We are polishing our magnifying glasses and donning our deerstalkers, because once again, murder is afoot! 

Show notes:

• We just love murder mysteries!
• Our Noirvember playlist
• To Those Who Killed Me and Call of the Void, the mystery books Matt has edited
• You can't have too few or too many characters in a murder mystery
• Detective Bymokesh Bakshy!
• "When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood"
• Byomkesh Bakshi
• Comparisons to other famous fictional detectives
• Kosuke Kindaichi
• 1940s setting
• The music and the violence go too hard

INTERVAL ("Calcutta Kiss" from Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!)

• Murder Mubarak
• Is Sanjay Kapoor one of our guys?
• "In a movie about rich people you can't kill the help"
• Karisma Kapoor's first film in 12 years
• Fantasy casting The Thin Man

NEXT TIME: Singer Movies

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To wrap up Madhuri Madness 2024 we're joined by our good friend Rashmeet to discuss two action films in which our beloved heroine finds herself at the centre of a deadly love triangle. 

Show notes:

• Welcome Rashmeet!
• Madhuri Madness
• Madhuban Performing Arts and Urja Yeg
• Aarzoo
• Gaslight, Girlboss, Gatekeep
• Obsession gazebo
• Darkman
• "Dosti Karte Nahin" and "Mil Jaate Hain"
• St. Andrews

INTERVAL ("Kay Sera Sera" from Pukar)

• "Que Sera Sera"
• Pukar
• "Hai Jaana Hai Jaana" 
• Are we Rajkumar Santoshi fans?
• Torturing Anil Kapoor
• Madhuri Dixit's emotional range and appeal

NEXT TIME: Detective movies

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#MadhuriDixit, #Aarzoo, #LawrenceD'Souza, #AkshayKumar, #SaifAliKhan, #PareshRawal, #AmrishPuri, #Pukar, #RajkumarSantoshi, #AnilKapoor, #ManrataShirodkar, #OmPuri, #Danny Denzongpa, #PrabhuDeva, #LataMangeshkar, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

To celebrate International Women's Day, we are kicking off Madhuri Madness 2024 with two feminist consciousness raising ensemble dramas.

Show notes:

• Happy International Women’s Day
• Madhuri Madness 
• Every film industry is patriarchal (except Paradise Island)
• Hollywood vs Bollywood women’s pictures
• Mrityudand
• Shabana Azmi and Om Puri
• Prakash Jha’s political filmmaking

INTERVAL ("Badi Mushkil" from Lajja)

• Lajja
• A real multi-starrer
• Manisha Koirala learns about feminism
• Tonally inconsistent
• Ajay Devgn's whip sword

NEXT TIME: MD & SRK

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#MadhuriDixit, #Mrityudand, #PrakashJha, #ShabanaAzmi, #OmPuri, #ShilpaShirodkar, #MohanJoshi, #MohanAgashe, #HarishPatel, #Lajja, #RajkumarSantoshi, #ManishaKoirala, #Rekha, #MahimaChaudhary, #JackieShroff, #AnilKapoor, #AjayDevgn, #JohnnyLever, #InternationalWomen'sDay, #Bollywood, #Feminism, #FeminisminFilm, #HindiCinema

We welcome filmmaker Jaydeep Sarkar, series director and executive producer of Rainbow Rishta, a new docuseries available now on Amazon Prime.

Show notes:

• Jaydeep Sarkar
• Rainbow Rishta

NEXT TIME: Madhuri Madness 

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#Bollywood, #JaydeepSarkar, #HindiCinema, #HindiTV, #IndianTV, #Docuseries, #Documentary, #AmazonPrime, #LGBTQ+, #LGBTQ+India

Somehow we made it through 2023, which certainly was a year in Bollywood. Did Tiger 3 hit the jackpot? Did we soldier through Jawan? Find out now!

Show notes:

• The 69th Annual Filmfare Awards (nice)
• Neeyat (Episode 150)
• Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Supplemental Episode 17)
• Jawan
• Jaane Jaan (Episode 149)
• Khufiya

INTERVAL ("Dishoom Dishoom" from The Archies)

• Thank You for Coming
• 12th Fail
• Tiger 3
• Animal
• This is the only Bullet Machine we respect in these parts
• The Archies
• Kho Gaye Hum Kahan

NEXT TIME: Surprise Netflix and Dil!

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#Bollywood, #2023Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #Neeyat, #RockyAurRaniKiPremKahaani, #Jawan, #JaaneJaan, #Khufiya, #ThankYouforComing, #12thFail, #Animal, #TheArchies, #KhoGayeHumKahan

It's hard for us to believe, but we've reached two million downloads! To celebrate, we wanted to look back at the evolution of the show and apologize for everything we have gotten wrong over the past eight and a half years.

