September 10, 2025 • 19 mins
Inspector Zende, the new spoof movie starring Manoj Bajpayee and Jim Sarbh, succeeds as a concept but fails in execution.
What could’ve been a homegrown homage to The Naked Gun comes across as a first draft in need of clever rewrites.
While Bajpayee is going full ham in the central role, matching the movie’s energy, Sarbh seems to have been told to tone it down. The result is a tonally uneven ride that could’ve been worse, but also better.
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(00:16):
Hi, welcome to the long take. This week we're discussing the
new Indian actress movie Inspector Chinte stars Miros.
Watch by the lead and directed by Chinmay Madlicka, who also
writes the movie. It's like a slapstick comedic
tech on a fictionalized version of a chase for a serial killer.
The Charles Subras thing, but like, deliberately made in a
very different tone and genre Did not ever nothing it ever
(00:39):
quite well for me. Yeah.
What about your own? It so first of all, I didn't
watch trailer. I had absolutely no idea that it
was even Yeah, yeah, forget likeslapstick comedy.
I didn't even know it was a comedy.
So that was a little shock for 5minutes.
But then once you kind of get a tune to it, it's fine.
(01:00):
It just needed to be, you know, way more sharp.
It's not as it's not as sharp asit could have been.
It's clearly they're riffing on a lot of, you know, the 60s kind
of movies. But but I don't know, I, I felt
like the, the jokes need to be delivered at a far more rapid
pace. Like the jokes need to be the
primary kind of attraction in a movie like this, either like
(01:23):
physical gags or just, you know,funny lines.
And that's never very consistent.
Yeah, like they tried like, you know, like every time they want
to like do something like this is the thing he needs to
achieve, they will lay down the path with like comedic stop like
he needs to he's waiting for a call or something, but the line
is down intentionally. So the they call out like a guy
(01:43):
and they don't make that funny because the guy is balancing on
like a rickety ladder or whatever.
But like as he said, it's eitherinconsistent or for me, the
bigger was that most of those don't work.
Like it's like 2 like one level books.
I'm expecting that you will bakehumor at this level and then
make a tired humor to another level and add another humor to
that level, which is probably like, I'm spoiled by the recent
(02:04):
Naked Gun reboot or whatever. And I was like, yeah, this is so
potential to make this so much funnier, and you're repeatedly
letting me down. Yeah, the idea of like the scene
that you mentioned where the phone is down in itself, that's
funny. Like the phone is down and this
guy is anticipating a call like he's Batman or something.
(02:27):
Yeah, Yeah. You know, And then they get a
guy to fix it. That's on paper, great.
But then you need to kind of flesh it out with, like, some
really. It doesn't even have to be
intelligent. It just needs to be like,
funnier. Yeah.
The guy going ring ring is not funny or funny enough.
Maybe if the guy was doing it differently or he was like
hiding behind a Bush or something, you know?
(02:48):
On if the guy out the ladder is like, you know, like struggling
to keep his pants or something, they're just slipping down.
Like, it could be as simple as that, right?
Like in Naked and stuff like wasso like childish.
So many droop was so childish. But like, they just work because
the movie takes them seriously and the movie fires them at you
at such a rapid rate, which is like Dudong consistency thing.
He said that before you're done with the first one and digesting
(03:09):
that one, they've given you fourmore in your face.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I never thought I'd say
this, but this movie, what it needs is like Kapil Sharma Show
writers to come and do like a pass or two.
Because right now it feels like somebody trying to mimic a
slapstick comedy, but they probably don't have enough
experience writing slapstick comedy or even sketch comedy.
(03:31):
Yeah, exactly. You have to like you have to get
sketch comedy writers, you know,people who like make a really
good 6 minute things who know like how packed 6 minute things
have to be. And to stretch that to like,
what is this movie like 8090 minutes and.
There, it's like almost two hours.
Yeah, which is insane. Like but two hours that you need
the quality of jokes in here. I think the naked time we I saw
was 8 teams or something. It's the moment you give
(03:53):
yourself a larger canvas to fillthat you just like you're
putting additional pressure on herself.
And that was my other culture isthat I always felt the movie was
like 20 minutes from getting over and I would pause and get
up or something, I'm crap popcorn and come back for a
drink or something. I'll be like, wait, the movie's
like half left? How is that possible?
They didn't go already, only catch him in the next scene.
No, he'll take. They need like 7 more scenes to
(04:14):
do it. Yeah, yeah.
And also like they need 7 more scenes, but there's no like
random diversion, you know, which a movie like this, like
normally you would get annoyed at stuff like that.
Like when Johnny Lever comes andhe has his own movie happening.
Yeah, but this, you need Johnny Lever to come and have a song
what we have like. It's very singular, right?
