August 6, 2025 • 20 mins
Sitaare Zameen Par—marketed as the spiritual sequel to Aamir Khan’s 2007 hit Taare Zameen Par—is a shoddily made, preachy, borderline insensitive film with a noble mission.
However, just because it aims to raise awareness about an admirable cause doesn’t excuse its cringeworthy tone, Khan and Genelia Deshmukh’s subpar performances, and its casual othering of the neurodivergent community.
We discuss the film’s many problems before finally finding one aspect worthy of praise.
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(00:16):
Hi. Welcome.
To the log deck this week we're discussing a new Aamir Khan
movie. So Tari Zamirbur.
Not a sequel to Tari Zamirbur inDespite the country's name, it's
Instead it's actually a remake of Spanish movie called
Champions from like 7 years ago or something, which was also
made in the US and other languages from what I know and
I'm not seeing in the original ones.
(00:36):
Yeah. What is going on in the room?
This is this is like one of those Desh Bhaktika movies that
you can't really complain about because then you're like anti
national, right? But yeah, this is like,
terrible. Yeah, like, I mean, well,
intentions does not make a good boobie.
Right. Yeah.
Also, like good intentions aside, like I don't know, like I
(00:56):
might be in the hyper minority, but like who would actively mean
harm towards forget, like neurodivergent people, but like
even others right in this world.I mean, people do, but I would
like to assume that nobody goes out to their way in regular life
to be like May. I'm going to, you know, I mean,
that's. What the we spend like 50
minutes on it is that Aamir's character essentially a stand in
(01:20):
for people who like judge peoplewho are not quote UN quote not
normal. And he's like, he's the guy who
shows up anything calling them, refuses to not call them
anything but Pagal, which is howhe gets sentenced to this job.
So I think that's the crowd likethe movie is aiming for.
Like it's like so blunt about it.
That's almost like annoying to adegree.
But what if you're not part of the car?
(01:41):
What are you supposed to do withthe movie?
Then we watch this idiot. That's my issue is like, it just
I feel like the movie's only built and why would they listen
to you, right if you're actuallypart of the crowd?
And if you go go in their face with like a hap and be like so
no, so no, so no so no for like 2 or 40 minutes.
Why was innocent to you? You could be right about it,
right? Do you remember that film Mimi?
(02:02):
I don't know if he did it on thepodcast many years ago.
No, I don't think I've seen it. OK.
So there was this movie called Mimi and then there was this
movie called Chori, right? And both of those movies ended
with like this huge like text onthe screen kind of statistics
about how female infanticide, etcetera.
How expecting that here, honestly, Yeah.
So I I remember thinking also like, nobody's going like no
(02:24):
child killer is going to watch Chori.
And I've changed my mind now. Yeah, You know, which is this
movie in a nutshell. Also like, why would like, why
would I? Why would you first of all,
assume that everybody in the world is like Amir's character?
No, they're not like we aren't like, and it's not like he's
mean towards just he's not like he's just saying Pagal, Pagal.
He gets fired for like assault, right?
(02:47):
Which he deserves he he deservesto be fired for that.
And he's like, but how could you?
Because. He's fired.
He's, by the way, like he's. They're.
OK with like, bringing him back at some point.
He's suspended. Socho And and he's like, how
could you like, man, it was Mahara.
I was cool. And then and then and then he's
like, he gets drunk, which itself is a crime.
(03:09):
And then he like, runs into a cop car.
Yeah, he'll crime. Yeah.
Right. And then.
And then he he has the entitlement to be like or what?
Yeah. And then he's being mean to his
wife, right. Whom he has been ignoring for
several days or the entire season, it's like.
Something like that. Like yeah, at least 1 / 2 weeks
when it starts. They have been living.
(03:29):
Some yeah, who does? He's in the Ayaki BV Kya Ogya,
though, because she's not livingwith him and he hasn't bothered
to. Kind of Also he's decided, OK,
because my wishes are superior than yours, so I will be the
crybaby here. And he's overall terrible.
It's not like Jen Mclub. Which isn't like Aamir Khan
wants to showcase that he believes that he's addressing
(03:51):
this crowd. Which?
But then it would have been so much more believable and so much
easier to kind of gain kind of like, an in into this movie if
you had just shown him to be a regular person who's going about
his life. But in this aspect, he's a
little backward, right? Which might be true of so many
people in the real world, except, like, this guy is like,
(04:12):
an outright criminal, like, really detestable person.
I'm like, is Kotosudhatnika pointing again?
Let him like, whatever. I don't even care about him.
Yeah. And first of all, why are we
watching this movie through his perspective, Right?