Show notes:

• Thank you to all of our listeners near and far for lending us your ears two million times!
• Supplemental Episode 8: 60 Questions (which was to celebrate 100 episodes, not one million listens)

NEXT TIME: 2023 year end wrap up

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We are on the case with Bollywood's leading actress, the incomparable Vidya Balan, will we solve it before she does? Listen to find out!

Show notes:

• Vidya Balan
• Star power and acting prowess
• Bobby Jasoos
• Feminist themes
• Many spinning plates

INTERVAL ("Sweety" from Bobby Jasoos)

• Neeyat
• Character actor cast
• Anu Menon
• Split diopter and split screen

NEXT TIME: 2 million

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#VidyaBalan, #BobbyJasoos, #SamarShaikh, #AliFazal, #ArjanBajwa, #KiranKumar, #RajendraGupta, #SupriyaPathak, #TanviAzmi, #Neeyat, #AnuMenon, #RamKapoor, #RahulBose, #DipannitaSharma, #NeerajKabi, #AmritaPuri, #ShashankArora, #PrajaktaKoli, #ShefaliShah, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema, #DetectiveMovies

To celebrate Noirvember this year, we delve into the catalogue of Sujoy Ghosh with the (not exactly noir) thrillers Kahaani and this year's Netflix release Jaane Jaan. 

Show notes:

• Noirvember and our Noirvember playlist
• Sujoy Ghosh
• Adventures in the Public Domain: Aladin and Arjun: The Warrior Prince
• Kahaani
• Kolkata as asphalt jungle
• The effectiveness of a pregnant detective

INTERVAL ("Jaane Jaan" from Jaane Jaan)

• Jaane Jaan
• The Devotion of Suspect X and Keigo Higashino
• Comparisons to Drishyam
• "Aa Jane Jaan" from Intaquam
• The Kalimpong atmosphere 

NEXT TIME: Detective Balan

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#Noirvember, #FilmNoir, #NeoNoir, #SujoyGhosh, #Kahaani, #VidyaBalan, #NawazuddinSiddiqui, #SaswataChatterjee, #ParambrataChatterjee, #IndraneilSengupta, #JaaneJaan, #KareenaKapoor, #KareenaKapoorKhan, #JaideepAhlawat, #VijayVarma, #TheDevotionofSuspectX, #SuspectX, #KeigoHigashino, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Happy (belated) Halloween Lovers! We may be late but our tradition of exploring all things spooky that Hindi cinema has to offer lives on! This year we are sinking our teeth into Netflix's romantic horror-comedy Tooth Pari.

Show notes:

• This episode is quite late as we were our of the country and Erin got sick
• Neighbours trailer
• Tooth Pari: When Love Bites
• Pratim D. Gupta and X: Past Is Present

NEXT TIME: Noirvember

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#ToothPari, #ToothPari:WhenLoveBites, #PratimD.Gupta, #AnishRailkar, #TanyaManiktala, #ShantanuMaheshwari, #Revathi, #TillotamaShome, #SikandarKher, #SaswataChatterjee, #AdilHussain, #HindiHorror, #NetflixIndia, #Bollywood

We welcome writer Sunny Singh to the show to discuss her fascinating new book A Bollywood State of Mind!

Show notes:

• Thank you Sunny Singh for joining us!
• A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world’s biggest cinema
• Heads up, we discuss some spoilers for Jawan if you haven't seen it yet

NEXT TIME: Hindi Horror Halloween

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We return to the career of Yash Chopra with two iconic mid-70s blockbusters: one, the first film to carry the YRF name and the other, maybe the most influential Bollywood film ever made.

Show notes:

• Past Yash Chopra films we have discussed: Netflix and Dil: High and Low - Cinema Marte Dum Tak and The Romantics and Yaasssh Chopra: Lamhe & Veer-Zaara with Manish Mathur
• Zanjeer and the Angry Young Man
• Yash Chopra
• Rajesh Khanna
• Thomas Hardy and the cad awareness book
• "Ab Chahe Maa Roothe"
• Comparisons to Douglas Sirk

INTERVAL ("Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni" from Daag)

• Deewaar
• Gunga Jumna and Mother India
• Matt is the evil brother
• Influences on Hong Kong cinema and Slumdog Millionaire
• What can we bring to a conversation about this film?
• Bachchan: Back to the Beginning

NEXT TIME: Hindi Horror Halloween

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#YashChopra, #AmitabhBachchan, #RajeshKhanna, #Rakhee, #RakheeGulzar, #SharmilaTagore, #PremChopra, #ManmohanKrishna, #Iftekhar, #Daag, #Deewar, #SalimKhan, #JavedAkhtar, #SalimJaved, #ShashiKapoor, #NeetuSingh, #ParveenBabi, #NirupaRoy, #MadanPuri, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema