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After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Season 1, Episode 2
1983. India just won the Cricket World Cup. A country learning not to expect too much — from its institutions, its politicians, or its cricket team — watched a bunch of underdogs change everything. And that same year, a group of broke, brilliant FTII graduates made a film for six lakh rupees that nobody watched, nobody distributed, and...nobody forgot.
Bharath and Neelima rewatch Kundan Shah's brilliant Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron — widely considered the greatest Indian comedy ever made — and ask the hard questions: Is it still funny thirty years later? Is it a comedy or a tragedy? And how did the Indian government accidentally fund the greatest satire ever made about government corruption?
This episode: The FTII generation that changed Indian cinema forever, the career arcs of Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur and Neena Gupta — the Mahabharata climax that has never been matched, the casting what-ifs, the Seeti Maar moments that still make us pause and rewind, and a tribute to three of the people who made this film great and are no longer with us.
Because the best part of any movie isn't the movie — it's always the conversation after.
New episodes every week.
Because the best part of any movie isn't the movie — it's always the conversation after.
New episodes every week.
Interval ke baad, the real conversation starts.
Follow us: @aftertheintervalpod
Email us: [email protected]
Produced by The LuminACE Group, LLC
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After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Season 1, Episode 2
1983. India just won the Cricket World Cup. A country learning not to expect too much — from its institutions, its politicians, or its cricket team — watched a bunch of underdogs change everything. And that same year, a group of broke, brilliant FTII graduates made a film for six lakh rupees that nobody watched, nobody distributed, and...nobody forgot.
Bharath and Neelima rewatch Kundan Shah's brilliant Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron — widely considered the greatest Indian comedy ever made — and ask the hard questions: Is it still funny thirty years later? Is it a comedy or a tragedy? And how did the Indian government accidentally fund the greatest satire ever made about government corruption?
This episode: The FTII generation that changed Indian cinema forever, the career arcs of Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur and Neena Gupta — the Mahabharata climax that has never been matched, the casting what-ifs, the Seeti Maar moments that still make us pause and rewind, and a tribute to three of the people who made this film great and are no longer with us.
Because the best part of any movie isn't the movie — it's always the conversation after.
New episodes every week.
Because the best part of any movie isn't the movie — it's always the conversation after.
New episodes every week.
Interval ke baad, the real conversation starts.
Follow us: @aftertheintervalpod
Email us: [email protected]
Produced by The LuminACE Group, LLC