other. They're looking at each other. Yeah. And it just ends with him crying. It sounds like he's crying. I was like, yes. Yeah, because he didn't wrap it up in a bow. It is amazing. I agree. But then if you kept the screen on, it finished it. At the end of the credits? Not in the mid-credit. Oh. Really? Yeah. I missed that. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't up in a bow or anything like that, but you saw Shahid Kapoor and Ali Bhatt in Goa Goa down the beach. Oh. And so it's basically like they're dating now. Oh. And I mean, it wasn't terrible, but it's not my style. I would prefer to not know whether they actually thought together. Me too. She just ran away. Yeah, give me three billboards ending. Yeah, I prefer those types of things, but that's the only critique really. Every other part of this film I really enjoyed. Yeah, and my only critique was the moments where it felt like a just say no campaign. And there was only a few of them. Yeah. And it was at the first half. But still, I think, and I've watched, it's hard not to watch a film like this and compare it to other films we've seen with people who are strung out. Like Robert Downey Jr., early in his career, forgot the name of the film, but he plays a druggy. And there's been a lot of films here that we're exposed to in America Cinema that tell you the story of people who have been strung out. And they're pretty, I mean, some of them are just downright hard to watch. Much harder than this was to watch, even though this has some hard moments. There was a bit of that, you know, don't do drugs kind of thing that was just too much for me. And I felt their performances, those two, were, that's the reason to watch the film for me, not necessarily the story. Although I will say it did evoke in me a desire to want to know. We had no idea about anything going on with, like when we started watching sacred games, we were like, is there really, if there's got to be this corruption element in politics connected to the mafia and everything else, same thing with Gangs of Wasiper, didn't know there was this big of a problem of drugs in this region comparable to Mexico. And that they didn't want to become a Mexico, because Mexico is rough, lots of parts to say the least. But yeah, if you haven't seen Sicario, that'll give you a taste of what things were like in Mexico. Yeah, and also I want to talk about the makeup. I thought the makeup was really good. I'm glad you brought that up. They made Alia look so different. So glad you brought that up. The makeup on her to make her look like that girl who's been working outside and just make her look so different and her journey through the drugs, as well as his, some baggy-eyed moments and some other. And at the end, little moments like when Karina gets jabbed in the neck and the blood is pumping out of her neck. Awesome. And then the other person, the guy who gets shot and then the blood just starts to flow out, those are hard to make realistic. I thought the makeup in this was top notch. Top notch. I love the ending where everybody just kind of... Oh, it was Tarantino asked. I know, I loved it. It made me so happy. I did too. But also, one last thing I want to say is that this is one of my favorite scores for any film. Absolutely agree. This was an amazing score. A fantastic score. Mostly songs you could put on your place and work out to. Yeah, fantastic score. And believable the whole time, except for those moments for me where it got kind of, don't do drugs, messaging, it was very believable. Alia has the capacity to portray cathartic moments emotionally. She had to have been exhausted doing this. Oh, yeah. The amount she cried. Yeah. She had to just, like, obviously she had to act exhausted because she was being raped all the time. Yeah. It's like... I'd love to hear them talk about portrayals and what it just did to them emotionally. Tough heads physically. Tough heads face to be in. To be in. But, yeah, his character, this is probably the character I'm most suited to play. If, like, if you could say, what could you play? Oh, yeah. This is probably the character I could play. 100%. Almost right now. You could step into it. Like, if someone wanted to do a version of this, and just, like, make an American... And I would love to do it. Because this is an amazing character. Yup, I love it so much. And I love Shahid Kapoor. Yup. He is quickly becoming one of my favorites. And the great thing about him is his acting, like most everybody that we've seen that we like, this is an easy role to screw up. Oh, yeah. Really easy role to screw up. Because you could step into this role and just show people what this is. He had to personalize this stuff. And he did. I believed him 100... That was one of my favorite moments for him was when he can't go on stage. Because he's not... He's not up on anything, right? And he's like, I'm gonna have to go perform not high for the first time. And I don't want to, like, do this. And it's a brother, as it were, who throws on the... And he's having great direction in that scene, too. The little flashback of him shooting and then looking in the toilet. And he has that revelation. First it's the shooting and he throws the cocaine away. And then he... I am the... What is it? A goo... Dang it. It means, like, Mr. Father. Yeah, I'm the man. That's basically what he's saying. I'm the man. And then he runs and he screams, just those little moments, as well as the help me kill myself when they're first talking with each other. Yeah, that was... I was inexecuted. I was like, what? Yeah. They're just both such honest... The scenes, especially with Alia and Shade, are so good. I want to see more of their work together. Like, when they were... When they were met each other, wherever they were, when he was running away from the concert. Right. And he met Alia for the first time. Yup, for the first time. He said, let me hide. Yeah. That whole scene was brilliant. Brilliant. Up to... Especially when they started coming and beating them and she was beating up on them. Yeah. But they knocked her away. And then... Yeah. I loved this movie. Beautiful work. I thought it was an amazing movie. Beautiful work. Thank you so much. Yeah. Any recommendations? Yep. And let us know what we should watch from here next.