 What is the number one thing you get asked to audition for, like on Actors Access or any audition? What's the number one stereotype? The number one kind of type that I am typically called in for? Yeah. Dad, I'm assuming, right? Yeah, but it depends on the dad. It depends on the dad because a lot of dad, see the problem is a lot of characters my age, I can't audition for because a lot of them are, they got one foot in the grave, they're out of shape, they're overweight, they're just, yeah. So doctor, lawyer, cop, military, dad, sales guy, attorney. What about you? White supremacist. I had two auditions this week, just for white supremacists. Both, both. I guess I just emulate white supremacy, unfortunately. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Direct Subcorbin. He's a Klan member. After 2016, those roles have gone way up. They actually have. It's far more popular to be a white supremacist in America. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or Giscota, thanks for your follow us on Instagram. That's funny. That's actually, that's very, it's better for you than it is for me because we don't fit into the diversity lane. No, unless it's a redhead. Yeah, no, but you would get more because they want the, there's a lot more white supremacists to portray these days. There's quite a few. Yeah, today we're doing a movie review. Well, we're doing four movie reviews, actually. One, two, three, four? If, it would have been funny if I just went one, two, three, four, I wanted to add one more second just for Vicky. You've seen the movie, you know what I'm referring to. We are doing a movie review of Lost Stories, one. And we are going to do each of them in segments, obviously. Like we did Bombay Talkies. Bombay Talkies. And you feel like, why aren't you doing a watch along? We enjoyed watching the Bombay Talkies quite a bit. It just didn't get enough traction on YouTube to be worth the amount of time that it takes for the editing that I have to do for Watch Alongs. And that's fine, we're still gonna watch them, but it takes a lot of work to do Watch Alongs very edited on YouTube. Here's a thought, you've probably thought of it. We could do live Watch Alongs and then people just watch along with us live and then if you missed it, you missed it. You would get a copyright strike. Lives, you. You would if you did it live? We got, oh, we got a. What if we did it on Patreon live? And it was just for patrons. That's true, but also you want to try to cut it up if you can for YouTube. You could do that post-operative, yeah, I guess. Yeah, there's all the options. That's why this one was a review as opposed to Watch Along. But we're gonna do each of them, so it starts with Onyrog and then it goes to Zoya and then Dibacar, Banerjee, Forgive, Mispronunciations. And then Karen Johar. We'll do it in that order. So if you haven't seen it, please go watch it, it's on Netflix. Are we doing spoilers right out the gate? Yeah, yeah. So this one came out in 2018. So if you haven't seen it, go watch it like I said. But let's start with Onyrogs. What was your thoughts of Onyrog Kashyab's short of less stories? Well, let me say, if you have not seen less stories and we're gonna give the spoilers away, please go watch it. Thank you. First of all, what else can we say about Radhika Opte that hasn't been said? Oh my God, I love her so much. So thumbs up, loved it. I obviously, it's carried by her and I've said this about her before and I'll say it again. She is the kind of actor you don't just like watching, but if you're an actor, she's the kind of actor that you salivate and die to work with her. The joy of being able to work with her and the freedom you feel that you would have and the danger she would give you and especially with Onyrog directing, can you imagine how glorious it would be to have Onyrog helming something and Radhika as a lead and your opposite of her? Good grief, that's be an attic heaven. So yeah, I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the entire series and we'll get to all of them. I loved all four. And I think even though, we'll get to it obviously, bearing noises, I think this is a overall stronger. Even though this all four were equally strong for me. Compared to Bombay Talkies. Even though there were three that were very strong in Bombay Talkies, one that was extremely strong in Bombay Talkies. It was the stuff of legends. So I still think it's still very good, but I think everything being equal in terms of like they're all really high quality, then we'll get to the other ones. But this one especially, I loved this short because it was so unique. Because right when it started, you didn't know where it was going. Obviously they were about to have sex. Yep. And then she did that interesting talk to the camera point. So yeah, you were talking about her looking into the camera when Radhika came in and then after they had sex, right? Once again, spoiler. She talked to the camera. So I thought it was gonna be a, the men are gonna be the very sensitive ones that get attached. I thought it was gonna be kind of like a play on what a lot of people say about women that they can't separate love and sex and all that kind of stuff. Yep. But that was kind of one of the, it was