In this the BhaJaPod ladies talk the fascinating evolution of the self-destructive man's portrayal in pop culture. Through an analysis of Devdas’s, subversive reimagining in DevD, and then some Kabir Singh carcass thrown in, they explore how this archetype has been reinterpreted and recontextualized over the years. Plus, they throw in some men like 'Animal' for good measure! Tune in to hear Richa, Nidhi and Amrutha

Episode Editor- Nidhi

Gang gets to talk about the slowly falling apart Hindi film industry and ask all of us ki kyu nahi ban sakti India me ab phir se a movie like Dil To Pagal Hai. Then they talk about the Maharashtra elections, Sambhal violence and Bangladesh.

Gang is together and perhaps this will be the episode that will mean that most of the pod listener abandon the pod. The gang talk American elections from the lens of the Indian liberal twitter reaction to the elections and then of course some other newsein from India.

The BJPod wimmins look at weddings and their depiction starting with Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair’s groundbreaking depiction of an intimate Punjabi wedding. To Made in Heaven’s toe-dipping into every possible wedding related societal ill (with smug voiceovers) and Neeraj Ghaywan’s Dalit Wedding episode.

Hosts- Amrutha, Nidhi and Richa

Editing- Nidhi

The three get together to talk about how things have been and some news stuff, sexy jaishankar and the other ministers, Aditya's cousins book collection and Raj's cinema watching comes into discussion which also gets them into talking a comparative discussion of the slow death of Hindi cinema via Stree 2, Singham via Mithun da in 90's along with a monkey among other random things.

Gang is gangier today with many folks on the pod from our discord community, we talk laddo ke peeche kya hai and other Modi Ji things.

Guests-

Kalim, kki, Ajay, Arbaz, Amruthaidhi, MV

To celebrate this great time of both the Narendra Day and 5 years of BJPod, as we prepare something for you, we thought we would share some of our best work till then. Enjoy and share with friends.

The BJPod Discord Community got together to discuss the Mood of the Nation, Poland Visit, Tipping in USA & Ola being the largest EV company in the world except China amongst other things.

Trigger warning: Episode discusses sexual violence, listener discretion is advised.

Hosts for the episode- Richa, Kesar and Amrutha

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Trigger Warning- The episode contains mention of sexual violence and worse, strong listener discretion advised.

Gang talks about Indian men obviously and then dive into other areas like Ambani family being 10% of India's GDP, some crazy people talking crazy stuff and then in the same vein Kangana and her new movie.