Ep 255- Bollywood 2024 Wrap-Up: Looking Ahead to 2025 (Part 2)

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[00:00:48] Okay, so second part. Let's start here with our... Let's start with the worst of, maybe. That would be a good idea.

[00:00:57] What were the pits? What were the horrible movies that... Or even like, not just the pits, but also movies that just disappointed you.

[00:01:03] Maybe you thought you had higher hopes of it and then they were just not... They didn't deliver. So, maybe we want to get into that.

[00:01:13] Pitu, we want to go first? What are your biggest disappointment or your worst...

[00:01:17] I was very disappointed in Vicky Vidya's video. I really like Rajkumar Rao. I really like him. And I have mixed feelings about Tripti Dimri.

[00:01:26] I feel like when she's good, she's so good. And when she's not good, she's just kind of like there.

[00:01:33] Like, I still absolutely love her performance in Bulbul. I really loved her in Laila Majnu as well.

[00:01:38] Although I will say Laila Majnu is in a Vyrashti Bari movie. And I thought she was fine in Kala.

[00:01:43] I mean, she was decent in Kala. I just didn't like Kala, but that's not her fault.

[00:01:47] But then I saw her in Vicky Vidya and I was like, what are you doing? I don't understand what you're doing.

[00:01:54] Rajkumar Rao was irritating in this movie and I'm almost never annoyed by him.

[00:01:59] It was just so silly and contrived and the side characters were irritating.

[00:02:05] I did not find myself rooting for anyone.

[00:02:07] Honestly, the only good thing about Vicky Vidya was Vijay Rao, who was always amazing.

[00:02:12] And Malika Sharawad, she has such great screen presence.

[00:02:17] I had a big smile on my face every time she would come on screen and her like saris and her very chamak challo avatar.

[00:02:23] And watching the sort of very filmy masala song that Vijay Rao and Malika Sharawad do,

[00:02:29] that was like the high point of a terrible film.

[00:02:32] So I'm very glad that I did not see this movie in the theater because I would have been very upset if I had.

[00:02:38] I think Tripti Dimri is the star, is going to be the star.

[00:02:45] Really?

[00:02:46] My stock in Tripti Dimri.

[00:02:48] Like I think the way, not only because she's, no, I'm sorry, not only because she has the animal bhabhi number two thing.

[00:02:56] She has the right wing incel push.

[00:02:58] She's already delivered like, you know, the critical acclaimed film nerd crowd with the colors and the, you know, the early work that she did.

[00:03:08] Laila Majnu fandom, she has the rom-com thing.

[00:03:10] And the push she is getting from media, from fashion, from influencer for every, she's on every podcast.

[00:03:18] I think she is going to just like blow up.

[00:03:21] Like she's going to leave everybody behind.

[00:03:23] I'm buying stock in Tripti Dimri for sure.

[00:03:26] Although it's not enough to either make me watch Bad News or the one you talked about with the, I haven't watched either of those, but I will, I will.

[00:03:35] Any others that were kind of?

[00:03:37] I would say she's very smart.

[00:03:38] I mean, she's doing all these different things, right?

[00:03:40] Like I don't want to watch Bad News, but I think it was a strategic choice to do it.

[00:03:44] I mean, you're getting a chance to star opposite Vicky Kaushal and Good News was a hit.

[00:03:47] So like, why not?

[00:03:48] I mean, I think she's very smart.

[00:03:50] And I also think she has no competition right now.

[00:03:53] And she did this interview.

[00:03:55] I don't know who she did the interview with.

[00:03:56] And I loved her response.

[00:03:58] She was like, she has a song in that movie where Tarapna Parta Hai, something like that.

[00:04:02] Oh God, yeah.

[00:04:03] Yeah.

[00:04:03] And it got like trolled about choreography.

[00:04:06] She looks horrible and stuff like that.

[00:04:07] And her reaction was like, I'm trying.

[00:04:09] I'm new to this.

[00:04:10] And I have to try these things.

[00:04:12] And it's okay to be bad at these things.

[00:04:14] And I thought that was like such a refreshing way to deal with this.

[00:04:18] I thought that was kind of cool.

[00:04:19] I was like, you know, it's a long race.

[00:04:24] Any other in your top worst or any other names that you want to mention, Pitu?

[00:04:29] I was disappointed by Madgao Express.

[00:04:32] So I really wanted to love it because I love the Hangover movies.

[00:04:37] And I'm not saying that Madgao Express needs to be as good as Hangover.

[00:04:40] But I think part of it was that I love Kunal Khaimu.

[00:04:44] I love Go, Go, Agan.

[00:04:46] I like that whole stoner thing that he does.

[00:04:48] I like all the stoner movies that Hollywood makes as well.

[00:04:50] So I think this potentially could have been a problem of having very high expectations and those expectations not being met rather than the movie itself being bad.

[00:04:59] Because that cocaine scene with Pratik Gandhi, that was amazing.

[00:05:04] There was a lot of stuff.

[00:05:05] And I love Avinash Tiwari because I've seen him in Khaki the Bihar chapter and of course Laila Majnu.

[00:05:11] So I'm team Kunal Khaimu.

[00:05:13] I'm team Avinash Tiwari.

[00:05:15] And so I thought I would like it.

[00:05:16] And I don't know who that other actor's name is.

[00:05:19] It's not Pratik Gandhi.

[00:05:20] It's not Avinash Tiwari.

[00:05:21] It's the third guy.

[00:05:21] I thought he was hysterical.

[00:05:24] Right.

[00:05:25] Oh, the con man.

[00:05:28] Yeah.

[00:05:28] But I don't know the actor's name.

[00:05:30] But I thought he actually did a really good job.

[00:05:32] And there was so much hype about this movie.

[00:05:35] And people were like, oh, if you like Go, Go, Agan.

[00:05:37] If you like Kunal Khaimu and you like whatever, then you're going to love this movie.

[00:05:40] So I was excited.

[00:05:42] And the premise is so good, right?

[00:05:43] These guys go on a trip to Goa.

[00:05:45] And then all these crazy things happen.

[00:05:47] And then Kanchan Koburi.

[00:05:48] I thought it would be great.

[00:05:49] And I just was so disappointed by it.

[00:05:52] I was like, I would rather just watch Hangover for like the fifth time.

[00:05:56] So yeah.

[00:05:58] Divyandru Sharma.

[00:05:59] He was amazing.

[00:06:03] Amrita, let's go to you.

[00:06:04] Oh, I'm a hater.

[00:06:09] Long back.

[00:06:10] Like everybody that listens to the podcast knows this about me.

[00:06:13] But this year, I did very well in like protecting my peace.

[00:06:23] So anytime that I had even the slightest incline that this was going to be a turkey, I was like, you know what?

[00:06:31] Let me not watch it.

[00:06:33] Nice.

[00:06:33] And that really helped me because I was making that list of like all the movies that I watched this year.

[00:06:39] And I was like, oh, I actually didn't watch that many terrible movies.

[00:06:44] Not because there weren't any terrible movies, but because I saved myself.

[00:06:48] I was my own knight in shining armor.

[00:06:51] I saved myself from like watching a whole bunch of things.

[00:06:55] I also want to give a shout out to my place of work for drowning me in more work than I could handle.

[00:07:02] And therefore, I didn't have enough time or mental peace to be watching terrible movies.

[00:07:08] So good for me.

[00:07:09] But of the movies that I did watch, first of all, I would like to say that both Ulaj and Dopati,

[00:07:20] which just held up as, you know, testaments to feminism.

[00:07:29] Both of them were stupid AF.

[00:07:32] Like I literally sat in the theater watching Ulaj and was, I just wanted to slap Janui's character.

[00:07:40] Like I, this was like, she was like the most stupid character that I have seen in like such a long time.

[00:07:49] Like the writing for this movie was so bad.

[00:07:52] It wasn't even Janui's performance.

[00:07:53] Like Janui was fine as an actor.

[00:07:55] But the writing for this movie was so stupid.

[00:08:00] My God.

[00:08:00] Like it felt like it was mocking me and was like, nyah, nyah, nyah.

[00:08:04] I got your money.

[00:08:06] Like that's how I felt.

[00:08:07] Like it, like it was, it felt like a mugging.

[00:08:09] That's how bad this movie was.

[00:08:11] You saw this in theaters?

[00:08:14] I watched this in the theater.

[00:08:15] There was like me and like three other people.

[00:08:17] See, that's the problem.

[00:08:21] Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm sympathizing with you Amrita, but it's very hard to sympathize with you when you tell me you paid money and took the trouble to go to a theater and sat in a seat and watch the thing.

[00:08:32] That is what I do for this podcast.

[00:08:34] And I don't think people like appreciate me enough for it.

[00:08:39] Please sign up to Patreon so we can keep sending Amrita to watch movies like this.

[00:08:44] Yes.

[00:08:45] Yes.

[00:08:45] Yes.

[00:08:46] Um, then also Do Patti was again a movie that just wanted to insult my intelligence because there is, uh, Kajol as Raja Babu, you know, like, uh, just going around being like, I am inspector.

[00:09:02] I am lawyer.

[00:09:03] I am mother.

[00:09:04] I am this.

[00:09:06] I am that.

[00:09:06] And I'm just like, I hate all of you.

[00:09:08] Um, and it's hard to not take this personally, Amrita.

[00:09:13] I'm just saying.

[00:09:17] Especially after I was nodding along with Asim, I was like, yeah, you know, Kreeti really blew me away.

[00:09:22] And Amrita is like, both of you are stupid.

[00:09:25] You don't come to camera, you don't realize it's a man.

[00:09:28] I know.

[00:09:29] Why does he kill the man?

[00:09:34] I can't.

[00:09:35] Yeah.

[00:09:35] Like, no, I just, I cannot.

[00:09:37] I absolutely cannot.

[00:09:38] Um, another movie that I really hated this year.

[00:09:41] And I'm sorry.

[00:09:42] I don't know.

[00:09:44] I think he's supposed to shit.

[00:09:46] It's really nice.

[00:09:49] Number one movie.

[00:09:51] Number one movie.

[00:09:53] Absolutely.

[00:09:54] We should get Amrita's shirt that says, I see stupid people.

[00:10:00] I'm actually going to make a t-shirt that says that.

[00:10:04] Um, but, uh, yeah, my, my apologies to all the Malayalam film bros who are going to get their patties and a twist over this.

[00:10:11] But I loathed Arbu Jain with them, uh, which was the goat life with Prithviraj.

[00:10:17] It was so shit, bro.

[00:10:19] Like, I cannot begin to tell you.

[00:10:21] Again, this was the story of a very stupid person, right?

[00:10:24] Like, and I have some amount of sympathy for this person because he was like from a village.

[00:10:29] He didn't know what he was getting into.

[00:10:31] But for the love of God, do not go into a Middle Eastern country and then hand over your passport to the first Arab that you see.

[00:10:38] Like, no, nothing good can come out of that, you know?

[00:10:43] Like, everything that happened after that, I was like, yeah, yeah, uh, that's what I would expect would happen to you in, like, Saudi Arabia.

[00:10:50] If you just, like, wandered out of the airport and was like, hey, are you my friend?

[00:10:55] Here's my passport.

[00:10:57] I'm like, you know what?

[00:10:59] Yeah, that's exactly what's going to happen, bro.

[00:11:01] Is this the goat movie?

[00:11:03] Yeah, yeah.

[00:11:05] That's how I know it's the goat movie.

[00:11:06] Yeah, I call it the goat fucking movie because apparently there was, like, an entire sequence that they left out of the movie where, like, he's having, like, special relations with a goat.

[00:11:16] Oh.

[00:11:17] And that goat is, like, his friend.

[00:11:19] Like, that goat, like, shows him the way to escape and shit.

[00:11:22] Like, you know, that goat is into it.

[00:11:24] Oh, so it's like Wilson and Astorway.

[00:11:28] Yeah, kind of.

[00:11:30] Except with, like, 100% more slavery.

[00:11:34] Oh, God.

[00:11:35] It just went on forever.

[00:11:37] Like, it just, like, literally went on forever and ever and ever.

[00:11:40] And I was like, I don't know when this movie is going to end.

[00:11:43] The other movie that I really thought was stupid.

[00:11:46] Again, like, all of these movies are just stupid.

[00:11:49] Like, that's my problem with all of these movies.

[00:11:52] And the fourth movie that I want, and I'm going to stop at number four because, like, you know what?

[00:11:57] The list is long.

[00:11:59] But the fourth movie that I thought was really stupid was Fighter.

[00:12:03] It was so bad that we were sitting in the theater and I went there with, like, a couple of my friends.

[00:12:08] And it was, like, a very female-heavy audience because everybody was like, oh, my God, it's going to be horrific.

[00:12:15] And then everybody was so bored.

[00:12:17] And my friend that was sitting next to me was literally predicting every single dialogue that was coming out of, like, various characters.

[00:12:26] Like, she would literally be like, now they will say blah, blah, blah.

[00:12:30] And then, like, Hrithik would be like, blah, blah, blah.

[00:12:33] I would be like, oh, my God.

[00:12:35] It was so bad.

[00:12:37] It was so bad.

[00:12:39] Yeah.

[00:12:39] And then, again, this was one of those movies where the, like, nobody is willing.

[00:12:46] I think I will give Aamir credit for this one thing.

[00:12:49] When he ate it with Lalsing Chadda, he was able to own up to it.

[00:12:55] He was like, you know what?

[00:12:56] Yeah, I made a movie that didn't connect with the audience.

[00:12:58] My bad.

[00:12:59] And that is a really rare quality.

[00:13:03] I feel like, like, I feel like Shah Rukh and Aamir are maybe, like, the two people who can still say that.

[00:13:10] Everyone else is like, no, no, no.

[00:13:12] Like, that's not true.

[00:13:13] Because what Sid Anand said after Fytold, like, yeah, bit it was like, people in India don't fly planes.

[00:13:22] So they saw a plane movie and they were like, what is this?

[00:13:25] I'm like, bro, like, what are you even talking about?

[00:13:29] So, yeah, this was my litany of hate towards the stupid movies that came out this year.

[00:13:40] Professional hater Amrita.

[00:13:43] Does anyone watch Pushpa to the Rise, by the way?

[00:13:46] I'm coming to that.

[00:13:47] I'm coming to that.

[00:13:49] I really want to watch it.

[00:13:51] I asked our Filmy ladies subscribers if I should go watch it.

[00:13:55] I crowdsource their opinion.

[00:13:57] So, joy, man.

[00:13:58] Let's get into it.

[00:14:00] Yeah.

[00:14:00] So, Amrita has already mentioned Fighter.

[00:14:03] It's one of my hated movies of the year.

[00:14:05] I really expected Amritic to do well.

[00:14:08] And he just double dunked on all the Islamophobia and all the jingoism.

[00:14:14] And I also expected more better from Siddharth Anand.

[00:14:19] And, yeah, this was a shit show.

[00:14:21] Add Deepika to the list.

[00:14:23] I don't know.

[00:14:24] Deepika has done Singham now.

[00:14:25] You don't expect better from her?

[00:14:26] No.

[00:14:27] I mean, she married Ranveer Singh and she's doing Singham.

[00:14:30] So, you know, Singham is also there as one of the movies.

[00:14:34] But I expected low of Singham.

[00:14:37] And I got that.

[00:14:38] And that's fine by me.

[00:14:41] I expected...

[00:14:42] I don't know what I expected.

[00:14:44] But I wanted Bade Mia Chote Mia to do well.

[00:14:48] And Akshay, like in action comedy kind of zone, being the straight guy to Tiger doing a bit of the buddy comedy.

[00:14:57] I thought that would be some sort of a good movie.

[00:15:01] And it was so terrible on so many levels.

[00:15:04] Like they literally burnt money making that movie.

[00:15:08] It's so bad.

[00:15:09] It's so, so bad.

[00:15:10] And finally, my most hate of the year goes to Pushpatu.

[00:15:16] It's like literally, I don't know, 1400 crores or something, the revenue that it has made this year.

[00:15:23] And this movie is so incoherent.

[00:15:27] Like it has set pieces which has mini stories but nothing to link between them.

[00:15:32] It's like a really bad trip of a movie.

[00:15:36] It's like somebody thought of these set pieces and they wanted to make movies around it.

[00:15:41] But it really does not connect.

[00:15:43] Like in the beginning, there is a whole fight scene against the Yakuza at like a Yokohama port.

[00:15:51] Like Pushpa's intro sequence.

[00:15:53] And then they completely forget about it and it's never sort of addressed.

[00:15:58] And then it like reoccurs.

[00:16:01] And then the songs of this movie are terrible.

[00:16:04] Like the songs of the first Pushpa were so much memorable.

[00:16:08] And it's like a rehash but it's making it worse.

[00:16:12] I did not like anything about this movie.

[00:16:17] Is it as incoherent, for example, as Salar or KGF2?

