Bollywood is For Lovers

Put on your dancing shoes Lovers, we’re going to party the night away! Come back to 1982 with us as we revel in the heyday of Bollywood’s disco days. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja” from Disco Dancer)

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As promised, we catch up with the work of one of Hindi cinema’s most interesting and inventive auteurs, Dibakar Banerjee. 

Show Notes:

Khosla Ka Ghosla and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!

Catch Me If You Can and Lupin III

(INTERVAL (“Bharat Mata Ki Jai” from Shanghai)

DPS MMS scandal and Tehelka Sting operations

Z and Vassilis Vassilikos (and Mikis Theodorakis)

NEXT TIME: Disco!

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#DibakarBanerjee, #OyeLucky!LuckyOye!, #LoveSexAurDhokha, #Shanghai, #AbhayDeol, #PareshRawal, #NeetuChandra, #ArchanaPuranSingh, #RichaChada, #ManjotSingh, #AnshumanJha, #NushratBharucha, #RajkummarRao, #NehaChauhan, #AryaBanerjee, #HerryTangri, #AmitSial, #AtulMongia, #EmraanHashmi, #ProsenjitChatterjee, #KalkiKoechlin, #SupriyaPathak, #FarooqSheikh, #TillotamaShome, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

In honour of Parasite sweeping the Academy Awards, we discuss three Hindi remakes of South Korean thrillers. 

Show Notes:

Oldboy and Zinda

(INTERVAL (“Aaj Raat Ka Scene” from Jazbaa)

NEXT TIME: Dibakar Banerjee

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#Parasite, #HallyuWave, #KoreanWave, #KoreanCinema, #Oldboy, #Zinda, #EkVillain, #MohitSuri, #RiteishDeshmukh, #SiddharthMalhotra, #ShraddhaKapoor, #Jazbaa, #SanjayGupta, #AishwaryaRai, #IrrfanKhan, #ShabanaAzmi, #JackieShroff, #AtulKulkarni, #Te3n, #RibhuDasgupta, #SujoyGhosh, #AmitabhBachchan, #NawazuddinSiddiqui, #VidyaBalan, #SabyasachiChakraborty, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

We return to our long abandoned series on Amitabh Bachchan series and discuss two of his earliest films, before he made it big. 

Show Notes:

Bhuvan Shome and Bombay Talkie

(INTERVAL (“O Maheki Maheki Thandi Hawa” from Bombay to Goa)

Patch Adams and Awakenings

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#AmitabhBachchan, #ArunaIrani, #Mehmood, #S.Ramanathan, #ShatrughanSinha, #AnwarAli, #Anand, #HrishikeshMukherjee, #RajeshKhanna, #SumitaSanyal, #RameshDeo, #JohnnyWalker, #FilmfareAwards, #GullyBoy, #Bollywood

Three movies, four directors, twelve stories. We dive into three anthology films that each explore a different theme: cinema, sex, and horror. 

Show Notes:

Shorts and anthology films

Trevor Anderson and Matthew Rankin

(INTERVAL (“Bachchan” from Bombay Talkies)

NEXT TIME: Amitabh Bachchan ‘71 & ‘72

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#BombayTalkies, #KaranJohar, #ZoyaAkhtar, #DibakarBanerjee, #AnuragKashyap, #RaniMukerji, #RandeepHooda, #SaqibSaleem, #VineetKumarSingh, #NawazuddinSiddiqui, #KatrinaKaif, #AmitabhBachchan, #LustStories, #RadhikaApte, #BhumiPednekar, #KiaraAdvani, #ManishaKoirala, #VickyKaushal, #NeilBhoopalam, #NehaDhupia, #SanjayKapoor, #AkashThosar, #GhostStories, #SobhitaDhulipala, #MrunalThakur, #AvinashTiwary, #JanhviKapoor, #SurekhaSikri, #RaghuvirYadav, #GulshanDevaiah

Buckle up, it’s going to be a long one as we discuss the most notable Bollywood films of the back half of 2019, from July to December.

Show Notes:

Article 15, again, Photograph, Super 30, Judgementall Hai Kya, Khandaani Shafakhana, Jabariya Jodi, Batla House, Mission Mangal, Chhichhore, Dream Girl, Section 375, The Zoya Factor, Prassthanam, War

(INTERVAL (“Ghungroo” from War)

The Sky Is Pink, Laal Kaptaan, Saand Ki Aankh, Made In China. Drive, Commando 3, Panipat, (Marjaavaan), Pati Patni Aur Woh, Mardaani 2, The Body, Dabangg 3, Good Newwz

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#GoodNewwz, #Dabangg3,  #TheBody, #Mardaani2, #PatiPatniAurWoh, #Marjaavaan, #Panipat, #Commando3, #Drive, #MadeInChina, #SaandKiAankh, #LaalKaptaan, #TheSkyIsPink, #War, #Prassthanam, #TheZoyaFactor, #Section375, #DreamGirl, #Chhichhore, #MissionMangal, #BatlaHouse, #JabariyaJodi, #KhandaaniShafakhana, #JudgementallHaiKya, #Super30, #Photograph, #Article15, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Chulbul Pandey is back, and this time he’s out for revenge...like he always is. With Dabangg 3 now playing in theatres, we discuss all three films in Salman Khan’s problematic action-comedy series. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Fevicol Se” from Dabangg 2)

NEXT TIME: Our 2019 year end review

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#Dabangg, #Dabangg2, #Dabangg3, #SalmanKhan, #SonakshiSinha, #ArbaazKhan, #VinodKhanna, #DimpleKapadia, #SonuSood, #OmPuri, #AnupamKher, #MahiGill, #MalaikaArora, #PrakashRaj, #PankajTripathi, #SaieeManjrekar, #PramodKhanna, #Sudeep, #KareenaKapoor, #PrabhuDeva, #AbhinavKashyap, #Bollywood

Fire up the PS4, in this episode we’re joined by game developer Ben Gelinas to discuss a pair of films about video games intruding on the real world. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Chammak Challo” from Ra.One)

Game Over (CW: violence against women, sexual assault)

NEXT TIME: The Dabangg series 

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In an effort to engage more with 20th Century Indian history, we play a board game about the Indian Independence movement and discuss Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s 2006 film Rang De Basanti.

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Rang De Basanti” from Rang De Basanti)

New Kings of the World by Fatima Bhutto

Arranged! and SHASN

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#Gandhi, #GandhiTheDecolonizationofBritishIndia, #COIN, #COINGame, #BoardGame, #WarGame, #RangDeBasanti, #GMTGames, #RakeyshOmprakashMehra, #AamirKhan, #SiddharthNarayan, #KunalKapoor, #SohaAliKhan, #SharmanJoshi, #AlicePatten, #R.Madhavan, #WaheedaRehman, #AnupamKher, #KirronKher, #OmPuri, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

As the days grow shorter, we plunge ourselves into darkness and celebrate our favourite movie watching month, Noirvember, with two moody thrillers. 

Show Notes:

(INTERVAL (“Tiki Riki Tiki Riki” from Woh Kaun Thi?)

NEXT TIME: Gandhi: The Decolonization Of British India and Rang De Basanti

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#Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir, #Madhumati, #BimalRoy, #DilipKumar, #Vyjayanthimala, #Pran, #JohnnyWalker, #LataMangeshkar, #WohKaunThi, #RajKhosla, #Sadhana, #ManojKumar, #K.N.Singh, #Helen, #PremChopra