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This is in vain. Thanks, Adam. Cheers. We're

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going to get fucked up. Alcohol -free beer. Yeah.

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Alcohol -free. So, okay. The reason I like the

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Asahi is because it's 0 % calories. It's 48.

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Right. This is the thing. I don't normally drink

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non -alcoholic beer because it's empty calories.

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Like, why the fuck would I drink this? beverage

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if i don't get drunk and i get the calories because

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i got really fat from beer not really but i got

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a belly from beer so i didn't want to recreate

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that but in japan if they have zero percent alcohol

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zero sugar and zero calories i okay then good

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for me i can drink as much as i can the budweiser

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is not zero calories but it's low it's low pretty

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low a beer is like 100 up at least right and

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it's good it tastes really good but that's what

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i like as well i love budweiser yeah oh Great

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idea. Yeah, man. I know. And they're hard to

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find. I bought the remaining amount of that person.

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They don't get more until November. I bought

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it all out from them instantly. I feel like you've

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reached some kind of peak in life, honestly.

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Oh, I have. Where you're like excited about alcohol

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free beer. Dude, when you cannot drink anything.

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Like, you know, you cling on to like whatever

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small joys you have. You know, I'm so tired of

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Coke Zero, even though they sponsor this show.

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Welcome to Fear of Stairs, Desi Films Decoded.

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The podcast where four friends from different

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backgrounds unlock the world of Desi Cinema.

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I'm Winnie the Desi who's never been to India.

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Hey, I'm Kili. I'm from India. And right now

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I'm drinking some non -alcoholic beer, which

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are very tasty and feels good. Hi, I'm Nikki.

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I'm a family man. I also drink non -alcoholic

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beer right now. I'm Adam. I'm the American that

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introduced the non -alcoholic beer to everyone

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here. Very un -American. It's super un -American,

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but we do have, I have Asahi. from my recent

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japanese trip but you guys have budweiser zero

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i got i was in a japan trip and i discovered

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the japanese have tons of non -alcoholic beer

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and like i can't really drink i have gout so

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i can't drink alcohol and i was very excited

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to see this asahi because it's zero percent calories

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which was my big fear of drinking non -alcoholic

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before i didn't want empty calories and not to

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get drunk but It basically has zero bad effects

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and only positive ones. There's no sugar, no

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alcohol, no calories, and tastes enough like

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Asahi that I get a little memory buzz on of what

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it used to feel like to be drunk. And this, kids,

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is your mid -30s. This is what it looks like,

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guys. And trust me, kids, I went hard, and I'm

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still a huge loser at the end. It doesn't matter.

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I have no tolerance. I had a glass of wine two

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nights ago, and I was hungover. Cheap wine will

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do that, though. Yeah, it was white. You gotta

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stick to whiskey. Or beer. Are white wines usually

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worse? I always got hungover from white wine.

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My first alcohol poisoning was from white wine.

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Alcohol poisoning? Yeah, I was like 19. What,

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Nicky? Nothing. Are you still pointing at the

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chips? I was eyeing the chips. It's like sitting

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there waiting to be eaten. Okay. So... Can we

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talk about the movie then? Yeah. You guys want

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half of my... Have one bite before you... I'm

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good, bro. I'm good. No, no, thanks. Let's get

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this over so we can eat. We call this gags in

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the podcast. Anyway... The chips are real salty.

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I like really salty tortilla chips. And Adam's

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girlfriend makes really good salsa. She learned

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how to make homemade American salsa with Thai

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chili, and it's pretty bomb. And we also have

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turtles here. Princess. Wait, she's no longer

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inside their home. Is that true? Yeah. Oh my

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god, the princess is gone. Oh, Princess is near

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the trash can. So you might not see this, our

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fans, but like... Not might, you will not see

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this. But they're like the turtles, Princess,

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the turtle is walking. Okay, you need more context.

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I have a turtle. I have a pet turtle while I

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was also in Japan. Not by choice. I just want

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to add, Adam's girlfriend wanted a turtle. She

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got a turtle while he was in Japan. While I was

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in Japan, I received photos that I have a new

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pet turtle. at home and she went ahead and made

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a huge Thai mansion for it out of popsicle sticks

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and it has a little like slide and it's free

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-ranging it's not a cage so it just kind of wanders

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around the house and it has little corners so

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it goes behind the fridge sometimes behind the

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TV Everyone's seen videos of it. I mean, we don't

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usually see turtles in this household. Yeah,

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no, I know. She's very speedy. So we don't know

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if it's a boy or a girl. I don't care. She's

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very cute. So I named her Princess. And she's

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very, very quick. Like, look how fast she is.

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She just kind of runs around. And then she tires

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out and falls asleep again for a while. I just

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want to say, Adam, I think Princess is a pretty

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gendered name. No, it absolutely is. It's for

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sure. It's just a cute name. But even if it's

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a guy, then I'm going to say they transitioned

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or something. LGBTQ friendly turtle. Yeah, it

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does. Turtles don't know. And then Anne has also

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been making really cute crochet covers for it.

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So she makes little like the Captain America

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shield and like a little yellow cat face and

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stuff for it. It's very sweet. And Princess snores

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really loudly at night. No, I'm kidding. It makes

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no noise. Turtles make really good pets because

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they're really quiet. It's kind of basically

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potty trained. It has its little place where

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it goes. It doesn't make any noise. It's very

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clean. Also, they don't need friends. They don't

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get lonely? They don't get lonely. They're not

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social creatures. It doesn't need friends. It

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doesn't have to worry about You know, human interaction

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too much. Yeah, our video subscribers are looking

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at the turtle. Yeah, everyone paying on our OnlyFans

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livestream is watching this exclusive turtle

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cam. If you pay for the higher tier, you too

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can get the Fear of Stairs turtle cam and watch

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Princess sleep for 16 hours out of the day and

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then run around outside a frame for the rest.

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What other rewards do you think we should get?

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Like maybe an orgy? Yeah, my neighbor thinks

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I host orgies here. Just podcasts. Just audio

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orgies. Okay. So what movie are we doing? Also,

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I'll just kind of just bring up, Nikki's all

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freaked out about Princess because Nikki like

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had a pet turtle too and had a bad experience

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with it. So, you know, I don't want to, you know,

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I know it's weird that it's all wandering around

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the house, but it's fine. All right, quick story

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time. Yeah, I did have a pet turtle and what

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happened was that I stepped on it. And then it

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never wanted to be my friend ever again. Turtles

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never forget. And then a week later, I sent him

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to the river to be free. In revenge? Not for

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revenge. Turtle won't talk to me, so now... Fuck

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you, Turtle. Go back to the sea. That's it. He'll

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turn into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. For

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all we know. Winnie has turtles at the park.

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Oh, yeah. I had two pet turtles growing up. And

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we thought... we thought it used to be fun to

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just put them on their shelves and watch them

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like you know kind of wiggle to kind of get back

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on land i don't know what i told adam that he

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made it sound like that was animal torture turtle

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torture she the first thing she says when she

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comes is like oh have you ever like put it on

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its back and watch it struggle i'm like what

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no no that seems really fucked up yeah but they

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were in the water tank mostly and they started

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getting too big so we went to benchesiri park

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near emporium and put them in the pond over there

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and then an eagle swooped in and immediately

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grabbed it Yeah, so that's a lot of a family

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of turtles, so that's a hint. Family of turtles.

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Oh, wow, good. Okay, so, Winnie, why don't you

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introduce the film that you picked for us to

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watch? You did pick the film. Yeah, after Keeley's...

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Wait, the name is Kosla Kagosla? Yeah. I think,

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yeah. Oh, God. Yeah, so 2006... We watched Keeley's

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film, and then Winnie was like, I have a film

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for us, and we're like, sweet. So yeah, why did

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you pick it? Or what is it? No, so this film

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is Kogosla. 2006 film. It's a crime comedy. It

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was recommended by a friend. And I googled it.

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And I like crime comedy as a genre in general

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in movies. And it had pretty good reviews. Low

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budget film, but amassed almost like a cult classic

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backing. Kili says we have to use the term cult

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classic very loosely in this context. I think

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you just mean it's well liked. yeah i mean it

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was just well like it took two years for the

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film to actually get picked up you know they

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had the script and everything so it didn't seem

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like it was gonna amount to much and then it

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just kind of became a sleeper hit so they re

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-released it in theaters last year oh um because

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it was it just had a small release back in 2006

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or whatever year the movie was released yeah

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and then it kind of gained a bit of a following

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and so they re -released it around delhi especially

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last year and yeah the movie follows a middle

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-class family in delhi so there's a lot of that

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dynamics playing out and i just wanted a movie

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that would not give us ptsd again so hopefully

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that was successful big gamble on your part because

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you hadn't seen it so funny story rolling the

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dice there we all thought winnie watched it well

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i mean i don't think it's weird to think that

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when someone recommends the film with such confidence

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But also watching the film, I was like, this

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makes so much sense for Winnie. Like, I get why

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she likes this. This is so from her world. We

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all thought that. We all thought that. I was

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like watching it. I'm like, I can see why Winnie

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likes this. Wait, what aspect? The family aspect.

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You tell us, Winnie. Why do you think we all

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watch this? We're like, of course, Winnie recommended

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this. I don't know. I'm quite intrigued. I mean,

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it followed a kid who was kind of tied to his

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family and wanted to go abroad to America. And

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you see that play out, his struggle. His dad

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doesn't want him to leave. He thinks he'll be

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better for his career and his future. And there's

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just a bunch, a few like NRI jokes throughout

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the movie. It's also a Punjabi film, right? Is

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it? I don't know. Yeah, yeah. We talked about

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the beard. Oh, yeah. Adam was really intrigued

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by the Sikh man's beard. Oh, the tie -down. The

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tie -down. I didn't realize they have like a

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net. Oh, yeah. They often use that. Yeah, just

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to keep it from being too long. Because they

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never trim because they're Sikh. But yeah, I

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don't know what made you guys think that this

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was a movie I like. Winnie, did you just hear

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the words out loud? That literally matches your

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life story. What are you talking about? No, but

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I did go to the States for like seven years or

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so. Right, but that's what this whole movie is

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like struggling with is like NRIs. which you

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are and like the indian diaspora and traveling

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abroad and your cultural ties back home and what

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it means to be indian and what it means to be

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indian outside of the country is like all this

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movie deals with in 2006 like as you were growing

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up no i know but they talk about it like it's

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a constant theme throughout like when they have

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the actor playing the guy from dubai they constantly

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mention nris like it's a huge overarching theme

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which i have notes on later we can talk about

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but um Yeah, scream like, wow, if Winnie was

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watching this in 2006, I'd totally scream like,

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yeah, I'm struggling on the inside too. What

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should I do? Should I go abroad? Should I go

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back home? Like, what is home? I don't know.

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It's just the wholesomeness just reminds me of

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Winnie. Oh, that's really nice. Yeah, there's

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no sex in it. Nobody touches. There's no love

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romance. This guy's my love life. So, yeah, before

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we get in the plot, what do you guys think? Kili,

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you like this director. Yeah, Devakar Banerjee.

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Yeah, I love this. I like this director. I have

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watched this film, then a bunch of other films.

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There was one called, there's like a detective

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story adaptation, Detective Bomkesh Bokshi. That's

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the one I like. I like Love, Sex, and Dhoka.

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I think I'm forgetting a bunch of films. But,

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I mean, yeah, he came up as a very... prolific.

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This is a directorial debut for him, right? He

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directed commercials before and this was his

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first feature film. I liked this film when I

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watched this before. I just forgot when he suggested

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the film, I really forgot that I watched this

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film. And then when the plot points of the story

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comes out, which is a plot, I remember, oh, I

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watched that. Watched this film. What do you

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think? Yeah, I actually liked it. I think it's

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as good as Pataga. Almost, almost as good. Yeah,

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like I said, I just liked how, to me, it reminds

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me of a heist movie. I mean, it is essentially

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a heist movie. It's like an Ocean's Eleven, but

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more low budget and no casinos. People are trying

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to trump this powerful figure. who owns a lot

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of land and our main characters are pretending

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to be other characters. It reminds me of a heist

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movie. It's just that. I liked it. Like Whitney

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said, she likes crime comedies and I guess I

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can say that too. I love heist movies. Yeah,

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it was fun. It's kind of a weird bridge. I feel

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like it's a slightly modern film just because

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they have some songs but there's not these big

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Bollywood dance numbers. It is lower budget.

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Like it is a shorter movie, like two hours. It's

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not like so they were taking some like Western

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influences. You could kind of see that. And yeah,

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like it's I think it's an interesting look at

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middle class. Indian families at that time. Yeah,

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I think that's an interesting aspect because

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of Bollywood movies we watch tend to go in one

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extreme or the other where you're watching like

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very wealthy families or kind of more, you know,

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status backgrounds, impoverished. And this is

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just a regular middle class family. Yeah, they're

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like striving upwards. Like they're not rich.

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The whole thing is about like his whole life

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savings is kind of on the line. So like they're

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not rich, but they're aspiring and they have

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kids that are probably going to have a better

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life. They're on that whole track. And it's interesting

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to see that segment represented. Probably a lot

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more relatable as well. I don't know if this

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was a common thing that happened in India with

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people getting forged documents or getting squatters.

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But like if land rights were an issue, then.

