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158: Bachchan '92, '98-'99 Oct 02, 2024

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We continue the tricky journey of following Amitabh Bachchan's career through its most treacherous stretch: the '90s.
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Thank you DT24x
Time for a Tezaab rewatch?
The Big B recap
Amitabh Bachchan Corporation
Begun, the Dadscension has
Khuda Gawah
Buzkashi, the national sport of Afghanistan
Why did Badshah Khan actually go to jail?
Amitabh Bachchan's School for Gifted Youngsters

(INTERVAL "Sona Sona" from Major Saab)

Major Saab
Rushed ending
Medical beards
Matt considers joining the Indian Army after a decade of propaganda
Sooryavansham
A passing of the torch ... to himself
Justice for Karishma
The Good Animal?
The danger in looking at a career from outside
Mohabbatein was discussed in episode 32, "Travelling in the Love Lane: The Films of Aditya Chopra"
Check out Bollywood Drafts!

NEXT TIME: Hindi Horror Halloween X
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#AmitabhBachchan, #KhudaGawah, #MajorSaab, #Sooryavansham, #AjayDevgn, #AnupamKher, #Sridevi

Supplemental Episode 21: A Tale of Two Events Sep 18, 2024

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Alongside Nim (@MapleBrownie), we discussed the opening night event of the tenth annual India Film Festival of Alberta, as well as a workshop put on by film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.
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NEXT TIME: Nineties Bachchan, we swear
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#IndiaFilmFestivalofAlberta, #Ghoomer, #ShabanaAzmi, #SaiyamiKher, #VikrantMassey, #R.Balki, #ShivendraSinghDungarpur, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Netflix and Dil: Angry Young Men, Angrier Young Viewers Aug 28, 2024

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We checked out the latest talking heads documentary about Bollywood cinema, Namrata Rao's Angry Young Men. Did we learn anything?
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NEXT TIME: Nineties Bachchan
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#AngryYoungMen, #SalimJaved, #SalimKhan, #JavedAkhtar, #AmazonPrimeVideo, #AmazonPrimeVideoIndia, #NamrataRao, #SalmanKhan, #FarhanAkhtar, #ZoyaAkhtar

157: 2024 Midyear Review Jul 16, 2024

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It's midyear review time! We check in on the first six months of the year and all of the Bollywood (and Bollywood-adjacent) movies that made it in front of our eyeballs.
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INTERVAL ("Ghagra" from Crew)

NEXT TIME: it's a surprise!
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#MerryChristmas, #Fighter, #Article370, #LaapataaLadies, #MurderMubarak, #Crew, #MonkeyMan, #AmarSinghChamkila, #LoveSexAurDhokha2, #LSD2, #Kalki2898AD, #SharmajeeKiBeti, #Kill, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood, #Bollywood2024

156: Preity Woman: Kal Ho Naa Ho and Salaam Namaste Jun 27, 2024

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We travel back to the mid-2000s with one of Bollywood's most fearless actresses, Preity Zinta.
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The Stanley Cup finals are on (we lost)
Bollywood Drafts
Preity Zinta (has not made an impression on Matt)
We would really like to see Sangharsh
Heaven on Earth (and its gorgeous poster)
Erin's thesis on Preity Zinta

INTERVAL ("It's Time to Disco" from Kal Ho Naa Ho)

Kal Ho Naa Ho
Toronto plays New York
The film's approach to homosexual jokes
Anandcomparisons
Erin hates "movie diseases"
Mid-2000s fashion
Salaam Namaste
Siddharth Anand really pivots
Jaaved Jaffrey's Crocodile Dundee
Baby drop rate
NO, FART ZONE
Too much pro-life propaganda

NEXT TIME: TBD
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#PreityZinta, #KalHoNaaHo, #NikhilAdvani, #KaranJohar, #ShahRukhKhan, #SaifAliKhan, #JayaBachchan, #SushmaSeth, #SanjayKapoor, #SalaamNamaste, #ArshadWarsi, #JaavedJaffery, #AbhishekBachchan, #SiddharthAnand, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Netflix and Dil: Lahore Girl, Give Us Nothing!, or Heeramandi May 28, 2024

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We travel back to the opulence of 1940s Lahore with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's lush Netflix period drama Heeramandi.
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Next time: Preity Zinta
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#Heeramandi, #SanjayLeelaBhansali, #ManishaKoirala, #SonakshiSinha, #AditiRaoHydari, #RichaChadha, #SharminSegal, #SanjeedaSheikh, #TahaShahBadusha, #Netflix, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