Like it's direct. It's like, okay here mission you
(04:34):
capture, there's no like, yeah directly he's got Packard 9.
Did you have to find him? Like physically see him, capture
him? The end?
Yeah. And it's all pretty linear.
Like, even though the movie jumps back and forth between
Manoj Bajpayee and Jim Sarb, it's not very like, like Jim
Sarb is not doing comedy at all,and he's not really involved in
(04:55):
any comedic situations. Yeah, so.
Rarely he'll get something like you remember like when he said
to be a hippie and sell those like whatever fake emeraldus to
some foreigners. He gets to slightly go into like
a phase of comedy, but it's nowhere close to like the
slapstick stuff like Jinde and his team are doing.
Yeah, Yeah. No.
But even when he's doing, he's playing the American person.
(05:16):
That entire scene is played straight.
It's not played comedically likethat.
That scene could happen in like a true crime documentary.
Yeah. Maybe like add some touch to it,
like he he takes stuff on the pouch, the Emirates coming.
But then maybe like a condom rapper comes out or something
like right. You have to think of like absurd
things to make it funny. Which is happening in the same
scene but with Manoj Bajpayee because he's wearing like a
(05:39):
funny wig and everything and buthe's in a comedy but his dude is
not. I opposed.
That's deliberate. But when the 2 scene, two kind
of plot lines intersect, the movie doesn't know how to
balance the tones. Yeah.
So when you cut to like, gym serve, he's doing whatever.
And then Manoj Bajpay is in a wig in a corner.
And that's kind of strange because even after that, the
(05:59):
scene where the Goa police are like half Corn Hood and he's
like wig licker. And then the battle guy comes
and he's like this my brother-in-law and all that.
Yeah. All of that could have been so
much funnier. You know, you don't need to talk
so much. Also like the idea of this guy
wearing a fake moustache and. Yeah.
All of the moustache is slipping.
It's not like probably put it's a scrap stick, right, Like Nick
things like Mission Impossible movies have done this.
(06:22):
You know, like Brad Ward did that like he's hanging on like
boots a lot of and is falling apart as this technology is not
working. Like that's slapstick off.
Like they are part of the IMF and their stuff is failing.
That's not supposed to happen, but like it's adding humor to
it. If they can do it and you're
literally in a slapstick movie, make things Fane.
You know, like someone somethingis not working, like Gaudi is
not working. Is is one thing they come up
(06:42):
with, but like that also is partof is linked to the fact that
they don't have enough money. It's not like he Gaudi was
supposed to work anywhere and something else happened to it.
It's I see. When I watched this, I thought
that oh, this is we don't reallysee a lot of slapstick in Hindi
cinema, or at least deliberate slapstick, you know, like there
could be like a regular movie and it.
Then time movies like slapstick.Well, let's say, you know, going
(07:05):
in. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I suppose something like a
house full. Exactly.
And but then there is like housefull, right?
Like even though it's terrible or whatever, but there is
household, there is welcome, there is no entry.
There is like pre Adarshan, I don't know 50 movies that he's
made. Hungama Hulchal obviously here
are fair. He is up there.
So people have been making slapstick movies and Bollywood
(07:27):
has been making slapstick moviescombined with like sincere
emotional drama in the past as well.
So even the novelty that I initially felt because of the
kind of whiplash that's my faultbecause I didn't watch the
trailer or anything even that way, so.
Whatever, like that, that movie should work alright without not
watching marketing, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, it's fine.
Like, I I like Manoj Bajpai. He's probably one of the few
(07:49):
people who can do Satya and this.
Yeah. And family man.
And then you buy him immediately.
He doesn't even do like, a Marathi accent here.
He's not even trying. And still you're like, OK,
Gende, you know, that's funny. Which like, why do you spell
your name that way if you have to keep telling everybody it's
changing? Which is like that I completely
accept that. Like that's the kind of stuff I
(08:10):
want as a kind of. Movie, right?
Yeah, yeah, that's a recurring guy that works.
You know that laughing thing like there is pay off for that.
Like the guy like. But it just that's that's the
thing, right? This movie is like, I understand
what you're going for and I appreciate that you're going for
it on purpose as opposed to likesomething that is, you know, by
(08:32):
mistake, funny, which is a lot of these movies.
And this podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like they don't even have to be comedies, but like you can be
watching like a thriller movie and you're like 8 seconds.
Why is this so funny? So at least you wanted to make a
comedy in the 1st place, and youwant to make a very specific
kind of comedy. Some of it work, some of it
doesn't. But it's just one of those
(08:52):
things that if you ever make like a sequel, which I suppose
they can, then you need to really, you know, double down on
just the slapstick kind of humorof it all instead of you don't
really care about story, you know, in these.