kind of a very different quirky moment for the short because it didn't go in the direction I thought it was gonna do. There's so many different things going on in this. It was so quirky and different. I love the editing style that Anurag and his editor decided to go with. Radhika played it with fucking flawlessness as she always does, which is why outside of maybe Taboosh, I think she's the best Indian actress out there. Teases about as good as it gets. She's just so fucking phenomenal. And I love watching her and everything she ever does. But yeah, I loved her performance. I love the quirky nature of the entire short. Yeah, and it was, I thought it was gonna go certain directions and it never really finished those directions not because it was incomplete but because that wasn't the direction it was gonna go. I thought this was gonna be a story that was somewhat straightforward in terms of a teacher having an affair with a student. It wasn't. It was far more about the complexity of this woman. And then the final payoff, I laughed out loud when she looked at me and said, what are you, not so married. And he ended up, thank you. It was fantastic. I laughed out loud. I did too. And she was never fully anything in terms of she was never fully insecure about what she was doing. She was never fully stalkery. She came close to it. She was never, at one point, you thought, wow, she's madly in love with him. No, she is not. She's not madly. She's a bit psychotic. Wait a minute. He's not being forthright with her too. So at one moment you're scared of her. The next minute you're rooting for her, it was great. Yeah, I thought it was super, because also the editing style of like, she says one thing in the next frame, she's like crying. Yes. I love the editing choices that. And I loved the, I don't know who she was talking to. I felt like she was talking to her therapist. Yeah. Right? I don't know. I felt like she was talking to her therapist. I also, I also loved and laughed out loud when she's talking about her husband and goes to him and he says, I think we should fornicate. Yeah. Yeah. But also I would like to, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna blame it on Netflix. Love your subbing. Yeah. You can never count on. Good grief. Well, Netflix in particular because they are guilty in the past of having taking subs presented to them by the creators and they're just citing of their own whatever to do it. So that's kind of what I'm talking about. I mean, there was a point in that. There was a point in everyone Zindagi was said and they didn't say life. She said Chutia and they didn't translate it at all. Full sentences were spoken and they didn't add another sentence. It's just. Yeah. And this one was super interesting because like so many different directions. I thought they were maybe the Me Too movement. It was cause it was also so interesting. It was the teacher-student relationship. But obviously it was a, he was an adult. Yep. Right. He was 20, well that's what he says. He said he was 21, but also still a student. Cause if this was a, if she was a man and the student was a female, people would be feeling a whole different way. They wouldn't give us much lenience to this kind of activity. Even though you still shouldn't give lenience to it. Yeah. She was gonna be toast way sooner than a guy would be. Oh yeah. So I was like, we're gonna go in that direction. He didn't go in one particular direction. He kind of just, this is a broad blanket statement. You think of what you wanna think about this. It really set the table for all four films in that you didn't know it when you go into it, but after you've seen all four, you realize that this one sets the table for all four of these films. They're going to be women-centric and they're going to be very complex and they're gonna touch on subjects that are real and important but aren't touched upon enough in Indian cinema that we've seen. With four really good reviews. And then I've read in the reviews from people on A Puma Sharma, I read her review afterwards because I knew she'd have a vantage point being Indian and being a woman and she felt the way I felt about all four. I thought this thing, this all four is a synopsis and I'll say this again at the end. This is one of my favorite things I've seen come out of Indian cinema ever. I loved this. A lot of it pretty ballsy and we'll get to a lot of it. I'm going to watch it tonight again with Indrani because I want her to see it. So yeah, loved it. And we'll rank them at the end to tell you what our ranking. As far as the favorites are. Which is going to be very interesting. It will be. It's not a foregone conclusion like Bombay Talkies. But next one was Zoya's. I don't know the names of these but it's the one of the housemaid one. Which was Pumi. Which was another really, really good one and so different. And it, because you thought it was going to go the way of sir a little bit. Little bit. With Tilla Tama. Because that was one of the first like made love, love stories that we saw ever. And one of our introductions to Tilla Tama are Dost. Which is, she's fantastic. But yeah, this one was really good. I really, you really felt for this character. I wrote down, I instantly care about