Important. If you're saying that which they
try to force fit and into dialogue toward the end is like
no metal coach, well, show me the movie.
(04:36):
Show me the movie from their point of view the entire time
there. Which I thought that he did the
last time around in Lal Singh Chadha.
The entire movie was from, you know, Sadaji ka point of view.
And the Sadaji was on the spectrum even though I don't
think they're saying in as many words.
But basically that movie was from his point of view.
And that's why that movie, I don't know if Ahmed has learned
(04:56):
the wrong lessons or whatever ofthis one was already off the
ground many years before that. But you know, that one flopped
and this one did well. So what does that say about
society? I don't think I'd save anything.
Over the years he has done this podcast.
We have seen enough movies whichwe are just like a Kodica
valuing it and then they do likeblockbuster business.
(05:18):
So those two things are in that book.
Forget it's movie, car, whateverweird kind of bizarre worldview,
which is like you are, you know,like everybody is basically a
terrible person. But we will instead present it
to be like this really broad comedy for some reason.
Yeah. So forget that for a minute.
It's really badly made also. Yeah.
(05:38):
That's my other problem, right? It's like, I would maybe like go
with the journey of this like annoying Indian manchild who is
going to like eventually be redeemed or whatever.
If like filmmaking was like evenlike 30% better.
But I like. My my ask is also like so
little, like I don't even expectto watch right, but like it's,
it's so bad. It's so bad, like consistently
(06:02):
it's bad for like ages. Like it's just scene of the
series. It's like criminally poor.
How would the camera focus like,yeah, top and I don't know who
told these people that whenever you have to shoot sports, you
have to just move things around very quickly.
So that I don't know, man, just,you know, pay attention to
somebody. Things first, every single
(06:22):
basketball scene is completely unnecessary.
It is not a sports movie. Please remove every sports
scene. Just show me like the face of
people on the bench, like unke reaction, know what's happening
because it's not like you're showing me anything worthwhile
in any basketball team. I have not like a by looking at
the basketball team, you will not feel any thrill or like how
the game is played or what happens in basketball here and
(06:43):
there or like stuff like that. You learn.
Nothing. You're supposed to take the
Queen's Gambit approach and things like this.
Yeah. Or, or even like one of those,
you know, like Juwala movies. Where you.
Where you like Casino Royale Yeah, but they think that they
made a fun where we need. To show.
(07:16):
Khan's face looks really weird for some reason.
Yeah, like they've done some, atleast for. 45 minutes, I think I
stopped paying attention after like the first star, but at
least the 1st 45 minutes he's got this like intentionally he's
made his like eyebrows arch so they're like lower in the center
and then they're like curving outwards.
Like if he's almost like, you know, like he's this man child
with anger issues or whatever. I think he's trying to portrait.
(07:36):
I'm like stop. Like his ear, it's so key.
I feel like they're protruding. His hair also feels like his
head like entire thing. I was like like he doesn't he's
trying to play what like is he? Is he in most like a 30 ish year
old? What is happening here?
I I think I, I was wondering about this because he's 60 in
real life. Yeah.
And it looks like they've spent a lot of money on like, just,
(07:57):
you know, smoothening out his face to make him look 30.
And then I'm like, wouldn't thismovie be better if this man has
lived 60 years of his life? I.
Think he's a washed out guy yeah, who's like achieved
nothing in his life and even at his lowest he's like ushered
terrible person and then maybe updating what does he need to be
30 ish just because you're to post?
But like a love story or something marriage thing into a
(08:20):
key like Bachani wise we can't be too old.
Otherwise like you'd outlaw Tesla or whatever.
And it's also so weird. I mean to like, I haven't seen
Genelia in ages. She's very bad.
Yeah, forget that. But like if I see Aamir like
romancing generally, like the last time I saw someone
romancing generally, I was like his nephew Imran and I'm just
like, what is happening? Like Bollywood, Like literally
like you went one generation up here and you were like harm, but
(08:45):
women can just play her again. I'm like what?
And they were so shameless. They're like, oh, Ahmed Khan's
somebody who's not, you know, like 20 opposite him.
And I'm like, that. I mean, she's still 30 years
younger. Yeah.
Actually, like, and this no respect for this.
Like, she could be playing his daughter, Yeah, but instead
she's playing his wife, you know?
You could still retain the love story and you could still retain
(09:07):
the redemption arc and you can still retain.
I mean, there are like 60 year old, 70 year old coaches in
India, right? Yeah, not unheard of.
Yeah, you can retain all those elements and make him play
someone closer to his actual age, and that immediately adds
like 2% more, you know, the gravity to the movie.
But instead, like, Ito Pura is like Japan.
