Ep 232- Amar Akbar Anthony- Patreon Pick

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[00:00:42] better content. Visit us at patreon.com slash khandaan podcast. Hi and welcome to a new

[00:00:50] episode of Khandaan Podcast. My name is Asim Verney and I'm joined with my lovely

[00:00:54] co-host Sujoy and Amrita. Hey Sujoy, hey Amrita. Hey everybody. Hello. Hello. Hello.

[00:01:00] I was wondering if you should do a proper intro like Asim and then you guys say your name and

[00:01:06] then I cut it together with the intro of the movie we're doing. You guys don't want to play?

[00:01:14] No. You will not even say your name during the entire podcast so I don't like editing

[00:01:22] anyway without your consent. I would just say Noor-e-Haq.

[00:01:33] So this episode we are doing a listener's pick and this is a pick from, so if you're part

[00:01:41] of one of the tiers of Khandaan Podcast, you can submit a movie and a few movies and then

[00:01:46] we can usually pick which one we want to do. On our Patreon, yes. That's kind of the only way.

[00:01:53] We do take requests if it's a very interesting request but we have a very long list so

[00:02:02] we might not get to it. You can get to us if you pay us. So the other thing is also

[00:02:08] this movie is like three hours and a bit long right? So it's worth the time in a way.

[00:02:15] So this was picked by our listener and friend Turtle Pirate and she says

[00:02:25] while I am in the same age bracket as all of you because of both being born and raised in

[00:02:31] Pardesi Jaga and due to a series of conditions put in place by my family, we mostly grew up

[00:02:37] on my parents movies from the 1950s to the 1970s and I didn't get into movies of the Khand

[00:02:43] era onwards until the late 90s. Amarak Baranthani is a childhood favorite that I keep coming back to.

[00:02:50] It's so chaotic and so fun, warm and quirky and pure masala at its best. A movie with

[00:02:56] absolutely no logic which profoundly defies the laws of physics and yet. The message is

[00:03:02] a bit longer. Lovely message. Guys how many times have you seen Amarak Baranthani in your

[00:03:09] lives? The limit does not exist. I can't even, I feel like I've always known Amarak Baranthani

[00:03:17] my entire life. So this is one of those movies that I had on VHS like of the box of Belgian

[00:03:25] VHS's I had Amarak Baranthani was on there so yes and the thing is a lot of people you

[00:03:33] know feel you know I can be a bit of a fan boyish about Salman Khan on this show which

[00:03:39] I can agree. You don't know my level of fandom of this era of Amitabh like it's crazy like

[00:03:48] seeing this movie and honestly guys I saw this movie like literally five weeks ago I watched

[00:03:54] it with my daughter because she loves like she's just going Anthony left and right Anthony

[00:03:59] left and right she just loves it. So I watched like 70% of it and then I was like okay I

[00:04:05] watched the last 30 minutes 30% for this episode we're recording now and then I went back and

[00:04:11] was hoping this is too awesome. So what was the last time you watched it? I can't remember

[00:04:20] to be honest like I haven't probably watched it in a long long time but still like re-watching

[00:04:26] it yesterday for the podcast well I watched it over a couple of days because my attention span is

[00:04:31] a bit haywire since I've been traveling etc. Sujoy is a millennial therefore he's part of

[00:04:39] the video generation he can't sit still. Yeah I'm I don't know what's happening to my attention

[00:04:45] span to be honest but well yeah I know exactly the TikToks ruined me you know in a way

[00:04:51] but I watched Amar Akbar Anthony over the span of a couple of days but it

[00:04:56] the moment you start this movie you I felt transported to a different era where there was

[00:05:02] only one source of entertainment and even then it felt like home do you know what I mean? This

[00:05:07] movie just transported me into the Dhur Darshan era watching all the songs on Rangoli and Chitra

[00:05:12] Har all the time. Even if you watch like some portions of the movie they are so so iconic

[00:05:17] this entire movie is iconic like whenever somebody says Bollywood masala this is the movie they're

[00:05:24] you know pinpointing to this is the epicenter of that you know it's such a pleasure to re-watch

[00:05:30] this and yeah I'm happy to be doing this. Amrita what was the last time? So I think

[00:05:38] you guys know this about me but I am a big like clips person like I'll watch I'll dip into

[00:05:45] something and I'll watch it for a little bit and like I'll re-watch my favorite bits

[00:05:49] that's how I'm a millennial now Amrita who's the millennial now?