[00:16:22] It's pretty much like that.

[00:16:23] It's pretty much that vibe.

[00:16:26] Yeah.

[00:16:27] No, Peetoo, I really, even until two days ago, I was considering going to Pushpatu.

[00:16:31] Like I was like, it's still in theaters.

[00:16:33] I can still find some time.

[00:16:35] Maybe I should go.

[00:16:35] And I don't know.

[00:16:36] I was just being lazy because I was just like done with, had no energy.

[00:16:39] But I was like really, really close to going.

[00:16:42] The first part ends with the whole hype around, oh, these equals, you know.

[00:16:48] Alu Arjun versus Fahad Fahad.

[00:16:51] So these equals sort of, one is a really corrupt cop who will go, you know, all guns blazing to, you know, make this character suffer.

[00:17:03] And then there is the badass hero.

[00:17:05] And that sort of fizzles out in the second part so badly.

[00:17:09] It's just terrible.

[00:17:12] So, yeah.

[00:17:13] And then there is a third part in the making as well.

[00:17:16] So, yeah.

[00:17:18] How many are they going to make?

[00:17:19] I don't know.

[00:17:20] $50,000?

[00:17:21] They make so much money.

[00:17:23] What do you mean?

[00:17:23] But I don't know if, I don't know.

[00:17:26] Like, I guess we need to see how this is going to play out.

[00:17:30] But it does seem like Alu Arjun is going to be charged for criminally negligent murder.

[00:17:40] That's crazy though.

[00:17:42] Apparently.

[00:17:42] The stampede?

[00:17:43] So, yeah.

[00:17:44] Like, at first I was like, that's crazy.

[00:17:46] Like, that he would get personally charged for the stampede that killed this woman and her child.

[00:17:53] But apparently the story that is now emerging is that he told, he informed the police that they were going to go to that particular theater.

[00:18:04] And the police said, please don't come because we can't guarantee crowd control because this is really difficult to do that.

[00:18:12] And he came there anyway.

[00:18:16] And then when the stampede happened, they told him, listen, there's been a stampede.

[00:18:21] People are seriously injured.

[00:18:23] You should leave.

[00:18:25] And he didn't.

[00:18:26] And he stayed there until the end of the movie.

[00:18:30] And he was like, very much like a part of, and there's like video evidence of him being there.

[00:18:35] And then when he left the theater again, like he was like interacting with his fans.

[00:18:41] He was like waving to the crowd, etc.

[00:18:43] Which led to like even more crowds and everything.

[00:18:46] So it was entirely like really unsafe.

[00:18:50] And what's been like really gross about this entire thing is that, you know, we've been hearing about like how much money and how many crows of rupees have been made by this movie in the past few weeks.

[00:19:02] But today I just saw a tweet by somebody, I can't remember who it was, but it was somebody from the Telugu film industry who was saying that Alu Arjun is such a great man for giving money to the families that were affected.

[00:19:20] And there's basically like three families and each of them got like two lats each.

[00:19:27] That's like 200,000 rupees, which is like a little over like $2,000 each person.

[00:19:35] And I'm just like, that is just gross.

[00:19:38] That is just, you know.

[00:19:40] That's the cost of human life in India.

[00:19:42] I mean, he spends more money on like, you know, his cars or like, yeah, his sneakers, you know, his clothes, like a pair of shades, a watch that he wants to buy.

[00:19:55] Like, it's just so horrendous.

[00:20:00] Yeah, it's just, it's made me rethink how I feel about Alu Arjun going forward.

[00:20:07] And that's sad because I really did enjoy Alu Arjun.

[00:20:11] Like I have spoken about this before that I really did enjoy watching him and I really thought he was a big star, etc.

[00:20:17] But the way this entire thing has unfolded, that's just really left a bad taste in my mouth.

[00:20:29] Yeah.

[00:20:31] I have a terrible joke.

[00:20:33] I'm not going to do it.

[00:20:34] I'm going to keep it.

[00:20:36] It's going to be canceled.

[00:20:38] Yeah, it's going to be canceled.

[00:20:40] Even I'm like, no, it's not today.

[00:20:43] Okay.

[00:20:44] My worst or disappointing is Murder Mubarak.

[00:20:49] Oh, yeah.

[00:20:50] A movie again with Sara Ali Khan that I don't know.

[00:20:53] I thought, isn't it a Homia?

[00:20:54] Is it the Homia Jani movie?

[00:20:56] Or who directed somebody like that I thought I had hoped.

[00:20:59] Yeah, I thought it could be an interesting look into the rich and famous lives and things like that.

[00:21:04] But it didn't work at all for me.

[00:21:06] Although I thought Sara Ali Khan was capable.

[00:21:08] I just, the twist and the reveal was all pretty much nonsense.

[00:21:13] Was it this year?

[00:21:15] I think it was, yeah.

[00:21:16] Wasn't it?

[00:21:17] Am I mistaken again?

[00:21:18] Yeah.

[00:21:19] Wow.

[00:21:20] Okay.

[00:21:21] It's been a long year, Amrita.

[00:21:23] Yeah.

[00:21:25] Biggest disappointment was Bade Mia Chote Mia.

[00:21:30] I, like you, Sujoy, I had hopes in Ali Aba Zafar making like a big scale action movie with, you know, Tiger.

[00:21:37] And the thing is, Tiger works well with like a senior actor.

[00:21:40] We've seen it with War.

[00:21:41] And that's what I was hoping they could recreate.

[00:21:43] And they were incapable of doing that, unfortunately.

[00:21:47] But on the other hand, it's good that the Bhananis lost money, which we should all applause, right?

[00:21:52] So, but it's then horrible that they ended up keeping the money and not paying any of their staff and gaffers and light boys and stuff like that.

[00:22:00] So, you know, I hope nothing but the worst for them.

[00:22:05] Yudra, another movie that...

[00:22:08] It's Yudra, right?

[00:22:09] It's not...

[00:22:10] Yeah.

[00:22:10] Yeah.

[00:22:11] We watched it together.

[00:22:12] We watched it together, but I want to say because you had Kill on your list, right?

[00:22:17] And Yudra and Kill should be kind of neck and neck in the way what they're trying to do.

[00:22:22] And it's like a very good explanation of how to do something well and how to do something terribly.

[00:22:28] And Yudra is that counterpoint to Kill.

[00:22:30] Like it is exactly the same thing, but it's exactly terrible.

[00:22:34] And this coming from Excel as a team.

[00:22:38] Also, I like the actors in it.

[00:22:40] You know, there's a lot of elements that I was like, I had hopes this could be fun.

[00:22:44] It was not.

[00:22:45] It's not fun.

[00:22:46] It's not a good movie.

[00:22:47] And that's why it just landed as a thunk on streaming and literally nobody's talking about it or rediscovering that,

[00:22:55] oh, we should have re-appreciated the movie because it's terrible and shit.

[00:22:59] Fighter, a movie that I have not seen, but I've still put on my list.

[00:23:02] The only good thing about Fighter is that it made my tweet go viral in Pakistan.

[00:23:07] And then people in Pakistan were telling me, Aasim, what are you doing on Twitter?

[00:23:11] So that was good about Fighter.

[00:23:15] I was going to put Singham again here, but actually Singham again, I came in with such low expectation.

[00:23:20] It gave me slightly more than I expected.

[00:23:22] So I can't necessarily put Singham again on here.

[00:23:27] Kalki is going on the worst movies of the year for sure.

[00:23:30] A movie that absolutely didn't work for me and I'm going to have to sit again through the second part when it comes out.

[00:23:35] I'm not looking forward to it.

[00:23:37] Again, Deepika, I don't know what choices she's making at the moment.

[00:23:40] But yeah, her stock has definitely, you know, dropped a little bit this year.

[00:23:45] Although, you know, happy motherhood.

[00:23:47] And I wish her all the best with that.

[00:23:51] I was like every year I try to catch up on the movies that I thought I that I didn't I miss during the year.

[00:24:01] I thought maybe they might come in my top 10.

[00:24:03] But I have been keeping my policy like Amrita avoiding movies that I won't that I won't like.

[00:24:09] So which is a good policy.

[00:24:10] So but I did watch two and they are actually landing on my worst off list, which is Chandu Champion and Khel Khel May.

[00:24:21] I don't know.

[00:24:22] I feel I want to talk longer about it.

[00:24:24] Both of these movies.

[00:24:25] Maybe I'll do a reel if I get a chance on them because there are other failures in the genre that they're trying to create.

[00:24:31] Right.