(09:28):
It's like slapsticks almost. Yeah, this one.
Yeah, as far as full, it's like that's the way it's going for
three. There are sound effects to
ensure that you get the joke. And I'm like.
OK, And hop the I you know what the biggest problem and this
movie has so many problems that we've discussed already.
The biggest problem. I feel that towards the end when
he makes that speech that to spoke about a few minutes ago
(09:50):
where he's like many, that's like 2 1/2 hours into the movie,
right? Two hours, 15 or two hours and
50 minutes into the movie. And even then in his speech, he
is still saying he's still othering the community.
And the entire movie is supposedto be like, oh, let's normalize
this. Whatever.
No. But if you keep saying Yelog
(10:11):
vole log Yeah, and you keep highlighting that this team is
like a separate entity that doesnot exist in the real world and
they have come from some alien planet and instilled some sort
of wisdom into this man, that defeats the purpose.
You are still ordering them. It is not part of your And I
(10:32):
think that pura picture dikni kebaad has nobody sat down and
said, oh, perhaps our lens is a little like but I mean, they
made 12th field and gave it all the awards in the world.
So. That's the like, this is a full
like pad yourself on the back scenario.
That's what's happening here. They are like celebrating us.
Oh my God, look at us. He's spending crores building a
(10:52):
movie for these people. That's how they.
Say absolutely, yeah, he has this beard like it's like a
saviour complex, but yeah, he's like.
We need to create like a brown saviour genre term, you know,
for these people, because that'swhat they're doing.
In this point, he doesn't realize that by saying that no,
no, they saved me, that doesn't change the fact that, no, you
(11:12):
see yourself as the savior by making this movie.
Yeah. The world does not is not
confined inside the frames of this film.
It is. There is so much more context
too, right? You somebody spent money,
somebody hired you and like 20 minutes or 30 minutes.
Before that dialogue he like I think is at some point like they
(11:33):
reconcile, right? The husband and wife says things
to her face. She has known like 3 months ago.
I'm like this woman knows you were not on the correct page.
She knows what the problem was. And now you are explaining your
marriage constitution to the person who was already known.
And she's standing there smilingand she's like ha Gulshan, of
(11:55):
course I want us to be a couple.And I'm like, Oh my God, punch
him in the. Face I can't stand.
I didn't, I didn't. I haven't seen her in maybe
yours maybe since 2008, but. Yeah, yeah, this is pretty sure.
That's why I was like my first action was, wait, the uncle is
not romancing the same. Woman And my first reaction was
like, yes, it is a muscle and you need to exercise it and
(12:15):
clearly you will not be doing that.
It's so bad. Yeah, like the acting is so bad
in this movie from both these people.
Like Aamir Khan is like just terrible.
It's cringe. Aamir Khan, I feel like, is
deliberately like playing a fullon like, like he wants to like,
clearly play this character on like steroids.
And I'm like, no, you need to turn it down.
(12:36):
And takes no direction right at this point.
Yeah, yeah. I've heard like he's like ghost
directs. Movies so the first one he he
literally stole right from the original director.
That is the main one. But this one though like.
And that was like 18 years ago. So his stature is only like
solidified in their speech or atthis point, like I doubt it.
Things will change it. And he OK, so this guy has the
(12:59):
opposite problem too, like Salman Khan.
Salman Khan will show up, take no direction and be lazy.
This guy will show up, take no direction and just be on coke
the whole time. The problem is neither of them
is take only Shahrukh Khan is taking direction.
Yeah, and. It's like, it's so annoying that
like the Dal Dalkey is going badabout this guy is a
perfectionist. And I'm like, oh, like how?
Dare you? He's perfected the art of being
(13:21):
terrible. It's perfect, the art of like
them even PR around that. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, like. How is everyone still like using
that? Like are you blind when
watching? And you know, like in one, at
one point in this movie, he doesthat thing where he likes snarls
and he's like really angry and you can see it and it's the same
face. He did like Dil Chahta.
(13:41):
He like 25 years when he crashesthe wedding or something at the
end. So this year to comedy or most
serious dramatic moment. But there are face same don't
know where. That's not perfection.
So that's why Shahrukh Khan's national award, yeah.
Yeah, they'll give it to the What's that wholesome movie.
Yeah, yeah, Wholesome entertainment.
Yeah, social. National, national, national
(14:07):
something. Especially you have a code from
the guy at the front of the movie.
Yeah, built in like it's like XRDeco up two hours ago.
I went to watch 2 and it had like a literal 4 minute long
(14:29):
disclaimer which someone read inwords across 4 words.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Honestly, So I'll tell you. So it begins like as you were
expected to can. There are no semblance to any
person living dead, etcetera. We don't need to harmony, you
know, whatever, whatever. And then at some point I'm like
Karan Johar got so angry and then he's like up to my prank
(14:50):
Karunga towards the end, towardsthe end, it's like it's picture,
it's picture of a actors. It just went full parody.
Because the future of Bollywood at some point.
Well, it's like testing if you're paying attention because
toward. The end no right, no right,
(15:11):
because like I have predicted that all of our cinema chains
have a certain like buffer, right of like how many ads they
will show. So I, I predict key, this cinema
chain, the one for 10 minutes orlike key events, I will go in
accordingly. Like you kind of predict that in
I think 10 years we will start having to add like a additional
buffer like disclaimer then you will go in.
(15:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Full dystopia.
I know. It's like a Muslim person has
made the movie. Then you have to add five more
minutes. I'd like no this movie was made
by a non Hindu director. We apologize.
Full 5 minutes was mad when you do the maths in your head.
Oh so upper caste Hindu. We need to be on time.
Oh God. Yeah, nonsense a picture, but
(15:58):
this is like full 12 fail all. Yeah, no, like just complete
obliviousness. Real World Cup, which is ironic
because the movie is about that.Yeah.
How is the movie like 160 minutes long?
It convey the story in like how.They have, I'll tell you now
because they have that nonsense Mummy and Bridgendrakala.
Like as the biggest Bridgendrakala fan on this
planet even I was like they havea full sub.
(16:21):
That's why he's in the background.
For the 1st 50 minutes I thoughthe's going.
To turn into like a chef for theteeth.
And then it turns into like bizarrely towards and it turns
into like during the final match, it turns into American
Napoleon Complex. Yeah, he's like my.
Solution is and miraculously like it's not like he what he
(16:50):
had to come up with then was like a dual solution of like we
need to score right and they need to stop them also like
defence, it's a sport. But no, miraculously they saw
the first thing and second thingis automatically sock stalled
others team stop scoring for some reason.
I'm like, why are they stuck? What it like they can still pass
on up around. This master stroke you could
just imagine like hit like this is so like conceited some movie
(17:12):
now, like secretly, Sir, it's all about like Amir and his like
demons and like his guilt and his if you like, analyze it like
he's felt so bad about. I don't know what he's done in
his personal life, that this is just the kind of thing that
happens only when you're like, super guilty, right?
When Brad Pitt made like, do youremember when Brad Pitt
produced, like she said, women talking like 5 like feminist
(17:34):
movies? Because he was like, Oh my God,
like, I printed like, Angela is already very bad.
How do I redeem my image? I must like, yeah, what you just
did. It was like he's calling
attention to himself. It's like Dibakar Banerjee
almost. Well this one is like Aamir Khan
ka like all the all the complex is that he has faced in his life
(17:55):
was in this movie and I don't know.
If there's nothing interesting about it, right, it's not like
you're doing like great filmmaking and then you're doing
it like something poorly part ofit.
And you're like, OK, TK, I'll forgive that, you know, because
you're. A lot of great sport sports
movies are made very plainly, you know, and they follow the
formula and you're like, yes, wewe know what we're in.
(18:17):
But it's not like Scorsese has made.
It's not like raging, but you know, like a regular run of the
middle sports movie, like even that Kevin Costner where the
kids run in like. You know, are you just like what
are you mentioned 5 minutes away?
Have fun Like it's a very, very last story at the other day.
But highest level. Exactly so then like these are
two hours that it's happening. You're hoped scare body like
(18:37):
maybe like hence weren't like that rosy.
I don't know what I'd take away from the movie, but Kika like I
was enjoyed it when I was in there like what am I?
Why am I watching this? Why am I like pushing myself to
be like? What am I waiting for?
What grand thing is going to come at some point?
Even at the end he for some reason he decides to leave
without saying goodbye and then he has to have this on.
(18:57):
I think that's like, that's why this movie is so long.
You just had like 5, 10 minutes extra because of his completely
unprompted decision to live without saying goodbye.
Just say goodbye. You could still have your scene.
I don't. Think there's a single decision.
And I was like, Oh my God, OK, something different, unique.
Well, I know one. I thought about this.
It was I always wondered about is there any redeeming quality.
(19:19):
The one redeeming quality is that his, I would not say
transformation, but his his approach to the kids and the
team isn't jarring like how it evolves.
Right, yeah, That stuff come with when they go on the bus
thing and come back, he's like it's slowly baked.
He's taking care of them. He instead does not realize he's
(19:40):
doing. It Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's probably the. Only thing which feels like
yeah, like he's changing slowly,but because then they hammer you
the same thing half in a little bit dialogue like now, because
it insulted my intelligence. I knew to you like I understood.