Yeah, there is. Basically serious sketches,
right? It's like you're putting it with
an SL episode, except everythingis connected to the last scene.
It's just like work on your scene.
(09:12):
Like every scene you have to perfect overtime.
Like what is the point of the scene?
Why are we going into it? How can we make it like richer
and like better versus like something that played completely
straight, you know, like especially with that the wife.
Wife and the two. Sense that the two emotional,
I'm like, no, they don't. Belong in this movie, the wife
and Manoj Bajpayee stuff is sincere.
The wife and the mother-in-law stuff is not.
(09:34):
The wife and the commissioner stuff isn't either.
Yeah, but the wife in my mind islike a separate put a track
because she's. Yeah, I'm not temporarily kind
of separated from Manoj Bajwai for most of the movie.
So if. No, at no point like she gets to
like play with the film Stone, right?
Like you want her to join the movies like hijinks where we
(09:56):
just kept waiting for that to happen and doesn't even when.
She's like giving Mikai to the commissioner.
He's doing comedy, but she isn't.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the ingredients are there in this
movie, which is why I'm I can't like outright be like what?
Just the execution kind of needed to be funny or I'm
(10:17):
surprised. Jim Serbis.
He's so talented at doing like anything.
Like he's in that way. He's very similar to Manoj
Bajpayee, right? He can sell like sinister
menace, but he can also be like busy.
I wonder why he decided or whoever the director told him.
But Sir Ismay APA a dumb stone faced manna.
Yeah, only one. Like, give him things to do.
(10:41):
What? He's just like, for some reason
they have decided that he needs to come across as only menacing.
So he's either like, he's like either cutting people's throats
and he's like supposed to come up as killer, aborting their
bodies or whatever, or he's likesometimes like toying around,
but like never fully in the movies.
Like imagine how much imagine how good gym Sir would have been
as like 1966 Adam West Batman villain, you know, Yeah, that
(11:05):
full opportunity. Like he he is known as the
bikini killer, the serpent and this that.
I know that they've changed the names, but that tells you.
Like, but there is, there is intentional like they've kept it
so close that they want you to think.
People and we know who's CharlesObraj was right.
We've seen enough. He's been covered so widely that
we kind of know who he was. We know that he was like a
(11:27):
slippery guy and that gives you so much opportunity to be like
just him in a different disguisein every scene.
Yeah, like add a new like element to it.
Like otherwise in a normal moviewe would never take the such a
creepy guy or whatever, like being funny or being like
outrageous. But because you've sat in the
movies in a universe, where are you allowed to do these things
(11:49):
now? Because everyone's being
comedic? Let him push into that zone like
now, like we communicate with. This stuff we need.
We need the Scooby-doo version of this villain.
Yeah, like if Star was the Last Jedi can do it with their
villains, which is such a more post serious movie and like
their stuff is that you could put it off.
You can easily let your characters.
Do it even though his hench men,one of the hench men is doing
(12:13):
comedy right? The guy who gets killed.
Yeah, because he when he's not doing comedies more doing like,
I don't know, what do you call this like misogynistic, like
normal henchman behavior like like I will sleep with the babes
and your babes like I will. That's my life.
Like and then he's, I don't. Know the other henchman didn't
really leave much of an impression.
(12:34):
Yeah, he's just like, bad. I don't know why.
Genders, people. Genders people.
Yeah, after a point I lose track.
I like are the accountant guys somewhat OneNote, so he's like a
memorable because he's having the same complaint over and
over. The guy who doesn't laugh.
Art is. He's the only one I remember.
IRB Partel, Yeah, Partel also like I can't really say what is
(12:57):
Partel's indistributable thing. It's just like, oh, is it paid
for thing yourself? I guess he's like, oh, that guy
with that face. Yeah, with.
That guy beyond those like people are just like why is it
such a large group like you needto give them different things.
We bounce off each other and I'mnot sure they have enough
features that there make sense to keep.
(13:17):
The group, what we need is like Count Olaf and his team of hench
men. Yeah, you know, that would have
been. All like even going back to like
OK in my going to the same reference like naked gun.
Also, there's just one person right?
Just need one person to RIP off off and the most annoying ballsy
shirt you can pull off is great for you.
(13:38):
I don't. Know it could have been worse I
guess. Because yeah, definitely like it
could have been so was that you start laughing at the people
like that never happened most for the most part so.
Like and you know. The biggest clearly crossing
that. Yeah, The biggest kind of risk
with these movies is that midwaythrough, Manoj Bajpayee kind of
checks out. And then you can tell that is
(14:00):
like, that would have been terrible, But thankfully that
doesn't happen, or at least you can't tell that it happened.
He's like dialed in pretty, pretty consistently.
