Bollywood is For Lovers

In honour of his latest release, Jagga Jasoos, we look at three films from celebrated filmmaker Anurag Basu.

Show Notes:

Erin’s mother loved Dil Dhadakne Do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DilDhadakneDo)

Matt is protesting the CBFC’s crack down on alcohol in films by drinking two beers (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/cbfc-chief-pahlaj-nihalani-may-axe-liquor-consumption-display-of-alcohol-scenes/articleshow/59757490...

In our second supplemental episode, we discuss the films we saw at the third annual India Film Festival of Alberta! Big thanks to Edmonton Movie Club for having us!

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India Film Festival of Alberta (http://www.indiafilmfestival.ca) and the Edmonton Movie Club (http://www.edmontonmovieclub.ca)

Lipstick Under My Burkha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LipstickUnderMyBurkha) A Death In The Gunj (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADeathintheGunj) Newton (https://en...

We summarize the big hits and many misses that have come out so far this year.

Show Notes: Erin’s mom has been listening to the show and she’s going to watch Talvar Ok Jaanu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkJaanu) Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor are inexplicably popular Kaabil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaabil) Matt pitches a Bollywood remake of Elle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elle(film)) Dangal is still crushing it (https://www.forbes...

We jump on the true crime bandwagon with two films about real life murders: No One Killed Jessica and Talvar.

Show Notes: We went to Toronto Mira Nair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiraNair) Podcasting and true crime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truecrime) Zodiac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac(film)), Mesrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesrine(2008film)), Carlos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos(miniseries)), O.J: Made In America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.J...

To celebrate Mother’s Day, we welcome film scholar, musician, and former podcaster Lindsey Campbell on to discuss two films about different portrayals of mothers and motherhood in Hindi cinema.

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The Krrish ride (https://www.bollywoodparksdubai.com/en/attractions/krrish-heros-flight) at Bollywood Parks Dubai (https://www.bollywoodparksdubai.com/)

Our NorthWestFest (https://audioboom...

Hi everyone, here's a bonus episode for this week. We were invited to be on a panel talking about movie podcasting in our hometown of Edmonton!

Show notes: Northwestfest (http://northwestfest.ca), the latest incarnation of the longest-running documentary film festival in Canada, invited us on to talk about the world of movie podcasts.

Paul Matwychuk (@myelbow), Erin's co-host on Trash, Art and the Movies, who you'll remember from Episode 23 on DEVDAS and DEV...

Free Comic Book Day (http://www.freecomicbookday.com/), May 6th, is around the corner so we invited Variant Edition (http://variantedmonton.com/) co-owner and podcast savant Brandon Schatz (https://twitter.com/soupytoasterson) on to discuss Bollywood’s leading superhero franchise, Krrish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krrish_(franchise)).

Show notes: Why are we discussing these films? We couldn’t get A Flying Jatt (https://en.wikipedia...

We discuss the lavish 1960 epic Mughal-e-Azam

Show notes:

Mughal-e-Azam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal-e-Azam)

Erin is nervous to discuss this film

Comparisons to Gone With The Wind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GonewiththeWind(film)) and Cleopatra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra(1963film))

K. Asif (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...

We are joined by Dance Choreographer and Creative Director of ShaktiFlow (http://www.shaktiflow.org/) Shrina Patel (https://www.instagram.com/shaktiflowyeg/) to discuss feminism and the portrayal of women’s issues in Bollywood Cinema.

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Matt finally saw Mirzya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirzya_(film))

How to learn Hindi

90s Bollywood (https://en.wikipedia...

In advance of the third instalment, we discuss Ram Gopal Varma’s Sarkar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkar(filmseries)) series. There are spoilers for Sarkar, Sarkar Raj, and The Godfather series.

Show Notes: Sequel naming conventions Money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money(1993film)), Money Money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoneyMoney(1995film)), and Money Money, More Money (https://en.wikipedia...