3: S06E3: Deewar (1975) - Sexy, Angry Amitabh Bachchan

Deewaar (lit. The Wall) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action drama film[4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deewaar#cite_note-5) [5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deewaar#cite_note-6) [6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deewaar#cite_note-7) written by Salim-Javed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim-Javed) , directed by Yash Chopra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yash_Chopra) , and starring Shashi Kapoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Kapoor) , Amitabh Bachchan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan) , Nirupa Roy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirupa_Roy) , Neetu Singh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neetu_Singh) and Parveen Babi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parveen_Babi) . Reflecting the tumultuous socio-political climate of 1970s India, Deewaar tells the story of a pair of impoverished brothers who, after their family is betrayed by the misplaced idealism of their father, struggle to survive in the slums of Bombay, and eventually find themselves on opposing sides of the law. (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 how the over-done memes and mimicries of these iconic scenes are actually SO powerful

We talk about Amitabh's swag (obviously;))

We talk about how secular India used to be (in movies and otherwise)

Quotables:

He deserves all of these accolades - Tanvi

I think the villains were very well dressed - Tanvi

There are these little scenes that stand out - Flo

At least, let both of them go to school - Flo