[00:05:55] I watch Sephothi Baats on TikTok in heels that's how I watch movies

[00:06:03] Ultra Movie Parlor channel you can't believe what this drunk guy did next

[00:06:08] to me. So I like I keep watching like little clips so like the songs from Amarok Bihangri

[00:06:18] like every so often but I can't really remember the last time that I actually sat down and

[00:06:24] watched the entire thing but yeah I was telling Arsene when he was asking us like when we

[00:06:30] wanted to do this I was like immediately because I haven't sat down to watch it

[00:06:36] especially with like anything other than pure enjoyment like any kind of like critical sense

[00:06:41] I don't think I've ever watched Amarok Bihangri from like a critical standpoint so I was like

[00:06:47] yeah let's do this. Can I also say timing wise with what the elections going on in India

[00:06:55] could not be a better time to watch a movie called Amarok Bihangri. That thought did

[00:07:03] appear to me as I was watching it because yeah we'll come to it we'll come to it because the

[00:07:08] imagery in this film is not subtle like it is the very opposite of whatever subtle might be.

[00:07:16] Yeah I find it challenging to talk critically about this movie because I completely turn

[00:07:24] into a fanboy first of all and second of all literally like the most intelligent minds

[00:07:30] of you know cinema theory have written about this movie everybody's most movie and it's very

[00:07:36] difficult to add something new or something fresh at least like it's really this is going to be

[00:07:41] subjective and you know our own perspective as much as it can but yeah let's get into it.

[00:07:48] I don't think we need to explain the plot A because it's going to be unbelievably hard to do

[00:07:54] and it will make no sense.

[00:08:00] But yeah I think everybody kind of knows the story right of three brothers getting separated

[00:08:05] and then coming back together and being an allegory for you know New India or India of

[00:08:10] that era whatever you it's like a partition trauma I mean all of these things we kind

[00:08:15] of know right. Also like the emergency ended in the March of 77 and this movie came out

[00:08:22] in May 1977 so that's a big like historical milestone of the circumstances in which this

[00:08:29] movie came out. Yeah and I also have to say like this is like a typical masala Manmohan Desai

[00:08:36] movie but watching it in my mind of that time so many of these movies have gotten mixed

[00:08:43] together so like is it Naseeb, is it Kully, is it Nastik I sometimes don't know so like I

[00:08:49] was watching it when does Amitabh get angry at God you know when does Allah Raka come in

[00:08:58] is this the moment where Hemamanli rides a bike no?

[00:09:02] So it does kind of still mix together for me all of the shared Manmohan Desai Amitabh

[00:09:06] Achchan universe of everything everywhere all at once yeah yeah and the donut arrives at the end.

[00:09:14] What was the like key insight watching it this time Sujoy that you were like watching

[00:09:18] it and he's like shit I hadn't thought of it. I have completely forgotten there was a Robert

[00:09:24] and Bajaj and Mark kind of role Albert of the double role of Jeevan I had completely forgotten

[00:09:33] about that that was like what the hell I completely you know erase that from my memory.

[00:09:37] I think Manmohan Desai also forgot while making the movie he introduces this plot

[00:09:44] and really I don't know anything they do with it what do they do with it yeah

[00:09:49] what was Zibisco doing at an international banking conference like he

[00:09:54] also why is Zibisco wearing a poncho outside the church why does Zibisco do the things

[00:09:59] Zibisco does like sorry I'm getting into this like Zibisco kidnaps Jenny to marry her but

[00:10:06] he also wants a really elaborate one kidnapping

[00:10:14] I mean he's worked up this day for so long

[00:10:20] since Easter he's been thinking about absolutely um and also the whole uh obviously we grew up

[00:10:27] on the tapori accent of you know with Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff and then obviously

[00:10:35] Rangil as Aamir Khan but the original tapori you know

[00:10:44] this Amitabh Bachchan I completely forgot about that version of you know

[00:10:48] the Bombay accent of Amitabh Bachchan in this it was hilarious and amazing and also how

[00:10:55] Jeevan treats Pran um you know uh boot polish and then Pran does the same accent as a

[00:11:05] revenge it's hilarious that they have to copy the accent as well as a mark of status it's hilarious

[00:11:12] man yeah he also gets his revenge within 30 minutes I think you're done now there's no

[00:11:18] time to waste man in this movie there's like 90 000 movies happening at the same time

[00:11:24] in this movie there's no time to waste Amrita what was the like key new thing that you

[00:11:28] noticed watching this it wasn't a new thing it was just like a whole bunch of things

