194 episodios

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

Bollywood is For Lovers Bollywood is For Lovers

    • Cine y TV

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

    Madhuri Madness 2024: Mrityudand and Lajja

    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

    • 1h 2 min
    Supplemental Episode 20: Rainbow Rishta Director Jaydeep Sarkar

    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 

    Find us on Apple Podcasts! and Stitcher! and audioBoom! and iHeartRadio! and Spotify! and Google Podcasts! and Saavn! and Hubhopper! 

    Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork! 

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    #Bollywood, #JaydeepSarkar, #HindiCinema, #HindiTV, #IndianTV, #Docuseries, #Documentary, #AmazonPrime, #LGBTQ+, #LGBTQ+India

    • 36 min
    2023 Year End Review

    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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    Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork!

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    #Bollywood, #2023Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Neeyat, #RockyAurRaniKiPremKahaani, #Jawan, #JaaneJaan, #Khufiya, #ThankYouforComing, #12thFail, #Animal, #TheArchies, #KhoGayeHumKahan

    • 1h 56 min
    Supplemental Episode 19: Two Million Apologies!

    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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    • 44 min
    Detective Vidya-chu: Bobby Jasoos and Neeyat

    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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    Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork!

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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

    • 53 min
    Sujoy (Ghosh) Division: Kahaani and Jaane Jaan

    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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    Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork!

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    #Noirvember, #FilmNoir, #NeoNoir, #SujoyGhosh, #Kahaani, #VidyaBalan, #NawazuddinSiddiqui, #SaswataChatterjee, #ParambrataChatterjee, #IndraneilSengupta, #JaaneJaan, #KareenaKapoor, #KareenaKapoorKhan, #JaideepAhlawat, #VijayVarma, #TheDevotionofSuspectX, #SuspectX, #KeigoHigashino, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

    • 1h 13 min

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