Did The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Michael Disappoint Us? Glory, Ek Din- Long Review

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[00:01:25]We've got Rahul Desai and Udhartia joining me one more time. Icha is out of town occupied with actual live events.

[00:01:32]So, she could not join us here today.

[00:01:35]But, you know, I hope to bring her back.

[00:01:36]Uh because I know a lot of people just tune in to listen to Ishita speak because she speaks just really really well. And a lot of people tune in to hear Ishita yell at Raul also, which is my personal favorite part of these live streams.

[00:01:49]>> Oh, does that happen? Okay. Okay. You don't remember last week. Kawa was [laughter] >> amnesia is strong with this one. Okay, so today we've gathered after a couple of weeks. So we have a bunch of [ __ ] to talk about. Got Devil Wear Prada, got Michael Glory Ain. I also glanced through your uh Java review. No. What is the film I'm thinking of Rahul?

[00:02:16]>> Yes. Yes. No. No. Chava part two technically.

[00:02:19]>> Exactly. Raja Shivaji. Yeah, >> Raja Shivaji review. It is such a tragedy by the way that a Vidya Balan starer has come and gone and not registered that a Vidya Balan star has come and gone. The only thing I've seen from that film is Salman Khan cameo.

[00:02:34]>> Optimistic to call it a Vidya Balin star.

[00:02:37]>> I mean for me Vidyabalan Starers used to be like a thing man. I would wait for Vidya Balan films to come out but >> no more.

[00:02:47]What are the films that you've watched out of all of these that you we are talking about today?

[00:02:52]>> I have watched all of them.

[00:02:55]>> Very nice. And Rahul, you've also seen all >> No, no, I have not seen Michael yet.

[00:03:02]>> But spoiler alert, he dies.

[00:03:05]>> Spoiler alert. Yeah, he dies.

[00:03:07]>> Not in the movie. Not in the movie. He does not. So, let's get into it. Um, before if if we proceed, if you guys have not seen or read these reviews, uh, they're all linked in the description right underneath this video. I've linked to everybody's social media profiles as well, so you can go and follow them on social media, so you will get direct links to the reviews. Let's get into it.

[00:03:25]The first one we've got up today is the Devil Prada. And whose review am I going to read out?

[00:03:32]Rahul's. Rahul writes for the Hollywood Reporter India. Oh, no, this is not Hollywood Reporter India. This is your own substack, right? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:03:41]>> Yay. Rahul wrote this for his own substack which is linked to this below and I've highlighted the lines that I wanted to read out is that the essence of Devil's Prada 2 lies in how the genre duality of the film reflects the professional duality of its characters.

[00:03:55]Just as Andy is a weighty journalist trying to do her kind of writing as a at a glam outlet. The movie dresses up devilish themes in the Prada coded fabric of a catwalk. It is a wonder that the story line manages to be crowd-pleasing and truth splitting at once. And then the last thing, if anything, this is very much a feel-good tragedy. Despite the tropes, the vibe is that of a happily never after. A cautionary tale wrapped up in the kwa of transient success. Whatever Andy and Miranda do, it is clear that even if the day is one, the night is here. Welcome to the Medgala of film critics. You liked this film quite a bit, huh Rahul?

[00:04:31]>> I did. I did. I was uh I mean I didn't expect it to be so present and like uh obviously [clears throat] >> I went in as a big fan like I guess billions of people of the first film but I'm really glad for the direction they took like I didn't go in expecting the same kind of film. It's just not possible. And I'm really like that they didn't I really like they didn't stick to like just fashion publishing. They made it like they broadened it into journalism in general. And there's no point kidding about it anymore. it's happening all over. We may feel like it's only happening in India. It's the US has a step above us there. So um so yeah it it for me it really felt like in the moment and I have seen these characters I have seen these meetings and it felt almost too close to reality and I guess that was something I was thinking about while watching the film.

[00:05:22]I was like will only journalists react to it this way? with regular viewers and fans of the first film also find it as uh like I don't know as interesting to watch.

[00:05:34]>> But uh but yeah, it's been it's been interesting. I I really like the film. I I really love what they did with um Miranda Priestley's character. Uh not so much a fan of an Hutway still being the same, >> but um but yeah, I thought they got more things right than they did not. And uh yeah, good good mix of sentimentality and like group.

[00:05:58]>> So for those of you who haven't seen Devil Wears Prada too, the film opens with Andy who's now a legitimate journalist 20 years after the first one.

[00:06:04]She's a legitimate journalist and she wins an award in New York City and the day she wins an award uh her whole uh team gets a text message saying that they're all fired from their jobs. So she goes up on the stage and she makes that optics that opportunity to really sort of give a viral speech about the importance of journalism and the death of journalism, which is what we do here every week. Yeah.

[00:06:22]>> Um, >> but so that's why it resonated with Rahul more than it resonated with me.

[00:06:28]Now I'm what I'm going to do is because today we have so many films to talk about, I'm only going to highlight one review per film reading wise. But then what did you think of The Devil Wears Prada 2. Tell us.

[00:06:39]>> I quite enjoyed it. I I thought as a legacy sequel, I think it's better than any legacy sequel in the last few years, Hollywood legacy sequel, because those are generally like they don't have a reason for existence. This one at least did find something that was, you know, that was worth revisiting for. And I think it >> I I don't know if it's as like endlessly quotable as the first film. Uh, and that's I think what made that one kind of kind of a modern classic in a way a little bit. And uh, this one doesn't feel like it feels a little heavier and a little that like it wears its intentions I think a little too plainly to be that much fun as the first film. And uh I also agree with what Rahul writes when he says that you know it is a feel-good tragedy in the sense that anything where you know your conclusion is that oh we'll find a better billionaire and that will fix things >> is you know I mean that's that's a very that's a band-aid basically. Yes.

[00:07:50]>> So yeah but but still I I I did quite enjoy it.

[00:07:55]>> Yeah. So uh El Somu 27397 says that they were thinking of us when watching this film. Yeah, I know right. This is the film's it came a little too close to reality. That moment all of us have seen that moment happen with our friends, close friends that we've known over the last year or so. Multiple times over and over this has happened. I think um I was in uh Sundance a couple of years ago when a huge publication laid off a lot of its journalists while they were at Sundance. had flown there to cover the festival and all of them got emails saying that oh you've been laid off because your team has been eliminated.

[00:08:29]So this is very close to whom this has happened to a lot of people. We Ishita and I we were literally just we were all four of us were talking about it a few weeks ago that this literally happened to Ishita and Aditi Krishna and other writers who were who were right for OTT place. So this is not far from reality.