her. Yeah. The moment you know. Pumi did a great job. Yeah, Pumi was gorgeous. She was so good. Yes. And Zoya's directing, which I'll talk about in a second. The moment you knew who she was. Which was a beautiful way. It's the writing and the directing, show don't tell. The moment you knew who she was and what was going on. I was heartbroken for her. And Zoya did a magnificent job of using space to convey distance. Because it starts with them as close as they could possibly be, right? And the importance, I cannot underscore, highlight, emphasize, you name it. The importance of her not showering. What that means in terms of her depth of connection with this guy versus his. And how for him, this was just his get off. And for her, this was her love. And the distance down the halls, and then the final thing for me that just broke my heart for her and said so much. It was just when she comes out from having made the cha and she looks and sees the empty chairs. That right there just synopsized, you're never gonna have him. And it was played very well, especially in the beginning because you didn't know the story right away. No. You didn't know, okay, are they married? Right. Just having a relationship. No. Obviously, once the parents came in, you got it immediately. And they're saying, he says she does this. Oh, this, she is the servant. Yes. And I bet he's not gonna let them know what's really going on. But she didn't have, almost to the end, hardly any dialogue in it. She said so. Boomi did a brilliant job. Wonderful. And Zoya was unforgiving. Yes. This whole thing was pretty much whereas the first one was carried by Radhika and her totality, her physical being and in all ways, this one was pretty much carried by Boomi's face. Yes. And all the other actors did a good job in terms of their roles. Yeah. I believe every second. The other guy had to be distant. You saw immediately when she put on her clothes and then you were like, okay, are they, I thought they were gonna be both maids at first and then they go into people's houses and have sex on people's houses. And then you saw what he was putting on as opposed to what she was putting on. He saw all the differences. But Boomi, we've seen her many times, actually. But every single time we've seen her, we've always been extremely impressed with what she's done in the roles we've seen her in. I would love to see even more. Absolutely would. Because I know she's in toilet. We haven't seen any toilet yet. And coming off the heels of how good Radhika is in that first one, that's to follow that. This whole thing, and there's so many great performance when we talk about all of them. This is carried by women performance. Oh, it's beautiful throughout the entire team. And the direction, and I also loved it. The other thing I love about this is as tragic as this one seemingly is, right? What do you think about the eating of the sweet and the smile at the end when they get in the elevator? Isn't that great? Because I was not expecting it. No, but what it, I have a very strong sense of our joyous one. Our joyous one of toast comes out to Radhika. A phenomenal actress, obviously. It's great to see her face. What did you think about that at the end? So interesting, because I didn't know that I was like, what's the dynamic here? Yeah. I felt, I really, and Zoya would be the one to answer this question. Talk to us. God. I know really, because man, we just, I wanna talk to you about what you do as a director. While I was watching it, I thought of so many questions. I would love to, example, I would love to ask Zoya on this one in particular, but with every film she's ever done that we've seen, the distance shots, right? That conveyed the distance of her from everybody else. So I would ask Zoya, were those decisions you made consciously in, during the process of the script being written, was it storyboarded, or do you make those decisions on the day, or is it a beautiful mix of all of the above? Was that something your DP did to you? I mean, it's very clear it was done. She has a great understanding of cinema in terms of conveying color and space as a storytelling element, and she did it in this. I felt, I felt the smile and the taste of the sweet kind of flipped the narrative on its head for all of us who made a judgment about her and saw her as the victim. I think we are heartbroken for her, we feel sad for her, and then at the very end, the two of them are talking, and the biting of the sweet is, I chose this, I actually, yeah, I mean, you decide, maybe I liked it. Maybe I'm not the victim. Maybe I can continue. Yeah, maybe she thinks she's got him, but I know he's still gonna sleep with me when they're married. Yeah. I just did a little coin flip at the end. I thought she was gonna put something in the tea. I did too. Whether it was like poison or like just something gross to get back at them. The moment in the bedroom between all the actors was really good. Yep. You can feel the tension. The tension, absolutely. Cut the tension. Yeah. That's what I was saying. This one was, I loved all of them, spoilers, obviously, and some I loved even more than the others, but every single one of these shorts was really, really strong, and I heard a lot of people say that Bombay