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I could see how this movie might have been more

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relatable. I think it's just, like, land scammers,

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land smugglers and scammers. Yeah. I mean, I

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think I've read, I might have read these kind

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of news stories in newspaper, you know. But I

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like the part where it's about, like, you know,

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this, yeah, the dad and he's, like, how annoying

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he is being to, like, to a point that no one,

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like, everyone kind of tiptoes around him. and

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he's like yeah yeah buying the buying the land

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for apparently for his family but no one likes

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him because how annoying he is really that was

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it i don't know i found him a problematic character

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but still like lovable likable in a way yeah

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of course but he was literally uh pushing the

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son away and he was he was going for i saw it

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like the uh son kind of went away because like

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he couldn't stand like didn't like it being there

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anymore yeah i do think the dad's the main character

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oh for sure like it's not the son i mean his

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name is featured in the movie yeah movie title

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yeah it's just like i think if it was a different

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i think that's why the perspective is interesting

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i think if it was like a different director we'd

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probably see the kids point of view like you

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know the young adult's point of view like he's

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going to america that would be more in the focus

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but no it's like this dad dealing with you know

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coming closer to retirement and dealing with

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his adult children and they want different things

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in life and there's like a western influence

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he's trying to deal with and like yeah like land

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stuff that he's not accustomed to and like it's

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just like what middle -aged men are dealing with

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this at the time and it was kind of interesting

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you know yeah the movie does a good job taking

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a balanced approach showing like both perspectives

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you don't really side with one or the other character

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you kind of just understand them both and Like

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the dad's also trying to buy the plot of land

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because it's near his son's office and he takes

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off pride in his son who is more successful than

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like his first son, who is just a laid back guy.

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So you kind of empathize with both characters.

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Yes. And you got to appreciate what it doesn't

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do, which is have an annoying mom or like an

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annoying like aunt character. It doesn't have

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that. And the dad doesn't do anything weird or

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creepy or have his own romance. Like the American

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version of this is American Beauty. of like that's

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such an extreme it's a slice of the middle class

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life of the respective country no it is and so

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like this is how America would look at it is

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like through the Kevin Spacey character and being

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kind of creepy and wanting to have sex with the

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high school girl but for the Indian movie focused

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on like the middle aged middle class dad This

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is how they focus on it. And it's interesting

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to see those two perspectives. Those are very

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similar movies. All I'm thinking is Khosla is

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Kevin Spacey. It was such a wholesome movie and

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you took that spin on it. Because America's not

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wholesome is my point. Okay. When you say the

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dad's name is featured in the film, it's just

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a family name. K .K. Khosla. No, Khosla Ka Khosla,

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right? Khosla is the surname. So everyone has

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that surname. Okay. What is the title, by the

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way? What does it mean? Khosla is the family

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name. Yeah. And Khosla is like slang for a home.

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Okay. The home of these people. Yeah. Okay. So

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let's get into it because the name stuff comes

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up early and I have a lot of questions for you,

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Kelly, about this. Well, where do I begin? Let's

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start with the characters, right? It starts with...

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I'll just talk about the opening scene. It starts

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with our titular dad dead. He's dead, basically.

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And then we're quickly introduced to the family

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members. So we already talked about the dad,

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Kamau, Khosla. And then, as we mentioned, there's

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a mom. And she's a very kind... kind mom she's

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like very nice very sweet she acts in fact like

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you know as we mentioned there you know there's

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a lot of tension between the son and and the

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father and the mom sometimes tries to like help

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the son like talk talk it out you know like she

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tried she tried she tries to tell her husband

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like hey you know you gotta listen to your son

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and everything i think it's nice right so there's

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no drama from her yeah no drama and okay and

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then there's the children there's three characters

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right The first son, his name is Bunty. He's

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basically the hot -headed one. The hot -headed

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one. I wouldn't say he's street smart. Maybe

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street smart. He's just not as smart as the brother.

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I wouldn't say he's street smart. He's just more

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outspoken. He's the unmarried older brother that

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every household has. I just think of Godfather.

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Sonny, was it? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Okay,

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that dynamic. Loser fails son. Yeah, loser fails

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son. And then there's like the second son, which

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is like, okay, Keeley, you're gonna have to explain

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it because like throughout the movie, in the

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beginning of the movie, they make fun of his

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name. It's like Chiranji Lal. Yeah, it sounds

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very old. It sounds like someone's from like

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two generations back. So that's what they say

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at one point that his grandmother. named him

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so when he wants to change his name his dad says

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like but nana it's like your grandmom give you

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that name and she's not with us anymore do you

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want to change your name and he's like he's like

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your name he's like yeah so he's so he's just

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embarrassed that his name sounds very old -fashioned

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yeah i think so yeah that he's like i i see we

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see that like the the visa agent guy boo like

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kind of teases him for his name and his expression

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definitely show that he has been bullied for

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his name for like in his life is there a short

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for that name like a short term is it just true

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they call him cherry so is that standard just

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cherry i mean yeah which is also a strange name

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in itself i had a nickname cherry like not not

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your nickname was cherry like by one one one

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aunt of mine why oh let's all call him cherry

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you never want to introduce that to anyone it's

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a common thing like there are like specific names

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some people give them and they use it and later

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drops it at one point but they use it in their

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childhood i've seen like that happening with

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people people thanks cherry so whatever you say

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cherry so this this cherry he he's basically

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like wait no sorry sorry i just to get back to

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name things so like a lot of the plot is about

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him changing his name. Is it a big deal? Like,

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is his name that embarrassing? I just did not

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understand it. I think he's feel, he feel, I

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mean, okay, people change their name. That's

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not that uncommon. Yeah. Yeah, no, that does

00:22:01.849 --> 00:22:05.329
happen here. Yeah. And different reason, there

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are different reasons. And then I think it's

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a big point because of the, it's not like this

00:22:12.089 --> 00:22:14.450
matter of factness of it. It's just because like

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the father is like, so. like offended that he's

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gonna change his name right to bring that angle

00:22:21.369 --> 00:22:23.990
of the dynamics between the father and son i

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think they use the element of changing the name

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yeah i mean it fits with the theme of like separating

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from your heritage and your roots and stuff like

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that yeah okay don't say that much it's just

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like I think to portray the father as a very

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attached, controlling figure. Yeah, attached

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and conservative dude. And then doesn't want

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to let go. It's so sad that his son is going

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to leave. So this son, Cherry, he's basically

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the breadwinner. He's a software engineer. They

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call him Bill Gates. He's very smart, very attached

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to his work. And what the family doesn't know

00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:06.349
is that he's planning to move to America. and

00:23:06.349 --> 00:23:09.970
that is like the first drama of the movie and

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then you have the sister the youngest the youngest

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one she's like a tomboy she's gay right i like

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how adam's looking at me why do you think she's

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gay she i mean i see the diff not most probably

00:23:24.829 --> 00:23:27.710
a gay because like she's a fan of one of the

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like uh the film actor like the boy actor and

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he's like she's like very talks about him like

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yo like like refer him that's a handsome person

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and like does these gestures of like like she's

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a fangirl of that dude i wouldn't go that far

00:23:46.650 --> 00:23:50.349
that she's gay she's just the top bisexual the

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movie never even explored this theme it never

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explored this theme i like that that's like the

00:23:54.849 --> 00:23:56.369
first thing you guys are asking just because

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she had like a short boy haircut like a pixie

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haircut she has my name her name's nikki so she's

00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:04.700
gay as hell i'm gay as hell like anyone with

00:24:04.700 --> 00:24:09.000
nikki has is super gay um no i just think because

00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:10.640
you know they can't say she's gay but they can

00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:13.059
say you know yeah she's got short hair she's

00:24:13.059 --> 00:24:15.420
a tomboy that's all they're gonna say but we

00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:18.259
all know she's not getting married she's not

00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:31.160
having kids jesus So I say boo to this movie

00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:34.160
for this representation. I don't like it. So

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yeah, that's the cream of the crop characters.

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I don't know why I thought of that. The best

00:24:41.380 --> 00:24:44.220
of the best. I was thinking of the corn. That's

00:24:44.220 --> 00:24:47.880
like the Khosla family. The titular Khosla family.

00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:52.099
It sounds like Khosla. Yeah, we start with a

00:24:52.099 --> 00:24:54.579
scene where he's like dead and like all the family

00:24:54.579 --> 00:24:56.619
members are just kind of like walking over his

00:24:56.619 --> 00:25:00.259
corpse. Or his funeral. Walking all over his

00:25:00.259 --> 00:25:04.579
corpse. Isn't that amazing? You're not walking

00:25:04.579 --> 00:25:07.839
all over his dead body. I think figuratively.

00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:12.319
Yeah. No, figuratively, yeah. Like over the coffin.

00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:14.779
Over the coffin. He's not walking on his fucking

00:25:14.779 --> 00:25:16.640
corpse. But like his corpse is there. Yeah. His

00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:19.400
dead body. It represents his dead body. His dead

00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:22.420
body, yeah. At first you think like, oh, you

00:25:22.420 --> 00:25:23.599
know, I actually thought it was going to be like

00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:26.490
a murder mystery kind of movie. one family member

00:25:26.490 --> 00:25:29.150
killed the dad it's like a knives out situation

00:25:29.150 --> 00:25:32.009
but no it's actually a nightmare that the dad

00:25:32.009 --> 00:25:35.750
was having like oh you know what if you know

00:25:35.750 --> 00:25:37.589
it's just his insecurity i guess but like it's

00:25:37.589 --> 00:25:39.950
just to show that like the the point of the whole

00:25:39.950 --> 00:25:42.230
thing is that like the the family members are

00:25:42.230 --> 00:25:45.009
all kind of like fed up with with the dad because

00:25:45.009 --> 00:25:47.890
the dad is kind of like he's like very like uh

00:25:47.890 --> 00:25:51.430
doting i don't know strict He's a conservative

00:25:51.430 --> 00:25:56.349
old man. He's just very annoying to the point

00:25:56.349 --> 00:25:59.490
that he will make sure that what he wants happens.

00:26:01.180 --> 00:26:03.000
annoying way i think he's just a very traditional

00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:05.920
dad doesn't listen to his kids yeah like that

00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:07.819
makes they make that all very clear that he doesn't

00:26:07.819 --> 00:26:10.480
listen he's very stubborn and wants things his

00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.539
way and doesn't really consider other people

00:26:12.539 --> 00:26:14.180
but at the same time he's not really portrayed

00:26:14.180 --> 00:26:16.480
as like a strong character like a strong -willed

00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:18.900
character you see a lot of signs of weaknesses

00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:21.140
in him and him just kind of looking around not

00:26:21.140 --> 00:26:24.259
knowing what to do yeah he's not cool he's not

00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:26.579
doesn't have that alpha character yeah not an

00:26:26.579 --> 00:26:29.220
alpha vibe exactly not avita bachchan yeah so

00:26:29.220 --> 00:26:31.869
he's like just annoying I'll say this, though.

00:26:32.009 --> 00:26:34.750
Like, Cherry is an asshole, too. Yeah. Like,

00:26:34.930 --> 00:26:37.170
that was my first impression of everyone. It

00:26:37.170 --> 00:26:39.170
was like, they all suck. All these people suck.

00:26:39.289 --> 00:26:41.269
His sister's good because... Yeah, because she's

00:26:41.269 --> 00:26:43.819
gay. and the mother is also good they're good

00:26:43.819 --> 00:26:45.779
because they don't have much they don't have

00:26:45.779 --> 00:26:48.279
much role in the film yeah so that's why they're

00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:51.079
good oh but there is one scene where the dad

00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:54.079
and is drinking whiskey with his son right and

00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:56.180
then the daughter comes out and asks why can't

00:26:56.180 --> 00:26:57.720
i have whiskey he's pretty much like go back

00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.079
to the kitchen yeah and help your mom so that

00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:01.799
tells you something about the she burns another

00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:05.490
brush like i'll fucking show him one day Sorry

00:27:05.490 --> 00:27:07.930
cherries an asshole because as Nikki says he

00:27:07.930 --> 00:27:09.670
didn't tell his family he's going abroad But

00:27:09.670 --> 00:27:11.869
he also didn't tell his fucking girlfriend. So

00:27:11.869 --> 00:27:13.829
yeah, yeah, I was gonna get into like the side

00:27:13.829 --> 00:27:16.650
characters There's more they all play a part

00:27:16.650 --> 00:27:19.509
I guess I don't think that's his girlfriend Until

00:27:19.509 --> 00:27:25.349
the ending when they When they introduce her

00:27:25.349 --> 00:27:27.710
they were singing like oh, this is my girlfriend

00:27:27.710 --> 00:27:30.390
like that So they were a couple the whole time?

00:27:30.450 --> 00:27:31.609
I thought they were just friends with, like,

00:27:31.609 --> 00:27:34.190
unconfessed feelings. From what I gathered is

00:27:34.190 --> 00:27:36.069
that, like, she believes that they're together,

00:27:36.210 --> 00:27:38.650
but, like, he keeps dismissing her that, like,

00:27:38.650 --> 00:27:40.710
we're not... I'm not... He did even say... He

00:27:40.710 --> 00:27:42.130
said it in, like, when they were on the scooter.

00:27:42.230 --> 00:27:44.910
Yeah, exactly. I'm not anybody's boyfriend. He

00:27:44.910 --> 00:27:47.029
was saying something like that. So, like, I think,

00:27:47.049 --> 00:27:49.210
you know, it's, like, unrequited feelings and

00:27:49.210 --> 00:27:51.029
all that. Probably, like, childhood friends.

