Vijay Sethupathi delivers a powerhouse performance in his latest film

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00:00I'm feeling fresh. I'm feeling sassy.

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00:46Rick, you just had Lexi and Micah on, I saw.

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01:03and don't be surprised if you see something with Ashley, too.

01:06Anyways, so today we are doing a movie review.

01:10Jeez.

01:11Of a highly-awaited, once again, they're all highly-awaited, film from Tamil industry called

01:1996, starring Vijay Satapathy.

01:24We've reacted to a song or two from it.

01:26I think it was only one song, The Life of Ram, the one right at the beginning.

01:29And directed by C.

01:35Pram Kumar.

01:37Mm-hmm.

01:37Who, I don't recognize him, but he also wrote it.

01:42And then, also starring Trisha Krishnan.

01:50Trisha Krishnan?

01:50Yes, yes.

01:51Okay.

01:51Trisha Krishnan.

01:52And, obviously, spoiler review, if you haven't seen it, go watch it.

01:56Come back if you don't want to be spoiled.

01:58If you like to be spoiled, you're just a naughty little boy.

02:02And we do encourage you, my mantra is let the movie tell the story.

02:06So if you haven't seen 96, I will tell you, before you watch the spoiler review, highly

02:10encourage you to watch the film first so that it's not ruined and the movie can tell

02:14you the story.

02:15Yes, absolutely.

02:16So, Rick, initial thoughts?

02:17I don't even have a paragraph for this one because I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm

02:25gonna let it happen contemporaneously.

02:29Oh, oh, oh, and unedited.

02:32That's right, an unedited paragraph.

02:34Um, I found this movie to be a beautifully cinematic, believable, lovely work of cinema

02:49artistry that tapped into so many universal things about love and relationship that ends

02:56on a note that is painfully beautiful by not trying to wrap things up in a bow, but present

03:03to you the realities of what happened when we settle for things in life and also get

03:08stuck in circumstances that we don't know how to handle and have to face the consequences.

03:13Uh, I just, I absolutely love this movie.

03:18Same.

03:19Uh, I, I really, really enjoyed it.

03:21Uh, you know, I love the ending.

03:23Uh, I was wondering the entire time.

03:27Um, I was like, okay, she's married, she has a child in a different country.

03:34Right.

03:35What are they gonna do here?

03:37Are they gonna, are they gonna run off together?

03:39Um, but she has a child, so she can't just fully run off.

03:42She, you know, she has to be there for the child.

03:44What are they gonna do?

03:45What are they gonna, and they kept postponing it, and then it finally happened, and then

03:48it just ended, and I was like, yes.

03:50Thank you for doing that.

03:54Uh, you know, I appreciate those types of endings that are just more realistic, because

03:58this happens all the time.

04:00I'm sure it happens in India.

04:01Yes, it sure does.

04:01It happens lots in India.

04:02Obviously, it happens all over the world, different scenarios.

04:04Obviously, not the arranged marriage in terms of, like, the America, um, but in terms of,

04:09like, people, they get married, they, their love, love interests in, like, high school,

04:14college, and then years pass, years pass, years pass, and then they end up marrying

04:18other people, but they always love that other person, and then they meet later, and then,

04:21so there's, there's, story, this is a very human story, uh, and so I, I really, really

04:28enjoyed that aspect of it, and how, how beautifully, and slowly it told the story.

04:34It wasn't in a hurry.

04:36And I was happy about that.

04:37Yeah.

04:38I, I was so content to just be with them, and watch it unfold.

04:43Yeah.

04:43Uh, I, I was, um, and, and it, it, uh,

04:49I just, I found, first of all, let's just talk about, you know, let's talk about, we

04:53can talk about acting, and directing, and cinematography, and then overall story, you

04:57know, come back to the story, because to me, that's the meat and potatoes of this thing

05:01is the story.

05:02Oh, yeah.

05:02But let's talk about the acting.

05:04Uh, I, I thought, I thought they were both 100%, I believed this was Ram and, and

05:13Janu, I, I believed them, I believed, I thought they did a great job casting them as kids,

05:19both from the way they looked like them younger, but also I thought the, the performance of

05:23the kids was 100% believable.

05:25Yeah, 100%.

05:26Right?

05:27Yeah.

05:27I liked it a lot.

05:28Totally believable.

05:28I thought BJ Satipathy, just like he was in, in, in Super Deluxe, did very, very, very

05:33well.