Talkies was the stronger one, and Lost Stories wasn't as strong. Oh no. Which is, even though Bombay Talkies was, three of them were really good. Really, really good. Fantastic. The other one was definitely the weakest one. Yeah. I thought all four of these were really strong. Back to back to back to back sixes. Yeah. I just thought all four of these were great. So yeah, I love this one as well. The next one is directed by the best director of the first of Bombay Talkies, which we love with Nawaz. Yeah. Mr. Banerjee. Say his name. Did he write it as well? Say his name. Debekar, if I'm mispronouncing that, I'm so, so sorry. He is a writer, so I'm assuming. I'm assuming he did write it. He did write it. Okay. I think that's the thing. They all write and direct their own segments. The writing is the third one. This one was so interesting because. The writing. The writing in all of them was phenomenal. Writing was all great. Because you don't expect any of them, right? But this one was especially, because you thought it was like, okay. One, it took a minute to figure out what exactly was going on, right? And then when you figure it out, it was like, oh, okay. So this is like your typical affair, right? I wanted this thing, as I'm watching it, I thought, wow, extrapolate this into a three-person play, man. Yeah. This was almost like, succession-esque. It was. In terms of like. It was. That's a good comparison. Kind of like the complex drama that's going on in this. Where more is being said in sub-context than what's being said directly to everybody. By everybody. Yeah. And oh, I just, and you're expecting, like for example, when he, when he, when she tells him, right? And then his buddy comes downstairs and she says, yeah, yeah, toast. And she says, he knows, you're looking at the husband and waiting for his response. Who did a great job, by the way. Incredible job. Yeah. And I, I thought very much in El Capor look. And I thought, you know, your gut says, he's gonna, he's gonna burst into a rage. Yeah. The bedroom moment that follows that scene where he's just weeping. And then goes. And then rolls over and you see his hands start and he's weeping and you know, it's gonna, it's, it's now evolving into the, he wants to make love to his wife. Yes. Yes. It was so real and so human and carried all of the complexity. His heartbreakingness of his cry, you could tell just in the real reality of that moment. And for her as well, the brokenness of I love this woman and I love my friend and I hate what's happening. And I can't change the fact that I love both of these people. I also loved right out the gate. Very brave shot, especially for Indian cinema stuff for her to be coming out of the water with the camera on her in a full bathing suit, talking about her body, specifically talking about her body when she came out of the water and saying, how do I look? And he says, yeah, you look like you're a woman who's had two kids. But I loved it was playful and she was so open and good with her body. I know it's a popular name. Is he related to Anil Kapoor? He's got to be. If with the last son, Son Kapoor and that look, that's Son Teghapoor, they look like brothers. They wouldn't shock me. They've got to be brothers. And forgive our idiocy. Yeah, and ignorant. We saw him in Om Shanti Om look by chance, apparently in Kalho Naho. Yeah. So if he is, I apologize, please. And also I just figured out this, the guy Radhika was having sex with, the kid, is the lead in Sairat. It didn't click to me till just now. No idea. Had no clue. But yeah, the complexity in this one with Jideep and the guy just Son Teghapoor. Yeah, this was the most, I don't want, And what's the actor's name? This comparison isn't to say the others were immature at all. This one was the most mature. Say her name, we need to say it. Manisha Koirala. Who plays the wife. This was the most, for lack of a better analogy, this one would be, think of foods that only adults would eat and kids would spit out and throw out of their mouth. Yeah, this is blue cheese. Olives. Greek, yeah, different kinds of olives, tasting mustards in France, having it going out to Napa and tasting wines. That's what this one was. Not that the others weren't great, but this had that complexity to it. We've seen her actually quite a bit in her career. Oh yeah, I instantly recognize her. But she did a phenomenal job. I loved the, a lot of her shots of her just taking off her makeup and then having scenes fully without makeup, which you don't notice until it just doesn't happen. They did wear makeup for a scene because that just a lot of actresses or the directors don't want their actresses to appear raw. Right. She displayed so much rawness and complexity. Like, I feel like at the end, you still don't really know what she wants, what she's gonna do. Cause she was like, oh, am I gonna be with you after I divorce my husband? And then he goes off on a rage where you're like, oh, is he gonna be the kind of, the exact kind of same thing as if they get into a relationship. And so I think she was like questioning then. She's like, maybe I don't wanna be with you after. Right, but then they end up together and she's, they know that they're having an affair and like there's so much going on. So much going on. It's like succession. It is, very much. There's two things about, I'm remembering something from the Zoya one that I wanted to point out and I'm glad I'm remembering it. When the Zoya one opens up, we hear them and the shot is from above both of them in bed and he's on top of her. But Zoya then makes it a point to show her on top. Yes, I didn't want folks to miss that because she did that on purpose to show the equality in that relationship and the fact that this woman has a level of dominance that makes her comparable to him. And again, another empowering so many of these stories. I can't remember the final frame of number four which we're gonna get to in a second, but the first three, their final frames have empowerment to our leads. We have Radhika saying, what are you getting them married? And then in the second one, we have Bhoomi smiling as she eats the sweet. And in this one, we just have the grandiose smile on the phone driving away that conveys, this is, she's gonna have what she wants. The third one or the fourth one was. The final frame. Yeah, Vicky. That's right. How can I forget that? That was the final frame and it isn't empowering. We'll get to that in a second because I wrote down here the ice cream at the end. So we'll get to that in a second. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. But yeah, on finishing up on this one over here, it was just so complex and so unique and just not what you were expecting with an affair story. Because affair stories have been around forever, right? Especially in cinema. As long as there've been human beings. And so to bring something new and kind of fresh to it and unique and stuff that makes you think and you understanding or kind of understanding at least all the characters and what they're doing and their complexity, cause it's a real relationship. And so once again, his writing is really impressing me. I would love to see, so please let me know, cause he's the director we've seen the least of. But everything we've seen of his, we've liked really a lot. So I would love to see more, so please let us know what should be the next for him. So now the fourth one, which is Kiran Johart. This was the best of the series. I'm just gonna give you my spoiler there. And which is crazy, right? Because the last Bombay Talkies, right? His was the weakest. His was by far the weakest. And I thought to myself when it was going into this one, I thought, okay, brother. Why have they put you fourth after these three? Cause you've got a lot to live up to. This one was, I wish this was a film. I do. I wish this one was a film. Because one, it still had that happy feeling. Dying. Had that happy feeling of Kiran Johart, right? So it was dying of left. As opposed to the other ones, this one had still that kind of. Oh, it was his thumb prints all over it. But not over the top, which is great. But it's got him all over it. But it's got his feel to it. All of these are the director's thumb. That really feels like all of their films. This one was just the quintessential story of it, which is very empowering and sad for a lot of women, right? Guys, guys, learn to take care of your ladies. Yes, please. There's a thing called premature ejaculation, but also be conscious, cause she has to go too. So let's figure out her first, and then you could take five seconds after that. Yeah. The more you know. It's a serious, serious, serious problem, not just India, it's serious everywhere. Because parents are shy or afraid to talk about it with the kids. Kids don't wanna talk about it with the parents a lot of the time. I don't understand it, cause I've always talked openly with my kids about sex. And it is such a patriarchal thing for so many millennia that a woman's sexual needs are not only not even thought about by men, but they're told not to talk about it. And also, is there anything more woman could want than children? Right. By the mom, obviously. Don't even get me started. That was fitting, cause that's what a lot of people are told a lot of people think. How'd you like the use of the score in this one? I loved it. Wasn't it hysterical? That was one of my favorite moments. Come on now. In cinema history, I think. K-3G. Yes. The use of his own music. Okay, first of all. The use of his own music. You knew it was coming. The use. Literally. The fact I thought it was good enough that we got her using the vibrator to masturbate in the library. That in and of itself, I thought, good for you. So glad you're covering this topic. It's so important to talk about this. But then when she got it, the moment grandma said, I can't find the remote. It's def called that too. I said, oh my goodness, this is gonna be phenomenal. It was better than I was expecting because I thought it was just gonna be grandma getting the remote. And so when she had to go out into the room. Yes. You know what's gonna happen. Yeah. And then when she climaxes and we hear Lata G. One of my favorite moments. I was ever dying of laughter in that moment to hear Lata G in the pinnacle. And when she's getting there in front of the whole family, I didn't expect them to do that. I loved that she just couldn't contain it. And then this is great. When she goes. Right. Copy Cushy