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I remember reading the name of this film back when the trailer released, later when the film released on Netlix back in June and thought "Since I don't listen to KPop, looks like it's not for me." Didn't even watch the trailer. Late August, the film had a limited theatrical release for "One Weekend Only!" and went house-full. Unheard of. I then read that the songs have legit been rated in the Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks, with one song on # 1 for 10 weeks or something...!?

Finally got around to it, and like me, if you've slept on this film, please don't. Watch this film right away, it will quite possibly end up being one of the best films of the year!!

Visuals - This film is visually stunning. If you liked the 'Spiderverse' animation, you're gonna like this. Watch this film at night, with the lights off.

Audio - If you're not into K-POP, you're still gonna really enjoy the sound design. It was epic. The songs will get you and you will get sucked into it and then "the songs were actually not bad". If you're into K-POP, this is gonna be one of the best cinematic experiences for you this year.

Plot - Loved how they made a 'period drama' set in present day pop-culture. 84 mins - Loved the runtime. The film conveys the background in the first few mins and once it takes off, there's no time to pause. The humor in the film is great! I tried to think where I'd cut points, and I don't think I can find anything about the film that I didn't enjoy.

This is the film that Disney has been trying SO HARD to make (perhaps since Frozen 1) for so long and it's not panned out for them. Indian cinema with an audience of a billion+ people conditioned to musicals has not be able to have a successful film with 6 banger songs in a long long time.

Watch this film for a fun entertaining 1.5 hours (and potentially several rewatches and several hours of listening to the songs) Watch it with the elders in the family and watch it with the kids. It's fun.

Brilliant first half (had me constantly questioning where all of it was going) and a cliched (but still very watchable) 2nd half.

I'm surprised someone of Fahad's stature continues to play roles like these (Good! More should) Vadivelu was brilliant. I would love to see him play a godfather-like role, set in Madurai. I'd love to see these two team up once again.

I feel like this film didn't receive enough appreciation but I also think that it had the potential to be a banger film, and didn't live up to it's expectation. As much as this film was a bit of a missed opportunity, I'd would still recommend it. One of the better Tamil movies to come out this year so far.

If you find stories of 'people working hard to achieve their dreams' to be inspiring, you should watch this show in which, the people just happen to be pro-wrestlers and their dream just happens to be, say, "performing at WrestleMania".

This isn't for people who scoff and say "I used to watch it when I was 8" and show that their understanding and appreciation of work-ethic, athleticism and physical danger hasn't evolved since 3rd grade. It's funny how watching stunts in a movie is OK, but live-stunts inside a ring is too low-brow. Movie stars who 'do their own stunts' in controlled environments are massively praised but.... *sigh*

While I completely understand the ulterior motives behind why Netflix and WWE decided to do this documentary, it does throw light on the immense planning and hard-work that goes into simply being a part of a business heavily dependent on selling your personality through kayfabe/staged storylines. There are lessons to be learned from what it takes to run a multi $B business that depends on people paying hard-earned money for scripted storylines that may very well leak in the social media age.

While I've known most of the journeys the show talks about, Chelsea Green's story was interesting to listen to and it was nice to see how far she's come. I went back to watch Penta vs Chelsea and ooof...that was something! Fascinating to see the how far Cody Rhodes has come despite what him, Goldust and Dusty were treated by you-know-who in real life.

Massive respect for everyone who takes bumps for entertaining a crowd, I am sure they get paid handsomely but if taking bumps and getting hit for real to sell a fake storyline (which you have no control over) to sell tickets is what you do to earn a living, nothing but respect. Shame the show only has 5 episodes but knowing Netflix and their multiyear deal with WWE, I'm sure there will be more to come and I can't wait.