The Tribe (2024) s01e09 Episode Script
Episode 9
1
[cheerful music plays]
-Did you pray?
-Yeah, I did. Did you?
Yeah, I finished in the morning.
Did you get this outfit?
I just felt like it would be nice,
-and it's a thing we do at home.
-Yeah. That's why.
Like, Fridays, me and my mom, especially.
-My mom loves dressing up.
-Yeah.
She says that if
I don't look my best for my Allah,
then what's the point of all this?
And this is something I wanted to do
because I'm missing home.
So we should do our
prayers together next week.
Yeah!
I don't pray like, five times a day.
-Neither do I.
-Yeah.
But I think it's something that like,
will come to me naturally.
-That's what happened with me so
-Yeah.
It was always, mom and dad saying,
"The cleric is here, read the Quran!"
-Oh, my God, that was literally
-Read this
I definitely feel, you know, we've been
through the same things growing up.
It's refreshing to be with someone
who just has the same mindset
and has the same beliefs.
We kind of understand each other
on a deeper level.
For example, you know,
Dad is super religious.
To him, it was his calling,
it came on his own.
Like, I'm sure there are people
that judge him for being an actor.
At the end of the day, I feel like,
it doesn't matter, you know.
It's his relationship with God and he is,
you know, a pious man and he's doing
you know, he prays five times a day.
Even for me, I feel like,
me being in the fashion industry,
you know, I wanted to dress a certain way.
I want to wear certain outfits
and I feel like, somewhere people
are like, "Oh, you can't wear this."
And even for my parents, it was difficult.
You know, so, I just wanted that freedom
to be able to wear whatever I want
and I feel like I'm glad my parents,
-have
-Have come around.
Yeah, come around now
I feel like, till I was being
told what to do, I didn't get it.
But the second they stopped,
it just happened and today,
everything they said to me growing up,
I feel like I wish
I'd listened to them about this.
-Or I wish I'd finished my Quran earlier.
-Yeah.
These things have come to me very late
and that's my calling.
There came a time in my life
when I'd literally wait for Namaaz time.
So much that even beyond the five times,
I'd sit down and pray the extra Namaaz
that is not compulsory.
That was therapy for me.
I made a lot of changes in my life.
The way I dress up
People tend to judge a lot based on,
you know, external factors.
So, they'll look at you and be like,
-"Okay she'd dressed like this."
-I'm always judged.
I have worn everything
at one point in my life.
Is it religion that's stopping me? No.
-Yeah.
-It's just that
-I'm not comfortable anymore.
-Yeah.
People can hate on me that
she's still wearing ripped jeans
and she wears this and that.
But you know what,
I know I'm true to myself,
I'm good to people.
That is the most
real conversation I've had,
since I came here, with Alaviaa.
It reflected so much about
where we come from,
what our backgrounds are.
My dad has told me to
go wherever I want to as long as
I'm doing something with my life.
But with my mom
I'll tell you something,
when I got diabetes,
because my mom didn't know
a lot about it when I got it,
and it was a huge shock.
I was in the hospital for many,
many months.
For her, this was
the end of her.
And when I got divorced,
I felt the most guilty about my mom.
Like, I've never said this to her
Because her beliefs
are so strong, you know?
-Yeah.
-She wanted to see me
as that bride, it's not wrong.
When the dates got fixed,
and my dad was excited,
everyone was very
-I was not looking fine.
-Yeah.
And my mother looked at me and said,
"Either don't get married, or if you're
getting married just please"
"Don't get a divorce."
Sending me here, she's come a long way.
If you don't mind me asking,
why did you
-get married?
-Get married?
Like, rush into it.
I feel like, when something
is meant to happen,
it just keeps happening and you
don't realize how things are going.
My whole thing was, "I'll make it work."
And let me tell you,
Alaviaa, I've been very blessed.
The family I married into
Like, the kind of heart they had,
very honestly, I don't think
even my own father can look after me
the way that father looked after me.
That family is the reason
I felt closer to my religion.
Every time I pray,
I only ask for forgiveness
for the hearts I've broken.
Like, I wish I didn't marry
at such a young age
and how I think now,
I thought earlier in life.
A lot of lives wouldn't face
the consequences of my immaturity.
At 21, I was partying in New York,
three times a week,
and this girl had to literally,
like, go and get married.
And you know, being under that pressure,
like, I can't even imagine,
you know, how that must have been.
It's your first time coming
to another country,
-living alone
-Yeah.
and it's a big step because
I feel like, you'll find your way,
and find your relationship with Allah
and you'll have a lot of fun.
Inshallah, literally.
[soft song plays]
[soft song ends]
[gentle music plays]
-Hi, I got us some coffee.
-Aw! Thank you, babe.
We have a lot of things to discuss.
One, we need to shortlist
the Lakmé images that we have.
[Alanna] Ivor's always that one person
I go to when I need advice,
and I was just showing him
all the images that we shortlisted.
By the way, which was
an absolute nightmare.
-[snickers]
-No one Everyone was so uncomfortable.
-People are
-Everyone's eyes are like
Closed!
-When someone's eyes are open,
-Yeah.
-mine are closed.
-Closed.
Fidgeting with their hair.
-And this one, Srushti, and her blue gum.
-Oh, my goodness! Look at Srushti.
That's hilarious.
Not even a pastel blue, neon blue gum.
People's eyes are closed, people's mouths
are open, I don't know what's happening.
-[Alanna speaks indistinctly]
-I really don't like how
Alfia is covering your entire shoulder.
I know. She wasn't getting it.
-No professionalism.
-At one point,
I think that we found
-Found?
-a few that I love
and I feel like
the brand's really going to be happy.
We've been in this for a month now.
You've been working constantly
with these girls.
Like, are you feeling like
it's a good investment
-at this point or is it
-I think
I think Aryaana is killing it,
-she's been posting every day.
-Hmm.
Alfia, she's gone to 6000
and dropped to 3000.
This is the first time
we're seeing someone lose followers.
She's just doing her own thing,
she's not listening,
which is why she's not growing.
Srushti is in her own world.
-Yeah, she doesn't she never posts.
-But she's really good.
But she'll shoot. She shot so many reels
on the camping trip.
Alaviaa has that like,
"I wanna do this," but she's laid back.
I actually pulled up our YouTube
monetization page,
this is what we're making
at almost a million subscribers.
And she was like, "Is this real?
Like, this is just what
you guys make off AdSense?"
For the first time,
I saw this thing in Alaviaa's eyes,
like, "Oh my God, I want this."
If you're really killing it at YouTube,
you could be making,
easily, like,
50 to 60 thousand dollars a month.
You think that's going to be
a motivation for them?
Yes, we've tried different strategies,
this might be it.
I've always thought that originally
you guys should've brought on
somebody that has
an established following, at least a 100K.
And everyone thought that this was
going to be like a shock overnight
-and going to go up a 100k.
-We just
You know how hard that is to do?
-It's impossible.
-You're 100 percent right.
And I'm realizing it right now,
how tough it is to actually grow
an account from scratch.
But also, like financially, horrible idea.
I'm a numbers girl.
I see progress through numbers.
So, if we're not growing,
it's frustrating.
I'd have liked to
see the CollabTribe account grow.
Our YouTube channel is struggling.
It's just everything combined.
I hate to admit that
this might have been a mistake.
Even with the billboard, we need to
step our game up and figure our shit out.
[upbeat music plays]
So what's happening?
Is your friend coming over?
Mm-hmm.
You met him the other day.
What are everyone's thoughts on Rahi?
I don't know him that well
to have thoughts.
I mean, like, first
You didn't know me well,
but you had thoughts.
Yeah, you had so many thoughts.
I thought we moved past that.
We believe in moving on in life.
-He's a doctor, guys.
-What?
-Aesthetician.
-Shut up!
-Hi.
-Hi.
-How's it going?
-Good.
You've come here
looking like a colorful balloon.
Someone had to
bring the color and the drama.
What a fashionable aesthetician!
[Alanna] I mean, he came in
that outfit and I was like,
"Oh, shit.
That's the shit-stirring outfit."
Where's Aryaana?
-She's sick.
-She's not well.
-Like, TikTok sick.
-Yes.
We were just discussing,
like, your first impressions.
I found Alanna to be, obviously like,
very glamorous.
She looks just like her pictures.
Oh my God!
That's the biggest compliment.
-You know what I mean?
-Yay!
-Because we all love to like
-FaceApp.
Yeah! I actually don't use FaceApp.
Yeah, because you have like,
a professional re-toucher
editing your pictures.
All the pictures go to Milan to this guy.
-He's a friend.
-Your Instagram game
is stronger than everyone's
-in the room.
-Babe, what are you saying?
