August 27, 2025 • 17 mins
In the Tamil-language film Maareesan, the plot twist comes not at the end, but midway through.
We talk about the sudden change in tone, and how the film handles it. We also discuss Fahadh Faasil’s comedic performance, and wonder why the film is presented through the perspective of his character.
But mainly, we talk about the film’s shady morality, which seems to champion extrajudicial killings if the cause is perceived as noble enough.
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(00:16):
Hi, I'm Akira. And I'm welcome.
To the long pick, this week we're discussing the new Tamil
language movie Maarisal, which stars Vaz Vasil and Wadi Valu in
the lead. And it's sound streaming on
Netflix after a theatrical run last month.
Which is the. Standard for movie Segres, which
like appear in a month when likestreaming graphones anyway, it's
a movie that sends you like a red herring for a long while and
(00:37):
then reveals itself to be a company to revenge killing
extrajudicial thing eventually at some point very different
first thousand segres. But anyway, yeah, that's what
we'll discuss. What do you think the movie was?
I quite. Liked the movie, but then I felt
quite dirty for liking it because.
We're making you support bad people.
It's making me support not necessarily bad people, but like
(00:58):
someone I wouldn't support in real life.
I can only support this sort of thing in the movie and that too
under circumstances. But yeah, I didn't feel like so
immediately. It's very gratifying, obviously,
like any revenge movie is. But then, you know, when she let
it kind of sit and simmer is when you start feeling like
yuck, man. And that's not like it's
(01:21):
entirely by accident, right? It's not like a movie like Taxi
Driver or Joker, which makes youwonder why you're.
They tell you upfront like this movie is about what crazy was
it? Yeah.
And the point of those movies isto make you like think why you,
why you are connecting with those characters, right?
And it's more, it's as much about you, the viewer, as it is
about the protagonists. But the it's entirely accidental
(01:44):
that it sent me into right? Because the movie is not like
the movie is pretty like Haha Dukar.
Yeah, Like it sort of almost like excuses him at the end,
like when he's walking out of the court or whatever.
They're like support Will and support Will.
And I'm like, what are you advocating for movie at this
point? Like are you advocating for mob
justice? It is.
(02:04):
So it's a morality kind of tale,this movie and and although the
movie doesn't let him get away with it, he is kind of jailed.
But then because he wanted to be, he jailed in the 1st place.
It's almost like he got what he wanted.
So it's not like he's being punished.
He's getting what he wanted. And morally though, it excuses
(02:24):
him. Like morally, the movie thinks
it's KK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all good. Yeah, which is where I find it's
OK to like show a character who is doing this like, you know,
want to like tell a story about a person like this.
But then, yeah, where it starts being like, I'm like, does the
movie have a point of point of view on this?
And feels like with PO is essentially like celebrating him
because one of the movie. POV is Fahad Fasil's POV.
(02:48):
Fasil and also other characters,right, like the say quote UN
quote doot Kadola, like innocentmothers of the traumatized or
like beat of the abuse kids or the traffic kids in some cases,
and one of them literally calls him God like in dialogue, like
it's not even like yeah, beatingaround the Bush and like
alluding to it. It's like straight up he is God.
(03:09):
I'm like. OK, it is like I said, it's like
accidentally complicated this movie, right?
Because if you were to put this man in like a superhero costume,
you wouldn't think twice about any of it, right?
It's very like minor changes to the tone of the movie.
If it was more stylized, you wouldn't think.
If it was Kill Bill, you wouldn't think twice about it.
(03:30):
But because the movie kind of leans slightly like realistic
direction, man is why you're like, Oh my God, this feels a
little too real. Like maybe you should have made
a genre movie. And then I would have been like
how? Whatever.
But because it's like real world, real life crimes.
A real guy and think them as like ordinary people, like, you
know, in the first half he's just like a bumbling old fellow,
(03:51):
like. Yeah, like, if this was even
Dexter, I would have been like, because Dexter at the end of the
day is like a dark comedy. Yeah.
And this one tries to be that, but in the center house it's
not. Actually, like, mentally, this
guy's pretending to be mentally the entire movie.
Yeah, but that, I mean, I've, I excuse that because that's a
cover and it's a pretty good cover.
If if you're going to be a serial killer, then you know,
(04:13):
you might as well have a cover so that all that is OK.
And I even like the the way thatthe story is kind of structured,
which is you enter it through this completely random
character. I was not a fan of that at all.
