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 4 - Baadshah
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Amaal Akhtar (and friends)
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It is the new year and we are back with a new and long overdue episode! This one's about a movie that is one part action thriller, one part vaudevillian comedy, one part adorable bromance, one part half-assed romance, one part just a free-falling object in the dreamscape of Abbas-Mustan, all adding up to three hours of goofy shenanigans that still crack you up twenty years later. Find your spot and get dropped right in the middle of a conversation between two lifelong committed fans trying to express what makes Baadshah a one-of-its-kind underrated 90s classic!