[00:24:31] A sports biopic with Kabir Khan.

[00:24:35] Like Kabir Khan is making this movie.

[00:24:37] Right.

[00:24:37] And it has all of the worst tendencies that Kabir Khan has, which Tube Light is a better movie to me than Chandu Champion.

[00:24:47] Oh, wow.

[00:24:48] Because it has a star that can lead a movie with Chandu Champion.

[00:24:53] There was no moment where any of the emotions Kartikarian was giving seemed genuine to me.

[00:24:59] Nothing worked.

[00:25:00] His old age makeup didn't work.

[00:25:01] His disability didn't work.

[00:25:03] His passion to win didn't work.

[00:25:06] His nationalism didn't work.

[00:25:07] His winning, wanting to win a championship just because he saw a girl somewhere.

[00:25:14] Like none of it makes sense.

[00:25:16] And then we forget about the girl.

[00:25:17] He gets married.

[00:25:18] He gets a son.

[00:25:19] We never see who he gets married to because women are apparently not important in the story.

[00:25:24] It was terrible Chandu Champion.

[00:25:27] Sujo, you want to say something?

[00:25:28] I literally lasted like five, ten minutes until that, you know, when he's in the police station and Sri Astalpadeh is there.

[00:25:36] And the whole pitch of that scene is just like a skit, you know, and it doesn't feel like a Kabir Khan movie.

[00:25:42] Like it was so terribly acted.

[00:25:44] And that whole hair, his youth hair, the wig, those are proper, like really bad choices to make.

[00:25:53] I can't believe like actual movie making professionals saw that and they were like, this is fine to be, you know, showcased as cinema.

[00:26:03] Yeah.

[00:26:04] It's really bad.

[00:26:05] And you know, there's a song where they're dancing in the train, right?

[00:26:09] Bhatti Bujake or something like that.

[00:26:11] And clearly that has echoes of Havan Karenge from Bhag Milka Bhagai.

[00:26:19] Yeah.

[00:26:19] And then also from Jagga Jassu is the song where they're, which is the song again?

[00:26:24] Galti Semistic.

[00:26:25] Yeah.

[00:26:26] It has echoes, both of those.

[00:26:28] And so shit.

[00:26:29] Yeah.

[00:26:30] So shit.

[00:26:31] It is so bad.

[00:26:32] It just annoys the crap out of me.

[00:26:34] So that's there.

[00:26:35] And then Khel Khel May, a movie that absolutely, like this is what Akshay should be doing.

[00:26:41] Smaller movies in a, it's one of my favorite thing is bottle episodes in TV where they shoot everything in one room.

[00:26:48] You know, like a community episode or something like that, you know, where they're playing with the dice and stuff like that.

[00:26:52] I love those episodes.

[00:26:54] There's this episode in Breaking Bad where they're just locked into the...

[00:26:58] The fly episode.

[00:26:59] Yeah, exactly.

[00:26:59] I love those episodes.

[00:27:01] And I thought that's what Khel Khel May would have been doing.

[00:27:04] But it's about a story about six friends and none of these people are friends.

[00:27:08] Like they have no chemistry together as friends.

[00:27:11] And it's just horrible.

[00:27:12] I don't know why.

[00:27:13] And it's a movie that's been, I think this movie, the original is in it.

[00:27:18] It's a movie that's been a Italian movie and it has the world record of the movie that's being remade in the most languages.

[00:27:23] It has like 18 or 37 versions of the same movie.

[00:27:27] Something.

[00:27:28] 18 or 37.

[00:27:29] Something.

[00:27:30] Yeah, I saw the fact on Wikipedia.

[00:27:32] What a range.

[00:27:33] Yeah.

[00:27:34] But the fact that they decided a movie that's been made so many times to like, oh, we need to add a pitch, comedic pitch of a houseful movie in this.

[00:27:43] Yeah.

[00:27:44] It's so absurd.

[00:27:45] And it's such a mistake of the director.

[00:27:47] I think he's now Mudassar Aziz.

[00:27:50] It's so bad.

[00:27:52] And Fardin Khan comes in here as he's like some superstar we've been waiting for.

[00:27:56] Oh my God.

[00:27:57] Fardin Khan where was he?

[00:27:58] You know?

[00:27:59] But nobody gives a shit.

[00:28:00] Like he...

[00:28:00] Guys, I want to reveal this.

[00:28:02] Because has anybody seen Kill Kidman?

[00:28:04] Yeah, I have.

[00:28:05] I have.

[00:28:05] Yeah.

[00:28:06] So I'm going to...

[00:28:07] Slight spoiler.

[00:28:09] Fardin Khan is playing an in-closet gay character.

[00:28:13] And it's a big reveal that who he is gay.

[00:28:17] Amrita.

[00:28:18] Amrita.

[00:28:19] Fardin's character has tattoos on his fist that says free love.

[00:28:25] Oh my God.

[00:28:28] Yeah.

[00:28:29] Just wanted to add that about how terrible this movie is.

[00:28:33] So that's on here.

[00:28:36] I recently discovered there's a very active Fardin Khan fan club on Instagram.

[00:28:40] Just so you know.

[00:28:41] Is there?

[00:28:41] Yes.

[00:28:43] They make reels and all.

[00:28:44] They're actually Chinese bots.

[00:28:45] They make reels and all.

[00:28:47] I've seen some of their reels.

[00:28:47] Member and founder Pitu Sultan.

[00:28:54] They wrote nice comments when we had done like an episode on like Feroz Khan.

[00:28:57] That's how I discovered them.

[00:28:58] And then I went to their page and they have like good reels and all.

[00:29:01] They're very like, our king, Fardin Khan.

[00:29:03] I was like, wow, okay.

[00:29:05] Wow.

[00:29:06] What kingdom is that?

[00:29:08] Also recently someone got mad at us on our podcast because they were upset that we did

[00:29:13] not make an episode on Ratti Yogi Nihotri.

[00:29:16] Oh.

[00:29:17] As a superstar.

[00:29:18] I was like, okay.

[00:29:20] Literally one movie.

[00:29:22] One movie.

[00:29:25] Sujua, you wanted to talk about some non-Hindi movies.

[00:29:30] Yeah.

[00:29:30] Are there any of the best or the worst or anything that you want to mention there?

[00:29:34] Yeah.

[00:29:34] Mostly the best because I don't think I've watched any worse, like bad ones.

[00:29:39] I would like to especially mention two Malayalam movies.

[00:29:44] Malarkota Ivalivan, which we probably also talked on the podcast before.

[00:29:49] And Brahma Yugam.

[00:29:50] One is a Mohanlal movie.

[00:29:52] It's an epic movie, like beautifully shot.

[00:29:55] It's one of the most beautiful movies of the year that I've watched this year.

[00:29:59] I don't think it worked for as many people, but I found it absolutely fascinating.

[00:30:04] This movie is cinematic as hell.

[00:30:07] It's told like a fable of this, like sort of a legendary badass character played by Mohanlal.

[00:30:14] And the other one is Brahma Yugam starring Mahmuthi in this black and white period horror movies set in a very, you know, what do you call it?

[00:30:30] A haunting mahal where sense of time and space goes haywire and shit happens.

[00:30:36] I think we've also talked about Brahma Yugam on the podcast.

[00:30:39] Amrita raved about it, right?

[00:30:40] Yes.

[00:30:42] And finally, a Tamil movie called Wadai, if I'm pronouncing it correctly, about workers at a banana plantation and the tragedy that they meet.

[00:30:55] It's also another beautifully shot movie, but absolutely heartbreaking when the climax hits.

[00:31:02] Yeah.

[00:31:03] Pitu, any non-Hindi movies that you watched or you want to kind of like shout out?

[00:31:09] No, I watched a few movies, but the thing is, I don't remember if they're 2024 movies or 2023.

[00:31:14] So I'll refrain, but I'm very interested in watching this Brahma Yugam because he said haunted and hoarder and mash.

[00:31:20] I was like, well, you just said all my favorite words.

[00:31:22] So I'll give that one off.

[00:31:24] And like Mahmuthi is so good in it.

[00:31:28] Okay.

[00:31:30] I'm going to go first and then I'm going to go to Amrita because she might, you know, say the same names that I'm going to say.

[00:31:36] And Amrita, I will need your help in pronouncing these names because I'm not going to be able to do it.

[00:31:42] May Araghan, that's the one I wanted to mention.

[00:31:45] The Bicycle Village story.

[00:31:47] It's on Netflix now at the moment.

[00:31:48] With Arvind Swami.