[00:08:43]Having said that I feel like that the film really wanted to make a solid point about the death of journalism in in not India but in in the world but it it just should have sort of shied away from going there. I felt like the film it it it it it was a little it felt a little defanged and uh there was a lot to say and I didn't want it to become a you know a documentary film or even like a hard drama film about any of that. But to this point to have one billionaire and then okay now let's move on to the next billionaire. Billionaires are billionaires at the end of the day. They do not have journalists uh even if they look like Lucilu and they're very calm and composed. I felt like it was a very like surface level exploration of what's going on in the world of Andy Miranda and because there was no direct conflict between uh Andy and um Emily anymore because Emily is not in in in other magazine anymore. She's running a retail empire and because there's no direct conflict between the two. She felt like a force fit like you have to bring her in because it's Emily Blunt. Emily Blunt has become a major star in the last 20 years since the first film came out when she wasn't such a major star. So you have to put her in somewhere. So, but I do like that it was cheeky about the whole Jeff Bezos and his wife situation and you know sort of juaposing that. But then one week, not even one week, like 3 days later, Anne Hathway is walking the red carpet at the Met Gala, which is sponsored by Jeff Bezos and his wife.

[00:09:56]So, it's like the whole thing feels like a bit of a charade to me. It it didn't really speak to me on a deep level as it did to you, Rahul. It just I it didn't. Yeah, I guess it depends on also whether we approach it as sort of a journalism movie or as a legacy sequel.

[00:10:14]>> Yeah.

[00:10:15]>> Like I went in sort of expecting to have a good time again and our favorite characters are back on screen. How bad can it be? How like it's bound to be fun, >> but I guess I was just disarmed by what it was saying and um how close to the truth they got it. It just wasn't like they were skimming the surface. they have been there in those rooms. They know they have spoken to people who have been there in those rooms. I see that every other week. So, uh I guess yeah, for me it was just a >> it was a nice lightart slightly light-hearted way to look at a very heavy problem facing all of us right now because God knows we've ranted about it enough in the last couple of months and we do that every other week with each other also when we are not on video. So I I think for me it was a nice different tonality to look at the same problem. Um you know my one of my favorite sort of legacy films talking about the same thing but being like cheeky about it and funny about it and very 2000 romcom about it. So I I guess that's why I felt an affinity towards the movie and I really think that it it's possibly the best direction the sequel could go in.

[00:11:29]I'm not going to compare it to the first film. It's not quotable because it doesn't try to be.

[00:11:34]>> I don't think it can afford to be also because it's not a easy theme it's dealing with. The first one was genuinely a coming of age journey of you know someone who wanted to be a journalist but this one sort of really brought together a lot of threads that I believe would have happened in the last 20 years. I could almost imagine what happened the time lapse in the last 20 years when this film started. That's a good starting point for any huge softy at heart. All of that. I really hated how brilliant your piece was, by the way. I really really really hated how great it was because it went on and on and on and every little every line one after another was just brilliant and I was just really mad at you for writing like that. So, go read the piece. It's at the Substack under this video. It is linked right there.

[00:12:27]Um, Anthony John says, "Miranda felt softer and more sympathetic. The first one balanced her narcissism with her humanity." Well, I agree. I did not I mean, Meril Street is so disarming, right? It's like Ryan Gosling and Project Hail Mary. Endlessly watchable.

[00:12:41]You just put them on the screen. Even if they're sitting there drinking a glass of whiskey looking at a fireplace, I will watch it for two hours. They're just intensely watchable actors, some of these people. Um, but you know, in 2006 when the film came out, there was this whole enigma around Anna Winto. like who is this person and what is this empire and what is this fashion world all about? In the last 20 years, we've gotten to know so much about the fashion world. I at least for one I'm like there's nothing new that this film tells me. The curtains that were pulled back in uh 2006 have stayed back that way because of social media, because of other films about fashion, other narratives about fashion, all of that stuff. And the the overexposure of the Met Gala over and over. You do you think they timed the release of the film to be 3 days before the Med Gala? It's weird.

[00:13:22]No, >> I don't know. I mean, I guess >> I guess so.

[00:13:28]>> Also, [snorts] is Medgala the new can?

[00:13:30]Everybody is there.

[00:13:31]>> I'm kind of sick of hearing about the Medcala. Honestly, >> it's all over my social media this morning. Yeah, I can't escape it. Can you?

[00:13:39]>> I mean, I have escaped it by not opening my social media, but everyone talks about it. All publications are talking about it, so there's no real escape from it. It's as if it's the best film festival in the world when really it's just it's it's the meta.

[00:13:53]>> I think like 10 15 years from now the next generation that's going to be writing mainstream news at least I'm hoping is going to be wondering how we were so tonedeaf about celebrating billionaires parading doing playing fashion.

[00:14:12]Yeah.

[00:14:15]Speaking of journalism, there's been some good news in the last 24 hours. Our film critics guild member Superna Sharma just won a straight up pulleder. Like what is that all about? It's amazing. So if you guys haven't heard, Anand Arupna Sharma and Natalie Obiko Pearson of Bloomberg won a straightup Pulitzer award. They wrote a piece called Trapped. If you've heard about the digital arrest phenomenon which is such a uniquely Indian crime that has been on the rise for the last many years. These three journalists wrote about it. It was a very interesting novel way of presenting the story and it was so good that congratulations. She's a member of the film critics guild and we're all very proud. She's won a pulitzer. I mean it's >> freaking phenomenal.

[00:14:57]>> Crazy. It's the first time like I've heard of something like this cool and like such a mic drop moment. And uh I I think and we were discussing earlier yesterday or today I don't know when we heard about this that uh I was like the irony is like if someone as bestowed as superna now who is probably like I mean I've never heard of a Indian journal when a police are straight up like this >> and if someone like her were to pitch to a publication tomorrow they'd be rejected here like in this country they like so I mean I'm So glad that she could bypass the entire system. Screw the national award. Screw everything.

[00:15:38]There's no award in India that matters as much. I mean straight up Pulitzer which is I can't cannot be prouder to be part of this G.

[00:15:47]>> Oh, your thoughts on Superna winning a Pulitzer. It's amazing. It is it's unbelievable and uh yeah just like as Raul said just like just like straight up like just like reach that level then >> it's like it's amazing when that happens because there's so many like irritations and rejections that are there at u out here and you know at so many levels. So, you know, to make that kind of uh, you know, leap is just >> unbelievable.

[00:16:21]>> Yeah, it was it was it was such a welcome wild piece of news that dropped in my phone a few hours ago. So, if anybody's interested, the piece piece is called Trapped. Um, and three journalists have come together and written it for Bloomberg, written it, created it. There's a visual element involved in it as well. So, it's really really quite wonderful. Check it out.

