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The Virat Kohli that we see today leads the Indian cricket team in all formats, breaks year-old records with the bat, and inspires generations of young cricketers in the country. 

But what was he like before he became an under-19 World Cup-winning captain, before he carried Sachin Tendulkar on his shoulders after India’s 2011 World Cup triumph, and before he made his senior international debut? 

Virat Kohli needs no introduction, you’ve seen him everywhere, on billboards, on TV, giving interviews, press conferences but on the occasion of his birthday, in this podcast we bring to you the very first interview that Kohli gave as an 18 year old. 

Along with his Ranji Trophy teammate Puneet Bisht, teen Kohli talks ahead of India’s 2007 World Cup campaign in West Indies, about Sehwag's selection, his opinions on chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar's public announcements as well as endorsements and many other things. 

Chaman Kohli is in need of a bride! A Hindi lecturer by profession who stays with his parents and younger brother in Delhi’s Rajouri Garden, he religiously devotes his weekends to the pursuit of acquiring a wife. The only problem - his receding hairline that exposes him to unimaginable, often quite exaggerated ridicule at the hands of all prospective brides and their families! His students make fun of him, his friends pull his leg and even the pandit ji his parents take him to gives him just a year to get married or he would be doomed to a life of celibacy.

Chaman Kohli (Sunny Singh) understandably is desperate and as a man pushed to a frightening brink, tries every trick in the book to get hitched . Based on the Kannada film Ondu Motteya Kathe, director Abhishek Pathak delves into the subject of premature balding armed with humour - sometimes banal and at other times over the top. Tune in to this podcast for the full review!

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Chaman Kohli is in need of a bride! A Hindi lecturer by profession who stays with his parents and younger brother in Delhi’s Rajouri Garden, he religiously devotes his weekends to the pursuit of acquiring a wife. The only problem - his receding hairline that exposes him to unimaginable, often quite exaggerated ridicule at the hands of all prospective brides and their families! His students make fun of him, his friends pull his leg and even the pandit ji his parents take him to gives him just a year to get married or he would be doomed to a life of celibacy.

Chaman Kohli (Sunny Singh) understandably is desperate and as a man pushed to a frightening brink, tries every trick in the book to get hitched . Based on the Kannada film Ondu Motteya Kathe, director Abhishek Pathak delves into the subject of premature balding armed with humour - sometimes banal and at other times over the top. Tune in to this podcast for the full review!

On 31 October, 1984, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh. In the three days that followed, anti-Sikh riots gripped Delhi and other parts of the nation. Sikhs in Delhi and other parts were targeted and attacked by mobs.

 

Official estimates put the death toll at more than 3,000. 

 

Unofficial estimates place the number much higher. For the ones who survived the riots, life was left in tatters.

 

This is the story of those who were children when the riots broke out, the ones who survived the attacks, but carry the emotional and mental wounds to this day.

 

These are their voices. This is the lost generation of 1984.

 

Reporter & Producer: Tridip Mandal

Video Journalist: Abhay Sharma & Shiv Kumar Maurya

Editor: Kunal Mehra

Host: Vishnu Gopinath

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On 31 October, 1984, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh. In the three days that followed, anti-Sikh riots gripped Delhi and other parts of the nation. Sikhs in Delhi and other parts were targeted and attacked by mobs.

 

Official estimates put the death toll at more than 3,000. 

 

Unofficial estimates place the number much higher. For the ones who survived the riots, life was left in tatters.

 

This is the story of those who were children when the riots broke out, the ones who survived the attacks, but carry the emotional and mental wounds to this day.

 

These are their voices. This is the lost generation of 1984.

 

Reporter & Producer: Tridip Mandal

Video Journalist: Abhay Sharma & Shiv Kumar Maurya

Editor: Kunal Mehra

Host: Vishnu Gopinath

In this special podcast on Begum Akhtar, The Quint’s Fabeha Syed caught up with writer Yatinder Mishra who has compiled his research on classical singer Begum Akhtar in a book called ‘Akhtari’. He also explains that how tawaifs or courtesans played a huge part in teaching mannerisms to children of their elite neighborhood, how the stigma of being a tawaif was washed away when she married an Oxford educated lawyer, and how a compromise in her marriage made her very sick.

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In this special podcast on Begum Akhtar, The Quint’s Fabeha Syed caught up with writer Yatinder Mishra who has compiled his research on classical singer Begum Akhtar in a book called ‘Akhtari’. He also explains that how tawaifs or courtesans played a huge part in teaching mannerisms to children of their elite neighborhood, how the stigma of being a tawaif was washed away when she married an Oxford educated lawyer, and how a compromise in her marriage made her very sick.

The Housefull franchise that birthed in the year 2010 has been consistent with its brand of humour. Frankly if you already subscribe to its brand of childish word play, WhatsApp-forward jokes, casual sexism, objectification of women and random bizarre plot lines, there is little in Housefull 4 that can change your perception. In fact there is precious little that can be achieved by going through this review if you already have “crossed the rubicon” and found refuge in the “brainless masala comedy genre” or whatever it is that we have coined to somehow justify films such as this.

How does one go in for a film with zero expectations and still come out disappointed? Yours truly is having a tough time figuring out! Housefull 4 with the usual suspects , Akshay, Reitesh, Ranjeet, Chunky Panday and some new additions like Kriti Sanon , Kriti Kharbanda, Pooja Hegde, Bobby Deol and Rana Daggubati is here. A reincarnation comedy where in 1419, 3 couples couldn’t live happily ever after due to an evil conspiracy come back 600 years later to right the wrongs of their previous birth.

Host: Stutee Ghosh

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The Housefull franchise that birthed in the year 2010 has been consistent with its brand of humour. Frankly if you already subscribe to its brand of childish word play, WhatsApp-forward jokes, casual sexism, objectification of women and random bizarre plot lines, there is little in Housefull 4 that can change your perception. In fact there is precious little that can be achieved by going through this review if you already have “crossed the rubicon” and found refuge in the “brainless masala comedy genre” or whatever it is that we have coined to somehow justify films such as this.

How does one go in for a film with zero expectations and still come out disappointed? Yours truly is having a tough time figuring out! Housefull 4 with the usual suspects , Akshay, Reitesh, Ranjeet, Chunky Panday and some new additions like Kriti Sanon , Kriti Kharbanda, Pooja Hegde, Bobby Deol and Rana Daggubati is here. A reincarnation comedy where in 1419, 3 couples couldn’t live happily ever after due to an evil conspiracy come back 600 years later to right the wrongs of their previous birth.

Host: Stutee Ghosh

Made in China is a film that till it’s last scene doesn’t know what it wants to be . It starts off as a thriller when a Chinese diplomat on a trip to Gujarat dies mysteriously overdosing on what appears to be a killer aphrodisiac. Then one character speaks about how Indians might want better roads but what they really need is better sex!

Raghu aka Rajkumar Rao is a harmless young man who spends time watching motivational videos by a certain “Chopra” (Gajraj Rao) on TV and trying to navigate the losses from his various entrepreneurial misadventures. When he decides to venture into an Indo-Chinese business of a sex potion that claims to be the cure for all kinds of disappointments in bed one is bound to believe that a sex comedy is what the makers are after!

Listen to the podcast for the rest of the review!

Host: Stutee Ghosh

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