 Tell me if you agree. Greatest basketball movie of all time I've ever seen. Greatest basketball. Make losers. Makes Michael Jordan look like shit. Absolutely. That's mean. That one moment when Salmon Khan was watching SRK, couldn't agree with him more. Actually, it's of Corbin. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. You can go on to take some hate from followers for the kind of people that loves the game. Go try and follow us first in the channel in the description below. You've seen the title. We're doing a movie review. A movie not many of you have ever heard about. Yeah, it's lesser known film. Lesser known, not very popular. Not many people saw it. Nope. Starring some unknowns. Yeah. Unknowns that really never made it after this. Well, we're watching Coochie Coochie Ho-ta-hey. I think that's what I called it the first time. I think you did. The very first reaction train of the night. I don't know what it was. I think you co-organized it with Coochie Coochie. Coochie Coochie Ho-ta-hey. But obviously it came out in 1998. Starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol and Ronnie McCurgey. Yes. And then a couple other people as well. And I have totally forgotten that Salman Khan was there. And so he showed up. I was like, hey, we're watching the Salman Khan film. So yeah, Salman Khan and then a couple others, like Johnny Lever and Anupam Kerr, correct? Which is probably the scene in. Many things, but not anything like he did in this. Correct. It's usually a lot more serious. I know. And so it was super interesting. But it's directed, written, and produced, I believe. I think so. It says Yash Johar produced it. But it's basically everything else. Directed, written, and directed by Kiran Johar, which is, I believe, not our first film, because obviously my name is Khan. Yes. But our first big, the kind of films he's known for. Correct. Of his. Yeah. That we've seen. Obviously, we've seen a ton of songs. We've seen, obviously, coffee with Koran. Right. This is going to be a spoiler view. You've all seen this film. Every single one of his. Every single one of yours. It came out in 1998. Probably, if you're like. You've probably seen it about 20 times. Yeah. And Johnny said, I've seen this film probably 200 times. Did you watch it with it? Yes. OK, gotcha. Yeah. So Rick, your initial thoughts, please. So I loved it. And the best part about it was the way I went into the film, because that really is a big, and getting some help from that, from the stupid family and from you, when they give us the heads up of, OK, here's what you need to expect. It's a huge difference, because the spectrum of possibilities that come out of India are so diverse that if you're expecting a film that's going to be on one level and it reaches at a different level, you can completely miss it for all the wrong reasons. And the prep I had, and I don't remember where the thought came from, if you said it, but the prep in my mind was, it may have been with Andrani. I said, she said, it's like this. It's like this. I said, so is it like Greece? And she said, yes. Think Greece. Put your expectations more along Greece than you would like an Oscar-winning film. And it lived up to it for me. What did you think? The first half was a lot more challenging for me to get through than the second half. Because the second half's more grounded. Yes. So remember in DDLJ, what saved it, obviously, from the essence of Shah Rukh Khan in DDLJ was Kajol, right, and her groundedness. And the first half, it was both of them. It was all of them. It was. All the time, up here, not even remotely trying to be. Everybody was turned up to a level. Yes. And like I said, I want to do this. I sent him a text when I said, OK, it's what we're going to watch. Expect DDLJ. Low expectations in terms of the critically acclaimed. Go in, expecting to basically. My criteria for this is, did you end up enjoying it? Correct. I did. I did end up enjoying it. If I was looking at this from a critical lens, I would tear this to fucking shreds. Like, you know, in Naya Khan, right? Obviously, the expectations we had for that were, this is a great film. Roof. Thespionatic. One of the greatest films. Yeah, exactly. And obviously, didn't live up to that, but it wasn't like in terms of bad. If I was expecting that in terms of greatness, in terms of Thespionatic. Oh, my stars. You would hate this film. Yeah. Absolutely. You would dislike it. It would be like going in to see Apocalypse Now and seeing Greece. Yeah. That's not fair to Greece. No. Or Apocalypse Now. No. Yeah. So yeah, overall, I definitely enjoyed the second half more because somebody said I was on Twitter space this morning. And somebody said, he said it wasn't our unpopular opinion, but he said, I think the reason Esra Kaika Joel films work so well is because her. OK. She grounds most of everything. So this is interesting, you say? Yeah. While we were driving over, and I do believe. I'm the first step. I'm following Andrani's pronunciation. I believe we've been mispronouncing her name and that it's Kajol. Kajol. Yeah. We've called her Kajol forever. But I believe it's actually Kajol. And I was talking with her about this, and I said, OK, so if I was watching this at the time, right, and let's say this was like the second film for both of these actors, what I would say is, and I put this to her, two things I said. I said, I don't know if it's because I'm hetero, and it's just an unfair thing that I'm more attracted to watch the female in the film