[00:16:42]And, um, oh, Mirage is back with more money to offer. Thanks. Miraj is asking about Sapn versus everyone season 2 from TVF. Did you watch that Rahul?

[00:16:51]>> Oh, honestly that last week was really taxing and I I had to skip something and this was what I chose to skip because I review t I review one TV show every second week and honestly fatigue but I've heard this show the first season was really good and I missed the second season last week. But h there's I'm human. There's only so much I can do.

[00:17:13]>> Sorry Maj. I don't even know of the existence of the show, let alone that it's got a season two.

[00:17:23]>> Some people refer to uh Wikipedia to see what's coming out. We should just text Rahul and ask what is releasing this week.

[00:17:31]>> Yeah. Yeah, that's what >> and what released last week and what is releasing next week. Huh?

[00:17:36]>> Yeah.

[00:17:37]>> But here, listen you guys. So we we uh before we move on to Michael and I'm going to read UD's review of Michael this is a QR code if you know that all of us are doing our own independent thing right now for the most part for the most part U is still gainfully employed congratulations uh but if you would like to support Rahul's writing Rahul's work here is a screen grab uh sorry what do you call it a QR code a QR code that you can scan off your screen and um show some love support Rahul Henna >> yeah this is for my substract just so you know I'm not just putting a random QR code everyone [laughter] as much as I would love to because we are heading there.

[00:18:14]>> That would be incredible hustle though.

[00:18:16]>> No, no, that that is we are we are heading there. It's going to be a matter of time.

[00:18:20]>> That would impress like >> I'll just be like here's the QR code whether I'm working or not. Please send >> but uh but >> you should print out a t-shirt and put it on your t-shirt on the back.

[00:18:30]>> Ishita has already cracked this joke.

[00:18:32]She said put it outside your door. Put it like wear a t-shirt. Go everywhere.

[00:18:37]go to the cabs like this. But anyway, jokes aside, uh this is for my substack.

[00:18:43]I'm five pieces in. Uh I'm very glad that it's it's actually I'm really liking Substack. So for those who are thinking of joining it and writing there independently, uh some very serious readers and writers there. So I mentioned this last week also. So I'm trying to do an essay a week. So for those of you who actually read that then feel free to support the work. If you don't read, you can I mean if you like me, sure, go ahead.

[00:19:08]There you go. Um, and of course the Substack is linked underneath here. You can go check out check it out, check out the reading, and if you like what you see, please feel free to contribute and become a member of the Substack. Moving on to next film that we're talking about is Michael. Now, this came out a couple of weeks ago, and this has become one of the most bizarrely one of the more hotly debated films of of this year so far.

[00:19:27]Um, internationally as well, Spikeley has come out and said people who don't like this film are something or the other. Farah Khan said on her Twitter that all this film just proves that critics are morons in every country which is a screen grab I sent to my friend Siddhant and I was like look at this.

[00:19:42]>> So [laughter] um uh so you know this this this film has really sort of become a a strange dividing line between critics and audience and filmmakers all of a sudden.

[00:19:55]I don't know before we jump into our general thoughts about the film let me read what UD wrote in Mint. Uda said if Logan phoning it in uh is disappointing, it's unlikely anyone had great hopes from Antoan Fukqua, a journeyman's journeyman. The film has all the excitement of paid promotion. Scene after scene of embarrassing praise for Michael, the musical artist, the dancer, the philanthropist. There's no insight into his creative process. The songs seem to arrive fully formed. Quincy Jones exists in the film, but not as a meaningful collaborator. Exactly.

[00:20:26]There's a sequence where Michael having seen reports of LA gang wars of TV summon summons members of Bloods and Crips to the studio where he engineers peace by getting them to dance together for his beat music video. Fukqua's direction of this is hokey. But more revealing is the moment where Michael invents the famous dance move where he shrugs his jacket. He does it perfectly the very first time. You really didn't like this film over there?

[00:20:51]>> I really didn't. I mean >> I mean I your piece was really scathing.

[00:20:55]It sounds like just another Bollywood biopic. Honestly, I don't know what the West is waking up to right now. We've been going through this every week. So, [laughter] >> more thoughts. So, >> I mean I mean forget all the moral cowardice associated with making this film and making it the way they did. Even if you forget that it's just such a bad film, it's it's so badly made. It's terribly written. It has uh it has no insight into what makes Michael Jackson Michael Jackson. It has no feel for, you know, honing in on a on like an interesting moment. It I mean, the performances are just dull. It has so much good material to use and it just I mean it just takes the most boringly uh you know the ones that you would expect to be there are all there and nothing comes as surprise in the whole film and it's just I mean it's just I thought it was terrible and like you know the the producer is the Bohemian Rap City uh producer and I thought that was like the worst big Hollywood film slashbopic that I've seen in like years and years and but this was this was worse somehow. I don't even know how but yeah >> it is such a flat film. There is no complexity to Michael Jackson's character at all. The only complex thing is um he likes to spend time with animals over human beings which really does no justice to his legacy. the complex and convoluted and controversial legacy that the artist left behind when he died in 2009. There was so much I mean I said this in my review as well. I was a radio show host back when back in when he died in 2009 and I used to play Hindi music. I was a Bollywood radio station, right? And such was the impact of Michael Jackson that when the news broke that he he had died all of a sudden, we dropped our Bollywood programming and played Michael Jackson songs for hours and hours and hours that day because that was just the impact he had. And I in our lifetime, I cannot recall another artist who who transcended borders the way he did. And even though the film does end in 1988, it's not like that sort of international impact uh hadn't begun to happen. in the film. I don't know why it just does it it it's it felt very very flat. It didn't go into any romantic lison that he may or may not have had. Um again, Quincy Jones just appears one day. He's in two scenes and then what the fact that Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones together changed the direction of pop music in America and by extension the whole world doesn't appear in the film.

[00:23:50]There's no stories how they met, how Quincy Jones became so dear to him that he would and the Logan by the way that Ud mentions is uh the writer of the film John Logan, the the Logan that's mentioned in the first line of the review that I just read out. So yeah, and you know, Jafar Jackson's great. I mean, he's clearly and this film has been in some sort of uh making for many many years. Uh it was announced many years ago and then Jafar Jackson was signed on and then he's been preparing it and he's great. He looks good. But the alleys of Las Vegas, I assume, are are littered with brilliant Michael Jackson impersonators. He's a great Michael Jackson impersonator, but is that enough for for a for a film to be good and enjoyable?

