 Anybody with a mental illness who happens to be wheelchair bound, and it's not just wheelchair bound, you have to have no medical problems. If you have medical problems, you're in the medical side. Lieutenant Dan wouldn't have been that. Lieutenant Dan would never have been admitted into a psychiatric hospital because he has the misfortune of being in a wheelchair. So, if you're wheelchair bound, screw your brain. Why are your hands all over that pipe there? Because I like holding my pipe. Getting a little too comfortable with that mic there. Hey, we'll go back to our Steve with our excerpt, of course. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more juicy content. Thank you to everybody who supports us on Patreon. Thank you. Follow us on official Twitter accounts. Subscribe to the likes because it's loose, like your mom. Oh wow. Hey, do you know what I discovered? Cool. You know what Sumitra Chatterjee's favorite kind of bread is? What? Rye. Probably. Today we're doing a movie review. Obviously, if you've got Rick's joke there. Yep. And we are doing another... It's true. It's true. The 1974, one of his later works, sonar kella. White boy. How'd you say it? Come on now. Sonu kilo. We'll assign it. No, no, there's no the kit. The ah sound is correct. But whenever there's, it's not just the O sounds, but instead of it being sonar, the S O has a sh sound to it. So it's sonar. Sonar color. There's no co, it's sonar kella. The golden fortress. The megalios. For breakfast. Obviously directed and... Yes, written from a novel. From a novel by such a rye composed by, as he likes to do. Such a rye starring his muse. I suppose. I guess so. He just, he really loves it. They love to work together. Absolutely. Sumitra, Chatterjee? Yeah. And obviously quite a few other people, but he's... Yeah, a lot of G's in there. Yeah, Banerjee, a lot of... Chatterjee. Chatterjee. Yeah, a couple of Banerjee's, a couple of Chatterjee's. Actually five Chatterjee's. No, there's one, two, three, four, five. Yep. There's a lot of Chatterjee's. It's wonderful if you're driving or walking around Kulkata, you look and you see... You do that a lot? A lot of G's. What's that G? Yep. Is that your joke or is that somebody else's? You just made that up. No, I didn't. I didn't say that. At this very moment, me? What up G? Yeah. For the Chatterjee? No, that one's actually... That's not good enough to be a dad joke. Or a grandpa joke. Compared to what you usually say. Mine are glorious and gold. Literally everybody hates them. So, obviously this is going to be 100% spoiler. It came out in 1970 fuller. So if you watch it, please go watch it and come back. Obviously this is going to be 100% spoiler for you. We saw it on Amazon. Yeah, it's on Amazon. So you can check. Well, that's not necessarily true. Oh yeah, it's on Amazon. On Amazon through Erosnow. Through Erosnow. I also thought I saw it somewhere else. So you might be able to find it in a few places. Especially in India, it might be available at other places. Rick, your initial thoughts of... Your thoughts of the movie? I really liked it. And you have to have a little caveat to it. Because it's not your typical Satya Jit Rai film. It's very... I went into it with the thought in my mind. And Drani is wonderful because she... Did you watch it with him? Yeah, she was excited that I was going to watch it. She's obviously seen it before. I went into it with the thought that it's going to be a mystery thriller. Yeah. It is that. More mystery. It's actually... It's more family mystery. Not really thriller. No, it's more... It feels more like... It's not a good example. I'm just talking about the feel of it in terms of story. And how accessible it is to all audiences. I went in thinking this might be a dark movie. Because we've seen some dark stuff from Satya Jit Rai. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's more spy kids than it is. As far as the family accessibility. It's a weird comparison. It's a weird comparison. But it does have an accessibility that any age could really watch it. Probably a better example than spy kids. Well, spy kids is a mystery. I don't know if you've watched it recently. No, but it... It doesn't really hold up. It's a mystery. And it's for family. So this is more that than it is. It is actually very... Because I enjoyed it as well. Yeah. It's not my favorite, but I definitely enjoyed it, for sure. It's... Because there's so many that I think are just... Oh, yeah. In terms of the big city, the... Is it the hero? The hero. I enjoyed it as well. I mean, I would enjoy it almost all of his works. Yeah, the whole opiutrilogy obviously. Really, really hard