 Condo, condo, condo, condo, condo, Lizo Rice. What? Ha ha ha ha. OK. Back to a Super Ram and it's up Corbin. Oh, hi, everybody. He false it. Instagram, Twitter, Twitter. Twitter, more juicy, juicy, juicy, juicy. It's shows, it's juicy, juicy. Back! But first need to challenge. Oh, it's still going up. That's what you say? This is a children's channel. Not anymore. The intro just says Mother. What's wrong with that? Yeah, what was it? It's true. I get an email from like an angry person every day. I know, all the time. Do you know what? They said, would you take that out? I said, fuck, no, no. Anyway, today we are doing a movie review of the, it says 2018, but I'm pretty sure this came out in 2020. I thought it was 2022. I think it came out in 2020. I agree. Just at the end of last year. I hope you think so. But it's the film, Sir, on Netflix. It's directed and written by and produced, Rohanna Guerra, is that right? Yeah. And starring Telo Thama. Yes, Telo Thama, showman. I believe there's a right pronunciation for that. And then Vivek Gomber. Vivek Gomber. Yeah. And those are the two main people. Interesting. Do me a favor, click on Vivek, because I see obviously IMDB does not show any kind of a head shot in there. Looks like. Okay, yeah. Producer, he's in a short film. Producer, producer. Right. And he was in court. What was he? Was he the lawyer? Most of it's something small. Was he the lawyer in court? I'd have to go back and look. Anyways, regardless. Anyway, so this could be a spoiler review. It's 90 minutes. It's on Netflix. Go watch it. Come back if you don't want to be spoiled. But the premise essentially is... Say that? A prosperous young Indian man falls in love with his servant, a widow, with the dream of becoming a fashion designer. That is, that's what it's about. Yeah. That's, that's... You just saw the movie. All right, so Rick, your initial thoughts, please. I liked it. I wanted to love it based... I remember watching the trailer. There were some expectations I had based on the trailer. It's definitely worth watching, especially for her. She told Thomas Chomei, she clearly, I have not looked at her resume, but I can tell from what she does on screen that she is an experienced actress. I'll be shocked if she's not, and it's just a joy to watch her be this person. Part of my challenge is I'll get into with you after the initial outset. I just, based on the trailer and some other things, I thought we were gonna get... I thought we'd halfway through get into the love story and spend at least half of the film watching them struggle to survive in the midst of a society that says you can't be together. The trailer kind of gave me that expectation. Yeah, it did. So the fact that it didn't do that, as well as some other things we'll talk about, made it be something where I think if you watch it, you'll like it, but it's not something that you love. And it hurts, because the script is so good that it had the potential. Even without the middle thing I was hoping for, there's some other things we'll get into that I think could have made this a film I would have loved in its current state. Yeah, I liked it as well. I didn't love it. I could have. Just like you said, I absolutely could have. There was some stuff that definitely got in the way of that, but it definitely wasn't her. She's a shining star. She's, I'm excited to know her. I'd love to see more of her, cause she's phenomenal. She believed every single moment she was on screen. Every moment. And yeah, so she never really had a false moment. I actually didn't have a problem, even though they did give me that interpretation. I was like, oh, I thought this was, we were like three, fours the way through. And I was like, I thought this was almost a love story. Me too. And I didn't see the tension of the struggle. And so actually I didn't mind that, even though that's what I was expecting, I didn't mind it so much because I like those endings. I personally was okay. My wife actually, she was like, ah, I prefer them to show their relationship. I was like, the struggle. I don't. I actually preferred that ending with just actually, I would have been actually okay if they never saw each other again. And she got what she was looking for and then he moved on, which actually that might been of what happened. We don't actually know. They left it open to interpretation at the end with her saying his name, which was a indication of maybe she's ready to move forward, but also he's not there anymore. Right. So he could be in America and he could just be calling to be like, I hope you have a great life. Or they could have started up. So I actually do enjoy that part of it, of leaving the opportunity to interpretation. But I do get what you're saying. It totally led me to believe that this was gonna be a struggling love story of what are they gonna say in terms of his family and also what are they gonna say in terms of her friends and associates? Exactly. The cast system and all that. And I agree with you. That's the smaller reason for me not loving the film because I do think there's some things that could have been different that would have made me love it. And here's the main thing. I could tell, which is why I asked you to look at his IMDb page. I could tell the difference between our two leads and their capacity to carry a film. And had this been her with someone like a, obviously Irfan. So let's say Irfan is kind of like saying, yeah, sure, let's get a pink diamond. Yeah, Daniel Day-Lewis, it probably would have been good. But of our current crop of actors, the two people that came to mind immediately, the first one was Rajkumar Rao. Yeah, he did. And then the other person I could have seen in this role and would have given the, we'll talk about this, would have been Ranbeer. Ranbeer, or BG Varma as well. He was my third. Yeah, yeah. I thought about VJ as well. He could have absolutely done this role with it. So he wasn't, he wasn't awful. No, no. Okay, he wasn't awful. But he, especially the moments when he was speaking English. And I don't know why it was mostly when he was speaking English that it, even though the entire time you could see he wasn't as strong as she was. But it was especially, almost all the scenes, I don't know if you felt this way, that were English in terms of him talking to his mom, him talking to his friend, him at the party. And where everybody was speaking cause they were all rich or they were all speaking English. All those scenes felt very weird to me. And I don't, I don't really know why. I've seen Indian films with English before, but those entire scenes all felt very strange to me and like very like, but forced. You booboo, you booboo, you booboo. They were that part. I think he got much better when he was speaking in Hindi, but he still, he wasn't a strong actor by any means. So for example, I believed, and it was really obvious, it's funny when you're a part of Indian culture at an intimate level. Keep going. The, the, are they here? I don't know. Oh, keep going. The, no. Okay. When you're a part of Indian culture and you know what's going on with, for example, saying thank you and please, that doesn't happen very often. It's considered very strange to say thank you, especially in the realm of having a household servant. So the moment when he first said thank you to her and Johnny watched it with me, he said thank you to her. And I said, okay, wow, that's weird. And she said, yeah. She said, he's probably been to America. And then when it turned out later, after he said thank you and please, you're like, that's interesting. Yeah, he's been to America. And I believed, I believed. I wouldn't have picked up on that. Right. Yeah, we both did. It was like, the thank you and please here. I mean, we know that Mumbai is a bit more close to LA, but this guy for sure. So I believed that this character had been to the States and back. But the larger aspect for me was twofold for him in the portrayal of the character. The first one was just the, every time we were on screen, there was just the gravity being carried by Tillitthama with her capacity as an actor. Everything going on with her internally. And luckily, she was the main person most of this film. Right. Much of the time I found, and this may have been something where, and I've done this myself as an actor, where every decision you're making internally, you think is becoming part of the character. But when you watch it on screen, you're like, oh wow, that didn't translate at all. I wonder if he feels that way watching this because what I wanted and didn't have was this. I didn't care about their relationship. I didn't necessarily believe that they were desperately in love with each other, especially with him. It felt like he was just rebounding after the girl had left him. I didn't find him to be particularly charismatic. I didn't see any, when they finally get to the point where he's gonna give her a kiss, I would have hoped that in the script and in everything, the feeling would have been, the tension is so palpable, you can cut it with a knife and the audience is going, finally. We are finally getting the kiss from them because it's so obvious these guys are in love and the only thing keeping them apart is this class thing that they know they have to live in he doesn't wanna cross a line and she doesn't wanna cross a line. I didn't, none of that was palpable for me. Even on the rooftop, I didn't feel like he was holding back from if you're with the woman you love and wanna be with, I just felt like he was up there having a conversation with her. Maybe that was the point, I guess. But yeah, I definitely felt that he was the part of the film and I don't know what you mean, but he was the part that really kept me from loving the film as opposed to me. I liked the film, but keeping me from loving it. And that's the thing, this is one of those weird ones where you can't just point to it and go, okay, that was bad acting because for the most part, he didn't have anything that was glaringly bad. We're talking about these added elements and it's, again, not fair to say if you have an Irfan or a Ranbir or a Vijay or a Rajkumar Rao, they're gonna bring a level of connectivity to it that she brings, she's that level of screen presence. So it sounds like we're ripping on the poor guy. And I think it does come from experience as well, the incarnating of the character in a way that makes it palpable in the way that she did because as much as I didn't love the film, if this was on television, if I'm flipping through the channels, looking for something to watch and it's on, I would watch just so I get to watch her axiomally. I really enjoyed every single scene that she was the one that was, every single scene that she was in and she was the main one acting, I really, really enjoyed it because I thought she is such great screen presence, she's beautiful and also the way that it was written as well in terms of, it was so sad, some of these scenes. Absolutely, they were. When she was, she, obviously all of his family and the friends were extremely rude and then him trying to be like, she means what? I'm like, no, she fucking doesn't. Right, right. She's a dick. No. If you treat your servants that way. Yeah. Go fuck yourself. People are people, everybody deserves to be treated with respect. Exactly. Except for Rick. That's true. But no, like especially the party scene where she was serving, no one looked at her. Yeah, I know. Not like, not even treating her like a human. But that's, and that's true. Yeah. Andrani specifically pointed that out to me. She said, I paused it and she was waving at me and I paused it through the phone and she said, that is absolutely, she said, you guys don't have that in the United States. You have classism and you definitely have the racism aspect. Oh, for sure. But the whole cast and class issue where a servant is not treated with respect that is absolutely 100% true. Like when she was thrown out of the fashion shop. Yes, she said specifically, that happens. Or when she tripped over and that designer was a major dick to her. And then she was the nice one in the end. They gave her a job. Right. Okay, whatever. Well, and I didn't appreciate it. A shout out as well. Again, this is why I was so wanting to love the film. I thought the, I think the story in the script is strong. Very strong. I think the cinematography was gorgeous in some of those shots. I loved her dancing scene. I did too. I loved, like she just let loose. She let loose. And it was wonderful. And I loved some of those establishing shots of Mumbai beautiful to see the city. And so sad that there's a point. Again, a cultural thing. Halfway, not even halfway through the film. I said to Andrani, I said, why is he living all by himself? That's so odd in Indian culture. To be, and Andrani pointed out. Yeah, she got, he was supposed to be married. He was supposed to be getting married. So they were going to be together. But he's still there and he's still alone. So this extra sense of isolation does convey something particularly to an Indian audience of how empty and alone he would feel with not only he's been cheated on, he's not going to marry her. And he's also choosing to stay there. So he clearly doesn't have close enough family relations which is very Western. And so I wish I could have loved the film. And this just happened before where we really wanted to love a film and we just ended up liking it. That's happened before. But it's definitely, I think it's worth a watch. It is worth a watch. And I think I'd give it a B minus. Overall, a B, right? I might even give it a B solely because I think the story is good enough. She's great. She is all the reason in the world you want to watch it. She just is a beautiful actress to watch on screen. It was just a few things that I think could have taken it from being a good film to a great film. Agreed. But yeah, so let us know what you thought about this film and why we're idiots. I'm sure you will. You always do. So let us know what's the next film we should watch down below.