Copy Go. It is one of the greatest moments in cinematic history. Of one, your own score. Yes. I've ever seen in my entire life. It was, they had to have been the creme de la creme. So happy with that creation. I wish, I hope he didn't actually tell people he was gonna use his own score on set. I hope they saw it at the screening. Everybody. Cast. Everybody. And then obviously. Let's talk about her first, obviously. Yeah. Which, well, there's the two of them, but there's the main her, the wife of Vicky. Right here, right? Yeah. Nia, say her name. Nia Dupia. Which I don't believe we've seen a ton. That was her, right? Or was she the other? I can't tell from the thumbnail. It doesn't look anything. I can't tell from the thumbnail. Or was she the librarian, the other one? Yeah, that. The thumbnail on IMDB is not. What was her name? Uh, hold on, I can tell you. No, Reika was the one that was vibrating in the library. So that was Reika. For sure? Yes. Okay. A thousand percent. All right. Mom, province, hold on. You know what's the better, believe it or not? The better place where it will clarify those things for you is the breakdown on Wikipedia. So let me go to that story, which is the Karan Johar one. There's Anya Ragh, there's... Got it. You got it? Yes, so she was in Kabir Singh. She was opposite Sushay Kapoor. She played Kreeti. She played Kreeti, right here. Oh, Kreeti, sorry, not Kreeti. Why didn't... Oh, here I am. They don't even credit her in fricking... Yeah, I'm telling you. She played Kreeti in Kabir Singh. Okay. So we loved her. Oh yeah, it is Kiara Advani. Yes, so we've seen her actually many times. She's a phenomenal actress. She did great in this. I loved her whole arc of it, of going from kind of an innocence to not knowing what she was supposed to expect to the sex scenes. I loved the moment where her friend is masturbating in the library, right? The difference between the gawking guy and the inquisitive girl was spectacular. Yes, well done by all the actors there. And that was a, I know that was a writing and directing choice to have the guy be gawking but have her be looking with inquisitiveness and the differentiation of those two perspectives on sexual health. The guy's being a pervert. She's being a human being. Yeah, nothing wrong with using a vibrator, by the way. At all? Fun fact. I texted on your log after I watched it. And I said, great job. I loved your whole segment and told him all about it. And he said, thank you so much. And I said, I love Kieran Johar's segment. It was fucking hilarious. He said, yes, it was. Fun fact. It incredibly increased the sale of vibrators in India. So shout out to you, Kieran Johar, a man of the people. Well done. Well done. A great little fact. That's fantastic. But yeah, she did such a good job. I felt for her the entire time. Also, phenomenal job of displaying the orgasm. Yeah. That can be so easily missed because it's such a hilarious moment. But I believed her. You can make it so cheesy and so bad. So stupid. So shout out to Kieran Johar. Playing orgasm versus actual, I believed what I was watching. I believed I was watching. It was so good. It makes you want to ask her, what are you doing in the moment? Exactly. Where you going full method in that moment, genuinely. I was that believable. I would love to see more of her work. We've also, Shercia, with that. My goodness, that was so funny. We also really liked her and Shercia, which is the military one that we really enjoyed as well. But I want to talk about Vicky. I want to talk about Vicky. Holy shit, because how many times, how many times did they have to do the five second shot? They did it at least seven or eight times, didn't they? Oh, I loved it. But this was with her counting. One he, you already know, he's one of the best actors India has. Yeah, he is. He's so phenomenal. This was so different for him. I'd never seen him as this meek, kind of nerdy, nerdy. Cause normally I'm like, ory. He's like, absolutely. Or like he has a lot more confidence usually in what he's doing or whatever role he's playing. But man, this was so unique and so different. He also played the characters just so honestly and so well. Which is what made it great. Cause he could have easily just been a selfish prick. And he just was ignorant. Which made you feel for the guy, especially when we come full circle to the end, which I want to talk about that final shot that you reminded me that was the final frame. That was the final shot. I was going to bring it up. The, again, every one of these things ends with an empowering moment. The symbolism of him giving her the ice cream obviously conveying without it being heavy handed. It's conveying it with a great sensitivity that he realized, wow, I should be attending to your needs too. Yeah. And making sure she is enjoying. Yeah. Very important. Hugely important. Hugely. Don't be a selfish lover. Hugely. And don't truly, you're not, I know a lot of people go there because there's nowhere else for them to go, but porn isn't going to teach you how to properly make love. It's just not. It's going to show you some things to do that'll kind of be insects. But ultimately those things are done for watching purposes. They're not educational. Yeah. They're not