to rank his work because they're all pretty darn solid to great. Yeah. But when you talk about, for example, big city and hero, those are, for me, just head and shoulders. Obviously, a poo as well. Yeah. Those are head and shoulders above in terms of the artistry and the kind of film that you... That I refer to as Elevative. Not that this wasn't a good film. It's a very good film. It's a very interesting story. And it's funny, I felt that it also... It's not so much a slow burn as much as it is a glowing ember. Just it's this nice, slow, consistent... Is there a difference? Yeah, slow burn actually incorporates the flame, whereas the ember... There's no flames. It's just a nice glow embering. Yeah. So I like it. I did too. But it was actually kind of interesting because it was so different really from his normal works. Yeah. He likes, obviously, he's a director, he's an artist. He probably wants to make different kinds of things. Yeah. And obviously a lot of his work has been very different from everything else he's done except for the poo trilogy. Yeah. One singular story basically. Yeah. But it shows his range of being able to do different kinds of stories. This one had a lot of quirky characters in it that I enjoyed. And then obviously his muse and Sumitri Shatterjee. Yeah. Who is just always so... I can see why he wants to work with them all the time. He's always so just natural and grounded. I see him having thoughts and it seems like he's listening. He's just a fun actor to watch work. Yeah, I agree. And he... They're like the original like Leo and Scorsese. Yeah. They just always want to work together. Or Johnny and Tim Burton. Or De Niro and Scorsese. Yeah. But yeah, he definitely has a great presence on screen. And you always could tell that he was probably the most intelligent one in the entire room. Oh yeah. So he gave off that vibe as the character. And like I said, he wasn't indicating or anything. You could always tell he was processing what was being told to him. And so he's a very good actor. So it's no shock that he... Once again, I thought he did a very good job in this. His character was quite interesting. And the whole concept itself is... Because it's very Indian-Hindu concept of... Absolutely. This kid is acting strangely and now... Okay, so he's reincarnated from another life. And then obviously people find out that there might be some treasure involved. Right. There's different... It's very intriguing the story. Because it's not a story that really happens here. If you're a different person, you're like Freaky Friday. You switch with whoever. You don't really have this reincarnation element usually in Western stories too much. Typically not, no. And you do a lot in Indian cinema. But I thought it was a unique... Especially for 1974. 74? Is that when it came out? Yeah. 1974, when it came out, I thought the concept of... It just started off. He's waking up at the middle of the night. He thinks it's somebody else. Drawing pictures. Drawing pictures. And I was like, okay, I'm intrigued at that concept right there. Right. So it drawed you in immediately. And then I guess the slow ember after that... It was definitely a slower paced film at times. And it's smart, wonderful. Don't know the intentionality, but the 90 minute runtime helps the... It doesn't drag because everything is pretty concise. Not 90 minutes. It's two hours. Oh, sorry, it felt like 90 minutes. It really did. It felt like 90 minutes. But I think that's a rise staple. I can't say any of his films are fast paced films. Not at all. That's his specialty. You expect that. You expect going into that. He's gonna... Yeah, you're gonna just sit and be in a lot of respects. A lot of the other supporting characters were really... And I thought the kid did very good. He wasn't the one they kind of leaned on for the performance or anything. No. But the other characters like the author and then obviously the two goons. There was a lot of just interesting dynamics going on. I thought they all did very good. I liked how weird he was. His introduction was funny to me. I agree. When he was introduced on the train and he was just really full of himself. He wants to talk about himself. It was Fuhuda Chatterjee. Did I who plays him? No, no, no. I was gonna say Sumitra Chatterjee's character, Fuhuda, is... I thought to myself, you're a patient man. You're really... You're just sitting there minding your own business and this guy's just not stopping and then just invites himself to join you. Yeah. Very Indian though. Very Indian. Yes, very. But yeah, that whole scene was quite funny because he was just going on and on and on. Yes. And I