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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Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork!
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Netflix and Dil: Pilot Season Teen
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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Supplemental Episode 22: Om Shanti Om - Endless Cycle of Love
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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Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork!
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163: Madhubala Madness 2025: Mrs and Mrs '55 and Barsaat Ki Raat
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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Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork!
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162: Madhuri Madness 2025: Aaja Nachle and Maja Ma
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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Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork!
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