 Everybody, get your chi, because we're about to do a review. Yep. Protect your moth. This is our stupidity rags, the idiots. I'm Corbin, and this is Richard. Hi. That is also Richard. Whoa. That's nuts. Um, please follow us on Instagram. It's so cute. Should they ring a bell? Maybe. Boom. Even when YouTube doesn't notify you, you're all notifying YouTube. But please do, if they don't notify you. But today, we watched our second Vashal Bardwash film. It's true. We did it. Oh, by the way, just right out the bat. Boy, if you haven't seen the movie, go away. Go away. Spoilers are coming. But this is our second Vashal Bardwash film. Yep. Because we watched a trailer, and then everybody was like, it's a really good film. Gotta watch it, gotta watch it. And of course it was Priyanka, who? Priyanka. And since Barfi, I'm like, yeah, in my mind. But you want to read the synopsis? I will read the synopsis. Yes. Susanna's quest for love leads to a series of managers, each ending in the mysterious death of her latest husband. Stop it. But this is actually a recreation of a short story. Yes. Is it a short story? It was a short story. Not about shorts. I've written those. And I believe the author had an appearance in it as well. Oh, really? Did a little cameo? A little Hitchcockian kind of? Well, I think it was the priest at the end. The ugly one at the bar. Well, I'm ugly one at the bar. We'll get to that in a little bit. I'm glad she didn't marry him. I was like, your standards have gone down a lot. Oh, what if he's a sweetheart? I'm sure he's sweet. Anyways, I'm sure he's a sweetheart. Anyways, but this film, obviously starring Priyanka and Irfan Khan. Yes. And Disney. I was also really surprised. John Abraham? And John Abraham. And I was really surprised to see. Oh, what's his name? Nisiruddin Shah. Yeah, from Deborah. Yeah. And Wednesday. Yes. I think we saw him in the trailer. I think I just forgot. And I forgot about Irfan. I'm watching the movie. And Irfan appeared and then nearly like flew out of my chair. I was so happy. So, yeah. So this film obviously starts off with Priyanka killing yourself. Which I love. I love the opening. The opening was just freaking awesome at every level. I loved it. Right at the start it didn't even really look like Priyanka, but it's because she was older. Right. They put stuff on her face. Right. But to start it off, Priyanka, holy cow. Wow, man. This was an amazing performance. Yeah, I guess. Obviously, we already know she was brilliant. But this is probably, I mean, it'd be between obviously this and Barfi from what we've seen so far. Yeah. And we haven't seen enough of her repertoire. Right. We've got to see fashion. We've got to see the next. We've got to see fashion. But the way she has such screen presence in this and just, it's such a great character. Vashal. Let me talk to you directly because of course you're watching. He's not watching. Anyways, but Vashal, you are so freaking brilliant. The way, one, let's just start with actors. The way he, I think he's an actor's director. He has to be. Because based on this and Hader, he's got to be. Especially the way he's jammed the work with. He has a, he's very different, very totally different. But very Quentin-esque because he has a dark sense of humor. I think. Right. Very different. I see what you're saying. Not stylistically, he's not Quentin. No. But he is Quentin in terms of he paves his own path and does his own thing and is very different. Yeah. Very, very different. Quirky. Yes. The way he, I think, we need to see more of his stuff. Obviously we're going to see McBull and we're going to see all of it. Yeah. That's next on the list for his films. You want to finish that whole Shakespearean trilogy he created, which is, there you go. Right. But the main thing outside of Priyanka that I noticed about this film was, I think he was flexing. I don't know if you noticed with a lot of his shots. Yeah. Just so different and unique. There was one shot he did that I thought, you know what, I wonder how many people were paying attention to that. One shot was down on the table and there was a water pitcher there and he got Priyanka's face through the handle of the water pitcher. Yeah. Stuff like that. Just so many, like, a lot of stuff. The rocking chair where she just kept turning back. Yeah. And out of the light. And same thing with the bell. Uh-huh. Yeah. I loved it when that happened. I was hoping that was going to happen like every single time. Every single time. I know. I was like, oh, I like this little bell thing. She's got it going. Just get away from her. Yeah. But in terms of the film as a whole, I really enjoyed it. I can see, I read some reviews after I watched it and some people were disappointed. I don't know if this had a huge build up because it's a Vishal bard wash film. Yeah. I