In today's episode (our first featuring a guest), we take on Bollywood music, and map a history of music director duos from Husnalal Bhagatram to Meet Bros.

Episode 7 - Lost and Found

Aug 3rd, 2020 43m 42s

We are back with our new episode on 'lost and found' films. We take a tour through the history of films about families separated and reunited, discuss sub-genres like that of the star crossed lovers films, twin-separated-at-birth films, rebirth

Episode 6 - Uprisings

Jun 21st, 2020 47m 11s

In this week's episode, we discuss representations of uprisings in Bollywood film through the decades as well as the importance of such films.

Episode 5 - Irrfan

May 31st, 2020 42m 27s

In our first ever tribute episode, we look back at the marvelous body of work of one of our favorite performers, Irrfan Khan. Further Reading:Rahul Desai, 'The Everythingship of Irrfan': https://www.filmcompanion.in/features/bollywood-featur

Episode 4: Unfulfilled Legacies

May 17th, 2020 34m 58s

In this week's episode, we discuss some of our favorite star kids who could not be quite the stars themselves. It also gave us a chance to talk about our true loves--Zayed Khan and Jackky Bhagnani.

Episode 3 - Stalking In Bollywood

May 3rd, 2020 46m 41s

We are back this week in a longish episode on a subject that is not quite "jolly good" but which we have really wanted to speak about and shed light upon: the portrayal of stalking and harassment in Bollywood films through the ages, and the dan

Episode 2: Travel in Bollywood Part 2

Apr 21st, 2020 25m 45s

In Part 2 of our episode on 'Travel in Bollywood' we talk about travel in some of our favorite films from the '00s and '10s and about a special twist on the idea of 'travel'.We start off where Part 1 left off. If you haven't heard Part 1, wh

Episode 2: Travel in Bollywood - Part 1

Apr 19th, 2020 26m 46s

Thank you so much for your kind response to Episode 1. This week we are back to talking about 'Travel in Bollywood' (and Rishi Kapoor's ugly sweaters). Part 2 of this episode, where we talk about travel in some of our favorite films from the

Episode 1: Bad Bollywood Ensembles

Apr 11th, 2020 41m 2s

This is our first time, so we're still learning. And because we recorded it over a Zoom call, there's a lot of talking over one another. We will work on that. If you have any suggestions about how we can do to improve a podcast recorded simult

Rate