I'm serious.
And all these girls are content creators,
and you all need to take notes.
The first minute that I spoke to him,
I was like, I love this guy.
You need to be the fifth girl.
I think we need a Rahi Chadda
in CollabTribe.
I found Srushti to be very spicy,
but I love that.
-You know
-Spicy?
I know I'm not bland, I'm very flavorful.
I don't think I'm spicy.
-Like, a potato fritter with like
-[in Hindi] Spice mix?
[in English] Yes.
The spiciest though, babe,
like, it was you.
What?
-Alfia, like, she
-Please
There's enough spice,
now I'm on a khichdi diet.
We don't do spice, we don't do salt.
I'm chilling.
The minute I saw Alfia,
she looks at me up and down.
-And I felt like you're judging me.
-Me!
And I was so like you know
God has given me such a grumpy face,
what do I do?
You know what I said,
I said, you were in a bad mood.
-Yeah.
-But why were you in a bad mood?
-Who put you in a bad mood?
-Miss Sensitive.
Do you think Srushti picks on you?
After the fight, I pick on her more now.
Yeah, she takes a lot of shots at me
and then I have one reaction
and people are like, but see
how she reacts, she's so sensitive.
I do now because it's funny that
you lashed out at me. So, I'm like
-So, now
-But you used to do it before also.
I used to tell you ten times a day.
But what kind of things was she
saying to you that triggered you?
She said her video was very 2013.
I mean, that's vintage, babe.
It's not a bad thing.
But you said it first.
Am I fighting with you?
-Am I saying anything?
-No, she's explaining herself.
But I didn't even say that you said this.
You're the one who said "2013".
I was sitting that day,
zen mode, prepared that
[in Hindi] I won't say anything today
because enough is enough.
[in English] I tried to stay quiet.
If there's something with her
I'll tell her.
I've made that mistake of
making the whole thing public once.
Like, public on social media?
-No, no.
-Okay.
No, we just had a fight in front of
all of the other people
and that was not cool on my side.
It was more like a one-way fight.
[Alanna] It was one person standing
-and one person yelling.
-[Alaviaa in Hindi] Poor girl!
-[in English] Did you yell a lot?
-Yeah.
And how did that make you feel?
Why are you acting like a therapist?
-I am not. I just want to know.
-[Alanna] I love it though. I love it!
I don't know why he was
so interested in our sad lives.
-So
-Do you think she's sometimes like,
out-casted because of like,
social media
-and follower numbers?
-Out-casted!
No need. No need.
No, when you say everything
loud and clear, I should also.
-At Alanna's wedding, she came up to me.
-Yeah.
-She was tipsy and she goes
-Yeah.
"You must be feeling
like such an outcast."
-I left the wedding.
-Srushti never knows
the right word to use in what situation.
Yeah, she must be trying to say,
"Are you feeling out of place?"
Because you don't have as many followers
-as the rest of the girls or
-No, stop that.
Srushti, you can't just hit people
-you barely know.
-I'm fine, don't worry.
Everybody was drinking
and she doesn't drink.
I wanted to go to her and be like,
"Are you feeling out of place?"
But then I have apparently said,
"Are you feeling out-casted?"
-Because of a lack of English.
-This outburst that she had makes sense.
Because I feel like it goes back.
This anger was a build-up of a few things.
I didn't realize all this shit
has happened in Mumbai.
If CollabTribe were a reality show,
who would be voted out first,
-and why?
-Oh, my God.
-Either it's Alfia or Srushti.
-[Rahi chuckles]
Did you say my name?
I'll get voted out first?
[Alaviaa] Yes.
Srushti is cutesy but she gossips a lot.
-I cross-pollinate?
-She doesn't cross-pollinate.
She has lots of opinions.
I feel like they all do.
And then they're like,
oh, Alaviaa is so opinionated.
I feel like the audience
would sympathize with Alfia.
Yeah, I feel like
you'd get a lot of sympathy.
Just because you have emotions,
you get triggered easily.
-And that's like
-[Alanna] Yeah, I think people sympathize.
People can have empathy for that.
-Sometimes I feel like you are
-Quick to judge?
That too, but I was not thinking of that.
-In your case, I'd say yeah.
-Sometimes, you're a little over-dramatic.
-[Alfia] Yeah.
-She's straight out of a Bollywood movie.
I think I'm fun to watch.
[chuckles] I think so too.
I think you're too.
Alanna, they're voting me out. CEO, help.
-I don't think it'd be her.
-[Alaviaa] Yeah.
I need the final names.
Who will you vote out?
See, the thing with Aryaana is she doesn't
say much, so she wouldn't be voted out.
-But people can get bored of that too.
-Yeah.
Remember, plain dosa?
People want masala dosa.
I'd vote for Srushti.
I just feel like sometimes
she says stupid things.
-I agree.
-Yeah.
I say stupid things. I have no filter.
I think it can also be, maybe Alaviaa,
just because you said I need the room
because I have a lot of clothes.
I don't think that's a big deal.
-But I'm just saying that
-She thought it was a big deal.
She said she wants the bigger room
because she has diabetes.
But what has diabetes
I have thyroid, guys.
I don't know why like, this health issue
thing has like, blown out of proportion.
That way, like, I have thyroid.
I have PCOD.
I'm not saying,
she probably goes through stuff.
But is that a reason to give?
I have spoken about diabetes once.
It's been brought up
more than it was required.
I have diabetes.
My diabetes diabetic
When I got diabetes
my sugar dropped
-Plus, I have asthma so
-Oh, my God.
People have brought it up and
made it into a sympathy point. I haven't.
-If you had a gun to your head,
-[Alaviaa] Rahi
who is the one girl that you'd save?
[dramatic music plays]
I mean, it'd be Aryaana or Srushti.
I don't know, I can't
-choose between the two.
-[Rahi] Okay.
[Alaviaa] I love how she's not even said
one name, she has said two names.
Me and Alfia were just broke.
Like, are we not sitting here?
Okay, Alfia, who'd it be?
Me. OBV.
-Huh?
-I do love you the most.
But I'd save Alaviaa.
She was there for me when nobody came.
-Okay. Srushti, do you agree with that?
-What the
[in Hindi] Yuck!
[in English] You'd let me die
after everything I have done?
-Listen, you can't throw food.
-Sorry, sorry.
Because she has helped you
while you threw a fit?
The softness inside that
you have shown me recently,
you don't show that often,
which is why, even I misjudged her.
She heard me and we could start fresh
like a lot of people I know hold
-Grudges?
-Yeah.
I never hold grudges,
because I always think people change.
-You can't
-Call it group-ism. Yeah, I'd save Aryaana
or Alanna. There's some
kind of credibility you give to time.
Hmm. That's okay.
I won't throw chips at you.
-Who'd you save?
-I'd save her.
Because the three of them are a group.
Only Srushti and Aryaana you've said.
-I'm not even an option.
-It's true.
Yes!
They have chosen each other
just to get back at us.
They want to be a group,
then we'll be a group.
[Alaviaa] I think we have a good alliance.
Who would've thought?
[dramatic music fades]
[wind howling]
Butterflies ♪
Butterflies ♪
[Aryaana] I have just received
the edit for the Butterflies music video.
I, myself, didn't like it.
["Butterflies" continues to play]
Honey, I'm home!
Aryaana!
-What's up, G-spot?
-What's up?
How's it going?
Hi, Vid, you look cute.
You look like a hot, rich mom.
Let's do the needful.
[Hardik] I've come to see this,
Aryaana's draft
of the music video that we shot.
I'm actually, looking forward to
just seeing
me being right about the way she dances,
the way she moves.
It's going to be insane.
Okay, let's see it.
["Butterflies" plays]
What are all these lights behind you?
Aryaana, you look so tired
in the music video.
["Butterflies" ends]
-What the hell is this?
-[tense music plays]
It's a pretty bad video.
-I know.
-Like, a pretty bad video.
We could've canceled this shit.
I know he hated it.
He hated it with a passion.
Which, fair enough,
it was not a good video.
This is insane. We spent like,
25 grand on this music video.
-It looks like
-I know, which is why
some amateur has done it.
See, but Hardik,
I'm not wasting all the money.
I don't give a shit.
There's never a time in life
that this is going to be a work product
that I'm ever going to be associated with.
This is a shit music video.
Hardik, in the last four years
that I've been here,
has never spoken to me that way.
She always does what she wants
and that's how she is.
But this time, I was like, a little
taken aback. It just triggered me.
And there's this whole moment of like,
instant clarity. I was like
Vidhi, just get everyone down one second.
Dude, like all of these guys are like,
highly conditioned and spoiled right now
and I need to just like,
ground the fuck out of all of them.