I got the. Point, but only has only
insulted your intelligence. It has assumed that you think
like it does. Yeah, back to wrong, right?
(20:08):
Like. Complete garbage.
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Thanks for listening.
Hi. Welcome.
To the log deck this week we're discussing a new Aamir Khan
movie. So Tari Zamirbur.
Not a sequel to Tari Zamirbur inDespite the country's name, it's
Instead it's actually a remake of Spanish movie called
Champions from like 7 years ago or something, which was also
made in the US and other languages from what I know and
I'm not seeing in the original ones.
(00:36):
Yeah. What is going on in the room?
This is this is like one of those Desh Bhaktika movies that
you can't really complain about because then you're like anti
national, right? But yeah, this is like,
terrible. Yeah, like, I mean, well,
intentions does not make a good boobie.
Right. Yeah.
Also, like good intentions aside, like I don't know, like I
(00:56):
might be in the hyper minority, but like who would actively mean
harm towards forget, like neurodivergent people, but like
even others right in this world.I mean, people do, but I would
like to assume that nobody goes out to their way in regular life
to be like May. I'm going to, you know, I mean,
that's. What the we spend like 50
minutes on it is that Aamir's character essentially a stand in
(01:20):
for people who like judge peoplewho are not quote UN quote not
normal. And he's like, he's the guy who
shows up anything calling them, refuses to not call them
anything but Pagal, which is howhe gets sentenced to this job.
So I think that's the crowd likethe movie is aiming for.
Like it's like so blunt about it.
That's almost like annoying to adegree.
But what if you're not part of the car?
(01:41):
What are you supposed to do withthe movie?
Then we watch this idiot. That's my issue is like, it just
I feel like the movie's only built and why would they listen
to you, right if you're actuallypart of the crowd?
And if you go go in their face with like a hap and be like so
no, so no, so no so no for like 2 or 40 minutes.
Why was innocent to you? You could be right about it,
right? Do you remember that film Mimi?
(02:02):
I don't know if he did it on thepodcast many years ago.
No, I don't think I've seen it. OK.
So there was this movie called Mimi and then there was this
movie called Chori, right? And both of those movies ended
with like this huge like text onthe screen kind of statistics
about how female infanticide, etcetera.
How expecting that here, honestly, Yeah.
So I I remember thinking also like, nobody's going like no
(02:24):
child killer is going to watch Chori.
And I've changed my mind now. Yeah, You know, which is this
movie in a nutshell. Also like, why would like, why
would I? Why would you first of all,
assume that everybody in the world is like Amir's character?
No, they're not like we aren't like, and it's not like he's
mean towards just he's not like he's just saying Pagal, Pagal.
He gets fired for like assault, right?
(02:47):
Which he deserves he he deservesto be fired for that.
And he's like, but how could you?
Because. He's fired.
He's, by the way, like he's. They're.
OK with like, bringing him back at some point.
He's suspended. Socho And and he's like, how
could you like, man, it was Mahara.
I was cool. And then and then and then he's
like, he gets drunk, which itself is a crime.
(03:09):
And then he like, runs into a cop car.
Yeah, he'll crime. Yeah.
Right. And then.
And then he he has the entitlement to be like or what?
Yeah. And then he's being mean to his
wife, right. Whom he has been ignoring for
several days or the entire season, it's like.
Something like that. Like yeah, at least 1 / 2 weeks
when it starts. They have been living.
(03:29):
Some yeah, who does? He's in the Ayaki BV Kya Ogya,
though, because she's not livingwith him and he hasn't bothered
to. Kind of Also he's decided, OK,
because my wishes are superior than yours, so I will be the
crybaby here. And he's overall terrible.
It's not like Jen Mclub. Which isn't like Aamir Khan
wants to showcase that he believes that he's addressing
(03:51):
this crowd. Which?
But then it would have been so much more believable and so much
easier to kind of gain kind of like, an in into this movie if
you had just shown him to be a regular person who's going about
his life. But in this aspect, he's a
little backward, right? Which might be true of so many
people in the real world, except, like, this guy is like,
(04:12):
an outright criminal, like, really detestable person.
I'm like, is Kotosudhatnika pointing again?
Let him like, whatever. I don't even care about him.
Yeah. And first of all, why are we
watching this movie through his perspective, Right?
Important. If you're saying that which they
try to force fit and into dialogue toward the end is like
no metal coach, well, show me the movie.
(04:36):
Show me the movie from their point of view the entire time
there. Which I thought that he did the
last time around in Lal Singh Chadha.
The entire movie was from, you know, Sadaji ka point of view.
