Well, we made it through 2020, and all we have to show for it are 17 short movie reviews! Enjoy!





Show Notes:






Thank you Rajat Dikshit!
Get in touch to claim those BiFL points!
Bulbbul
Dil Bechara
Shakuntala Devi
Lootcase
Raat Akeli Hai
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
Class of ‘83




(INTERVAL (“Dil Bechara” from Dil Bechara)






Cargo
Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare
Khaali Peeli
Serious Men
Ludo
Chhalaang
Sir
Surag Pe Mangal Bhari
AK vs AK
Coolie No. 1




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110: 2020 Year End Review

Join hosts Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser for a bi-weekly podcast that explores the wonderful world of Hindi Cinema through the lens of two Canadian cinephiles! Part of the Alberta Podcast Network.

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In our annual Noirvember episode, we discuss two moody murder mysteries from 1958. 



Show notes:






Our Noirvember playlist

As we always point out, film noir is not a genre

"The Rebirth of India's Forgotten Cinema in the Age of the Internet"

Tommydan55 and Tommydan333

Howrah Bridge

Kolkata as a mystery city
Racist sterotypes 
Songs




(INTERVAL “Mera Naam Chin Chin Chuu" from Howrah Bridge)






12 O'Clock
Johnny Walker
Matt was thinking of Shaan

Are fortune tellers admissible in court?
"Filmfare recommends: Best Bollywood noir films of the '50s"
Songs




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#Noirvember, #HowrahBridge, #ShaktiSamanta, #AshokKumar, #Madhubala, #K.N.Singh, #MadanPuri, #OmPrakash, #Dhumal, #Helen, #12O'Clock, #PramodChakravorty, #GuruDutt, #WaheedaRehman, #Shashikala, #Rehman, #JohnnyWalker, #FilmNoir, #HindiNoir, #BollywoodNoir, #1950sBollywood

124: Noir '58: Howrah Bridge and 12 O'Clock


Sooryavanshi has finally unloaded itself into theatres and our good friend and cinephile Devin Bruce has dropped by to discuss Rohit Shetty’s ethically questionable Cop Universe.





Show notes:





Heads up, one of these films deals with sexual violence.





• Devin's in the three-timers club 

• Singham is the most important being that has ever existed 

• Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe (we haven't seen Sooryavanshi yet) 

• Singham 

• When Indian action movies get memeified 

• Buford T. Justice is actually in Smokey and the Bandit, I apologize to everyone this offended. Walking Tall is about Sheriff Buford Pusser

 • Backpfeifengesicht, a "face that should be slapped" 

• Pervasive police corruption and brutality in Hindi film 

• Singham Returns





(INTERVAL "Singham" from Singham)





• Singham's relationship with '80s American action flicks 

• "Copaganda" 

• Matt's "Bad Cop, Bad Cop" list on letterboxd 

• Singham vs. Dabangg, which is more fascist? 

• "Ranveer Ching Returns" 

• Simmba 

• "Aankh Marey" 

• The real-life case that inspired Simmba and Delhi Crime (cw, sexual assault) 

• Adam Curtis: "There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed"





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#Singham, #simmba, #ajaydevgn, #kajalaggarwal, #prakashraj, #singhamreturns, #kareenakapoor, #anupamkher, #pankajtripathi, #amolegupte, #ranveersingh, #sonusood, #saraalikhan, #bollywood, #hindicinema

123: Crisis on Infinite Singhams: Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe with Devin Bruce

The witching hour is almost here, and we're done with our annual Hindi Horror Halloween! Inspired by Kier-La Janisse's Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, we explore the folk horror subgenre and how we see it being realized in Hindi-langauge filmmaking including in Rahi Anil Barve's Tumbbad.





Show Notes:






Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror box set

Matt's interview with Kier-La Janisse (and his interview with Caelum Vatnsdal)
Spectacular Optical
"Where to begin with folk horror" by Adam Scovell
Unholy Trinity: Witchfinder General, Blood on Satan’s Claw, and The Wicker Man

Matt's article on Jeremy Shaw
Popular folk horror films
Why is folk horror so popular? 
Our list of Hindi-language folk horror
Supplemental Episode 11: Brian Collins’ Bollywood Horrors




(INTERVAL “Tumbbad Title Track" from Tumbbad)






Tumbbad

Cosmic Horror and The King in Yellow (Yellow King Theory)
Spoiler zone: 1:01:11 to 1:06:09
The curse of competency 




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#FolkHorror, #WoodlandsDarkandDaysBewitched, #Horror, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Tumbbad, #RahiAnilBarve, #SohumShah, #AnitaDate-Kelkar, #RonjiniChakraborty

122: Halloween VII, Part 2 The Quickening: Folk Horror and Tumbbad

It’s our seventh annual Hindi Horror Halloween! This year we watch a pair of films about non-believers confronting the supernatural and using supersitition to their advantage. 





Show Notes:






We are doing two Hindi Horror Halloween episodes this year
In Canada Hotstar is still a seperate streaming service
Our first Hindi Horror Halloween where we discuss Go Goa Gone
Obligatory “it was hard to find the films we wanted to watch” discussion
Why are they putting brocoli on pizza?

Pizza (2014)

Pizza (2012)
Spoiler zone: 15:26 - 21:30
Ghosts love Delhi Belly

No thematic development
What Erin really pays attention to while watching a movie




(INTERVAL “Aayi Aayi Bhoot Police” from Bhoot Police)






Bhoot Police
Spitting up ectoplasm and Extra Ordinary.

How old should you be to watch Evil Dead?
How Arjun Kapoor got his flavour back
Fraternal and sororal bonds




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121: Halloween VII: Das Bhoots, Pizza and Bhoot Police

We take a big leap in our Amitabh Bachchan series and jump over the late 80s into the early 90s with two explosive crime movies.





Show Notes:






What happened to Bachchan between 1985 and 1989?

Erin does not understand the Indian Parliament 
Agneepath
First instance of a poem in and as
2012 remake
Bachchan’s voice
Trash, Art, And The Movies on Scarfaces
Split Screen Podcast: The Hollywood Remake Of 'Parinda'
Shakti Kapoor saves the day
Mory Kanté




(INTERVAL “Jumma Chumma De De” from Hum)






Hum
Songs: “Sanam Mere Sanam” and “Kagaj Kalam”
Govinda’s sexy period
Rajnikanth seems happy to be there
Which actress should we dedicate a series to?




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110: 2020 Year End Review

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