Hola Amigos
Over your holi shenanigans?
We most certainly are and all set for a month of spring fun!!
We have a lot of fun lined up this April and the top amongst those is watching painful movies on your behalf !!
Kidding. Chill.
This week, we danced our hearts out for Nattu Nattu at theaters for the biggest movie of the year sofa #RRR - Did you watch it? S went with her mom and here is what she felt
M watched Valimai and fell in love with the action sequences and the general look of the flick on @zee5
And then we gush about how Shonda Rhimes is walking into our saas bahu world slowly and surely with the slow burn romance between Anthony Bridgerton and Kathika Sharma in Season 2 of the series that is streaming on Netflix.
Enjoy our pod here and everywhere else you get your POD fix.
See y'all next week
M and S

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Hola Folks
With extended Holi celebs still going on, we bet you are still partying to your hearts content after two years of being home bound.
We had a heavy stack of watching this week and had a lot of fun doing it !
Starting with Eternally Confused and Eager for Love on Netflix, where a man child is trying to figure out how to talk to women with unwanted help from his parents.
Then there was the powerhouse performance packed Jalsa with Vidya Balan and Shefali Shah killing it on screen with performances that kept us hooked. Streams on Prime.
We then review Bachchan Pandey, which was a big Nadaidwala stereotype. Argh... Do we need to say more. Hear it all.
And then the explosive Bloody Brothers, who we fell head over heels in love with. More of this please Zee5.
Hear it on our website or anywhere in the world that you get your POD.
Till next week
We love y'all
M and S

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Hola Peeps,
This week was heavy lifting. Our eyes are burning with the amount of watching we did for y'all.
But you know we would anything for love.
But we won't do that.
hehe
So we started with the twenny episodes of 40 minutes each of Mrs and Mr Shameem on Zee5 which would have been a life sentence had it not been for the chemistry between Saba Qamar and Nauman Ijaz.
We actually quite loved it.
Precaution: Don't OD on it in a single shot.
Then we got our heart wrenched with The Kashmir Files, the story of the genocide of the hindu minorities of the Kashmir valley. Listen to M say it the way it was. Playing in the Theaters.
We watched Prabhas and his work of art Radhe Shyam in theaters. Woah to the imagery and the camera work even when the woman's skirt doesn't fly when she is hanging out of a running train but if they can defy the science of palmistry they can defy the laws of physics.,
Who are we to complain as long as every strand of hair is where it belongs.
LOL
Then we watched the lovable quirky indomitable Mei Mei in Turning Red, the best one from Pixar sofa.
We loooooved it and Disney for making our day with the  beautiful POC squad what never says no to fun ( and red pandas)
Thats it this week from us folks
Love y'all
Next week then
Mand S ( sounds way better than the other way around)

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We had a lot to review this week. We started with the Zee5 series Sutliyan, which is the story of Supriya struggles to manage her responsibilities after her husband dies in the pandemic. She gets help from her kind neighbors—a grocery store owner, Trilok aka Loki (Suneel Sinha) and his daughter Dipanita (Niharika Lyra Dutt). But she holds a grudge with her children as they did were not able to come to attend their father's last rites. As Supriya is striking out on her own with her by launching Sutliyan, a handmade macrame business, she feels the trepidation of doing things on her own after spending her entire life dependent on her husband.
We loved this heartwarming story.
We also watched Amitabh Bachchan's Jhund which is playing in theaters. This powerful, energetic, and solid three-hour film is raw, real and extremely human. We have watched an anthology movie (Geeli Pucchi from Netflix’s anthology Ajeeb Dastaans) from Nagraj Manjule before and the lens of his direction is indeed very palpable.

The story is linear, heart breaking and gives the audience a never before angle into the divide between the privileged and the underprivileged.

This is not just a story of hope, it is the story of humanity. An absolute must watch

On Hulu streams Rudra- the edge of Darkness - the Indian version of the Emmy Award nominated psychological crime thriller television series Luther, which featured Idris Alba as Luther in its original version.