[00:31:49] With Arvind Swami and Karthi, I think his name is.

[00:31:52] I still haven't watched it.

[00:31:53] But guys, watch it.

[00:31:55] Like it's the perfect time to watch this movie because you're just sitting at home.

[00:31:59] It's raining.

[00:31:59] You're not going to go out anyway.

[00:32:01] Right.

[00:32:01] It's beautiful.

[00:32:02] It's a beautiful movie about.

[00:32:05] And again, did I talk about it or not?

[00:32:08] I think I did.

[00:32:09] No, we haven't recorded in a while.

[00:32:11] I think I did a reel maybe about it.

[00:32:12] It speaks to me because I have trauma of going back to the place where I grew up.

[00:32:19] And going back to that place brings a lot of like phantoms from before, things that have been said, that have been unsaid and like things that you cannot let go of the past.

[00:32:30] But it also makes you the person that you are.

[00:32:33] And those kind of stories really appealed to me in this.

[00:32:39] And also just the fact that what you think of yourself and what effect you have on others is something that you do not always understand.

[00:32:49] Yeah.

[00:32:49] And I think those are just like beautiful themes.

[00:32:51] And I thought that was amazing that this movie did this.

[00:32:54] It's highly recommended.

[00:32:57] I want to shout out Avisham.

[00:33:00] Fahad Fasil, we mentioned him earlier.

[00:33:02] Like it's such a cool movie.

[00:33:05] Such a cool dude.

[00:33:06] And like when we're talking about like hangover movies, I think this maybe comes close to that in a certain way.

[00:33:12] But in like a very kind of crazy kind of way.

[00:33:16] I want to mention Captain Miller, which I really enjoyed.

[00:33:18] People didn't seem to like that movie, but I really liked it.

[00:33:21] It had this almost Mad Max kind of aesthetic to it, which I really enjoyed.

[00:33:26] It is a bit long in the tooth and it takes too long.

[00:33:29] Like it doesn't get to the point quickly enough.

[00:33:31] But I wanted to point that one out.

[00:33:33] And this one, I'm hopeless.

[00:33:36] So Amrita, maybe you can help me.

[00:33:38] This is that, is it Tovino Thomas movie?

[00:33:46] Yeah, that one.

[00:33:48] I really like when I was making the list of the year that I, I really liked Tovino, man.

[00:33:54] I really like his movies.

[00:33:55] I look forward to them.

[00:33:57] And this was one that again, like a cop kind of movie, which we've seen so many times.

[00:34:02] And it does have a bit of copaganda.

[00:34:04] That's okay.

[00:34:05] It's nowhere near Singham again or something like that.

[00:34:07] But it's on streaming.

[00:34:09] You can watch it at home and it's really, really good.

[00:34:11] So whatever Amrita says.

[00:34:14] And it's two stories in one.

[00:34:15] Yeah.

[00:34:16] Yeah.

[00:34:16] It's really, really good.

[00:34:17] Yeah.

[00:34:18] Amrita, have I mentioned all of yours or is there any others that you maybe wanted to add?

[00:34:23] Yeah.

[00:34:25] You mentioned a couple of the ones that I wanted, that I was going to talk about.

[00:34:29] Like Anweship in Kandetum.

[00:34:33] Like that was like definitely something that I think if you like police procedurals, if that's

[00:34:40] like a genre that you like, and I love that genre, then that's like, like Malayalam movies

[00:34:47] for whatever the reason, they've been churning out banger after banger in that genre over the

[00:34:56] past few years.

[00:34:57] The one with Mahmoodi was also really good, right?

[00:35:00] That was also kind of a preceded.

[00:35:02] Unda?

[00:35:04] The one where he's a cop.

[00:35:05] I think we watched it this year also.

[00:35:07] I'll try to find the name.

[00:35:08] There's like, there's been like a bunch with like Mahmoodi as well.

[00:35:12] One of them is like a sequel to this series that he's been doing since the 90s, I believe,

[00:35:22] where he's playing like this CID officer.

[00:35:27] And he also did this very interesting movie called Unda, which means bullet, where he is

[00:35:35] leading this group of Malayali policemen to, I think, Bihar, if I'm not mistaken.

[00:35:43] And they are completely out of their depth.

[00:35:47] And they don't know how to like deal with this, this completely different culture.

[00:35:53] And, you know, they're just ill equipped and ill trained.

[00:35:57] And they didn't realize that until they were in the forest trying to fight all these people.

[00:36:06] And that's not from this year.

[00:36:08] But like I'm just saying that Mahmoodi has done like really amazing ones.

[00:36:12] Anyway, for this year, one of the movies that I really loved is the one that Sujoy was talking about,

[00:36:19] which is Malayakote Baliban, which was it's by Lijojo Spelliseri.

[00:36:27] It stars Mohanlal and I love it so much.

[00:36:32] Like I really loved it.

[00:36:35] I know that it's not for everybody and it flopped.

[00:36:38] And like Mohanlal devotees have been like really mad about it.

[00:36:42] But I loved it.

[00:36:43] And the visual language of that movie was just fantastic.

[00:36:48] It was just really great.

[00:36:50] It was a really good one.

[00:36:53] Then Brahma Yugam, again, as Sujoy said.

[00:36:57] Pitu, I think that you'd really love it.

[00:36:59] It's just menacing.

[00:37:01] And it is a movie that really stayed with me.

[00:37:06] And I watched it without subtitles and two friends who were like one was American, the other was British.

[00:37:15] And they watched it without subtitles with me.

[00:37:19] And we all had like so much to talk about.

[00:37:23] And like it didn't matter.

[00:37:23] Like even though they couldn't understand what was being said on screen,

[00:37:28] they could like really understand like what the story was.

[00:37:31] Like it was just so well made.

[00:37:34] And Avesham, as Asim said, like that was so much fun.

[00:37:38] Avesham and Manumal Boys.

[00:37:39] Like both of those were so much fun this year.

[00:37:44] And I just had like so much fun at the movies.

[00:37:47] And they were like very like, again, like Madgao Express.

[00:37:52] These were just very like boy movies, you know.

[00:37:55] But they were just really well made, fun boy movies.

[00:37:59] And they were just really funny.

[00:38:00] And not Manumal Boys, but Manumal Boys was like really edge of the seat stuff.

[00:38:06] But Avesham was like super funny.

[00:38:11] Yeah, Manumal Boys I wanted to still watch.

[00:38:14] I have not a chance.

[00:38:14] Yeah, I still haven't watched it either.

[00:38:17] It's really good.

[00:38:19] And also there was another police procedural.

[00:38:24] It's not really a police procedural as such.

[00:38:27] But it's a Malayalam movie called Kishkin the Condom.

[00:38:30] And it came out, I don't know, like maybe a month or two ago.

[00:38:35] And that was a huge surprise for me as well.

[00:38:39] And it was really well made.

[00:38:43] And I really recommend it to whoever wants to watch it.

[00:38:47] And of course, I want to talk about All We Imagine Is Light.

[00:38:51] This is a movie that, I don't know, when I watched it in the theaters, I was like,

[00:38:59] do I really like it or not?

[00:39:01] There was a lot about it that seemed a little too familiar in terms of how it was constructed.

[00:39:12] I spent a whole bunch of years in my life watching a lot of art cinema.

[00:39:18] And this seemed really familiar.

[00:39:20] It just seemed like something somebody who would be into film school would make.

[00:39:23] But then in the weeks and months after I watched it,

[00:39:28] I've gone back to this movie so many times.

[00:39:31] There's been so much for me to think about, you know, the choices that it makes,

[00:39:36] the music, the way it's constructed, the way the stories play out.

[00:39:42] And it's also been a real education for me to see people's reactions to this movie.

[00:39:48] And it really tells you where film is in India.

[00:39:53] Because there's like so many people who are just sort of like trying to understand that

[00:39:59] there's like an element of magical realism in this film.

[00:40:02] And, you know, that that really confused them.

[00:40:06] The pacing of the film really confused them.

[00:40:09] The fact that there is like absolutely no male gaze in this film is that's really confusing to them.

[00:40:16] Like all of these things are so interesting.

[00:40:20] And it gives you so much to think about when you watch this film.

[00:40:23] So these are the films outside.

[00:40:27] I also have watched like some Tamil and some Telugu movies.

[00:40:32] But like I don't think there's anything that's like really stood out for me.

[00:40:38] There's a couple of Tamil movies that I think will make this list when I watch them.

[00:40:43] But I haven't gotten around to it as yet.

[00:40:46] The Mahmood movie is Kanur Squad, by the way.

[00:40:48] The one that I was thinking of.

[00:40:50] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:40:51] That's the one I really liked.

[00:40:53] Okay, let's get to the preview of 2025.

[00:40:57] Let's go over the movies that are coming out next year that we're maybe looking forward to that we can kind of go.

[00:41:02] We'll just go over the...

[00:41:03] I have to say two things.

[00:41:06] We don't know which movies are coming out next year.

[00:41:08] It's never like properly announced.

[00:41:10] We have just some ideas.

[00:41:12] And the ones that are on this Wikipedia list, there is 100% no guarantee that these will actually get released.

[00:41:18] And this is a problem we have every year.

[00:41:20] We talk about movies that we think are going to come out and then they don't come out.

[00:41:23] But that's just the way, you know, Indian cinema works.

[00:41:26] We can't do anything about it, you know.

[00:41:27] So let's go over the list here.

[00:41:32] In January, we have...

[00:41:35] Oh yeah, and at the end, we're going to try to do our predictions of what will be the biggest hit and what will be the biggest drop.

[00:41:43] So in January, we have Fateh by Sonu Sood, Santosh, Emergency, Kangana Ranaut's movie, Azad starring Aman Devgan, Mission Greyhouse, Lahore 1947.

[00:42:01] There's no way this is coming out.

[00:42:02] Sunny Deval's movie, Deva, which is Shahid Kapoor's movie with Roshan Andrews and Sky Force.

[00:42:08] So these are the ones that are in January.

[00:42:10] I think Lahore 1947 already got released, like in the UK or something, if I'm blanking on it.

[00:42:19] No, no, no, no.

[00:42:20] I think you're confusing with him.

[00:42:22] No, Santosh maybe.

[00:42:22] Santosh has, yeah.

[00:42:23] Yeah, Santosh is released, but I don't know.

[00:42:27] I'm maybe hallucinating.

[00:42:30] No, no, no.

[00:42:31] It's too big to get a release in the UK first.

[00:42:34] So it's, yeah, it's not.

[00:42:36] Yeah, any thoughts about those names?

[00:42:38] I think, you know, Sunny Deval movie with Aamir Khan.

[00:42:42] How excited are you, Pitu?

[00:42:43] This is your...

[00:42:44] Not.

[00:42:45] What?

[00:42:47] It's just, it's going to be so lame.

[00:42:49] I don't want to watch it.

[00:42:50] I watch old Sunny Deval movies.

[00:42:51] I do not watch new Sunny Deval movies.

[00:42:53] I made the mistake of, yeah, I made the mistake of watching Gadar 2.

[00:42:57] I only did it because Beth forced me to, because we were doing an episode where she said we have

[00:43:02] to watch the latest release of our favorite people.

[00:43:06] So I had to watch it.

[00:43:07] I had no other choice.

[00:43:08] And she watched, what is it, Mrs. Chatterjee versus Norway or something, because she loves

[00:43:13] Sunny.

[00:43:13] And both of us roughly like regretted our choices.

[00:43:17] So I love old Sunny Deval films.

[00:43:19] I would revisit those, but I'm not going to watch this one.

[00:43:22] Sounds lame.

[00:43:23] I'm excited.

[00:43:24] Rajkumar Santoshi with Aamir and Sunny.

[00:43:30] Preeti Zinta is in there too.

[00:43:32] I'm kind of really very excited for this one.

[00:43:34] I hope it's good.

[00:43:35] I hope there's not too much Pakistan bashing too.

[00:43:38] Let's see.

[00:43:40] Yeah, I don't think anything else stands out here, right?

[00:43:43] Then we have in February, we have an untitled Junait Khan movie with Advait Chandan.

[00:43:51] Is that the one with Sai Pallavi?

[00:43:54] This is with Khushi Kapoor.

[00:43:55] Khushi Kapoor, yeah.

[00:43:58] As un-Sai Pallavi as it could get.

[00:44:02] Advait, he made Secret Superstar before.

[00:44:05] So there's some, you know, thing there.

[00:44:07] We have Chava with Vicky Kaushal.

[00:44:10] I think the teasers have come out for that one already.

[00:44:12] Yeah, it was supposed to release this year, but it got pushed back.

[00:44:16] Yeah.

[00:44:16] Then we have Sankhi.

[00:44:18] Sankhi?

[00:44:19] Ahan Shetty's new movie with Puja Hikde.

[00:44:24] Nakhre Wali.

[00:44:25] I don't know what this is.

[00:44:27] Karan Singh Tyagi Akshay Kumar movie with R Madhavan Ananya Pandey.

[00:44:32] Produced by Dharma and Cape of good films.

[00:44:35] Okay.

[00:44:36] Yeah.

[00:44:37] Anything stand out?

[00:44:39] Chava probably?

[00:44:40] Have you seen the trailer for that, Peetu?

[00:44:42] No?

[00:44:42] Uh, just no.

[00:44:44] No?

[00:44:45] Not really.

[00:44:45] I don't, none of these January movies are appealing to me.

[00:44:48] Mm, yeah.

[00:44:49] I like Vicky.

[00:44:51] I like Vicky Kaushal.

[00:44:52] I think he does good stuff.

[00:44:54] But I'm worried about these jingorical historical movies that they make, you know.

[00:44:58] So, and it seems they need to absorb everybody in this shitty universe of, you know.

[00:45:03] It's so propagandist, you know.

[00:45:06] Like, it's so, it's such a mess, you know.

[00:45:08] And I think that's one of the problems I even had with Chandu Champion to a certain degree.

[00:45:11] Uh, but it's just like, the whole point is to just about, be about patriotism and nationalism,

[00:45:17] right?

[00:45:17] And there's no storytelling behind it.

[00:45:19] But I know that Vicky Kaushal will give it a hundred percent here, you know.

[00:45:23] Um, otherwise he gets his ass kicked by Katrina.

[00:45:26] Um, which can be a kink for certain, but chalo.

[00:45:31] Um, then we have April, May, and June.

[00:45:35] We have, uh, Sikandar.

[00:45:37] Which is a hundred percent not happening.

[00:45:39] You don't think so?

[00:45:40] No, a hundred percent not coming out in April.

[00:45:43] I'm, I'm pretty much sure.

[00:45:44] My buddy, give me a gift.

[00:45:46] Like, uh, I've been waiting here for something decent.

[00:45:49] Um, then we have Jolly LLB3 with Akshay and Arshad Varsi.

[00:45:54] Yes.

[00:45:55] Uh, Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari.

[00:45:58] A plus name.

[00:45:59] Uh, Varun Dhawan obviously with Janvi Kapoor.

[00:46:02] I haven't watched that actually.

[00:46:04] I haven't watched that one.

[00:46:05] It's, is this going to be the, uh,

[00:46:09] the anti, um, Rocky Rani, I think.

[00:46:14] By the name, it sounds like.

[00:46:16] Like, not the richest.

[00:46:18] It's going to be like.

[00:46:20] Ah, then you go down.

[00:46:22] Yeah.

[00:46:24] Maybe.

[00:46:25] I mean, this looks interesting though.

[00:46:26] And Shashank has, has, Shashank has done some good work.

[00:46:29] Right?

[00:46:29] So I think this could be good.

[00:46:31] And whole Varun, man.

[00:46:32] Is he the one who did Ahamti Sharma and Badrinath movies?

[00:46:35] Yeah.

[00:46:35] Yeah.

[00:46:36] Yeah.

[00:46:36] Yeah.

[00:46:36] And Varun is going all out, man.

[00:46:38] To produce, like, uh, promote his movies.

[00:46:40] He's dancing on everything.

[00:46:41] Like with Baby John.

[00:46:42] It, uh, it's interesting.

[00:46:44] Um, Jat with the helicopter, uh, fan thing that he's holding.

[00:46:49] Pitu, your man, not delivering, huh?

[00:46:54] He's fully, he's fully into this, like, this new gather-to kind.

[00:46:58] It's all like this weirdly roid rage stuff that is happening.

[00:47:01] And I'm like, no, stop it.

[00:47:03] Yeah.

[00:47:04] Yeah.

[00:47:05] Soft Sunny is gone completely.

[00:47:06] I want Soft Sunny back.

[00:47:08] Yeah.

[00:47:09] Raid 2.

[00:47:10] Did any of us watch Raid 1?

[00:47:12] No.

[00:47:13] It was good.

[00:47:14] Raid 1 was not bad, to be honest.

[00:47:16] Um, and Houseful 5, which I don't know if that's ever happening.

[00:47:21] Um, then this is all, there's no way War 2 is happening in July, in August.

[00:47:27] That's just not possible.

[00:47:29] Dilli Files, the new Vivek Nihotri movie with Naya Bigot Mithun Chakraborti.

[00:47:36] Mithun just woke up and now I want to be a bigot, apparently.

[00:47:39] Like, what the hell was that going on, you know?

[00:47:41] Uh, and Baaghi 4.

[00:47:43] Those posters have released.

[00:47:44] And the amount of effort put in the Sajid Nadia Duala Tiger Shroff movies, it's definitely

[00:47:51] going to come out this year, for sure.

[00:47:54] Yeah.

[00:47:55] Then I have, uh, Thama?

[00:47:57] Ayushman Khurana?

[00:47:58] I'm excited about that one.

[00:48:00] What is this?

[00:48:01] Because that's magic films and it's about vampires and, uh, yeah.

[00:48:06] He's entering the horror universe.

[00:48:09] So, Aditya Sarfadar is also the one who made Munja.

[00:48:12] Oh, okay.

[00:48:13] So, he's already done that in the Maddox thing.

[00:48:16] And, um, I like Nawazuddin Sadiqi.

[00:48:18] So, I'm excited about that.

[00:48:20] Ayushman Khurana, I have mixed feelings about.

[00:48:21] We haven't seen a good Nawaz movie in a while, right?

[00:48:24] Mm.

[00:48:25] But also, we haven't watched any Nawaz movies in a while.

[00:48:29] So, we don't know if he's actually good in them or not, na?

[00:48:31] Yeah.

[00:48:32] Um, then it says, Dede Pyaar De 2.

[00:48:35] I don't know why this movie deserves a 2, uh, but chalo.

[00:48:39] 120 Bahadur with Farhan Akhtar.

[00:48:42] I don't want to watch any Farhan Akhtar movies anymore.

[00:48:45] I think I'm done.

[00:48:46] Ho gya.

[00:48:48] Um, Fishal Bhardwaj coming out with a new movie with Shahad Kapoor.

[00:48:51] Yeah, that, uh, Tripti Dimri.

[00:48:54] Yeah, okay.

[00:48:55] Wow.

[00:48:55] Randi Pura, Nana Patekar.

[00:48:58] Tripti Dimri is doing all the things.

[00:49:00] Yeah, I'm telling you.

[00:49:02] I'm telling you.

[00:49:02] Buy stocks in, uh, in Tripti.

[00:49:05] This is when, you know, Bitcoin was at like $20.

[00:49:07] Buy it now.

[00:49:10] Alpha.

[00:49:11] Uh, Alia Bhatt, Sharwari, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deval.

[00:49:15] Yash Raj movie.

[00:49:16] This is on December.

[00:49:17] No excitement for the new Spy movie?

[00:49:19] No.

[00:49:20] Uh-oh.

[00:49:21] Uh, and the other ones that I also saw here were Litten.

[00:49:26] Yeah.

[00:49:26] I'm excited for Kantara 1.

[00:49:28] They're making the prequel to Kantara.

[00:49:30] So that's gonna be, that's Kannada, I guess.

[00:49:32] So I love Kantara.

[00:49:33] I saw it in the theater.

[00:49:34] It was amazing.

[00:49:35] And I was very excited that they're making.

[00:49:37] So I'll probably watch Kantara 1 in the theater.

[00:49:40] And hopefully it will be so.

[00:49:40] He's also turned out to be a bit of an asshole, that actor, no?

[00:49:43] If he's made some like statements and stuff like that.

[00:49:46] I don't know.

[00:49:46] Maybe.

[00:49:47] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:49:48] Maybe I'm confusing him with somebody else.

[00:49:49] Yes.

[00:49:50] Amrita, any of those names stand out for you?

[00:49:51] Anything that you're interested in watching?

[00:49:53] Or is it going to be as shit of a year next year as it is this year?

[00:49:56] Yeah, I think it's going to be as bad as this year.

[00:49:59] Yeah.

[00:50:00] Sitare Zameepa should be coming out too, right?

[00:50:02] Like the Aamir one?

[00:50:03] Like I said.

[00:50:06] Let the hating start.

[00:50:08] Yes.

[00:50:09] If War 2 does come out, then I'm definitely looking forward to that.

[00:50:13] Let's do our preview.

[00:50:14] Let's do our predictions then.

[00:50:15] Let's wrap up the episode then.

[00:50:18] Out of all of these, which are going to be the biggest hit?

[00:50:21] We're not talking about the ones you're going to be enjoying.

[00:50:24] Which are the ones you think are going to be the biggest hit?

[00:50:27] And again, we don't know any South Indian movies.

[00:50:29] It's not on the list.

[00:50:31] So it might be Pushpa 2 and whatever.

[00:50:33] Those are the biggest hit.

[00:50:34] But we don't have any access to them.

[00:50:36] But shall I repeat?

[00:50:38] Or I'll play the clip in the recording.

[00:50:40] But shall I tell you what you predicted last year, guys?

[00:50:43] Yeah.

[00:50:44] So, Pitu, you don't know.

[00:50:45] But this is what they predicted last year.

[00:50:47] It was Sujoy predicted Chamkeela and Pushpa 2 to be his favorite movies.

[00:50:52] Or like the biggest hits.

[00:50:54] No, he said there is not going to be a biggest hit.

[00:50:57] Because all these movies are shit after he saw the calendar.

[00:51:00] And then he said, I will like Chamkeela and Pushpa 2 the most.

[00:51:03] So you got a 50-50 hit rate there, right?

[00:51:06] Yeah.

[00:51:08] Amrita said Pushpa 2 and Fighter.

[00:51:11] So Fighter is actually on the top 10 of the most earners.

[00:51:15] So hate sells.

[00:51:17] And then I predicted Bhol Bholaiya 3 and Pushpa 2.

[00:51:22] Which I hit at the bullseye as I used to do.

[00:51:25] Because I'm Nostradamus on these things.

[00:51:28] So, let's start.

[00:51:29] What are our predictions?

[00:51:30] Which is going to be the, maybe say, two?

[00:51:33] You want to go first or last, Pitu?

[00:51:34] What do you think?

[00:51:36] I'll go last.

[00:51:37] Because I'm still thinking.

[00:51:39] Sujoy, what is your prediction going to be for next year?

[00:51:42] Oh, I think Houseful and War 2.

[00:51:47] If these come out, right?

[00:51:49] Yeah.

[00:51:50] Houseful?

[00:51:50] Really?

[00:51:51] Yeah.

[00:51:52] Okay.

[00:51:52] I believe so.

[00:51:53] Because people need that.

[00:51:55] Like, it's got everybody in the film industry.

[00:51:58] Everybody in the movie needs it.

[00:51:59] Yeah.

[00:52:00] It's got Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshuk Sanjay, Abhishek Bachchan, Nana Patekar, Fardin Khan,

[00:52:05] Dino Maria, Chanki Pandey, Jackie Shroff, Shriya Stalpade, Ranjit, Johnny Liver, Jacqueline

[00:52:09] Fernandez, Nargis Fakri, Chitra Angada Singh and Sondarya Sharma.

[00:52:13] That's crazy.

[00:52:14] The Fardin Khan fan club will be happy.

[00:52:16] Absolutely.

[00:52:22] None of them.

[00:52:26] Amrita, what do you think?

[00:52:27] What is going to be the biggest hit next year?

[00:52:30] Well, what is coming out next year though?

[00:52:32] It's like War 2, Ramayana.

[00:52:37] Oh, Ramayana, yeah.

[00:52:38] But it's not in the wiki.

[00:52:40] It's not on the wiki.

[00:52:41] It says that Ramayana, I don't know about the wiki, but like everyone's been talking about

[00:52:46] how part one is coming out in like towards the end of next year.

[00:52:51] So, I know like that's coming out.

[00:52:55] And then, is it household or is it welcome that has like everybody in it?

[00:53:00] Household.

[00:53:02] Welcome also had, but I don't know if welcome is even going through.

[00:53:05] I don't think they announced it.

[00:53:07] Yeah, they had released like a teaser called Welcome to the Jungle or something, right?

[00:53:12] With everybody in it.

[00:53:13] There was Daler Men and the Aswell in it.

[00:53:15] I think Jiro pulled out of the financing or something.

[00:53:20] Yeah, something like that.

[00:53:21] So, let's think about it.

[00:53:23] Yeah.

[00:53:23] I don't have money in it.