Dude, did any of you see the music video?
This is horrific.
Imagine if I've to show this
to your father.
It's like, I've brought your daughter
all the way from Bombay
to do this shit music video.
What is this costume
that they've got from you?
I actually don't hate the outfits,
it's the editing that's the problem.
I think it can be fixed.
-Have you shot a music video before?
-No.
Stick to your side of the business.
Hardik, what you wanted was
a three-minute dance video
which doesn't happen with one day
of rehearsal, it takes months.
Where's your dancing part?
There's only one this thing that's it.
-I'm not a dancer.
-Even I have a future to
You don't know what you are.
Now you're going to tell me
-what I am also?
-You know how good of a dancer you are?
This is a gift that you have that you
can work on, to actually show the world.
I was like, dude, what the hell!
Like, that's not a reason that
you gave me while we were opting
to like, select the people
who were gonna make your music video?
We could've dealt with this
in a much nicer way
and had a better end product
than you fucking up
the entire music video.
Kyle is supposed to act, not model.
He's looking like a toy boy.
[in Hindi] Looks like someone
just picked him up off the street.
[in English] Kyle looked hot
in that video.
He was mean. He was just
being mean that day, I don't know, like
Very rude.
You guys are my friends. I cannot have
these kind of things shown to the world.
The reel that you posted yesterday,
which you didn't care about,
that was better than this music video.
Everyone that we've hired
has told me to put out music,
not social media.
Did I say what to put on social media?
I've never controlled
that part of your life.
You want me to put Kyle and me?
I had a suggestion which I learned
from our dear friends.
Imagine how well
-Alanna and Ivor are doing.
-Alanna's not trying to do
what I'm trying to do.
But if she wanted to become a singer
she'd get more streams.
Hardik, you stop yelling at me for music.
I'm not talking about your music part,
I'm talking about your social media.
Yeah, but I don't give a damn
about my social media.
-That's how I came here.
-You know, the world we live in right now
-it's not going to
-That's not why I came here.
And we're not getting views on it. Why?
Because people don't care
or people don't know who Aryaana is.
I've been posting every single day,
but thanks.
[Aryaana] When I came here,
he and I had a shared vision.
I feel like he has lost touch.
She's made this in her head that music
has no correlation with social media.
And I was like, dude, you're like,
very disconnected.
It's very sad to see you
disconnected from real life.
What am I gonna do with 5000 followers?
What are you gonna do
with 5000 followers?
In the last two weeks,
it's been 20,000.
-So, chill out.
-Aryaana, there's a girl I know
who sits in her studio in Chembur
and garners 120,000 followers a month.
The amount of content
that all of you guys like,
innately put up by yourself is very low.
-to make a life out of it.
-Hardik, I don't want to do that.
-Like, you wanted to do music, which is
-I want to do this.
That's also sucking right now.
I've seen in my other companies
that people with very less
than what you have make
so much amount of things happen
for themselves, it's not even funny.
While we're at this, I just wanted
to talk to all of you regarding this.
I thought he wanted to talk about
what we're going to do next and stuff.
Apparently not.
Apparently, it was an intervention.
Like, Entourage.
Do you all remember the time
when I first met you?
-Do you remember when I first met you?
-Yeah.
You were just like,
Hardik, I wanna do this.
I'll do whatever you tell me to do.
-And I'll give my 100 percent to it.
-Yeah.
And sorry to say that
the only perception I have of you from the
past two months that you've been here is
you constantly complaining about things,
you constantly crying about things.
-Is it wrong to be vulnerable?
-It's not wrong.
Let me complete my sentence.
I was okay with you being vulnerable,
I was okay with you being emotional.
Then you told me,
Hardik, okay, I'm going to, like,
pick up the camera, I'm going to shoot,
I'm going to create content.
-And I'm doing that.
-If you also remember
-I gave you my digicam.
-It's been two days, Hardik.
It's been 56 hours.
What happened to you? Like
you, all this while, have said
that you love me because
I'm unapologetically myself.
But a sensitive self
has bothered you so much?
And you were also having
this conversation with me,
like if, I don't know if I can
do this anymore, I might want to go back.
What am I shouting at her for?
You're also the same thing.
Like, literally, how much are you posting?
-You need to figure out how to get
-Can we have this talk inside?
-another person in your business
-Should we move this inside?
to help with you the things
that are slacking.
You need to really find a person
who knows two plus two equals four
and not twenty-two.
But I haven't found anybody.
I just can't trust any other person.
I wanna own it 100 percent.
A 100 percent of nothing is nothing.
[tense music plays]
Like, I cannot stand the people
who I love the most,
who I care about the most,
like, doing this kind of work quality.
You cannot be in Los Angeles
spending millions of dollars
and not growing.
I'm so sorry, nobody's spending
millions of dollars.
[in Hindi] Should I show you your bill?
[in English] Srushti Porey expense list
since the first day you landed in the US?
You're here on a visa that is
so difficult to get, because of Hardik.
So, I don't think you should forget that.
It's not cool to be like,
okay, but like,
I didn't take much from you.
There's a cost involved
in bringing you here.
There's a cost involved
in you sitting your ass over here
while you're trying to figure out
-how to build your company.
-I actually brought myself here.
And you also need to be
taught business management.
No need to be that rude, okay?
Do you know what people
have to go through otherwise
when they have to start a company
as compared to what you had to go through?
And you keep on wanting to come back,
go back, come back, go back.
Every night when we go out,
I see a version of you like, this
It's going and talking
to people, getting shit done.
Doing networking or whatever,
and the moment
you go back to India,
all of that kind of just withers away.
So, I get why he's angry,
but why are you telling me this?
I'm a part of CollabTribe,
but was it ever that serious?
Like, was that told to me?
I don't think so.
And I hate to be this person, but I don't
know why I'm a part of this conversation.
Alanna, I have zero complaints
about you.
-Okay.
-In fact, you're the only person who is
actually living my vision of
what I actually saw you on day one.
Thank you.
And like, I wish you could be able to
push these idiots ahead, but like,
I get it, but it also has to come
from within them which is
obviously not the case.
Enough of like, complaining.
Enough of like, crying.
Why are you saying crying again and again?
How many times have I come to you?
I have never seen any of them cry.
-That's not my problem.
-So, it's a different situation for me.
-And I'm not saying it's bad, but
-No, but when you say something like this,
it looks like there's nothing more to me
but crying.
He has spoken utter rubbish
because I'll not take any
[in Hindi] allegation that is not true.
[in English] If I'm wrong, I'll shut up.
I think it's come to a time like,
I think I'm blaming myself for like,
getting you guys here and just giving you
everything that you asked for
and not having you strive for it.
Like, I'm very sorry for taking this step
but you guys all need to go back,
shut this shit right now. Like, just sit
down in your homes in Bombay
and realize what you've been missing.
If I don't do this now,
I'm gonna start blaming myself.
[Alanna] I was taken aback because
he's someone that talks to me about
everything, but this, he didn't even
It was like, he had made his decision.
Everyone's going back.
I wish you spoke to me about
like, all of this.
Like, us going back to India. Like
We need to like,
completely come together as
the CollabTribe that we were,
-that's my only concern.
I know you've
lectured all the girls,
but this house
has been the best that we've been
-Yeah.
-in the past four years.
Like, actually, us living together
and shooting together.
You know, we see pockets of progress
but like,
a more consistent level of like,
our flaws coming into the picture
and stopping us from doing the same thing
over and over again.
That's just what I want to eradicate.
This was supposed to be 2.0, so just
This is 2.0.
This is a part of 2.0.
But that's going to be like
us working in reverse.
We need to have a rule book.
Like, an ethos.
This is what you're supposed to do.
These are your roles and responsibilities.
[Alanna] I think that I see
where his frustration comes from.
He's been very patient
throughout this entire thing.
Deep down, nobody gives a shit.
Even though they're saying,
oh, we care, but not really.
Because if you cared, then like,
what's going on?
In terms of like,
since I've come here, right,
-I always tag CollabTribe in my post.
-Correct.
I even send those collaborative invites.
I'm doing my bit.
But where is CollabTribe helping me
to get my vision going?
I feel like you still don't have a vision.
-No, I do. Like, I know what I want to do.
-What do you wanna do?
[tense music continues]
He knows everything.
I've told him exactly what I want.
Honestly, it's a very simple layer
that all of us just need
to de-complicate this down to.
It's your innate duty to support your
friends.
The engagement that she was getting
was nothing but a result of that
breakfast party event day
-when you guys supported each other.
-Each other, yeah.
When you guys posted about each other.
And that is what
the world was interested in.
This is like a very golden moment
in social media.
People like watching
a group of friends doing things.
I can't go to everyone
and be like, post for me.