I was like, after they do the read, I'm like, wait, why was I
bothering to watch this movie through this idiot?
The other idiot I. It creates a nice dramatic kind
(04:37):
of tension between them, right? And it and it and it creates
this kind of opportunity for also far fasil to look at the
world differently. He is like a petty criminal,
right? And not to kind of carry forward
like that superhero analogy, butit's basically like him becoming
a sidekick, at least at the end,becoming like a Robin sort of
figure. I mean well.
(04:58):
Sure, but it's more of like whatI got out of it was like they're
wanting to convey like his only his only was like never know you
as dad and then he became like father figure like which like we
were doing dialogue. They don't leave it like.
So I thought that the movie was quite, I don't, it's a very fine
line between like conniving and intelligent.
(05:18):
But the movie was somewhere between those two kind of
descriptions in how it kind of pulls you into the story.
And that's why Farhad Fasil's character is important, because
if you were to kind of watch this through the point of view
of the killer person, it would have been, I don't know, more
difficult to hide that from the audience or to kind of liable.
(05:40):
But in a way, like that's what we're advocating for, right?
I'm like, don't hide for it. Make it a genre movie, show it
to. But then how you?
How do you how do you kind of create the whatever the
emotional bond that the movie wants you to create with him if
it if you if you're just watching it through a mass
murderer kind of person's P. OEI.
Don't know the only. Reason there are cards like
(06:00):
between flashback and the present day.
I think the only reason for how Parcel exists is to basically be
like an audience surrogate and to kind of spend one hour
watching these people develop a genuine kind of friendship,
which I bought like for that first hour if you don't know
what coming. Is it a general friendship
because one guy keeps pretendingto forget the other guy and
(06:22):
mistake him for his son? So but we are don't know that
yet. So we actually think he's
forgetting. So he's just like a comedy
drama. And for the most part, it's just
like, you know, the bomb, the era from here and there and this
guy's trying to take advantage of him and figure out how he can
get his like it's all about ATM pin and Cassia patches.
Luckily anyway, that's all that's happening. 45 minutes.
But that changes right over time, like over time they form
(06:44):
like when, when it's time for them to kind of when the journey
is coming to an end and before Fahad Fasil knows what's up, you
can sense that they've they've kind of developed a connection,
right? And there's a connection through
these like random late night parties, which again is like
part of the cover up for that guy.
So in a way, he's not trying to bond with them.
(07:04):
He's just trying to get them to like go to sleep so he can
escape at. Night, correct.
But I know, I know that both of them have their agendas.
But despite their agendas, I felt that they kind of formed a
connection, which is why he feels so betrayed by this man at
the end, right? Fahad Fossil.
Yeah, he's like, yeah, I almost like felt pretty for this poor
man, but he was like. But at that point, he thinks
(07:27):
he's like a pedophile. Correct.
So he feels betrayed that I got scammed by him and just a few.
And I always stand and grab him like, Oh my God, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no, no, but that's not because of the scam and all
right? It's because I was genuinely
becoming your friend and you turned out to be someone that.
Yeah, but like, sure. Like where are you?
Where to? I'm a.
Friend at some level, but like eventually, like, I mean ironic
(07:48):
for this character to be like, how could he do this to me when
you are doing almost the same thing to him?
No, he wasn't doing almost the same thing.
He was just trying to steal his money.
You using him for his money, He's using you as a alibi,
correct? It's not the same thing, right?
He was almost not interested in the money at all.
After a point it was, and that guy was still being.
(08:08):
So late and that I don't know I don't buy that key like he
wasn't interested in the money for like a long stretch.
He all he cares about is ATM in law.
RIP him off and walk away and. There is that one scene on the
bike where they after they visithis mother and all where he
leaves like a bunch of money forher.
And when he when he tells him that I don't want to be a thief
anymore, you know, I want to, I want to quit that life.
(08:29):
So he's like, you needed our heads lean it like a leg up.
So here it is. Here's some money.
So put you on the right path, you know, so there there is like
a sweet kind of moment between them.
And then you sense that both of these people are kind of
changing. But then the betrayal happens
and for half past is like, I wasnot going to RIP you off and you
turned out to be like a pedo. And that is unforgivable.
(08:51):
Now I have to, you know, teach you a lesson.
So that journey I buy fully. OK.
The only issue I have is with the movie at the end being like
great, we need more people like this guy out there.