than I am the guy and be emotionally connected to her. Just depends. It does depend. But with this, for me, taking nothing away from Esra Kaika, I really liked him, and he had grounded moments as well. Yeah, he did. But for me, she was the soul of this thing. Oh, 100%. And if it was early, like if we saw her early in her career, I would also say this, because I asked Andrani, I said, is she known for being like an actress or a movie star? And she instantly said actress. She can be a movie star, but she's a good actor. I said, yeah, because in this film, if this was all I knew about her, I would tell people, don't underestimate this woman because this woman can act. And her, I don't blame Karan Johar for the amount of times he just did this on her face, because when she's reacting to something, or she's hurt, or she's confused, great crime. She has the most beautifully expressive, believable face. I don't think there's anybody that you could point to on film and say they're any better at expressing genuine emotion with their face. Everything. So I can't remember my name was Khan so much, because I know I was impressed by Shah Wakan then. And so I was incredible. I can't say that it's been her every time because of that. But obviously, DDOJ, the same thing, she was by far outside of obviously the songs. The songs are incredible and so, so fun. But yeah, she's always the one. It's just the first half just annoyed me a little bit. And I think it was mostly Karan Johar's writing. Sorry, Karan, but I don't like it. I actually, I liked this a little bit more than DDOJ. No. I did. No. Yeah. No, not for me. Yeah. And I loved DDOJ. I would watch DDOJ more because, as opposed to, it's just sometimes it's too much. The Karan Johar's style along with the acting of the time. So that's what I think DDOJ, obviously, Shah Wakan, is almost the same in terms of the heightness of a lot of times. Sure. Sometimes. Sometimes. He actually, I think he was bigger in DDOJ. Yes. But it was mostly, for the most part, just him. The rest of them, the dad, Kajol, were a lot of times a lot more grounded. Of all of them, the one that was the least goofy was Ryan Perkerji, who was, can we just say it right now? Drop dead beautiful. And my goodness. She always kills, even though this was obviously not, all the other stuff we've seen of her is a lot more thespianatic. Yes. She still killed it. And she's still always believable. She's always great. And she's just such a beautiful woman. I think we say that anytime we've ever seen something of hers, she's always just really, really good. She really is. And so, yeah, I liked her in that. But that's why I picked DDOJ over that. And that's one of those where it would be like, OK, that's cool. Yeah. I don't have a problem with that. But the second half, definitely, I was so glad when they went forward in time. I'm like, please drop the act, Kajol. Please drop the act. Please drop. OK, she dropped the act. Of course. You knew that. You knew she was going to go. You knew from five minutes in what the entire story was going to be. Of course. Of course. OK, so he always loved Kajol. Yeah. But I've got to tell you, oh my goodness, it all came back up. It really shows you how much I really care about Kajol. Because I remember how defensive I got about someone making fun of her, Yuna Brown, right? So the moment comes, and they run and meet each other in the field. And he says, I love you. And I audibly went, oh, I was so happy. With the sign, basically. No, with he's there talking to Kajol, but you find out he's rehearsing for Tina. And that had been, like, three times. And poor Kajol. I got so mad. I switched the camera back over to me with a dryer. No. No, I don't like this. No. This is not OK. So I, and the other thing about her capacity, and we've mentioned this to her before, in just reacting to her songs, she can be absolutely adorable, cute, and sexy. In the same film, she did it. When she did the charades, when she was doing the, I think it was from Rangila, I think is what they were doing, which obviously I haven't seen, but I recognized both the films that they were trying to do when they said the names of them. She was extremely sexy at that time. Very sexy. It's the old trope of the girl. It's like a big 90s, 80s trope. When the girl's a tomboy, she's ugly to everyone. And nobody wants to be with her. And then she becomes a woman. And she gets more feminine. It's an old trope that's been in films forever. You know, it was coming. And obviously this was a groundbreaking film, especially for bringing Western, even more so than obviously DDLJ did. Karen Johar brought all the 90 stereotypes from the West. I've never seen all of them. Here's my gripe with you, Karen Johar. I have a few. But why go all in on basketball? Why? No one on set clearly knew how to play basketball. Whoever held a basketball ever. She was a way better dribbler than SRK. Sorry, bro. If you've seen the office, do you remember when Stanley dribbled when they were playing the warehouse? That's how they dribbled. Shahrukh Khan was playing like this. So bad. He's traveling. It's like if Americans in the 90s or 80s did a cricket film, and no one knew what the fuck how to play cricket. And we're not crazy basketball players. But obviously as Americans, you grew up playing, and you know how to shoot, and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. Oh my god. And there was like four scenes. Oh, I wanted a basketball at the beginning. He was like, I got here and like, where