Bollywood is For Lovers

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 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...

To celebrate International Women's Day, we are kicking off Madhuri Madness 2024 with two feminist consciousness raising ensemble dramas...

We welcome filmmaker Jaydeep Sarkar, series director and executive producer of Rainbow Rishta, a new docuseries available now on Amazon Prime...

Somehow we made it through 2023, which certainly was a year in Bollywood...

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...

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

• Neeyat
• Character actor cast
• Anu Menon
• Split diopter and split screen

To celebrate Noirvember this year, we delve into the catalogue of Sujoy Ghosh, director of potboilers like Kahaani and this year's Netflix release Jaane Jaan...

Happy (belated) Halloween Lovers! We may be late but our tradition of exploring all things spooky that Hindi cinema has to offer lives on! This year we are sinking our teeth into Netflix's romantic horror-comedy Tooth Pari.

Show notes:

• This episode is quite late as we were our of the country and Erin got sick
• Tooth Pari: When Love Bites
• Pratim D...

We welcome writer Sunny Singh to the show to discuss her fascinating new book A Bollywood State of Mind!

Show notes:

• Thank you Sunny Singh for joining us!
• A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world’s biggest cinema
• Heads up, we discuss some spoilers for Jawan if you haven't seen it yet