I also problem with like the number of like like reviews they
need to do as if I need to like answer every question from the
beginning there people I be like, no, but what about that?
(09:12):
No, but what about that? And then I try to answer all of
those in the end and I'm like, no, it's fine.
Stop. Like I don't need somebody like
reviews and reviews and reviews.I didn't mind, and I don't know
which reviews that you're talking about, but I didn't mind
the flashback to when they firstmet when he had committed his
first model. Yeah, mind that I had so many
already answers. I was like, I don't need this.
(09:32):
It's fine. I don't want to know why yours
changed up. I do not get end the movie, but
like stop diffusing that the your code scene and by like
harkening back to like a previous moment like Oh my God,
Ganesh, Oh my God, This is why they met.
Oh my God, this is what happened.
Then I didn't mind. I didn't mind the meeting
because the movie opens with thewith an interesting kind of
(09:53):
voice over. I don't know because the voice
over never happens again where he says that how does a like a
bird eat a fish or something? Yeah.
Like a scene with like a snake and a rat, right?
He's basically saying that how how can like in what world can a
bird that flies in the sky eat afish that swims underwater?
(10:13):
Like how do those 2 worlds? Collide Speaking of shots like
amazing coincidence that random thief turns up on that house
that he was like Bra and then there you are killing someone
sure that's one chance thing andthen later turns out to be was
random thief car friend is also one of the guys you're trying to
kill. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a little convenient, although I didn't mind the
(10:36):
earlier thing because the movie set set up as like a blind
chance, 2 words colliding. Yeah, sure.
The first one, sure. Like you said that one chance
thing. The second one.
Felt a little, but then to Fasiki, Uska Dosby is one of the
guys you have to kill and like what is this?
How was? That was a little convenient.
Do you think of the I know action graphy or the in general?
And there was action graphy, I think only in the end stuff with
(10:59):
the face of whatever. No, no, I didn't think much of
it. I thought it was like a regular
movie. I thought some of it was
interesting the scene in which he kills the guy by tying him to
like a pole or something. I was over lean to the second
and the movie was like, I was still reeling from the shop of
like how quickly the movie had changed itself.
Yeah, It was like one second. Wasn't I watching like a very
(11:20):
different movie like 10 minutes ago?
Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a Tamil movie,
but it, it plays like a Malayalam movie where it's like,
let's chill for like an hour andthen we'll we'll start really
then. Yeah, it's almost like, I mean,
I watched it at the theater, butI could imagine you come back
after getting popcorn. Like, were you in the same
screen guys? But that's entirely by design,
(11:42):
unlike the. Yeah, expect it is a jarring
show. It's not gradual at all.
Yeah. It's not, it's not the minute
the cops coming. And so I, I mean, I didn't mind
the as I was OK. Like it didn't feel like like
some of those Bollywood movies where they switch on all the
lights. You know, the hotels felt real.
(12:03):
It felt, you know, all those places that they were staying at
overnight, those felt like real hotels that you might find on
the highway. Yeah, yeah.
Like they were like as garish asreal hotels.
Like, Oh my God, this is how they are in your face.
There's green and there's red because nothing makes sense.
Yeah. And I mean the highway stuff
was, I appreciate that. You know, at least it's real
(12:25):
rural India, you know, in terms of so I thought that Farhad
Fazal was very funny in the first half of the movie where he
was required to do like this almost caricature ish, like
broad physical comedy. You know, like every muscle in
his body is kind of acting, which is very nice to see
(12:46):
because a lot of people think that comedy is just, you know,
face words. But it's like entire body he
puts into it, which is nice. Like he did this and that.
R Isham also, which I didn't like much but it's much better.
Or even with the general like runtime of the movie, I feel
like it could be like easily chopped into like a lot.
Agreed, but then that would alter the very DNA of the movie,
(13:09):
which requires that one hour of sedation almost.
I'm not buying that it requires one hour.
I am still on the fence. I'm on the other side that you
can literally chop off like Farthouse's character and start
off with like showing. You know what that would be
like? Rewriting the movie.
Other guy's wife. Yeah, yeah.
Just like do that. There is a version of this that
(13:33):
could be 90 minutes. You could have like the first
whatever R and 15 and then basically post interval you
could have like 10 minutes. Condense that into 10 minutes as
like Shyamalan type twist you know.