do you have any basketballs? Because I want to hold a basketball. He was like, the big trick was he threw it over her head. So true. Oh my god. I don't know why you went all in on basketball. He's behind her, and he can't steal the ball from her. I'm like, really, man? You can't get that? I don't. I just don't understand why they went all in on it. I loved it. You didn't. You could have been just like, I have a basketball, whatever. And you did like four times. No, they because it was that, that was the bonding place of the friendship. Yeah, but it could have been cricket, could have been field hockey, something they actually know how to soccer. No, that's exactly why. Even though he did a, I think we saw it on the song. He did like a terrible bicycle. No, that's, we did, we loved that. That's exactly why. There was a lot of this that was incorporating West into it. Even the comments of, I love that moment, and I loved both of those actors, the principal and the teacher, Mrs. Corky, Brinaga, whatever her name was. I loved them. Very 10 things I hate about you, S. Yes, very much so. And I love that he's calling out all the people for the short skirts. But she's also got a short skirt, and she's like, dude, get with the times, man. What do you have? So interesting seeing him play an extremely corky over the top. Oh my goodness. When he wakes up and he's, this happened. And it was one of those things where I was like, oh my goodness, this is so freaking bad, but I love it. When he wakes up and he somehow mistakenly put his eye covers on his feet, so stupid. So stupid. And I loved it. Yeah, so that's one of the reasons I did enjoy it because most of the time I was smiling. Not always for good reasons, but like, smiling like, there's lots of Barona. This is dumb. Lots of Barona. This is extremely dumb and dated. Even more so than DTLJ, because they went full in on the attire, the lingo, the, oh my God. The bad guitar playing. Oh, the bad everything playing. But then like, Salman Khan comes in. Oh my God. I swear. Oh my God. His scenes with SRK and him. I was like, oh my God. Like he comes in, he's like, hey dude. It was a lot for me at points. So good. Like I said, if I was looking at this through any other lens as opposed, like, oh yeah. Like, I know some people get frustrated at that when we've said that about like, that's DTLJ. But if you want us to think of a film like that, you need to tell us first. Absolutely. This actually happened with, this happened for me with when we reacted to the, you were my Sunia? That you re-watched it. I re-watched it because I actually, I did a full new reaction on my channel and I got blocked so nobody could even see it. Did you just beat it? But no, I just, I let it go. Oh no, it'll unblock in 30 days. Like 30 days. But what I, I was talking to Andrani about it and this is exactly the same thing where when the stupid family can give us a kind of a framework for a film and let us know what it's gonna be before we go in, not just genre, but style. Cause that's a big, big deal. Sometimes it happens when we react to things and I realized after I watched it the second time, I realized, oh wow, I was in a, I don't know what kind of frame of mind I was in. I don't know if I was, cause there's, there's stuff that goes on in our personal lives that, or even a reaction. We may have done a review where we both disagreed about it and I wasn't happy with it. And then we go right into a happy song and I'm not flipping a switch. It doesn't happen. I'm still in the bad place. Or I'm, you know, so whatever it was, I really did, I watched it went, yeah, I don't know where I was. That was a disservice to the song. Because when I watched it in the right headspace, I liked it. I liked the quirkiness. I'm like, what was wrong with me that I didn't like the cheese in this? And this as well for me is like, when we love those music videos that have the cheese, this is a film of cheese. It's a film of cheese. I mean, it's just dripping cheese. Yeah, it is. And the good kind. Yeah, and like I said, this is probably one of the most Bollywood Bollywood films we've seen because Kiran Johar, I think just, he's the definition of a lot of people think of when they think of Bollywood. Right, yeah. In terms of everything's over the top. Right. There's a million songs. And they were, and every single song in this. For their believability. Every single song in this was incredible. I loved every single song. And the score. And that helps because like when you're, everything's over the top, they get into these songs and it's a nice break. Well, and there's been some movies that were saved because of the musical numbers that we've watched, where it was like, I didn't like the film but the music numbers helped me get through it. Yeah. And so that definitely took place. Salman, he was just, he was a little much for me in there. And I know this is our second film of his, but this, like everybody's like stereotypes of him. I was like, okay, I see it now. Because we had only seen one and we were like, he wasn't bad. Correct. He wasn't bad. This is, I think what most people are talking about when they see him. Yeah. And obviously this is only a second film. I'm not going to judge the guy. We're going to see a ton of more of his films. Yeah. But this is, I was like, okay, I see it. I see what, I kind of see what you're talking about. No, there were moments very, Not just him. Shao Kahn. Complete with everybody. Kajol in the beginning. I don't know how many times, watching