don't know if it did either because this was pre-hater. Yeah, pre-hater. And so I don't know what the momentum was coming into it. So obviously we didn't have any of that because we just watched the trailer. Right. And you said, watch it. So we watched it. But it's the same thing, very similar in terms of style of hater because if you don't like dialogue and you don't like just watching actors work together, I can see how you might be bored. Right. But I... Right, because you want more from it. But that's where... Yeah. You want action. You want these murder scenes. No. It's one of the things we love about Tarantino is because he's just freaking nothing but dialogue and interaction. I mean, he'll take 20 minutes to tell you something other directors will do him too. I saw some reviews that said it got just repetitive. But I'm like, oh, that's the film. It's literally about him killing or her killing. Yeah. What did they find repetitive? Because I find... People. I didn't find anything repetitive at all. I loved each... I knew he was in this film, but I totally... While watching, I did not know it was John Abraham. Yeah, I remember. I knew it was when I saw it. Yeah. Yeah, I recognized him. After I was like, where is... Oh, he was the second guy. Right, right, right. Gotcha. But I loved how she killed each one of them. I did too. It makes me so happy. See, Corbin loves death. I do. I do love death. And what did you not like anything about the film? The only thing... This is really nitpicky because I'm always going to look for things to be nitpicky about. Of course. And I have something. Something like Hater where I have nothing to say about you. That was just... That extraordinary when I can't find anything. Well, it was just rare. There was one thing in there for me. Yeah, okay. But for this, there were a couple of things of believability of some of the much smaller supporting roles at times. Not all the time, but at times. Yeah. Where I didn't believe them at times. But it wasn't enough to pull me away. Second, I had to force myself not to compare it to some other films. And this requires some explaining. It's my understanding that as far as a genre, this kind of film, dark comedy, done this way, this film was pretty groundbreaking. That a lot of... For example, a lot of filmmakers might not want to do it, and a lot of Indian actresses might not want to take on this because the character is playing such a strange role. Which is why I compared it a lot to Tarantino. Yes. Because it was so different. And it even goes farther than that from me. And I was comparing it to my favorite oddball, dark comedy, weird, what the heck is going on, borderline on, is the director insane, or do they have a message in their genius? In Bruges. In Bruges. The lobster. Oh, yeah. Grand Budapest Hotel. Oh, yeah. Okay, so if you haven't seen those three ladies and gentlemen. We compare them a lot to... Who's that? Wes Anderson? Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson? Yeah. Even though he's not totally different. Totally different. But in terms of style of the films he likes, I think. Right. So those films for me are about as weird oddball, dark comedy as it gets, especially the lobster. I love the lobster. I love that movie. With really deep connections to Greek mythology and literature. Did you notice the books that he kept tossing in a little bit? Like at one point it was so subtle. What? The book on the table that she was reading that was the Seven Wives of Bluebeard. And then at one point she's reading a book and it's Anna Karenina. Which there's these... He's such an intelligent writer, composer. Yeah. The music, we can talk about the music. Yeah, but anyway, and we need to talk about... We're going to be here a while. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. And most of them use their 20 minutes. So here, those films for me, if people were going to say to me, what are your favorite dark comedy oddball things? I just re-brought it from top of my head. In Bruges, The Lobster, Grand Budapest. This didn't reach that level for me. But I think it does reach that level. In fact, it's probably higher on that level when it comes to Indian cinema. Because those films were not groundbreaking in American cinema. Yeah. Does that make sense? I agree with you. In certain aspects I do in terms of the film as a whole. Yeah. And part of that is restraints that he would have on him from the censorship board that the filmmakers here don't have. Yeah. That he has to work around. But he'll still be cutting edge. I think he got a better performance out of Priyanka. Well, that's... In those three... We're going to get there in a second. We'll get there in a minute. And then also, I think, artistically, I couldn't get over... It was similar to... Sanjay did the... Padma? Yeah. Yeah, and Bajirao. Similar in terms of... While watching the film, you can just watch it just for what he does in terms of visuals. But very different. Very interesting. I could watch the film just because of the creative shots. Yes. He did. They're not, for example, Padma... Sanjay is a very visual... Yes. Painter. Yes. Of image where your job will drop and you'll just look at an image and go, I cannot believe that image. He can do that, I'm sure. Yes. But that's not the way he directs a film. No. He directs a film in a way that a Wes Anderson would direct a film where you're going to get a shot that's going to do... His scripts are probably full of POV. Point of view from this person. Even the shots, for example, when she's having sex with the guy. Oh, that was a great shot. Yeah, it starts with her. Very unique set. You know they can have the normal sex scene. Right. They can't do an all-out sex scene like they did here. Yeah. But to show her that way and then to go back down on him like that... Just a little... Yeah. Across the eye. Yeah. He does some things that are really script-driven. Yeah. Very... I think he would be more in tune to how much is this driving the story forward and giving the perspective I want you to have. And I think that that's probably Sanjay's mindset as well. But he would do that with a much more lyrical visual palette. Yeah. If that makes sense. Not that they can't... Not that either director couldn't do the other, but I think their default is that. Now let's talk about Priyanka. Oh, yeah. I think we did it a little bit. I got a lot to say about it. Okay. Well, Priyanka... And we'll talk about the end at the end. Yes. Because... Yes. I love the ending. I love the ending. We're going to get to the ending. But yes, Priyanka was... Okay. And it was very comparable to Shahid Kapoor's performance in The Hater in terms of the gravitas of it. The danger. Yes. She's a dangerous woman. Yes. And I love it. She's a dangerous actor, ladies and gentlemen. And please, Hollywood, actually use her. Okay. Freaking idiot. I got to say it. I got to say everything I'm feeling about this. I'm going to blow up. Okay. First of all, what I'm about to share is... So this isn't an Ali about highway performance for you. Yeah, no. And I love you, Alia. You know I love you. No, you're not part of the fan club anymore. Go. Now, the first thing I'm going to say about Priyanka is purely subjective. I don't expect anyone else to necessarily gravitate toward this. Okay. Okay. It's going to seem strange at first because it relates to Marilyn Monroe. That's why it's going to seem strange. Okay. In case you didn't know, I got a thing for Marilyn Monroe. Always have since I was a little boy. There are certain things in this world that have a captivation for me I can't explain. That go way beyond just a sight, whatever. And the beauty of Marilyn Monroe has always been something that captivated me and... Okay, that's what you're talking about. She has captured on screen and her presence on screen and on photographs. When I look at Marilyn Monroe, it's almost otherworldly because, and she's both, she can be sexy, she can be vulnerable, she can be innocent. Man, if she hadn't died because I know she wanted, like Elvis, she wanted to be a serious actor. She wanted to go beyond what she had created with the sexual bombshell. And she was probably why I never really cared for her. She really did. You know, she studied with Brando and everybody else that was there with Lee Strasberg. Doesn't mean she was... And James Dean. No, but she, that's where she went, like Elvis. But that's how you think of Priyanka? In two respects. First of all, I can't believe I'm saying this. I have not seen an actress on screen that draws me to her with that sense of her beauty, both sexy, vulnerable, crazy, playful, since Marilyn Monroe. I've never said that about an actress. So that's that. Now let's add a brand beer. That's true. Well, if she grew a beard, fuck on. Now let's talk about the woman as an actor. She's got the closest shot, and I hate saying this, but it's the truth. Because of her receptivity in American culture and stuff, like with Quantico and some other things that she's done, she's got the closest shot to be in something of American cinema and be the first actress from out of India to win an Academy Award for supporting her best actress. Well, if they ever put her in something, that's... That's what they've got. That's all they need to do. Don't put her in a big watch. Just put her in something. Because this was 2011, I think, right? Yeah, something like that. Barfi came after this, and you can see her growth as an actor at that point. This woman has got the chops to become if people would just put her in it here. And not that that's the quintessential end all be all, but for American