[00:24:32]>> No, I I I thought it was that I thought it was a great impersonation and it brought nothing to the part. And what what uses it to have an actor >> if you can't bring something to it? If you can't kind of bring an insight or like a humanity or something to that like a like you know some kind of curiosity to the thing if you just if your only >> endeavor is to capture as closely you know an imitation of what was then to me I think at least that is like supremely boring. So, I don't know. I I wasn't I wasn't big on Jaffer Jackson's performance. I have to say I didn't I didn't think it was a particularly good performance. Uh but I don't think he had any great support from the writer, director, any of them because it's clear that everyone was just out to make the kind of film which turned out. So, I don't know. I don't know how he was going to give a great performance under those circumstances. Also, so >> why do you why do you call Antoan Fukqua a journeyman's journey man? You're not a big fan of his filmography.

[00:25:46]>> Never never liked really any of his films.

[00:25:50]>> Yeah, >> was smiling before when you dread that out. Uh I I don't know whether >> your thoughts Raul.

[00:25:58]>> Yeah. No, it's the same. It's the corny be action be movies that he's made most of his life like and it's one of those HBO repeats that we used to watch like back in the day when like TV >> felt very much like that this film.

[00:26:14]>> Yeah. Um I I haven't watched this film so I'll reserve my opinion but the one thing that I did notice in the last couple of weeks is there's been an edge to the voice of people who approached me saying have you watched Michael? Have you watched Michael? I was like no I uh but why is it by choice? I was like, "No, I just didn't have the time. Calm down." But um >> but it's almost like they are hoping to get into that same debate, Durander style debate because they are all very aggressively like you know what we've come with our opinions. Those who hated it are idiots. Those who loved it, we love it. So we need to know if you watched it because if you hate it, the problem is you. So I kind of sense that edge and I'm going to watch it obviously at some point. But uh but I found it very interesting the discourse around it is so much like what we went through a couple of months ago and the audience is again divided the same way and people are so confrontational about it and I'm >> I know >> it's just a Michael Jackson movie calm down but uh yeah whatever. Also I don't think India turned on Michael the way the rest of the you know a lot of the world did or at least like you know the Hollywood and like maybe the US and you know some of the west did like when the allegations became like too difficult to ignore and you know then they were like you know he you know then you start referring to a person seeing a person differently and I don't think that that process really ever happened in India. I think he was just as popular while he was alive and then in death and then even today.

[00:27:51]>> Yeah.

[00:27:54]>> It's funny that you mentioned this has become like the durand of uh the west because Siddhant and I were literally having this conversation a couple of days ago and he's also talking about the Michael Jackson impact when he would visit his grandparents in Delhi. There was a guy who would come around with a monkey on a leash and make the little guy do a little Michael Jackson dance for money. Iconic. Sedant and I were literally having I wish Saddant was here on this live stream but he's busy very busy this week so I understand maybe another next time I'll bring Sedant on but uh we were having the same conversation that this feels like durand moment for Hollywood which is just like why does everybody want to fight with film critics what did we do why has it come to this point so you know Farakhan said that oh this just proves that film critics are morons in every country and Jaffer Jackson should get an Oscar her words not mine and then I reposted a short clip that from my interview with Ryan Johnson who was married to a film critic and he said I love film critics that might be a controversial thing to say as a filmmaker but I love film criticism and I said why is that a controversial thing to say we're we're not we're not antagonists in the story we're all on the same side of things which takes me back to an earlier uh message that Pravin Roer had sent a couple of minutes ago saying I'm so angry at the vilification of critics by everybody Um you know I was having a you know I run this uh movie club right for um channel members where we do this offline discussion every month we get together on zoom and one of them said that a great companion piece to devil's prada is vinuklas while we watched and I was like god damn it I'm so mad I didn't think of that in my review to mention that out loud it's such a great companion piece tuned every wears Prada if [snorts] you want to see a real life version of what it what happens in the journalism spaces.

[00:29:45]Uh but for Michael also relation recommendation so I also have this little segment in my reviews where I where I recommend something that people can be watching and Better Man. Have you seen Better Man the Robbie Williams biopic?

[00:29:56]>> No.

[00:29:57]>> It's very fun.

[00:29:58]>> No, but I've heard surprisingly like very positive things about it from a lot of people. So I'm intrigued.

[00:30:06]>> Yeah, it's very fun. Very sort of similar um early angst story about a an absent father. Not like not similar but he has father issues both sides. But um how Robbie Williams then is depicted through an anthropomorphic chimpanzeee I thought was fascinating. It's very cool.

[00:30:26]Any more thoughts on Michael? Oh there be >> no no not be.

[00:30:33]>> All right. Oh, there's Michael review is linked directly under this video if you would like to go and read his very very scathing review. I I was reading and I was like, "Dear Lord, they really did it like this." [laughter] >> Did you get uh trolled a lot?

[00:30:52]>> More than I thought. I mean, not like crazy levels, but like I for this I thought it' just be like, you know, no reactions at all and just surprising number of shooters this movie has.

[00:31:06]>> Yeah, Sidhant was telling me the same thing. He's also had like some random comments under his reviews as well, which is so weird. Kevin says, "Now I don't feel bad about not having seen Better Man because these two gentlemen have also not seen it." [laughter] Um, before we move on to the next title, uh, here is also a QR code if you'd like to scan. This is for me. If you'd like to become a channel member and join these movie clubs that we do every month, you can scan this code right here. Become a channel member. Support the work that we do. You see that little YouTube plaque right there in the back?

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[00:31:45]Can you imagine what it takes to cross 100,000 subscribers? And that happened two years ago.

[00:31:50]>> Since then, I've managed to hit 156,000.

[00:31:53]But the growth has slowed down so dramatically. Rahul, I know they're both of you. because it's just really hard and impossible to distinguish yourself on YouTube right now because everybody's on YouTube doing doing things and all the thumbnails look alike and all the titles look alike and it's so hard to be distinguished and a lot of people >> feel like I'm not the same fun end games person that I probably used to be 10 years ago. But that's my personal growth which I will not be apologetic for. But if you're along for what I'm doing, uh this is the QR code right here that you can scan, become a channel member so that this 100,000 can turn into a million. But before that happens, click here. Okay, great.

[00:32:37]Uh from so happy to see you doing what you do. You have such a unique voice. Elsomo 27397, thank you. Very kind. Taspir says big fan guys keep doing great. We are missing Ishita but um this is for her also because I just like to involve her in things. I need more women doing this basically.

[00:33:01]>> Yeah.

[00:33:03]>> The Anthony Bourdain biopic. Has anybody seen the trailer for this?

[00:33:06]>> Uh I I saw Yeah, I saw it.

[00:33:09]>> What do you think?

[00:33:12]>> Um interesting I guess. Oh, they >> Cesa looks the part. Uh, >> yeah.

[00:33:21]>> I I mean, I hope the film kind of I This is the guy who made Blackberry, right?

[00:33:27]>> I haven't seen the trailers. I have no idea what this is.

[00:33:30]>> Yeah. Yeah, it is.

[00:33:31]>> Blackberry was really fun. So, >> Blackberry was fun.

[00:33:34]>> So, I I think if I mean I I'm I'm quite hopeful and that that >> Yeah. Then me and Ishita watch Blackberry in Delhi together which was really good uh sudden screening that we had. So yeah, if if it's the if it's the same guy then I expect good Even the new Odyssey trailer dropped today by the way.

[00:33:55]>> Yeah, which I haven't seen yet. But there's you can't avoid Odyssey trailers. I think in America they're playing everywhere. Everywhere I turn, it's like an Odyssey mention or a trailer or a somebody raging about Lupita Nyongo or something or the other.

[00:34:10]It's everywhere. But I'm very excited.

[00:34:14]Uh An says, "Hope they don't do the Beatles dirty." Yeah, I mean four films, >> four films you 50% hit rate also will be fine.

[00:34:26]>> And for Anakaren, so I'm excited for him. [snorts] Uh okay, let's go. Eggen.

[00:34:32]I haven't watched Eggden. You guys have watched Eggden. Both of you were sort of mellow on Eggden. I think it wasn't as bad as maybe people thought it might be.

[00:34:44]No, >> I don't know. What do you say? What is bad anymore? Um [laughter] it's just yeah I mean the trailer honestly sort of really invited like scathing reactions and rightly [clears throat] so because the trailer was pretty much the whole film which itself was a remake so and it wasn't looking good from the get-go honestly and uh >> I don't know what Amir Khan productions is doing right now in terms of how simplistic they are making their cinema They clearly have a demographic they want to cater to and they are dumbing things down to a level where I don't know how you can dumb a love story down more than it already is.

[00:35:30]>> Yeah.

[00:35:31]>> Um and obviously you could tell that this movie has been shot after Sara because they tried to do a lot of stuff.

[00:35:38]Um the the plot is similar, the the actress is I mean the character is similar. So that the condition medical condition is similar. So it's a goofy sort of premise in that sense. But what I liked what I I think we've discussed so many times the conviction they showed and the commitment they showed to go after it in Sara it lacked it here because it was too >> uh yeah they just could not pull it off here like and with large reason also because I don't think Junet Khan >> was the right choice for this at all like it just did not work he like his father plays >> certain uh certain traits of being a man has medical conditions. That's the problem with air and that is the problem. Jun is an introvert here. He's awkward. He's IT guy. So, you know, he plays it like he's a cartoon and that immediately turns you off. Um and you know Caip is for me she really worked in this film like she's she's the conviction that the film was missing like with that he you know despite having a language that sounds funny the Tamil Hindi basically on screen which you know people criticize Vijay Suupati for when he acts in Hindi films and shows uh you know like her face alone is a reflection of what the film should have been and what her character should have been and she really commits to some of the scenes where sometimes I was getting a little emotional only and as soon as the reaction shot cuts to Jun I'm like it's just no they're two separate films they cannot they cannot exist in the same uh yeah so you know after a while it it's just too glossy too curated uh to really pull off that big Bollywood romance that all of us wait for every year honestly like I would I was I happily went in thinking that even if they make me feel like 20% of what I surprisingly felt during Sara I would be happy but It just apart from Sai Pali, I really didn't see anything beyond that.

[00:37:42]>> Oh, they didn't you note in your review that this was shot before Sara was shot.

[00:37:46]>> So, at least apparently the Japan part is all shot before SA.

[00:37:52]>> Yeah. So, they clearly added like a lot of the post Japan stuff. Uh or maybe they not added but like I think there was there was a clear influence like that last scene was perfect. You know it's a lot of it is the 2016 film.

[00:38:07]>> Yeah. 2016 Thai film.

[00:38:11]>> Let's let's let's read let me read that portion from your review. I have it here. Let me read it out. So there says that as I watched the film I thought Sneha Desai and Mandan Desai's dialogue writing was occasionally amusing often corny but that their screenplay clicked into place satisfyingly but after looking up the thigh film I'd pass on that credit to its writers. Yeah.

[00:38:31]>> Yeah. So uh and I watched it in the original language because I couldn't find one with subtitles the Thai film. But even then I could figure out that the punchlines are the same.

[00:38:45]>> The scenes anyways you could see that they are the same. The styling of the characters in some of the scenes are the same >> and it just it got me thinking like what a boring way to make films man.

[00:38:58]>> This is what pissed me off about Sitar Amipur also. But you know has reached the kind of stage in his career where he could be doing whatever he wants. He should be doing passion projects.

[00:39:10]>> You know he should be doing something that's actually interesting. Not only is this interesting for us, I cannot believe that this is interesting for him.

[00:39:19]>> Yeah. as one of the producers on here generally like it's just what a depressing way to make films do like scene by scene copies of a successful film and and you know it's it's not a terrible film I mean I'm ach it's it's watchable enough but it lacks that you know as Rahul was saying that kind of that sara gale force kind of thing and I'm I mean >> you and I aren't as big on Sara as Rahul and Ishita but I think I mean you can see even if you don't like it that much Sara goes like 100% after its target like there is real emotion in what it does all the time like there is some real intensity out there and this one just doesn't have it >> and some of that's down to Janed unfortunately because Calv is really good >> and Uh Juned's quite bad I have to say.

[00:40:22]It's just I mean I I am sympathetic.

[00:40:27]He's you know but uh it's just not good.

[00:40:31]There are some scenes that are like kind of queuing him up for like you know very Hindi movie moments like a scene where his mom comes in the end and tries to comfort him and you know he has to cry and you know actors have been nailing that kind of scene down the generations.

[00:40:49]You have no excuse to not hammer that scene into the ground. It just and and he cannot do >> and it's just and if you can't do that then you know you're in trouble. I think >> that that moment is very interesting because that's that's honestly that moment I thought in theory moved me because I was like you cannot get it wrong. His face is covered. He's breaking down in his mother's arms. Uh but the reason that scene didn't work and I was like analyzing like a computer scientist then while watching the film and like the reason that scene didn't work is because of the way he answers the doorbell like this tall guy then drooping his shoulders like it's a damn condition like he's having a backachche to show that he's sad you know. Okay, my life is bad. So you don't droop your shoulders so animatedly to show that [ __ ] has gone wrong in your life. All you have to do is open the door and break down in your mother's arms. But nobody corrected him. Why? Because you know Amir has been acting like that for years. And I just Yeah, it's it's it's sad and it's it's disappointing especially coming from American production. Even make a happy potato. At least you're making something different.

[00:41:56]>> A swing.

[00:41:58]>> Yeah, that's a swing. That's a swing.