155: Sad Songs Say So Much: Qala and Amar Singh Chamkila May 09, 2024

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We are belting our hearts out with two Netflix features on the turbulent lives of popular singers.
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Straight-to-streaming films are legit now
Qala
Comparison to Amadeus
Halloween VI: Hell Hath No Fury, Stree and Bulbbul with Matthew Stepanic
Elvis and Norah Jones
Style over substance

INTERVAL ("Baaja" from Amar Singh Chamkila)

Dil-Luminati Tour
Wee Book Inn
Amar Singh Chamkila
Amar Singh Chamkila
Comparisons to western hip hop
The Mr. Holland's Opus problem
Jodi
The use of archival images

NEXT TIME: Heeramandi

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#Qala, #AnvitaDutt, #TriptiDimri, #SwastikaMukherjee, #BabilKhan, #AmitSial, #SameerKochar, #AbhishekBanerjee, #AmarSinghChamkila, #ImtiazAli, #DiljitDosanjh, #ParineetiChopra, #NishaBano, #RahulMittra, #Netflix, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood

154: Murder Most Fun: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! and Murder Mubarak Apr 18, 2024

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We are polishing our magnifying glasses and donning our deerstalkers, because once again, murder is afoot!
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We just love murder mysteries!
Our Noirvember playlist
To Those Who Killed Me and Call of the Void, the mystery books Matt has edited
You can't have too few or too many characters in a murder mystery
Detective Bymokesh Bakshy!
"When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood"
Byomkesh Bakshi
Comparisons to other famous fictional detectives
Kosuke Kindaichi
1940s setting
The music and the violence go too hard

INTERVAL ("Calcutta Kiss" from Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!)

Murder Mubarak
Is Sanjay Kapoor one of our guys?
"In a movie about rich people you can't kill the help"
Karisma Kapoor's first film in 12 years
Fantasy casting The Thin Man

NEXT TIME: Singer Movies
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153: Madhuri Madness 2024: Aarzoo and Pukar Mar 30, 2024

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To wrap up Madhuri Madness 2024 we're joined by our good friend Rashmeet to discuss two action films in which our beloved heroine finds herself at the centre of a deadly love triangle.
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Welcome Rashmeet!
Madhuri Madness
Madhuban Performing Arts and Urja Yeg
Aarzoo
Gaslight, Girlboss, Gatekeep
Obsession gazebo
Darkman
"Dosti Karte Nahin" and "Mil Jaate Hain"
St. Andrews

INTERVAL ("Kay Sera Sera" from Pukar)

"Que Sera Sera"
Pukar
"Hai Jaana Hai Jaana"
Are we Rajkumar Santoshi fans?
Torturing Anil Kapoor
Madhuri Dixit's emotional range and appeal

NEXT TIME: Detective movies
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#MadhuriDixit, #Aarzoo, #LawrenceD'Souza, #AkshayKumar, #SaifAliKhan, #PareshRawal, #AmrishPuri, #Pukar, #RajkumarSantoshi, #AnilKapoor, #ManrataShirodkar, #OmPuri, #Danny Denzongpa, #PrabhuDeva, #LataMangeshkar, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

152: Madhuri Madness 2024: Mrityudand and Lajja Mar 07, 2024

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To celebrate International Women's Day, we are kicking off Madhuri Madness 2024 with two feminist consciousness raising ensemble dramas.
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Happy International Women’s Day
Madhuri Madness
Every film industry is patriarchal (except Paradise Island)
Hollywood vs Bollywood women’s pictures
Mrityudand
Shabana Azmi and Om Puri
Prakash Jha’s political filmmaking

INTERVAL ("Badi Mushkil" from Lajja)

Lajja
A real multi-starrer
Manisha Koirala learns about feminism
Tonally inconsistent
Ajay Devgn's whip sword

NEXT TIME: MD & SRK
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#MadhuriDixit, #Mrityudand, #PrakashJha, #ShabanaAzmi, #OmPuri, #ShilpaShirodkar, #MohanJoshi, #MohanAgashe, #HarishPatel, #Lajja, #RajkumarSantoshi, #ManishaKoirala, #Rekha, #MahimaChaudhary, #JackieShroff, #AnilKapoor, #AjayDevgn, #JohnnyLever, #InternationalWomen'sDay, #Bollywood, #Feminism, #FeminisminFilm, #HindiCinema

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