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In our new Artists' Podcast, IIF contributor Shashi Mukherjee speaks to upcoming casting director Yash Nagarkoti (Shakuntala Devi, Chintu Ka Birthday, Durgavati) about his young career and the new-age ecosystem of casting in Indian cinema. 

Writer/podcaster Aditya Khanna discusses the art & business of cutting movie trailers with Maulik Sharma, a freelance filmmaker who also edits films & commercials for a living. 

It's a full house! Five film critics discuss the highly acclaimed series Hotstar's AARYA (0-29:00), before moving on to trade different opinions about Netflix's BULBBUL (29:00-1:09:35). 

Four film critics – Rahul Desai, Uday Bhatia, Poulomi Das and Aditya Shrikrishna – discuss a week at the movies that ended in tragedy. 

Three film critics – Aditya Shrikrishna, Poulomi Das and Rahul Desai – discuss the hell out of "Chintu Ka Birthday," the warmly reviewed anti-war chamber drama now streaming on ZEE5. 

In the latest IIF episode, filmmaker Vaibhav Munjal chats with Pratik Jain, the founder of Paxton Equipments – a Mumbai-based camera equipment rental company – about the rental trade, on-set incidents, and a future that could look very different for the Indian film industry. 

Film critics Rahul Desai and Uday Bhatia are back, this time getting lost in the "Sports Movie" memory lane. In this episode, they steer clear of the illustrious names and instead discuss their favourite comfort-food titles. 

Filmmaker Vaibhav Munjal chats with dubbing and voiceover artist Barkha Swaroop Saxena about the significance of her craft in the Indian film industry. 

Film critics Rahul Desai and Uday Bhatia get melancholic and trade thoughts about the late, great Irrfan Khan.