And the Sadaji was on the spectrum even though I don't
think they're saying in as many words.
But basically that movie was from his point of view.
And that's why that movie, I don't know if Ahmed has learned
(04:56):
the wrong lessons or whatever ofthis one was already off the
ground many years before that. But you know, that one flopped
and this one did well. So what does that say about
society? I don't think I'd save anything.
Over the years he has done this podcast.
We have seen enough movies whichwe are just like a Kodica
valuing it and then they do likeblockbuster business.
(05:18):
So those two things are in that book.
Forget it's movie, car, whateverweird kind of bizarre worldview,
which is like you are, you know,like everybody is basically a
terrible person. But we will instead present it
to be like this really broad comedy for some reason.
Yeah. So forget that for a minute.
It's really badly made also. Yeah.
(05:38):
That's my other problem, right? It's like, I would maybe like go
with the journey of this like annoying Indian manchild who is
going to like eventually be redeemed or whatever.
If like filmmaking was like evenlike 30% better.
But I like. My my ask is also like so
little, like I don't even expectto watch right, but like it's,
it's so bad. It's so bad, like consistently
(06:02):
it's bad for like ages. Like it's just scene of the
series. It's like criminally poor.
How would the camera focus like,yeah, top and I don't know who
told these people that whenever you have to shoot sports, you
have to just move things around very quickly.
So that I don't know, man, just,you know, pay attention to
somebody. Things first, every single
(06:22):
basketball scene is completely unnecessary.
It is not a sports movie. Please remove every sports
scene. Just show me like the face of
people on the bench, like unke reaction, know what's happening
because it's not like you're showing me anything worthwhile
in any basketball team. I have not like a by looking at
the basketball team, you will not feel any thrill or like how
the game is played or what happens in basketball here and
(06:43):
there or like stuff like that. You learn.
Nothing. You're supposed to take the
Queen's Gambit approach and things like this.
Yeah. Or, or even like one of those,
you know, like Juwala movies. Where you.
Where you like Casino Royale Yeah, but they think that they
made a fun where we need. To show.
(07:16):
Khan's face looks really weird for some reason.
Yeah, like they've done some, atleast for. 45 minutes, I think I
stopped paying attention after like the first star, but at
least the 1st 45 minutes he's got this like intentionally he's
made his like eyebrows arch so they're like lower in the center
and then they're like curving outwards.
Like if he's almost like, you know, like he's this man child
with anger issues or whatever. I think he's trying to portrait.
(07:36):
I'm like stop. Like his ear, it's so key.
I feel like they're protruding. His hair also feels like his
head like entire thing. I was like like he doesn't he's
trying to play what like is he? Is he in most like a 30 ish year
old? What is happening here?
I I think I, I was wondering about this because he's 60 in
real life. Yeah.
And it looks like they've spent a lot of money on like, just,
(07:57):
you know, smoothening out his face to make him look 30.
And then I'm like, wouldn't thismovie be better if this man has
lived 60 years of his life? I.
Think he's a washed out guy yeah, who's like achieved
nothing in his life and even at his lowest he's like ushered
terrible person and then maybe updating what does he need to be
30 ish just because you're to post?
But like a love story or something marriage thing into a
(08:20):
key like Bachani wise we can't be too old.
Otherwise like you'd outlaw Tesla or whatever.
And it's also so weird. I mean to like, I haven't seen
Genelia in ages. She's very bad.
Yeah, forget that. But like if I see Aamir like
romancing generally, like the last time I saw someone
romancing generally, I was like his nephew Imran and I'm just
like, what is happening? Like Bollywood, Like literally
like you went one generation up here and you were like harm, but
(08:45):
women can just play her again. I'm like what?
And they were so shameless. They're like, oh, Ahmed Khan's
somebody who's not, you know, like 20 opposite him.
And I'm like, that. I mean, she's still 30 years
younger. Yeah.
Actually, like, and this no respect for this.
Like, she could be playing his daughter, Yeah, but instead
she's playing his wife, you know?
You could still retain the love story and you could still retain
(09:07):
the redemption arc and you can still retain.
I mean, there are like 60 year old, 70 year old coaches in
India, right? Yeah, not unheard of.
Yeah, you can retain all those elements and make him play
someone closer to his actual age, and that immediately adds
like 2% more, you know, the gravity to the movie.
But instead, like, Ito Pura is like Japan.
(09:28):
It's like slapsticks almost. Yeah, this one.
Yeah, as far as full, it's like that's the way it's going for
three. There are sound effects to
ensure that you get the joke. And I'm like.
OK, And hop the I you know what the biggest problem and this
movie has so many problems that we've discussed already.