Ajay Devgn plays the brooding Luther – called Rudra in the Indian adaptation and Raashii Khanna plays Aliyah ( Ruth Wilson as Alice Morgan in the OG) the murderer who is a brilliant,child prodigy, who has a complicated relationship with Rudra.
We loved the execution. Check it out for sure
And then finally, it was time for Undekhi Season 2 on SonyLIV.
The second season picks up where the first left off, with DSP Ghosh (Dibyendu Bhattacharya) and Teji (Anchal Singh) struggling to save Koyal (Apeksha Porwal) from Rinku’s (Surya Sharma) clutches. Who will win this game of power, greed, and vengeance when everyone has selfish motives?
To know that download this pod and listen to our fun reviews of all these titles.
See y'all next week
Love
Team Desis

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We review two super eclectic flicks this week along with a series that got our hearts pumping big time cuz it was Madhuri time and Gawd knows no one can escape the charms of that woman.
Shriya missed watching this in theaters but do your CDC stuff and go watch this one popping corn for sure because the grandiosity of the movie is best devoured watching it on the big screen. The Aliaa effect in full display and we fell for it - hook, line and sinker.
M and S then review The Fame Game,.Ms Dixit, the ultimate  heartthrob of billions makes her Netflix debut in this series . Her, Manav Kaul and the slow burn just got us where they wanted us- but hear us out here to know what really let us down in this KJO baby.
And then the gritty bloody in the face movie  Love Hostel that streams on Zee5. Woah what a ride watching those 87 minutes were. Caught M&S where they wanted them. They watched with their hearts in their mouths as Bobby Deol chased lovers on the run to honor kill for cash.

Woah - that was our week of watching stuff to give you a low down on what to spend your time on.
We will catch you next week with more fun on the go.
Love,
TheDesis

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Hey Peeps,
We reviewed two series and a movie this week and here it is for your pod.
Scott and Miraal were doing without Shriya this week, she was out with a flu.

But the fun was ofcourse Scott making his own mind about what Mithya meant - he needed gyan of a special kind to get through with that psycho thriller that streams on Zee5.

Then Miraal and Scott were a bit triggered by the new movie on Hulu's Hotstar hub - A Thursday which by the way did not have a Trigger warning for depiction of violence against toddlers.
Very upsetting because it strummed up memories of Sandy Hook for a lot of us Americans.
Gun violence is not an alternative whatever your personal issues are.

They also reviewed the Mithun Chakraborty, Shruti Hassan starrer on Amazon Prime called BestSeller where Scott fell asleep waiting for the hook to happen. Quite an interesting story after the hook though. Was fun keeping up with it over its last few episodes, says Miraal,
Thats it from us this week. 
Enjoy this pod anywhere you get your fix and we will see you next time and Tilbe sure to let us know what you thought.
Love from us
Tadah then

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While on a weekend getaway in Alibaug, Alisha, a yoga instructor who who is building a yoga app, connects intimately with Zain, a real estate tycoon.

There is a complication though, Zain is Alisha's cousin Tia's fiancé. #Gehraiyaan is a rivetting story of human emotions and it plays on #AmazonPrime. Watch it for the performances and the finesse of storytelling.
We all gave it a Thumbs Up.
#DeathOnTheNile released in theaters last week and we watched it !!!!
This classic #AgathaCristie whodunnit has probably half of the population of Beverly Hills starring in it so we were just overwhelmed watching them turn up. stand there, spin a dialogue once in a while (everyone needed a chance) and then become sus in a murder plot cuz guess what? If Poirot is around, a murder was bound to happen.
What we came back home with was this ONE SCENE of @gal_gadot 's entry .
Gal Gadot looked like the real Golden Age of Hollywood glamour in the setup, and seeing it in 70mm heightened all that.
Enough Champagne to fill up the Nile?
YUP.
Fts: #ArnieHammer , #EmmaMackay, #AnnetteBening, #RussellBrand, #AliFazal, #DawnFrench, #RoseLeslie, #SophieOkonedo, #JenniferSaunders #kennethbranagh
You know what we say about We watch so you dont have to- right?