that, I went, oh wow. It was interesting. Oh wow. This was our first time seeing, I believe, Johnny Lever as well. We've seen him, he's worked with, In the like, the film. In a film. In a film, yeah. We've seen him in clips, but he worked with Shao Kahn a lot in the 90s. Yeah. And he's like a comedic legend. And so he was a very quirky. Oh, my stars. Way over the top. Yeah, very over the top. Just like everyone else. The docent. Yeah. Straight up. Yeah. Every single person, but it was, like I said, my criteria for this was, did I enjoy it? And I did. Yeah, I did too. I did, especially in the second half. Cause there was enough ground in it from Kajol that I was like, okay, I'm rooting for her. And I like her. Yes. And at the end. The kid was a little annoying to me then. And at all. She was annoying to me. At the end, I got a little bit frustrated, but then I understood. Like, SRK got there. He opens the door and she's there. And then he started to walk away. And this shows you how invested I was in the movie. He starts to walk away and I yell at the TV. I said, what are you doing, man? She's right there. Well, turn around. SRK, what are you? I got so mad at Dundrani's laughing. I said, is he going to just let, no, is he going to let her, is he going to make her go all the way down and have to say something? But I liked that it went the direct, not believable at all. The whole way it ends is so not, especially when Salman Khan's character is like, I know you don't love me. You love him. You guys should get married. Let's have a wedding. Hey, congrats, SRK. They have the same wedding. The same wedding right there at that moment. And he's totally cool with it. He's like, all right. He's a Jane Singin' Jane. I'm so happy right now. I loved it. I wish the world was that way. So. Oh, I didn't want to go without mentioning one of my favorite parts. The very beginning. When Ronnie McCurgy died really slowly. Off of some pregnancy complication. It was a pregnancy, no. It was a pregnancy complication. That she was all over her blood. She was able to write so many letters. All these letters say goodbye. And then she was totally healthy. And then she just looked great. Yeah. She looked amazing. I was expecting her in that hug with SRK to just go, eh. And they got the blood color right. Did you notice? I didn't. Yeah, I wasn't focused on that. No, they got the blood color right. But all in all, yeah. For me, this is one of my favorites. If this was, I would be excited. If I turned on the TV and this was on, I'd be giddy happy watching this one again. Yeah, I would still put the DTLJ. I love the DTLJ. This one in terms of watchability, I think that one's a lot more. But this one's literally for me just like a fact. You remember when we reacted to one of these songs? You remember my best friend? Yeah, right? Remember that one? And I said, Stephanie had a pen pal and that song was on a DLJ. Yes, I remember that. That they made. It turns out they sent the whole album. And she didn't realize, so she started watching because she was like, I recognize all these. So they just sent her the whole album. Wow. The high album when she was like eight or nine. And so she, wow, she had been, because it was like 1999 or something like that. So it makes sense that that person would send the entire album. And the other thing, before we close, we had mentioned this just a second ago. I said one sentence about how good the score was. I really appreciated the use of the themes that were repeated. Don't you catch up there? The repeated use of two or three musical motifs were really strong and connected me emotionally very, very quickly. I was surprised. That's one thing about the film that for me was more, and it may be because I'm just becoming more and more acclimated to appreciating these two together, but I was more emotionally invested in this than I even was in DLJ, which is one of the reasons for me. It's just a tad, a tad above it for me is that emotional connection. Yeah, absolutely. Well, let us know what the next SRK, I kind of want to watch, I kind of want to watch the mall so we can like rank them like everyone else has seen them. Even though everybody's like, they're, I think we, I think we know now. I think we're like at the place where if it's an SRK cajole film, I know what mindset I'm supposed to go into. Yeah, we know what to expect. And I think so. So I'm sure all of you have seen all of them. And there's only what seven, right? That they've actually seen and they've done it together. They'll be interesting just so you can see, because I know, I think I know what the next one everybody's going to say is. Yeah, K3G. K3G, yeah, I'm talking about. KG. Is it KG3 or K3G? I forget what. I think it's K3G. I forget. But we know, you've all been, but it was funny. I got a lot of messages about, but they're not ready yet. I think we are now. But that's the next one because people want us to watch this one because there's, I think references in that. Is that the one with the sexy number I love? Were there in front of the lips? No. Oh, that is, that's the one with Salma Khan or their brothers. Oh. I'm talking about, I guess with, I'm gonna talk Bak Chan, his wife, Rithik. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that I remember. I just, I'm looking forward to watching that number again. I love that sexy lip number. It's also Kieran Johar. Ah! So, there. We're ready, bring it on. Let us know. Bring it on. But the next SRK and Joel film we should watch is down below.