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The video features a reaction and discussion of the Telugu film *Rao Bahadur*, which two hosts describe as an absolute masterpiece comparable to Hollywood's best picture contenders. They praise every aspect of the production, from the cinematography by Kartik Parmar to the direction and editing by Venkatesh Maha, who also handled the score himself—a trait they admire in directors like Taika Waititi or Yorgos Lanthimos. The hosts highlight how the film seamlessly blends serious themes with quirky humor, particularly through its musical numbers that shift instantly from ridiculousness to profound seriousness within a single edit. They note that while Telugu cinema is often celebrated for high-octane mass entertainment, this movie stands out as an artistic achievement that rivals top-tier international films in terms of concept and execution. At the heart of their appreciation lies the film's subversive message regarding caste discrimination and skin color prejudice, which they feel is brilliantly deconstructed through a generational story about false ancestry claims. The hosts explain how the narrative reveals that many cherished family legacies are built on lies, thereby exposing the foundation upon which social hierarchies rest as inherently flawed. This thematic depth is delivered with such creativity and wit that it elevates the movie beyond typical regional cinema expectations. They also commend the supporting cast for delivering phenomenal performances alongside believable aging effects and stunning visual storytelling, noting that even minor details like lighting and production design contribute to a cohesive cinematic experience worthy of global recognition. Despite their overwhelming praise, one host offers a small critique suggesting the film could have been slightly tighter by trimming about fifteen minutes without losing its impact, though they acknowledge this is merely a nitpick in an otherwise flawless work. They express regret that such high-quality non-dramatic films often struggle to gain Academy attention due to bias toward traditionally "profoundly dramatic" stories, arguing that *Rao Bahadur*'s important social message deserves equal consideration for submissions representing India internationally. The conversation also touches on the growing trend of Telugu filmmakers exploring artistic genres while maintaining their strength in mass entertainment, signaling a promising evolution for the industry as more diverse and nuanced titles emerge to challenge global perceptions. Overall, the hosts conclude that *Rao Bahadur* is not only one of the best Indian films of the year but also a standout piece among Telugu cinema's recent output, placing it alongside other masterpieces like RRR in terms of quality and cultural significance. They encourage viewers who may be unfamiliar with this genre or region to explore these hidden gems that offer both entertainment and thought-provoking commentary on societal issues. With excitement for future projects from director Venkatesh Maha and anticipation for continued recognition of Telugu cinema's artistic contributions, the reaction ends on a high note celebrating innovation, authenticity, and the power of storytelling that transcends borders.
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[music] >> Hey Greg, it's our 3D watching of >> Raptor. >> We're also on YouTube. If you tell me to go over to you guys, go over there and do exactly what I told you guys to do on this other >> I love you movie. >> Yeah, we have a Patreon or two memberships up in the description below. Go bring them up, go check that out. Now in this part we're talking about the movie, are you okay? Okay, okay, okay. Let's finish this movie, huh? >> Let's finish it. >> Yeah. >> [music] [music] >> I like that camera work. >> [music] >> Never loved him. That's great. Wow. >> [gasps] >> Anything that helps you sleep at night? There's the tree. The one he turns into. >> Yeah, the big colorful tree. >> Mhm. >> Huh? >> That was a demon. >> But according to the complaint I received >> Well, no. >> Why do you want to go so bad? >> What is this? >> I don't know. >> She does it all the time. He's up. >> [laughter] [singing] >> That poor father >> I'll be back with you in a minute. >> Samples >> Case complicated outcome. >> What do you want to do? >> [laughter] >> Sorry, I'M A VEGETARIAN. >> [laughter] [music] >> IT'S LIKE A MINIATURE. HE DOES LIE ALL THE TIME. What's the saying like disbelief? >> a demon. >> Doubt is a demon. Doubt is a demon. >> Two weeks. >> Tweedledee and Tweedledum. >> Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. >> Yeah. >> Lal Babu >> It is going to psychological disorders challenge to go to Canada collection. >> 5 days and they It's weird. >> [laughter] >> I'm okay. Mobile 4G watching that. >> I check into my coordinator is that >> Mambo latest >> I don't want to do what you got. >> Money >> Jio to send connect to automatic receipt >> [laughter] >> That's >> Google tell about a button for what to do. >> You ticket to run marathon >> My name is David Bowie to me. >> Michael Jordan mother love >> I think I need >> Because Michael and me company name is about it. >> What? >> Call button on me that I don't want to go on the day. Just a little guy. Just a little guy police get some money. >> The probability of paternity in the DNA report of Mr. Michael Sahayam is 0%. The body Mr. Bhuvanam Ramappa Rao Bahadur is 99.9% >> Who is my papa Raju on a Monday? >> [music] [music] [singing] >> She had said she was in love with someone else. >> Yeah, what did you do? Wow. This is incredible. You're going to have me dead. >> [music] >> Woo! It's been a while since I've done this, and I'm happy I get to do it today. Telugu cinema? That sucker's platinum with a blue diamond. Wait, you don't have your last platinum. [cheering] Uh yeah, Telugu. Telugu Sangeetham. >> [laughter] >> That was just nothing but exemplary comments to talk about this film. >> Yeah, that was brilliant. The what the how they made the build the the the the artistry in this movie, the uh the concept of this movie, the every everything about this movie is absolutely brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I can't decide cuz they're so different which one's the best of the year, but the Telugu's made the two best Indian movies of the year so far. >> Without question. >> Um and it's obviously it probably depends on your mood because obviously one's a a more um I mean this is kind of a a fun watch too obviously, but the other one's like a I mean almost a musical fun watch, right? It's like but it's still equally just as brilliant just in a different way. This one is If this was a Hollywood movie, it'd be nominated for best picture. >> Yeah. >> This would've been nominated for best picture easily. It's like a between Yorgos and um >> Anderson >> Anderson and um maybe even a little bit of um um what's his face? Uh New Zealand um What We Do in the Shadows. >> Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Um Why am I forgetting his name? >> Me, too. Taika. >> Yeah, and a little bit of Taika in there. Um all mixed in. Uh Telugu just I know we haven't been singing your praises as much lately just cuz we haven't had new stuff to to watch and we've seen some smaller cinema from Telugu that has impressed us, but predominantly for the past few years at minimum, it's been you know, Salaars and which are great in their own right, but that's been the predominance of Telugu cinema that's been coming out. This is like what we've been seeing from Malayalam cinema in terms of the high concept highbrow um artistry, this An Sangeetham, the the originality, back-to-back, just sixes out of the park. Uh this movie was brilliant. >> My favorite thing about the film, and there's a lot to to love about it. I love the subversiveness of the really powerful message that is epitomized best in that ancestral musical number, the ancestry number. But the payoff at the end linked to that is all of this generation after generation about skin color, cast, discrimination. When the reality is if you check the family tree and you check the roots, you would be shocked to discover there's no bloodline over there. There there was a peasant in there that they lied about that is in the bloodline and everybody thinks it's a royal bloodline and they're proud of this so-called thing that they've got and it's all built on lies. Uh and and therefore the whole underpinning of everything that you believe is so valuable in cast discrimination and skin color discrimination is not only inherently bad in and of itself, but it's all predicated upon this lie you've believed about ancestry. It's brilliant. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Just brilliant. >> And they directed by >> Yeah. >> Who's he? >> Written and directed by Venkatesh Maha, who I guess just goes by Maha. Uh Just brilliant brilliant. >> Uh the >> And he did the editing. I was going to just say how great the editing was. >> an editor first cuz that's one of the things that did stick out to me in this movie. >> I was going to talk about that. >> Was the editing of it. I love, and I've said it before, I love when people in films use editing cuts um shots uh to incorporate humor and um kind of interest. So like if it's a not the most interesting scene to frame it in such a way that like it's interesting because of the way it's framed. >> And paced. >> Yeah. Um so, brilliant editing by him, but also the uh cinematographer >> Camera work. >> Kartik Parmar. And I don't know production design by >> Rohan Singh. >> Uh and composer >> Smaran. >> Every single element of this could win a dummy. >> And the it's going to have it's going to have so many dummy nominations. The acting Everybody was He was phenomenal. >> By uh our lead here. Um >> Satyadev Kancharana. >> Uh have we seen him before? >> Everybody was great. I also the age makeup, aging everybody out was believable. There was no flaws and a lot of times in Indian cinema, aging people out, you just kind of accept it because it doesn't look very good. >> Mhm. >> They this looked great. The visual effects were great. The quirkiness of it. And then like a lot of films that are going really great, you get to the last act and you're like okay, this is the hard part. >> Mhm. >> How you going to wrap this up? This is the hard part. Is it going to go from a gold to a silver? Is it just going to stay gold? Is it going to be platinum? They just killed it. >> Yeah. If I if I could have one gripe and I don't really, it'd be that you could cut a little bit out of this movie to make it a slight snappier, but that is if I'm I'm just trying to find something at that at at that point of just cuz obviously it's 2:45, I think it's about in 2:45. You can make it 2:30, I feel like and and still have the same impact, but once again, that is a nitpick that I'm just trying to find something that I would nitpick cuz there's nothing else. >> It's head and shoulders. >> Yeah. >> Uh this and and Sandeep Tomar head and shoulders the best things we've seen out of India this year. >> Yeah, and up there with the some of the best things I've seen in Hollywood. >> Absolutely. >> Like this is Hollywood level on every aspect >> Every aspect of it. >> Literally, there's not an aspect Like I said, if this was a Hollywood movie, it would be nominated for best picture. >> And what's a shame >> be, and that's a shame because this Both Singu Itam and this have a negative going against them when it comes to Academy recognition, and that is sadly, I understand why they do it, and I know you do, too. Sadly, the Academy's going to look at the the the films that are profoundly dramatic, right? >> Yeah. >> And they're going to select ones that are profoundly dramatic. This has as much of a message that is important as any profoundly dramatic film, but because it isn't that, it could sadly be ignored. It is absolutely worthy of being a submission. >> foreign film? >> Yeah, it is absolutely worthy of being a submission to represent India this year. >> Yeah, it's >> But it won't be. >> Yeah, yeah, who knows, you know, with the new rules and stuff, but um it's just I love the lighting in this movie. >> Everything. Production design, >> This I don't know if it was a practical set of the spinning, but it was beautiful in the way it was shot. Um our lead's performance was brilliant. All the supporting actors were brilliant. Um I love the songs, I how quirky this entire movie was with also being serious the entire time. >> Right. >> Um the most silly parts were probably the songs. >> Yeah. >> And even then they they made it it's like you know, this is silly, but it's serious. >> It was almost Nelson-y in the fact that they went from just pure ridiculousness to just downright serious. >> Yeah. >> Within a matter of just an edit. >> Yeah. >> Like he's dead, or he's in that meditative state, right? He's going to be out, and it's kind of serious, then they zoom in on his eyes, and he's dancing in his eyes. He'll be doing weeks. >> It's come on. >> So funny. >> I love it like Is he You You let us know if he's a if he's an editor, first. Wouldn't shock me. Typically, when you see a director editing, it's because they came from that background and they don't trust anybody else. >> Yeah. >> Just like Vishal, he's like, "Nobody's ever going to score a movie of mine." >> Yeah. >> The I make a movie so I [snorts] can score the movie. >> way. >> Yeah. So, like, typically, when you start out in a certain profession and then you come up >> Well, you know, cuz directors oversee the editing anyway, and they they they just tell the editor what they want because they don't have the editing skills. >> Yeah. >> But if you've got the skills, why would you hand it over? Cuz >> Editing. We talk about this all the time. >> Editing makes >> It's your movie. >> Editing It's a director's medium. >> Yeah, sure it is. Especially on the day. But the end result, everybody's dependent upon editing. >> Yeah. >> Everybody. >> Yeah. >> Actors who get Oscars, you can thank the editor for what they did cuz they could have ruined your performance. >> You can make the same movie a horror and the same movie a rom-com. >> Score and editing. >> Yeah. Score and editing. >> But performances, sometimes Sometimes the most memorable thing you have is just the look that somebody gives >> Mhm. >> on a on a a shot. Like, for example, it's used all the time. That shot from I think it's from It's either Casino or Goodfellas, where De Niro's sitting at the bar and he's putting out the cigarette and he's just looking. That's because of the length of that frame in between the first