[00:11:33] just came together and I realized that we're watching the story of the most emotionally

[00:11:40] unstable family in Bollywood who were just saying something so many bad decisions

[00:11:49] and it starts immediately there is no like okay there's like a ramp up no no no it starts with

[00:11:56] walking in the door and immediately just losing his shit like there is like you know like

[00:12:05] like touching his feet for some reason and where is he coming from he's coming from prison

[00:12:10] the kids are starving and he's like can I ask how long was he how long was he in prison I

[00:12:16] don't understand these kids are very young these kids are very young he's wearing the same

[00:12:21] clothes that he went into it like you know but who are the kids like

[00:12:28] and then he's like didn't Robert say it send you any money and you but always like

[00:12:37] it's like literally starving at the kitchen the husband is his driver so it's still

[00:12:42] a monkey guy like he's probably driving drugs and gold on the road right

[00:12:48] yes and this man is like I've come in my my wife has TB my kids are starving what should

[00:12:54] I do first I will look at Robert's what what happens to this TB at the end

[00:13:01] never

[00:13:16] if you are talking about medical miracles the title drop of this movie happens when

[00:13:20] the blood transfusion is happening yes the world famous I mean there is no bigger cinema

[00:13:27] I mean world famous in India you know there is no more iconic Bollywood title drop than this

[00:13:36] a particular visual of the three sons giving blood to their mother that they don't don't

[00:13:41] know who their mother is but yeah yeah way in front like you haven't even gotten past the

[00:13:47] first five minutes because after this Ran goes and confronts Robert and then by the time he

[00:13:55] comes back home Nirupa Roy has full-on abandoned her family yeah she's like

[00:14:06] take care of the kids I'm done can I say also she's running full speed

[00:14:14] she's like Usain Bolting through the jungle and then Ran has the three kids

[00:14:21] and he's like he takes the three kids to some random park and he puts them at the feet of

[00:14:27] Ghanbiji's statue and then he's like you stay here I'll be back so of course the first thing

[00:14:33] the eldest kind is run after him and then falls down and then the second kid is like

[00:14:42] oh the baby is hungry I'll go get him a banana and then he runs away like what is happening

[00:14:51] I don't think that baby is ready for solids yet also like why are you bringing him so

[00:14:56] like hey Akbar cannot be a Kishan Lal's kid unless you go to jail for two weeks killing

[00:15:03] somebody I don't know what the laws were in the 70s maybe in the 70s it was like much

[00:15:07] shorter sentences you know but that kid does not look ready for solids and Anthony gets

[00:15:14] him like stale roti that he then eats under the church you know you know what there is

[00:15:19] a baby like Nirupar Roy is holding a tiny baby when Robert Sayed comes to recruit

[00:15:26] Kishan Lal for the prison statement so I think like that is the baby and then it became like

[00:15:31] a slightly larger baby by the time Kishan Lal came back. We saw this documentary that traumatized

[00:15:38] my wife it was about birds and I don't know which bird it was like a seagull or an albatross

[00:15:45] they sit on their nest and if one of the egg drops from the nest because a window or whatever

[00:15:52] they do not recognize that egg and the chick out of that egg anymore so if the chick drops

[00:15:57] from the nest they won't acknowledge him at all like it's a foreign person's like egg right

[00:16:05] that's Nirupar Roy in that archie ki gadi that she's sitting in.

[00:16:11] Oh that is like the most amazing thing too because like of course the eldest son

[00:16:16] is rescued by some policeman who's just like driving past and he's like we'll take this

[00:16:22] guy home then the middle child is sheltering from the rain and it happens to be a church

[00:16:28] and the father opens the door and it's like oh great like now we have another orphan but

[00:16:34] the baby there's one uncle who is like doing namaz in the middle of the park

[00:16:40] no no jaa namaz just rod he's just like he was like

[00:16:58] as another allegory the muslims do a lot of heavy lifting in this movie just generally

[00:17:03] it's not even just taking the baby they also save the woman they also give him lifetime skills

[00:17:09] that he can actually you know have a thriving business later on other muslims are also

[00:17:14] you know employing prostitution and having that hira mandi going on you know there's a lot

[00:17:19] going on and their tailors you know it's a lot like the the church guys like to

[00:17:24] daruka khanda khol le and the other guy is like meh police tuvi police you know

[00:17:30] then namaz wale uncle takes the baby home but on the way where exactly was nirupal

