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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!
Contact us at bollywoodisforlovers@gmail.com
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Madhuri Madness 2024: Mrityudand and Lajja
To celebrate International Women's Day, we are kicking off Madhuri Madness 2024 with two feminist consciousness raising ensemble dramas.
Show notes:
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 -
Supplemental Episode 20: Rainbow Rishta Director Jaydeep Sarkar
We welcome filmmaker Jaydeep Sarkar, series director and executive producer of Rainbow Rishta, a new docuseries available now on Amazon Prime.
Show notes:
Jaydeep Sarkar
Rainbow Rishta
NEXT TIME: Madhuri Madness
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2023 Year End Review
Somehow we made it through 2023, which certainly was a year in Bollywood. Did Tiger 3 hit the jackpot? Did we soldier through Jawan? Find out now!
Show notes:
The 69th Annual Filmfare Awards (nice)
Neeyat (Episode 150)
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Supplemental Episode 17)
Jawan
Jaane Jaan (Episode 149)
Khufiya
INTERVAL ("Dishoom Dishoom" from The Archies)
Thank You for Coming
12th Fail
Tiger 3
Animal
This is the only Bullet Machine we respect in these parts
The Archies
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
NEXT TIME: Surprise Netflix and Dil!
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#Bollywood, #2023Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Neeyat, #RockyAurRaniKiPremKahaani, #Jawan, #JaaneJaan, #Khufiya, #ThankYouforComing, #12thFail, #Animal, #TheArchies, #KhoGayeHumKahan -
Supplemental Episode 19: Two Million Apologies!
It's hard for us to believe, but we've reached two million downloads! To celebrate, we wanted to look back at the evolution of the show and apologize for everything we have gotten wrong over the past eight and a half years.
Show notes:
Thank you to all of our listeners near and far for lending us your ears two million times!
Supplemental Episode 8: 60 Questions (which was to celebrate 100 episodes, not one million listens)
NEXT TIME: 2023 year end wrap up
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Detective Vidya-chu: Bobby Jasoos and Neeyat
We are on the case with Bollywood's leading actress, the incomparable Vidya Balan, will we solve it before she does? Listen to find out!
Show notes:
Vidya Balan
Star power and acting prowess
Bobby Jasoos
Feminist themes
Many spinning plates
INTERVAL ("Sweety" from Bobby Jasoos)
Neeyat
Character actor cast
Anu Menon
Split diopter and split screen
NEXT TIME: 2 million
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#VidyaBalan, #BobbyJasoos, #SamarShaikh, #AliFazal, #ArjanBajwa, #KiranKumar, #RajendraGupta, #SupriyaPathak, #TanviAzmi, #Neeyat, #AnuMenon, #RamKapoor, #RahulBose, #DipannitaSharma, #NeerajKabi, #AmritaPuri, #ShashankArora, #PrajaktaKoli, #ShefaliShah, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #DetectiveMovies -
Sujoy (Ghosh) Division: Kahaani and Jaane Jaan
To celebrate Noirvember this year, we delve into the catalogue of Sujoy Ghosh with the (not exactly noir) thrillers Kahaani and this year's Netflix release Jaane Jaan.
Show notes:
Noirvember and our Noirvember playlist
Sujoy Ghosh
Adventures in the Public Domain: Aladin and Arjun: The Warrior Prince
Kahaani
Kolkata as asphalt jungle
The effectiveness of a pregnant detective
INTERVAL ("Jaane Jaan" from Jaane Jaan)
Jaane Jaan
The Devotion of Suspect X and Keigo Higashino
Comparisons to Drishyam
"Aa Jane Jaan" from Intaquam
The Kalimpong atmosphere
NEXT TIME: Detective Balan
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#Noirvember, #FilmNoir, #NeoNoir, #SujoyGhosh, #Kahaani, #VidyaBalan, #NawazuddinSiddiqui, #SaswataChatterjee, #ParambrataChatterjee, #IndraneilSengupta, #JaaneJaan, #KareenaKapoor, #KareenaKapoorKhan, #JaideepAhlawat, #VijayVarma, #TheDevotionofSuspectX, #SuspectX, #KeigoHigashino, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema