Bollywood is For Lovers

By Bollywood Is For LoversTV & Film Arts Film Reviews

Bollywood is For Lovers episodes

November 24, 2021124: Noir '58: Howrah Bridge and 12 O'Clock
In our annual Noirvember episode, we discuss two moody murder mysteries from 1958.

Show notes:
Our Noirvember playlist
As we always point out, film noir is not a genre
"The Rebirth of India's Forgotten Cinema in the Age of the Internet"
Tommydan55 and Tommydan333
Howrah Bridge
Kolkata as a mystery city
Racist sterotypes
Songs

(INTERVAL “Mera Naam Chin Chin Chuu" from Howrah Bridge)
12 O'Clock
Johnny Walker
Matt was thinking of Shaan
Are fortune tellers admissible in court?
"Filmfare recommends: Best Bollywood noir films of the '50s"
Songs

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#Noirvember, #HowrahBridge, #ShaktiSamanta, #AshokKumar, #Madhubala, #K.N.Singh, #MadanPuri, #OmPrakash, #Dhumal, #Helen, #12O'Clock, #PramodChakravorty, #GuruDutt, #WaheedaRehman, #Shashikala, #Rehman, #JohnnyWalker, #FilmNoir, #HindiNoir, #BollywoodNoir, #1950sBollywood
47 min
November 12, 2021 123: Crisis on Infinite Singhams: Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe with Devin Bruce
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"

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#Singham, #simmba, #ajaydevgn, #kajalaggarwal, #prakashraj, #singhamreturns, #kareenakapoor, #anupamkher, #pankajtripathi, #amolegupte, #ranveersingh, #sonusood, #saraalikhan, #bollywood, #hindicinema
1 hr 39 min
October 28, 2021122: Halloween VII, Part 2 The Quickening: Folk Horror and Tumbbad
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:
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror box set
Matt's interview with Kier-La Janisse (and his interview with Caelum Vatnsdal)
Spectacular Optical
"Where to begin with folk horror" by Adam Scovell
Unholy Trinity: Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw, and The Wicker Man
Matt's article on Jeremy Shaw
Popular folk horror films
Why is folk horror so popular?
Our list of Hindi-language folk horror
Supplemental Episode 11: Brian Collins’ Bollywood Horrors

(INTERVAL “Tumbbad Title Track" from Tumbbad)
Tumbbad
Cosmic Horror and The King in Yellow (Yellow King Theory)
Spoiler zone: 1:01:11 to 1:06:09
The curse of competency

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#FolkHorror, #WoodlandsDarkandDaysBewitched, #Horror, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Tumbbad, #RahiAnilBarve, #SohumShah, #AnitaDate-Kelkar, #RonjiniChakraborty
1 hr 16 min
October 14, 2021121: Halloween VII: Das Bhoots, Pizza and Bhoot Police
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:
We are doing two Hindi Horror Halloween episodes this year
In Canada Hotstar is still a seperate streaming service
Our first Hindi Horror Halloween where we discuss Go Goa Gone
Obligatory “it was hard to find the films we wanted to watch” discussion
Why are they putting brocoli on pizza?
Pizza (2014)
Pizza (2012)
Spoiler zone: 15:26 - 21:30
Ghosts love Delhi Belly
No thematic development
What Erin really pays attention to while watching a movie

(INTERVAL “Aayi Aayi Bhoot Police” from Bhoot Police)
Bhoot Police
Spitting up ectoplasm and Extra Ordinary.
How old should you be to watch Evil Dead?
How Arjun Kapoor got his flavour back
Fraternal and sororal bonds

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#BhootPolice, #SaifAliKhan, #ArjunKapoor, #YamiGautam, #JacquelineFernandez, #JavedJaffrey, #PavanKirpalani, #Pizza, #AkshayAkkineni, #AkshayOberoi, #ParvathyOmanakuttan, #ArunodaySingh, #DipannitaSharma, #Horror, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood, #BollywoodHorror
52 min
September 30, 2021120: Bachchan ‘90 & ‘91
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:
What happened to Bachchan between 1985 and 1989?
Erin does not understand the Indian Parliament
Agneepath
First instance of a poem in and as
2012 remake
Bachchan’s voice
Trash, Art, And The Movies on Scarfaces
Split Screen Podcast: The Hollywood Remake Of 'Parinda'
Shakti Kapoor saves the day
Mory Kanté

(INTERVAL “Jumma Chumma De De” from Hum)
Hum
Songs: “Sanam Mere Sanam” and “Kagaj Kalam”
Govinda’s sexy period
Rajnikanth seems happy to be there
Which actress should we dedicate a series to?

