We go back to 1993 to see how our beloved romantic hero Shah Rukh Khan shot to stardom in a pair of thrillers where he plays murderous obsessives. 

Show Notes:

King of Bollywood by Anupama Chopra

A Kiss Before Dying and the 1991 movie version

(INTERVAL (“Jaadu Teri Nazar” from Darr)

NEXT TIME: boxing movies!

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#ShahRukhKhan, #Kajol, #DalipTahil, #Raakhee, #RakheeGulzar, #ShilpaShetty, #SiddharthRay, #JohnnyLever, #Abbas-Mustan, #Darr#, YashChopra, #SunnyDeol, #JuhiChawla, #AnupamKher, #TanviAzmi, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Our favourite unobservant husband/intelligence officer/clueless father is back, and this time he's off to Chennai to stop a new threat because he loves the game (and we love him)!

Show Notes:

NEXT TIME: SRK in Baazigar and Darr

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#TheFamilyMan, #TheFamilyManSeason2. #ManojBajpayee. #Priyamani, #SharibHashmi, #AshleshaThakur, #VedantSinha, #Samantha, #SamanthaAkkineni, #RavindraVijay, #SharadKelkar, #SeemaBiswas, #Devadarshini, #AbhayVerma, #AmazonPrimeVideo, #HindiTV, #SpyThriller

We made it to June, which means it’s time for our midyear review where we discuss all the notable Hindi-language films that were released in the first half of 2021, or at least the ones we bothered to watch. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Faraar” from Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar)

NEXT TIME: The Family Man Season 2

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#Tribhanga,#TheGirlontheTrain, #BombayRose, #Roohi, #TimetoDance, #SandeepAurPinkyFaraar, #Saina, #Pagglait, #KoiJaaneNa, #TheBigBull, #HelloCharlie, #Radhe, #SkaterGirl, #Sherni, #Bollywood2021, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

We are thrilled to welcome creators, directors, and writers of OK Computer Pooja Shetty and Neil Pagedar to discuss their influences, worldview, and the making of our favourite science fiction comedy mystery series.  

Show Notes:

NEXT TIME: 2021 midyear review

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#NeilPagedar, #PoojaShetty, #OKComputer, #ScienceFiction, #SciFi, #ScienceFictionTV, #SciFiTV, #IndianTV, #IndianTVShows, #HotStar, #VijayVarma, #RadhikaApte, #KaniKusruti, #ArtificialIntelligence, #AI, #Cyberpunk, #CyberNoir, #TechNoir

Our favourite boutique film label, Criterion, has finally acknowledged Hindi cinema with two series on their streaming channel devoted to acclaimed filmmakers Bimal Roy and Raj Kapoor. 

Show Notes:

Episode 69 on Raj Kapoor and episode 87 on Madhumati

Directed by Bimal Roy at the Criterion Channel

Bicycle Thieves and Italian neorealism

(INTERVAL (“Ramaiya Vastavaiya” from Shree 420)

Three by Raj Kapoor on the Criterion Channel

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#CriterionCollection, #CriterionChannel, #BimalRoy, #RajKapoor, #DoBighaZamin, #BalrajSahni, #NirupaRoy, #RattanKumar, #Murad, #Jagdeep, #MeenaKumari, #Shree420, #Nargis, #Narida, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Do you like robots? Yes! What about killer robots? Oh robots don’t kill you say? We’ll see about that! We get to the bottom of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics with Hotstar’s new sci-fi-comedy-mystery series OK Computer.

Show Notes:

NEXT TIME: Criterion Channel

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#OKComputer, #VijayVarma, #RadhikaApte, #KanuKusruti, #RasikaDugal, #JackieShroff, #AnandGandhi, #NeilPagedar, #PoojaShetty, #Hotstar, #IndianScienceFiction, #Scifi, #HindiTV

Karen Unland is back to discuss to two Indian adapatations of classic Jane Austen novels. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“By The Way” from Aisha)

Emma and Clueless

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#JaneAusten, #AustenMovies, #Austen, #BrideandPrejudice, #AishwaryaRai, #AishwaryaRaiBachchan, #AlexisBledel, #MartinHenderson, #NadiraBabbar, #AnupamKher, #NaveenAndrews, #IndiraVarma, #Aisha, #SonamKapoor, #AbhayDeol, #IraDubey, #CyrusSahukar, #AmritaPuri, #AnandTiwari, #ArunodaySingh, #LisaHaydon, #GurinderChadha, #RajshreeOjha, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #IndianCinema, #NRICinema, #DisaporaCinema

In this supplemental episode we discuss Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ new memoir, Unfinished, and her latest film project, The White Tiger.

Show Notes:

66th Filmfare Awards (the video Matt watched full of spoilers)

Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jonas

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#PriyankaChopraJonas, #PriyankaChopra, #Unfinished, #TheWhiteTiger, #AdarshGourav, #RajkummarRao, #Netflix, #Bollywood, #IndianCinema

Happy Pi Day Lovers! To celebrate we’ve invited our friend Amanda Mullins on to discuss two films about women and math.

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Pass Nahi Toh Fail Nahi” from Shakuntala Devi)

Shakuntala Devi, the film

Shakuntala Devi, the person

NEXT TIME: PCJ’s memoir

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#ShakuntalaDevi, #VidyaBalan, #AnuMenon, #SanyaMalhotra, #AmitSadh, #JisshuSengupta, #PrakashDelawadi, #NilBatteySannata, #AshwinyIyerTiwari, #SwaraBhasker, #RatnaPathakShah, #PankajTripathi, #Bollywood, #Math, #PiDay, #WomeninSTEM, #Womeninmath, #HindiCinema

We continue to explore Amitabh Bachchan’s filmography, one year at a time. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Disco 84″ from Inquilaab)

NEXT TIME: ladies doing math

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#AmitabhBachchan, #KhudDaar, #RaviTandon, #SanjeevKumar, #VinodMehra, #ParveenBabi, #Tanuja, #BindiyaGoswami, #Nastik, #HemaMalini, #RajuShrestha, #AmjadKhan, #Pran, #PramodChakravorty, #Inquilaab, #RamaRaoTatineni, #Sridevi, #UtpalDutt, #KaderKhan, #ShaktiKapoor, #Iftekhar, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema