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I am about to do the beginning of a series of things called Afterthoughts, which are basically some afterthoughts whenever you and I are reacting to something and there's a ton of comments in there from stupid babies and they're wanting to hear more, especially interviews, like they're wanting to hear more about what it was like to interview Nawaz, so I'm gonna start doing those on a regular basis. And then, I have Leland on my channel. And you, you are the Gordon Ramsay of India, my friend. I don't know what that was. Anyways, today we're doing a movie review of a Malolium film because we love the Maloliums and we love Fahat Fasil and, you know, yeah, but we are reviewing a film that I cannot pronounce. So, Rick, why don't you just go ahead and try? Give it the old college try. It sounds like Dothraki. Oh my God! Dothraki. It sounds like Dothraki is what it sounds like coming from me. I can't pronounce it. How do you pronounce it? I'm gonna give it the old college try. I believe it's Fundimathalam Dricsaksium. Hands down one of the hardest titles we've ever come across. Without question. And actually, my understanding that the English translation of that is pretty quite simple. It's called The Mainer and The Witness. Well, that makes sense. But yeah, that is a really complicated title for a very simple concept. But yeah, you wanna read this in opposite for me? I do. Prasad and Sridja enter wedlock and they move to a new place to continue the rest of their lives. Unfortunate events begin to take place after Prasad, a small-time thief, robs Sridja's gold chain during a bus journey, or does he? It's directed by Dil, say his name? Dilish Pathan. Who also directed the other film, we just reacted to the trailer just a few days ago. He, that was, I believe, his first film. I think this was his second or it's the other way around. I could, one of the two. Yeah, I know he's only done two. Obviously starring Fahad Fasil. And say the other people for me, Rick, please. Yeah, and also give some, we'll give a little some credit here to the Sajiv Khazor, who wrote the dialogue of the writer and cinematographer Rajiv Ravi. And the music by Bijbal, if I'm mispronouncing that. Very, very sorry. And along with Fahad Fasil is Suraj Vinjaramudu. And then say the girl's name, because she's the other main one. Yeah, Namisha Sajayan. Yes. So yes, this is gonna be a spoiler review. Go watch it if you haven't seen it, and come back if you don't wanna be spoiled. Malolium people, you have seen it, so enjoy the review. And if you haven't seen it, which I know a lot of you haven't, because a lot of you are handy speaking only, or other regions, just explore other regions. I see people just like Americans that I don't like to read subtitles. I'm like, get past subtitles, please, guys. There's so many other film industries, Tamil, Telugu, Malolium, Hindi. If you don't speak the language, Chinese, Korean, there's just don't limit yourself to what language you speak. That's just my soapbox there. Anyways, so initial thoughts, Rick? Initial thoughts. I actually wrote, I don't have to read it right now, but at some point I will. I wrote a paragraph. I wrote like six sentences about what this film did. Ultimately, I think this is one of the most cinematically intelligent films we've seen. And one of my opening sentences is, is that this film sneaks up on you if you let it, and if you aren't careful, it'll slip away without you ever knowing what it was trying to tell you if you're not paying attention. It's like a thief itself. Yeah, 100%, like it's 100% a fly on the wall film almost at times, where you just, you're like, you're just witnessing something happening and you're like, why is this important? Yep. And you could get for it if you're not paying attention cinematically to what the director's doing. But then they bring it back so many different times, so like, okay, we could kind of just get into it. I will say, I really enjoyed the film, not as much as I enjoyed Combalogy Nights, but I still really, and I think there's actually some parts of this that might, like the cinematography in this was impeccable, but it's also the same guy who did Gangs of Wassey Purr and what's his, what was the other one? The Gangs of Wassey Purr, Deb D, and I think there's another one. So like, he's a really good cinematographer. But so we could talk about that first, but like the cinematography in this was impeccable. There was some tracking, like I think it was one of the first things when they introduced you to the police, the tracking shot that it went for almost three or four minutes, it felt like, they tracked you from the water until they got to the police station. And that's, it's more complicated than it sounds to get a tracking shot correct. Yeah, and way more complicated to give you a film who's half of the film takes place in this tiny little police station that has virtually nothing in it that's aesthetically pleasing. And the lighting and the cinematography kept you engaged the entire time. Yeah, and that's one of the things I'm loving. And there was a couple shots with Fahat Fazil where he was in the shadows and he was in one lighting here and then they had him come up. And I think you remember that, I think you know the shot, he comes up and it's a completely different lighting but it's so beautiful the way it's done. It just, it gets you excited sometimes. Yes, there was another shot, another shot where he went downstairs to get a drink and you got it from