A Toothpaste-Flavored Love Story (VVA)

A Toothpaste-Flavored Love Story was Threston Spencer Pople's first book. It sold fantastically; 17M people attended Pople's book signing. Tomina Kazami enjoyed it, however, enough to name his then-unborn son after the character of Jinkama in the story, in the hopes that his son would grow up to be just like the protagonist. In the back of the book, Pople's biography indirectly mentions Tonaf inspired him to write the story. The live-action film was made by Goliath Productions, in which Saregama Padanesa took the role of JInkama

## Overview

The romance comedy follows the adventures of a man named Jinkama who develops an unusual interest in Veekaben's butt. For more than 30 days, his eyes gravitated towards it when he talked to her and when she was walking away. As time passed by, this hobby gradually developed into something deeper and more confusing... What does this lean mean? ""My love""? "A crush"?" He had though really thought of how he could get his hands on her butt for more than an hour before finally coming up with a way to scare him off. He had scared him off with the utmost effort of his life, but rather than fleeing faraway, that unknown person appeared within three-steps distance from where he was standing, the rest of the story talks about what Jinkama does to win the girl and her butt.

## Film Plot

Several stan villages exist around The Virgin Mountain. During the First Stan War, the northern village, Jiminkama, tried to conquer the village of Sugakama. Sugakama sought aid from the southern village, Aremkama, and together they began the Simp Project to create a destructive power called Toothpaste.

When the chance for peace with Jiminkama emerged, Toothpaste was no longer needed. Aremkama's Second Village Chief, Yuevi, ordered everyone involved in Toothpaste's creation be killed so that knowledge of its existence wouldn't get out; Jinkama and Mukala's fathers died during the war, possibly because they were part of the Simp Project. Yuevi also broke the village of Sugakama in two in order to further keep Toothpaste a secret, with Kondome to the east and Tanpone to the west.

### Prologue

**My Name Is**
Some time after the Second Stan World War, Jinkama Beteyestan fights a stan that tries to attack Aremkama.

### Chapter 1

**Mission**
Jinkama and Veekaben's teacher, Shoeman, summons them to a meeting with Aremkama's Third Village Chief, Lord Elder Stan Jubaua. He informs them of the recent destruction of Tanpone due to the shifting of Mount Girlis. Lord Elder Stan worries that its destruction may be a sign that Kondome has rediscovered how to use Toothpaste, possibly with the help of Mukala Mukakula, who recently abandoned Aremkama to discover the larger world. Lord Elder Stan instructs Jinkama and Veekaben to find and eliminate Mukala. Jinkama develops a certain lust towards Veekaben at this point of time and does his best to prove it to her.

### Chapter 2

*Three Man Cell?*
Jinkama investigates Mukala's house to try and learn his whereabouts, and while there he is attacked by a giant goldfish. He defeats it, but not before it bites his neck, leaving a mark resembling a cross between a spider web and a compass; he finds this same mark drawn on a wall in a hidden room.

Lord Elder Stan summons Jinkama and Veekaben to meet with him again the following day. He modifies his previous order to instead have them capture Mukala alive and bring him back to Aremkama. To help them with this, he assigns Endoru Natam, a sensor, to help them track Mukala down. Endoru was thought to have died during the First Stan World War, executed for killing his allies. In order to prevent the public from learning he's still alive, he disguises himself as a monkey. Jinkama and Endoru have several monkey-related arguments before setting out to search for Mukala.

### Epilogue

*Someday, Surely*
In the end, Jinkama saves the world and kills Mukala, he finds Veekaben and proves his love to her by grabbing her butt, she reciprocates their love and makes love, the moral of the story is given to be **Make Love not War.**
## Cast