05:34Um, there's only one instance where I, I questioned it, uh, but the rest of the movie, I loved it.

05:41Uh, I thought he did a phenomenal job.

05:43Uh.

05:44What was the, what was the, what was the instance where you, were you questioned it

05:47for a moment?

05:47I don't know if it was his acting or if it was what they told him to do, and it was just

05:51weird to me.

05:53Uh, when, obviously when he was at the, the party and then he was in the corner and then

05:57she came up to him and then touched him right before he fainted again, right?

06:02Um, he was just doing this, not looking at her and, uh, it was, it was very, it felt very

06:09forced just in that.

06:11Yeah, it didn't feel like the rest of his performance to me.

06:14The rest of his performance seemed so small and grounded and, and I, and I loved it and

06:18that was the only, that's why I was, I didn't know if it was the, the director's like, you

06:22really need to show me here and I'm like, okay, cool, I, I guess, uh, that's your prerogative.

06:28But other than that, like I said, the entire time I loved his performance.

06:32I, uh, I thought he was super grounded.

06:36I was super upset with her for shaving his beard.

06:38I thought he looked awesome with that beard.

06:41You, that would, that would bother you.

06:45No, it bothered my wife too.

06:46Like right when it happened, she's like, now I hate her.

06:48Oh, no, I, I loved it.

06:52I couldn't wait to see him.

06:54I liked the moment.

06:56Uh, I, he looked, he's, he looks, um, he's a very, very attractive man.

07:01Very handsome man.

07:01And with, with a beard and without.

07:03Oh yeah, he is.

07:04Um, but it, that did take like 15 years off of him.

07:08It really did.

07:09And I felt, I thought that was a beautiful thing to put in the story.

07:12And I loved seeing him because I saw the student, um, there and I thought she was lovely.

07:19I just, every moment they were together, I could see the history.

07:23I could sense the depth of feeling.

07:25There were so many beautiful moments in this that were so touching.

07:30Um, little tiny things like when she was sleeping and he just watches her for a minute.

07:35And then we know what this means.

07:36You know what I'm going to refer to?

07:38He prays over her and then he does this and does the, the breaking of it.

07:45You know, we know what that is such a loving, caring, beautiful thing to do to her.

07:50And then the stick shift when they're coming to the airport and putting her hand on his hand.

07:56Um, and I, I obviously, uh, this was extra painful to watch because I know what it feels like.

08:08To have to drive to an airport in India and somebody is going on an international flight

08:13and you're not going to see each other until you don't know when that personal aspect of it was.

08:18Did you cry?

08:20Oh, like a fricking baby.

08:21Really?

08:22You did?

08:23Oh, like a baby.

08:25Yeah.

08:26I cried.

08:26I cried several times in the film and I especially cried the last leg from the moment she put her hand on his stick shift.

08:34I was, I cried from there till the suitcase closed and you saw the credits go up.

08:40I got emotional when I'm, when he pulled that shirt out with the ink on it.

08:45Oh, yeah.

08:48I, yeah.

08:49I cried a lot in this movie.

08:51I didn't not, it's not a shock.

08:53Uh, like, like there was no point where I was like, Oh, almost.

08:59Um, but, you know, that's just me.

09:02That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it and I didn't.

09:05Of course not.

09:06But, uh, I did really enjoy her performance.

09:08I thought she was phenomenal.

09:10Uh, I, she has, she has great screen presence.

09:13Uh, her, her eyes, not as big as a Shwarya's or Shri Devi's, but her, she has beautiful eyes that are captivating.

09:21Uh, and so I like her a lot.

09:25I would like to see more from her.

09:26So if you could recommend both, both obviously VJ and, um, I want to see, I want to see more of his.

09:32He, he has, he has a screen presence and you'll know what I, what I mean when I say this.

09:38Um, he has a screen presence as well as an emotional availability that is, uh, telling.

09:45Yeah.

09:46Uh, in his eyes, he must be a delight.

09:49He must be a delight.

09:50Both of them must be a delight to work with, especially him because he is so emotionally available.

09:57I sense both of them, neither one of them have walls that seem to get in the way.

10:01I never see them indicating.

10:03I never see them performing.

10:04I don't ever see them aware of camera.

10:07I just believe that that's why I would love to see more of their work because, well, we've seen,

10:12we've seen what he can do with these two completely different kinds of roles.