[00:17:37] rai running that's what i didn't want to understand because on the way she also gets rescued by the

[00:17:43] same namazi uncle when he when she's like blind like she's running through the forest

[00:17:50] and a tree falls on her head uncle na uncle boh door namaz parne gaye the park

[00:17:57] so

[00:18:04] and then anyone comes back home and there is this constable that lives in the mohalla

[00:18:11] and he's like ha tumare bache ho tumara pati mar gaya no investigation nothing because five

[00:18:19] minutes ago he was like

[00:18:40] and then and then this is why i love manohan desai because like any other movie they'd be

[00:18:47] like you know like we need to show the passage of time we need to do this we need to do that

[00:18:53] in amalat by anthony literally like amita bachchan turns around like that is how you know

[00:19:00] that times have changed and now the kids have all grown up but then it comes to like

[00:19:04] you know and it immediately starts with nirupal rai having another accident because how many

[00:19:10] accidents does this woman have in this film but anyway she again has an accident and she's

[00:19:16] like in the hospital and her um her doctor's boyfriend is rishi kapoor who's the baby in the

[00:19:23] park uh and uh uh vinod khanna was the eldest son and then why are we doing this while you're

[00:19:35] talking like this makes no sense

[00:19:46] basically like it's the symbolism that uh that you know sujoy was talking about so it's the

[00:19:53] mother's name is bharti and she is lying you know like very suggestively in the middle and

[00:19:58] then amar akbar and anthony or actually it should be amar anthony akbar but like i guess

[00:20:05] sound is good um they're like giving her their blood and none of the brothers know that they

[00:20:11] are brothers but they are united in saving the life of their mother man but yeah and also there's

[00:20:20] different faiths just if that was not clear with just the name itself right that whole

[00:20:26] thing that they're doing um yeah uh we need to break these down like we need to break them

[00:20:32] down and their stories one by one because this movie i i read that it wasn't even shot like it

[00:20:37] was very much shot in different sequences and they just came together for certain set uh for

[00:20:43] the finale and for some of the fights and things like that but everything was kind of done pretty

[00:20:47] much separately uh apparently vinod khanna wasn't even gonna get like a love interest in this

[00:20:52] movie convince shabana azmi so let's start with vinod khanna um or and shabana azmi or

[00:21:00] how i used to call them the boring couple um because it starts well you know it it starts

[00:21:07] really well uh you know shabana azmi in some kind of heramandi situation nadira is being

[00:21:13] full malik ajan over there you know it comes in as the ultimate ranjit that akshay kumar

[00:21:24] does in the house full movies and he doesn't even get a name change like

[00:21:36] they wrote the role that morning and then they called him up and they were like

[00:21:41] so he saves her from her mom uh her stepmom and ranjit runs away his poor dadi is sitting

[00:21:50] there too what does he do to the dadi because he says come into my house live with me which is

[00:21:58] super inappropriate shabana azmi has been trafficked

[00:22:05] but what does he do with the dadi because the dadi i think he kills the dadi

[00:22:09] yeah

[00:22:19] like dadi has uh dadi has like you know like these really like the kind of earrings that

[00:22:25] you can buy at 8 am today and she's like saving it for shabana's wedding apparently

[00:22:32] and nadira has like one of the best lines she's just like

[00:22:40] oh

[00:22:49] i'm just saying let's not downplay what she says she goes for 11

[00:22:56] like turn it off you know and then yeah so then it turns out uh yeah so it turns out like

[00:23:05] binod khanna is amal and he is now a police officer just like the guy that rescued him

[00:23:11] and yeah and then he just like the so this is like a theme right because in

[00:23:19] what is it zanjeet as well like amitabh bachchan who's in jaya badri to his house

[00:23:25] and then he's like you're a witness in the case you can come stay with me

[00:23:30] can i also just say why was like live-in relationships such a big storyline in 2005

[00:23:36] when it was already happening in amar agbar anthony like

[00:23:40] what is this like this is a live-in relationship what are we talking about here

[00:23:44] uh so i think nothing really important happens with the below than shabana until the end where

[00:23:48] he suddenly also can play 50 instruments right when the whole happens right i understand the

[00:23:57] agbar and um what's her face neetu sings salma uh their relationship i understand parveen

[00:24:03] bhabhi's and amitavachan's relationship but all of a sudden the shabana and we know kind

[00:24:09] of singing uh that comes out of from nowhere that their love story is the

[00:24:15] like the least explored and even their stories even is the least explored

[00:24:25] i did notice one thing about that particular song and that is uh you know like it's see