The biggest problem. I feel that towards the end when
he makes that speech that to spoke about a few minutes ago
(09:50):
where he's like many, that's like 2 1/2 hours into the movie,
right? Two hours, 15 or two hours and
50 minutes into the movie. And even then in his speech, he
is still saying he's still othering the community.
And the entire movie is supposedto be like, oh, let's normalize
this. Whatever.
No. But if you keep saying Yelog
(10:11):
vole log Yeah, and you keep highlighting that this team is
like a separate entity that doesnot exist in the real world and
they have come from some alien planet and instilled some sort
of wisdom into this man, that defeats the purpose.
You are still ordering them. It is not part of your And I
(10:32):
think that pura picture dikni kebaad has nobody sat down and
said, oh, perhaps our lens is a little like but I mean, they
made 12th field and gave it all the awards in the world.
So. That's the like, this is a full
like pad yourself on the back scenario.
That's what's happening here. They are like celebrating us.
Oh my God, look at us. He's spending crores building a
(10:52):
movie for these people. That's how they.
Say absolutely, yeah, he has this beard like it's like a
saviour complex, but yeah, he's like.
We need to create like a brown saviour genre term, you know,
for these people, because that'swhat they're doing.
In this point, he doesn't realize that by saying that no,
no, they saved me, that doesn't change the fact that, no, you
(11:12):
see yourself as the savior by making this movie.
Yeah. The world does not is not
confined inside the frames of this film.
It is. There is so much more context
too, right? You somebody spent money,
somebody hired you and like 20 minutes or 30 minutes.
Before that dialogue he like I think is at some point like they
(11:33):
reconcile, right? The husband and wife says things
to her face. She has known like 3 months ago.
I'm like this woman knows you were not on the correct page.
She knows what the problem was. And now you are explaining your
marriage constitution to the person who was already known.
And she's standing there smilingand she's like ha Gulshan, of
(11:55):
course I want us to be a couple.And I'm like, Oh my God, punch
him in the. Face I can't stand.
I didn't, I didn't. I haven't seen her in maybe
yours maybe since 2008, but. Yeah, yeah, this is pretty sure.
That's why I was like my first action was, wait, the uncle is
not romancing the same. Woman And my first reaction was
like, yes, it is a muscle and you need to exercise it and
(12:15):
clearly you will not be doing that.
It's so bad. Yeah, like the acting is so bad
in this movie from both these people.
Like Aamir Khan is like just terrible.
It's cringe. Aamir Khan, I feel like, is
deliberately like playing a fullon like, like he wants to like,
clearly play this character on like steroids.
And I'm like, no, you need to turn it down.
(12:36):
And takes no direction right at this point.
Yeah, yeah. I've heard like he's like ghost
directs. Movies so the first one he he
literally stole right from the original director.
That is the main one. But this one though like.
And that was like 18 years ago. So his stature is only like
solidified in their speech or atthis point, like I doubt it.
Things will change it. And he OK, so this guy has the
(12:59):
opposite problem too, like Salman Khan.
Salman Khan will show up, take no direction and be lazy.
This guy will show up, take no direction and just be on coke
the whole time. The problem is neither of them
is take only Shahrukh Khan is taking direction.
Yeah, and. It's like, it's so annoying that
like the Dal Dalkey is going badabout this guy is a
perfectionist. And I'm like, oh, like how?
Dare you? He's perfected the art of being
(13:21):
terrible. It's perfect, the art of like
them even PR around that. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, like. How is everyone still like using
that? Like are you blind when
watching? And you know, like in one, at
one point in this movie, he doesthat thing where he likes snarls
and he's like really angry and you can see it and it's the same
face. He did like Dil Chahta.
(13:41):
He like 25 years when he crashesthe wedding or something at the
end. So this year to comedy or most
serious dramatic moment. But there are face same don't
know where. That's not perfection.
So that's why Shahrukh Khan's national award, yeah.
Yeah, they'll give it to the What's that wholesome movie.
Yeah, yeah, Wholesome entertainment.
Yeah, social. National, national, national
(14:07):
something. Especially you have a code from
the guy at the front of the movie.
Yeah, built in like it's like XRDeco up two hours ago.
I went to watch 2 and it had like a literal 4 minute long
(14:29):
disclaimer which someone read inwords across 4 words.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Honestly, So I'll tell you. So it begins like as you were
expected to can. There are no semblance to any
person living dead, etcetera. We don't need to harmony, you
know, whatever, whatever. And then at some point I'm like
Karan Johar got so angry and then he's like up to my prank
(14:50):
Karunga towards the end, towardsthe end, it's like it's picture,
it's picture of a actors. It just went full parody.
