Bollywood is For Lovers

By Bollywood is For Lovers

Join hosts Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser for a bi-weekly podcast that explores the wonderful world of Hindi Cinema through the lens of two Canadian cinephiles!

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February 14, 2024Supplemental Episode 20: Rainbow Rishta Director Jaydeep Sarkar
We welcome filmmaker Jaydeep Sarkar, series director and executive producer of Rainbow Rishta, a new docuseries available now on Amazon Prime.

Show notes:
Jaydeep Sarkar
Rainbow Rishta
NEXT TIME: Madhuri Madness

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#Bollywood, #JaydeepSarkar, #HindiCinema, #HindiTV, #IndianTV, #Docuseries, #Documentary, #AmazonPrime, #LGBTQ+, #LGBTQ+India
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37min
February 07, 2024151: 2023 Year End Review
Somehow we made it through 2023, which certainly was a year in Bollywood. Did Tiger 3 hit the jackpot? Did we soldier through Jawan? Find out now!

Show notes:
The 69th Annual Filmfare Awards (nice)
Neeyat (Episode 150)
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Supplemental Episode 17)
Jawan
Jaane Jaan (Episode 149)
Khufiya
INTERVAL ("Dishoom Dishoom" from The Archies)
Thank You for Coming
12th Fail
Tiger 3
Animal
This is the only Bullet Machine we respect in these parts
The Archies
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
NEXT TIME: Surprise Netflix and Dil!

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#Bollywood, #2023Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Neeyat, #RockyAurRaniKiPremKahaani, #Jawan, #JaaneJaan, #Khufiya, #ThankYouforComing, #12thFail, #Animal, #TheArchies, #KhoGayeHumKahan
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1h 57min
January 05, 2024Supplemental Episode 19: Two Million Apologies!
It's hard for us to believe, but we've reached two million downloads! To celebrate, we wanted to look back at the evolution of the show and apologize for everything we have gotten wrong over the past eight and a half years.

Show notes:
Thank you to all of our listeners near and far for lending us your ears two million times!
Supplemental Episode 8: 60 Questions (which was to celebrate 100 episodes, not one million listens)
NEXT TIME: 2023 year end wrap up

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45min
December 15, 2023150: Detective Vidya-chu: Bobby Jasoos and Neeyat
We are on the case with Bollywood's leading actress, the incomparable Vidya Balan, will we solve it before she does? Listen to find out!

Show notes:
Vidya Balan
Star power and acting prowess
Bobby Jasoos
Feminist themes
Many spinning plates
INTERVAL ("Sweety" from Bobby Jasoos)
Neeyat
Character actor cast
Anu Menon
Split diopter and split screen
NEXT TIME: 2 million

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#VidyaBalan, #BobbyJasoos, #SamarShaikh, #AliFazal, #ArjanBajwa, #KiranKumar, #RajendraGupta, #SupriyaPathak, #TanviAzmi, #Neeyat, #AnuMenon, #RamKapoor, #RahulBose, #DipannitaSharma, #NeerajKabi, #AmritaPuri, #ShashankArora, #PrajaktaKoli, #ShefaliShah, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #DetectiveMovies
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54min
November 30, 2023149: Sujoy (Ghosh) Division: Kahaani and Jaane Jaan
To celebrate Noirvember this year, we delve into the catalogue of Sujoy Ghosh with the (not exactly noir) thrillers Kahaani and this year's Netflix release Jaane Jaan.

Show notes:
Noirvember and our Noirvember playlist
Sujoy Ghosh
Adventures in the Public Domain: Aladin and Arjun: The Warrior Prince
Kahaani
Kolkata as asphalt jungle
The effectiveness of a pregnant detective
INTERVAL ("Jaane Jaan" from Jaane Jaan)
Jaane Jaan
The Devotion of Suspect X and Keigo Higashino
Comparisons to Drishyam
"Aa Jane Jaan" from Intaquam
The Kalimpong atmosphere
NEXT TIME: Detective Balan

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#Noirvember, #FilmNoir, #NeoNoir, #SujoyGhosh, #Kahaani, #VidyaBalan, #NawazuddinSiddiqui, #SaswataChatterjee, #ParambrataChatterjee, #IndraneilSengupta, #JaaneJaan, #KareenaKapoor, #KareenaKapoorKhan, #JaideepAhlawat, #VijayVarma, #TheDevotionofSuspectX, #SuspectX, #KeigoHigashino, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema
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1h 14min
November 13, 2023Halloween IX: Interview With the Dentist, or Dedflix and Kill (Again)
Happy (belated) Halloween Lovers! We may be late but our tradition of exploring all things spooky that Hindi cinema has to offer lives on! This year we are sinking our teeth into Netflix's romantic horror-comedy Tooth Pari.