10:17I mean, come on from super deluxe to this.

10:19Yeah.

10:20Completely different characterization.

10:22Yeah.

10:23Deeply impressive.

10:24I liked him a lot.

10:25I loved her a lot.

10:26I thought the supporting cast was pretty good, especially the kids though.

10:29Like you were talking about, I thought the kids did phenomenal.

10:32All the kids did really, really, which is not usually the case.

10:36Correct.

10:37Yeah.

10:37And, and let's just, the other thing that I, I was so deep throughout,

10:42I was so deeply impressed with the symmetry and the lighting and the beauty of the cinematography

10:50throughout.

10:51Yeah.

10:51My, my wife said, uh, that every single frame looked like a photograph.

10:56Every frame.

10:57There was this, there was this mathematical symmetry that comes perfectly, especially in

11:04the opening, which is obviously we had reacted that opening sequence where he's taking the

11:07pictures and right.

11:08But throughout, there were so many just hats off to see Prem Kumar and the cinematographers

11:15Mohandran, uh, Jayaraju and N. Shamuga Sundaram for your attention to detail.

11:23And what I, I would equate to a Spielbergian sense of, uh, making sure every, I can completely

11:33see the painstaking work of getting that in frame and putting the actor and setting the

11:39camera.

11:39And we're going to, we're going to make sure that the lighting is coming in there so that,

11:42and if it isn't exactly right, and it's, it's, um, it has a different aesthetic beauty

11:47than say, uh, uh, Sanjay Lila Bansali.

11:49It's more Spielberg realism kind of thing for me.

11:54Yeah.

11:54Um, so just gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

11:57And then I agree with you as much as I, the optimist, the romantic in me, I really wanted

12:07to see these two together and it hurts so bad that they couldn't be, especially the gorgeousness

12:15of the story where the story weaved in there that how many times he went to try, but then

12:21didn't succeed.

12:23And she was waiting for him to come to the wedding and he actually was there.

12:27Yeah.

12:27Which is the cautionary tale inherent in the story of, Hey, everybody, be brave.

12:36Yeah.

12:38Don't settle.

12:38Did you just say, say what you need to say?

12:40Yeah.

12:41Yeah, absolutely, man.

12:42John Mayer, say what you need to say.

12:44Don't settle.

12:46If, if you love someone, tell them if you take the risk, if you think someone's, if you're

12:52in love with them and you want to be with them, don't let them get away.

12:55Um, show, show up to the wedding and stop it, go to the girl's school and don't accept

12:59no for the answer.

13:01Um, don't, don't let the shame you feel of moving away because your dad lost his job and

13:07you don't have the money distance you from the person that you deep in your heart, believe

13:11you were meant to be with.

13:12And then you look back on your life and go, I'm not with the person I was supposed to

13:15be with because I let fear stop me from doing the thing I wanted to do.

13:19And having her have a child was perfect because that was the deal breaker.

13:25That was because she said, he said to her, are you happy?

13:30And she was honest and said, I'm peaceful.

13:33He's a good man.

13:35Um, but I married him because I settled and I was waiting for you to come stop the wedding,

13:43man.

13:43And I, cause I, I feel like if he, she didn't have a son, she would have totally stayed with

13:48him.

13:49100%.

13:50It's, it's the writing brilliance that, that made that the deal breaker.

13:53She couldn't do that to her kid.

13:55She probably could have said, you know what?

13:57I'm going to just take a risk and I'm sorry if I hurt you, but she couldn't do that to

14:01her child.

14:01And you see that in that moment at the airport, man, when they're standing there and you know,

14:06they want to give each other a kiss.

14:07Yeah.

14:09Yep.

14:10But they don't cause they have too much respect.

14:13He has too much respect for her.

14:15She has too much respect for her husband.

14:17Yeah.

14:17She has too much respect for him.

14:19And so she just touches his face.

14:20Oh, I'm getting emotional again.

14:24That was, that was actually one of my favorite moments.

14:26I thought, cause, uh, you know, it was unexpected the way she just grabbed his face right there.

14:32I, I'm wondering if it was improv'd, I, I guess it could have been, uh, well, I guess we'll

14:38never know unless we talk to her.

14:39Um, but like, it was really, it was such a interesting moment.

14:44And my, my wife, she said, she just doesn't want to see, she doesn't want him to see her

14:48cry is what, is what she's doing.