viewers who I want to know about the quality that comes out of India, she could win multiple Oscars. She's that freaking good of an actor. She blows my mind. And dangerous, because the greatest actors are the ones like... That's one of my favorite things about Daniel Day-Lewis, is that I feel like if you were working with her in a scene, which is what I want from an actor when I'm working with them, I want to know that I have no idea what they're going to do in any given minute. I want to know that at any moment, and every time you do the scene, there's going to be something completely different. The first one was better. But that in the moment impromptu, I'm like, I guarantee that moment when she said and I'm going to drink his blood, that wasn't scripted. And I bet she didn't do that in any other case. I don't think so. Well, I think that was just her. Here's why, because she was talking about Jesus. Oh, so that makes you do this? Holly, I thought you were talking about this. No, not the line. Okay. I'm just going to take it out of the tongue. I think that was just pre-on. I understand what you're saying. Being a character. I can't say enough about her. We can talk about, obviously, everybody, I thought, one, I love this character because I didn't expect his character, Irfan Khan. Irfan Khan, I know that being abusive, weenie. Yeah. Wow. He was a weird abusive. He was weird abusive. He liked to be punished people during sex. Yeah. Which, I mean, it's one thing to say. That's another thing to go... Ah! Stop it! Okay. Yeah, I didn't like when she got... When people were hitting her, I wanted to get up out of the screen and say, leave Priyanka alone, you bastard. The two actors, I think, that I didn't like, and surprise, surprise, they were both white. Yeah. The Russian guy. I agree. That's when I was saying some of the supporting roles. Yeah. I wasn't in love with Hardon. Like I said, though, if you need any token white people, man, I'm over here for you. Yeah. We're ready. I'll do it for free. Sure. We really will. But, um, yeah. So those are the only actually issues I had with the film, because I fully loved it and I loved watching her performance. But now we can talk about the end. Yeah! Love the ending. I... The whirling dervish thing with Jesus? Yeah. Are you kidding me? Uh, the, uh... It's fantastic. So I was trying to predict the end. And I was like... I told you, I was like, I was disappointed. Yeah. I was like, she's getting married to this. Well, and that's the other thing. Yeah. The fact that the getting married part, that little twist on the fact that he was a priest and the marriage was her coming to be a nun. Mm-hmm. You didn't see that coming, did you? No. Yeah, no way. None at all. I thought it was just another... I thought, she's marrying the guy because he's got money and she's just another husband. And so I didn't know, and that guy, the boy, Sugar, whatever his name was, very, very interesting. Every time he was on the screen, I was like, that looks like... 100%. Indian, Joseph Gordon, let me know. Yeah, very much. But, uh... That's what I would cast if we were doing this film. Yeah. We needed to get somebody from our current actors that we know. Exactly. But the, um... the ending... Oh, and obviously that performance that she gave when he was walking away and she's like, I'm going to drink a blood. And then you actually figure out what she's talking about? Yes. I'm like, Jeanette, obviously, it was obviously the writing from the book that I'm guessing this was from. Right. I suppose that's part of it. But I don't know if it's like a jab at, like, Christianity. Right. Or what it is. Yeah. I kept looking for messages in the film. Yeah. Well, because each of the guys represents one of the seven deadly sins. Right. And I thought, this is also something, it's the seven deadly sins, but then it's also the things that are expected of women to be and the roles they're supposed to play. And is this a message about how a woman is going to be kicking against the system and kill the stereotypes that they have of them. Yeah. And then when it went to that, I had the same thought. I'm like, I was like, wow. So I didn't know if the message was like, so basically in Christianity, you can do whatever you want as long as you're forgiven in the end. You can kill all your husband. Because I think it, seven kumas means seven sins forgiven. I think so. Which, the one thing I also wish the ending was a little bit different, did you stay and you see the end credit scene? Yeah. I would have preferred it was just left alone with her saying, father, forgive me. Yeah. And boo. I don't know why they added that. Maybe you can let us know why. Yeah, let us know why we needed that. Please. Because I didn't need it. Wouldn't we talk to you? Let us know. Yes. Because we know how you should have ended your film better than you. I'm telling Vishal how to direct this. Okay. Okay. Anyways, but yeah, the ending, I love that it left you with questions. And what it meant. And that it was so out of the blue, at least to me, because I think it's a very popular book. So maybe people were disappointed because they knew the ending. Right, the ending. Good point. For those of us, because when you see a movie that's based on a book and you already know the book, totally different than someone who knows nothing about the material. Yeah, going in. Yeah, so it was completely out of left field that she became a nun. Oh, and we thought she was talking about I'm going to drink his blood and she was talking about the blood of Jesus. The first... We'll get back to the end. The first husband of all the husbands was the one who I had the hardest time believing he was the character. He was that guy with the leg missing. Oh, yeah. He was another one. But I go back to the beginning because we've been saying that because we're talking about the end. This movie gets just better and better as it goes. It's just like this beautiful bottle of wine that you just... You have another glass and it's just, wow, this is really good. Another glass. Wow, this is better than I had the first glass. I love the incorporation of her servants that were basically her henchmen. Her henchmen weirdos. Yeah. At first I didn't think I was going to like the little guy. Right. And because he said something and I was like, oh, God. When you first see him, I'm like, oh, no. Please don't. But he grows on you. He grows on you and then you figure out what they're doing. He can't speak. Right. And all that kind of stuff. I thought that was very quinesque in terms of having this little guy fight this big guy. Yeah. Very. I love that. Yeah. And then he loses an eye. Yeah. I thought that was a great fantastic. So that was a brilliant film. I love this film so much. I'm sorry if you didn't. A lot of you did. Yeah. Most of you do. For those of you who didn't like it, you must not like dark comedies or have seen many dark comedies because this is a dark comedy which apparently is groundbreaking in terms of what it covers for Indian cinema. Yeah. We get a lot of it here in the cinema that's done here. We mentioned those movies before. But to me, if you have a lesser actress in this, this could easily tank. But I don't know. Because it's so on her shoulders. I think Rashal could get it out of a lot of people. I think he's one of those directors like Aquinas. It gets the best. You know what I would love to know? Out of them? Yes. Out of Leo? I would love to know Priyanka as she's grown as an artist. She didn't start off as an actor. I mean, she studied some theater. I've done a little background study on her. She studied some theater when she came to America. So I think she always had a love for the art form. But she's very smart. She was going to be an engineer. And then when she went into the beauty contest and she won, that's what gave her the prominence where she started to get asked to be in some films. Oh, cool. So this came on the more early side. And I wonder how much of working with him brought things out of her. I wonder if this was a scary film for her to do because she was so unsure of herself. But she just took risks. And that's what I mean, man. She's dangerous. I think this woman would do anything you ask her to do in her role. Even on the spot. Like he could come over to her and say, okay, we're going to do a totally different script that I want you to do this. And that she as a person might be terrified of that choice. But that she would say, yes, let's go with that. So this is just fun. I love this film. Yeah, I do too. I'm so excited too. Fully. I mean, I still think I put Hater ahead for me just because I don't... It's flawless. Yeah, it's just I couldn't find anything wrong. But it's right there, especially in terms of films we've watched. It's definitely in my top 10, maybe even top five. Well, yeah, in many respects because it's a genre we've not even seen touched. I thought this actually had some even better shots in it directorial wise than Hater did. It did because it was quirkier. Yes. It's just crazy to say because Hater's so freaking quirkier. Yeah, yeah, it is. But yeah, it was... Here's the other thing. Man, we could keep going. His direction. I love him. He's not... He too is a dangerous director. I don't think that that guy's going to do anything just because it's worked before. Oh, no, I think he'll make choices with his shots because it's a fresh vision. I don't think he would do a film like this. No, if you... Or a film like Shakespeare. No, and then re-adapt it like that. Yeah. If he was a safe director. Yeah, I assume. Anyways, we'll love it. Yeah, please put us in your films.