[00:41:59]Like I don't care if it works or not.

[00:42:01]But what is this? Like you you can't keep making something derivative. You can't make it so obviously look like a platform for your son.

[00:42:10]>> Nepotism. Why bring it back into the vocabulary when when nobody's having a good time about it? Like Jun just does not belong so badly that it's you feel sympathetic for him and by extension for the character sometimes saying that like does he even like is character just like taking pity on him here or what is happening?

[00:42:34]>> So there's no love in there's no chemistry in that sense. The way Japan is shot is very boring and unadventurous. It looks like a tourism advert. It's just no winter Japan one like winter festival but like just have some have some ambition there. What is this uh except for the title track the music is flat also >> which you also mentioned in your review that you like the title track.

[00:42:57]>> Title track is great but you know the Arijit version comes in the end in the end credits. the uh the female version is what played during the film which which I thought would be a good part but again visually they don't they don't measure up to it. Why? Because Jun is doing probably the worst acting I've seen this year when he's actually trying to dance and make her laugh >> a ballroom and it looks really and knows exactly what I'm talking about and I >> Yeah, he's face palmed. He's face palmed. He knows exactly what you're saying.

[00:43:27]>> The whole audience face palmed. You could hear like a collective sing and it's so sad to see that because I don't know what the character was doing in that moment, what the actor was doing in that moment but and Sai Palvi had to look like she was impressed in that moment which was just you also really enjoyed Sai Palvi's performance huh like Rahul did.

[00:43:47]>> She's very good. I'm just I'm I'm just so sad that her first two Hindi films are going to be Aden and Ramayan. Uh I just I I >> this >> I hope she comes by here more often here being Hindi cinema and all. Not that we won't seek her out in other languages but I hope she stops by and works with some good directors and all. She's really good.

[00:44:13]>> Now I haven't seen so I won't comment on the film itself but it sounds like it is another one in the list of okay American productions over the last couple of years. this satare >> love yappa also I wasn't mad at the film like okay sure >> don't hate it uh happy patel was a swing so it was good that Viras went out and made the film and then Amir Khan has become the wind underneath those wings brilliant love it more power I hope be gets to make more movies but it sounds like it's another one in the list of okay Sure.

[00:44:53]>> Um Kevin says there's no there's a saying that no one sets out to make a bad movie, but it seems like a lot of people are happy to make safe movies. I guess so. Uh Pravin goes back to Michael and he's saying I don't understand why we can't talk about Michael's allegations.

[00:45:07]So many people have come out and there's a documentary literally it is the moment again by the West this time. Yeah, we just discussed it and they also mentions it in his um review as well which I would recommend you all go and watch or go and read. underneath this. I am going to one more time take this opportunity to flash this QR code. If you would like to support our work and our writing, this is one way you can do that. Scan this code and show some love. All right, up next. Up next, we're going to talk about Glory.

[00:45:39]>> Oh, did you watch Glory?

[00:45:40]>> I did. I >> seven episodes, but I I ran out of energy at the end, so I couldn't review it. I just watched it. You watched the whole show and did not make it worthwhile with a review. What are you made of? [laughter] >> I had your voice in my head berating me and it was a lot like Suendar Viki. So it kind of scared [laughter] me.

[00:46:06]I didn't end up writing.

[00:46:09]>> Okay. Well, this is your opportunity.

[00:46:12]>> Tell us what you thought of Glory. I can't believe you watched seven episodes and didn't write about it. Wow.

[00:46:17]>> Amazing. It felt like 17 episodes.

[00:46:21][laughter] >> For people who have not watched this, I cannot even like I cannot begin to explain how much they cram into seven episodes of screen time. It is insane.

[00:46:38]>> They have dozens of plots going on >> and some of them just go nowhere. They just like go off road and then they just like they're lost in the deserts like those plots are roaming around somewhere in the wild and like you know they they they just will not ever reach their destination.

[00:46:57]>> Yeah.

[00:46:57]>> And uh I don't know it's it's not not fun but I just it's it's not good either.

[00:47:07]It's very uh I I don't have really coherent thoughts on this. I should read Raul's review. I haven't read that yet.

[00:47:14]Well, on that note, I will read an excerpt from Rahul's review of Glory.

[00:47:18]This is again for the Hollywood Reporter India. And Rahul says, "What is interesting in theory at least is how the seven episode series uses one genre as a vehicle to deconstruct another. The training montages are the same, but the purpose is different. Ambition becomes a more human and selfish trait. For the most part, Mirzapur coded blood lust is what drives the characters. Sports simply starts out as the medium, a pulpy version of how patriotism and war became a medium for an underdog to achieve his dreams in Chandu Chapman of 2024. Rahul.

[00:47:51]>> Yeah, that's what I found interesting on paper for a while about this show is the way it's not technically a sports drama and the way they treat like boxing uh as a medium here and uh because everyone's in it for like sort of a personal revenge story thing happening.

[00:48:11]So sports becomes like one of the things one of the sons decides to become a professional boxer again and the father comes into it. uh all over again because they want to avenge their sister. So um so I found that interesting because sports drama is like you know you know how it is like it just it really commits to the sport and it gets it flattens basically the entire biopic then so here uh >> yeah what what Chandu Champion did also where the character there joined the army so that he could actually then qualify for the Olympics I thought they did the same thing with with sports here but uh but that's the problem you know it it just somehow it then became that show like where 100 threads about like the murder and the investigation going on and it forget it forgot totally that you know it started as a semi-ports drama which is which is fine again but even the twist you could see from episode one which really pissed me off so much really like when I watched episode one I was like you know what I swear to God they may not have they better not have messed this up because they're going to spend the next six episodes trying to gaslight the viewer into thinking there are other suspects and there are other things and they did exactly that and they came back to the same thing in the end and I was like you cannot pad up the whole plot to cover your mistake and then say that uh you know what it's it's the it's exactly who you thought it was and what you thought it was and I was like even that they got wrong I can't even go into details without giving away the twist but I like even the nature of the twist they got wrong because I thought how cool would it be in the beginning when you find out that a girl dies a girl is killed And you find out maybe later that the family, one of the family members is responsible for it. So that it it actually fuels them to come back and become like the sports heroes that they never were. Like that is a cool plot on its own. It's very dark, but it is entirely plausible.

[00:50:07]>> You know, then that is an excuse to get the family inspired by grief and by whatot. But no, you know, like this was this they went down the the sociopath way and it was no there were too many things happening by the end. I thought and this is a new thing I've noticed. I've been reviewing a show every week now and whether it's Prime or Netflix or you know whoever it is. The show will start as something and then you can tell exactly when the template takes over, the algorithm takes over.

[00:50:37]Whereas streaming platform is like hold on you're going off path. You're being too unconventional. Why don't you put a couple of genres inside >> to you know to sort of uh ground the whole show and more often than not it is either Miraapur thing or an inside edge thing. one of those massi tropes that they'll put in, massi characters they'll put in and they'll be like we'll give you five more threads like this but and by the end of it the original core of it is lost. Whatever the voice of the filmmaker that I thought they had here in the first two episodes is gone.

[00:51:08]>> So I thought the first episode was a solid world building here. There's a lot of potential but then once the once the template sets in it's all gone like you can >> it gets so flat and boring. I don't remember any scene of any of these shows by the end of it.

[00:51:25]>> Od would you agree with that assessment?

[00:51:28]>> Yeah, very much so.

[00:51:29]>> More or less.

[00:51:31]>> Yeah, I think it I think they like they're trying to graft like a kind of Sudep Sharma Delhi crime kind of nihilism and grittiness onto like a very pulpy story and treatment. And uh that sounds that it turns out about as confused as that that should be because I I don't think they do justice to either. They want to be like this kind of savage kind of drama and they also want it to be like this kind of fun pulpy thing. So you like you literally have one scene of one and then one scene of the other and you can't go from one to the other and it gathers so many fun actors and then gives them like so much stupid stuff to do. I cannot even like I mean uh it just there there are so many interesting actors I think and uh it's just a mess like this is the first time I have not enjoyed Sikand Kir in something like >> uh and uh >> yeah we last saw him in what Ikis no >> that was the last time I saw him in >> in ISIS and there's you know there's Zak Aki Rossen who's usually always so much fun. There's Ashana who's always dependable fun and >> it's just I mean uh >> even Suven Wiki right like he's so flat like it's just so pretty. I love when you say it in your review Rahul what Suindra Vicki is like what Amish Puri what would Amish Puri be doing in the Odity era >> those are the kind of roles he's getting to do he's type cast a little bit you're thinking >> totally yeah >> couldn't stand that character in 2 my god horrifying so bad so bad as great as he is in Kora and uh Punjab 95 is just like such garbage >> uh speaking on actors Because Vish wants to know what how what's Pulkit Samraat like in the show.

[00:53:40]>> I mean he's functional I guess.

[00:53:43]>> Yeah. Once you're fukraying you you'll fukray forever. You're never getting out of it.

[00:53:49]>> There's still a little bit of that happening.

[00:53:52]>> It's always going to happen. And you could see he still idolizes himself like models himself on Salman Khan. So you know the the hangover is still so >> the hangover is still so obvious that >> he seems stiff in a lot of scenes but the stiffness sometimes works because he's playing an athlete here also and he's also playing like the younger more naive sunier less of a loose cannon the vendu actually has the better role here >> and he does a good job of it there's a lot of midapur in the way he acts but again the characters let down more than you know more than the actors themselves I think the cast was functional enough but As Ud said lot of good actors wasted you know like you could have done far more you had so many uh you yeah you had so many options to and if you're going to put all those trades in there then at least give us something more than you know just playing an eccentric gangster like he can do that in his sleep and you know you can't >> he's very good at doing that. Yeah, he's very good at doing that. And but then you're also >> eccentric man.

[00:54:55]>> Yeah. Like the exposi they use every character for exposition because you know it's clearly a template with like streaming platform saying you need to explain to the audience every 10 minutes what's happening.

[00:55:04]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:55:05]>> I don't care how you do it. I don't care how you do it but put it into the dialogue or put it into the character.

[00:55:10]So Sigand only appears for that. He asked questions of his victims saying and has like god what like where did what happened to Indian streaming what has Netflix and everyone done >> I think [ __ ] Dind is a fantastic actor and I feel like there's not much >> he doesn't get enough flowers you know there must be my algorithm or something because I was looking up all your reviews and uh reading about the show and then this clip randomly popped up from Morgo Express on my uh Instagram of Kunai was sitting up on stage and going like and the camera cuts to you and I sitting in the audience just laughing and he's like [laughter] where was this?

[00:56:00]>> This was I think >> Oh, you don't know this?

[00:56:02]>> No, no, I don't know this >> post interview. Suchin was doing it I think couple of years ago. Yeah, Suchin was doing a live uh conversation with the Mudgam Express team on in front a live audience and Kunal Ku was like [laughter] I've gotten five calls since today morning saying Rahul is I really liked your film. Where are you brother?

[00:56:23][laughter] >> And I have to admit in in that moment I have to admit like as funny as it was when it was happening I looked at all the actors on sale and I looked at Dendu and I got a little scared because you know he's a little like when I look at him sometimes he plays such edgy characters.

[00:56:38]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And >> I think he's a great actor >> and that sort of spills into his persona sometimes during interviews and when I looked at him I was like he's the only guy not smiling. What have I done wrong?

[00:56:49]Is he going to kill me after this? But uh >> ran away real fast.

[00:56:52]>> Yeah. I know but it looked like you know I I like that aura of certain actors you know very unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen.

[00:57:01]>> Yeah. But you wouldn't have shown up for a Mudgam Express live conversation if you hadn't liked the film. So it was a safe space for you to be in. At least in that day.

[00:57:09]>> They can be mad at you on other days, but that day they were all very happy >> you were there. Now um there's about 150 people almost watching this. All you got to do is click the thumbs up under this video because if you uh tell YouTube that you like this live stream, then YouTube is going to propagate it here, there, everywhere and other people might get to watch it. Please subscribe to the channel. uh you know this this 100,000 the next plaque you get from YouTube is for 1 million to go from 100,000 to 1 million is not going to happen in my lifetime so probably I shouldn't that's a pipe dream that I need to give up on but I need more subscribers so that more and more um I feel like my work is reaching some people and I can earn a living doing this you've already seen the QR codes everything is linked in the description below but before we wrap up today gentlemen I wanted to give a quick shout out to Nukernatak because we never really got around to talking about that film and I watched it I think the day of its Netflix release. Um now is this as indie as it gets. It's written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Tanma Shakhar. It's produced by the actor in the lead actor in the film herself. Her name is Molshri. And Molshri is you know they're hustlers.

[00:58:17]They've written this film. They made it.

[00:58:18]Nobody wanted to purchase it. They went on a campaign. They sold it. It got a theatrical release limited. Then it went on to Netflix where it's getting very popular. It's it's you know youths are really liking the film. Rahul you wrote on Nukarnatak so I quickly wanted to shout out the film because one must what did you think of Nukarnatak?

[00:58:35]>> Uh I quite like the spirit of the film and sometimes when you like the spirit of indie films and how innovative they've been about like spreading the word it tends to sort of consume your actual opinion about the film.