That's what I was saying before,
that should come from within.
All of you need to be able to like,
genuinely give a fuck about each other.
-I agree.
-I know that you were a blank slate.
But everyone, when they came here,
kind of knew their own thing.
And like I told you this,
CollabTribe just gives you the resources.
We don't hold
your hand and spoon-feed you.
How much ever I help you,
whatever you learn and
whatever you become, is you.
-You need to be you.
-[Hardik] Correct!
Yeah, see, like what she
might like, I may not like.
Or we have like, different vibes.
She did mention that
she wanted to be Indian Nigella.
That actually comes with so much passion
and when she came here,
it kinda seemed like,
oh, I actually don't completely
know what I wanna do.
I feel like,
that's what is the disappointment.
Hardik, even when I like, whatever, when
I came and lived here for four months,
I didn't get any brand deals.
There was no game plan.
I had no idea what was happening.
If you're getting me work here,
I'll be here.
I'm not going to just sit over here.
I also have a company to run.
Does that mean we're pulling the plug
on all of this till we figure it out?
I'm gonna like,
completely restructure
this entire thing and come back with you,
if I feel like it.
CollabTribe was never
going to be an agency,
but there has to be some
sort of a sister back-end
that actually monetizes this vision,
which can only happen once you guys do
what we intended to do.
Like, creating content
on a consistent basis.
Do you want to list down the amount
of money we've spent on everyone?
I don't even care about
the money right now.
-I just care about me not being able to
-Just to let everyone know.
-I think you should.
-These things sometimes need to be said
-[Vidhi] Yeah.
-So, that I think
these things
are just taken for granted.
Even I don't know to date
how much money you spent on me.
I don't care about that. It's never been
about the money situation for me
when it comes to not
having to support this.
It's obviously, the things that
I don't get in exchange for that.
Are you really gonna pull the plug?
What about the house?
We already have a lease.
Dude, I don't care.
I'm gonna get a babysitter
and probably shift Shelby here.
Let him enjoy the house.
But I'm like, pulling
the funding on this thing right now.
Like, even her Breakfast Party
and her music thing?
-You're pulling the plug on everything?
-Yeah, everything.
So, basically, they've had years
and I've had two months
and you take me back to India
in just two months and
you decide that you don't wanna do this.
-You actually were asking me.
-So, it's fine.
-No, it's fine.
-You asked, "Should I go back to India?"
No. So, it's fine.
I think it works out great for me.
-It doesn't matter.
-Okay, cool.
I just started this conversation about
like, her having to complain so much.
I mean, this is like a representation
of what it looks like in my life.
I'm just really disheartened
and disappointed.
I didn't expect this from Hardik.
[Alfia] I feel like I wasn't
given a real chance.
You bring me to the
other side of the world
and then in 45 days,
you're like, go back.
Like, where have I had the
support, time,
or knowledge?
I wish Alfia complained less.
She needs to be more collaborative
with the other girls.
I think she also has a very low
understanding of Instagram.
Like, she doesn't know
what's cool or not cool.
But I mean, like, she's not had time here.
-As much as we have.
-I know that.
-Yeah.
-But what's the point
of again, me trying to fight for her
to stay here if that mediocrity
of your friendship is still
going to exist between you all?
I'd rather not do this
and hold myself responsible for like,
being the cause of
the demise of your future.
Like, I just don't wanna do
that anymore.
Am I funding this
to make their lives
more miserable than they are?
Like, you know, that's the question
I'm asking myself today.
I just need some time off from this.
This is everything we've known
for the past four years.
I just need some time to decide
what needs to happen next.
I cannot be funding this anymore
without any sort of like,
fire that I always saw in you guys
when I met you for the first time.
Like, that's it.
Wait. What just happened?
Like, I knew this was going to be
a little intervention for the girls.
But I didn't think
that we'd be going back.
Everything just kind of exploded.
We didn't expect it.
No one expected it.
We were extremely shocked.
I'm not bluffing at all. I'm gonna
literally restrict their funding,
pull all their Amexs, cancel
the house lease and I'm off to India.
[Alanna] Even his energy
of just walking off
was concerning because
he's the one who sees the hope,
he's the one who sees the vision.
When your visionary
has given up on the vision,
it's concerning.
[somber music plays]
[in English] I have eight pairs
of sweatpants and six pairs of jeans.
This is not mine. This is Alaviaa's.
-So now, what's your plan next?
-I'm just living life.
That's what I am doing.
That's why I was always dicey, right,
about whether I wanted to stay here.
Social media was
supposed to be a side hustle.
It was supposed to just be
how I make money.
I think he has lost track of
why I came here.
Where is everyone? The house is so quiet.
[Ivor] The house is quiet.
Are you all done packing?
I'm gonna ask someone
to help me pack.
[Srushti] When I first came here,
I was so confused
about why he does so much for people.
And I feel like, I kinda
got used to it with time,
not realizing how much
he actually does for everybody.
How highly he thought of all of us.
And I feel like, the fact that we're not
kinda living up
to what he thought of us
does kinda upset me and I feel like
that's gonna change like, 1000 percent.
I think what was good about
this place was us being together.
-Yeah.
-It was not so much about the house.
[Alfia] The girls, without Hardik,
I don't think, realistically,
will want to work with me.
I don't think so.
Maybe he just wanted
to see more overall growth.
I get his point, guys. Like,
we've been doing this for three years.
I feel like, at least, myself,
I could've pushed myself.
I agree, I think everybody
could push themselves more.
At the end of the day, I still think that
I know he said that what
we're putting out was mediocre,
but I mean,
we did the billboard, so
Suitcase coming through.
They're on their way!
I'm gonna miss the entrance of the house.
-Bye, house. Miss me.
-I want to get a shot of you guys waiting!
Okay, I'm gonna go and lock the house up.
[hopeful music plays]
[Alanna] But there's one last thing
we need to close
before everyone heads back home.
[feel good music plays]
-Oh, my God!
-Guys, this is insane!
[energetic music plays]
[Alanna] It took, I think,
ten minutes to settle in that
we were looking at ourselves
blown up like that
in the middle of Los Angeles.
How big do you think that is,
like, if I actually go there and stand?
Now that I see it in person, I feel a lot
more excited about it.
-Guys, but I hate how I'm looking.
-Shut up.
You know there were
better pictures of me that day.
Be glad you're up there.
So ungrateful!
Can I actually rent an apartment here
so I can wake up to it?
Guys, this is exactly where
we lived four years ago.
-Across this fucking street.
-Oh my God, yeah!
[Aryaana] And I'm so happy that
my parents get to see this.
My brother gets to see this
and everyone that has believed in me.
This is my Grammy speech again.
It's crazy how far I have come
in just no time.
Like, I never thought this would happen.
I didn't even know what
I was doing to actually be here
-It's so stunning.
-I can't believe I'm looking so big.
Kinda gives you a feeling
that you've made it.
[in Arabic] Praise be to God!
[in English] Miss Grateful.
Goosebumps.
-Guys
-I really don't.
Come.
I wish, like, I had more time.
I wish I could do more.
There's so much more to me, I know it.
And we just have all these
happy emotions
and then there's Hardik,
trying to take us all back home,
snatch everything away.
[Alanna] If Hardik hadn't been in
such a rush, he could've seen this.
[Alanna] This is why we came here.
This is why we got all the girls here.
This is also a sign now that whatever
we do next has to be twice as big.
[energetic music fades]
-[Hardik] Hi, Als! What's up?
-[Alanna on call] Hi.
Did you shut the house?
Did you get all the keys and stuff back?
[Alanna] Yes, we locked everything up.
Uh showed the girls the billboard.
It looked amazing.
-The girls were so happy.
-Really?
[Alanna] Yeah, it was just so worth it.
Of course, getting a billboard is
a great thing, but then, what's next?
[Alanna] Also, I wanted to remind you
that I sent you five new profiles
that you need to check out.
-Let me know what you think.
-Yeah! I'm going to see it ASAP.
[Alanna] Hardik, we need to make
CollabTribe work.
Hmm.
[Alanna] We need to go back
to the drawing board and get this right
even if it's at the cost of these girls
and getting a whole new bunch on board.
-Drawing board!
-[Alanna laughs]
Okay, let me check out their profiles.
I think getting out of a situation
and getting into another situation
just helps the human brain reset.
I also need to restructure
this entire thing with like
responsibilities and have someone
hold them accountable for it.
[upbeat music plays]
[upbeat music fades]
[cheerful music plays]
Oh, my gosh!
You're really pregnant?
Are you pregnant?
-Yes!
-No way!
Oh, hey!
[incoherent chatter]
-Oh, my God!
-[Alanna chuckles]
That's a big bump.