cut and the second cut and the way Scorsese came in slowly on him at the bar. >> Yeah. >> De Niro's doing a great job, but what made it all the more legendary is that. Same thing with uh Daniel Day-Lewis in in in Gangs of New York, when he has the bunny rabbit moment. That bunny rabbit moment is because they chose not to cut it and keep it right there for the whole take. >> Yeah. >> That's a direction and editing thing that conveyed the the moment. >> Yeah, and it was really interesting right in the beginning when when they were going through the house and they were obviously they were setting up for a future shot as well of like he's done this a lot. >> He knows this house. >> And and the house and and all that kind of stuff and that their relationship. And then when she made them like come in the walls without walking and they were kind of floating. It was just great. But, like it was like pretty chaotic in the editing and then the next scene it's they're pretty stationary. >> Probably for a good 10 minutes scene, right? >> And it's it's because he you're seeing how kind of crazy he is. And so everything else is kind of static as opposed to being chaotic and he is the chaotic thing in the scene. It's really brilliant choice by the director. >> They better stay away from him. >> Mhm. >> Literally it's just >> a great scene. I would love to recreate that scene. That's a really good one. >> As I was watching it, I thought that scene's long enough to do that scene at work space cuz when we do scenes at work space, you want them to be minimum 6 minutes. They can be 10 to 12. That's the wheelhouse for and a lot of TV especially there's some great scenes but they only last 2 3 minutes. Yeah. It's hard to get stuff from film that's that long and that's a great scene. >> Yeah, back-to-back thing and this two of the best Telugu movies of my favorite for sure. It's hard to say obviously what your favorite cuz you know, you'd have to compare stuff like this to RRR and and other cuz Telugu cinema is really great at when it's done well, the big massy cinema, right? When it's done when it's done really well. We have seen many movies that are more this genre in terms of like more just about the performances and the artisticness of it as opposed to the the massiness of it. >> Right. >> But it's much fewer and far between Telugu cinema. >> Right. >> Maybe that's changing. >> I don't want them to go away from what they do really well in the big massy cinema because I think they do that very well. >> And it's very likely this is just what's been going on and it hasn't gotten the notoriety or the publicity or the the popularity and those who know Telugu are like, guys, this is what's been going on. We've just wanted y'all to know it. >> I mean, I would have said one of the best of this genre before this was from the same director. That C dash O whatever that movie is. >> That one was a great movie. >> What's he got coming up next cuz I'm a fan? >> Uh me too, man. He is I need to I I'm a fan. >> Venkatesh Maha >> Venkatesh Venkatesh >> What's next in the wheelhouse for him? >> Cuz that's brilliant. I hope this did well. I heard so much about it. >> Me too. >> But that doesn't mean it did well. That just means our audience knows that we would of course enjoy it. >> I just I got loads of messages from stupid babies just and I didn't even look a lot of them were reels. >> Yeah. >> And it I saw the title. So I don't look at the reels, but um yeah. Wait. Was the director the great grandfather? Oh, wow. That was his cameo? >> Maha >> He was the great grandfather who led the musical number out ancestry? >> Yeah, he was. That's funny. That's great. >> [laughter] >> That's great. >> That's one of my favorite parts of the entire movie. >> It is the that's the heart and soul of the movie right there is that ancestry number. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Cuz when you get a a movie that's kind of like the favorite, but then you insert a lot of obviously Yorgos does that automatically. >> There's so much humor in a Yorgos film that's just kind of subtle and >> Yeah. >> and that kind of stuff, but Woo, man. >> Telugu cinema, boom baby. >> You are killing it. The year the 2026 is the year of Telugu cinema right now. >> Yeah, absolutely. Um looking forward to more of watching y'all's films um and then getting notoriety cuz we haven't got that as much in the past. So that's very exciting. Let us know you thought about the movie. If you liked it, if you didn't like it, what your thoughts on it are. If you saw us on YouTube, you saw us on Reddit, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Twitter, on Snapchat, on Tumblr, on this and other Telugu movies including Singeetham. Uh you know about Patreon or channel membership, so go to the description below and you can go check that out. And anything else we need to know? Down below. >> I DID NOT GET >> HEY.