But yeah, this is just is just down to the script, right?
You need to kind of and have like a open mind about improv.
Let them. I sense that they didn't even
(14:21):
allow that much. It was just like a bland script
and let's stick to it. And we can't really.
We've kind of cornered ourselveswriting wise.
Which is part like if you actually people improv, like
maybe you will check out of yourscenario.
You'll be like, no, we're takingtoo much time to get to this
portion. Like for, for a while.
Like they figure out that they need to come to this telephone
like, you know, say call Karega and like, OK, after we like get
(14:43):
old like 10 minutes now, like you'll show up like something
will happen and do some comedic nonsense.
And that that's yeah. But Nate, I think there's like
half an hour left after that one.
See, I'm like, what are you going to do for half an hour?
Exactly. Like, so now that, for instance,
like the scene in which party comes in, like this colorful
kind of outfit when everybody else is dressed like an uncle.
Yeah. Now that's written.
(15:04):
Right. That's performed.
Yeah. You wanted that joke.
Yeah. But then that joke is not
enough. You need to do something more
with that joke. And either the outfit or what he
says about the outfit needs to be funnier.
You know, just the premise itself isn't and.
Then what do you do with the outfit latest please to be like
a call back to that form. Like everyone's dressed up like
this formally, they go to stuff and I think after that they
(15:25):
were, they all split up in teamsof two or something.
I. Don't remember.
Goes all solo, I guess. Too much happening.
Like there's one night there that's urban teams of two.
One night they go solo and like you're taking too long to do all
of this. You don't need to glue so many
things. Yeah, yeah.
And the funniest thing was that the real life Gende has spoken
about it so often, like this episode in his career.
(15:48):
And there is obviously the wholeour noise.
I don't even know if it's a conspiracy theory, but like
Sobraj wanted to get caught or like he deliberately got himself
arrested in India. There was that also, which
obviously don't expect this movie to kind.
Of it's like the movie you like could easily play into, right If
you wanted like like a show, then Jim's fab.
Like knowingly doing things. He's like, Oh yeah, like if I do
(16:09):
this much like lead them on, give them a clue or something,
but more he's trying to actuallybe evasive.
Yeah, he's trying to be evasive.It would have been funnier if
he's trying to give them clues, but then Jinde is too stupid to
see them and it still goes in the wrong direction.
But here then there's supposed to be like, super smart.
He's not Inspector Cluso, even though he's behaving like
(16:31):
Inspector Cluso, like he's he's not bumbling his way through the
investigation. Yeah, like the movie almost like
afraid I feel like at some point, you know, to be naked
girl like or like to be in a conclusive thing where like
they're like if we make him to like comedian like book too much
fun at his abilities. People would like like him or
anymore. But me like they, I do not care.
(16:51):
Like if Liam Neeson when he's doing stuff and he's like so out
there like he has no clue what is going on and still solving
cases. I didn't put it as well though,
you need, you need Inspector Jinder to come and like shake
Manoj Bajpai his hand at the endalso now and you need his
blessing. Like he would just be so angry
if he's portrayed like a clown or something.
But like, that would be funnier.It would be funnier.
(17:13):
Yeah, and if you're doing that meta stuff, why are you doing it
only in like the last series of the movie?
I want that feeling more. Yeah, that like a million
different. Like break the 4th wall, you
know, like we come, people come in like he's a stupid idea and
then look at the camera. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I'm sure like they had like people sitting down and
throwing ideas at the wall as well, but they kind of rejected
(17:34):
all the funny ones at Safeless and they just went with let's
just not offend anybody, Let's just play it safe.
Yeah. And the board when like parted
is there with the child called Bhupal is there and henchman is
there. They're looking steady to their
like, so it's like poor detective work, like I couldn't
do better than that, you know, like to pretend that you're a
normal. Person.
(17:54):
It's poor staging also, like they're just too close to each
other for the audience to be. Like so like then just play into
that play into the packet. This is so obvious that we just
asked him to say it on I would cop like I would what it's like
make it. Make it funny into Yeah, that
scene is not funny. That scene is supposed to be
straight. Yeah, yeah, that scene is played
straight. Which is a very strange detour,
(18:21):
right? Like Zinda is like you are not
part of our team anymore becauseto boost Dil Hai or something.
Yeah, Like what? Why are you doing this in your
mood? Why are you waiting for this
sincere thing? And suddenly, like, nobody cares
if he's fearful. You're all like, we know what
kind of police move. You're in it.
He'll take it. If he couldn't catch him, maybe
we'll take it better if he was like, Mr. Bean, stuff was
happening, he tried to catch himand he slipped.
(18:41):
His shoelaces were open or something like that would be
better. That doesn't work because
they're like each second you're supposed to be in a comedy.
