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It's his adaption well his Take on dev das that's been done what 10 or 11 times in Indian cinema a lot Obviously, we've seen that the dev das with shovel con And that's the and a shawari a rye and Midori Dixit exactly But this is and I like that one and you didn't I think this is on your kashi up's third film I think it was or somewhere around there. We don't read this on opposite for me, right? I do after breaking up with his childhood sweetheart a young man finds solace and drugs Meanwhile a teenage girl has caught in the world of prostitution. Will they be destroyed or will they find redemption? Sounds like an uplifting story It does Yeah, and is it let me see I'm looking at his filmography and where it falls in his I Know it's early. I think it was third or some somewhere around there Because it was well his first film got banned and I still don't think it was released and then I think it was black Friday Okay, yeah, I don't know for sure But anyway, it is definitely earlier 2009 2009 and it was introducing Colky Keklin It was all that I did see that in that. Well, that was that was interesting. I didn't know he's the one that introduced her But it's obviously directed in partly written by I'm right kashi up composers. I'm at Trivedi Or trivet trivedi trivedi starring Say their names for me Rick Absolutively starring I forgive me if I mispronounce his name. I believe it's pronounced a by a by dill who plays who plays dev Mahi Gil who plays parol and obviously we mentioned Colky Keklin Those are the three main characters three main ones. Yeah but so Once again, 100% spoiler review. This has been out since 100% percent So go watch it come back if you don't want to be spoiled if you do want to be spoiled You're a you're a spoiled little boy. You naughty So initial thoughts Rick Well, I'm gonna there'll be a lot of stupid babies who are probably gonna be very upset with me Because I did not like it. Yeah, it wasn't my favorite Yeah, yeah, it's it was I wanted I really wanted to Like and I there was I didn't hate every single part of it There were there were there were parts that I did enjoy In terms of one cinematography shot some of a New York Cushy ups and his cinematographers I love. Yeah, let's a lot of the song. Let's start off with that Let's start off with what we liked but Well, there were there was a lot of shots in it That that I did enjoy a lot There's one where I think he was on a balcony with Kalki the main guy in Kalki And I think the street was on this side And then there was like the red room on this side or no the room was green on this side And then there was a sign right in the middle and it was just just a beautiful shot and there was a lot of shots like that and that you could see that On your again is in a cinematographer were Playing with a lot, but I think the budget for this was actually lower. Let me see 60 Million that can't be correct Yeah, I know that can't be correct I'd be I'd be shocked But yeah, it's the I did enjoy that part of it I really enjoyed the a lot of the songs actually in this I'm sure he's really good when a fair part was I don't know if you did you catch the cameo in it? I Caught a lot of the Devdas Easter eggs. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no No, I Totally missed it. No one was there. Yeah, it was when Elvis He was one of the Elvis dudes. He was one of the Elvis dudes. I completely did not pick up on that at all Yeah, yeah So I really enjoyed that because one it didn't even look like I'm like at all But I enjoyed how once again how he uses music in his films I did enjoy I did enjoy that part because it was especially when though that song came on because it was just two Elvis dudes singing almost not that well And I thought it was supposed to be like a like a funny part of the thing And so I was I like that and then a lot of the actual songs in it And the way he played with music that way I enjoyed What do you think about the parts that you like? Yeah, here's the things that I like There's probably four right off the top of my bat You've already mentioned them, so I'm gonna be piggybacking on some of the things you that you said The first being I thought the use of the all of the music in it was great I thought the cinematography was great. I thought this is Another thing that I think Probably is the best thing about it and something I would understand as to why people like this was in 2009 and based on what we've read about it and heard about it is that this Basically took all Bollywood convention and just kicked it between the legs and said We don't have to make a Hindi film That follows any kind of stereotype you want to do a musical number cool Watch me give you these three guys doing this kind of breakdown. There's your Bollywood number I I almost think it wasn't fair of us To watch They I mean because it was kind of like actually what I did with Quentin I had never seen Pulp Fiction until a few years ago And I had seen almost every single one of other of his films. It's newer films, right? And so his budget was bigger. His writing is established. He has the unlimited budget Yeah, his directing got better the cast got better And then I went back and I watched Pulp Fiction for the first time and I was just underwhelmed I was like, right? Why do people like this so much? I don't write in it's almost unfair because you've seen the the film the The director and him grow as an artist and get a lot better and obviously when but the budget's bigger and That means the writing sure acting's better. The the sets are better. So I'm wondering if that's part of it Is that we