00:27:51.369 --> 00:27:55.140
Yeah. She's cool. She's very cool. Anyway, go

00:27:55.140 --> 00:27:59.640
on. Yeah, so she's, like... She's hot. Her name's

00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:01.440
Megna, right? And then she's basically, like,

00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:03.640
a theater kid or something. Like, she's very,

00:28:03.700 --> 00:28:06.539
like, free spirit. This is our second movie with

00:28:06.539 --> 00:28:10.000
a theater troupe involved. Oh, yeah. And basically,

00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:14.019
she, you know, she also has, like, a theater

00:28:14.019 --> 00:28:17.640
mentor, like, a professor of sorts named Bapu,

00:28:17.740 --> 00:28:19.980
who will play a very important role later. Oh,

00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:23.670
I thought it was her dad. Okay. And then... You

00:28:23.670 --> 00:28:26.069
also have, like, this neighbor that, like, gives

00:28:26.069 --> 00:28:29.029
advice to the dad called, like, he was, like,

00:28:29.049 --> 00:28:31.910
that seat guy, Amar or whatever. Oh, and I thought

00:28:31.910 --> 00:28:34.609
that was the uncle. I'm so confused. Okay, all

00:28:34.609 --> 00:28:38.890
right. Wow. But, yeah, like, he, yeah, he didn't

00:28:38.890 --> 00:28:41.809
tell. So we have this girlfriend who's, like,

00:28:41.890 --> 00:28:44.109
I guess, like, she's always playful with, with,

00:28:44.109 --> 00:28:47.859
with, I forgot his name, Cherry. cherry but like

00:28:47.859 --> 00:28:50.380
cherry is so serious about wanting to go to america

00:28:50.380 --> 00:28:52.700
and then you know when he when she discovers

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:55.920
indirectly that he's going to america you know

00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:58.440
her feelings are hurt right cherry's funny because

00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:00.539
they show him being so busy but he's on like

00:29:00.539 --> 00:29:03.700
those t9 nokia phones so like him being busy

00:29:03.700 --> 00:29:06.039
is like texting on a tiny keyboard like doing

00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:08.900
sms like i gotta go to the office i could yeah

00:29:08.900 --> 00:29:11.039
i could not stop looking at the phones all the

00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:14.940
phones in the movie Everyone has, like, T9, Nokia's.

00:29:14.940 --> 00:29:16.839
Like, free iPhones. And they're like, get off

00:29:16.839 --> 00:29:19.259
your phone. And back in those days, they're not

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:21.059
doing anything on that phone. Like, they're just

00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:23.680
reading, you know, tiny messages. Or playing

00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:25.579
Snake. Snake was pretty cool. That's true. He

00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:28.799
was playing Snake a lot. Busy dad. Bill Gates

00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:31.599
is always on his phone. But anyway, the crux

00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:35.900
of the whole thing is that the dad basically

00:29:35.900 --> 00:29:39.720
has, like, a pension fund. like his entire life

00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:42.940
savings. And he wants to use his entire life

00:29:42.940 --> 00:29:46.819
saving to buy land and build a new home for the

00:29:46.819 --> 00:29:50.319
family. And he expects that the family will all

00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:53.259
stay with him. You know, it's just to secure

00:29:53.259 --> 00:29:56.059
the family's future, you know, to give them a

00:29:56.059 --> 00:29:59.160
bigger home. And I think he did say like one

00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:01.940
room for each. One floor. One floor for each

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:06.000
kid. But like the son, you know, Cherry, he doesn't

00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:10.319
want any part in this. He just wants to go to

00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.799
America. He thinks that it's such a waste of

00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:15.700
money and time to get them a new home, right?

00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.519
One floor for the one brother, one floor for

00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.160
the other brother, one floor for him. Where is

00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:22.940
the floor for his daughter? It's called the kitchen,

00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:28.339
Killy. Thanks. That was a quick response, eh?

00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:34.599
Why would you ask that? okay yeah uh and you

00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:37.720
know i think that i think he he like goes to

00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.779
this guy this broker dude who's like our first

00:30:41.779 --> 00:30:45.519
villain of the movie i guess like he's this broker

00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:49.079
guy that like takes the money from the dad uh

00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:51.599
i think it was okay i'm looking it up it's like

00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:55.349
the land costed like 30 locks Yes. Which is how

00:30:55.349 --> 00:30:59.369
much? 30 million. 3 million, I guess. 3 million.

00:30:59.609 --> 00:31:01.529
Oh, yeah, we did the math. Adam has been doing

00:31:01.529 --> 00:31:03.289
a lot of math. We did the math. It's about 30

00:31:03.289 --> 00:31:05.730
,000 US dollars. Yeah. For the plot of land.

00:31:05.910 --> 00:31:08.650
Yeah. Which is about a million baht. And, yeah.

00:31:09.269 --> 00:31:11.750
And, basically, like, there's, like, he also

00:31:11.750 --> 00:31:15.630
asked for, like, commission or whatever. And

00:31:15.630 --> 00:31:19.009
then, basically, like, so, while that was happening,

00:31:19.130 --> 00:31:24.170
right, you know, he won the dad. Seeing how Cherry

00:31:24.170 --> 00:31:28.109
is not too thrilled about it, he goes to this

00:31:28.109 --> 00:31:31.890
Sikh guy, the neighbor, and they had this talk

00:31:31.890 --> 00:31:35.789
about how you should really listen to your son,

00:31:36.029 --> 00:31:38.930
including wanting to change his name, as we mentioned.

00:31:39.210 --> 00:31:41.470
And then we get this scene where they're like...

00:31:42.329 --> 00:31:45.650
like having whiskey on the rocks well yeah so

00:31:45.650 --> 00:31:48.410
the the dad thinks like okay i need to communicate

00:31:48.410 --> 00:31:51.309
with my son how do i do it but this it's actually

00:31:51.309 --> 00:31:53.990
a good scene about like why he struggles with

00:31:53.990 --> 00:31:57.130
it is because he is like i'll get some alcohol

00:31:57.130 --> 00:31:59.190
and it shows him going to like the government

00:31:59.190 --> 00:32:01.150
alcohol store which is really fun oh yeah yeah

00:32:01.150 --> 00:32:03.630
but then they get the alcohol and he's drinking

00:32:03.630 --> 00:32:07.349
with the older son and then cherry walks in and

00:32:07.349 --> 00:32:10.490
cherry's like i don't drink and it shows like

00:32:10.490 --> 00:32:13.250
the dad does not pay attention like it doesn't

00:32:13.250 --> 00:32:16.210
listen like the dad is in the wrong here and

00:32:16.210 --> 00:32:18.509
you know cherry's like no i don't drink this

00:32:18.509 --> 00:32:20.069
and the dad's like i'll get beer instead he's

00:32:20.069 --> 00:32:22.470
like i don't drink alcohol like listen to me

00:32:22.470 --> 00:32:25.009
and like adjust it but the dad can't do it like

00:32:25.009 --> 00:32:27.809
he's a very stubborn man and so the dad freaks

00:32:27.809 --> 00:32:30.130
out and gets mad but he's he's in the wrong he's

00:32:30.130 --> 00:32:33.650
the inflexible one he shouts that like well i'm

00:32:33.650 --> 00:32:37.329
drinking am i stupid well he shouts at his son

00:32:37.329 --> 00:32:41.819
that i'm drinking am i stupid some some sir so

00:32:41.819 --> 00:32:45.579
sounds like someone he respects drinks is he

00:32:45.579 --> 00:32:50.119
stupid and then but all the time like when when

00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:53.019
he was bringing the alcohol to the home that

00:32:53.019 --> 00:32:55.660
walk was like such full of shame like walk of

00:32:55.660 --> 00:32:57.660
shame like he's like hiding the alcohol like

00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:01.710
doing this very weird gestures and like you know

00:33:01.710 --> 00:33:05.049
yeah he doesn't know how to drink it like he's

00:33:05.049 --> 00:33:07.109
talking with the son like how do we pour it what's

00:33:07.109 --> 00:33:08.630
the right way like they don't know what they're

00:33:08.630 --> 00:33:12.190
doing just to be right against his son he has

00:33:12.190 --> 00:33:15.029
to say those words that's what like right his

00:33:15.029 --> 00:33:17.789
behavior him and his son actually have more connection

00:33:17.789 --> 00:33:20.430
because they both don't drink yeah but he is

00:33:20.430 --> 00:33:23.369
putting up this barrier of the expectation and

00:33:23.369 --> 00:33:25.069
the son's like if you just listen to me we could

00:33:25.069 --> 00:33:27.390
connect better and the dad has the blockage there

00:33:27.390 --> 00:33:29.250
do you guys think this was like an a whiskey

00:33:29.250 --> 00:33:31.430
ad or like a tutorial on how to drink whiskey

00:33:31.430 --> 00:33:33.609
because they spent quite a bit of time and it

00:33:33.609 --> 00:33:35.490
was pretty nice camera work there was a good

00:33:35.490 --> 00:33:38.430
shot of the coca -cola bottle yeah so at first

00:33:38.430 --> 00:33:40.450
they pour the the whiskey first and then put

00:33:40.450 --> 00:33:42.789
the ice in and it just spills everywhere so then

00:33:42.789 --> 00:33:44.829
i think the son is teaching the dad how to like

00:33:45.099 --> 00:33:46.859
put the ice first and then they would do the

00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:48.480
pour and i was just all of a sudden i was like

00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:50.839
wow i'm craving some jameson and i feel like

00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.440
that was like well intentioned opposite opposite

00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:57.259
happened his dad read somewhere that you first

00:33:57.259 --> 00:34:00.759
put the ice and then the alcohol and then the

00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:03.740
water so that it that's why it's called whiskey

00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:07.089
on the rocks but his son is like do you know

00:34:07.089 --> 00:34:10.750
more than me? I drink. That behavior. He did

00:34:10.750 --> 00:34:14.829
the other wrong one. He's like the other dynamics.

00:34:15.030 --> 00:34:22.150
The dad was trying to talk down to the younger

00:34:22.150 --> 00:34:25.690
kid and the brother was talking down to the dad

00:34:25.690 --> 00:34:28.230
because he knows that he doesn't drink and he's

00:34:28.230 --> 00:34:30.849
a drunkard. He's like, do you know more than

00:34:30.849 --> 00:34:33.730
me? What the hell? He's a drunkard who doesn't

00:34:33.730 --> 00:34:37.099
know how to pour whiskey. Yeah. So I looked it

00:34:37.099 --> 00:34:40.519
up because I bartended in some. And so here's

00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:43.320
the general rule. If you have it on the rocks.

00:34:44.170 --> 00:34:46.530
Yes, you can put ice first and then the alcohol.

00:34:46.630 --> 00:34:48.090
But usually if you're doing cocktails, you're

00:34:48.090 --> 00:34:50.210
not supposed to put ice first. You're supposed

00:34:50.210 --> 00:34:51.889
to put the alcohol first because usually if you

00:34:51.889 --> 00:34:54.030
put ice first and then you start adding stuff,

00:34:54.130 --> 00:34:56.789
the ice melts. You want the ice to melt the least

00:34:56.789 --> 00:34:58.710
amount by the time you serve it. So you're supposed

00:34:58.710 --> 00:35:00.429
to put all the ingredients in first and then

00:35:00.429 --> 00:35:02.409
you shake it around and pour it over ice or whatever.

00:35:02.829 --> 00:35:05.030
But if it's on the rocks, you can put the ice

00:35:05.030 --> 00:35:07.869
first because it's easier to measure. That's

00:35:07.869 --> 00:35:09.730
the thing is with measurement, usually it's easier

00:35:09.730 --> 00:35:11.590
without ice. So you measure first and you put

00:35:11.590 --> 00:35:15.110
the ice in. You know how much you pour in. Yeah.

00:35:16.090 --> 00:35:18.949
That's true. Yeah. So anyways, they don't, they,

00:35:19.070 --> 00:35:22.570
dad tries to get drunk to connect with his son,

00:35:22.650 --> 00:35:24.769
even though the son. Kind of would love to just

00:35:24.769 --> 00:35:26.889
talk to his own dad. You get this really like

00:35:26.889 --> 00:35:29.610
tense scene, right? Actually, it worked on me.

00:35:29.630 --> 00:35:31.369
I thought it was quite like a very emotional

00:35:31.369 --> 00:35:34.510
scene where they're clashing. And then that's

00:35:34.510 --> 00:35:37.429
when Cherry drops the truth bomb that he's like

00:35:37.429 --> 00:35:40.710
flying to America. In a month. In a month. And

00:35:40.710 --> 00:35:43.050
that upset his dad. And, you know, throughout

00:35:43.050 --> 00:35:46.730
for the next few scenes in the movie, the dad

00:35:46.730 --> 00:35:50.449
is like very dismissive, very like cold towards

00:35:50.449 --> 00:35:54.119
Cherry. As we'll soon find out, when they're

00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:57.219
trying to resolve the land that they bought,

00:35:57.539 --> 00:36:02.280
he would always dismiss Cherry. Like, go to America.

00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:06.519
Let me handle this. And all that. So what happened

00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:10.519
is that they went to check out the land that

00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:14.780
the dad bought. And it turns out that it's already

00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:20.869
occupied by this man named Karana. Karana. Yeah,

00:36:20.969 --> 00:36:23.090
he's named after a friend of mine that I know.

00:36:23.389 --> 00:36:28.050
Anyway, it's, like, it's, like, occupied by some,

00:36:28.170 --> 00:36:30.869
like, goons, and they were, like, telling them

00:36:30.869 --> 00:36:33.969
to, like, basically fuck off and just, like,

00:36:33.989 --> 00:36:37.969
hey, you know, this is Karana's land. It's already

00:36:37.969 --> 00:36:40.630
been bought, and they start to realize that,

00:36:40.670 --> 00:36:43.409
hey, this must have been a mistake, right? Yeah,

00:36:43.449 --> 00:36:46.050
there's a big fence. Yeah. It's like a brick

00:36:46.050 --> 00:36:48.420
wall, like... An offense. Yeah, it's a gate.

00:36:48.659 --> 00:36:50.500
Yeah. It's like a gate. And then there's, like,

00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:52.380
a goon. And they tell him to, like, go away because

00:36:52.380 --> 00:36:54.739
this land is already occupied. And then they

00:36:54.739 --> 00:36:57.139
argue back and forth. And then they realize that,

00:36:57.179 --> 00:36:58.619
you know, there must have been a mistake. And

00:36:58.619 --> 00:37:01.599
then they go back to the broker where the dad

00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:04.980
bought the land from. And he basically, like,

00:37:05.099 --> 00:37:07.500
scammed them out, right? Like, he just kind of

00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:11.989
said that, oh, you know, I... I took the money,

00:37:12.010 --> 00:37:14.510
and now it's your problem, basically. Yeah, I

00:37:14.510 --> 00:37:18.190
mean, he legally sold them the plot of land.

00:37:18.570 --> 00:37:20.869
The issue is there's these other guys that came

00:37:20.869 --> 00:37:25.809
and claimed it, and he's like, it's not my problem.

00:37:25.969 --> 00:37:28.369
You own the land. According to the paper, you

00:37:28.369 --> 00:37:33.110
go deal with these squatters. Also, the dad in

00:37:33.110 --> 00:37:36.309
this scene is unable to handle this. He doesn't

00:37:36.309 --> 00:37:37.989
know how to argue. He doesn't know how to fight

00:37:37.989 --> 00:37:42.010
back. He's a very weak man. Yeah, my life savings,

00:37:42.150 --> 00:37:44.349
you know, it's all gone, but it goes to this

00:37:44.349 --> 00:37:47.510
guy named Karana. He's like this He's like this

00:37:47.510 --> 00:37:52.409
really greedy Man that you know loves to own

00:37:52.409 --> 00:37:55.849
land Yeah, that is his one character trait. He

00:37:55.849 --> 00:38:00.650
says it often. But I do want to point out that

00:38:00.650 --> 00:38:03.929
it's played by Bowman Irani, which the only role

00:38:03.929 --> 00:38:07.070
I can remember was that he was M from Dostana.

00:38:07.429 --> 00:38:11.550
He was like the magazine editor. Yeah, I think

00:38:11.550 --> 00:38:14.050
he told me that and I was like, whoa. Did you

00:38:14.050 --> 00:38:16.969
forget Happy New Year? I forgot. Oh, he was in

00:38:16.969 --> 00:38:18.989
the movie too. Happy New Year. He was one of

00:38:18.989 --> 00:38:22.070
the main characters, right? He was the... Was

00:38:22.070 --> 00:38:25.050
he the uncle? He was the IT guy. Oh. IT guy or

00:38:25.050 --> 00:38:26.989
uncle? He was the uncle. He was like the bumbling

00:38:26.989 --> 00:38:30.190
uncle. Yeah. Wow. The guy's got range, man. Yeah,

00:38:30.190 --> 00:38:32.650
for sure. Yeah. He's good. He plays good gay

00:38:32.650 --> 00:38:36.789
guy, good bad guy, good gay bad guy, all those.

00:38:37.949 --> 00:38:40.409
There's a lot of gay. You're throwing a lot of

00:38:40.409 --> 00:38:42.510
gay jokes. It's not my fault he was in it. You're

00:38:42.510 --> 00:38:43.630
throwing like gay jokes today. What's a good

00:38:43.630 --> 00:38:48.929
gay world together? I like how his work table

00:38:48.929 --> 00:38:51.730
has a lighting that lights their face up from

00:38:51.730 --> 00:38:54.530
the bottom and make them look sinister. Yeah.

00:38:54.710 --> 00:38:58.150
In his office. Usually people have like lampshade,

00:38:58.150 --> 00:39:02.090
right? Yeah. But his table floor is like the

00:39:02.090 --> 00:39:05.280
light. source so everyone feel like when someone

00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.579
talks their face like lights up from the bottom

00:39:07.579 --> 00:39:10.219
and give this sinister look in his office he

00:39:10.219 --> 00:39:13.159
also has like the coolest phone he has the one

00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:14.780
that like flips up and has a little keyboard

00:39:14.780 --> 00:39:17.400
inside that he's always oh yeah right that was

00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.360
very cool so so the the broker tells them you

00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:22.840
know hey what you know if you want to resolve

00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:26.400
this why why don't you meet karana himself in

00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:30.719
his mansion and they go there and it's like he's

00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:33.460
like this he looks like this powerful like drug

00:39:33.460 --> 00:39:36.559
baron like crime lord except he's not really

00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:39.000
i don't i don't think he's like a small time

00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:42.239
crook yeah or like a small time like land guy

00:39:42.239 --> 00:39:46.340
yeah he says that much later kind of he's like

00:39:46.340 --> 00:39:49.840
i'm a small town i'm a small town kind of you

00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.860
know land baron in this small area but he's not

00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:57.960
a hot shot yeah yeah he definitely has like the

00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.599
police in his pocket yeah i guess so he's like

00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:03.119
me me yeah yeah he's got a local scam going on

00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:05.539
yeah but that's it yeah but then basically like

00:40:05.539 --> 00:40:08.699
what what entails is that they they are led to

00:40:08.699 --> 00:40:13.190
they have been called they have been uh how do

00:40:13.190 --> 00:40:16.329
i say their the negotiation is that if you want

00:40:16.329 --> 00:40:18.710
your land back you gotta pay half of what you

00:40:18.710 --> 00:40:22.550
already play pay to reclaim it it's a it's a

00:40:22.550 --> 00:40:25.170
protection racket they're like we will keep this

00:40:25.170 --> 00:40:27.510
fence here and you won't be able to do anything

00:40:27.510 --> 00:40:29.309
unless you pay us half of what this plot was

00:40:29.309 --> 00:40:31.349
worth so now they have to he already gave his

00:40:31.349 --> 00:40:33.349
life savings and now he has to pay another half

00:40:33.349 --> 00:40:39.369
of that which is $15 ,000. Basically, of course,

00:40:39.429 --> 00:40:42.570
the father is like, I'm not going to do this.

00:40:42.949 --> 00:40:45.809
They have to turn to the lawyers, but then it

00:40:45.809 --> 00:40:48.269
turns out that none of the lawyers were helpful

00:40:48.269 --> 00:40:51.070
either. Every lawyer that they visited, they

00:40:51.070 --> 00:40:54.079
were like, you got to pay us commission. yeah

00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:56.780
everyone was asking for money for money police

00:40:56.780 --> 00:40:59.659
first police asked for money and then they went

00:40:59.659 --> 00:41:02.559
to the lawyers they asked for like oh just do

00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:04.719
out of court settlement i will i'll arrange for

00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:06.679
this much money basically everyone was willing

00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:09.820
to negotiate with kurana to get it down from

00:41:09.820 --> 00:41:13.159
15 lakhs to like 12 10 or 12 lakhs that was their

00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.059
offer nobody was like we're gonna report this

00:41:15.059 --> 00:41:17.500
this is illegal it was just like it's just like

00:41:17.500 --> 00:41:20.659
he's a scammer and also part of the system itself

00:41:20.659 --> 00:41:24.139
so the system is there to like Support this kind

00:41:24.139 --> 00:41:26.480
of scammers because I think he has everyone in

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:28.820
him in their pocket that fly right in real life

00:41:28.820 --> 00:41:32.059
with that That's lies right now. They do Happens

00:41:32.059 --> 00:41:35.360
I mean he's he's just he's a big Maybe like he

00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.760
doesn't scam everyone. He does scam like few

00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:39.980
of them few of the people so that like he can

00:41:39.980 --> 00:41:43.679
continue his racket and stuff like that it's

00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:45.780
an easy racket you just make up fake papers you

00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:47.820
install a goon and then they pay you and then

00:41:47.820 --> 00:41:49.619
you dole out the money to the police and you're

00:41:49.619 --> 00:41:51.300
good to go next time and then you know do it

00:41:51.300 --> 00:41:53.340
again and so i guess that you know because and

00:41:53.340 --> 00:41:55.559
because they couldn't do anything about it the

00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:57.559
father has like a like a breakdown basically

00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.159
like what am i gonna do and you know the the

00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:03.280
sons are the children are really sad to see their

00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:07.440
father in like in ruin like with no money and

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:11.929
i guess like uh bunty has this plan Where I'm

00:42:11.929 --> 00:42:16.349
going to go contact some local wrestlers. This

00:42:16.349 --> 00:42:18.070
was my favorite part of the movie, by the way.

00:42:18.190 --> 00:42:22.510
I love this shit. Here's a bunch of wrestlers.

00:42:22.510 --> 00:42:25.269
Eat up. And then, like, they go to the plot of

00:42:25.269 --> 00:42:26.969
Land, and then they all have these, like... Wait,

00:42:26.989 --> 00:42:28.429
you know, we got... There's the old guy that

00:42:28.429 --> 00:42:31.449
runs all these wrestlers who's so cool. There's,

00:42:31.469 --> 00:42:34.190
like, a tiny little old man who, like, controls

00:42:34.190 --> 00:42:36.309
all these, like, 20 -year -old fat wrestlers

00:42:36.309 --> 00:42:38.449
and makes sure that they're all fed, and he just

00:42:38.449 --> 00:42:40.809
goes around, like, demolishing things for people

00:42:40.809 --> 00:42:43.929
and has a photo book. of all the places they've

00:42:43.929 --> 00:42:48.409
demolished. Yeah. And it's so fucking cool. The

00:42:48.409 --> 00:42:51.269
scene when they're all crammed in a car with

00:42:51.269 --> 00:42:53.389
all the wrestlers and that little old guy in

00:42:53.389 --> 00:42:55.489
the front and stuff, I loved it. What a great

00:42:55.489 --> 00:42:57.849
racket they have. We need to have friends like

00:42:57.849 --> 00:43:00.650
that. This is the cottage industry that props

00:43:00.650 --> 00:43:03.010
up when you have these land barons. Then you

00:43:03.010 --> 00:43:06.530
have a whole little... business of wrestlers

00:43:06.530 --> 00:43:10.190
to destroy walls and stuff yeah so they they

00:43:10.190 --> 00:43:12.289
gather up all these wrestlers and go to the plot

00:43:12.289 --> 00:43:15.849
of land and the way to the way they take it back

00:43:15.849 --> 00:43:18.130
is basically they they got all these hammers

00:43:18.130 --> 00:43:20.730
and break down the gate that's it they just destroyed

00:43:20.730 --> 00:43:22.429
the wall i don't know why you needed wrestlers

00:43:22.429 --> 00:43:25.929
it's our land now but of course they think that

00:43:25.929 --> 00:43:28.190
like you know we got the land back but then the

00:43:28.190 --> 00:43:31.719
next day The police goes up to the dad and you're

00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:34.599
like, you're going to jail. Yeah. And he ends

00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:37.539
up in prison, basically. And then it shows that,

00:43:37.579 --> 00:43:42.699
like, Kurana, the land villain, I don't know

00:43:42.699 --> 00:43:44.139
what to call it. The land villain. The land villain

00:43:44.139 --> 00:43:46.760
basically has a lot of power. Like, you know,

00:43:46.780 --> 00:43:50.900
the police are in his pockets, basically. And

00:43:50.900 --> 00:43:54.719
I think he gets bailed out by, like, this other

00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:57.300
bad guy, like, the assistant to Kurana. He's

00:43:57.300 --> 00:43:59.639
like... He's another major character, right?

00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:03.820
Where... What did he do again? He was like...

00:44:03.820 --> 00:44:08.219
You just see assistant. Sidekick assistant, yeah.

00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:11.539
He turns pages for Karana. But he was basically

00:44:11.539 --> 00:44:14.300
ordered by Karana to get him out, right? He tells

00:44:14.300 --> 00:44:18.579
the guy, Kamal, that Karana has a soft spot for

00:44:18.579 --> 00:44:22.199
him. Yeah. And it's just to show him how much

00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:24.420
power he has, right? Yeah, I think so. And then

00:44:24.420 --> 00:44:28.090
to sweeten it, like a... Giving us sweet before,

00:44:28.349 --> 00:44:31.030
sweet before you give me the money. I got you

00:44:31.030 --> 00:44:33.250
out of jail. Give me my reward. But did you guys

00:44:33.250 --> 00:44:35.449
not think that Kurana would have like met him

00:44:35.449 --> 00:44:37.110
with more brute force? You know, he pretty much

00:44:37.110 --> 00:44:39.090
went and like demolished the entire wall. I thought

00:44:39.090 --> 00:44:41.469
this was when we'd see Kurana turn a bit more

00:44:41.469 --> 00:44:44.130
dangerous. But instead, he sends his henchmen

00:44:44.130 --> 00:44:46.750
to get him out of jail and then offers a reduction

00:44:46.750 --> 00:44:50.349
from 15 lakhs to 12 lakhs. I was confused by

00:44:50.349 --> 00:44:52.269
that. This is what me and Nikki talk about where

00:44:52.269 --> 00:44:54.369
everything they do just works out for them magically.

00:44:54.730 --> 00:44:57.869
I think I kind of felt it's more realistic because

00:44:57.869 --> 00:45:01.269
like he's like a old dude in like a way who has

00:45:01.269 --> 00:45:04.289
like no power and he's like a land baron mafia.

00:45:04.670 --> 00:45:07.789
And then like. He's, like, a small target for

00:45:07.789 --> 00:45:10.449
him. He's not gonna dirty his hand, like, killing

00:45:10.449 --> 00:45:11.170
him or something. But some people would have

00:45:11.170 --> 00:45:13.750
gone pretty crazy, like, you destroyed my entire

00:45:13.750 --> 00:45:15.989
property. I think he's, like, a cool -headed

00:45:15.989 --> 00:45:18.849
villain guy. Like, he's, like, he can keep his

00:45:18.849 --> 00:45:21.010
cool because he knows, like, he can just, I mean,

00:45:21.030 --> 00:45:24.590
whatever. I think there is, like, a window of

00:45:24.590 --> 00:45:27.530
negotiation of the amount of the land because

00:45:27.530 --> 00:45:30.949
it's totally extra money, extortion money they

00:45:30.949 --> 00:45:33.210
are getting. they're okay with because it's not

00:45:33.210 --> 00:45:35.510
a loan or something like that right it's like

00:45:35.510 --> 00:45:37.670
it's free money it's free money so there there

00:45:37.670 --> 00:45:40.210
is a wiggle room for them and they are like doing

00:45:40.210 --> 00:45:42.230
this all these things like seeing like how far

00:45:42.230 --> 00:45:44.449
they can go and stuff like that and also he's

00:45:44.449 --> 00:45:45.789
saying like if i got you out of jail i could

00:45:45.789 --> 00:45:48.409
put you back in yeah like i control the police

00:45:48.409 --> 00:45:50.730
so let's just be nice and give me the money and

00:45:50.730 --> 00:45:52.989
let's stop this nonsense still a much nicer villain

00:45:52.989 --> 00:45:55.989
than i would have expected the movie the whole

00:45:55.989 --> 00:45:57.710
movie is just kind of wholesome even the bad

00:45:57.710 --> 00:46:03.260
men are pleasant bad guys uh and then yeah so

00:46:03.260 --> 00:46:05.440
so when they offered to you know now that they

00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:07.219
bailed the dad out they offered like the new

00:46:07.219 --> 00:46:10.960
the new price like 12 locks and then basically

00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:14.159
he's like you know what fuck this i give up i

00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:17.260
don't want to do anything cherry go go to america

00:46:17.260 --> 00:46:20.420
go go to your go go to your new do your software

00:46:20.420 --> 00:46:23.280
engineer job and that's when cherry has this

00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:27.179
realization that oh no i gotta save my dad and

00:46:27.179 --> 00:46:29.179
then you know realizes that he has to help him

00:46:29.179 --> 00:46:32.210
out basically so he seeks he goes to his girlfriend

00:46:32.210 --> 00:46:34.869
and then they said you know we need to we need

00:46:34.869 --> 00:46:38.670
to seek out a plan and another character that

00:46:38.670 --> 00:46:41.789
we haven't mentioned is that like when when cherry

00:46:41.789 --> 00:46:44.369
was planning to go to america he's been talking

00:46:44.369 --> 00:46:49.269
to this uh visa agent basically the guy that

00:46:49.269 --> 00:46:51.760
makes fun of his name And then it turns out,

00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:54.639
I don't know how things work out, but the visa

00:46:54.639 --> 00:46:57.260
agent reveals that, oh, yeah, I was a former

00:46:57.260 --> 00:47:01.239
accomplice of Karana. And he fucked me over,

00:47:01.300 --> 00:47:05.159
too. And I will help you fuck him over. He doctored

00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:08.340
papers or something for this guy. But also, so,

00:47:08.420 --> 00:47:10.539
like, he thinks that the name is going to make

00:47:10.539 --> 00:47:14.199
the guy get a visa denied. I forgot. That is

00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:15.920
the plot, right? He wants to change his name

00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:18.000
so his visa is approved. They're going to make

00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:21.500
fun of your name in the U .S., in America. Do

00:47:21.500 --> 00:47:23.679
you know what happens to people with your name?

00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:25.440
I thought it was about the visa, about they were

00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:28.139
not getting approved. No, he's just going to

00:47:28.139 --> 00:47:30.079
get bullied. But it would have no implication

00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:32.219
on his visa. He was pretty close to getting it

00:47:32.219 --> 00:47:33.960
anyway. Yeah, I think he got the visa. He got

00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.079
the visa in the movie, yeah. You can't have anyone

00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.760
make fun of my name. I love American businesses

00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:41.059
being like, haha, cherry. They don't know what...

00:47:41.369 --> 00:47:43.909
old old indian names are like if i don't know

00:47:43.909 --> 00:47:46.150
then how would anyone know like i want to make

00:47:46.150 --> 00:47:47.849
fun of him i would have no clue but i think a

00:47:47.849 --> 00:47:50.110
guy going as cherry in america would also be

00:47:50.110 --> 00:47:55.210
a little bit more strange no cherry cherry why

00:47:55.210 --> 00:47:58.329
just change it to jerry oh yeah he would just

00:47:58.329 --> 00:48:01.190
probably end up changing it to jerry they do

00:48:01.190 --> 00:48:02.909
they do recommend a few names throughout the

00:48:02.909 --> 00:48:08.409
movie one of which is what's that he did whatever

00:48:08.409 --> 00:48:12.909
he recommends that are also older oldest Ricky

00:48:12.909 --> 00:48:16.150
Martin. Oh, Ricky Martin. Oh, yeah. That's when

00:48:16.150 --> 00:48:20.409
the girl is like talking about the taking the

00:48:20.409 --> 00:48:25.389
name of one of the Bollywood actor, Vivek Oberoi.

00:48:25.489 --> 00:48:28.250
And then she has a poster of that guy in her

00:48:28.250 --> 00:48:30.630
room. So that's why I was like, maybe not. And

00:48:30.630 --> 00:48:33.409
then like, I kind of see this like her short

00:48:33.409 --> 00:48:36.510
hair and everything. He's like her behaving more

00:48:36.510 --> 00:48:39.230
boyish because like he grew up with the brothers

00:48:39.230 --> 00:48:42.829
and he's also like, kind of fighting to take

00:48:42.829 --> 00:48:46.030
the place and the respect that her brothers get

00:48:46.030 --> 00:48:48.769
which he doesn't get which she doesn't get as

00:48:48.769 --> 00:48:51.489
a girl so it has like and she's young right so

00:48:51.489 --> 00:48:56.230
she's kind of uh making this um yeah thing yeah

00:48:56.230 --> 00:48:58.369
yeah that's a very good read killy i saw him

00:48:58.369 --> 00:49:00.769
with two brothers yeah yeah that's probably very

00:49:00.769 --> 00:49:02.829
accurate is that why you have short hair winning

00:49:02.829 --> 00:49:08.480
for all the listeners oh yeah super short So

00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:12.139
the Visa Asian, I think his name is like Asif,

00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:15.820
basically. Asif Iqbal, yeah. He's played by Vinay

00:49:15.820 --> 00:49:20.519
Pathak. I don't know who that is. I really like

00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:25.280
this actor as well. I like his other films. I

00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:28.860
told Nikki he reminds me of Nedry from Jurassic

00:49:28.860 --> 00:49:32.219
Park. You know, the hacker guy that steals all

00:49:32.219 --> 00:49:35.539
the dinosaur eggs and stuff. He's ultra max fat.

00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:40.699
right no yeah okay yeah so as if yeah as if concocts

00:49:40.699 --> 00:49:44.179
a plan where it's like you know we don't we steal

00:49:44.179 --> 00:49:48.760
the money from uh from karana and then buy back

00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:51.340
the land without his knowledge that the money

00:49:51.340 --> 00:49:54.900
has been stolen right and how do they do that

00:49:54.900 --> 00:49:59.320
so remember the theater professor that uh cherry's

00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:02.980
girlfriend has basically they enlist his help

00:50:03.550 --> 00:50:05.949
Because he's such a great actor. He's a great,

00:50:05.949 --> 00:50:09.730
great imitator. Great impersonator. Not imitator.

00:50:10.190 --> 00:50:12.829
Impersonator. And we also need, like, an assistant

00:50:12.829 --> 00:50:15.250
for this guy. So, they got one of his, like,

00:50:15.349 --> 00:50:18.070
one of the theater people. Yeah. Like, this nerdy

00:50:18.070 --> 00:50:21.230
looking dude. He's the theater group. Yeah, yeah.

00:50:21.610 --> 00:50:23.710
There are a lot of, like, these independent theater

00:50:23.710 --> 00:50:27.530
groups. So, what we get for the next duration

00:50:27.530 --> 00:50:29.829
of the next parts of the next few scenes of the

00:50:29.829 --> 00:50:32.880
movie is basically them trying to... essentially

00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:36.099
figure out the the heist right so the first thing

00:50:36.099 --> 00:50:38.579
first things first they they try to so this guy

00:50:38.579 --> 00:50:41.599
uh well sorry really quick yeah i want to mention

00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:44.119
because this is part of the theme they they need

00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:46.119
this guy to act like an nri and they keep bringing

00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:49.099
up nris which is non -resident indians yeah dubai

00:50:49.099 --> 00:50:51.840
from dubai it's yeah i mean but they were like

00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:53.420
figuring out which countries to do initially

00:50:53.420 --> 00:50:55.980
no matter what he had to be nri and i want to

00:50:55.980 --> 00:50:58.719
point it out just because it's thematic and we'll

00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:01.980
get to it later but like To impress this guy,

00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:04.739
then he needs to look like an Indian that isn't

00:51:04.739 --> 00:51:07.400
in India. Yeah. Yeah, and also he said you have

00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:10.179
to be very respectable, sophisticated. Which

00:51:10.179 --> 00:51:12.500
means if you're Indian, you're not. I just want

00:51:12.500 --> 00:51:16.440
to touch on that before we continue. I don't

00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:19.280
think so. I think it's like NRI because cannot...

00:51:19.610 --> 00:51:22.690
trace back his address like it's so impressive

00:51:22.690 --> 00:51:25.449
and make him rich it's a prestige and also like

00:51:25.449 --> 00:51:27.829
you have like more money like it's more prestige

00:51:27.829 --> 00:51:30.269
like you have more money and land and stuff like

00:51:30.269 --> 00:51:33.909
that yeah so it will it will evoke a certain

00:51:33.909 --> 00:51:38.989
respect from the even the yeah the land mafia

00:51:38.989 --> 00:51:42.110
his name is bapu the i was trying to figure his

00:51:42.110 --> 00:51:44.789
name the the theater guy the theater the theater

00:51:44.789 --> 00:51:48.090
master so yeah they figured out that like he

00:51:48.090 --> 00:51:49.730
should be from dubai he's supposed to be this

00:51:49.730 --> 00:51:51.929
businessman bunty the genius i want to point

00:51:51.929 --> 00:51:53.929
out we get like this scene where they're like

00:51:53.929 --> 00:51:55.989
trying to think of where should this character

00:51:55.989 --> 00:51:58.909
come from and they were like america or whatever

00:51:58.909 --> 00:52:03.190
and then bunty within all his wisdom wisdom you

00:52:03.190 --> 00:52:06.110
know his wisdom is like dubai and then they all

00:52:06.110 --> 00:52:09.710
stop And they're like, holy shit, you're a genius.

00:52:10.050 --> 00:52:12.250
Which I thought was really strange because there's

00:52:12.250 --> 00:52:14.710
a lot of like Indian migrant workers as well

00:52:14.710 --> 00:52:17.510
in Dubai. Right. Whereas if you go to like America,

00:52:17.710 --> 00:52:20.710
I mean, not necessarily, but most likely you're

00:52:20.710 --> 00:52:24.050
there from education visa that turns into like

00:52:24.050 --> 00:52:27.829
a white collar job. Yeah. And so in Dubai, it's

00:52:27.829 --> 00:52:29.349
a little bit more varied with like blue collar.

00:52:30.190 --> 00:52:32.730
It's just they're trying to like make Bunty seem

00:52:32.730 --> 00:52:35.150
have some character trait and it's like to seem

00:52:35.150 --> 00:52:37.849
smart. they're not giving him smart things to

00:52:37.849 --> 00:52:40.349
say he's just listing a middle middle east country

00:52:40.349 --> 00:52:43.130
and they're like holy shit out of nowhere we

00:52:43.130 --> 00:52:44.769
could have never thought of that thank you bunty

00:52:44.769 --> 00:52:47.269
for contributing yo but it's like what hey man

00:52:47.269 --> 00:52:49.289
he was the one who thought of let's get some

00:52:49.289 --> 00:52:52.309
wrestlers right i mean like he's not smart and

00:52:52.309 --> 00:52:54.210
they keep trying to give him moments where they're

00:52:54.210 --> 00:52:56.389
like bunty thank you so much we couldn't have

00:52:56.389 --> 00:52:58.150
done that without you and it's like he just came

00:52:58.150 --> 00:53:00.630
up with dubai guy i don't know rich dubai businessman

00:53:00.630 --> 00:53:04.070
has been like a trope Maybe stereotypically.

00:53:04.309 --> 00:53:10.369
There are rich Indians. I think that's some kind

00:53:10.369 --> 00:53:11.670
of business. They're not going to assume it's

00:53:11.670 --> 00:53:15.570
a migrant worker selling landed shit. When I

00:53:15.570 --> 00:53:18.530
think of Dubai, I think of real estate. Yeah,

00:53:18.530 --> 00:53:21.449
exactly. I think Dubai and real estate goes well

00:53:21.449 --> 00:53:24.409
in a cinema team. I guess that's why they went

00:53:24.409 --> 00:53:26.489
with Dubai. That's why Bunty's a genius, though.

00:53:27.289 --> 00:53:31.030
Thanks, Bunty. That makes perfect sense now that

00:53:31.030 --> 00:53:36.340
Bunty says that. So basically, Bapu, our theater

00:53:36.340 --> 00:53:40.619
master, has to play this Dubai businessman. And

00:53:40.619 --> 00:53:42.760
then the other theater associate has to play

00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:47.880
his assistant. And they actually hit it right

00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:52.780
off. They make a deal with the broker. And Bapu

00:53:52.780 --> 00:53:57.559
does play the menacing, serious businessman role

00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:01.119
very well. That the broker was like, okay. I'll

00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:06.280
set up a deal with Karana. And then you get this

00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:10.739
scene where they were trying to set up a meeting

00:54:10.739 --> 00:54:13.579
at a five -star hotel. At a five -star hotel,

00:54:13.800 --> 00:54:17.019
and then... I think there's a scene that Adam

00:54:17.019 --> 00:54:22.659
likes, right? When the dad was trying to figure

00:54:22.659 --> 00:54:25.599
out why is he getting pizza for dinner? Oh, yeah.

00:54:26.260 --> 00:54:28.119
He was getting pizza for dinner because the kids

00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:30.559
were trying to negotiate, set up this meeting

00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:34.079
point with Karana and the Dubai businessman.

00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:36.219
I thought it was a very telling scene because

00:54:36.219 --> 00:54:41.039
in America, if the woman brings you pizza, that's

00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:44.710
just normal. like you're like oh cool pizza thanks

00:54:44.710 --> 00:54:48.429
but in this scene she brings in pizza and to

00:54:48.429 --> 00:54:50.809
him it's the total collapse of like his family

00:54:50.809 --> 00:54:55.110
because like what is this foreign food what is

00:54:55.110 --> 00:54:57.309
this globalization happening there's no one at

00:54:57.309 --> 00:55:00.409
home to cook food what happened to like my family

00:55:00.409 --> 00:55:03.730
that's here like and it's shown with this like

00:55:03.730 --> 00:55:06.170
alien food that he does not like that's like

00:55:06.170 --> 00:55:10.170
represents you know western like, ideology and

00:55:10.170 --> 00:55:13.610
culture and stuff like that. And it's just very

00:55:13.610 --> 00:55:16.409
funny for him to react like that to a pizza.

00:55:16.570 --> 00:55:19.150
Like, he's not happy. It's not cool. It's a total

00:55:19.150 --> 00:55:21.269
collapse of Indian society for him and, like,

00:55:21.289 --> 00:55:24.030
his household. And it's a very veggie pizza.

00:55:24.510 --> 00:55:26.610
And then, like, the punchline of that, he was,

00:55:26.650 --> 00:55:28.730
like, talking, complaining about how, like, oh,

00:55:28.730 --> 00:55:30.289
yeah, where's the family and everything, right?

00:55:30.530 --> 00:55:32.690
And, like, he was struggling to take that first

00:55:32.690 --> 00:55:34.210
bite. And then there's, like, a punchline where

00:55:34.210 --> 00:55:37.139
he's like, can you get some chutney? Yeah, he

00:55:37.139 --> 00:55:39.420
can't even eat this. It's, like, it's crap to

00:55:39.420 --> 00:55:41.619
him. It's, like, serving him just shit because

00:55:41.619 --> 00:55:44.079
there's no one at home. And now he has to, like,

00:55:44.099 --> 00:55:45.659
eat this dumb Western food. I thought it was

00:55:45.659 --> 00:55:47.460
interesting. So, yeah, they set up this, like,

00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:50.420
meeting point, like, at a five -star hotel. And

00:55:50.420 --> 00:55:55.599
that's when Kurana sees Bapu and his assistant.

00:55:56.119 --> 00:56:00.519
And he, basically, he's interested in the deal.

00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:03.480
And he wants, but before he gives the money.

00:56:04.299 --> 00:56:08.099
He asked them if he could see the land, the plot

00:56:08.099 --> 00:56:10.139
of land that they're selling. So the deal is

00:56:10.139 --> 00:56:12.320
basically, like, Bapu, he's this Dubai guy, and

00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.039
he's selling a huge plot of land. Like, a really

00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:17.260
huge plot of land. And that's why he's interested,

00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:21.739
right? And you get, like, people, like, I think

00:56:21.739 --> 00:56:23.199
it was, like, the theater troupe, right? They,

00:56:23.300 --> 00:56:26.300
like, basically pitch in to, like... pretend

00:56:26.300 --> 00:56:30.300
to be workers at the the plot of land and this

00:56:30.300 --> 00:56:32.679
plot of land is owned by originally owned by

00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:35.820
the fisheries department yeah the fisheries department

00:56:35.820 --> 00:56:38.519
but basically it's like a huge huge ploy to like

00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:41.599
to convince qurana that this is their own land

00:56:41.599 --> 00:56:43.820
and then you get like this funny scene where

00:56:43.820 --> 00:56:45.719
like qurana is just like walking through this

00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:48.400
plot of land and he's like looking at all the

00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:50.679
workers who are actually not workers but they're

00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:53.119
like the theater troupe even even they the family

00:56:53.119 --> 00:56:56.119
was there even the family and his two sons were

00:56:56.119 --> 00:56:59.840
there as worker like who are like saying from

00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:02.860
far distance yes like we're right we're all okay

00:57:02.860 --> 00:57:05.039
and then like they were actually the family the

00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:08.760
the family yeah come on i mean hey right sorry

00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:13.800
i'm sorry my bad it's okay yeah yeah uh yeah

00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:16.340
so so he's convinced that yeah this land is legit

00:57:16.340 --> 00:57:21.579
right and he said like let's go back and let's

00:57:21.579 --> 00:57:24.860
go back to my place and renegotiate how much

00:57:24.860 --> 00:57:27.199
we're getting paid And then basically, like,

00:57:27.260 --> 00:57:29.119
the next scene is, like, they get into this...

00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:32.239
They get into Kurana's mansion where Kurana offers,

00:57:32.380 --> 00:57:36.300
like, I think it was, like, 1 crore. It was 1

00:57:36.300 --> 00:57:39.719
crore. They want to sell it for 1 .5 crore. 1

00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:42.219
.5 crore. And they get it down to 1 .3. 1 .3

00:57:42.219 --> 00:57:44.539
crore. But, like, as soon as they show the money

00:57:44.539 --> 00:57:48.800
with the briefcase, Bapu all of a sudden, like...

00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:52.079
freezes up and then just like he literally stands

00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:54.900
up and leaves without saying a word like he shit

00:57:54.900 --> 00:57:56.679
his pants he shit his pants and like basically

00:57:56.679 --> 00:57:58.619
they they all fit like the assistant is thinking

00:57:58.619 --> 00:58:00.579
like oh shit we screwed up you know we're not

00:58:00.579 --> 00:58:02.260
gonna we're not gonna we're not gonna get the

00:58:02.260 --> 00:58:05.500
the money now and then they go back to the they

00:58:05.500 --> 00:58:08.899
go back home like the deal is just canceled And

00:58:08.899 --> 00:58:11.280
basically, like, Bapu was just saying, like,

00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:12.780
you know, he can't go through with it because

00:58:12.780 --> 00:58:15.360
it's, like, we're deceiving people. And then

00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:17.519
you have, like, this scene. I don't know. I can't

00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:19.619
get over it. But, like, it's this scene where,

00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:22.800
like, the dad comes in and says, like, you know.

00:58:23.289 --> 00:58:25.230
It's not your fault for not going through with

00:58:25.230 --> 00:58:27.349
the deal because you're all trying to deceive

00:58:27.349 --> 00:58:30.130
people. This is all like ridiculous. Like you're

00:58:30.130 --> 00:58:33.130
just pretending to be people. The land is fraudulent.

00:58:33.230 --> 00:58:35.989
It's not real. This is a crime. It's like, it's

00:58:35.989 --> 00:58:38.369
a crime. But then like suddenly the phone rings

00:58:38.369 --> 00:58:41.010
and they're like, the phone rings. And then basically

00:58:41.010 --> 00:58:43.320
Karana's like, all right, let's. You know, you

00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.139
walked away and I get it. Maybe I'm not giving

00:58:46.139 --> 00:58:49.940
you enough money. So I'll give you like 1 .40.

00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:53.139
So it worked in their favor. And everyone's like,

00:58:53.219 --> 00:58:55.179
yeah, cool. Great. And everyone's like clapping

00:58:55.179 --> 00:58:57.300
and stuff like you did it, Bupa. And he's like,

00:58:57.360 --> 00:58:59.659
sweet. And it's like, wait, what? And then the

00:58:59.659 --> 00:59:02.349
dad was like. okay yeah after all the speech

00:59:02.349 --> 00:59:05.269
about how it's so it's so bad now they decide

00:59:05.269 --> 00:59:07.849
to do it i think the theater theater guy what

00:59:07.849 --> 00:59:10.650
wanted to mean like that he never he never seen

00:59:10.650 --> 00:59:13.389
that much of money he barely sees like a little

00:59:13.389 --> 00:59:15.650
bit of money in his pocket and he's like a poor

00:59:15.650 --> 00:59:18.789
person and looking at like all those money like

00:59:18.789 --> 00:59:22.610
he he couldn't deal with that the shock value

00:59:22.610 --> 00:59:26.449
of looking at that much of cash in one box and

00:59:26.449 --> 00:59:28.909
he had like a nervous attack and he left. But

00:59:28.909 --> 00:59:30.590
then he explains it to them like it's a moral

00:59:30.590 --> 00:59:34.050
crisis. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he's like, oh, like,

00:59:34.150 --> 00:59:35.670
you know, this is, you guys don't know what you're

00:59:35.670 --> 00:59:37.230
doing and this is a crime and then they're like,

00:59:37.289 --> 00:59:39.250
hey, it's 1 .4 and they're like, let's go home

00:59:39.250 --> 00:59:42.030
and celebrate. We did it, guys. Good job, boys.

00:59:42.510 --> 00:59:45.289
He's like virtue signaling to deal with his weakness.

00:59:45.789 --> 00:59:50.250
One time I was at MBK, this kind of mall in Bangkok

00:59:50.250 --> 00:59:54.090
and there was this bag that I wanted and The

00:59:54.090 --> 00:59:58.150
price was like $2 ,300, right? And I said, okay,

00:59:58.190 --> 01:00:00.690
I'll buy it for $2 ,000. And then she said, $1

01:00:00.690 --> 01:00:04.630
,500. The store lady. I was like, yeah, sure.

01:00:04.750 --> 01:00:07.269
That's lower than what I said. I'll take that.

01:00:07.489 --> 01:00:10.349
You're really bad at bargaining, idiot. Take

01:00:10.349 --> 01:00:13.130
my $2 ,000 I was giving you. And this kind of

01:00:13.130 --> 01:00:15.769
reminded me of that. Very poor negotiating skills.

01:00:16.190 --> 01:00:19.710
Was it English? No, it's just Thai. Did you say

01:00:19.710 --> 01:00:22.420
in English? Yes. Well, yeah, but I was like $2

01:00:22.420 --> 01:00:25.320
,000 and she's like $1 ,500. So she had a price

01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:27.860
that the bag was already and I was like, okay,

01:00:27.900 --> 01:00:31.519
fine. Sure, you could have had more. So they

01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:37.320
offered the new increased price, right? On one

01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:39.780
condition is that they need to show them the

01:00:39.780 --> 01:00:42.739
land again. And that was when things get very

01:00:42.739 --> 01:00:45.960
hectic because the theater troupe is away in

01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:48.059
Bangalore or something and then they have to...

01:00:48.059 --> 01:00:50.949
So the family suddenly have to pretend to be

01:00:50.949 --> 01:00:56.250
in the land deal, basically. And then, what else

01:00:56.250 --> 01:00:58.469
happens? So, yeah, he goes back to the land,

01:00:58.469 --> 01:01:01.050
and that's kind of, and then, again, there's

01:01:01.050 --> 01:01:04.769
zero problems. Yeah, there was zero problems.

01:01:04.809 --> 01:01:06.730
He's like, okay, let's go back to my mansion

01:01:06.730 --> 01:01:09.570
and have a drink, right? And then, you have this

01:01:09.570 --> 01:01:12.650
comedic scene where it's like, Kurana's just

01:01:12.650 --> 01:01:14.889
drunk, and he's like, I didn't think you were

01:01:14.889 --> 01:01:16.789
the man that you think you are, or something.

01:01:17.170 --> 01:01:19.849
It was like, you think that he's onto something.

01:01:20.539 --> 01:01:22.239
But then, like, we've been saying this whole

01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:24.780
time, it works out in their favor because, like,

01:01:24.780 --> 01:01:27.219
they still got the money. Like, they got the

01:01:27.219 --> 01:01:31.420
money. And I don't know. I guess when they got

01:01:31.420 --> 01:01:34.280
the money, they managed to pay him back and they

01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:36.940
get the land back. Right. So he does the land

01:01:36.940 --> 01:01:39.960
deal and they give him the fake documents. And

01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:42.880
the money that he gives them, it's so much that

01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.780
they're able to pay him the bribe money that

01:01:45.780 --> 01:01:49.949
he's asking for and then dish out. more money

01:01:49.949 --> 01:01:53.230
to everyone that was partaking in this. Did Corona

01:01:53.230 --> 01:01:57.630
pay the whole money or the advance? It was the

01:01:57.630 --> 01:02:01.309
advance. It's a lot of money. Yeah, the advance

01:02:01.309 --> 01:02:04.650
was $35 and then they just had to pay $12 and

01:02:04.650 --> 01:02:06.550
then they just split the rest amongst each other.

01:02:06.710 --> 01:02:10.289
What year did this film come out? 2006. Oh my

01:02:10.289 --> 01:02:12.590
god, was the land price that cheap at that point?

01:02:12.929 --> 01:02:14.469
Yeah, but it's in the middle of nowhere too.

01:02:15.130 --> 01:02:17.610
yeah but like it's already getting out now it's

01:02:17.610 --> 01:02:20.230
like it would be three four times yeah okay like

01:02:20.230 --> 01:02:22.090
so so they got the land back right but like the

01:02:22.090 --> 01:02:24.070
thing that the the next scene that really like

01:02:24.070 --> 01:02:29.070
ticked me off was that it's like uh cherry seeing

01:02:29.070 --> 01:02:33.309
the value of family is like you know what i'm

01:02:33.309 --> 01:02:36.369
gonna stay i'm not gonna go to america and then

01:02:36.369 --> 01:02:40.340
he confesses his love for for Manic Pixie Girl.

01:02:40.519 --> 01:02:43.219
Manic Pixie Girl. And I'm like, what the hell?

01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:45.420
Like, that just defeats the whole purpose. Like,

01:02:45.420 --> 01:02:47.300
I thought, like, we would have a scene where

01:02:47.300 --> 01:02:49.619
the dad is, like, very understanding. No, you're

01:02:49.619 --> 01:02:51.260
right. You're right. And say, like, you know

01:02:51.260 --> 01:02:55.320
what, son? Go to America. You know, bring us

01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:57.780
home the bacon, you know? But, like, no. It's

01:02:57.780 --> 01:03:00.760
like, she just decides, like, all right, family's

01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:03.239
important. I'll just stay. I'll just stay, and

01:03:03.239 --> 01:03:06.460
I love you. I love you, Megan. The dad learns

01:03:06.460 --> 01:03:09.280
nothing. The dad doesn't learn to listen or accept

01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.199
his kids. The kid learns to give up on his dreams

01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:15.059
and go live in the house. that the dad built

01:03:15.059 --> 01:03:16.820
for him. It was such a cop out. The dad doesn't

01:03:16.820 --> 01:03:19.800
learn anything, right? Doesn't need to. Everything

01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:22.500
works out. The kids kind of fix everything for

01:03:22.500 --> 01:03:24.179
him and he stays a stubborn asshole and nobody

01:03:24.179 --> 01:03:25.880
listens to each other. But the movie doesn't

01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:27.599
frame it that way, right? The movie frames it

01:03:27.599 --> 01:03:30.199
as the kid is happy to stay because he gets to

01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:32.400
stay with this girl that he's in love with. And

01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:34.059
then that's how you can tell that the movie was

01:03:34.059 --> 01:03:36.019
made by a middle -aged man because this is every

01:03:36.019 --> 01:03:38.739
middle -aged man's dream. Right. My son just

01:03:38.739 --> 01:03:40.900
kind of realizing it's better to stay here in

01:03:40.900 --> 01:03:43.239
India. I'm not going to leave. and it's seen

01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:45.719
as a happy ending the happy ending i just thought

01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:49.440
it was such a left field like i mean like if

01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:52.460
it was me i'd be like i'd go i'd fucking go to

01:03:52.460 --> 01:03:56.039
america yeah i kind of thought like he the father

01:03:56.039 --> 01:04:00.739
i mean he was like kind of flying i mean uh running

01:04:00.739 --> 01:04:04.099
away from this shithole of family And then the

01:04:04.099 --> 01:04:05.840
father changed. But if the father doesn't change,

01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:08.400
then why didn't he go? The father did not change.

01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:11.320
Father did. But I think this time he has another

01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:14.239
floor to himself. So that's why I don't need

01:04:14.239 --> 01:04:16.719
to step into my father's room. Fuck New York.

01:04:16.780 --> 01:04:19.880
I have a floor in the middle of nowhere. It's

01:04:19.880 --> 01:04:21.539
just part of the happy ending that this movie

01:04:21.539 --> 01:04:24.619
had to package, I feel like. So, okay. So, I

01:04:24.619 --> 01:04:27.619
mean, we talked about how the main character

01:04:27.619 --> 01:04:31.059
is this middle -aged man. And the director probably

01:04:31.059 --> 01:04:34.090
is too. What they're talking about here is so

01:04:34.090 --> 01:04:38.489
unique or specific, I want to say, to that time

01:04:38.489 --> 01:04:43.030
period. I started doing some math here. The middle

01:04:43.030 --> 01:04:45.769
-aged man is 56 years old, he said. He's near

01:04:45.769 --> 01:04:50.250
retirement. This movie takes place in 2006. 56

01:04:50.250 --> 01:04:55.329
years ago was around 1949, which is two or three

01:04:55.329 --> 01:04:59.139
years after the Indian independence. And I was

01:04:59.139 --> 01:05:00.539
wondering, like, why are they all discussing

01:05:00.539 --> 01:05:02.739
all these like land plots now and stuff? This

01:05:02.739 --> 01:05:05.019
seems to be like very it's very heavy on like

01:05:05.019 --> 01:05:08.119
the NRI stuff and like land deals. And I was

01:05:08.119 --> 01:05:11.219
like, why? So then I was doing more timelines

01:05:11.219 --> 01:05:14.440
backwards. And exactly 15 years ago was the 1991

01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:18.400
land reforms. Right. So to give some context,

01:05:18.539 --> 01:05:21.059
because then I researched this. So and Kelly,

01:05:21.159 --> 01:05:23.119
please, if I'm wrong, don't correct me and just

01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:27.179
tell me I'm correct. So when it. india got into

01:05:27.179 --> 01:05:29.599
no please correct me uh if when india got independence

01:05:29.599 --> 01:05:34.300
in 47 right um for like around three decades

01:05:34.300 --> 01:05:36.679
they were trying to do in some areas some land

01:05:36.679 --> 01:05:39.260
reforms to try to get rid of the landowners or

01:05:39.260 --> 01:05:42.800
get rid of like the rentier class and you know

01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:45.440
help peasants or like non -landowning people

01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:49.219
like get some land and stuff like that um doesn't

01:05:49.219 --> 01:05:51.679
really work out in most places some places it

01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:55.599
does but then 1991 ussr collapses India loses

01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:58.320
major sources of funding. Oil prices are spiking

01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:02.239
and India's kind of screwed. That's when they

01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:05.400
have to completely change their economic structure.

01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:07.840
That's when they go, you know, very neoliberal

01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:10.500
and they have to start privatizing everything.

01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:13.639
Right. The parallels here are really interesting

01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:17.239
because if you look at the dad, not just as a

01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:22.739
middle aged man who is born into an independent

01:06:22.739 --> 01:06:26.880
India. right so you're supposed to you you are

01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:30.320
like the brand new batch of like people that

01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:32.840
are finally free from this and and this land

01:06:32.840 --> 01:06:35.679
is yours but they're coming into retirement and

01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:39.059
you know non -resident indians are more popular

01:06:39.059 --> 01:06:43.320
or prestigious your kids all want to leave and

01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:45.320
you thought you had a retirement that's gone

01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:48.260
now like you you thought you were investing money

01:06:48.260 --> 01:06:49.619
into something and all of a sudden it's taken

01:06:49.619 --> 01:06:51.940
away i think not only does he represent middle

01:06:51.940 --> 01:06:54.920
-aged dads but he represents india in its independence

01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:58.579
right and when he goes when he's saving up to

01:06:58.579 --> 01:06:59.960
buy this plot of land and all of a sudden he

01:06:59.960 --> 01:07:03.039
sees this wall up in there um that is like the

01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:07.039
1991 economic crisis they like uh what's his

01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:11.179
name karanu karana karana is the imf and world

01:07:11.179 --> 01:07:13.420
bank and stuff they show up on land that you

01:07:13.420 --> 01:07:16.179
already own And they say, look, you need to pay

01:07:16.179 --> 01:07:19.519
us more money to even keep this, to even enjoy

01:07:19.519 --> 01:07:22.139
the land that we promised you back then, that

01:07:22.139 --> 01:07:24.119
you thought you had coming to you. It's gone.

01:07:24.340 --> 01:07:27.420
You need to pay me now. And so that's what happened.

01:07:27.460 --> 01:07:29.739
In 1991, when India lost all the money, IMF and

01:07:29.739 --> 01:07:31.159
World Bank show up. They give them all these

01:07:31.159 --> 01:07:33.739
loans on the condition that they privatize everything

01:07:33.739 --> 01:07:37.039
and enact all these neoliberal economic reforms.

01:07:37.239 --> 01:07:38.940
And all of a sudden, land does become important.

01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:40.739
And people are buying and selling land all of

01:07:40.739 --> 01:07:42.960
a sudden. And people are collecting. this so

01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:45.460
that's why he's the big villain now 15 years

01:07:45.460 --> 01:07:48.300
later after these land reforms are enacted right

01:07:48.300 --> 01:07:51.739
the the dad represents india at this stage where

01:07:51.739 --> 01:07:54.199
you have these people put like showing up and

01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:56.500
saying you need to give us money for stuff that

01:07:56.500 --> 01:08:00.059
you already thought you had also not just his

01:08:00.059 --> 01:08:02.539
kids are leaving but indians are like leaving

01:08:02.539 --> 01:08:05.119
and the fact that like you've had 30 years of

01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:07.320
independence and it's somehow better to be outside

01:08:07.320 --> 01:08:10.119
the country or more prestigious is not great

01:08:10.119 --> 01:08:12.159
like that's bad and it's like shocking to the

01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:14.739
dad too of like i made all this and everyone

01:08:14.739 --> 01:08:17.720
wants to leave me you know this is the most telling

01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:21.220
part so the only way when when they show up and

01:08:21.220 --> 01:08:23.020
they realize that their plot of land has been

01:08:23.020 --> 01:08:26.640
stolen the only way and they've tried other methods

01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:28.520
but the only way that they can pay him back is

01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:32.619
to recreate the methods that were used on them

01:08:32.619 --> 01:08:35.060
so that land was stolen from them and they had

01:08:35.060 --> 01:08:37.180
to get money to pay it back The only way they

01:08:37.180 --> 01:08:39.699
could pay it back was to steal other land and

01:08:39.699 --> 01:08:42.880
commit other crimes. Like you have to perpetuate

01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:45.560
the crimes of these oppressors to pay them back.

01:08:45.699 --> 01:08:47.560
And that's what the World Bank and stuff does

01:08:47.560 --> 01:08:49.640
is like, here's the money. Now you have to do

01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:52.159
the evil stuff that we're telling you to do the

01:08:52.159 --> 01:08:55.260
same way we did it in order to even, you know,

01:08:55.260 --> 01:08:58.000
pay your debt back. And so I think that's all

01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:00.880
recreated in this movie pretty well. Like they

01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:04.239
have to commit crimes to pay for this guy that's

01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:07.439
committing crimes to them. and and and that's

01:09:07.439 --> 01:09:09.979
what like india had to do was just to committed

01:09:09.979 --> 01:09:12.420
some land crimes to pay it back did you look

01:09:12.420 --> 01:09:14.319
into these land crimes where they use professional

01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:18.840
wrestlers that is a very so that you know in

01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:21.880
i think in old school india that probably would

01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:25.220
be the method right before you have like international

01:09:25.220 --> 01:09:27.699
financialization where you can't really do that

01:09:27.699 --> 01:09:30.489
anymore You know, like you do have local thugs

01:09:30.489 --> 01:09:32.510
beat up the local landlord and stuff. But when

01:09:32.510 --> 01:09:34.470
things become so financialized and you're dealing

01:09:34.470 --> 01:09:36.810
with, you know, Dubai and money from all over

01:09:36.810 --> 01:09:39.729
and police enforcing these private land laws

01:09:39.729 --> 01:09:41.970
now, like you can't do the old school methods

01:09:41.970 --> 01:09:44.050
anymore. Like small town stuff doesn't work.

01:09:44.710 --> 01:09:47.609
You have to now go perpetuate the crimes that

01:09:47.609 --> 01:09:50.010
were enacted on you. Yes, it's kind of definitely

01:09:50.010 --> 01:09:53.550
a reminder of like a feudal versus neo -capitalism

01:09:53.550 --> 01:09:58.829
kind of. Yeah. characteristics going on and the

01:09:58.829 --> 01:10:01.989
film also danks on uh thanks is the right term

01:10:01.989 --> 01:10:05.270
right thanks yeah the film also danks on uh indian

01:10:05.270 --> 01:10:07.810
traditions like some religious angle and stuff

01:10:07.810 --> 01:10:10.210
like that they make fun of the goddess like and

01:10:10.210 --> 01:10:12.989
he's gonna make the goddess temple and apparently

01:10:12.989 --> 01:10:16.750
he does only deals on friday to appease the goddess

01:10:16.750 --> 01:10:19.250
that because they didn't know what to say and

01:10:19.250 --> 01:10:21.449
then like it's like kind of a tongue -in -cheek

01:10:21.449 --> 01:10:25.340
humor so yeah it's like and also like how um

01:10:25.340 --> 01:10:29.159
like the dad is like about the kid's name or

01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:31.199
like everything and everything and it's kind

01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:34.100
of quite vocally critical about indian traditions

01:10:34.100 --> 01:10:38.420
and makes fun of it in a solid like view of the

01:10:38.420 --> 01:10:40.840
scenes and all these quirks people have yeah

01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:43.819
it's it sucks when you like put all this effort

01:10:43.819 --> 01:10:47.619
into like wanting your own identity and securing

01:10:47.619 --> 01:10:51.060
it and then people are Trying to change their

01:10:51.060 --> 01:10:53.119
names or go abroad or something like that. You

01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:54.699
know what I mean? It's an interesting thing to

01:10:54.699 --> 01:10:56.579
look at in the movie how they explore that. I

01:10:56.579 --> 01:11:00.159
think the dad deserved that. Well, he's stubborn,

01:11:00.300 --> 01:11:03.859
you know? He's an asshole. I think to tie up

01:11:03.859 --> 01:11:06.500
the loose ends of the movie is that Karana finds

01:11:06.500 --> 01:11:09.899
out that he's been bested. He's been swindled.