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#MukulSAnand, #AmitabhBachchanm #Rajnikanth, #DannyDenzongpa, #KimiKatkar, #Govinda, #DeepaSahi, #ShilpaShirodkar, #AnupamKher, #KaderKhan, #MithunChakraborty, #Madhavi, #Neelam, #RohiniHattangadi, #ShaktiKapoor, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema
1 hr 9 min
September 15, 2021119: King Con: Abhishek Bachchan in Bunty Aur Babli and Bluffmaster!
Abhishek Bachchan tries to con his way into our hearts in two crime comedies from 2005.

Show Notes:
We’re back!
Bunty Aur Babli
A good year for Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan
The media claims there are IRL Bunties and Bablies
Kesha first brushed her teeth with a bottle of Jack in 2009
Songs: “Bunty Aur Babli,” “Nach Baliye,” “Chup Chup Ke” and “B n B”

(INTERVAL “Kajra Re” from Bunty Aur Babli )
Bluffmaster!
Riteish, no Deshmukh
We are all just fish waiting to be conned
A long, necessary ramble about Electric Circus
Piggy Chops’ rap “Right Here Right Now,”

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#AbhishekBachchan, #RaniMukerji, #AmitabhBachchan, #BuntyAurBabli, #PriyankaChopram #RiteishDeshmukh, #NanaPatekar, #BomanIrani, #Bollywood, #Conmen, #Bluffmaster
53 min
August 06, 2021118: Knockout Kings: Saala Khadoos, Mukkabaaz, and Toofan
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:
Matt’s fist fighting past
Boxing movies
Class in boxing movies
It’s Jim Brown in Mars Attacks!
Episode 6 - Priyanka Chopra: Who's the Hottest Girl in the World? where we discuss Mary Kom
Saala Khadoos/Irudhi Suttru
“Why top athletes work for Indian Railways”
“Vaa Machaney”

(INTERVAL (“Toofan” from Toofan)
Mukkabaaz
Power and corruption
“Paintra”
Toofan
Before every podcast, Matt remembers every podcast he has podcasted
Biopic vibes
Episode 24: Sports! where we discuss Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
“Todun Taak” and “Star Hai Tu”

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
1 hr 15 min
July 22, 2021117: Magnificent Obsessions: SRK in Baazigar and Darr
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:
The darkness in Shah Rukh Khan
Comparisons to Sarah Michelle Gellar
King of Bollywood by Anupama Chopra
Baazigar
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa
A Kiss Before Dying and the 1991 movie version
Giallo
Songs: “Kitaben Bahut Si,” “Ae Mere Humsafar,” “Baazigar O Baazigar,” and “Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen”

(INTERVAL (“Jaadu Teri Nazar” from Darr)
Darr
Is this film wholesome?
Norman Bates
The Bollywood stalker
Songs: “Darwaza Band Karlo,” “Ang Se Ang Lagana,” “Solah Button Meri Choli,” “Likha Hai Yeh,” “Tu Mere Saamne”
SRK and Juhi Chawla jodi

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#ShahRukhKhan, #Kajol, #DalipTahil, #Raakhee, #RakheeGulzar, #ShilpaShetty, #SiddharthRay, #JohnnyLever, #Abbas-Mustan, #Darr#, YashChopra, #SunnyDeol, #JuhiChawla, #AnupamKher, #TanviAzmi, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema
1 hr 3 min
July 07, 2021Netflix and Dil: The Family Man Season 2, or Be a Maximum Guy
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:
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Netflix and Dil: Who Can Stop The Terrorists? Take Them Out For You? The Family Man Can!

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#TheFamilyMan, #TheFamilyManSeason2. #ManojBajpayee. #Priyamani, #SharibHashmi, #AshleshaThakur, #VedantSinha, #Samantha, #SamanthaAkkineni, #RavindraVijay, #SharadKelkar, #SeemaBiswas, #Devadarshini, #AbhayVerma, #AmazonPrimeVideo, #HindiTV, #SpyThriller
46 min
June 23, 2021116: 2021 Midyear Review
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:
If you are able to lend your support to the COVID-19 pandemic situation in India, here is a list of verified organizations to donate to: https://donate.indiacovidresources.in/
Tribhanga
The Girl on the Train
Bombay Rose
Roohi
Time to Dance
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
Saina

(INTERVAL (“Faraar” from Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar)
Pagglait
Koi Jaane Na
The Big Bull
Hello Charlie
Radhe
Skater Girl
Sherni

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#Tribhanga,#TheGirlontheTrain, #BombayRose, #Roohi, #TimetoDance, #SandeepAurPinkyFaraar, #Saina, #Pagglait, #KoiJaaneNa, #TheBigBull, #HelloCharlie, #Radhe, #SkaterGirl, #Sherni, #Bollywood2021, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema
2 hr 21 min

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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! Part of the Alberta Podcast Network.