[00:24:31] this is the kind of like we say that these movies um are manic and they you know they

[00:24:37] make no sense blah blah blah but there is always an internal logic to these films which

[00:24:42] i think a lot of masala movies today forget and you can really see that in this particular song

[00:24:50] because when anthony it starts with you know amitabh bachchan and parveen bhabhi like

[00:24:56] jenny and anthony on a boat and uh he says god promise you know

[00:25:01] um

[00:25:03] and then when it shifts to um amr and uh i can't even remember shabana's uh characters name

[00:25:11] me

[00:25:26] the song says uh

[00:25:30] and then when it's uh you know it's uh and uh then he says

[00:25:37] you know and it's that it's that little thing where it it's not like a giant thing or anything

[00:25:44] but it follows the logic of what this movie is doing you know and it's so good i love it it's

[00:25:52] so simple you know it's like it's like the power rangers you know when they're in the suit

[00:25:56] it's a red suit but when they're out the suit it's also a lot of red and black than

[00:26:00] the wedding you know logic sense

[00:26:05] since we're talking about it it's one of the most iconic songs of in bollywood history because

[00:26:10] it's the only song in which kishore kumar mohamad rafi and mukesh are singing at the same time

[00:26:15] in the same time right also for all the ladies

[00:26:22] second story is uh you know rishi and neetu story um

[00:26:30] wait before we even go any further okay so i want to know asim like if you had so you have a

[00:26:37] daughter yes your daughter became like a really like um like a beautiful doctor she's like

[00:26:44] really amazing at her job and everything and like the girlie

[00:26:52] guy that was the guy that wanted to like you know marry her and was like following her out

[00:26:56] what would be your response in short asim if you are tayyabali

[00:27:05] imagine you are tayyabali this one or not the problem with tayyabali is his argument gets weak

[00:27:11] because he's going to prostitute so that's the problem with tayyabali like every like

[00:27:17] he would have had more hand in the discussion but he basically loses it because of you know

[00:27:24] sinful ways tayyabali don't be a sinner yeah like that's that's that's

[00:27:32] it's the discussion like she had the trump card like

[00:27:42] also prostitute burnt the house down and yeah like

[00:27:45] um

[00:27:54] right having said that the two like big kawali scenes uh

[00:28:05] is the bollywood kawal like nobody can stand to that image what a show show man man like

[00:28:12] he's not just a kawal by the way he's the king of kawali if you have seen the poster right like

[00:28:18] he's the king of kawali is there any question there is no lie there is no lie but the thing

[00:28:23] is akbar is really living the instagrammer influencer life he has tons of followers

[00:28:30] tons of fans but he's still a tailor and he needs to make his money

[00:28:34] yeah

[00:28:40] we're like way ahead of times here you know he also has like a pin mobile

[00:28:48] like what is it i love that

[00:28:51] like

[00:29:01] can i go then also to the shirdi one is saibaba song which i and like the thing is you watch a

[00:29:09] movie as a kid you just accept what's whatever's going on now you watch something and you google

[00:29:15] like i was like who is shirdi baba i don't know like i was like because it's a funny thing because

[00:29:22] it's like this is at my thought this was like an islamic muslim person doing a kawali and

[00:29:29] this is like some islamic portrayal that i thought right and maybe it's just in india

[00:29:33] that they do this and stuff so i was like i didn't even know who should be

[00:29:37] wali baba is so i would suggest people you know uh google it's interesting it's just like

[00:29:44] what was this thing i never i understand like apparently the reason why that song was included

[00:29:51] in that film like originally that song wasn't supposed to be there but it was shot at the

[00:29:57] last minute or something because manmohan desai had just become a follower of shirdi wali

[00:30:02] saibaba so suddenly he was like

[00:30:05] so

[00:30:15] which was like a established like hindu practice and like you know like people knew who santoshima

[00:30:21] was and all and there was that jai santoshima movie yeah so everybody knew who that was but

[00:30:26] then this shirdi baba thing had also just started and manmohan desai basically became

[00:30:32] a follower and he was like oh like i need to have something in there

[00:30:41] and like this is the the like the the biggest saibaba movement song ever to come out of

[00:30:49] balochistan yeah because i literally had these muslims were like super into it

[00:30:54] like they're into it they're like they've committed i was like wow interesting like

[00:31:01] just watching it now i was good i was like wait a minute i just never had that moment where i was

[00:31:07] like what because he clearly also has magic powers because a he commands the power of cobra

