In our annual Noirvember episode, we discuss two moody murder mysteries from 1958. 

Show notes:

Tommydan55 and Tommydan333

Kolkata as a mystery city

(INTERVAL “Mera Naam Chin Chin Chuu" from Howrah Bridge)

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Sooryavanshi has finally unloaded itself into theatres and our good friend and cinephile Devin Bruce has dropped by to discuss Rohit Shetty’s ethically questionable Cop Universe.

Show notes:

Heads up, one of these films deals with sexual violence.

• Devin's in the three-timers club

• Singham is the most important being that has ever existed

• Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe (we haven't seen Sooryavanshi yet)

• Singham

• When Indian action movies get memeified

• Buford T. Justice is actually in Smokey and the Bandit, I apologize to everyone this offended. Walking Tall is about Sheriff Buford Pusser

• Backpfeifengesicht, a "face that should be slapped"

• Pervasive police corruption and brutality in Hindi film

• Singham Returns

(INTERVAL "Singham" from Singham)

• Singham's relationship with '80s American action flicks

• "Copaganda"

• Matt's "Bad Cop, Bad Cop" list on letterboxd

• Singham vs. Dabangg, which is more fascist?

• "Ranveer Ching Returns"

• Simmba

• "Aankh Marey"

• The real-life case that inspired Simmba and Delhi Crime (cw, sexual assault)

• Adam Curtis: "There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed"

NEXT TIME: Noirvember

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#Singham, #simmba, #ajaydevgn, #kajalaggarwal, #prakashraj, #singhamreturns, #kareenakapoor, #anupamkher, #pankajtripathi, #amolegupte, #ranveersingh, #sonusood, #saraalikhan, #bollywood, #hindicinema

The witching hour is almost here, and we're done with our annual Hindi Horror Halloween! Inspired by Kier-La Janisse's Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, we explore the folk horror subgenre and how we see it being realized in Hindi-langauge filmmaking including in Rahi Anil Barve's Tumbbad.

Show Notes:

Matt's interview with Kier-La Janisse (and his interview with Caelum Vatnsdal)

(INTERVAL “Tumbbad Title Track" from Tumbbad)

Cosmic Horror and The King in Yellow (Yellow King Theory)

NEXT TIME: Singham

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#FolkHorror, #WoodlandsDarkandDaysBewitched, #Horror, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Tumbbad, #RahiAnilBarve, #SohumShah, #AnitaDate-Kelkar, #RonjiniChakraborty

It’s our seventh annual Hindi Horror Halloween! This year we watch a pair of films about non-believers confronting the supernatural and using supersitition to their advantage. 

Show Notes:

Pizza (2014)

Pizza (2012)

(INTERVAL “Aayi Aayi Bhoot Police” from Bhoot Police)

NEXT TIME: folk horror

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#BhootPolice, #SaifAliKhan, #ArjunKapoor, #YamiGautam, #JacquelineFernandez, #JavedJaffrey, #PavanKirpalani, #Pizza, #AkshayAkkineni, #AkshayOberoi, #ParvathyOmanakuttan, #ArunodaySingh, #DipannitaSharma, #Horror, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood, #BollywoodHorror

We take a big leap in our Amitabh Bachchan series and jump over the late 80s into the early 90s with two explosive crime movies.

Show Notes:

Erin does not understand the Indian Parliament 

(INTERVAL “Jumma Chumma De De” from Hum)

NEXT TIME: (Funny?) Bhoots 

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#MukulSAnand, #AmitabhBachchanm #Rajnikanth, #DannyDenzongpa, #KimiKatkar, #Govinda, #DeepaSahi, #ShilpaShirodkar, #AnupamKher, #KaderKhan, #MithunChakraborty, #Madhavi, #Neelam, #RohiniHattangadi, #ShaktiKapoor, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Abhishek Bachchan tries to con his way into our hearts in two crime comedies from 2005. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL “Kajra Re” from Bunty Aur Babli )

NEXT TIME: Bachchan '85 - '87

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#AbhishekBachchan, #RaniMukerji, #AmitabhBachchan, #BuntyAurBabli, #PriyankaChopram #RiteishDeshmukh, #NanaPatekar, #BomanIrani, #Bollywood, #Conmen, #Bluffmaster

With Toofan now streaming on Amazon Prime, we lace up our gloves and climb in the ring to discuss three films about boxers. 

Show Notes:

Episode 6 -  Priyanka Chopra: Who's the Hottest Girl in the World? where we discuss Mary Kom

(INTERVAL (“Toofan” from Toofan)

Episode 24: Sports! where we discuss Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

NEXT TIME: we are taking a break, talk to you in September!

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#SaalaKhadoos, #IrudhiSuttru, #Madhavan, #RitikaSingh, #MumtazSorcar, #Nassar, #ZakirHussain, #SudhaKongara, #Mukkabaaz, #AnuragKashyap, #VineetKumarSingh, #ZoyaHussain, #JimmySheirgill, #RaviKishan, #Toofan, #RakeyshOmprakashMehra, #PareshRawal, #MrunalThakur, #DarshanKumar, #SupriyaPathak, #VijayRaaz, #Bollywood, #BoxingFilms, #HindiCinema

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