We don't really care if somebody's actually courageous
or not. Like, why do we?
Need a redemption story? He overcomes that fear, and then
he takes up no. Yeah, missed opportunity.
Mostly this movie. Yeah, that's on this episode of
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Bye.
Hi, welcome to the long take. This week we're discussing the
new Indian actress movie Inspector Chinte stars Miros.
Watch by the lead and directed by Chinmay Madlicka, who also
writes the movie. It's like a slapstick comedic
tech on a fictionalized version of a chase for a serial killer.
The Charles Subras thing, but like, deliberately made in a
very different tone and genre Did not ever nothing it ever
(00:39):
quite well for me. Yeah.
What about your own? It so first of all, I didn't
watch trailer. I had absolutely no idea that it
was even Yeah, yeah, forget likeslapstick comedy.
I didn't even know it was a comedy.
So that was a little shock for 5minutes.
But then once you kind of get a tune to it, it's fine.
(01:00):
It just needed to be, you know, way more sharp.
It's not as it's not as sharp asit could have been.
It's clearly they're riffing on a lot of, you know, the 60s kind
of movies. But but I don't know, I, I felt
like the, the jokes need to be delivered at a far more rapid
pace. Like the jokes need to be the
primary kind of attraction in a movie like this, either like
(01:23):
physical gags or just, you know,funny lines.
And that's never very consistent.
Yeah, like they tried like, you know, like every time they want
to like do something like this is the thing he needs to
achieve, they will lay down the path with like comedic stop like
he needs to he's waiting for a call or something, but the line
is down intentionally. So the they call out like a guy
(01:43):
and they don't make that funny because the guy is balancing on
like a rickety ladder or whatever.
But like as he said, it's eitherinconsistent or for me, the
bigger was that most of those don't work.
Like it's like 2 like one level books.
I'm expecting that you will bakehumor at this level and then
make a tired humor to another level and add another humor to
that level, which is probably like, I'm spoiled by the recent
(02:04):
Naked Gun reboot or whatever. And I was like, yeah, this is so
potential to make this so much funnier, and you're repeatedly
letting me down. Yeah, the idea of like the scene
that you mentioned where the phone is down in itself, that's
funny. Like the phone is down and this
guy is anticipating a call like he's Batman or something.
(02:27):
Yeah, Yeah. You know, And then they get a
guy to fix it. That's on paper, great.
But then you need to kind of flesh it out with, like, some
really. It doesn't even have to be
intelligent. It just needs to be like,
funnier. Yeah.
The guy going ring ring is not funny or funny enough.
Maybe if the guy was doing it differently or he was like
hiding behind a Bush or something, you know?
(02:48):
On if the guy out the ladder is like, you know, like struggling
to keep his pants or something, they're just slipping down.
Like, it could be as simple as that, right?
Like in Naked and stuff like wasso like childish.
So many droop was so childish. But like, they just work because
the movie takes them seriously and the movie fires them at you
at such a rapid rate, which is like Dudong consistency thing.
He said that before you're done with the first one and digesting
(03:09):
that one, they've given you fourmore in your face.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I never thought I'd say
this, but this movie, what it needs is like Kapil Sharma Show
writers to come and do like a pass or two.
Because right now it feels like somebody trying to mimic a
slapstick comedy, but they probably don't have enough
experience writing slapstick comedy or even sketch comedy.
(03:31):
Yeah, exactly. You have to like you have to get
sketch comedy writers, you know,people who like make a really
good 6 minute things who know like how packed 6 minute things
have to be. And to stretch that to like,
what is this movie like 8090 minutes and.
There, it's like almost two hours.
Yeah, which is insane. Like but two hours that you need
the quality of jokes in here. I think the naked time we I saw
was 8 teams or something. It's the moment you give
(03:53):
yourself a larger canvas to fillthat you just like you're
putting additional pressure on herself.
And that was my other culture isthat I always felt the movie was
like 20 minutes from getting over and I would pause and get
up or something, I'm crap popcorn and come back for a
drink or something. I'll be like, wait, the movie's
like half left? How is that possible?
They didn't go already, only catch him in the next scene.
No, he'll take. They need like 7 more scenes to
(04:14):
do it. Yeah, yeah.
And also like they need 7 more scenes, but there's no like
random diversion, you know, which a movie like this, like
normally you would get annoyed at stuff like that.
Like when Johnny Lever comes andhe has his own movie happening.
Yeah, but this, you need Johnny Lever to come and have a song
what we have like. It's very singular, right?
Like it's direct. It's like, okay here mission you
(04:34):
capture, there's no like, yeah directly he's got Packard 9.
Did you have to find him? Like physically see him, capture
him? The end?
