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You guys can let me know. I feel like I'm saying it white. Today we're doing a movie review of the new 2022 film in a couple months. It'll be 2023. What? What? That's how years work, children. That's the kind of insight you get here. If you want to know what year it is, tune into OSR. Sometimes we'll be right. But the new 2022 Telugu action drama mystery, I call more of a romance film than anything. You would. Called Sita Ramamam. That sounds right to me. How'd you say it? Sita Ramam? Yeah, Sita Ramam. Sita Ramam. Sita Ramam. Directed by your mom. She did a great job. No way. Hanu Raghavapudi, who also wrote the story for it as well. Starring, your main two leads are... Yes. Well, you've got, for Lieutenant Ram, you have Delcor Salman, and then obviously for Sita, also known as Princess Noor, Ronald Thacker, and then Afrin was played by Rashmika Mandana. Yeah. And then there's a ton of other people. A ton of other people from actually a bunch of different industries in this film. It just came out, but it's been out. I don't know. It's been out for a while. It's been out for like, it was in theaters and now we saw it because it's on Amazon now. And so if you haven't watched it, go watch it. It's on Amazon. We'll keep this one since it's not new new. We'll keep it like our No More Reviews and we'll do spoiler reviews or stuff like that. But Rick, your initial thoughts, please. So I have lots of notes, but I'm not necessarily gonna read them all. But for me, there were too many things. One, I never really cared about the couple and there were too many things that were just plot-wise, transcend just ridiculous for a romantic drama for me that I never got fully engaged and enjoyed myself. And there were a lot of supporting people. I know the white actors, but there were some supporting people that were hard to see doing what they were doing. Acting-wise, the cinematography, not a surprise if you see who the DP is. The cinematographer's got a lot of experience. Two names, but P.S. Vinod. Oh yeah, we know him. Look at that resume and you know why the cinematographer. That for me is my favorite thing, is the cinematography. Production design did a really good job too. There were some continuity things that were just stuff that bothered me and I thought it was overscored. So ultimately I didn't like it. Interesting. I enjoyed the film as a whole and I especially enjoyed their story when they actually got to them. The first 30 minutes were rough for me, I feel like. That's definitely the weakest part of the film for me is because one- And the dubbing was putry. Yeah, yeah, especially in the beginning with like when our dost came on and it was a mirage. It's just so distracting and that's why we always talk about it. It's just, it's that distracting. And I even said to you at one point, I think I sent a text that I just don't understand any industry anywhere in the world right now that just doesn't do sync sound. I mean, every student film here at AFI and New York Film Academy, it's just, it's like it would be like making a film silent. It's like you would only do that for an artistic reason nowadays because we don't make silent movies anymore. So I just don't understand why you would dub a film, not do it send sync sound. But like the first 30 minutes were the ones that was most difficult to get into. When they actually got to the main two actors who I think probably strongest actors in the entire film. The only ones that I really was enjoying watching the work. I liked it when they were on screen and their story, it's still not my favorite way for a story to be told. It's very similar. We actually watched a Tolugu film earlier this year, the one about the actress, right? Yeah, her story. Very, very similar. And I don't know, maybe it's a Tolugu kind of style. But I mean, it's been done in Hollywood too. It's just not my favorite style of a story being told, because I feel like it kind of takes you out of, like I don't really even like the way it does it in Titanic. Titanic is a very similar way, right? Yeah, it's them currently telling the story, unraveling the story for the audience at the time. I would just prefer you just tell the story at the time. I don't need this other part. I get it, it's for like, oh my God, oh my God. You could have just told their love story for me in chronological order without the going back and forth. I mean, obviously I saw the end, so I understand why you did it. I just honestly, the payoff for me wasn't good enough for me. I would have much preferred to have our two leads on screen and there, because it was very similar to like, I mean, not the story-wise, but in terms of like a romance film of Virzara. It had the potential to be that. About that kind of stuff. I mean, I think their love story, them too, very quintessential of a Virzara. The rest of the film, I think that one also benefited from being older as well. This is 2022, so we're judging on 2022 scale. But it also benefited from a storyline that executed itself with a level of believability. There's just so many things in this that strain credulity for something that's supposed to be grounded in reality as a romantic drama. That like everything from them going out and about and nobody recognizing this as the princess, them being on the front cover of the newspaper and them not talking about the fact that it's been uncovered. They're seeing each other to so many times are, okay, so what are the odds? What are the odds that he would just happen to be passing by that particular house at that particular moment and that particular child would make that sound that would make him suddenly not just hear a kid. How does he know that that kid is Waheda? Just he has extra sensory perception. That kind of thing for me is just insulting to the intelligence of the audience. I think that kind of thing happens in Indian cinema a lot in romance films. And I never like it. Like SRK films? I do, but they're not that ridiculous. A lot of them are though. It's just, I think this one has a disadvantage of having those same things that like Shah Rukh Khan or other older romance films have, but they're older, so we don't judge them as harshly because of the time. I can't think of anything in an SRK film or any other film that's a romantic film that I've liked that had things that just made no sense in like, how would he know that's