Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (English: That which moves is called a car) is a 1958 Indian comedy film directed by Satyen Bose. The film featured Kishore Kumar, his two brothers Anoop Kumar and Ashok Kumar, and Madhubala. Brijmohan (Ashok Kumar) despises women and encourages his brothers to consciously stay away from them. However, their lives change when they fall in love. (Source:IMDb) You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.  

Podcast Episode Summary:  

    We talk about the person and an interesting reason behind producing this movie.  

    We talk about independent women portrayal in black and white movies  

    We talk about  the type of humor throught this movie  

Quotables:  

I genuinely never liked Kishore Kumar - Tanvi  

I need to be in a specific head space to be able to watch a black and whit emovie - Flo  

Organic style..It is not manufactured or factory-produced- Flo  

It was slapstick but without being vulgar - Tanvi

1: S4E1: Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) - Top 10 Comedy

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Satya (transl. Truth) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language gangster action crime film, produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma; written by Saurabh Shukla and Anurag Kashyap. It stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpayee, Saurabh Shukla, Aditya Shrivastava and Paresh Rawal in lead roles. (Source: Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube.   You can also listen to this episode right here on the player below. Podcast Episode Summary: - We talk about how Mano Bajpai had to work so hard to break being typecast as Biku Matre - We talk about all the characters and their motive to join the gang 
 - We talk about Urmila and her versatility Quotables:  I would definitely recommend this movie to someone who is not from India, if they like gangster movies - Flo 
 Before Satya, I didn’t have an opinion on gangster movies - Tanvi 
 It’s the names, right…like we hadn’t heard these names before - Tanvi 
 You can easily dissect each and every details in the movie, I don’t even know what to begin with - Flo 
  

S07E10: Satya (1998) - Pandemic Edition - Feel-Good Movies

Love is a 1991 Indian Hindi-language romance film directed by Suresh Krissna, starring Salman Khan and Revathi. It is the remake of the Telugu film Prema (Source: Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on the player below.  Podcast Episode Summary: -We talk about 90s Salman (of course) and Revathy and Salman’s chemistry - We talk about all the scenes which brought so much relatability and down-to-earthness 
 - We talk about all different meet-cutes in this movie 
 Quotables:  Have you see 1991-Love-Salman’s face. It’s perfection - Flo 
 The songs have stayed with me for 30 years now -Tanvi 
 I was only looking at her face, not her clothes, not her shows, but only her face- Tanvi 
 I was a playful love story as well as a serious love story where they were invested in their careers - Flo

S07E9: Love (1991) - Pandemic Edition - Feel-Good Movies

Yes Boss is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Aziz Mirza starring Aditya Pancholi, Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla. (Source: Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on the player below. Podcast Episode Summary: -We discuss how the main characters were not written well and the supporting characters were pretty well written 
 - We talk about how they had to justify a character’s life  ambitions 
 - We talk about Juhi’s clothes and hair, of course! 
 - We talk about Kashmira Shah’s character 
 Quotables:  Juhi’s character was not consistent at all - Flo 
 Unfortunately , I have seen his movies - Tanvi 
 Kashmira Shah’s character was written well - Flo 
 Her clothes are cut and fit her to the T -Tanvi 


S07E8: Yes Boss (1997) - Pandemic Edition - Feel-Good Movies

Judwaa (transl. Twins) is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film, directed by David Dhawan, produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and starring Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor and Rambha with Kader Khan, Dalip Tahil, Shakti Kapoor, Deepak Shirke, Anupam Kher, Satish Shah and Mukesh Rishi in supporting roles. (Source: Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on the player below. 
 Podcast Episode Summary: - The Salman that actually made an effort to act and dance 
 - We discuss the Salman vs Salman scenes 
 - We talk about what David Dhawan could have done better :p Quotables: I realized that I hadn’t watched this movie at all and was pretty excited - Flo 
 
 This is the beginning of Salman that I don’t like -Flo 
 Salma trolling Salman was fun - Tanvi 
 Karishma was the best part about the movie - Tanvi

S07E7: Judwaa (1997) - Pandemic Edition - Feel-Good Movies

Judaai (lit. 'Separation') is a 1997 Indian melodrama comedy film directed by Raj Kanwar. It stars Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Urmila Matondkar. Kader Khan, Farida Jalal, Johnny Lever, Paresh Rawal, Upasana Singh and Saeed Jaffrey feature in supporting roles. (Source: Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.  Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about the middle class portrayal 
 We talk about how real the dialogues were between husband and wife while they argue 
 
 
 We talk about how inspite of the outrageous plot and story, the movie brought in so much realness 
 Quotables: At that time, it felt like a Sridevi movie, but now it feels like it was an equal movie from all perspectives - Tanvi 
 She can be glamorous when she wants to be and she can be this relatable middle class woman when she wants to be - Flo 
 Her laugh was as good as her tears - Tanvi 
 She is as cute as a button - Flo 

1: S4E1: Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) - Top 10 Comedy

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