Yeah. And it's all pretty linear.
Like, even though the movie jumps back and forth between
Manoj Bajpayee and Jim Sarb, it's not very like, like Jim
Sarb is not doing comedy at all,and he's not really involved in
(04:55):
any comedic situations. Yeah, so.
Rarely he'll get something like you remember like when he said
to be a hippie and sell those like whatever fake emeraldus to
some foreigners. He gets to slightly go into like
a phase of comedy, but it's nowhere close to like the
slapstick stuff like Jinde and his team are doing.
Yeah, Yeah. No.
But even when he's doing, he's playing the American person.
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That entire scene is played straight.
It's not played comedically likethat.
That scene could happen in like a true crime documentary.
Yeah. Maybe like add some touch to it,
like he he takes stuff on the pouch, the Emirates coming.
But then maybe like a condom rapper comes out or something
like right. You have to think of like absurd
things to make it funny. Which is happening in the same
scene but with Manoj Bajpayee because he's wearing like a
(05:39):
funny wig and everything and buthe's in a comedy but his dude is
not. I opposed.
That's deliberate. But when the 2 scene, two kind
of plot lines intersect, the movie doesn't know how to
balance the tones. Yeah.
So when you cut to like, gym serve, he's doing whatever.
And then Manoj Bajpay is in a wig in a corner.
And that's kind of strange because even after that, the
(05:59):
scene where the Goa police are like half Corn Hood and he's
like wig licker. And then the battle guy comes
and he's like this my brother-in-law and all that.
Yeah. All of that could have been so
much funnier. You know, you don't need to talk
so much. Also like the idea of this guy
wearing a fake moustache and. Yeah.
All of the moustache is slipping.
It's not like probably put it's a scrap stick, right, Like Nick
things like Mission Impossible movies have done this.
(06:22):
You know, like Brad Ward did that like he's hanging on like
boots a lot of and is falling apart as this technology is not
working. Like that's slapstick off.
Like they are part of the IMF and their stuff is failing.
That's not supposed to happen, but like it's adding humor to
it. If they can do it and you're
literally in a slapstick movie, make things Fane.
You know, like someone somethingis not working, like Gaudi is
not working. Is is one thing they come up
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with, but like that also is partof is linked to the fact that
they don't have enough money. It's not like he Gaudi was
supposed to work anywhere and something else happened to it.
It's I see. When I watched this, I thought
that oh, this is we don't reallysee a lot of slapstick in Hindi
cinema, or at least deliberate slapstick, you know, like there
could be like a regular movie and it.
Then time movies like slapstick.Well, let's say, you know, going
(07:05):
in. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I suppose something like a
house full. Exactly.
And but then there is like housefull, right?
Like even though it's terrible or whatever, but there is
household, there is welcome, there is no entry.
There is like pre Adarshan, I don't know 50 movies that he's
made. Hungama Hulchal obviously here
are fair. He is up there.
So people have been making slapstick movies and Bollywood
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has been making slapstick moviescombined with like sincere
emotional drama in the past as well.
So even the novelty that I initially felt because of the
kind of whiplash that's my faultbecause I didn't watch the
trailer or anything even that way, so.
Whatever, like that, that movie should work alright without not
watching marketing, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, it's fine.
Like, I I like Manoj Bajpai. He's probably one of the few
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people who can do Satya and this.
Yeah. And family man.
And then you buy him immediately.
He doesn't even do like, a Marathi accent here.
He's not even trying. And still you're like, OK,
Gende, you know, that's funny. Which like, why do you spell
your name that way if you have to keep telling everybody it's
changing? Which is like that I completely
accept that. Like that's the kind of stuff I
(08:10):
want as a kind of. Movie, right?
Yeah, yeah, that's a recurring guy that works.
You know that laughing thing like there is pay off for that.
Like the guy like. But it just that's that's the
thing, right? This movie is like, I understand
what you're going for and I appreciate that you're going for
it on purpose as opposed to likesomething that is, you know, by
(08:32):
mistake, funny, which is a lot of these movies.
And this podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like they don't even have to be comedies, but like you can be
watching like a thriller movie and you're like 8 seconds.
Why is this so funny? So at least you wanted to make a
comedy in the 1st place, and youwant to make a very specific
kind of comedy. Some of it work, some of it
doesn't. But it's just one of those
(08:52):
things that if you ever make like a sequel, which I suppose
they can, then you need to really, you know, double down on
just the slapstick kind of humorof it all instead of you don't
really care about story, you know, in these.
Yeah, there is. Basically serious sketches,
right? It's like you're putting it with
an SL episode, except everythingis connected to the last scene.
It's just like work on your scene.
(09:12):
Like every scene you have to perfect overtime.
Like what is the point of the scene?