[00:58:47]>> Yeah.

[00:58:47]>> But I actually >> quite liked uh where they went with the film. I like Molshi's lead performance.

[00:58:54]I liked what they were. It was a very much a campus film but also calling out like social message dramas of our era.

[00:59:01]uh uh of course it's not like very high on production value not very high not very sharp on craft but I think it like if you are to weigh uh and without saying it like treating an indie with kid gloves or anything I thought it had a very relevant theme to talk about and uh and that's why I can see why the maybe youngsters are reacting to this the way they are because it's very much a film of our generation and uh um yeah I think it was fundamentally solid So even if like parts of it didn't work for me and all, I think I'll remember the film like for some reason.

[00:59:36]>> Oh, that did you get a chance to watch it?

[00:59:38]>> No, not yet. I I do plan to.

[00:59:40]>> I agree with Rahul's assessment of it 100%. It very much feels like it's a campus film. Uh like not just set on a campus made by film students film. It's like you know if you got a big a decent budget at FTI, this is the and if you got to make a feature film at a film school, this is the kind of feature film you would come up with. It has the the my issue with the film was the it's very weak on craft. It is a very lovely very you know just valiant attempt and these two have been they were also nominated at the film critics guild awards by the way a couple of years ago for their short film that they made and scenes from a pandemic I think their short film was called and now Molshri has won uh this can producers grant and she's going to be at the can film festival and I will meet her there and I just had a chance to talk to her a couple of weeks ago as well just sort of telling them how to maneuver the festival um all the people who are selected in that program so I'm going to see her at the festival as well so I really love the hustle but yes the craft is weak you can The acting was great. You know, when the film started, I was like, "Okay, great. So, this is this there was an attempt, the edit was really sharp. There was an attempt to really tell tell the story that they wanted to tell. But, you know, eventually the film also falls into the same traps of the Bollywood films that uh that have come before uh the savior trap, the you know the upper cast savior trap specifically it falls into and uh it has the DNA of a nukarnatak only. So, it doesn't have the DNA of cinema. It has the DNA of a nukarnatic. very heavily underlined.

[01:00:59]It's very heavily um you know how you would perform a nukarnatak like really on the nose like this is what we are doing and this is the point of the whole thing. But having said that I really had to shout out the film because it is a huge massive achievement that two people with absolutely no one standing with them made a film financed it sold it to a theatrical for a theatrical release and now have made money on it I assume by selling it on Netflix. So it's a sign of you know that there is there is there is hope out there. You can do it if you want to do it. So shout out to Tanme and Molshi for making it happen. Uh what are we watching this week gentlemen? I'm off to can but I'm going to be watching Dougdoo. Rahul and Ud both of you. Yes.

[01:01:36]>> Yeah.

[01:01:38]>> So next review is going to be Dougdoo.

[01:01:39]What else Rahul of the million things you're about to write?

[01:01:43]>> I think I've already written something.

[01:01:45]I I forget like there's so many things happening right now. Uh there there's a show called Luk that's releasing on Amazon Prime. Um it's about Punjab rap scene one of the many shows doing that.

[01:01:58]Uh then >> yeah then there's a couple Shagma film releasing with with um um I forget the name.

[01:02:07]>> Oh >> this week sometime there's an NAS film also releasing sometime this week. There are things there are things Adita Klani's film correct.

[01:02:16]>> Yeah. Yeah. Adaklani.

[01:02:17]>> Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the the Kapil Sharma film with Nu Singh.

[01:02:24]>> Yeah.

[01:02:24]>> Dadiki Shadi that's this week.

[01:02:26]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:02:28]>> Oh, I did not know that was coming out this week. Okay. Interesting. Ridma Singh Riddma Sani is in that film also.

[01:02:33]Ditto Singh's daughter. She's making her film debut I believe.

[01:02:38]>> Interesting. Oh, there. What are you watching?

[01:02:41]>> I'm for now I'm only watching Doug Dog.

[01:02:43]I'm going to the mountains in a couple of days. So get the review for that done and then I'm going to >> for a few days.

[01:02:53]>> Why?

[01:02:56]>> In Delhi you have friends who drag you to the mountains even if you hate them.

[01:03:00]So >> hate the friends or hate the mountains.

[01:03:03]>> I'm glad this is immortalized on video forever. And I hope your friends watch this.

[01:03:08]>> Hate mountains, love friends. So got to go sometimes.

[01:03:12]>> Too late. Have you done enough to deserve a mountain trip? You're just [laughter] >> I mean does one have to earn a mountain trip?

[01:03:23]>> You have to earn everything.

[01:03:25]>> Maybe in Bombay and Delhi they're right here. So I mean you can go quite easy.

[01:03:30]>> I am going to be watching Doug and that's the only review I'm putting out this week because I am going to can on Monday. I take off for can so I have to prep for the thing. I have to make my list of films that I'm watching. Some pre-screenings are happening in New York City. So, I'm already watching some films here and I'm like doing all of that stuff. And uh yes, no Indian feature film has made it to can except the short film called Shadows of the Moonless Night. It is an FTI film and um it uh Mayhar Malotra correct yes Mayor Malotra's FTI project. Uh it is premiering at the festival and interesting Prair Meta who we saw in Kora 2 who was that um the the the child looking for his father uh and was incredible incredible on the show is in this film and I'm very excited to watch this movie. I'm so excited for this bunch of again it's the same Nukarnatak vibe right you you the hustle the the the the desire to make something happen and point to be noted uh the pile kaparia's can journey also began through a short film that premiered at the last section of the film festival so this is another filmmaker a female filmmaker whose journey is international journey is starting now with this film at can I'm very excited I'm going to be meeting these filmmakers hopefully at the festival and that's what I'm going to be doing so the next dispatch is going to be either about the festival or from the festival and I will see you guys I suppose now top can.

[01:04:51]>> Yeah, I guess feel free to call us from can if you want.

[01:04:56]>> Maybe I will. Maybe I will. Uh once again, all the links to everybody's profiles are under the video. Please subscribe, like, and Od also is feeling left out that he doesn't have a QR code today. So, just show him some love. Go to his Twitter and just say nice things to him. H is that enough?

[01:05:13]>> That's just said put a QR code to show that you support me. There's no money needed. It's just support QR code.

[01:05:20]>> You know, I you know, I can I will make a QR code and it'll just open to a web page of various blurry screen grabs of UD's face from all the live streams that we've done.

[01:05:32]>> Start with a Tana, end with a Tana.

[01:05:35]>> Yay.

[01:05:37][applause] >> Oh, thank you guys one more time and I will see you guys soon. Okay.

[01:05:42]>> Okay.

[01:05:43]>> Bye, gentlemen.