Prasad, the other Prasad's perspective and all you saw was Fahat Fazil's shadow drinking the water. And just really, really well done as was the music. I thought the music was beautiful. Yeah, at times it was such a quirky, quirky, especially towards the beginning. Yeah. It was, it was almost like, remember like at the beginning when we saw like some Amir Khan films and they did those like whistles, like. That was, I mean, just gonna say, I was waiting, there were times, I was literally gonna say that, that there were moments you're waiting for the. Yeah, but it was more artistically done than that. They weren't doing it to like, oh, laugh at this, but they like artistically put it into the score and I thought it was really, really impressive that way. So I liked that a lot. We could talk about Fahat Fazil. I think Fahat Fazil is one of the most brilliant actors. Obviously we loved him from Kumbhaalji Nights, right? But this is a completely different character than Kumbhaalji Nights and you know, I love that actors that can like mold into different roles. And like he didn't, like he wasn't even under a lot of makeup. So he could have like, and he had the same mustache and so he could have very well been the same, but he was a, you almost couldn't recognize that it was the same actor playing that role, except at times when he would stare at camera and you would do that creepy grin that he has. Like, I think it was like, when they were X-raying him, he just turned to the camera and kind of smiled. And just like that. Which really helps with this character because if we hadn't been introduced to him, I don't think we would have enjoyed this character as much because it's like when you watch any actor that you've seen in many roles, there is that side of him we've already seen. So we're waiting. Is he gonna flip a switch here on us at any moment? Is he gonna, like when we first saw Ranveer and Gully Boy, we didn't expect him to do anything flamboyant, which everybody else would be watching going, when's it gonna snap? When's that wild man coming out? So yeah, I love those little shots I have. Yeah, I think he did really brilliant in this. This whole movie had some really brilliant scenes. And like you were saying, in the middle, the only reason I didn't like it as much as I did at Combahalajian Nights was because some parts did just drag a tiny bit in the middle bit of it. But I think it's what you were saying. I think it was almost on purpose, actually. They wanted you to feel in that place, like it was taking a long time, I think. Yeah. Is that what you felt as well? Yeah, that might be a good place for me to talk about. You tell me that paragraph I wrote, that for me is the larger picture for this, which is, I'll just read what I wrote. It's a film of over stealth and blatant subtlety. Yeah, that's good, that's fine. Showing us things with the sleight of hand of a master magician are better yet a common thief. What you think you're seeing is a main story about a stolen necklace, but that isn't really the main story. Who you think are the main players aren't really the main players because this isn't a movie about a thief who stole a necklace from a nappy girl. It's a scathing, biting satire that doesn't so much take big chunks out of what's wrong with society, but takes tiny, slow nibbles with the necklace itself playing the role of antagonists. It's silent unseen presence bringing out the true colors of the corrupt. In a word, it's a film about hypocrisy and corruption and how one, sometimes even the most honest are forced to play the game if they want truth and justice to actually prevail and two, good people do bad things and bad people do good things. And that's a good line, Rick. That's a good synopsis of the film. I like that a lot. Well, that's what I meant in the opening about. It's like one of the most cinematically intelligent films and you're right, there's points and I think it's on purpose where the director's lulling you like taking a little hypnotizing or insane. Is this getting tiring? Isn't it? Are you gonna get this? And it's, remember when we walked out of us and we said the people who need to see this the most won't. Yeah, yeah. I feel the same way about this. I think the very people that this points the finger at about corruption would never see it. And even if they did, they would just get lulled to sleep by it. Yeah, 100%, like if you're not paying attention, obviously this film is saying a lot more than like, because one, I love, I liked a lot how it ended. Me too. Because it's one, it didn't tie everything up at all. So he basically found, he found the Fahats character told him where the necklace was. He went, he found it. But then he writes a note and you don't know what the note says and you don't know how long Fahats was in jail, but he's out now. And so you don't know if they retracted their statement. You don't know what happened. And also like, one of the things we thought was gonna happen was like, are they gonna invite him to work on their farm? But no, they didn't do that. He was just walking off into the sunset. He's like, his life goes on, their life goes on. And I think that's really brilliant. Did you like this more or less than Cumbulonji Nights? That's hard to say, honestly. I would say that I, the movie I would watch way more often is Cumbulonji Nights. I would just watch that because it has a, it doesn't have a hidden message in any way. It's very direct in what it's telling you. It's a direct story. It's beautiful. I love the moral to the