14:51Uh, and so he grabbed his face, put it down and then walked away.

14:55And I was like, that's, I like that a lot.

14:58Uh, cause you know, it's, it's often, you don't want to seem cliche cause you know, we've,

15:02there's been millions of movies.

15:04It seems like that, you know, leave at the airport kind of things.

15:07And so you've seen, you've seen all the goodbyes before.

15:11Uh, and so it was, it was nice to be surprised in a scenario like that.

15:14And then for the film to just end, I thought it was a beautiful fitting thing, uh, for,

15:20for this, for this film.

15:22So painful, but so right.

15:24Because so often, um, as much as I love and believe we need to see happy endings because

15:30life does have happy endings.

15:32Life also is full of endings that aren't happy and you need to find the happiness in

15:37it and be thankful.

15:38Like at the very end, I found it to be so painfully beautiful that he had another little memory

15:46to put in his box.

15:47I thought it was weird that she just left her clothes.

15:50Clothes.

15:51I was like, what's your, what's your husband going to say?

15:54You're just coming and you come home and you're in another man's.

15:57Oh, another thing to mention is the music of Govind Vasantra, who did the score.

16:04The music was phenomenal.

16:06Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

16:08So good.

16:09I felt like we've heard that singer before, uh, whoever the singers were in this.

16:15Probably, probably have.

16:17And I got, before we forget it as well, um, I really hope we're probably preaching to the

16:23choir when we say this in terms of who's watching this right now, but maybe somebody is watching

16:27this a year or two down the road, right?

16:30As much as we talk about making a bridge between American cinema and Indian cinema and ensuring

16:40that as many Americans can start to appreciate and understand the beauty of Indian cinema.

16:45Oh, Indians, please get past this whole Bollywood, Hindi and regional vivisection and bias that

16:56everybody has because both sides, on both sides, both sides, please support each other.

17:03Consider yourselves one film industry who's doing beautiful work and you're also doing crap.

17:09Nobody's perfect and support each other because there is some beautiful stuff that's coming from

17:15all over India. And for those of you who, you know, you can't please everybody, but I just,

17:23I look forward to the day when everybody in India will celebrate every industry in India because

17:29we continue to be impressed the more we see from every area in India.

17:33Yeah, because, you know, Americans get accused and it's true and it's rightfully so, you know,

17:37you don't watch anything that's not in English because you don't like reading subtitles.

17:40But I feel that's everywhere. It is everywhere. It is everywhere.

17:46I see it in the comments all the time and I block them every single time just because I'm a dick like that.

17:52But like the fact that people like they say, these are the people I will, don't react to Bollywood crap.

17:59It's all crap. Do regional or don't react to anything South Indian. It's all crap.

18:06It's all crap. Right. And so, like, yes, there's crap. There's crap in South India.

18:12There's crap in North India. There's crap in East India. There's crap in South India.

18:15There's crap in Bollywood. There's crap everywhere in Hollywood.

18:19There's also gems everywhere. So support those gems.

18:24Every actor has done bad work. It's some shape or form, maybe not brutally awful, but they've, they've not,

18:31they've done Daniel Day-Lewis. I've seen him do not great work.

18:34Not every director does great films. So this whole, everything that they do sucks and everything

18:40they do is great. That infantile lack of maturity needs to get set off to the side and people need

18:46to start opening their minds to the reality that you're missing out on a blessing in your life by

18:52not opening up to as much of the regions and the languages and the filmmakers as you possibly can,

18:58because all of these regions we've hit, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Barathi, Assam, Bengali, and forgive me

19:06for anybody I didn't mention, we're, we're encountering stuff that's enriching my life and

19:11encouraging me and making me happy to see great actors, great writers, great cinematographers that

19:17more people need to know about. Yeah. Doggone it. So that's our soapbox. Now we'll get off of it.

19:24Um, but let us know, uh, once again, uh, these two actors, what other films of theirs we should

19:30watch. Um, and then also the next Tamil film we should watch. We know we've criminally under watched

19:37Tamil films. It's not been on purpose. I know a lot of people think it is, it's not, uh, you know,

19:44we like good cinema. So, uh, please down below, tell us which film in Tamil we should watch next and

19:51upvote it so I can see it. So, and then I can try to find it as well. Uh, so let us know down below.

19:57Bye.

20:04Bye.

20:06Bye.

20:08Bye.

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