educational. And they're just needs to, everything from, and John and I have talked about this, is what are the resources? I mean, you can talk with your kids about the birds and the bees, but no one's going to get into the details of what do you do? What is the difference between a male orgasm and a female orgasm? What are you supposed to do if you go down on somebody? Those things are important. And sadly, a lot of folks when they get married, it's taboo even within their relationship, and they go dysfunctional for the totality of their marriage, thinking this is just the way it's supposed to be versus, because not a lot of people would be just completely open and enjoy the fact that we get to now experiment with each other, like if you read Song of Solomon, I just thought this was magnificent in all four stories. It was very Indian in this story because obviously the relationship of the parents, and I love the principal moments as well. This is a nature story, it's a lion. That doesn't say lions, they've misspelled that, it's a lion. But the fact that like, there's the very conservative, I guess you would say, and also the taboo subject of anything having to do with sex of the mom saying, there's nothing more a woman could want than a child. Yeah, or even in the response to the fact that it's damnable that she was masturbating. Yeah, like completely and utterly, like you should divorce her now. Right, leave her. Yes, when you don't even realize your son doesn't give a crap about her sexual gratification. Look at your sister in law, how happy she is, and she did not look happy in the slightest. It was so sad. But it was such a phenomenal message and so well done, shout out to Khan Johar because this is one of his best directorial questions. And the added beauty of his adding to it, the Bollywood essence of who he is, it really had everybody's DNA in it, directing-wise. The ranking for me, and it's incredibly difficult because I loved all these, and so it's not like anything in Bombay Talkies where Kieran Johars was way at the bottom, where like, it was easy to kind of rank them because of how good it was and how subpar, I think, Kieran Johars was in Bombay Talkies, but mine would be, Kieran Johars would be number one. And then it gets even more difficult. But then- I can't. It's probably Anurag Zoya and then- I can't. Dilbudger, sorry, I'm sorry, no, Dilbudger. Dabakar. Dabakar. Dibakar, forgive us again. Even though I think his writing was probably the most complex. Yeah, I can't. Really, I think Kieran Johars is one. And then the rest are two A, B, and C. But here's the thing. Part of the reason Kieran Johars is what it is because of the placement, where they chose, the choosing of these four where they are is monumental to the flow of this thing as an anthology. They all could have been movies and I would have loved to have watched it. They absolutely could, but I don't know that I would have enjoyed them any order they were in. But it being the end added to the greatness of the fourth one. So I genuinely, I can't pick one over the, I can pick elements of each one. For example, the first one gives you the strongest lead because the story depends on the lead and the other ones are a bit more ensemble. But there's a difference between what she does and what's done in the second one with your two leading ladies. And there's a beautiful, I would, I'm sure maybe if you've asked Anurag, they had to have talked about the uniformity they wanted to convey of the empowerment of every woman and each one of them ending on something representative of that woman's empowerment. I think this is an important movie. Yeah, very. And I'm glad we watched it. We are gonna watch less stories to you, that's why. Yeah, I know they're not connected, obviously at all. At all. And I know the stories aren't connected, but I didn't want to watch the second one of that, watch the first one first. No, absolutely. Even though, once again, they're not connected. They might be Easter eggs for a while. But, so we will be watching that one next, so look forward to that. And we will watch ghost stories, maybe around October. I think that would be great. I think that would be great. I think that would be fitting. I do too. Even though a lot of people said that one was the weakest, even though people also said less stories was weaker than Bombay talkies, and so who knows. We're gonna see for ourselves. We're gonna watch them. That was directors a lot. It's hard for me to see that any of these directors is making an awful film. No, film, I agree. Even though, actually have we seen an awful film? Cause I was thinking Calhoun now how for, but that's not his. Not awful, that's not his. The one for me, I didn't particularly like Dev D, that's the only on-yrog film that I really didn't particularly like. That's true. That was the film of his that we liked the least, for sure, even though everybody else loves that film. I didn't detest Dev D, I just, I didn't like it. But compared to his other films. Yeah, for sure. Anyways, let us know what you thought about them. Well, what's your favorites of the two, of the four, sorry, and what should be the next anthology besides the ones I've already mentioned that we're going to watch down below.