That is the issue, right? I think that's that's why I
mentioned the runtime is becauseI am at pains to understand why
(13:53):
everyone like writes extra like do they?
Do you get paid per page? In India, no.
The culture is basically get your money's worth now if you go
to a theatre. Why do audiences feel they need
to like, get like, we have to sit longer to like, you know,
for a good movie? That's AI think that's a
cultural thing, right? Because like, it's a luxury
right at the end of the day. And when people go out, like in
(14:16):
India, movie watching is a luxury and always has been.
So when people go out, they wantlike a heavy meal.
They don't want to eat salads. They don't.
Have to, you know, the concept of like, like a chef's menu,
like a tasting menu doesn't takeoff in India because you leave
(14:36):
the restaurant not full. And the concept of leaving the
restaurant not full and then having to go to McDonald's is
insane. Even to me.
I'm like. People don't go to.
They're saying they don't go forthe enjoyment of the meal, yeah.
They go for filling. Yeah, applies to our movies for.
(15:00):
Some reason, yeah. So that is why a lot of our
movies have, you will not have like a straight up horror movie.
You will have a horror movie with romance with action.
Etcetera, etcetera. Comedy with like something.
Else because people would feel people have historically felt
short changed and the same people who have grown up on
these ideas are the ones making movies that's.
Why we cannot get a genre version of this movie?
(15:23):
Correct, which we which is why we will never get a genre
version of this movie, right, because Abita Kamara disparity
in Nayan culture that if you're going to pay like 3-4 hundred
bucks on a ticket and then on whatever food samosa popcorn,
it's unaffordable for the majority of our country.
So it's always going to be this way.
Just you you start selling tickets for like 50 bucks,
(15:44):
you're not going to get genre movies.
Simple. Or we like go so far back into
the era of film making that we go to like, you know how these
two have one movie after the other like a.
Double bill. Double bill then you have 290
will movies with 1 ticket. So many of our movies are
anywhere like two different movies that.
(16:06):
They literally just split them down the middle.
It's like, yeah, like we, yeah, like we.
But I say a complaint about 50 that you got now.
We've come back to square one where Mari's son is.
Basically, it stops, then it starts again.
Yeah. But he said you would have 2-3
extractors, right? It feels like you're watching TV
in the cinema. Yeah, yeah.
(16:26):
But for the longest time these people were so angry that we had
to write like 2 climaxes. Like who does that?
Any other thoughts? Thunder meow.
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(16:48):
Bye.
Hi, I'm Akira. And I'm welcome.
To the long pick, this week we're discussing the new Tamil
language movie Maarisal, which stars Vaz Vasil and Wadi Valu in
the lead. And it's sound streaming on
Netflix after a theatrical run last month.
Which is the. Standard for movie Segres, which
like appear in a month when likestreaming graphones anyway, it's
a movie that sends you like a red herring for a long while and
(00:37):
then reveals itself to be a company to revenge killing
extrajudicial thing eventually at some point very different
first thousand segres. But anyway, yeah, that's what
we'll discuss. What do you think the movie was?
I quite. Liked the movie, but then I felt
quite dirty for liking it because.
We're making you support bad people.
It's making me support not necessarily bad people, but like
(00:58):
someone I wouldn't support in real life.
I can only support this sort of thing in the movie and that too
under circumstances. But yeah, I didn't feel like so
immediately. It's very gratifying, obviously,
like any revenge movie is. But then, you know, when she let
it kind of sit and simmer is when you start feeling like
yuck, man. And that's not like it's
(01:21):
entirely by accident, right? It's not like a movie like Taxi
Driver or Joker, which makes youwonder why you're.
They tell you upfront like this movie is about what crazy was
it? Yeah.
And the point of those movies isto make you like think why you,
why you are connecting with those characters, right?
And it's more, it's as much about you, the viewer, as it is
about the protagonists. But the it's entirely accidental
(01:44):
that it sent me into right? Because the movie is not like
the movie is pretty like Haha Dukar.
Yeah, Like it sort of almost like excuses him at the end,
like when he's walking out of the court or whatever.
They're like support Will and support Will.
And I'm like, what are you advocating for movie at this
point? Like are you advocating for mob
justice? It is.
(02:04):
So it's a morality kind of tale,this movie and and although the
movie doesn't let him get away with it, he is kind of jailed.
But then because he wanted to be, he jailed in the 1st place.
It's almost like he got what he wanted.