was like, I would not. I would leave in this scenario. I am not as kind. One of the things I also appreciated was a couple staples for Satyajit Rai. The first one is, man, it's just so Bengali. He wants to show you the cigarettes. He loves cigarettes so much. Oh yeah. Like most Bengali men and women. But back in the day, you see that constantly with the guys smoking their cigarettes and there's the ashtrays and it's that. And then the other staple is how much he knows about the world. So the whole understanding the differentiation between how a camel gets their water, that there are no wolves in Africa, those kinds of things were not just intriguing on an adult level, but I think they would be pretty wonderful for a kid. If you're watching this with a little one who's able to understand it, just language-wise and everything, be able to say, is that true? Ask mom and dad, are there wolves in Africa? I thought that was great. Yeah. What did you come away with the thinking of the overall? Like messaging? Messaging of the film was. I felt like the messaging was subtle compared to a lot of Satyajit Rai's films that typically have a very important message in them. I felt like the message in this was, while it was still an important message, I didn't think it was as strong a message. The primary thing being a very subtle wink at the dead end of materialism, the dead end of pure capitalism, which is represented in the guy's wanting to kidnap the kid because it's a golden temple versus the motives that are more pure from the doctor and the detective and the dad of just wanting to find out and not making any judgments, which I think is another staple of Satyajit Rai. He has this really great tendency to tell you things that have objective reality and truth in them that are universal and non-negotiable and then also remain open and teachable. And I felt like that was the main takeaway for me was that juxtaposition of the goons being the materialistic, capitalistic dimwits and the other ones were the more enlightened, more intelligent, more accepting and caring people. Yeah, and obviously like I said, this is a very Indian story with the reincarnation or whether, I don't know if it's actually reincarnation, but kind of. I think he left it pretty open to whether or not it was or it wasn't. Because obviously in the end you're like, oh, is there a bunch of treasure? Like is it, they just, this person who was in this little boy kind of just wanted to see the fortress again and have that part of a story end. Right. And it was such a simple thing, obviously for Indians, obviously with the, whether if it's something other than reincarnation, because obviously it's not fully reincarnation because this is, obviously somebody from, whether it's him from a past life or somebody else in him from a past life, I don't know, but reincarnation from what I understand is more of your past life and now you're somebody else. Correct. Either way, he knew stuff that he couldn't know. Yeah. And the other thing that I found an actual powerful messaging is, and I don't know how intentional it was in the book, those of you who know his writings and what he said about the story, he was far more heartbroken at seeing the crumbled remains of an artifact that's of high value than the goons were of finding out there was no treasure. Again, that was that comparative of this boy is just wanting to be connected to the roots of his past, which how many people want to be connected to the true roots and then how many people are there that want to capitalize and only see the monetary value of those things. And for him, I thought that was a really wonderful moment. I gave him the closure, I guess, because it ends with him saying, I'm ready to go back to Kolkata, which meant, I'm not just ready to go back to Kolkata. I don't need to draw my pictures anymore. Yeah. And so that was, like I said, it's a very Indian or Hindu story that I feel like a lot of them can really connect to with that element because if you have like a reincarnation story here, unless you're obviously Hindu, you probably don't connect too much with reincarnation stories. Yeah. It's not a common... Obviously we know about it just because Hinduism is a very popular religion in the world and everybody I think knows the concept of reincarnation, but it's not really a part of everyone's daily life. Most people don't believe that, at least in America, here obviously because your primary religions are Christianity and... What was the other one? Christianity, Judaism, Islam. Islam. Yeah. Islam doesn't do reincarnation. No, my understanding... I do not believe that Islam has reincarnation as