Waheda? Love. Love. Yeah, that's a great justification for romantic drama. Love, just stupid love films. Love perceives all. I think you've said that many times. I've never said that love perceives all. No, we need true justifications for drama. We can then get into the other aspects of it obviously first, but I wanted to get into the aspects that you like first and that I like first as well. Like I said, my favorite part, my favorite storyline throughout the entire film was them. It took about 30 minutes to actually get to them telling their love story. I would have preferred that when the whole get the letter to, because I got to get my grandfather's will. The first part was definitely the roughest part for me. And so that's always unfortunate when it takes 30 minutes. For really your characters to be really introduced in the whole story. Agreed. But them as a whole, I thought their acting was far superior to everything else. I thought the two ladies were by far. Our main lead, the little girl essentially, and her. Yeah, Afreen and Sita, the actresses that portrayed them are for me the strongest acting performance. I thought their chemistry together was really, really good. She's very striking, our lead girl, Sita. And we've seen her before. She's a very good actress. We've seen her in a couple of things recently. Have we? Yeah. We saw her in, she played Shahid's wife in Jersey. Oh, did she? Yeah. Oh yeah, she did, didn't she? Oh, she was in Tufan as well. Tufan was the other one. And there's one more. Super 30. Yeah, Super 30. Yeah, so we've seen her in a few things. Oh, and that one as well, I think. Anyways, yeah, once she's absolutely gorgeous, I loved her performance, especially when they were together. All the other subplots were not as engaging for me as when they were kind of just telling their... And I like that in Indian cinema. I like the over-dramatic love story. I do too. That's India's, that's a genre in India. Is the love conquers all over the top. Everything is beautiful. Love story, shower, God's made it very famous in his career for being the romance guy, right? Sure. And so I like that aspect. He, I thought, did a really good job as well with her and all that stuff. And then obviously, I think the girl you mentioned as well, the little girl, she was stronger than the supporting actor she was with. Yes. In her scenes together. So, and I also really enjoyed the songs in it in terms of like when they got to the, like especially the one where it was just, they were, I think, dancing in the mountains. It was a really... Yeah, the standalone songs I liked. Very, very beautiful. I'm not talking about the score, I'm talking about just the standalone songs. I thought they were very, very pretty. Right. I liked them a lot. And then there was one in the ballroom, right? Or when she was dancing inside. Was it the other one? Yes. As well? I really liked that. And everything else, like it was fine. It definitely, it went like this. It was like, it started down here because I was like, the beginning 30 minutes. And then it went up because they actually focused on their love story for a good while. And then it teetered off at the end as well because it was just like saying, okay, I think we're getting a little farfetched here with our story. And I just want you to focus on their love. Yeah. Like two things that happened as we're getting toward the end, which was again, and the same thing for me of like, how did he know that that was Wehita? Like he says her name. There were two other things that happened as we're getting toward the end. And the first one is when Afreen calls to speak to the princess. So it's just a random caller. So I want to speak to the princess and it's answered. And the person says, she's not here. She's in Kashmir. Okay, can I have her address? Like that's ever gonna happen. Well, Indians are very open. And the other one, why would this national hero soldier who just executed a successful mission in assassinating a terrorist head and has gone missing seven days later be considered a deserter and not just MIA? I don't know, that's what they decided to do. Exactly. I think it was to heighten the drama. There's no justification for it in reality. It's just those things over and over again were just what made me go, I can't believe what I'm watching because it's just not grounded in any level of truth that's justifiable for me. But did you enjoy their love story when it was like the parts I'm talking about in the middle part? I never cared for, I didn't care about their story. Like they could have both been set on fire and I wouldn't have wept because I didn't care about their relationship. And that was a fault I felt of the storytelling because to get me to not root for a loving couple in a romantic film, you have to go out of your way to make me not care. Because I cared about them. Yeah, I did not. I did care about their relationship. I think the film strayed a little bit from I think what it could have been in terms of just being a morged about and then stop trying to do these crazy things at the end to shock everyone. And I'm pretty confident the reason I didn't it was because there were so many times things that weren't justified popped up that I kept like it's hard for me to care about something when I'm repeatedly shown this is not plausible. You know what I mean? If you keep me in a place of plausibility and I'm not just talking about, I'm not talking about getting rid of the the suspension of disbelief. I believe that these actors were portraying these characters and I saw them doing a good job. It was the believability of the storyline to make me root for them. Like it was hard for me to care for a couple that the whole time I'm watching thinking there's no way they could have kept this private. They're going to movies. They're walking down the street. She's not concealing her identity. There's they're on the cover of newspapers. That whole through line of he's pretending to not know she's really the princess. When that payoff came later and she realizes he knew the whole time. I wasn't touched by the fact that he loved her regardless. I was like, of course he knew who you were the whole time. You're the fricking princess. You're out, I mean, you're a very famous, wealthy person. Well, it was in the 60s? What year did it say it was in? Yeah, it was 64. 64. So maybe people don't know what the princess looks like in 64. Well, she's on the cover of all the newspapers. Those pictures aren't very good, Rick. And they know who he is. He's a national hero. He's getting letters from everyone in India. So they're very famous people. Yeah. So that's why I didn't register any care for them. And I know there'll be people, there'll be people who love the film and I'm not saying you don't have the right to love your films in any way. I'm just saying I don't understand. They'll point to the box office because it was a success at the box office. I don't know how many times I have to say it as far as we're concerned. Good box office doesn't prove a good movie any more than success proves a good person. Granted, I don't think this is a bad film. I know he does. Yeah, I do not. Yeah, I don't like it. Also, Rick does not prove a bad movie. We all know this. He's an idiot. We all know this. But the, oh god, I just wanted to talk about something, what was it? I don't know, I wasn't in your brain. And he calls me an idiot. God, there was something else I wanted to talk about for you. Yeah, I don't remember. There was something else I really wanted to talk about. Acting story, believability. No, he talked about all this caring. Because obviously, the main people that I really enjoyed acting wise, obviously were for our three leads that we've talked about, right? Yeah. There were some definite, and my bet is that a lot of it had to do with some of the awful dubbing, especially for certain people. Like, I was brutal. Some of the worst dubbing. The princess's father, I think it was. His dubbing seemed to be way overdone. So was the head of the terrorist group. Yeah. I don't know why some people's dubbing was so... Maybe it was the performance of the actor. I don't know, because I'm just not that familiar with how dubbing is done. But when her father comes on, his dubbing seems to be extremely loud and doesn't match what he's doing, but everybody else is also dubbed. And it's just certain, maybe it's their performances that I just, he, like his especially, like especially in the more second half when he's yelling at her. And it's like, oh my word. Yeah. Well, and the other thing that, again, another thing I was remembering that pulled me out of the believability factor was in 1984, the princess doesn't look any different than she did in the 64s. They didn't age her one bit. They didn't even add a gray hair. She's looking great. Yeah. Look at a shawarii rai. Well, look at some of the characters in House of Dragons. They don't age either, so. No, they do. They've recasted them, remember? No, not Christian. They've done... You see Christian and Damon. Neither one of them have aged. Damon has. They changed his hair. No, no, Damon has. But that's a different story. Yeah, anyway. I'm really enjoying House of Dragon. I just wish they would... Oh, I am too. I just wish they would... The last episode was great. I just wish they would slow the fuck down. I agree. You need three time jumps in season one. I agree. Three time jumps? Yeah. Let's slow down a little bit. Yeah. Be done with the time jumps. We've had enough time jumps. Yeah. It's not what this is about. Yeah, overall, I thought it was a good film. I thought, especially the middle parts with their actual love story was the strongest part of the film. And it maybe it's Lugo just... Because it's actually followed a very familiar formula. It happens a lot. There's a funny friend that does some weird stuff to bring some comedic humor to certain scenes. And then, and I guess, I don't know if this formula, in terms of like telling the story, unraveling it, going back in time, coming back, telling in time, them reacting. And that doesn't... That actually doesn't bother me as much as I think it bothers you. It's like flashback. Yeah, the flashback stuff, that doesn't bother me, especially if it's done in a way that shows the director assumes you're intelligent. Like, we're watching the series Dahmer on Netflix. And it's well done on a number of levels. Most especially, the director will do time jumps and not tell you. Nice. And it assumes you understand what they're doing. It's done very well. So for me, again, it wasn't that. It was just the believability factor of so many elements throughout the story. If those had been justified, because that's my primary problem, if those elements for me had been justified in some way, and not been, in my opinion, to be lazy with screenplay, it would have tremendously elevated my experience. I probably would have liked it if they had simply justified the things that repeatedly said to me, why would he have been, why would they have done, why, how did he, never would, I was constantly doing that, plus the dubbing. Sink Sound, please, please film in Sink Sound. That's something we should ask somebody. It's like, how much is it, how much difference in money in India is it to do dubbing versus Sink Sound? Or is it just, this is how we've done it, so this is what we're sticking with? It's like, I don't even understand why it would be so expensive. Honestly, I feel like dubbing would be more expensive. Me too. Because you have to go in after, you have to pay them to come in again. Yeah, it's time. Clearly not, because this is just how a lot of Indian cinema, not just Telugu, a bunch of Indian cinema has been doing it for a long, long time. Yeah, I know. I would love to actually know why it's specifically. But I do know, one of the things that we wanna see is the greatness of Indian cinema, all industries that we've discovered and continue to discover. Granted, it can't be done because RRR was dubbed. To be embraced in every place. So, the totality or there was ADR dubbing? No, it was dubbed. There was no Sink Sound of any kind in RRR. I don't believe so. I find that hard to believe. I think RRR had Sink Sound. I think it was just good. They actually did it well. I don't know. I think RRR had Sink Sound and then had ADR. Think so? Yeah, I don't think it was purely dubbed. Yeah, I don't know. If it was, it's the best dubbing in the history of cinema. And needs an Oscar for that too. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film, why I'm an idiot, why Rick's an idiot, why we're both idiots, why you haven't subscribed from the channel, just let us know. Just let us know, why you hate us. Let us know and what should be our next Tanugu and Romance film that we should watch. 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