So it's not like he's being punished.
He's getting what he wanted. And morally though, it excuses
(02:24):
him. Like morally, the movie thinks
it's KK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all good. Yeah, which is where I find it's
OK to like show a character who is doing this like, you know,
want to like tell a story about a person like this.
But then, yeah, where it starts being like, I'm like, does the
movie have a point of point of view on this?
And feels like with PO is essentially like celebrating him
because one of the movie. POV is Fahad Fasil's POV.
(02:48):
Fasil and also other characters,right, like the say quote UN
quote doot Kadola, like innocentmothers of the traumatized or
like beat of the abuse kids or the traffic kids in some cases,
and one of them literally calls him God like in dialogue, like
it's not even like yeah, beatingaround the Bush and like
alluding to it. It's like straight up he is God.
(03:09):
I'm like. OK, it is like I said, it's like
accidentally complicated this movie, right?
Because if you were to put this man in like a superhero costume,
you wouldn't think twice about any of it, right?
It's very like minor changes to the tone of the movie.
If it was more stylized, you wouldn't think.
If it was Kill Bill, you wouldn't think twice about it.
(03:30):
But because the movie kind of leans slightly like realistic
direction, man is why you're like, Oh my God, this feels a
little too real. Like maybe you should have made
a genre movie. And then I would have been like
how? Whatever.
But because it's like real world, real life crimes.
A real guy and think them as like ordinary people, like, you
know, in the first half he's just like a bumbling old fellow,
(03:51):
like. Yeah, like, if this was even
Dexter, I would have been like, because Dexter at the end of the
day is like a dark comedy. Yeah.
And this one tries to be that, but in the center house it's
not. Actually, like, mentally, this
guy's pretending to be mentally the entire movie.
Yeah, but that, I mean, I've, I excuse that because that's a
cover and it's a pretty good cover.
If if you're going to be a serial killer, then you know,
(04:13):
you might as well have a cover so that all that is OK.
And I even like the the way thatthe story is kind of structured,
which is you enter it through this completely random
character. I was not a fan of that at all.
I was like, after they do the read, I'm like, wait, why was I
bothering to watch this movie through this idiot?
The other idiot I. It creates a nice dramatic kind
(04:37):
of tension between them, right? And it and it and it creates
this kind of opportunity for also far fasil to look at the
world differently. He is like a petty criminal,
right? And not to kind of carry forward
like that superhero analogy, butit's basically like him becoming
a sidekick, at least at the end,becoming like a Robin sort of
figure. I mean well.
(04:58):
Sure, but it's more of like whatI got out of it was like they're
wanting to convey like his only his only was like never know you
as dad and then he became like father figure like which like we
were doing dialogue. They don't leave it like.
So I thought that the movie was quite, I don't, it's a very fine
line between like conniving and intelligent.
(05:18):
But the movie was somewhere between those two kind of
descriptions in how it kind of pulls you into the story.
And that's why Farhad Fasil's character is important, because
if you were to kind of watch this through the point of view
of the killer person, it would have been, I don't know, more
difficult to hide that from the audience or to kind of liable.
(05:40):
But in a way, like that's what we're advocating for, right?
I'm like, don't hide for it. Make it a genre movie, show it
to. But then how you?
How do you how do you kind of create the whatever the
emotional bond that the movie wants you to create with him if
it if you if you're just watching it through a mass
murderer kind of person's P. OEI.
Don't know the only. Reason there are cards like
(06:00):
between flashback and the present day.
I think the only reason for how Parcel exists is to basically be
like an audience surrogate and to kind of spend one hour
watching these people develop a genuine kind of friendship,
which I bought like for that first hour if you don't know
what coming. Is it a general friendship
because one guy keeps pretendingto forget the other guy and
(06:22):
mistake him for his son? So but we are don't know that
yet. So we actually think he's
forgetting. So he's just like a comedy
drama. And for the most part, it's just
like, you know, the bomb, the era from here and there and this
guy's trying to take advantage of him and figure out how he can
get his like it's all about ATM pin and Cassia patches.
Luckily anyway, that's all that's happening. 45 minutes.
But that changes right over time, like over time they form
(06:44):
like when, when it's time for them to kind of when the journey
is coming to an end and before Fahad Fasil knows what's up, you
can sense that they've they've kind of developed a connection,
right? And there's a connection through
these like random late night parties, which again is like
part of the cover up for that guy.
