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The Sixth Annual BiFL Awards! Feb 03, 2022

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Matt and Erin hand out the sixth annual BiFL Awards for 2021 achievements in Hindi Cinema.
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Karan Johar Memorial Award for Best Costume Design
Sanju Award for Excellence in Hair Design
Parineeti Chopra Award for Innovation in Makeup Design
Humshackles Award for Most Appearances by an Actor in a Film
Johnny Lever Award for Least amount of Effort Used in Constructing a Character
Hero’s Girlfriend Award for Biggest Waste of an Actress’ Talent
Chulbul Pandey Lifetime Achievement Award in Dirty Cop-ness
Race 2 Award for Accomplishments in Narrative Design
Ayushmann Khurrana Award for Film Most Likely to Cure a Societal Taboo
Most Unnecessary Sequel Award
Talaash Award for Most Obvious Twist

Next time: Manish Mathur returns to celebrate Valentine’s Day!
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#Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood2021, #83, #BellBottom, #Chehre, #Shershah, #SandeepAurPinkyFaraar, #TheGirlontheTrain, #Saina, #SatyamevaJayate2, #HelloCharlie, #Sanak, #TimetoDance, #HumDoHamareDo, #Sooryavanshi, #MeenakshiSundareshwar, #Radhe, #BhootPolice, #HaseenDillruba, #KoiJaaneNa, #ChandigarhKareAashiqui, #AtrangiRe, #SkaterGirl, #Helmet, #NailPolish, #BuntyaurBabli2, #BobBiswas

126: 2021 Year End Review Jan 26, 2022

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Happy New Year Lovers! As always, we've spent the first weeks of the new year catching up with films from the previous year, and we're here to tell you about it.
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(INTERVAL (“Param Sundari” from Mimi)

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125: Rebel Yell: Mangal Pandey, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, and Sardar Udham Dec 16, 2021

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We bone up on our Indian history with three biopics about revolutionaries during the Indian independence movement.
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The Indian independence movement lasted from 1857 to 1947, but keep in mind we are not experts in Indian history when listening to this episode...
Episode 88: Playing With The Past: Gandhi and Rang De Basanti with Torrey Dance
What we learned about India in history class (basically nothing)
Cycles of revolution: the 1857 Sepoy Uprising inspires HRSA in the 20s and 30s, inspires the assassination of O’Dwyer in 1940
Mangal Pandey: The Rising
The “cartridge controversy”, as explained inFlashman in the Great Game (George Macdonald Fraser, 1975)
BSD performances
“Good” English-language villain actors
The Legend of Bhagat Singh
Non-cooperation movement
Is Ajay Devgn too old to play Bhagat Singh?

(INTERVAL “Rasiya” from Mangal Pandey)

Sardar Udham
Vicky Kaushal is having an amazing year
Shoojit Sircar’s directorial range
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Koozhangal (Pebbles) and India’s submission to the Oscars

Next time: 2021 year-end wrap-up
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#MangalPandey, #AamirKhan, #KetanMehta, #RaniMukerji, #AmeeshaPatel, #TobyStephens, #KirronKher, #OmPuri, #TheLegendofBhagatSingh, #BhagatSingh, #AjayDevgn, #RajkumarSantoshi, #SushantSingh, #SardarUdham, #VickyKaushal, #ShoojitSircar, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

124: Noir '58: Howrah Bridge and 12 O'Clock Nov 24, 2021

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

NEXT TIME: Freedom fighter biopics
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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

123: Crisis on Infinite Singhams: Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe with Devin Bruce Nov 12, 2021

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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.
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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"
NEXT TIME: Noirvember
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#Singham, #simmba, #ajaydevgn, #kajalaggarwal, #prakashraj, #singhamreturns, #kareenakapoor, #anupamkher, #pankajtripathi, #amolegupte, #ranveersingh, #sonusood, #saraalikhan, #bollywood, #hindicinema

122: Halloween VII, Part 2 The Quickening: Folk Horror and Tumbbad Oct 28, 2021

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The witching hour is almost here, and we're not 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.
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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

121: Halloween VII: Das Bhoots, Pizza and Bhoot Police Oct 14, 2021

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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.
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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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#BhootPolice, #SaifAliKhan, #ArjunKapoor, #YamiGautam, #JacquelineFernandez, #JavedJaffrey, #PavanKirpalani, #Pizza, #AkshayAkkineni, #AkshayOberoi, #ParvathyOmanakuttan, #ArunodaySingh, #DipannitaSharma, #Horror, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood, #BollywoodHorror

120: Bachchan ‘90 & ‘91 Sep 30, 2021

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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.
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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?

NEXT TIME: (Funny?) Bhoots
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#MukulSAnand, #AmitabhBachchanm #Rajnikanth, #DannyDenzongpa, #KimiKatkar, #Govinda, #DeepaSahi, #ShilpaShirodkar, #AnupamKher, #KaderKhan, #MithunChakraborty, #Madhavi, #Neelam, #RohiniHattangadi, #ShaktiKapoor, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

119: King Con: Abhishek Bachchan in Bunty Aur Babli and Bluffmaster! Sep 15, 2021

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Abhishek Bachchan tries to con his way into our hearts in two crime comedies from 2005.
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We’re back!
Bunty Aur Babli
A good year for Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan
The media claims there are IRL Bunties and Bablies
Kesha first brushed her teeth with a bottle of Jack in 2009
Songs: “Bunty Aur Babli,” “Nach Baliye,” “Chup Chup Ke” and “B n B”

(INTERVAL “Kajra Re” from Bunty Aur Babli )

Bluffmaster!
Riteish, no Deshmukh
We are all just fish waiting to be conned
A long, necessary ramble aboutElectric Circus
Piggy Chops’ rap “Right Here Right Now,”

NEXT TIME: Bachchan '85 - '87
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118: Knockout Kings: Saala Khadoos, Mukkabaaz, and Toofan Aug 06, 2021

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With Toofan now streaming on Amazon Prime, we lace up our gloves and climb in the ring to discuss three films about boxers.
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Matt’s fist fighting past
Boxing movies
Class in boxing movies
It’s Jim Brown in Mars Attacks!
Episode 6 - Priyanka Chopra: Who's the Hottest Girl in the World? where we discuss Mary Kom
Saala Khadoos/Irudhi Suttru
“Why top athletes work for Indian Railways”
“Vaa Machaney”

(INTERVAL (“Toofan” from Toofan)

Mukkabaaz
Power and corruption
“Paintra”
Toofan
Before every podcast, Matt remembers every podcast he has podcasted
Biopic vibes
Episode 24: Sports! where we discuss Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
“Todun Taak” and “Star Hai Tu”

NEXT TIME: we are taking a break, talk to you in September!
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#SaalaKhadoos, #IrudhiSuttru, #Madhavan, #RitikaSingh, #MumtazSorcar, #Nassar, #ZakirHussain, #SudhaKongara, #Mukkabaaz, #AnuragKashyap, #VineetKumarSingh, #ZoyaHussain, #JimmySheirgill, #RaviKishan, #Toofan, #RakeyshOmprakashMehra, #PareshRawal, #MrunalThakur, #DarshanKumar, #SupriyaPathak, #VijayRaaz, #Bollywood, #BoxingFilms, #HindiCinema

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