Bollywood is For Lovers Bollywood is For Lovers
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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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Murder Most Fun - Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! and Murder Mubarak
We are polishing our magnifying glasses and donning our deerstalkers, because once again, murder is afoot!
Show notes:
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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Madhuri Madness 2024: Aarzoo and Pukar
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.
Show notes:
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 -
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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#Bollywood, #JaydeepSarkar, #HindiCinema, #HindiTV, #IndianTV, #Docuseries, #Documentary, #AmazonPrime, #LGBTQ+, #LGBTQ+India -
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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