[00:31:13] because he stops uh and jeet and robert kind of you know uh chasing us after niropa but

[00:31:19] also then the flame thing where it fits exactly the her eyes i mean that is better special effects

[00:31:27] than like a lot of movies that are being made now it still works it works it 100 works you know

[00:31:34] um yeah i mean it's worked emotionally it works even you know uh computer cgi it works

[00:31:41] for me like i'm in you know i'm as in as those muslims actually give up i'm as in

[00:31:47] for this movie if i mention another special effects that i found found out this time around um it was

[00:31:54] in my name is anthony gonzalves when jenny and anthony have a moment when they're running

[00:31:59] at each other in slow motion so if you see the side frame uh the the sides of the left

[00:32:05] and the right sides of the frame are masked out or they are a different frame than the

[00:32:08] middle bit where they are running in slow motion because the sides you can see the side

[00:32:12] dancers and the background dancers they are dancing in normal speed but in the middle they

[00:32:16] are running in slow motion oh wow something i picked out it was amazing nice nice what do

[00:32:21] you what do you guys think of nitu singh in this it's i mean i love nitu singh right like

[00:32:28] she's like she's lovely but also i realized the other day that she must have been like

[00:32:36] 16 17 in this film like when it came out because she was like 21 or something when

[00:32:43] she got married and that was in 1981 so she can't have been more than 17 or like 16 when

[00:32:50] she made this film which is insane to me there's this meme right about like how people back in

[00:32:56] the day just looked older like all of them like for nitu singh that's like really the case i

[00:33:01] think i don't know she she yeah i mean she's great like even if she's 16 or 17 i think

[00:33:07] she's like an amazing performer in this you know she has some like that operations theme scene

[00:33:13] where she has like the little thing on her mouth and like robert is like to operation car to

[00:33:18] operation car she's just oxygen mask on and then there's niruparai doctor sab darwaza

[00:33:26] i don't give a damn about sterilization of operator room right you know i'm bringing this pollen

[00:33:37] gift thing i brought she just shows up anywhere with

[00:33:42] who and she's like

[00:33:49] her sales technique in call centers she does not take no for an answer

[00:33:56] her margins aren't great her margins aren't great because she's basically giving them away

[00:34:01] but she's not taking no for an answer a b c you know yeah there's a there's a scene where

[00:34:07] like she goes to the police station to give winnow another flowers and he's like

[00:34:23] coming back to nitu singh the her and like the salma and agbar's love story is already

[00:34:29] established when we get introduced to them they are already in love they are trying to be

[00:34:33] alias lovers and whatever and i think not much needs to be said because the chemistry of rishi

[00:34:39] erishi and nitu is just like on fire like every every time they appear on screen like you believe

[00:34:45] they are in love it's a ramlila chemistry people that are absolutely banging in their

[00:34:53] and the man the myth we have to talk about now amitabh you know i mean this is amitabh's

[00:34:59] movie like there's no like we i made it and like i calmed myself down talking about other

[00:35:04] boring people but this is this is literally amitabh's movie like he gets through the best

[00:35:09] songs the best characters he has comedy his action yeah he's just anthony gonzalez is a

[00:35:16] loki magician he floats over the air and that thing where he like shuts the curtains down

[00:35:21] just by whistling never explained he's jedi he's doing stuff that nobody plus he also breaks

[00:35:29] the fourth wall he's like what he's talking to us i was like what didn't see that happening

[00:35:36] in a 77 movie right oh man uh there is a particular line in this movie where

[00:35:42] uh you know anthony gonzalez in the end appears as a father when robert is saying

[00:35:48] is

[00:36:07] he dresses so well like all of his fits are amazing like who could wear so many leather jackets without

[00:36:14] any shirts and still look good and it's not just like he's wearing leather jackets without

[00:36:20] any shirts but they're also like really short jackets and they keep riding up every time he

[00:36:26] has an action scene and you can see like his co-stars don't know where to put their

[00:36:31] hands when they're having the fights because you see them like going like oh no that's his

[00:36:36] but i can't touch it yeah they don't know how to deal with the fabulousness that is

[00:36:44] which is a good fighting technique i have to say it's actually quite efficient that

[00:36:50] just make it awkward for your opponent you know

[00:36:55] so all all the collars are too big you know all the sleeves are too short

[00:36:59] but he looks amazing like the only man that can rock a white suit and i want to get back

[00:37:04] to like the tapori accent right like because he's so good at it right and secondly he the