Why are we going into it? How can we make it like richer
and like better versus like something that played completely
straight, you know, like especially with that the wife.
Wife and the two. Sense that the two emotional,
I'm like, no, they don't. Belong in this movie, the wife
and Manoj Bajpayee stuff is sincere.
The wife and the mother-in-law stuff is not.
(09:34):
The wife and the commissioner stuff isn't either.
Yeah, but the wife in my mind islike a separate put a track
because she's. Yeah, I'm not temporarily kind
of separated from Manoj Bajwai for most of the movie.
So if. No, at no point like she gets to
like play with the film Stone, right?
Like you want her to join the movies like hijinks where we
(09:56):
just kept waiting for that to happen and doesn't even when.
She's like giving Mikai to the commissioner.
He's doing comedy, but she isn't.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the ingredients are there in this
movie, which is why I'm I can't like outright be like what?
Just the execution kind of needed to be funny or I'm
(10:17):
surprised. Jim Serbis.
He's so talented at doing like anything.
Like he's in that way. He's very similar to Manoj
Bajpayee, right? He can sell like sinister
menace, but he can also be like busy.
I wonder why he decided or whoever the director told him.
But Sir Ismay APA a dumb stone faced manna.
Yeah, only one. Like, give him things to do.
(10:41):
What? He's just like, for some reason
they have decided that he needs to come across as only menacing.
So he's either like, he's like either cutting people's throats
and he's like supposed to come up as killer, aborting their
bodies or whatever, or he's likesometimes like toying around,
but like never fully in the movies.
Like imagine how much imagine how good gym Sir would have been
as like 1966 Adam West Batman villain, you know, Yeah, that
(11:05):
full opportunity. Like he he is known as the
bikini killer, the serpent and this that.
I know that they've changed the names, but that tells you.
Like, but there is, there is intentional like they've kept it
so close that they want you to think.
People and we know who's CharlesObraj was right.
We've seen enough. He's been covered so widely that
we kind of know who he was. We know that he was like a
(11:27):
slippery guy and that gives you so much opportunity to be like
just him in a different disguisein every scene.
Yeah, like add a new like element to it.
Like otherwise in a normal moviewe would never take the such a
creepy guy or whatever, like being funny or being like
outrageous. But because you've sat in the
movies in a universe, where are you allowed to do these things
(11:49):
now? Because everyone's being
comedic? Let him push into that zone like
now, like we communicate with. This stuff we need.
We need the Scooby-doo version of this villain.
Yeah, like if Star was the Last Jedi can do it with their
villains, which is such a more post serious movie and like
their stuff is that you could put it off.
You can easily let your characters.
Do it even though his hench men,one of the hench men is doing
(12:13):
comedy right? The guy who gets killed.
Yeah, because he when he's not doing comedies more doing like,
I don't know, what do you call this like misogynistic, like
normal henchman behavior like like I will sleep with the babes
and your babes like I will. That's my life.
Like and then he's, I don't. Know the other henchman didn't
really leave much of an impression.
(12:34):
Yeah, he's just like, bad. I don't know why.
Genders, people. Genders people.
Yeah, after a point I lose track.
I like are the accountant guys somewhat OneNote, so he's like a
memorable because he's having the same complaint over and
over. The guy who doesn't laugh.
Art is. He's the only one I remember.
IRB Partel, Yeah, Partel also like I can't really say what is
(12:57):
Partel's indistributable thing. It's just like, oh, is it paid
for thing yourself? I guess he's like, oh, that guy
with that face. Yeah, with.
That guy beyond those like people are just like why is it
such a large group like you needto give them different things.
We bounce off each other and I'mnot sure they have enough
features that there make sense to keep.
(13:17):
The group, what we need is like Count Olaf and his team of hench
men. Yeah, you know, that would have
been. All like even going back to like
OK in my going to the same reference like naked gun.
Also, there's just one person right?
Just need one person to RIP off off and the most annoying ballsy
shirt you can pull off is great for you.
(13:38):
I don't. Know it could have been worse I
guess. Because yeah, definitely like it
could have been so was that you start laughing at the people
like that never happened most for the most part so.
Like and you know. The biggest clearly crossing
that. Yeah, The biggest kind of risk
with these movies is that midwaythrough, Manoj Bajpayee kind of
checks out. And then you can tell that is
(14:00):
like, that would have been terrible, But thankfully that
doesn't happen, or at least you can't tell that it happened.
He's like dialed in pretty, pretty consistently.
But yeah, this is just is just down to the script, right?
You need to kind of and have like a open mind about improv.
Let them. I sense that they didn't even
(14:21):
allow that much. It was just like a bland script
and let's stick to it. And we can't really.
We've kind of cornered ourselveswriting wise.
