Movie Review Special:: Saiyaara (with spoliers!)

In this special episode, we dive into the cinematic storm that is Saiyaara. Is it a misunderstood gem or a full-blown dramatic detour? From intense stares to a questionable plot twist, we unpack the chaos, the charm, and everything in between. Spoilers, sarcasm, and side-eyes included

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SPEAKER_00: 0:00

Munni. Hello. What did we do on Thursday at 10.40 p.m.? Sleep. We did not sleep. Nope. We went to Sayara. We drove about 20 miles away from where we live to go to Sayara. And I have thoughts. I think you have thoughts as well. But before the thoughts, can you give us a brief synopsis of what the story is? So spoilers included in this episode. It's about two people that meet each other spontaneously and end up becoming friends. And then through their journey, they fall in love. Yes. And she's a very simple type of chick. And he's kind of tormented rock star-y, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. She's simple, also kind of tormented a little bit, I think, right? Yeah, she does have a past. She has a past. So she has a past. He has his past. They meet. They help. They help heal each other whatever way they possibly can. They fall in love. Then comes a very interesting storyline. So she is sick. She has an early form of Alzheimer's, which is a thing. We looked it up to make sure. It's not. very common at all very common and they say in the movie though they also say in the movie that one girl from china at 17 yes they talk about that and which i looked up to i was like okay let's make sure like there's no plot holes in this right yeah so they there is she's a rare case so she has this alzheimer's disease and um he later finds out and one of the problems is that Sometimes things trigger it and she forgets stuff and she constantly forgets things. I mean, I feel like I have short-term memory loss, but this is really bad short-term memory loss. This is bad, right? She forgets and then she comes back and then she kind of remembers some of the things that happened. So in between all of this stuff, he's trying to be a rock star, but he steps back because he wants to take care of her. And when he realizes that his dream, that he's sacrificing it for her, she kind of runs away from him. And then he spends like a year and a half just like looking for her. And everything's based off of music for this movie. So like you see a lot of the music composition and where it comes from and how each of the songs like relate. And the last song that they repeat constantly is the main song, the movie. The title song. And I think like in the one and a half years that he's looking for you, he's blown up into this big rock star. He's doing like big concerts at like the O2 in London. Like all around the world. So he's like big dude, but still very sad, sad man, but sad man, sad man, sad man. Okay. Now acting. What did you think? Okay. Personally for me, newcomers and we've been seeing so many newcomers we've seen so many new like nepo kids and we talk about I think our episodes have been so much about nepotism and like how we think they're so bad and they should not be in the industry I honestly think I don't know what this kid did um Ahan Pandey first I'm gonna talk about Ahan Pandey first um he was good this kid even from the trailer when I first saw the trailer I thought he was doing a great job on the scenes and then watching the movie I thought he did really good there were like his eyes his eyes his eyes Emoted. Like, he didn't have to say a word, and you could tell what he was feeling just by his eyes. And so, Muni, I read that he was asked to be in Archie's, and he politely declined and waited. Whoa, that is gossip that I didn't know. Smart man. Yeah, so he declined because I... I guess maybe he felt like he wasn't ready yet because that was a few years ago, I believe, right? Half ago, maybe two years, yeah. Yeah, so then I think he just wasn't ready for it or possibly wanted something else. And the something else that came to him turned him into a movie star overnight. And not even just because of the music, because we've been talking about how amazing the music is. Like we just said, his acting was fantastic. Like really, really good. For a newcomer, especially a newcomer, I feel like he'll grow more. Oh, yeah. There were times that, like you said, he was just speaking with his eyes. Okay, so now we talked about Ahan. What about Anit? Anit Padha. That girl... Okay, Ahan is good as a debut. She was phenomenal. She was so much better than him, right? Like, he was great. She was exceptional. She... There are scenes of her when she cries that... I like felt it because the way she was she was just so good I know you didn't feel it I know you felt it I saw all your tears come out too so yeah I just it was just like she was just so good at it and I was shocked like her anger her crying and you know how you were