just we just got off of watching ugly and no was it in Siddiqui in in in 2.0? It almost wasn't fair Yeah, I I can see your point. Yeah, I Think I was able to disassociate myself and recognize the fact that this was his earlier Endeavors and and the other thing I was gonna say about it is it's this is a strange comment But I really believe this it's one of the better directed films. I really disliked. Yeah And that's it's fair. Go ahead. Go ahead. I think the main reason I disliked it And you probably agree with me was the main guy who played deaf He was not good. I have a lot of I have a lot of reasons. I disliked the film. Hi, and and he He is one of them. Yeah And and I want to I want to be honest without being brutal because I can be brutal with this. So yeah But he Acting is the most important part of films to me it's like the first thing that I know and might not be for everybody but I think It's hard to overcome bad acting you can overcome bad writing We've seen it in like Venom that had future writing, but Tom Hardy made that film watch Tom Hardy saved it You can overcome even bad directing with good acting And but all those things are important for a great film to come together all of them have to be great But absolutely, it's hard to overcome if you have bad acting Yeah, it was especially from your lead. It's it's hard to watch It's hard for me to root for him if I'm supposed to root for him. Yes Because I'm just I'm rooting for him to like die because I I want him to be off-screen It's one of those things I was just I was I was hoping he would stop coming on screen Yeah, I It was interesting because I found him to be enjoyable in Deborah That's the only other place we've seen him. I thought he was he was really good in that This and I'm looking at it right now and it's I'm finding out Kind of what I expected I Don't His casting people. I don't know that he ever used them again I could be wrong, but I don't see that his casting people in this well to be the same people He's used before it's a one. It was an early work for him. So he's still right on your I'd cost you up the name And so it's it's understandable But it's also once again at the time just like even though people love Pulp Fiction now It's that was a groundbreaking film especially in Bollywood to do this in Bollywood cinema No one's ever really done this before and so I get that I do yeah And I get I get why people like it but coming from 2.0 and coming from ugly and gangs It's a severe downgrade Yeah, it really is it's a sophomoric all at times he made some continuity mistakes that just that was as much as I It was one of those things where you can see the diamond in the rough You really can you can see and this is why I like seeing it in the order We're seeing it because going back to see his earlier thing. I can see I can see the brilliance that is about to come out and And But but I just I could not get past the uniformly bad acting from everyone Yeah, it was there was hardly anyone even colky at times I would she got better as I think she got into her older self in the film But when she was trying to be a kid it was hard to watch And that's strange coming from colky You know, we love colky Yeah, it is but at the same at the same time. I understand it because I'm supposing at that time, you know She she clearly had not and I bet she looks back on that and she might even cringe Seeing her earlier work because she's everybody every actor every artist grows and gets better as they move on and yeah I mean the one word that is The most important thing for acting is believability And and even within the construct for example of something as stylized as as dev dasa's Theatricality For me, I know you disagreed for me. It didn't lose its believability for me even though it was stylized for this example Being honest without being brutal because I don't want to be unkind to the man Because I'm sure he was doing his best with what he had I I could be wrong But the character of dev. I honestly don't know that that man's ever had a drink in his life the actual actor It's possible. Yeah, I don't believe he's ever had alcohol before He's clearly never been drunk And I I never believed he ever had an alcohol or a drug problem ever Yeah, I I've also found the and this I just I found some moments with Writing to be hard to deal with just yeah, I had to labor through this one Yeah, and it was unfortunate because I was I was really looking forward to it Seeing the trailer to great, but So I don't I don't really know maybe it's just one that's not for us It's more for Indian audiences that that happens for maybe I just don't like dev das the story Because I well I hate it would be different because this wasn't dev das the story This was this was that was another thing I had about this where at first I thought I Was wondering I almost was wondering if he was trying to play a mage to the SRK one with some of the overacting Because that's that's the only because I've not seen any bad acting in any of his films This is the first time True, I was like we just we just talked about how the last two films we saw was the brilliance of ensemble work And this is the exact opposite of that. So I was trying to figure out what I mean once again It could be because he didn't have as much control At that time in his career because it's if it's a second or third film You even even if they were hits you still don't have the power as he does now as being all the man on your Kashiya And so that's I didn't I didn't understand. I hated Devon this one I'm glad I I'm glad he Realized he was it was almost a Romeo and Juliet story where I knew he never loved