[00:53:30] I think if War 2 comes out, then it's going to be at least a decent, like it's going to

[00:53:35] be like a top 10 movie at least.

[00:53:41] What else is there?

[00:53:43] Isn't there like the Maniratna movie Thug Life or something that's coming out as well?

[00:53:46] Yeah, but that's like a whole different thing.

[00:53:49] I'm thinking about like just the Hindi stuff.

[00:53:51] So, I think Ramayana will work.

[00:53:56] I think like, you know, like it will be able to sort of plug into the current state of everything.

[00:54:08] I think that will work.

[00:54:10] I think also just the talent involved in it.

[00:54:13] Like, I'm excited for the Ramayana.

[00:54:15] Like, I want to watch this movie.

[00:54:16] Like, you know, Ranbir is in there.

[00:54:18] You know, Saipal Vali is in there.

[00:54:19] Like, good director.

[00:54:20] I'm excited for that movie.

[00:54:22] So, I want to watch it, you know?

[00:54:25] So, yeah.

[00:54:26] That's one on my list.

[00:54:27] If it comes out, it's not on the Wikipedia.

[00:54:29] But I think if that comes out, then it's going to be there.

[00:54:32] Then the other two, I'm going to say, man, I think Lahore might have legs.

[00:54:38] Like, if Rajkumar Sandoshi has his shit together and Aamir can pull him in the right direction,

[00:54:46] I think, you know, this might be something to watch.

[00:54:50] And then this is really me hoping, but there's no proof of this.

[00:54:56] But Sikandar, if man, I just hope that Salman is excited again to be working with somebody

[00:55:02] and that the project comes together

[00:55:05] and Murga Doss can deliver something that he did with Gajani.

[00:55:09] It's been a long time.

[00:55:10] He hasn't done anything good since then, really.

[00:55:13] There was a clip with Varun.

[00:55:16] You know, Baby John, Salman has a cameo in Baby John.

[00:55:20] And the director is Atlee.

[00:55:22] And Varun's saying, you know, like, we went to meet Salman to ask for the cameo

[00:55:27] if he wanted to come on.

[00:55:28] So, he went with Atlee.

[00:55:30] And Salman is sitting there and Salman goes,

[00:55:32] Oh, Atlee, Bruce Lee ka bhai.

[00:55:34] Like, and I was like, man, I miss this.

[00:55:39] This is what I want in Sikandar.

[00:55:41] I was in Sikandar.

[00:55:43] I think it's on this.

[00:55:45] It's wishful thinking for sure.

[00:55:47] Pitu, predictions after you've done all this?

[00:55:50] I agree with Sujo and Avrita.

[00:55:52] I think War 2 and I think Houseful will probably be hits.

[00:55:56] And if Ramayana comes out, that could be a hit as well.

[00:55:59] I would be interested in watching Ramayana mostly because I want to see Sai Pallavi

[00:56:02] and Ranbir Kapoor.

[00:56:04] I think that's a good combo.

[00:56:04] So, Ranbir, I feel like he's always good, even in the movie he's in his rubbish.

[00:56:09] So, I think he'll still do a good job.

[00:56:12] And I'm just curious to see that airing just because it's so novel and interesting.

[00:56:18] But the movie, I think I'll probably like the best is whatever Vishal Bharadwaj does

[00:56:23] because I like most everything he does.

[00:56:26] And I am excited about Thama.

[00:56:28] Give me a good horror comedy.

[00:56:29] I'm happy.

[00:56:30] But that's it.

[00:56:31] I think those are the only three I'm interested in.

[00:56:35] Good.

[00:56:35] I think also Alpha, if it comes out, could be fun just because Yashraj will give it a good

[00:56:41] push, you know, that kind of thing.

[00:56:42] But if it's coming out late the year, it's not going to, you know, be the biggest hit anymore.

[00:56:46] Like the same thing we're having with the Baby John.

[00:56:49] But yeah, I think that's it for this episode.

[00:56:51] I think we talked a lot.

[00:56:53] I think Sabthaggai.

[00:56:55] So, yeah.

[00:56:56] Pitu, where can people find you online?

[00:56:58] They can find me on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts where Beth and

[00:57:04] I co-host Filmy Ladies.

[00:57:06] And we have an episode every Tuesday at 5 p.m. Pacific so they can catch us there.

[00:57:12] I am anti-social media so they can't catch me anywhere else unless they follow me on Instagram

[00:57:16] which if they're not friend or family, they're not.

[00:57:18] So, see, all of this nonsense that you people have to go through on Twitter and all,

[00:57:22] that is my superpower.

[00:57:24] I don't have Twitter.

[00:57:25] I don't have Facebook.

[00:57:27] I don't have Blue Sky Life.

[00:57:28] It's great when you don't have social media.

[00:57:31] I literally only respond to YouTube comments on Filmy Ladies.

[00:57:35] That's it.

[00:57:35] The non-toxic platform which is YouTube comments.

[00:57:39] Well, yeah.

[00:57:40] We're not famous enough to get the toxic comments.

[00:57:43] Yeah.

[00:57:44] Occasionally, we'll get like a random comment with them like,

[00:57:46] why do you have beef with like Katrina or whatever?

[00:57:49] And I'm like,

[00:57:50] how much time do I have to answer this long exposition you want?

[00:57:56] Sujoy, where can people find you online?

[00:57:58] You cannot find me online anymore.

[00:58:02] But yeah, I'm still,

[00:58:03] yeah,

[00:58:04] I'm kind of sort of online on Instagram and Twitter and Blue Sky at 93K.

[00:58:11] I have abandoned TikTok for the time being.

[00:58:14] But you can also follow Khandan Podcast on all our socials at Khandan Podcast.

[00:58:18] Amrita?

[00:58:20] You can find me on,

[00:58:21] well,

[00:58:22] you can still find me on Twitter,

[00:58:24] but you can mostly find me on Blue Sky at Amrita IQ.

[00:58:28] Yes,

[00:58:29] I'm on Blue Sky.

[00:58:30] I'm on Twitter.

[00:58:31] I'm on TikTok-ish.

[00:58:33] I'm going to be starting actually a new channel on TikTok,

[00:58:37] which is my business TikTok channel,

[00:58:40] which is going to be fun.

[00:58:41] I've created like a new podcast for that.

[00:58:43] My company is called Culture Canvas.

[00:58:44] So if you want to see business,

[00:58:46] Aasim,

[00:58:47] that's going to be fun.

[00:58:48] I'm going to be plugging it more throughout the year.

[00:58:50] It's a really,

[00:58:51] really fun episode.

[00:58:53] We recorded two.

[00:58:54] It's going to come out in January.

[00:58:56] So,

[00:58:56] so apparently also I'm on LinkedIn.

[00:58:58] If you want to find me on LinkedIn,

[00:59:00] that's another way to find me.

[00:59:02] Yeah.

[00:59:03] It's a content machine,

[00:59:04] Aasim,

[00:59:05] Bernie.

[00:59:06] And,

[00:59:06] but I think honestly,

[00:59:08] the best way to reach us is Patreon.

[00:59:11] It's a thriving community.

[00:59:13] It's really going,

[00:59:14] you know,

[00:59:15] I really enjoy Patreon more and more.

[00:59:17] Like it's like closed off.

[00:59:19] We,

[00:59:19] there's no toxicity.

[00:59:21] People like us.

[00:59:22] We like them.

[00:59:23] And we like movies,

[00:59:24] you know,

[00:59:25] it's these three things.

[00:59:26] And I think that's what we always wanted to create.

[00:59:28] And I really want to give a shout out and a thanks again to our Patreon members.

[00:59:32] This is what still kind of keep us going because there is no praise anymore on any other platform.

[00:59:38] It's just the people on Patreon that still like us,

[00:59:40] you know?

[00:59:40] So thank you again for Patreon for supporting the work for another year.

[00:59:44] And I hope you keep joining us and,

[00:59:46] you know,

[00:59:47] contributing next year.

[00:59:48] And big things are coming.

[00:59:49] Also,

[00:59:50] I think we did a lot on Patreon this year.

[00:59:52] We did a lot of like video essays.

[00:59:54] Amrita did a lot of five minute catch-ups.

[00:59:56] We did a lot of things.

[00:59:57] The video essays,

[00:59:58] we didn't even plug.

[00:59:59] We did a lot of these this year.

[01:00:00] So hopefully we can do more next year.

[01:00:03] So yeah,

[01:00:04] join us on Patreon.

[01:00:05] And thank you for listening as always.

[01:00:08] And we'll be back with a new episode in the next year.

[01:00:11] See ya.