We watched the latest Vikramaditya Motwane project, Netflix's 2025 hit Black Warrant. We really liked it, which is not a huge surprise.

Show notes: 

• We picked this show on our last Pilot Season episode.
• Our episode on Motwane's previous show, Jubilee: Bombay's Dream Factory, Jubilee
• Our episode on three of Motwane's movies: Breaking Free: Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan, Lootera, and Trapped
• James Ellroy
• Our episode featuring Main Aur Charles and discussing Charles Sobhraj: Rolling In The Randeep (Hooda), with Shah Shahid

NEXT TIME: Movies about getting married, with Rashmeet

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We continue our longest running series in which we explore Amitabh Bachchan's career year by year, this time we are in the late 2000s. 

Show notes:

• Our Bachchan series playlist
• We are jumping ahead a bit, because we felt like it
• 2000 to 2006 Bachchan highlights
• Amitabh Bachchan's elderly statesman reinvention
• Cheeni Kum
• Thoughts on R. Balki's filmography
• A "Super R"?

(INTERVAL "Mere Buddy" from Bhootnath)

• Bhoothnath
• Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost"
• Casper or Beetlejuice?
• Bollywood family/children's films
• Paa
• Progeria and comparisons to Jack
• More stylistic direction
• Bachchan and ageing

NEXT TIME: Black Warrant

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There hasn't been much drawing us out to the theatre these days, so we asked ourselves, is there anything to watch at home? That's right lovers, it's time for another pilot season where we watch the pilot of six shows and choose which one we are going to watch, and review, a whole season of!

Show notes:

• Black Warrant
• Ziddi Girls
• Dabba Cartel
• Dupahiya
• Kauf
• The Royals

NEXT TIME: Mid-2000s Bachchan

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In this supplemental we travel to Japan to see Om Shanti Om, Takarazuka style. 

Show notes:

• Takarazuka Revue
• Om Shanti Om: Endless Cycle of Love

NEXT TIME: Pilot Season 3

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March may be over, but we are still mad, mad for Madhubala!

Show notes: 

• Thanks to tommydan
• Noir '58: Howrah Bridge and 12 O'Clock
• The Great Epic: Mughal-e-Azam
• Bollywood Drafts
• A brief aside on Mahal
• Tragically struck down too soon

INTERVAL ("Thandi Hawa Kali Ghata" from Mr. & Mrs. '55)

• Mr. & Mrs. '55
• The Orson Welles of India/The Guru Dutt of Hollywood
• Limitations of the of the auteur theory
• Our limited of our knowledge of the Hindu code bills
• Cleo, don’t get on that plane
• Romantic comedy tropes
• General Jinjur and feminist parody
• Matt mansplains feminism
• Barsaat Ki Raat
• Roshan songs

NEXT TIME: Takarazuka Om Shanti Om

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Have we finally been cured of our madness? Find out in our last Madhuri Madness, at least for now. 

Show notes: 

• Madhuri Madness
• 2000s Madhuri
• Devdas vs. Dev.D with Paul Matwychuk
• Ladies Be Angry: Gulaab Gang, Akira, & Mom
• Aaja Nachle
• Steve
• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Comparison with Dil Toh Pagal Hai
• Creative ego vs community cohesion

INTERVAL ("Aaja Nachle" from Aaja Nachle)

• Maja Ma
• What is Rajit Kapoor's accent? 
• More polygraph tests in this movie than anticipated
• The boner subplot
• Comparisons to The Birdcage and Beginners
• What’s a sister-in-law?
• Dixit is picking progressive projects, with varying degrees of success
• The survivorship bias plane and left-handed-ness

NEXT TIME: Madhubala Madness 2025

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We watched the latest in the ongoing series of Bollywood family-based puff pieces, Netflix's The Roshans, as well as the debut film of Hrithik Roshan, Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.

Show notes: 

• Thank you Señorita for the review!
• Previously on Bollywood Family History Story Time: our episodes on The Romantics, and Angry Young Men
• Three generations, four guys: Roshan, Rajesh Roshan, Rakesh Roshan, and Hrithik Roshan
• As non-Hindi speakers who didn't grow up with these songs, it can be a little tough for us to understand the significance of music, especially outside of the movies
• Pop vs. classical music
• People they should have interviewed: Rekha, Salman Khan, Jadoo
• Plagiarism allegations for Rajesh
• Extortion in late '90s-early 2000s Hindi film
• Our episode on Koi... Mil Gaya: Dancing on Hoodoos: Bollywood in Alberta
• Our episode on the Krrish films: A Little Bit of That Jadoo Magic: Krrish with Brandon Schatz
• Why didn't they talk about Kites (apart from the obvious reasons)

INTERVAL: ("Ek Pal Ka Jeena", from Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai)

• Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
• Being replaced by a better, richer version of yourself, this is basically The Substance
• The double role gimmick works better when there's reincarnation or direct family ties
• We want more Ameesha Patel movie recs

NEXT TIME: Madhuri Madness 2025

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We return to our Anil Kapoor decades series with three films from the 2000s: a double role, an action mystery, and an ensemble comedy. 

Show notes:

• Anil Kapoor's 80s and 90s
• Moving from lead actor to ensemble films
• Aesthetic shifts in 2000s Bollywood
• Reflecting on Slumdog Millionaire and its impact
• Bulandi
• Remake of Nattamai
• "Gourd scene"
• Songs: "Saari Duniya Mein," "Teri Meri Ik Jind," and "Ab Bujho Ri Bujho"
• We don't know Raveena Tandon

INTERVAL ("Teri Akhiyon Main" from Bulandi)

• Calcutta Mail
• It's a remake of Choodalani Vundi, Erin apologizes for completely butchering that title
• Hong Kong vibes
• The "dead wife" home movie
• Song: "Kahan Pe Meri Jaan Jaogi"
• Welcome
• Inspired by Mickey Blue Eyes
• Will we watch Welcome to the Jungle?
• Songs: "Honth Rasiley" and "Welcome"
• We forgot Irrfan was in Slumdog Millionaire, as we noted we haven't seen it since it came out

NEXT TIME: The Roshans

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2024 has come and gone, and before we start to get excited about what movies the new year will bring us, we must first look back at the highs and the lows of Bollywood’s past six months.

Show notes:

• Munjya
• Bad Newz
• Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba
• Khel Khel Mein
• Stree 2
• The Buckingham Murders

INTERVAL ("B(h)adass" from CTRL)

• CTRL
• Jigra
• Do Patti
• Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
• Singham Again
• Baby John
  
  

NEXT TIME: Anil Kapoor's 2000s

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Hindi Horror Halloween turns 10! And for this landmark entry in our longest running series, we're going back to the beginning and giving horror auteur Ram Gopal Varma another chance... to scare us!

Show notes:

• This our tenth Hindi Horror Halloween!
• We still know nothing about Ram Gopal Varma
• Bollywood Drafts
• Erin thinks Matt just remembers that David Cronenberg made a film with Marilyn Chambers
• Raat
• Sam Raimi's shaky cam
• How this movie redefined Bollywood horror

INTERVAL ("Barbie Girl" from Kaun?)

• Kaun?
• The horror of being home alone
• Manoj Bajpayee just wants a sandwich and to watch TV
• Ittefaq and Signpost to Murder

NEXT TIME: We are taking a break, see you in December!

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We continue the tricky journey of following Amitabh Bachchan's career through its most treacherous stretch: the '90s.

Show notes:

• Thank you DT24x
• Time for a Tezaab rewatch?
• The Big B recap
• Amitabh Bachchan Corporation
• Begun, the Dadscension has
• Khuda Gawah
• Buzkashi, the national sport of Afghanistan
• Why did Badshah Khan actually go to jail?
• Amitabh Bachchan's School for Gifted Youngsters

(INTERVAL "Sona Sona" from Major Saab)

• Major Saab
• Rushed ending
• Medical beards
• Matt considers joining the Indian Army after a decade of propaganda
• Sooryavansham
• A passing of the torch ... to himself
• Justice for Karishma
• The Good Animal?
• The danger in looking at a career from outside
• Mohabbatein was discussed in episode 32, "Travelling in the Love Lane: The Films of Aditya Chopra"
• Check out Bollywood Drafts!

NEXT TIME: Hindi Horror Halloween X

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