Which is part like if you actually people improv, like
maybe you will check out of yourscenario.
You'll be like, no, we're takingtoo much time to get to this
portion. Like for, for a while.
Like they figure out that they need to come to this telephone
like, you know, say call Karega and like, OK, after we like get
(14:43):
old like 10 minutes now, like you'll show up like something
will happen and do some comedic nonsense.
And that that's yeah. But Nate, I think there's like
half an hour left after that one.
See, I'm like, what are you going to do for half an hour?
Exactly. Like, so now that, for instance,
like the scene in which party comes in, like this colorful
kind of outfit when everybody else is dressed like an uncle.
Yeah. Now that's written.
(15:04):
Right. That's performed.
Yeah. You wanted that joke.
Yeah. But then that joke is not
enough. You need to do something more
with that joke. And either the outfit or what he
says about the outfit needs to be funnier.
You know, just the premise itself isn't and.
Then what do you do with the outfit latest please to be like
a call back to that form. Like everyone's dressed up like
this formally, they go to stuff and I think after that they
(15:25):
were, they all split up in teamsof two or something.
I. Don't remember.
Goes all solo, I guess. Too much happening.
Like there's one night there that's urban teams of two.
One night they go solo and like you're taking too long to do all
of this. You don't need to glue so many
things. Yeah, yeah.
And the funniest thing was that the real life Gende has spoken
about it so often, like this episode in his career.
(15:48):
And there is obviously the wholeour noise.
I don't even know if it's a conspiracy theory, but like
Sobraj wanted to get caught or like he deliberately got himself
arrested in India. There was that also, which
obviously don't expect this movie to kind.
Of it's like the movie you like could easily play into, right If
you wanted like like a show, then Jim's fab.
Like knowingly doing things. He's like, Oh yeah, like if I do
(16:09):
this much like lead them on, give them a clue or something,
but more he's trying to actuallybe evasive.
Yeah, he's trying to be evasive.It would have been funnier if
he's trying to give them clues, but then Jinde is too stupid to
see them and it still goes in the wrong direction.
But here then there's supposed to be like, super smart.
He's not Inspector Cluso, even though he's behaving like
(16:31):
Inspector Cluso, like he's he's not bumbling his way through the
investigation. Yeah, like the movie almost like
afraid I feel like at some point, you know, to be naked
girl like or like to be in a conclusive thing where like
they're like if we make him to like comedian like book too much
fun at his abilities. People would like like him or
anymore. But me like they, I do not care.
(16:51):
Like if Liam Neeson when he's doing stuff and he's like so out
there like he has no clue what is going on and still solving
cases. I didn't put it as well though,
you need, you need Inspector Jinder to come and like shake
Manoj Bajpai his hand at the endalso now and you need his
blessing. Like he would just be so angry
if he's portrayed like a clown or something.
But like, that would be funnier.It would be funnier.
(17:13):
Yeah, and if you're doing that meta stuff, why are you doing it
only in like the last series of the movie?
I want that feeling more. Yeah, that like a million
different. Like break the 4th wall, you
know, like we come, people come in like he's a stupid idea and
then look at the camera. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I'm sure like they had like people sitting down and
throwing ideas at the wall as well, but they kind of rejected
(17:34):
all the funny ones at Safeless and they just went with let's
just not offend anybody, Let's just play it safe.
Yeah. And the board when like parted
is there with the child called Bhupal is there and henchman is
there. They're looking steady to their
like, so it's like poor detective work, like I couldn't
do better than that, you know, like to pretend that you're a
normal. Person.
(17:54):
It's poor staging also, like they're just too close to each
other for the audience to be. Like so like then just play into
that play into the packet. This is so obvious that we just
asked him to say it on I would cop like I would what it's like
make it. Make it funny into Yeah, that
scene is not funny. That scene is supposed to be
straight. Yeah, yeah, that scene is played
straight. Which is a very strange detour,
(18:21):
right? Like Zinda is like you are not
part of our team anymore becauseto boost Dil Hai or something.
Yeah, Like what? Why are you doing this in your
mood? Why are you waiting for this
sincere thing? And suddenly, like, nobody cares
if he's fearful. You're all like, we know what
kind of police move. You're in it.
He'll take it. If he couldn't catch him, maybe
we'll take it better if he was like, Mr. Bean, stuff was
happening, he tried to catch himand he slipped.
(18:41):
His shoelaces were open or something like that would be
better. That doesn't work because
they're like each second you're supposed to be in a comedy.
We don't really care if somebody's actually courageous
or not. Like, why do we?
Need a redemption story? He overcomes that fear, and then
he takes up no. Yeah, missed opportunity.
Mostly this movie. Yeah, that's on this episode of
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