[cheerful music fades]
[cheerful music plays]
-Did you pray?
-Yeah, I did. Did you?
Yeah, I finished in the morning.
Did you get this outfit?
I just felt like it would be nice,
-and it's a thing we do at home.
-Yeah. That's why.
Like, Fridays, me and my mom, especially.
-My mom loves dressing up.
-Yeah.
She says that if
I don't look my best for my Allah,
then what's the point of all this?
And this is something I wanted to do
because I'm missing home.
So we should do our
prayers together next week.
Yeah!
I don't pray like, five times a day.
-Neither do I.
-Yeah.
But I think it's something that like,
will come to me naturally.
-That's what happened with me so
-Yeah.
It was always, mom and dad saying,
"The cleric is here, read the Quran!"
-Oh, my God, that was literally
-Read this
I definitely feel, you know, we've been
through the same things growing up.
It's refreshing to be with someone
who just has the same mindset
and has the same beliefs.
We kind of understand each other
on a deeper level.
For example, you know,
Dad is super religious.
To him, it was his calling,
it came on his own.
Like, I'm sure there are people
that judge him for being an actor.
At the end of the day, I feel like,
it doesn't matter, you know.
It's his relationship with God and he is,
you know, a pious man and he's doing
you know, he prays five times a day.
Even for me, I feel like,
me being in the fashion industry,
you know, I wanted to dress a certain way.
I want to wear certain outfits
and I feel like, somewhere people
are like, "Oh, you can't wear this."
And even for my parents, it was difficult.
You know, so, I just wanted that freedom
to be able to wear whatever I want
and I feel like I'm glad my parents,
-have
-Have come around.
Yeah, come around now
I feel like, till I was being
told what to do, I didn't get it.
But the second they stopped,
it just happened and today,
everything they said to me growing up,
I feel like I wish
I'd listened to them about this.
-Or I wish I'd finished my Quran earlier.
-Yeah.
These things have come to me very late
and that's my calling.
There came a time in my life
when I'd literally wait for Namaaz time.
So much that even beyond the five times,
I'd sit down and pray the extra Namaaz
that is not compulsory.
That was therapy for me.
I made a lot of changes in my life.
The way I dress up
People tend to judge a lot based on,
you know, external factors.
So, they'll look at you and be like,
-"Okay she'd dressed like this."
-I'm always judged.
I have worn everything
at one point in my life.
Is it religion that's stopping me? No.
-Yeah.
-It's just that
-I'm not comfortable anymore.
-Yeah.
People can hate on me that
she's still wearing ripped jeans
and she wears this and that.
But you know what,
I know I'm true to myself,
I'm good to people.
That is the most
real conversation I've had,
since I came here, with Alaviaa.
It reflected so much about
where we come from,
what our backgrounds are.
My dad has told me to
go wherever I want to as long as
I'm doing something with my life.
But with my mom
I'll tell you something,
when I got diabetes,
because my mom didn't know
a lot about it when I got it,
and it was a huge shock.
I was in the hospital for many,
many months.
For her, this was
the end of her.
And when I got divorced,
I felt the most guilty about my mom.
Like, I've never said this to her
Because her beliefs
are so strong, you know?
-Yeah.
-She wanted to see me
as that bride, it's not wrong.
When the dates got fixed,
and my dad was excited,
everyone was very
-I was not looking fine.
-Yeah.
And my mother looked at me and said,
"Either don't get married, or if you're
getting married just please"
"Don't get a divorce."
Sending me here, she's come a long way.
If you don't mind me asking,
why did you
-get married?
-Get married?
Like, rush into it.
I feel like, when something
is meant to happen,
it just keeps happening and you
don't realize how things are going.
My whole thing was, "I'll make it work."
And let me tell you,
Alaviaa, I've been very blessed.
The family I married into
Like, the kind of heart they had,
very honestly, I don't think
even my own father can look after me
the way that father looked after me.
That family is the reason
I felt closer to my religion.
Every time I pray,
I only ask for forgiveness
for the hearts I've broken.
Like, I wish I didn't marry
at such a young age
and how I think now,
I thought earlier in life.
A lot of lives wouldn't face
the consequences of my immaturity.
At 21, I was partying in New York,
three times a week,
and this girl had to literally,
like, go and get married.
And you know, being under that pressure,
like, I can't even imagine,
you know, how that must have been.
It's your first time coming
to another country,
-living alone
-Yeah.
and it's a big step because
I feel like, you'll find your way,
and find your relationship with Allah
and you'll have a lot of fun.
Inshallah, literally.
[soft song plays]
[soft song ends]
[gentle music plays]
-Hi, I got us some coffee.
-Aw! Thank you, babe.
We have a lot of things to discuss.
One, we need to shortlist
the Lakmé images that we have.
[Alanna] Ivor's always that one person
I go to when I need advice,
and I was just showing him
all the images that we shortlisted.
By the way, which was
an absolute nightmare.
-[snickers]
-No one Everyone was so uncomfortable.
-People are
-Everyone's eyes are like
Closed!
-When someone's eyes are open,
-Yeah.
-mine are closed.
-Closed.
Fidgeting with their hair.
-And this one, Srushti, and her blue gum.
-Oh, my goodness! Look at Srushti.
That's hilarious.
Not even a pastel blue, neon blue gum.
People's eyes are closed, people's mouths
are open, I don't know what's happening.
-[Alanna speaks indistinctly]
-I really don't like how
Alfia is covering your entire shoulder.
I know. She wasn't getting it.
-No professionalism.
-At one point,
I think that we found
-Found?
-a few that I love
and I feel like
the brand's really going to be happy.
We've been in this for a month now.
You've been working constantly
with these girls.
Like, are you feeling like
it's a good investment
-at this point or is it
-I think
I think Aryaana is killing it,
-she's been posting every day.
-Hmm.
Alfia, she's gone to 6000
and dropped to 3000.
This is the first time
we're seeing someone lose followers.
She's just doing her own thing,
she's not listening,
which is why she's not growing.
Srushti is in her own world.
-Yeah, she doesn't she never posts.
-But she's really good.
But she'll shoot. She shot so many reels
on the camping trip.
Alaviaa has that like,
"I wanna do this," but she's laid back.
I actually pulled up our YouTube
monetization page,
this is what we're making
at almost a million subscribers.
And she was like, "Is this real?
Like, this is just what
you guys make off AdSense?"
For the first time,
I saw this thing in Alaviaa's eyes,
like, "Oh my God, I want this."
If you're really killing it at YouTube,
you could be making,
easily, like,
50 to 60 thousand dollars a month.
You think that's going to be
a motivation for them?
Yes, we've tried different strategies,
this might be it.
I've always thought that originally
you guys should've brought on
somebody that has
an established following, at least a 100K.
And everyone thought that this was
going to be like a shock overnight
-and going to go up a 100k.
-We just
You know how hard that is to do?
-It's impossible.
-You're 100 percent right.
And I'm realizing it right now,
how tough it is to actually grow
an account from scratch.
But also, like financially, horrible idea.
I'm a numbers girl.
I see progress through numbers.
So, if we're not growing,
it's frustrating.
I'd have liked to
see the CollabTribe account grow.
Our YouTube channel is struggling.
It's just everything combined.
I hate to admit that
this might have been a mistake.
Even with the billboard, we need to
step our game up and figure our shit out.
[upbeat music plays]
So what's happening?
Is your friend coming over?
Mm-hmm.
You met him the other day.
What are everyone's thoughts on Rahi?
I don't know him that well
to have thoughts.
I mean, like, first
You didn't know me well,
but you had thoughts.
Yeah, you had so many thoughts.
I thought we moved past that.
We believe in moving on in life.
-He's a doctor, guys.
-What?
-Aesthetician.
-Shut up!
-Hi.
-Hi.
-How's it going?
-Good.
You've come here
looking like a colorful balloon.
Someone had to
bring the color and the drama.
What a fashionable aesthetician!
[Alanna] I mean, he came in
that outfit and I was like,
"Oh, shit.
That's the shit-stirring outfit."
Where's Aryaana?
-She's sick.
-She's not well.
-Like, TikTok sick.
-Yes.
We were just discussing,
like, your first impressions.
I found Alanna to be, obviously like,
very glamorous.
She looks just like her pictures.
Oh my God!
That's the biggest compliment.
-You know what I mean?
-Yay!
-Because we all love to like
-FaceApp.
Yeah! I actually don't use FaceApp.
Yeah, because you have like,
a professional re-toucher
editing your pictures.
All the pictures go to Milan to this guy.
-He's a friend.
-Your Instagram game
is stronger than everyone's
-in the room.
-Babe, what are you saying?
I'm serious.