Because the future of Bollywood at some point.
Well, it's like testing if you're paying attention because
toward. The end no right, no right,
(15:11):
because like I have predicted that all of our cinema chains
have a certain like buffer, right of like how many ads they
will show. So I, I predict key, this cinema
chain, the one for 10 minutes orlike key events, I will go in
accordingly. Like you kind of predict that in
I think 10 years we will start having to add like a additional
buffer like disclaimer then you will go in.
(15:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Full dystopia.
I know. It's like a Muslim person has
made the movie. Then you have to add five more
minutes. I'd like no this movie was made
by a non Hindu director. We apologize.
Full 5 minutes was mad when you do the maths in your head.
Oh so upper caste Hindu. We need to be on time.
Oh God. Yeah, nonsense a picture, but
(15:58):
this is like full 12 fail all. Yeah, no, like just complete
obliviousness. Real World Cup, which is ironic
because the movie is about that.Yeah.
How is the movie like 160 minutes long?
It convey the story in like how.They have, I'll tell you now
because they have that nonsense Mummy and Bridgendrakala.
Like as the biggest Bridgendrakala fan on this
planet even I was like they havea full sub.
(16:21):
That's why he's in the background.
For the 1st 50 minutes I thoughthe's going.
To turn into like a chef for theteeth.
And then it turns into like bizarrely towards and it turns
into like during the final match, it turns into American
Napoleon Complex. Yeah, he's like my.
Solution is and miraculously like it's not like he what he
(16:50):
had to come up with then was like a dual solution of like we
need to score right and they need to stop them also like
defence, it's a sport. But no, miraculously they saw
the first thing and second thingis automatically sock stalled
others team stop scoring for some reason.
I'm like, why are they stuck? What it like they can still pass
on up around. This master stroke you could
just imagine like hit like this is so like conceited some movie
(17:12):
now, like secretly, Sir, it's all about like Amir and his like
demons and like his guilt and his if you like, analyze it like
he's felt so bad about. I don't know what he's done in
his personal life, that this is just the kind of thing that
happens only when you're like, super guilty, right?
When Brad Pitt made like, do youremember when Brad Pitt
produced, like she said, women talking like 5 like feminist
(17:34):
movies? Because he was like, Oh my God,
like, I printed like, Angela is already very bad.
How do I redeem my image? I must like, yeah, what you just
did. It was like he's calling
attention to himself. It's like Dibakar Banerjee
almost. Well this one is like Aamir Khan
ka like all the all the complex is that he has faced in his life
(17:55):
was in this movie and I don't know.
If there's nothing interesting about it, right, it's not like
you're doing like great filmmaking and then you're doing
it like something poorly part ofit.
And you're like, OK, TK, I'll forgive that, you know, because
you're. A lot of great sport sports
movies are made very plainly, you know, and they follow the
formula and you're like, yes, wewe know what we're in.
(18:17):
But it's not like Scorsese has made.
It's not like raging, but you know, like a regular run of the
middle sports movie, like even that Kevin Costner where the
kids run in like. You know, are you just like what
are you mentioned 5 minutes away?
Have fun Like it's a very, very last story at the other day.
But highest level. Exactly so then like these are
two hours that it's happening. You're hoped scare body like
(18:37):
maybe like hence weren't like that rosy.
I don't know what I'd take away from the movie, but Kika like I
was enjoyed it when I was in there like what am I?
Why am I watching this? Why am I like pushing myself to
be like? What am I waiting for?
What grand thing is going to come at some point?
Even at the end he for some reason he decides to leave
without saying goodbye and then he has to have this on.
(18:57):
I think that's like, that's why this movie is so long.
You just had like 5, 10 minutes extra because of his completely
unprompted decision to live without saying goodbye.
Just say goodbye. You could still have your scene.
I don't. Think there's a single decision.
And I was like, Oh my God, OK, something different, unique.
Well, I know one. I thought about this.
It was I always wondered about is there any redeeming quality.
(19:19):
The one redeeming quality is that his, I would not say
transformation, but his his approach to the kids and the
team isn't jarring like how it evolves.
Right, yeah, That stuff come with when they go on the bus
thing and come back, he's like it's slowly baked.
He's taking care of them. He instead does not realize he's
(19:40):
doing. It Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's probably the. Only thing which feels like
yeah, like he's changing slowly,but because then they hammer you
the same thing half in a little bit dialogue like now, because
it insulted my intelligence. I knew to you like I understood.
I got the. Point, but only has only
insulted your intelligence. It has assumed that you think
like it does. Yeah, back to wrong, right?
(20:08):
Like. Complete garbage.
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