01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:13.300
And but I don't know why, you know, I think I

01:11:13.300 --> 01:11:16.460
feel like logically for crime lord, he would

01:11:16.460 --> 01:11:19.939
actually like find the perpetrators who screwed

01:11:19.939 --> 01:11:23.539
me over. But no, he's like, he's so ashamed of

01:11:23.539 --> 01:11:27.600
it that he tells his goons that let's never speak

01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:31.100
of this again. So then they'll never chase after

01:11:31.100 --> 01:11:34.020
the people that swindled him. I mean, he's right.

01:11:34.140 --> 01:11:36.279
If anyone found out how easy it was to lie to

01:11:36.279 --> 01:11:40.369
this guy. Yeah. He's a loser. He doesn't know

01:11:40.369 --> 01:11:42.829
they scammed him, right? He thinks like someone

01:11:42.829 --> 01:11:45.750
scammed as like a Dubai impersonator and he's

01:11:45.750 --> 01:11:48.409
not even looking into it. Can you imagine later

01:11:48.409 --> 01:11:52.260
on, like in the future, like... uh he just walks

01:11:52.260 --> 01:11:55.659
into town and sees bapu like yeah yeah right

01:11:55.659 --> 01:11:58.979
right right it's like hey wait a minute he's

01:11:58.979 --> 01:12:03.640
gonna kill who's dead next sequel is like they're

01:12:03.640 --> 01:12:11.220
torturing bapu like in a basement uh okay so

01:12:11.220 --> 01:12:15.119
that's it sphere stair scale over here was there

01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:17.359
this movie was very pleasant was there a staircase

01:12:17.359 --> 01:12:20.569
moment Not at all. This has been the most relaxed,

01:12:20.609 --> 01:12:24.430
laid back, happy ending, no twist Bollywood movie

01:12:24.430 --> 01:12:27.710
we've watched. For me, I was like, wait, the

01:12:27.710 --> 01:12:32.149
dad's not dead in the beginning? He was dead

01:12:32.149 --> 01:12:34.750
in the beginning. I thought it was going to be

01:12:34.750 --> 01:12:36.369
a murder mystery. I mean, that would have been

01:12:36.369 --> 01:12:39.189
fun. Maybe it's the lack of staircase moments

01:12:39.189 --> 01:12:41.750
that was surprising in this movie. Nothing happens,

01:12:41.869 --> 01:12:43.670
it's bad. Maybe it's the lack of staircases.

01:12:44.210 --> 01:12:47.409
The staircase was inside of us the whole time.

01:12:50.189 --> 01:12:54.569
plot point device and then yeah there's no shock

01:12:54.569 --> 01:12:58.189
value i think i i just got the the thing like

01:12:58.189 --> 01:12:59.949
when i actually i i know first time when i'm

01:12:59.949 --> 01:13:03.210
watching this i didn't expect it to turn to us

01:13:03.210 --> 01:13:05.029
i thought it would be a family drama of like

01:13:05.029 --> 01:13:07.489
people just like you know fighting like usual

01:13:07.489 --> 01:13:10.310
like no people's dynamics and serious film and

01:13:10.310 --> 01:13:12.930
then suddenly the like not serious but like something

01:13:12.930 --> 01:13:15.210
related to the father and i never expected the

01:13:15.210 --> 01:13:18.779
land aspect or like a crime aspect of the film

01:13:18.779 --> 01:13:21.439
so when I realized after starting watching the

01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:23.760
film that it's a crime film and that I that was

01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:26.199
the kind of shocking for me I actually yeah I

01:13:26.199 --> 01:13:28.300
was like after after the if it's not a murder

01:13:28.300 --> 01:13:30.979
mystery I actually thought it was going to be

01:13:30.979 --> 01:13:34.430
just about the dad and cherry yes exactly i'm

01:13:34.430 --> 01:13:36.310
not gonna let you go to america i thought that

01:13:36.310 --> 01:13:38.270
was going to be the plot but no it's a crime

01:13:38.270 --> 01:13:40.109
it's a crime comedy i thought it was gonna be

01:13:40.109 --> 01:13:42.550
a romance plot with cherry and the girl about

01:13:42.550 --> 01:13:45.010
like him leading to america and like the struggle

01:13:45.010 --> 01:13:48.090
with that and that was like barely touched on

01:13:48.090 --> 01:13:51.390
so we all have a hysterical moment inside us

01:13:51.390 --> 01:13:53.989
you're right so the staircase one was that it

01:13:53.989 --> 01:13:58.649
wasn't a normal film that's so funny Uh, was

01:13:58.649 --> 01:14:00.810
there a dance floor clause? I mean, there was

01:14:00.810 --> 01:14:03.489
a lot of music that describes the scenes, right?

01:14:03.649 --> 01:14:06.210
There was, like, the girlfriend -boyfriend song.

01:14:06.590 --> 01:14:08.489
I did like that the girlfriend -boyfriend song

01:14:08.489 --> 01:14:10.970
was like, she's weird, I'm not. Like, that's

01:14:10.970 --> 01:14:13.029
why I love her. It was so literal. Like, it was

01:14:13.029 --> 01:14:15.710
just describing the dynamic of their relationship.

01:14:15.710 --> 01:14:18.350
Cherry's also a bad person. I don't like this

01:14:18.350 --> 01:14:20.810
guy. Cherry sucks. I don't like any of those

01:14:20.810 --> 01:14:22.750
family, apart from the daughter and the mother.

01:14:23.770 --> 01:14:26.649
Because they barely talked. Dude, Bunchy's an

01:14:26.649 --> 01:14:28.970
idiot. The dad's stubborn and Cherry doesn't

01:14:28.970 --> 01:14:30.729
communicate. He doesn't tell his girlfriend or

01:14:30.729 --> 01:14:33.010
his family he's moving to New York a month before

01:14:33.010 --> 01:14:35.789
he does. He's not cool. And for Adam's case,

01:14:35.930 --> 01:14:39.949
Nikki is gay. And Nikki's gay, so she's my favorite

01:14:39.949 --> 01:14:43.810
character. Family feud factor. Oh, okay. Yeah,

01:14:43.909 --> 01:14:48.500
it's pretty hard. I mean, the father. Yeah, it's

01:14:48.500 --> 01:14:51.880
a family story. So it's feud. It's entirely about

01:14:51.880 --> 01:14:55.319
the nuclear family in India at this time. Yeah.

01:14:56.640 --> 01:15:01.920
If you, Kelly, if a guy marries a woman, does

01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:03.500
the woman move in with the guy or the other way

01:15:03.500 --> 01:15:05.619
around? The woman moves with the guy. That's

01:15:05.619 --> 01:15:07.520
the norm. So that's why Nikki doesn't have a

01:15:07.520 --> 01:15:10.039
floor. She's going to. Yeah, I know that. But

01:15:10.039 --> 01:15:13.300
that's how it's been treated always. I mean,

01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:15.960
even before independence, the Hindu women didn't

01:15:15.960 --> 01:15:19.680
even have property rights. So they got property

01:15:19.680 --> 01:15:21.760
rights after independence. That's nice. The change

01:15:21.760 --> 01:15:26.140
in the constitution. Yeah. So, yeah. So they

01:15:26.140 --> 01:15:28.180
don't make floors for... I mean, it's very...

01:15:28.180 --> 01:15:30.939
I mean, I don't think my grandfather, when he

01:15:30.939 --> 01:15:35.920
built our house, thought of his daughters. But...

01:15:36.300 --> 01:15:38.439
So here's also one thing, like here the father

01:15:38.439 --> 01:15:41.760
is kind of more bad dated than the average father

01:15:41.760 --> 01:15:44.739
would be at that point of time. And he's like

01:15:44.739 --> 01:15:46.720
also bad dated amongst his folks. That's why

01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:49.159
his friends tells him like what to do. And he's

01:15:49.159 --> 01:15:54.880
like left behind. He's super bold. Yeah. Regional

01:15:54.880 --> 01:16:00.060
heat check. Was it accurate? I mean, has anyone

01:16:00.060 --> 01:16:04.239
lived in undeveloped suburbs in India? No, this

01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:07.369
is strictly middle class. family in Delhi, I'd

01:16:07.369 --> 01:16:10.109
say. Yeah, Delhi point, I don't know. That's

01:16:10.109 --> 01:16:12.710
why I said like, but it kind of looks authentic.

01:16:12.909 --> 01:16:16.409
I mean, yeah, but middle class, small town vibe,

01:16:16.609 --> 01:16:19.649
land mafia, that's kind of false in the places.

01:16:19.869 --> 01:16:22.710
What was the dad's job again? I don't know. He

01:16:22.710 --> 01:16:24.829
better reveal that, right? Yeah. He just has

01:16:24.829 --> 01:16:26.890
a pension fund. Yeah, we don't know, huh? I'm

01:16:26.890 --> 01:16:28.909
curious. Also, what does Cherry end up changing

01:16:28.909 --> 01:16:30.909
his name to? Oh, yeah, they did mention, yeah,

01:16:30.989 --> 01:16:35.600
it's Chirag. i think it was ricky martin and

01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:40.140
how is that supposed to like what's that supposed

01:16:40.140 --> 01:16:42.760
to do guys like not have him be made fun of is

01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:45.579
a name that is from the dinner since you're outside

01:16:45.579 --> 01:16:49.819
of this culture you don't know like how it would

01:16:49.819 --> 01:16:54.329
be like to have an older name and be fun. For

01:16:54.329 --> 01:16:56.729
you, both are foreign names, right? So you don't

01:16:56.729 --> 01:16:59.470
understand the difference of the era between

01:16:59.470 --> 01:17:01.649
them. But that's my point, though, is if you're

01:17:01.649 --> 01:17:03.550
worried about Americans making fun, Americans

01:17:03.550 --> 01:17:05.930
have no clue. No, and so that wasn't the purpose

01:17:05.930 --> 01:17:07.869
because he kept an Indian name, right? He didn't

01:17:07.869 --> 01:17:10.189
go for something like John or Kevin. Then it

01:17:10.189 --> 01:17:11.810
would be changing for Americans. But the fact

01:17:11.810 --> 01:17:13.869
that he retained an Indian name just shows that...

01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:15.640
He just didn't like that name. It's not his...

01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:17.880
It wasn't a rejection of his culture. It was

01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:19.460
a rejection of the name that his father chose

01:17:19.460 --> 01:17:21.079
for him. Yeah, there we go. No, father's mother.

01:17:21.359 --> 01:17:23.319
Yeah, father's mother and him wanting to have

01:17:23.319 --> 01:17:25.960
that independence. That's good. Yeah. And I know

01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:28.000
a guy named Chirac. Also, I think, like, when

01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:29.960
they say, like, you're gonna be a big fan of

01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:31.539
him in America, I think the... that the agent

01:17:31.539 --> 01:17:33.579
is just talking out of his ass like he's not

01:17:33.579 --> 01:17:37.859
he doesn't know how america is like why are we

01:17:37.859 --> 01:17:39.680
spending time on this in the movie about changing

01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:42.399
your name i think he's just pulling his leg that's

01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:44.060
why i think that can definitely happen like a

01:17:44.060 --> 01:17:46.500
lot of people change their names or they'll go

01:17:46.500 --> 01:17:49.060
by something more westernized a westernized version

01:17:49.060 --> 01:17:51.220
of their name but chirag is not a western name

01:17:51.220 --> 01:17:54.039
it's just a new generation indian name yeah yeah

01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:56.680
i have a classmate named chirag yeah yeah i know

01:17:56.680 --> 01:18:00.079
it's a common name it's a common name yeah yeah

01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:03.859
What's the moral of the movie? Don't leave? Yeah,

01:18:03.899 --> 01:18:05.840
stay with your family forever and ever and ever.

01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:09.239
I mean, right? Isn't that basically like India

01:18:09.239 --> 01:18:11.140
telling people, hey, don't leave, stay here?

01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:13.380
Throw away your future. Choose love and family

01:18:13.380 --> 01:18:16.979
over your career and potential richness in a

01:18:16.979 --> 01:18:19.489
different land. don't chase the american dream

01:18:19.489 --> 01:18:22.609
chase the indian dream which is question mark

01:18:22.609 --> 01:18:25.949
he's like he's an it professional he's gonna

01:18:25.949 --> 01:18:29.750
from 2006 who's like already looks like a senior

01:18:29.750 --> 01:18:32.939
person He's going to have a lot of money in India

01:18:32.939 --> 01:18:35.000
anyway. They call him Bill Gates. He would have

01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:38.760
more if he moved to New York. Of course. He could

01:18:38.760 --> 01:18:40.779
buy the whole plot of land, no problem. Stop

01:18:40.779 --> 01:18:43.560
the brain drain. Stay in India. Attribute to

01:18:43.560 --> 01:18:46.640
your economy. Stay with your family. Just with

01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:49.199
the visa stuff. A lot of people have to come

01:18:49.199 --> 01:18:54.739
back. All right. Great talk. Winnie, don't die.

01:18:55.220 --> 01:18:58.420
Are you okay? I am okay. I've caught a fever

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while watching the movie on 2X. I hope that means

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that you never do that again. I hope there's

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muscle memory now. I guess it's punishment for

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not finishing the film. Watching a movie at 1

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.2 speed is bad for your health. Please don't

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do it. Who's shooting the next movie? I am. We're

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doing the Guru Dad film. Can we say that? Is

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that cool? The oldest film. Mr. and Mrs. 55.

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Giving out the name. I think that's fun. I want

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to watch Guru Dutt. That was the first Indian

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movie I've ever seen was a Guru Dutt film. Not

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this one. I haven't seen this one. Guru Dutt

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means a lot. Nice. Thank you listeners who are

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