And all these girls are content creators,
and you all need to take notes.
The first minute that I spoke to him,
I was like, I love this guy.
You need to be the fifth girl.
I think we need a Rahi Chadda
in CollabTribe.
I found Srushti to be very spicy,
but I love that.
-You know
-Spicy?
I know I'm not bland, I'm very flavorful.
I don't think I'm spicy.
-Like, a potato fritter with like
-[in Hindi] Spice mix?
[in English] Yes.
The spiciest though, babe,
like, it was you.
What?
-Alfia, like, she
-Please
There's enough spice,
now I'm on a khichdi diet.
We don't do spice, we don't do salt.
I'm chilling.
The minute I saw Alfia,
she looks at me up and down.
-And I felt like you're judging me.
-Me!
And I was so like you know
God has given me such a grumpy face,
what do I do?
You know what I said,
I said, you were in a bad mood.
-Yeah.
-But why were you in a bad mood?
-Who put you in a bad mood?
-Miss Sensitive.
Do you think Srushti picks on you?
After the fight, I pick on her more now.
Yeah, she takes a lot of shots at me
and then I have one reaction
and people are like, but see
how she reacts, she's so sensitive.
I do now because it's funny that
you lashed out at me. So, I'm like
-So, now
-But you used to do it before also.
I used to tell you ten times a day.
But what kind of things was she
saying to you that triggered you?
She said her video was very 2013.
I mean, that's vintage, babe.
It's not a bad thing.
But you said it first.
Am I fighting with you?
-Am I saying anything?
-No, she's explaining herself.
But I didn't even say that you said this.
You're the one who said "2013".
I was sitting that day,
zen mode, prepared that
[in Hindi] I won't say anything today
because enough is enough.
[in English] I tried to stay quiet.
If there's something with her
I'll tell her.
I've made that mistake of
making the whole thing public once.
Like, public on social media?
-No, no.
-Okay.
No, we just had a fight in front of
all of the other people
and that was not cool on my side.
It was more like a one-way fight.
[Alanna] It was one person standing
-and one person yelling.
-[Alaviaa in Hindi] Poor girl!
-[in English] Did you yell a lot?
-Yeah.
And how did that make you feel?
Why are you acting like a therapist?
-I am not. I just want to know.
-[Alanna] I love it though. I love it!
I don't know why he was
so interested in our sad lives.
-So
-Do you think she's sometimes like,
out-casted because of like,
social media
-and follower numbers?
-Out-casted!
No need. No need.
No, when you say everything
loud and clear, I should also.
-At Alanna's wedding, she came up to me.
-Yeah.
-She was tipsy and she goes
-Yeah.
"You must be feeling
like such an outcast."
-I left the wedding.
-Srushti never knows
the right word to use in what situation.
Yeah, she must be trying to say,
"Are you feeling out of place?"
Because you don't have as many followers
-as the rest of the girls or
-No, stop that.
Srushti, you can't just hit people
-you barely know.
-I'm fine, don't worry.
Everybody was drinking
and she doesn't drink.
I wanted to go to her and be like,
"Are you feeling out of place?"
But then I have apparently said,
"Are you feeling out-casted?"
-Because of a lack of English.
-This outburst that she had makes sense.
Because I feel like it goes back.
This anger was a build-up of a few things.
I didn't realize all this shit
has happened in Mumbai.
If CollabTribe were a reality show,
who would be voted out first,
-and why?
-Oh, my God.
-Either it's Alfia or Srushti.
-[Rahi chuckles]
Did you say my name?
I'll get voted out first?
[Alaviaa] Yes.
Srushti is cutesy but she gossips a lot.
-I cross-pollinate?
-She doesn't cross-pollinate.
She has lots of opinions.
I feel like they all do.
And then they're like,
oh, Alaviaa is so opinionated.
I feel like the audience
would sympathize with Alfia.
Yeah, I feel like
you'd get a lot of sympathy.
Just because you have emotions,
you get triggered easily.
-And that's like
-[Alanna] Yeah, I think people sympathize.
People can have empathy for that.
-Sometimes I feel like you are
-Quick to judge?
That too, but I was not thinking of that.
-In your case, I'd say yeah.
-Sometimes, you're a little over-dramatic.
-[Alfia] Yeah.
-She's straight out of a Bollywood movie.
I think I'm fun to watch.
[chuckles] I think so too.
I think you're too.
Alanna, they're voting me out. CEO, help.
-I don't think it'd be her.
-[Alaviaa] Yeah.
I need the final names.
Who will you vote out?
See, the thing with Aryaana is she doesn't
say much, so she wouldn't be voted out.
-But people can get bored of that too.
-Yeah.
Remember, plain dosa?
People want masala dosa.
I'd vote for Srushti.
I just feel like sometimes
she says stupid things.
-I agree.
-Yeah.
I say stupid things. I have no filter.
I think it can also be, maybe Alaviaa,
just because you said I need the room
because I have a lot of clothes.
I don't think that's a big deal.
-But I'm just saying that
-She thought it was a big deal.
She said she wants the bigger room
because she has diabetes.
But what has diabetes
I have thyroid, guys.
I don't know why like, this health issue
thing has like, blown out of proportion.
That way, like, I have thyroid.
I have PCOD.
I'm not saying,
she probably goes through stuff.
But is that a reason to give?
I have spoken about diabetes once.
It's been brought up
more than it was required.
I have diabetes.
My diabetes diabetic
When I got diabetes
my sugar dropped
-Plus, I have asthma so
-Oh, my God.
People have brought it up and
made it into a sympathy point. I haven't.
-If you had a gun to your head,
-[Alaviaa] Rahi
who is the one girl that you'd save?
[dramatic music plays]
I mean, it'd be Aryaana or Srushti.
I don't know, I can't
-choose between the two.
-[Rahi] Okay.
[Alaviaa] I love how she's not even said
one name, she has said two names.
Me and Alfia were just broke.
Like, are we not sitting here?
Okay, Alfia, who'd it be?
Me. OBV.
-Huh?
-I do love you the most.
But I'd save Alaviaa.
She was there for me when nobody came.
-Okay. Srushti, do you agree with that?
-What the
[in Hindi] Yuck!
[in English] You'd let me die
after everything I have done?
-Listen, you can't throw food.
-Sorry, sorry.
Because she has helped you
while you threw a fit?
The softness inside that
you have shown me recently,
you don't show that often,
which is why, even I misjudged her.
She heard me and we could start fresh
like a lot of people I know hold
-Grudges?
-Yeah.
I never hold grudges,
because I always think people change.
-You can't
-Call it group-ism. Yeah, I'd save Aryaana
or Alanna. There's some
kind of credibility you give to time.
Hmm. That's okay.
I won't throw chips at you.
-Who'd you save?
-I'd save her.
Because the three of them are a group.
Only Srushti and Aryaana you've said.
-I'm not even an option.
-It's true.
Yes!
They have chosen each other
just to get back at us.
They want to be a group,
then we'll be a group.
[Alaviaa] I think we have a good alliance.
Who would've thought?
[dramatic music fades]
[wind howling]
Butterflies ♪
Butterflies ♪
[Aryaana] I have just received
the edit for the Butterflies music video.
I, myself, didn't like it.
["Butterflies" continues to play]
Honey, I'm home!
Aryaana!
-What's up, G-spot?
-What's up?
How's it going?
Hi, Vid, you look cute.
You look like a hot, rich mom.
Let's do the needful.
[Hardik] I've come to see this,
Aryaana's draft
of the music video that we shot.
I'm actually, looking forward to
just seeing
me being right about the way she dances,
the way she moves.
It's going to be insane.
Okay, let's see it.
["Butterflies" plays]
What are all these lights behind you?
Aryaana, you look so tired
in the music video.
["Butterflies" ends]
-What the hell is this?
-[tense music plays]
It's a pretty bad video.
-I know.
-Like, a pretty bad video.
We could've canceled this shit.
I know he hated it.
He hated it with a passion.
Which, fair enough,
it was not a good video.
This is insane. We spent like,
25 grand on this music video.
-It looks like
-I know, which is why
some amateur has done it.
See, but Hardik,
I'm not wasting all the money.
I don't give a shit.
There's never a time in life
that this is going to be a work product
that I'm ever going to be associated with.
This is a shit music video.
Hardik, in the last four years
that I've been here,
has never spoken to me that way.
She always does what she wants
and that's how she is.
But this time, I was like, a little
taken aback. It just triggered me.
And there's this whole moment of like,
instant clarity. I was like
Vidhi, just get everyone down one second.
Dude, like all of these guys are like,
highly conditioned and spoiled right now
and I need to just like,
ground the fuck out of all of them.
Dude, did any of you see the music video?
