Episode #3 - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Artwork

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.

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Episode #3 - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

November 10, 2020 • Amaal Akhtar (and friends)

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Didn't think I was going to get into the 2010s so soon? Well, neither did I, but here we are. 2013 isn't particularly special in terms of Bollywood and in all frankness, I didn't think this film was all that great either. But I know a girl who finds great comfort in rewatching this film and hearing its songs, so I decided to talk to her about Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani --- that Manali travel, destination wedding, Ranbir-Deepika postcard of a movie. So what's the verdict? Is it really deep, unbearably vapid, or somewhere in between? Get your headphones, 'cause this episode has *opinions*, banter, disagreement, exasperation, characteristic tangents and sidebars, and lots of I-cannot-evens.