story. This is one of those that's like a study in cinema and to see, this is like one of those movies I would show to aspiring directors and writers and say, look, there is a place obviously for you to do a blatant mirror up to society. The most recent one in American cinema would be Joker. What's like, this is who we are everybody and this is wrong. And then there's ways that you might even have to tell a story in a more subtle way. You can't be as overt with your rebellion and you're saying, here's what's wrong with the system. And then the writing and directing covers a lot of, just like one line to talk about something that makes you go, huh, like just a simple line where they're there and he says, okay, so is this a love marriage? That's a, just that little moment right there was that wasn't a throwaway. There was a lot. And I heard a rumor, I saw online after we watched it that almost all except for the guy who was about to be fired, who was gonna go live with his daughter in retire, you know that guy that was about to be fired if they didn't catch the guy. He was the only actor. The others were real policemen. Well, the whole ensemble is believable. You guys can tell us if that's true, if like the main chief is like not an actor and like all these people aren't actors are just policemen because they were really, and that's one of the things I want to talk about. The police scene was almost as good as the ugly scene. Right? You just read my mind again. It's exactly what reminded me of it. It was almost as good as the ugly scene in the police station when he's trying to figure out what's going on and then he just gets up and starts asking the rest. He's like, why did you hit him? Yes. Yes. I was just, I was dying laughing during that scene. I thought it was so funny. He just went like, now it's like the biggest thing is why did you hit him? Why did, why did you? I know, right? No, I agree. That's exactly what it was reminiscent of. And I felt all of the performances and Namisha, there were moments with Namisha where she reminded me of Kajol sometimes when they got pretty close to her face that was very reminiscent to me of her. And I thought everybody was even the smaller roles. There were no hollow characters. And you know what I mean when I say that? One of the things I'm loving about Malolium in the three films we've seen, and I know it's not a lot, but even in Virus, which we liked, but we didn't love. We most liked it. But it's never the acting is a problem. The acting is never a problem. Nope, never. For everybody. For actors is beautiful. Yeah. It's really wonderful. It makes a movie that you might otherwise not have enjoyed worth watching because there's, I mean, we may be biased admittedly, but I can watch actors act all day long. If it's good acting, and maybe the cinematography isn't great, the score isn't great, maybe the story itself isn't great, but I've got some great actors. I'm good to go. Yeah, yeah. So that was great. And then that same actor who was the main, I believe chief of the police station, the young guy with the mustache, he had a couple of great scenes. Like one, it was a long scene, but these people came in and they were talking to him, and they said, this guy slapped me, and I need you to punish him. Yeah, yeah, toward the front of the film. Yeah, so, and he was dealing with that. And then he went out, and then I think he beat Fahat Fasil's character. I think it was, right? And then he came back in, and they kind of just resolved it really quickly. And there was a lot of little subtle things in the film that were just super, super funny that weren't like slapstick. Like, even though I know you guys love the film, the Buhul film with Akshay, that they were almost blatantly trying to make you laugh. I don't think they were trying to make you laugh in here. These were just funny situations. That's hilarious. Funny situations. And little subtle things about the characters as well. We always talk about this in film, show, don't tell. And there was a moment when both of the Prasads were in the river fighting, and he wasn't letting them go. First of all, that was one of my favorite scenes. The river scene was phenomenal. Just everything from the cinematography to the choreography to just every, like when Fahat Fasil at the end just turned around. And he was still holding on. Oh, it was dying. Anyway, it's going. There's a moment in that where Fahat Fasil's Prasad, he's got a big rock in his hand. Yeah. And I thought, you want to get away, crush his head. But he doesn't. And that's because this thief, this bad guy, the supposed antagonist for all intents and purposes, it's not that simple. It's not that simple. There's reasons he's doing what he's doing. And he's actually a soft, generous person who we never even get to know why he was stealing. But the subtext that's given to this guy is don't cast stones on this guy before you look at yourself, because you don't know why he's a thief. The police kept saying, I know this guy. He was doing it with anybody, blah, blah, blah. They're categorizing him like that. But I think one of the biggest messages that this film was trying to get across was that old, I don't know if it's an adage, but would you steal bread to feed your family? Yes. Exactly. That's basically what I think they were trying to get across. Good people will steal if they need to eat or do basic human necessities to live. Yes. But it doesn't make them bad people. Right. And I found even the subtlety, for example, of what was the obvious, but