This is horrific.
Imagine if I've to show this
to your father.
It's like, I've brought your daughter
all the way from Bombay
to do this shit music video.
What is this costume
that they've got from you?
I actually don't hate the outfits,
it's the editing that's the problem.
I think it can be fixed.
-Have you shot a music video before?
-No.
Stick to your side of the business.
Hardik, what you wanted was
a three-minute dance video
which doesn't happen with one day
of rehearsal, it takes months.
Where's your dancing part?
There's only one this thing that's it.
-I'm not a dancer.
-Even I have a future to
You don't know what you are.
Now you're going to tell me
-what I am also?
-You know how good of a dancer you are?
This is a gift that you have that you
can work on, to actually show the world.
I was like, dude, what the hell!
Like, that's not a reason that
you gave me while we were opting
to like, select the people
who were gonna make your music video?
We could've dealt with this
in a much nicer way
and had a better end product
than you fucking up
the entire music video.
Kyle is supposed to act, not model.
He's looking like a toy boy.
[in Hindi] Looks like someone
just picked him up off the street.
[in English] Kyle looked hot
in that video.
He was mean. He was just
being mean that day, I don't know, like
Very rude.
You guys are my friends. I cannot have
these kind of things shown to the world.
The reel that you posted yesterday,
which you didn't care about,
that was better than this music video.
Everyone that we've hired
has told me to put out music,
not social media.
Did I say what to put on social media?
I've never controlled
that part of your life.
You want me to put Kyle and me?
I had a suggestion which I learned
from our dear friends.
Imagine how well
-Alanna and Ivor are doing.
-Alanna's not trying to do
what I'm trying to do.
But if she wanted to become a singer
she'd get more streams.
Hardik, you stop yelling at me for music.
I'm not talking about your music part,
I'm talking about your social media.
Yeah, but I don't give a damn
about my social media.
-That's how I came here.
-You know, the world we live in right now
-it's not going to
-That's not why I came here.
And we're not getting views on it. Why?
Because people don't care
or people don't know who Aryaana is.
I've been posting every single day,
but thanks.
[Aryaana] When I came here,
he and I had a shared vision.
I feel like he has lost touch.
She's made this in her head that music
has no correlation with social media.
And I was like, dude, you're like,
very disconnected.
It's very sad to see you
disconnected from real life.
What am I gonna do with 5000 followers?
What are you gonna do
with 5000 followers?
In the last two weeks,
it's been 20,000.
-So, chill out.
-Aryaana, there's a girl I know
who sits in her studio in Chembur
and garners 120,000 followers a month.
The amount of content
that all of you guys like,
innately put up by yourself is very low.
-to make a life out of it.
-Hardik, I don't want to do that.
-Like, you wanted to do music, which is
-I want to do this.
That's also sucking right now.
I've seen in my other companies
that people with very less
than what you have make
so much amount of things happen
for themselves, it's not even funny.
While we're at this, I just wanted
to talk to all of you regarding this.
I thought he wanted to talk about
what we're going to do next and stuff.
Apparently not.
Apparently, it was an intervention.
Like, Entourage.
Do you all remember the time
when I first met you?
-Do you remember when I first met you?
-Yeah.
You were just like,
Hardik, I wanna do this.
I'll do whatever you tell me to do.
-And I'll give my 100 percent to it.
-Yeah.
And sorry to say that
the only perception I have of you from the
past two months that you've been here is
you constantly complaining about things,
you constantly crying about things.
-Is it wrong to be vulnerable?
-It's not wrong.
Let me complete my sentence.
I was okay with you being vulnerable,
I was okay with you being emotional.
Then you told me,
Hardik, okay, I'm going to, like,
pick up the camera, I'm going to shoot,
I'm going to create content.
-And I'm doing that.
-If you also remember
-I gave you my digicam.
-It's been two days, Hardik.
It's been 56 hours.
What happened to you? Like
you, all this while, have said
that you love me because
I'm unapologetically myself.
But a sensitive self
has bothered you so much?
And you were also having
this conversation with me,
like if, I don't know if I can
do this anymore, I might want to go back.
What am I shouting at her for?
You're also the same thing.
Like, literally, how much are you posting?
-You need to figure out how to get
-Can we have this talk inside?
-another person in your business
-Should we move this inside?
to help with you the things
that are slacking.
You need to really find a person
who knows two plus two equals four
and not twenty-two.
But I haven't found anybody.
I just can't trust any other person.
I wanna own it 100 percent.
A 100 percent of nothing is nothing.
[tense music plays]
Like, I cannot stand the people
who I love the most,
who I care about the most,
like, doing this kind of work quality.
You cannot be in Los Angeles
spending millions of dollars
and not growing.
I'm so sorry, nobody's spending
millions of dollars.
[in Hindi] Should I show you your bill?
[in English] Srushti Porey expense list
since the first day you landed in the US?
You're here on a visa that is
so difficult to get, because of Hardik.
So, I don't think you should forget that.
It's not cool to be like,
okay, but like,
I didn't take much from you.
There's a cost involved
in bringing you here.
There's a cost involved
in you sitting your ass over here
while you're trying to figure out
-how to build your company.
-I actually brought myself here.
And you also need to be
taught business management.
No need to be that rude, okay?
Do you know what people
have to go through otherwise
when they have to start a company
as compared to what you had to go through?
And you keep on wanting to come back,
go back, come back, go back.
Every night when we go out,
I see a version of you like, this
It's going and talking
to people, getting shit done.
Doing networking or whatever,
and the moment
you go back to India,
all of that kind of just withers away.
So, I get why he's angry,
but why are you telling me this?
I'm a part of CollabTribe,
but was it ever that serious?
Like, was that told to me?
I don't think so.
And I hate to be this person, but I don't
know why I'm a part of this conversation.
Alanna, I have zero complaints
about you.
-Okay.
-In fact, you're the only person who is
actually living my vision of
what I actually saw you on day one.
Thank you.
And like, I wish you could be able to
push these idiots ahead, but like,
I get it, but it also has to come
from within them which is
obviously not the case.
Enough of like, complaining.
Enough of like, crying.
Why are you saying crying again and again?
How many times have I come to you?
I have never seen any of them cry.
-That's not my problem.
-So, it's a different situation for me.
-And I'm not saying it's bad, but
-No, but when you say something like this,
it looks like there's nothing more to me
but crying.
He has spoken utter rubbish
because I'll not take any
[in Hindi] allegation that is not true.
[in English] If I'm wrong, I'll shut up.
I think it's come to a time like,
I think I'm blaming myself for like,
getting you guys here and just giving you
everything that you asked for
and not having you strive for it.
Like, I'm very sorry for taking this step
but you guys all need to go back,
shut this shit right now. Like, just sit
down in your homes in Bombay
and realize what you've been missing.
If I don't do this now,
I'm gonna start blaming myself.
[Alanna] I was taken aback because
he's someone that talks to me about
everything, but this, he didn't even
It was like, he had made his decision.
Everyone's going back.
I wish you spoke to me about
like, all of this.
Like, us going back to India. Like
We need to like,
completely come together as
the CollabTribe that we were,
-that's my only concern.
I know you've
lectured all the girls,
but this house
has been the best that we've been
-Yeah.
-in the past four years.
Like, actually, us living together
and shooting together.
You know, we see pockets of progress
but like,
a more consistent level of like,
our flaws coming into the picture
and stopping us from doing the same thing
over and over again.
That's just what I want to eradicate.
This was supposed to be 2.0, so just
This is 2.0.
This is a part of 2.0.
But that's going to be like
us working in reverse.
We need to have a rule book.
Like, an ethos.
This is what you're supposed to do.
These are your roles and responsibilities.
[Alanna] I think that I see
where his frustration comes from.
He's been very patient
throughout this entire thing.
Deep down, nobody gives a shit.
Even though they're saying,
oh, we care, but not really.
Because if you cared, then like,
what's going on?
In terms of like,
since I've come here, right,
-I always tag CollabTribe in my post.
-Correct.
I even send those collaborative invites.
I'm doing my bit.
But where is CollabTribe helping me
to get my vision going?
I feel like you still don't have a vision.
-No, I do. Like, I know what I want to do.
-What do you wanna do?
[tense music continues]
He knows everything.
I've told him exactly what I want.
Honestly, it's a very simple layer
that all of us just need
to de-complicate this down to.
It's your innate duty to support your
friends.
The engagement that she was getting
was nothing but a result of that
breakfast party event day
-when you guys supported each other.
-Each other, yeah.
When you guys posted about each other.
And that is what
the world was interested in.
This is like a very golden moment
in social media.
People like watching
a group of friends doing things.
I can't go to everyone
and be like, post for me.