part of their belief system. Let me know if that's wrong, obviously. But yeah, I enjoyed the concept because it was just so different. And on Sachit Rai's score, which I thought was actually more subtle than a lot of his... It didn't have... There wasn't much score. Yeah, there wasn't a lot. And it didn't have like the... It wasn't a village, so maybe that's like his signature like flute kind of thing that I love so much that it's like very Sachit Rai. And a lot of things cinematography-wise that you take for granted nowadays, but even something that seems as simple as the shot when they're going up to the fort and he pushes the doctor off the edge, that was a steep incline that they had to stabilize the camera for. And that was not... They're, you know, those were big heavy-duty things you had to hold and steady and shots in the car and shots on the camels. Those weren't easy shots to do back in the day. No, definitely not. And I also really liked another message, the boy and the detective. There was really only two places that mattered to them. Kolkata and the Golden Palace. Yeah, the Golden Palace. And for everybody else, we didn't really know much about their origin or any sense that they had a home. So that was the other takeaway is that the people who were the protagonists as it were, what mattered to them was home. Yeah. Home was important. Home in Kolkata, home in India. That's the symbolism, obviously, and the way that the peacock is treated at the end by the criminal versus the boy who's always treasured the peacock. That too is messaging, I think, as well to people who would be Indian and recognize that there are two different kinds of people, people who are lovers of their motherland and want to preserve everything that matters and those who just don't care and want to make money off it. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it as I do almost all. I'm not even sure if there's a film that I didn't like. There's only been one for me that just, it didn't really, I didn't dislike it as much as it just didn't do much for me. I forgot the name of it. The one with the woman in Kolkata. We had a lot of people rank that one. Yeah. I know. That's just the way it felt for me. I have a little top 10 list here. See, because obviously I want to know which one we should first. We'll get to other Bengalis. That's the music room. The music room. I love the music room. I really enjoyed that one. That's one of the other ones, right? That's the one you didn't like. The music room wasn't that the... That's one with the old man. Right. Yes. The hero. The hero. Love the hero. The goddess, I don't believe. We have not seen. Debbie, we have not seen that. The stranger. The stranger's great. That's a great one. That one's so good. The big city. Big city. I love that. All of the opu. That might be my number one. They have something different at number one. What? Why is it Jimmy? I don't know. Did Jimmy write this? Days and nights in the forest. We haven't seen that one. Why is... Why... Because all the other ones had... All the other ones had a thumbnail that is from a Saatchi to Rai film. On this article. The number one in this article is a picture of... Jimmy and Buddy Meister. Yeah. Yeah. Days and nights. Or is that Distant Thunder? Wait a minute. The story. Four friends who leave the big city for a trip to Tribal Village and they grapple with the responsibilities and the wants that push them away. I don't think we've seen that. I don't think so either. So Days and Nights in the Forest from 1970. I know Saatchi at Rai and I think it's one of its first films and it's not easily available. It has a horror film. What is it called? Hold on. Like I've tried to find... Gimmie Gimmie. Munihara. Is it Munihara? Saatchi to Rai's Soul Horror Film. Okay. Let's do it. I want it. I don't think I've been able to like find it though. Anywhere. Is it a full movie? 53 Minutes? Really? Is that it? Not subbed. DVD maybe? Off Amazon? Is it only 53 Minutes? That's crazy. It's not showing me. So if anybody knows or if you've seen it, if it's worth a watch it because obviously Saatchi at Rai and Horror, that'd be cool. Yeah. So please let us know about that. What should be the next Saatchi at Rai film that we watch? What should be the next non-Saatchi at Rai Bengali film that we should watch obviously? We've gotten through a lot of his movies. I'm sure he still has quite a few that we obviously that number one on that list we haven't gotten to yet. Correct. And obviously this horror one. So please let us know what each of those should be. What did you think of this film and what should be the next film we watch? Down below.