talking about like his eyes she did it with her eyes too I feel like she had a lot more lines than he did I don't know somewhere I felt like she talked a little bit I don't know about the lines but she had a lot more emotional scenes and okay where like like you could actually see the acting come through like she was really feeling what she was Yeah, yeah, yeah Um, but I think also like from, with her, her background, she's, um, I think she's from Amritsar and she's kind of like a nobody. I don't think she has any Bollywood, like not like a, not a nobody, nobody, but she doesn't have any Bollywood connections. She has no godfather, right? She has no godfather in Bollywood. She did like, she worked really hard. I was doing something like reading, reading some things about her. Like she did a lot of commercials. Um, and then I heard somewhere, again, heard, read, saw it on TikTok and Instagram that Ahan Fande was the one that like actually pulled her, um, into the mood, like really wanted her to be in the movie. Okay, so can I tell you how I felt about this movie? We are here for that particular reason. Okay, so I was so excited. I think I egged you on into coming because I think you were like, dude, that's going to be so late, whatever. And I was like, whatever, we're going to do it, Monique. Come on, Monique. Let's do it. Let's do it. So we did it. We got there and I was so excited. Like, I was really, really excited. Yes, you were very excited. You actually were very excited. At the end of the movie, though, I was like... Huh? Like, I felt like it just ended a little bit abruptly for me. Like, you know, like, I've heard that, like, there's, oh, my God, the love story and this and that. I'm like, listen, there are other movies out there in the Bollywood world where the love story, I felt, was much better than this love story. It was a good love story. It was a good movie. Great acting. I felt like the storyline for me did not hit As much as it has hit you. Others, others, others. You and others, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. It was good, but I was... The excitement that I had in the beginning did not continue to the end. I felt... I told you this at the theater at the end. I'm like, I felt... The way I, like, I was like, wait, this is it? This is where it ends? I felt like how Katapa killed Bahubali. I was like, this is where it ends? But I was actually excited about that movie because I knew there was a part two. There's no part two to Sayara. No. There is not part two. What? Like, this? What? So that's how I felt. But let me, let me, let me hear your feelings. So I, I absolutely love the movie. I thought, I thought the, the way they showed the love story, the way their innocent love, like falling in love. I think for me, when I was, when I was watching, I was like, it's like, I was like, why is it hitting me so much? Because Bollywood movies for so long, I have not felt any like real feelings. Like I think Rocky or Ronnie was probably my last one where I was like, oh my God. Or like a last one in a long time where I was like, oh my God, the story is so good. The love story is really cute. I really like it. Blah, blah, blah. And I was like, why do I like it so much as I'm watching the movie? And I'm like, huh? It kind of reminds me of K-drama, like a K-drama type of style where like the girl, like it just the way the flow was, it just felt like that. It was just something about... the innocent love about how they fell in love how they were friends what happened after that afterwards and I think for me specifically it was like how each of their love what the sacrifice for each of them was right there are particular scenes and I can go breaking it all on more like whoever wants to talk to me please no thank you I can break it down not you not you whoever wants to talk to me I'll break it down you don't need to but for me it was like Are there great cinemas out there? Are there great movies out there? Yeah. Have there been any great movies out here in the last year and a half on romance? No, I don't think so. I can't think back to one. And Rocky Rani is a completely different genre. Very different. Yeah, I'm not trying to compare those two movies together at all. Like for the longest time I found a movie, like I saw a movie that was like, Like, it had a... For me, it had a good story. Was the Alzheimer thing a little out there? Yeah. And I really enjoyed it. However, now we can talk about the actual fan reactions. Okay, so the fan reactions we're seeing on TikTok and Instagram of people in India, like... Here, too. Not just India. Here, too. Here, too. Yeah. In the Western world as well. The fact that they're, like, crying... Like... Ripping their... Hold on. You, at one moment during intermission, you turned around and said, where is the other stuff? I was like, what other stuff? You know when people are ripping their shirts off? I was like, what? And beating their chests and crying.

UNKNOWN: 9:24

I'm like...

SPEAKER_00: 9:24

like, what? Where is a scene where people want to rip off their clothes because it's so good? I don't see that. I was like, honestly, what are you talking about? Why are they crying as if honestly, like somebody they knew had just passed away, like somebody they're very close to has passed away, like they're never going to see this person again. That's how some of this reaction is that I've been seeing on TikTok and Instagram. And I'm like, Do you guys just not, have you not seen any good stories? Like, is this the only thing your generation is going to have? Like, what? I was very confused. But, okay, so, like, I totally agree. Some of the reactions came up on my TikTok. And it was, like, we're taking tissues in the theater. And then it, like, shows them crying their eyes out. And maybe they're emotional people. And that could be it, right? Not even crying. Like, it's almost, like, violently crying. Like, like. Some people on TikTok, they were, like, violently crying. And I was, like, I cried. I didn't cry. You were very soft and cute about your cry. There was no cute. Yeah. I, but I wasn't like, there are movies where I was, I ball, like I do bother movies where I do. This wasn't like that. It was very cute type of stuff that happened in the movie that made me tear up, but that's it. I will say I cry in movies. So I cried at those scenes, but some of these people were like, I was like, I, I also don't get why you're crying that much. Again, you could love the movie. Absolutely love it. But that much crying and tears are just like, I, it's, I feel like people who might have gone through a bad breakup recently probably should have watched it or something like that. But I don't think that's why people were crying. I think they were crying, like you said, because of the innocent love story and how he really stood by her to the very end. I get that. But to cry that much about it? Like... It's a little bit much. No, like, again, like I said, they were, like, you know how Oprah has termed the ugly cry? Like, they have done the ugly cry throughout the movie or maybe towards the end of the movie, whenever, like, I just don't, I don't understand. Also, like, there's other people on TikTok, like, saying what's similar to what you're saying, but actually being really mean. Like, oh, you guys, like, you guys don't know anything better. It's like, this... If you think about the movies that have come out in the last 10 years. They don't. They don't know anything better. Yeah, yeah. There's nothing good out there. They have old men in their 60s romancing young girls in their 20s and doing these ridiculous movies. There's no item number in this movie at all. There was nothing like that. Everything was purely based on the two characters and their love story. And actually, all the songs were situational, like background songs, right? There was no forced choreographed songs, right? No, nothing forced. Everything flowed with the moment. That's why I think I love the songs even more now. Mohit Suri does such a good job with getting the right music for the entire movie. I loved the album before and I think we've talked about it so much. And then leaving the theater, I had to hear the entire album all over again. Now I have more feelings for it. More about the album. Because It just like worked so well. And you reminisce the scenes, right? And as you're like, I saw you bopping your head and singing to your heart's content in the car when you're driving next to me. In the car. I really put it up high. And I was like, this is vibing too. It was just so good. I don't know how to explain it. So those are our feelings. So after going all through all of this, would you recommend someone watching it? Yeah, yeah. I think they should watch it. But don't have high expectations. Because I think if you don't have high expectations You're probably going to really love it. I think I really was into the hype that I was seeing and stuff. I try not to watch much about it. But like you couldn't not though. Like just everything as you're scrolling, it's like sayada, sayada, sayada, right? So I couldn't not have a few expectations. And I think maybe that kind of overtook my feelings a bit. And that's why at the end I'm like, hmm. Hmm. Yeah.

UNKNOWN: 13:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 13:24

I get it. I get it. I think for me, I would absolutely recommend it. If people can go see it in theater, I would say see it in theater. If you don't want to see it in theaters, definitely watch it when it comes on Netflix. I avoided watching anything about it. I didn't want any spoilers. I wanted nothing on it because I really wanted to have my own feeling to it. So even though it was on my newsfeed, I would just skip it. I was like, don't look. Good. Okay. Well, so just to tie it up, great acting, great songs. I was okay with the movie and you thought it was amazing, right? I thought it was great. But we both feel that if you have time to go watch it in the theater, definitely go to get the experience or watch it on Netflix. It will be out soon, I'm sure. All right, guys. This was a special episode. We might have a series of special episodes, movie reviews. Bye. Bye. Like, share, follow.

SPEAKER_01: 14:19

Say yaara tu to badla nahi hai Mausam zara saa rootha hua hai

SPEAKER_00: 14:46

I feel like they have been tortured, have tortured souls. Oh, wow. You're going way deep. Okay. Okay. I shouldn't talk about that. We should cut that out, right? Why not? We're not into karmic pasts here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Let's go back to that.