Retrospective
In the middle of a pandemic, with life turned upside down, I thought why not find a way to bridge the sudden, enforced and alienating distance among us with some much-needed closeness. So I called-up a few friends and we talked at length about our shared comfort food for the soul -- what else but Hindi cinema! The films we grew up with, the ones we grew out of, the ones we keep going back to, the ones we really, truly, genuinely love, and also the ones that make us go 'what were we thinking?' After all, Bollywood isn't just one year, one decade, or one style of film. In each episode, a friend and I have a meandering and candid chat about one Hindi movie that has stayed with us and that we can rewatch anytime. Get cosy and listen in for cinema, conversation, a little (good-natured) conflict, catharsis, and dher saari coffee/chai.
Retrospective
Episode 1 - Chashmebuddoor
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Amaal Akhtar (and friends)
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The 1980s in mainstream Bollywood were a famously tacky time. The films industry churns out so much nonsense in the best of eras, but the 80s were a special kind of disaster in terms of popular Hindi cinema. We now love some of the stuff ironically, sure, but does that mean cringe is all there was to the notorious decade? Not at all. In this first episode, I have a chat with a friend and fellow lover of 'offbeat' Hindi cinema, about many random tangential things, all centred around one special 1980s film, by a filmmaker we both adore. So if your chai is ready, come, pull up a chair.