Then we reviewed a movie that deserves to be top of the charts everywhere but isnt.
#BadhaiDo deserves accolades for the sensitive storytelling . brilliant performances and having the soul to tell it. Featuring #BhumiPednekar and #RajKummarRao as  Sumi and Shardul who lead dual and socially-suppressed lives as closeted people. When they settle for a marriage of convenience to please their extremely nosey  families, they presume cover for their personal lives. And what happens after that is the story of this movie.
WE LOVED IT - so if you have to - watch this for sure!!!
That's it from us this week- keep tuned in for more next weeek
Love 
Team Desis.

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This week we review a movie and two shows( two looooong shows).
Starting with Looop Lapeta on #Netflix, the Hindi remake of the German Run Lola Run which is a psychedelic crazy  plot of Savi runs across Goa to help her boyfriend Satya. Hear our views.
We reviewed another amazing series from Sony, Rocket Boys , retracing Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai's accomplishments. The series will dwell deeper into their personalities and lives to understand their greatness and relevance in today's time. It will show how the two great physicists turned their dreams into reality and made great scientific discoveries.
We absolutely loved it and recommend it highly for everyone.
And then we reviewed the chaotic Hulu / Hotstar series The Great Indian Murder where
Vicky Rai (Jatin Goswami) — a spoilt industrialist with a Casanova lifestyle — is murdered in his own party. His naturally enraged father (Ashutosh Rana) — who happens to be an influential politician — calls for a CBI enquiry.

That brings in two detectives — Suraj Yadav (Pratik Gandhi) and Sudha Bharadwaj (Richa Chadha) — to solve the murder mystery, with six (invited as well as uninvited) guests as main suspects.

The crime drama is based on the 2016 novel called Six Suspects by the retired Indian Foreign Service officer Vikas Swarup, who also authored the book behind the 2008 Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire.
 
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This week we review two standups that weren't.
Why Netflix chose to market them as standups beats us. One was a change your life like I did and American life commentary and the other was a biography of sorts. Both not funny.
Does not mean that they were not good content, they most definitely were -but that they were meant to be funny was lost in translation.

We totally enjoyed arguing our review about DonkeyHead and it was almost impossible to get Scott to agree with Miraal and Shriya decided to take the middle road.
We loved the movie by #AgamDarshi and you should definitely catch it on Netflix too
We love you guys and see you next week 

Team Desis.

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This week Shriya and Miraal review 2 movies and an anthology

#DefinitionPlease is a slice o f life about a former Spelling Bee champion who makes a choice of staying in her hometown to take care of her ill mother so she can stay close to her. Her troubled relationship with her brother needs to be sorted when he visits for their father's death anniversary. Will the siblings reconcile? Story of an Indian American family growing up with the expectations of their immigrant parents and a desire to follow their own dreams. 
Hear our review of this @netflix movie.
We absolutely loved it btw

Then we reviewed this new Anthology on #AmazonPrime, Unpaused: Naya Safar
of five stories about how the pandemic has changed our lives and the reality of our world.

While it thematically maintains the storytelling of the first anthology that was released in December 2020, Unpaused: Naya Safar seems more brazen in its assessment of the toll that the global pandemic and series of lockdowns have taken on us. The stories present a thematic sense of perseverance about exploring how we are racing against time and how helpless we are in the face of this human calamity.
It was a riveting watch

We reviewed Subash Ghai's entry to the web scene #36FarmHouse that streams on @zee5 and  thought it was a very 1970s plot but set in the middle of the pandemic when labor is making their way back home in a lockdown.
Laden with loopholes, the plot of 36 Farm House is like a reincarnation of a 70’s big cinema film for the benefit of the Netflix generation.
Hear our review here.
Till we see you next week
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Love
Team Desis.

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