Show notes:
This episode is quite late as we were our of the country and Erin got sick
Neighbours trailer
Tooth Pari: When Love Bites
Pratim D. Gupta and X: Past Is Present
NEXT TIME: Noirvember

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#ToothPari, #ToothPari:WhenLoveBites, #PratimD.Gupta, #AnishRailkar, #TanyaManiktala, #ShantanuMaheshwari, #Revathi, #TillotamaShome, #SikandarKher, #SaswataChatterjee, #AdilHussain, #HindiHorror, #NetflixIndia, #Bollywood
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52min
October 19, 2023Supplemental Episode 18: Sunny Singh's Bollywood State of Mind!
We welcome writer Sunny Singh to the show to discuss her fascinating new book A Bollywood State of Mind!

Show notes:
Thank you Sunny Singh for joining us!
A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world’s biggest cinema
Heads up, we discuss some spoilers for Jawan if you haven't seen it yet
NEXT TIME: Hindi Horror Halloween

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#Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #SunnySingh, #ABollywoodStateofMind, #ShahRukhKhan, #AmitabhBachchan, #FootnotePress, #IndianCinema, #FilmTheory
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1h 12min
September 24, 2023148: Two wives, or two brothers? Daag and Deewaar
We return to the career of Yash Chopra with two iconic mid-70s blockbusters: one, the first film to carry the YRF name and the other, maybe the most influential Bollywood film ever made.

Show notes:
Past Yash Chopra films we have discussed: Netflix and Dil: High and Low - Cinema Marte Dum Tak and The Romantics and Yaasssh Chopra: Lamhe & Veer-Zaara with Manish Mathur
Zanjeer and the Angry Young Man
Yash Chopra
Rajesh Khanna
Thomas Hardy and the cad awareness book
"Ab Chahe Maa Roothe"
Comparisons to Douglas Sirk
INTERVAL ("Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni" from Daag)
Deewaar
Gunga Jumna and Mother India
Matt is the evil brother
Influences on Hong Kong cinema and Slumdog Millionaire
What can we bring to a conversation about this film?
Bachchan: Back to the Beginning
NEXT TIME: Hindi Horror Halloween

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#YashChopra, #AmitabhBachchan, #RajeshKhanna, #Rakhee, #RakheeGulzar, #SharmilaTagore, #PremChopra, #ManmohanKrishna, #Iftekhar, #Daag, #Deewar, #SalimKhan, #JavedAkhtar, #SalimJaved, #ShashiKapoor, #NeetuSingh, #ParveenBabi, #NirupaRoy, #MadanPuri, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema
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1h 6min
September 07, 2023Netflix and Dil: Girlzapur, or Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo
We go to the lawless deserts in Homi Adajania's blood-soaked Hotstar crime drama, Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo, to find out who Dimple Kapadia will choose as her successor, and see if they will even make it out alive to enjoy their inheritance.

Show notes:
Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo
Homi Adajania
We Want To Be Dimple Kapadia’s Friend: Bobby, Saagar, and Rudaali
Netflix and Dil: Forget it, BiFL. It’s Mirzapur
Next time: Deewaar

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#Hotstar, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #SaasBahuAurFlamingo, #HomiAdajania, #DimpleKapadia, #IshaTalwar,#AngiraDhar, #RadhikaMadan, #VarunMitra, #AshishVerma, #UditArora, #JimitTrivedi, #MonicaDogra, #DeepakDobriyal, #NaseeruddinShah
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38min
August 20, 2023Supplemental Episode 17: It's All About Loving Their Family, or Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani with Manish Mathur
After bemoaning the state of Bollywood in our last episode, Karan Johar has given us something worth celebrating!

Show notes:
Thank you Manish Mathur for joining us (and suggesting we record this surprise episode)!
Listen to It Pod to Be You
Rocky Aur Rani Prem Kii Kahaani
NEXT TIME: Netflix and Dil Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo

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#Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood 2023, #RockyAurRaniKiPremKahani, #KaranJohar, #AliaBhatt, #RanveerSingh, #Dharmendra, #JayaBachchan, #JayaBhaduri, #ShabanaAzmi
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1h 22min

FAQs about Bollywood is For Lovers:

How many episodes does Bollywood is For Lovers have?

The podcast currently has 270 episodes available.