So in a way, he's not trying to bond with them.
(07:04):
He's just trying to get them to like go to sleep so he can
escape at. Night, correct.
But I know, I know that both of them have their agendas.
But despite their agendas, I felt that they kind of formed a
connection, which is why he feels so betrayed by this man at
the end, right? Fahad Fossil.
Yeah, he's like, yeah, I almost like felt pretty for this poor
man, but he was like. But at that point, he thinks
(07:27):
he's like a pedophile. Correct.
So he feels betrayed that I got scammed by him and just a few.
And I always stand and grab him like, Oh my God, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no, no, but that's not because of the scam and all
right? It's because I was genuinely
becoming your friend and you turned out to be someone that.
Yeah, but like, sure. Like where are you?
Where to? I'm a.
Friend at some level, but like eventually, like, I mean ironic
(07:48):
for this character to be like, how could he do this to me when
you are doing almost the same thing to him?
No, he wasn't doing almost the same thing.
He was just trying to steal his money.
You using him for his money, He's using you as a alibi,
correct? It's not the same thing, right?
He was almost not interested in the money at all.
After a point it was, and that guy was still being.
(08:08):
So late and that I don't know I don't buy that key like he
wasn't interested in the money for like a long stretch.
He all he cares about is ATM in law.
RIP him off and walk away and. There is that one scene on the
bike where they after they visithis mother and all where he
leaves like a bunch of money forher.
And when he when he tells him that I don't want to be a thief
anymore, you know, I want to, I want to quit that life.
(08:29):
So he's like, you needed our heads lean it like a leg up.
So here it is. Here's some money.
So put you on the right path, you know, so there there is like
a sweet kind of moment between them.
And then you sense that both of these people are kind of
changing. But then the betrayal happens
and for half past is like, I wasnot going to RIP you off and you
turned out to be like a pedo. And that is unforgivable.
(08:51):
Now I have to, you know, teach you a lesson.
So that journey I buy fully. OK.
The only issue I have is with the movie at the end being like
great, we need more people like this guy out there.
I also problem with like the number of like like reviews they
need to do as if I need to like answer every question from the
beginning there people I be like, no, but what about that?
(09:12):
No, but what about that? And then I try to answer all of
those in the end and I'm like, no, it's fine.
Stop. Like I don't need somebody like
reviews and reviews and reviews.I didn't mind, and I don't know
which reviews that you're talking about, but I didn't mind
the flashback to when they firstmet when he had committed his
first model. Yeah, mind that I had so many
already answers. I was like, I don't need this.
(09:32):
It's fine. I don't want to know why yours
changed up. I do not get end the movie, but
like stop diffusing that the your code scene and by like
harkening back to like a previous moment like Oh my God,
Ganesh, Oh my God, This is why they met.
Oh my God, this is what happened.
Then I didn't mind. I didn't mind the meeting
because the movie opens with thewith an interesting kind of
(09:53):
voice over. I don't know because the voice
over never happens again where he says that how does a like a
bird eat a fish or something? Yeah.
Like a scene with like a snake and a rat, right?
He's basically saying that how how can like in what world can a
bird that flies in the sky eat afish that swims underwater?
(10:13):
Like how do those 2 worlds? Collide Speaking of shots like
amazing coincidence that random thief turns up on that house
that he was like Bra and then there you are killing someone
sure that's one chance thing andthen later turns out to be was
random thief car friend is also one of the guys you're trying to
kill. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a little convenient, although I didn't mind the
(10:36):
earlier thing because the movie set set up as like a blind
chance, 2 words colliding. Yeah, sure.
The first one, sure. Like you said that one chance
thing. The second one.
Felt a little, but then to Fasiki, Uska Dosby is one of the
guys you have to kill and like what is this?
How was? That was a little convenient.
Do you think of the I know action graphy or the in general?
And there was action graphy, I think only in the end stuff with
(10:59):
the face of whatever. No, no, I didn't think much of
it. I thought it was like a regular
movie. I thought some of it was
interesting the scene in which he kills the guy by tying him to
like a pole or something. I was over lean to the second
and the movie was like, I was still reeling from the shop of
like how quickly the movie had changed itself.
Yeah, It was like one second. Wasn't I watching like a very
(11:20):
different movie like 10 minutes ago?
Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a Tamil movie,
but it, it plays like a Malayalam movie where it's like,
let's chill for like an hour andthen we'll we'll start really
then. Yeah, it's almost like, I mean,
I watched it at the theater, butI could imagine you come back
after getting popcorn. Like, were you in the same
screen guys? But that's entirely by design,
(11:42):
unlike the. Yeah, expect it is a jarring
show. It's not gradual at all.
Yeah. It's not, it's not the minute
the cops coming. And so I, I mean, I didn't mind
the as I was OK. Like it didn't feel like like
some of those Bollywood movies where they switch on all the
lights. You know, the hotels felt real.
(12:03):
It felt, you know, all those places that they were staying at
overnight, those felt like real hotels that you might find on
the highway. Yeah, yeah.
Like they were like as garish asreal hotels.
Like, Oh my God, this is how they are in your face.
There's green and there's red because nothing makes sense.
Yeah. And I mean the highway stuff
was, I appreciate that. You know, at least it's real
(12:25):
rural India, you know, in terms of so I thought that Farhad
Fazal was very funny in the first half of the movie where he
was required to do like this almost caricature ish, like
broad physical comedy. You know, like every muscle in
his body is kind of acting, which is very nice to see
(12:46):
because a lot of people think that comedy is just, you know,
face words. But it's like entire body he
puts into it, which is nice. Like he did this and that.
R Isham also, which I didn't like much but it's much better.
Or even with the general like runtime of the movie, I feel
like it could be like easily chopped into like a lot.
Agreed, but then that would alter the very DNA of the movie,
(13:09):
which requires that one hour of sedation almost.
I'm not buying that it requires one hour.
I am still on the fence. I'm on the other side that you
can literally chop off like Farthouse's character and start
off with like showing. You know what that would be
like? Rewriting the movie.
Other guy's wife. Yeah, yeah.
Just like do that. There is a version of this that
(13:33):
could be 90 minutes. You could have like the first
whatever R and 15 and then basically post interval you
could have like 10 minutes. Condense that into 10 minutes as
like Shyamalan type twist you know.
That is the issue, right? I think that's that's why I
mentioned the runtime is becauseI am at pains to understand why
(13:53):
everyone like writes extra like do they?
Do you get paid per page? In India, no.
The culture is basically get your money's worth now if you go
to a theatre. Why do audiences feel they need
to like, get like, we have to sit longer to like, you know,
for a good movie? That's AI think that's a
cultural thing, right? Because like, it's a luxury
right at the end of the day. And when people go out, like in
(14:16):
India, movie watching is a luxury and always has been.
So when people go out, they wantlike a heavy meal.
They don't want to eat salads. They don't.
Have to, you know, the concept of like, like a chef's menu,
like a tasting menu doesn't takeoff in India because you leave
(14:36):
the restaurant not full. And the concept of leaving the
restaurant not full and then having to go to McDonald's is
insane. Even to me.
I'm like. People don't go to.
They're saying they don't go forthe enjoyment of the meal, yeah.
They go for filling. Yeah, applies to our movies for.
(15:00):
Some reason, yeah. So that is why a lot of our
movies have, you will not have like a straight up horror movie.
You will have a horror movie with romance with action.
Etcetera, etcetera. Comedy with like something.
Else because people would feel people have historically felt
short changed and the same people who have grown up on
these ideas are the ones making movies that's.
Why we cannot get a genre version of this movie?
(15:23):
Correct, which we which is why we will never get a genre
version of this movie, right, because Abita Kamara disparity
in Nayan culture that if you're going to pay like 3-4 hundred
bucks on a ticket and then on whatever food samosa popcorn,
it's unaffordable for the majority of our country.
So it's always going to be this way.
Just you you start selling tickets for like 50 bucks,
(15:44):
you're not going to get genre movies.
Simple. Or we like go so far back into
the era of film making that we go to like, you know how these
two have one movie after the other like a.
Double bill. Double bill then you have 290
will movies with 1 ticket. So many of our movies are
anywhere like two different movies that.
(16:06):
They literally just split them down the middle.
It's like, yeah, like we, yeah, like we.
But I say a complaint about 50 that you got now.
We've come back to square one where Mari's son is.
Basically, it stops, then it starts again.
Yeah. But he said you would have 2-3
extractors, right? It feels like you're watching TV
in the cinema. Yeah, yeah.
(16:26):
But for the longest time these people were so angry that we had
to write like 2 climaxes. Like who does that?
Any other thoughts? Thunder meow.
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