this girl And I think he just wanted to have sex with her and then he decided to hit her every single time She decided to deny him sex. It was a very Romeo and Juliet kind of story and I hate Romeo and Juliet as you know Yeah, yeah, well, I actually I actually think Romeo and Juliet had love so I don't I The thing for me was it wasn't even an adaptation It was just a borrowing and then it's transmutating or something other than well That's what he was. He wasn't trying to make a Devdas. I do know this He was trying to he wasn't trying to make like the 10th Devdas film He was maybe he was putting a spin on a story that's been told a thousand times And so he was he was trying to breathe life into it And and maybe if we have seen all those other films we'd be able to appreciate it more because people had seen it I don't know I can't tell you maybe I like I said I don't want to harp on it too much But we didn't enjoy this one is definitely my least favorite on your Kashiya film But you know, I loved every single other one Yeah, I I don't know how much Devdas the film with SRK and Ashwari Rai were It's my understanding that it was pretty Complimentary and accurate and translating the book into its film version the Sanjay Leela Bansali version that we've seen and So much of that story everything from The the the cultural significance not that this had to be Bengali and its nature But at least give me something more of the cultural significance that it meshes everybody into the culture as well as I find The elements in that story are so strong the love the thing that holds Devdas together is the love story between Dev and Ashwari Rai the the SRK Ashwari Rai connection and the the tragedy of them not being able to be together and To see that story and I'm completely open to directors getting a complete new vision I think interpreting and throwing it up there I didn't mind that because obviously, you know, I didn't really care for that story anyways but I think he was going for more of a like what if they didn't it didn't end up like a normal Devdas and He it was more of a just this it turned into a toxic thing What if Dev? Yeah came toxic Which is you know something on your I would explore in his films What if a character became just he became an alcoholic a drug addict and he was just toxic to everybody around him And it just it didn't turn out like you normally wanted to that something on your own would do and I think that's why he He did it And so that that part I don't I don't really mind And I do enjoy him trying to take those liberties with that story It's just I wanted it's hard for me to get past just the acting Because if that doesn't work, I can't believe anything else Yeah, which is what happened in the the former Devdas, right and again again as as much as there should be a Recognition of the breaking of conventions, right? Yeah, so so for the breaking of conventions is a wonderful thing But to do it without also incorporating because there are films We saw that are of this period that were made in 2009 or earlier that that the acting was really good And this was Uniformly there wasn't any performance in this that I thought was believable That that and that was the biggest disappointment for me of all I agree with you was I had never got invested in any characters I was never enraptured by anybody's performance. I found things to be Unbelievable I found some continuity errors again the accentuation being for a movie that I really disliked I Have to applaud what was a really wonderful work of score. I thought the score was actually quite engaging I found a lot of the cinematography choices and the direction of the way things were framed and the way they were moved to be a Real clue to the fact it's like if I watched somebody's student film I would I would look past all of the things that aren't supposed to be high caliber and I would go You know what there's a pretty fantastic director in the making right there And that's that's the one takeaway from this for me where I think this reveals that the guy behind all of this Was about to become great So yeah, and I'd be interested to see like his even earlier works and just that or more I think Because I think most of his stuff is all originals is the only thing that's an adaption. I could be totally wrong in that but the the Black Friday is about the the Bombay shootings Then I Think gulal has more of a political thing behind and even those have like Actors we love I think the black Friday has won from gangs in it a couple people and then I think gulal is KK men in Guess it I don't remember off the top of my head one. I know I know I know KK men But I don't remember if gulal was KK men and one of those two has KK men in it and in stuff like that so Yeah, I'd be I Still live on your tasha up It's It doesn't change a thing. It's just it wasn't our cup of tea We love we love Kalki and I really enjoyed a Ideal forgive me if I'm mispronouncing his name But when we saw him in Deborah, which for those of you who are new to the the channel You need to find out what Deborah is because I can see the comments with the Deborah movie It's in doggy Nama leggy Deborah. I miss pronounce that every time He was very good in that and this was obviously pre that and I just Yeah, so there you go. Yeah, I find it like longer. Yeah Yeah, you could let us know why we're dumb in the comments. I'm sure you will Tell us what we missed. I Have no doubt that you will And I'm sorry, but let us know what? On your cuss you up film because I still want to explore all of him Yep, of what you should watch really his what on your right kasha. I still want to explore all of him