That's what I was saying before,
that should come from within.
All of you need to be able to like,
genuinely give a fuck about each other.
-I agree.
-I know that you were a blank slate.
But everyone, when they came here,
kind of knew their own thing.
And like I told you this,
CollabTribe just gives you the resources.
We don't hold
your hand and spoon-feed you.
How much ever I help you,
whatever you learn and
whatever you become, is you.
-You need to be you.
-[Hardik] Correct!
Yeah, see, like what she
might like, I may not like.
Or we have like, different vibes.
She did mention that
she wanted to be Indian Nigella.
That actually comes with so much passion
and when she came here,
it kinda seemed like,
oh, I actually don't completely
know what I wanna do.
I feel like,
that's what is the disappointment.
Hardik, even when I like, whatever, when
I came and lived here for four months,
I didn't get any brand deals.
There was no game plan.
I had no idea what was happening.
If you're getting me work here,
I'll be here.
I'm not going to just sit over here.
I also have a company to run.
Does that mean we're pulling the plug
on all of this till we figure it out?
I'm gonna like,
completely restructure
this entire thing and come back with you,
if I feel like it.
CollabTribe was never
going to be an agency,
but there has to be some
sort of a sister back-end
that actually monetizes this vision,
which can only happen once you guys do
what we intended to do.
Like, creating content
on a consistent basis.
Do you want to list down the amount
of money we've spent on everyone?
I don't even care about
the money right now.
-I just care about me not being able to
-Just to let everyone know.
-I think you should.
-These things sometimes need to be said
-[Vidhi] Yeah.
-So, that I think
these things
are just taken for granted.
Even I don't know to date
how much money you spent on me.
I don't care about that. It's never been
about the money situation for me
when it comes to not
having to support this.
It's obviously, the things that
I don't get in exchange for that.
Are you really gonna pull the plug?
What about the house?
We already have a lease.
Dude, I don't care.
I'm gonna get a babysitter
and probably shift Shelby here.
Let him enjoy the house.
But I'm like, pulling
the funding on this thing right now.
Like, even her Breakfast Party
and her music thing?
-You're pulling the plug on everything?
-Yeah, everything.
So, basically, they've had years
and I've had two months
and you take me back to India
in just two months and
you decide that you don't wanna do this.
-You actually were asking me.
-So, it's fine.
-No, it's fine.
-You asked, "Should I go back to India?"
No. So, it's fine.
I think it works out great for me.
-It doesn't matter.
-Okay, cool.
I just started this conversation about
like, her having to complain so much.
I mean, this is like a representation
of what it looks like in my life.
I'm just really disheartened
and disappointed.
I didn't expect this from Hardik.
[Alfia] I feel like I wasn't
given a real chance.
You bring me to the
other side of the world
and then in 45 days,
you're like, go back.
Like, where have I had the
support, time,
or knowledge?
I wish Alfia complained less.
She needs to be more collaborative
with the other girls.
I think she also has a very low
understanding of Instagram.
Like, she doesn't know
what's cool or not cool.
But I mean, like, she's not had time here.
-As much as we have.
-I know that.
-Yeah.
-But what's the point
of again, me trying to fight for her
to stay here if that mediocrity
of your friendship is still
going to exist between you all?
I'd rather not do this
and hold myself responsible for like,
being the cause of
the demise of your future.
Like, I just don't wanna do
that anymore.
Am I funding this
to make their lives
more miserable than they are?
Like, you know, that's the question
I'm asking myself today.
I just need some time off from this.
This is everything we've known
for the past four years.
I just need some time to decide
what needs to happen next.
I cannot be funding this anymore
without any sort of like,
fire that I always saw in you guys
when I met you for the first time.
Like, that's it.
Wait. What just happened?
Like, I knew this was going to be
a little intervention for the girls.
But I didn't think
that we'd be going back.
Everything just kind of exploded.
We didn't expect it.
No one expected it.
We were extremely shocked.
I'm not bluffing at all. I'm gonna
literally restrict their funding,
pull all their Amexs, cancel
the house lease and I'm off to India.
[Alanna] Even his energy
of just walking off
was concerning because
he's the one who sees the hope,
he's the one who sees the vision.
When your visionary
has given up on the vision,
it's concerning.
[somber music plays]
[in English] I have eight pairs
of sweatpants and six pairs of jeans.
This is not mine. This is Alaviaa's.
-So now, what's your plan next?
-I'm just living life.
That's what I am doing.
That's why I was always dicey, right,
about whether I wanted to stay here.
Social media was
supposed to be a side hustle.
It was supposed to just be
how I make money.
I think he has lost track of
why I came here.
Where is everyone? The house is so quiet.
[Ivor] The house is quiet.
Are you all done packing?
I'm gonna ask someone
to help me pack.
[Srushti] When I first came here,
I was so confused
about why he does so much for people.
And I feel like, I kinda
got used to it with time,
not realizing how much
he actually does for everybody.
How highly he thought of all of us.
And I feel like, the fact that we're not
kinda living up
to what he thought of us
does kinda upset me and I feel like
that's gonna change like, 1000 percent.
I think what was good about
this place was us being together.
-Yeah.
-It was not so much about the house.
[Alfia] The girls, without Hardik,
I don't think, realistically,
will want to work with me.
I don't think so.
Maybe he just wanted
to see more overall growth.
I get his point, guys. Like,
we've been doing this for three years.
I feel like, at least, myself,
I could've pushed myself.
I agree, I think everybody
could push themselves more.
At the end of the day, I still think that
I know he said that what
we're putting out was mediocre,
but I mean,
we did the billboard, so
Suitcase coming through.
They're on their way!
I'm gonna miss the entrance of the house.
-Bye, house. Miss me.
-I want to get a shot of you guys waiting!
Okay, I'm gonna go and lock the house up.
[hopeful music plays]
[Alanna] But there's one last thing
we need to close
before everyone heads back home.
[feel good music plays]
-Oh, my God!
-Guys, this is insane!
[energetic music plays]
[Alanna] It took, I think,
ten minutes to settle in that
we were looking at ourselves
blown up like that
in the middle of Los Angeles.
How big do you think that is,
like, if I actually go there and stand?
Now that I see it in person, I feel a lot
more excited about it.
-Guys, but I hate how I'm looking.
-Shut up.
You know there were
better pictures of me that day.
Be glad you're up there.
So ungrateful!
Can I actually rent an apartment here
so I can wake up to it?
Guys, this is exactly where
we lived four years ago.
-Across this fucking street.
-Oh my God, yeah!
[Aryaana] And I'm so happy that
my parents get to see this.
My brother gets to see this
and everyone that has believed in me.
This is my Grammy speech again.
It's crazy how far I have come
in just no time.
Like, I never thought this would happen.
I didn't even know what
I was doing to actually be here
-It's so stunning.
-I can't believe I'm looking so big.
Kinda gives you a feeling
that you've made it.
[in Arabic] Praise be to God!
[in English] Miss Grateful.
Goosebumps.
-Guys
-I really don't.
Come.
I wish, like, I had more time.
I wish I could do more.
There's so much more to me, I know it.
And we just have all these
happy emotions
and then there's Hardik,
trying to take us all back home,
snatch everything away.
[Alanna] If Hardik hadn't been in
such a rush, he could've seen this.
[Alanna] This is why we came here.
This is why we got all the girls here.
This is also a sign now that whatever
we do next has to be twice as big.
[energetic music fades]
-[Hardik] Hi, Als! What's up?
-[Alanna on call] Hi.
Did you shut the house?
Did you get all the keys and stuff back?
[Alanna] Yes, we locked everything up.
Uh showed the girls the billboard.
It looked amazing.
-The girls were so happy.
-Really?
[Alanna] Yeah, it was just so worth it.
Of course, getting a billboard is
a great thing, but then, what's next?
[Alanna] Also, I wanted to remind you
that I sent you five new profiles
that you need to check out.
-Let me know what you think.
-Yeah! I'm going to see it ASAP.
[Alanna] Hardik, we need to make
CollabTribe work.
Hmm.
[Alanna] We need to go back
to the drawing board and get this right
even if it's at the cost of these girls
and getting a whole new bunch on board.
-Drawing board!
-[Alanna laughs]
Okay, let me check out their profiles.
I think getting out of a situation
and getting into another situation
just helps the human brain reset.
I also need to restructure
this entire thing with like
responsibilities and have someone
hold them accountable for it.
[upbeat music plays]
[upbeat music fades]
[cheerful music plays]
Oh, my gosh!
You're really pregnant?
Are you pregnant?
-Yes!
-No way!
Oh, hey!
[incoherent chatter]
-Oh, my God!
-[Alanna chuckles]
That's a big bump.
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