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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#AmitabhBachchan, #KhudaGawah, #MajorSaab, #Sooryavansham, #AjayDevgn, #AnupamKher, #Sridevi

Alongside Nim (@MapleBrownie), we discussed the opening night event of the tenth annual India Film Festival of Alberta, as well as a workshop put on by film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.

Show notes:

• Bollywood Drafts Podcast
• India Film Festival of Alberta
• Ghoomer
• Our coverage of the 2017 India Film Festival of Alberta, where we saw A Death in the Gunj
• Celluloid Man
• Film Heritage Foundation

NEXT TIME: Nineties Bachchan, we swear

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#IndiaFilmFestivalofAlberta, #Ghoomer, #ShabanaAzmi, #SaiyamiKher, #VikrantMassey, #R.Balki, #ShivendraSinghDungarpur, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

We checked out the latest talking heads documentary about Bollywood cinema, Namrata Rao's Angry Young Men. Did we learn anything?

Show notes:

• De Palma
• Friedkin Uncut
• Netflix and Dil: High and Low - Cinema Marte Dum Tak and The Romantics
• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
• Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
• The Story of Film: An Odyssey
• Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
• Angry Young Men

NEXT TIME: Nineties Bachchan

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#AngryYoungMen, #SalimJaved, #SalimKhan, #JavedAkhtar, #AmazonPrimeVideo, #AmazonPrimeVideoIndia, #NamrataRao, #SalmanKhan, #FarhanAkhtar, #ZoyaAkhtar

It's midyear review time! We check in on the first six months of the year and all of the Bollywood (and Bollywood-adjacent) movies that made it in front of our eyeballs.

Show notes:

• Merry Christmas
• Fighter
• Article 370
• Laapataa Ladies
• Murder Mubarak (Episode 154)
• Crew

INTERVAL ("Ghagra" from Crew)

• Monkey Man
• Amar Singh Chamkila (Episode 155)
• Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2
• Kalki 2898 AD
• Sharmajee Ki Beti
• Kill

NEXT TIME: it's a surprise!

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#MerryChristmas, #Fighter, #Article370, #LaapataaLadies, #MurderMubarak, #Crew, #MonkeyMan, #AmarSinghChamkila, #LoveSexAurDhokha2, #LSD2, #Kalki2898AD, #SharmajeeKiBeti, #Kill, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood, #Bollywood2024

We travel back to the mid-2000s with one of Bollywood's most fearless actresses, Preity Zinta.

Show notes:

• The Stanley Cup finals are on (we lost)
• Bollywood Drafts
• Preity Zinta (has not made an impression on Matt)
• We would really like to see Sangharsh
• Heaven on Earth (and its gorgeous poster)
• Erin's thesis on Preity Zinta

INTERVAL ("It's Time to Disco" from Kal Ho Naa Ho)

• Kal Ho Naa Ho
• Toronto plays New York
• The film's approach to homosexual jokes
• Anand comparisons
• Erin hates "movie diseases"
• Mid-2000s fashion
• Salaam Namaste
• Siddharth Anand really pivots 
• Jaaved Jaffrey's Crocodile Dundee 
• Baby drop rate 
• NO, FART ZONE 
• Too much pro-life propaganda

NEXT TIME: TBD

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#PreityZinta, #KalHoNaaHo, #NikhilAdvani, #KaranJohar, #ShahRukhKhan, #SaifAliKhan, #JayaBachchan, #SushmaSeth, #SanjayKapoor, #SalaamNamaste, #ArshadWarsi, #JaavedJaffery, #AbhishekBachchan, #SiddharthAnand, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

We travel back to the opulence of 1940s Lahore with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's lush Netflix period drama Heeramandi.

Show notes:

• Heeramandi
• Tawaifs
• Be Kind Rewind - Sofia Coppola and the Godfather Part III Disaster

Next time: Preity Zinta

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#Heeramandi, #SanjayLeelaBhansali, #ManishaKoirala, #SonakshiSinha, #AditiRaoHydari, #RichaChadha, #SharminSegal, #SanjeedaSheikh, #TahaShahBadusha, #Netflix, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

We are belting our hearts out with two Netflix features on the turbulent lives of popular singers. 

Show notes:

• Straight-to-streaming films are legit now
• Qala
• Comparison to Amadeus
• Halloween VI: Hell Hath No Fury, Stree and Bulbbul with Matthew Stepanic
• Elvis and Norah Jones
• Style over substance

INTERVAL ("Baaja" from Amar Singh Chamkila)

• Dil-Luminati Tour
• Wee Book Inn
• Amar Singh Chamkila
• Amar Singh Chamkila
• Comparisons to western hip hop
• The Mr. Holland's Opus problem
• Jodi
• The use of archival images

NEXT TIME: Heeramandi

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#Qala, #AnvitaDutt, #TriptiDimri, #SwastikaMukherjee, #BabilKhan, #AmitSial, #SameerKochar, #AbhishekBanerjee, #AmarSinghChamkila, #ImtiazAli, #DiljitDosanjh, #ParineetiChopra, #NishaBano, #RahulMittra, #Netflix, #HindiCinema, #Bollywood

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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#DetectiveByomkeshBakshy!, #ByomkeshBakshi, #DibakarBanerjee, #SushantSinghRajput, #AnandTiwari, #NeerajKabi, #SwastikaMukherjee, #MeiyangChang, #MurderMubarak, #HomiAdajania, #PankajTripathi, #SaraAliKhan, #VijayVarma, #KarismaKapoor, #DimpleKapadia, #SanjayKapoor, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

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