[00:37:12] thing he does is he doesn't lose it in the emotional sequences yeah he still has it when

[00:37:17] he's talking to niropa roy he still has it when he's talking to robert when he's talking to

[00:37:21] amar when he has that scene when he realized that robert has actually shot a police one

[00:37:27] and it's not the jali ryan away he keeps the accent and having seen so many recent

[00:37:32] movies with you know tiger shroff doing it or we saw the chandu champion trailer we saw crack

[00:37:42] i did i watched crack

[00:37:45] and you harrowed but our listeners won so joy

[00:37:52] this is not it's hard to pull off and literally like only the real stars can do it amitabh

[00:37:59] jackie shroff anil kapoor salman khan uh these are the people these are the people that can pull it

[00:38:09] off nobody else can pull it out it's amazing uh but yeah we have to also just say tadir khan

[00:38:14] is like we've not mentioned we haven't mentioned the name but i feel his name doesn't get

[00:38:18] mentioned enough when we're talking about how good this movie is and we think about those

[00:38:23] dialogues we think about you know olympic race so you know like yeah you know this

[00:38:29] is a kadir khan dialogue because he said that same dialogue similar with govinda coming out

[00:38:35] of his own mouth later on right in the 90s so this is uh it's it's so amazing um and then

[00:38:42] parveen bhabi who looks like a gajillion bucks in this movie oh my god like the the

[00:38:49] moment like jenny shows up with her giant hats her teared gowns like oh my god that

[00:38:57] long skirt when she gets kidnapped with the leather shirt oh my god like i was like oh my

[00:39:04] i get the bisco i understand the villain like i get why he got so upset and also she gets to

[00:39:11] be funny you know she and i think that's something that parveen bhabi yeah managed

[00:39:15] to do a lot be funny and uh yeah and we have to give a shout out to lachmika and kriyare

[00:39:21] lal who did the music because this is like one of the all-time great soundtracks of indian cinema

[00:39:27] yeah of like indian cinema i would say honestly and i knew the songs like all the other songs

[00:39:33] like i was singing along to every single song and i've been playing all the songs ever since

[00:39:39] i said uh you know like since i watched this one from start to finish and it's still great

[00:39:44] they just what is your favorite song oh that's a tough tough one for me it's andini gondalves

[00:39:50] like then maybe not like i would say oh this is my favorite or like listening to it but watching

[00:39:57] it i think this is such a iconic song with like the perfect singing and you know the uh

[00:40:04] juxtaposition of the exuberance of all of that like it's such a perfect song um

[00:40:11] yeah more hemoglobin in the atmosphere yeah i think it's the climax song like you know

[00:40:19] like that is probably it because it just has everything and also it's such a versatile song

[00:40:24] that you can use it in like multiple situations like there are like times when i just find

[00:40:29] myself singing that song to cheer myself up you know so how they play with the voices the

[00:40:34] layering like yeah and then the two voices three you know yeah it's so good it's like

[00:40:41] i have to say like um muhammad rafi sings for rishi kapoor in parda hai parda as well as shiv d

[00:40:47] baba and also in hum kothum se ho gaya pe and in amar agbar anthony the last song um

[00:40:54] shailendra singh is singing for rishi kapoor who is like the sp bala subramanium for us

[00:40:59] alman khan is shailendra singh for rishi kapoor and it's like it's that connection gives me

[00:41:04] goosebumps and like that final song is also it's such a happy moment for me because it's

[00:41:09] the culmination of all the obstacles that these three brothers have you know faced all their life

[00:41:14] and they come together in this uh you know a final fight as well as like the comedy of it

[00:41:20] and the you know yeah it's such a joyous joyous uh bollywood song like yeah that's what

[00:41:27] it is it's a bollywood song it's a bollywood song a few things that i noticed watching this

[00:41:33] movie again now um two two things i for the first time in my life saw in this uh movie was

[00:41:41] bulletproof vests um front and back yeah which now that i've watched those are stab vest those

[00:41:48] are not bulletproof vests or either it's medieval chainmail i don't know what he's wearing

[00:41:53] uh but it works because nobody shoots anybody in the face anywhere in the 70s right so that

[00:41:57] that's really cool also i realized um there's way too many unnecessary back flips and unnecessary

[00:42:04] headlocks when they're doing fights and like really weird moves they'll be lying on the

[00:42:08] floor and then do a kick upwards which doesn't like that's not an effective way to like i was

[00:42:14] watching it like how these people are fighting and they're like like there's a scene where