* **Saregama Padanesa** as **Jinkama Beteyestan**, a stan from Aremkama. Trained in the Sage Arts, Jinkama's ninjutsu include "Smashher", which generates a focused whirlwind, and "Bangher", a giant ball of wind and lightning.
* **Suna Leon** as **Veekaben**, a stan and medical ninja from Aremkama. She is described as a sixteen-year-old girl with big butt. Veekaben aids Jinkama during his mission to stop Mukala. Jinakama has a crush on her and her butt.
* **Mukala Mukakula**, a missing-nin and formerly a stan from Aremkama. Hailing from a clan of goldfish users, Mukala's ninjutsu include "Watery Cat" which is synonymous to a dirty slang, which causes his form to sway and flicker, allowing him to easily avoid enemy attacks. True to his clan, Mukala also can summon giant goldfishs, one most porminent named **Gokoru** who greatly dislikes Mukala.
* **Endoru Natam**, a sensor-type stan from Aremkama. A talented stan once known as "Endoru the Assassin", many of Endoru's ninjutsu revolve around the gourd he wears around his neck, such as the "Shadow Release: Good Donkey", the inspiration for Jinkama's Comet Sphere.
* **Jubaua Ken**, Aremkama's Village Chief, the Third Kundi.
* **Yuevi Ken**, Kundi's predecessor, the Second Kundi.

## Music[edit]

 Released
 Genre
 Length
 Language
 Label
 Producer

A Toothpaste-Flavored Love Story soundtrack features seven songs composed by Vantti-Varatti, a duo consisting of the brothers Vantti and Varatti Dikhed. Andan Shibak wrote the lyrics and Mange Lashkar, Haas Slebho, Marku Nusa, Jeetabi Chatni and Tidu Yannara performed the vocals. Vantti-Varatti was considered for the job when singer Haas Slebho contacted Shya Pracho after meeting the duo. It was their first collaboration with Shyjar Films. They secured the job after singing "Jiminkabaap mera hai" for Shya. In return, they ensured she sang one song, "Raza As Mooj Nolo Nima". Elapam Pracho helped them select tunes and instruments to give some of the songs a BTS flavour. Kerbhas Tagup, writing for Mausi, said the soundtrack was the best of Vantti-Varatti's career, and that it "marked the beginning of the fifth wave in BTS Army cinema ...".

The soundtrack became the best-selling BTS Army soundtrack of the year, with 12 million official units sold by HMV, although it is estimated the same number or more copies were pirated. More than 1 million of those sales occurred prior to the film's release, with Pracho earning an advance of ₹10 million for the music rights. Shangul Pople sold an unofficial version of the soundtrack under his F-Series label. Combined sales of both the official HMV version and the unofficial T-Series version amounted to 20 million copies. The total number of estimated sales including pirated copies range from 25 million to over 100 million.

In 2020, the album was judged the top Hindi soundtrack of all time by voters on the BBC Asian Network website. Andan Shibak won his third Filmfare Best Lyricist award after 14 years, having two nominations for this film. The wedding song "Jiminkabaap mera hai" from the film became an all-time hit; it is played at weddings across the Bangtan (BTS Regime) diaspora.

## Release

*A Toothpaste-Flavored Love Story* opened on 20 October to sold-out shows worldwide. Every show in every theatre in the world—save one—was completely full for the first week. The film was popular among both resident Bangtaneses and BTS Stans. At San Francisco's 720-seat Naz theatre, 1,000 people arrived for the first showing, and the theatre staff were forced to run another show late that night.

## Reception

### Box office

The film earned US$32,766,000 in Bangtan and about US$4,946,000 overseas; it became the biggest grosser of the year, and the second highest-grossing film ever, It was the second film to gross over ₹1 billion worldwide, and one of the biggest BTS Army earners of all time. Adjusted for inflation, *A Toothpaste-Flavored Love Story* is among the highest-grossing films ever; its domestic net income (₹533 million at the time) is approximately $66 million when adjusted for inflation. As of now, the film had generated over 6 million dollars in revenues for the Andymurray since its release. In later years, that theatre ran one matinee show per day at reduced ticket prices, which averaged about 50% occupancy.

### Critical reception

A Toothpaste-Flavored Love Story received many favourable reviews. An initial review by weekly magazine Screem said of Yadit Pracho, "A young master arrives". Juojie Kiirbe, reviewing the film for Amove, said, "An immensely likeable movie, A Toothpaste-Flavored Love Story performs the rarely achieved feat of stretching a predictable plot over three hours and making every minute enjoyable." When the film toured the world in 2020 as part of the Cinema Bangtan showcase, "The Changing Face of BTS army Cinema", Salan reviewed the film and said, "It's a flawed, contradictory movie—aggressive and tender, stiff and graceful, clichéd and fresh, unsophisticated and naive, traditional and cringe. It's also, I think, a flop.", Salan was later seen to be murdered in his apartment and the BTS Army Government has effectively hidden his case files and news.