not overt. It was such smart writing and directing. The obvious and not overt corruption of the police, because we've seen it depicted just straightforward corruption, just direct. That's a very common Indian cinema, yeah. Very common, because it's a common occurrence. But what I loved was this juxtaposition of all of this corruption taking place right next to this temple. Mm-hmm. And it wasn't the police who figured out a fight was gonna break out, it was the thief. That's gonna break out. He's the guy who can sense what's going on over there better than the police can. Yeah, just all of these really intelligent, subtle, seemingly, the director and the writer were saying, does anybody else see the incongruancies and the hypocrisy in our society right now? And I'm gonna point it out, kinda. Yeah, it was a really brilliant film and the only reason I say it, I like Cumbology Nights More is because I could watch Cumbology Nights More. That's it, that's all. In Cumbology Nights, I never got bored. And I think, like we were saying, I think this film intentionally bored you at times because that's what it wanted to do in the film. And so I don't hold that against it, it's just in terms of favorites if I had to rank and I like to rank, Cumbology Nights, and then this would be right there, currently, in terms of Millalium films. And so that's great, but I do wanna talk about one more person, what's his name? Sujjar. Yes, Suraj, forgive us, sir. Suraj Benjaramundo. It felt like I've seen him before. I don't know if he just has that face of like in every man face. Yeah, there was a familiarity, I agree. I wouldn't definitively say we have seen him. He had an innocence about him that I liked a lot. And that was the other thing about him too, like at the beginning of the film, the writer and the director was gonna kinda, like my very first note that I wrote down was, hey, people should mind their own business. Don't start spreading this about a girl because she just bought a pregnancy kit. And then when he's getting on the bus, he says, he's kind of blaming her for the necklace being stolen. But that's what I mean by these aren't hollow characters. They're complex. Complex and even people of the highest moral standards, they're gonna do crappy things. They're gonna say crappy things sometimes and they'll do it intentionally. And they're like, man, why did I do that? You know, it was just a smart, smart, smart movie. I thought they also did some intelligent commentary on the cast system because this was, it was very subtle, almost in this film. But obviously these two people were in different casts and the girl was dealing with that, I'm assuming she was a higher cast dealing with her parents and family not approving. But I think the conversation with the dad on the phone, he says, don't come here for a few years, but you know, I think he said, I'll help you with money, right? He did, he did. And that's where like those little things, even it covers so much. It covered cast system, it covered love marriage versus arranged, it covered corruption and hypocrisy and they covered, and when it did it, I just grabbed a penny. It's almost like at the beginning of the movie. It's like, hey guys, look, look, there's some toxic masculinity. Oh, wait a minute, what else are we gonna shoot now? It's like these little, tiny little moments of really beautiful holding up the mirror to society but doing it in such a subtle way that unfortunately those who would need to hear it and learn from it might see this film and go, well, that was boring. Can I go see something? You know what I mean? So, yeah, that was great. Nate plus liked it a lot. So, yeah. By the way, I'm sure there's comments rolling all over the place from this. Did you cut your finger on your channel cooking? I saw the Band-Aid on your finger. No. You did, didn't you? No? Hold on. What was it? Actually, it wasn't on the channel, but it was something. It was while you were prepping. It was while I was prepping. I got, we got a blender because we made Lassie and I was trying to clean it and I put my hand in to take out the blades because they'd come out and I went too far in my hand, sliced on the blade. You have a legit cooking channel now, man. You've spilled blood over that thing. I'm barely, yeah, I'm barely cooked, guys. Don't, please don't get your hopes up for my cooking skills. It's more for the stupidity than the cooking and Leland, of course, he's there. But anyways, yeah, so let us, please let us know because you know I'm obsessed now. What's next for Hot Facile? I know that film that we just watched a trailer for is also by the same director is highly recommended. And I know obviously he's probably one of the best, if not the best to come out of Malolium in terms of current actors. So let us know what of his films we should watch next because I wanna explore him a ton. And what's next in terms of Malolium films we should watch next because I think we're hooked. Three. And all of you, we don't lose hope, everybody. You folks that were excited about the Tamil reaction we just did and it's available on Amazon Prime, we hear you, we're not ignoring you. It's coming. And Tolugu, we got you, don't give up. Guys, there's a lot of industries and we have very little time. Yep. So, I apologize, but yeah, let us know what we should watch next down below. And yes, Bengal, I hear you, my Bengali brothers and sisters, I know. We need to get to you as well. We just watched the Saatchi's Array film, okay? Our stupid reactions, tune in for the...