[00:42:18] vinod khanna does a reverse uppercut slap and i was like these are not good fight moves

[00:42:23] plus they're not built at all they have like like these skinny arms coming out of these banyans

[00:42:27] when they're doing this

[00:42:30] that scene basically which was so traumatic for me as a kid because i cannot accept

[00:42:36] that amitabh gets his ass handed in this movie twice not once twice zubisko gets him

[00:42:43] and then also the boring guy gets him it's insane to me i was just mad like just walking

[00:42:48] around mad uh but yeah looking at their fighting skills in the 70s i was like i think i could beat

[00:42:54] up my dad actually these guys have no skills oh man one thing i remember though like watching

[00:43:02] this uh that i had forgotten before was there's a helen cameo in this yeah helen gets so mistreated

[00:43:12] and she's credited as fake jenny yeah fanny what happens to her she just like vanishes

[00:43:19] there's no like oh like this is what happened oh she's just like that and then i think

[00:43:24] has already moved on to the next movie by then i think robert's twin and fake jenny

[00:43:31] got together in that you know and went to london yeah yeah i'm an international banker in new york

[00:43:39] okay

[00:43:43] and the station cars also like the cars are really weird like in this in this movie like

[00:43:49] nobody can drive them everybody has like you know like the tailor that like rescues rishi as a

[00:43:55] baby um then rishi's own car that has like you know like the qawwali pin mobile like it's just

[00:44:05] yeah everything everything is just like that up 11 it's amazing it's amazing i was also amazed

[00:44:12] like just how much this movie works how much it's i mean you know like it's i just had a

[00:44:17] great great time and i think i needed it this week more than any you know yeah yes i want to

[00:44:22] thank turtle pirate like it doesn't always happen but thank you this was literally literally

[00:44:28] the medicine we needed this week um and it still was amarak baranthani is that tonic

[00:44:34] if you haven't watched it in a while watch it it's not great on youtube there's way too

[00:44:39] many she maru ad breaks in it it's very tough to watch um sujoy final words on amarak baranthani

[00:44:46] i get youtube premium and no ads

[00:44:52] but uh youtube aren't sponsoring our podcast so shame on them yeah amarak baranthani if

[00:44:57] you love bollywood then this is the movie to check it out like you will definitely get a taste

[00:45:01] of the best of bollywood of the 70s or 80s whenever you um you know pick your decade i

[00:45:07] i guess but this is amitabh bachchanan in his prime this is the dreamiest that parvin bhabhi

[00:45:12] has looked the songs by laxmi kanth are the best but the hero for me is are the dialogue

[00:45:17] by kather khan it's yeah um amazing amazing amazing amir khali i mean i could be i mean i

[00:45:25] guess we all could talk about this movie for ages and ages um it is honestly like everyone said that

[00:45:32] sholay is the greatest hindi film of all time i think amarak baranthani is the greatest film

[00:45:38] of all time and i just want everyone to also realize that manmohan desai was very invested

[00:45:44] in business like he wasn't just making movies for the art of it he you know there's like

[00:45:49] stories there's this bbc documentary where they followed him around and they were doing

[00:45:54] like an interview about this process etc and he was talking about like how you know like when

[00:46:00] he'd go for the first day first show of his films if people got up in the middle to go

[00:46:04] to the bathroom he'd yell at them and he'd be like do it in your seat don't leave um so

[00:46:11] this was not a man who was like um you know like making movies like this for a higher

[00:46:17] purpose as such he was doing this because he thought that this was a message that could sell

[00:46:22] and i don't know well i do know when bollywood decided that this is not something that will

[00:46:28] sell anymore and that is a shame because honestly a more inclusive approach will always

[00:46:35] always deliver a better product that will that will affect a lot more people than something

[00:46:43] and that is exclusionary and that's trying to like you know just cut down your audience

[00:46:49] further and further so one last thing that i wouldn't mention that you know from the whole

[00:46:55] manmohan desai school of filmmaking we've gotten so many many other filmmakers especially

[00:47:00] the one that i would like to mention is farah fan and all our movies have a certain

[00:47:05] nod or an homage to the manmohan school of filmmaking and it's fantastic that that's why

[00:47:10] we got mehuna that's why we got om shanti om is the the reason is manmohan desai

[00:47:17] so thank you again turtle pirate if you want to suggest the movie join our patreon from one

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[00:47:26] explaining contact to the oblige um i had an amazing time thank you for suggesting this movie

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