Let's Talk, Melbourne

This week is the final episode of the three part series on the 25 best Indian movies in the past 25 years (2000 - 2025). 12 podcasters and critics voted to inform this list and here is top 5 best Indian movies of the 21st centaury, To discuss this we have on the show, the producer, co-creator and educator Ridhi Raheja. These 25 movies are the ones we love the most, don't get caught up on the r...

This is the second episode of the three part series we're doing on the 25 best Indian movies in the past 25 years. We are discussing the movies from No 6. to No 14 and for an in depth conversation on these movies we've invite Dhruv Goyal and Cris Patrick (Queen is Dead podcast), Beth Watkins (Filmi Ladies) and Amrita Rajan (Khandann podcast). We disagreed, agreed, argued and loved it all. This was...

On the Let's Talk, Melbourne podcast a passion project for a while has been to select the 25 best movies of the 21st centaury in Indian Cinema (2000 - 2025). To do this, we invited 12 podcasters and critics from all over the world to rank their favorite movies and build consensus to rank the 25 Best Indian movies across languages from the past 25 years. This episode ranks the best movies from...

This week on the Let' Talk, Melbourne podcast we've a double bill episode. The first segment is with author Ralph Arida, based in Lebanon who's recent writing on Hollywood movies and representation was published in Rolling Stone magazine. Ralph drops by the pod to discuss responsible viewing, role of Hollywood movies and more. The second segment is with the Croatian based photographer...

Al Cossar - Artist Director Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) joins the podcast this week to talk about the movies featuring in the festival, including critics campus for emerging critics, music events, panel discussions and much more. This festival is a celebration of movies and the city that celebrates movies. I was really excited to discuss the significance of the festival to the cit...

It was so much fun to chat to Amrita Rajan - host of the popular Khandaan podcast - on one of the most iconoic genre directors of hindi cinema, Vijay Anand. Amrita is an informed voice and was great to chat to her and I hope you enjoy our conversation. Vijay Anand is one of the greatest Hindi movie directors who made some excellent movies and his contribution to Hindi cinema and his legacy is peer...

This week on the podcast we are counting down the ten best songs of the legendary chorographer Saroj Khan . The late great Khan was a singular, dynamite force for hind cinema songs, from making the career defining songs with stars like Sridevi, Madhuri and Aishwarya. We talk about Khan's legacy and revolutionary song picturization. To do her ten best songs, on the pod, we have the lovely Filmi...

As it's Pride Month in Australia, we interviewed the CEO of the Victorian Pride Centre (vpc) Paul Horwell on what the iconic vpc means to the city of Melbourne, State of Victoria and the community at large. I hope you enjoy this episode and as always we welcome your feedback.

https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ib9C1X5ObvN18u9WR0TK9?si=efd7bb09a55e4c72 @filmiladies answer LTM pod listeners questions on Maut ke saudagar, recasting Qurbani and the Bollywood presence at the Met Gala.

Sharon Comello is a Sydney based painter and artist who's recent collection of art work in on women. Her paintings are bright, vibrant portraits of women and capture women in all their glory and beauty. She drops by the to talk about her journey from being a sports captain in school to a painter and much more. Support Australian artists, you can buy her paintings from https://sharoncomello.art...

As the final episode of the film series on Hindi cinemas most influential directors, Manish Mathur and I discuss the career and influence of Zoya Akthar. Zoya made her debut with a smashing, now cult movie Lucky By chance, she went on to make many good movies and not so good adaptation of the Archies comics. On the episode we talk about her films, her visual and writing style and her influence and...

Aditya Aggarwal is a Toronto based film curator and writer. He drops by the pod this week to deep dive into one of the founding furthers of Hindi Cinema Bimal Roy. Roy's Do Bigha Zamin was nominated for the Palme d'Or and he went to make many critically and commercially successful movies such as   Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Devdas, Madhumati, Sujata, Parakh. Aditya and I talk about Roy's m...

Pitu Sultan is the co-host of the amazing movie podcast Filmi Ladies and is also my movie twin. She and I mostly - and uncannily - like the same movies. She also is an eloquent and thoughtful movie chronicler and on the pod this week as part of the movies stories showcasing hindi movie directors - we discuss the career of one of our favorite directors Rajiv Rai. Yudh, Tridev, Vishwatma, Mohra and...

My favorite movie podcast is Filmi Ladies hosted by Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan, both the lovely ladies create great content and kindly drop by the pod to discuss the movies series showcasing Hindi Directors. Beth and I bond and gush over our favorite Khan - Feroz Khan - the director. His career, his style, his verve and his women. We hope you like the episode and if you do please leave a comment...

As part of the movies series, this is the second episode and part 2 on Karan Johar in our showcasing Hindi movies influential directors. I have Leha back with us to talk Kjos growth as a director, his cult, Koffee with Karan and his obsessions with Alia Bhatt and our favorite movie of Kjo and our favorite Kjo directed movie performances. I hope you like this episode.

This week on the Let's Talk, Melbourne podcast, we're doing a special movie series, discussing the five most influential directors of Hindi Cinema. Our first director is the prolific, notorious and extremely popular Karan Johar. To discuss his career origins and his meteoric rise, I've invited the luminous Leha Selam - an informed and interesting voice on all things cinema. We hope you enjoy this...

n today's episode of the podcast, our guest is a highly successful entrepreneur and over achiever Kim Constable . Who became a winner at a bikini competition athlete at age 37 and then a millionaire CEO one year later. From her kitchen table, with zero following or connections, Kim built The Sculpted Vegan, her vegan bodybuilding and fitness empire that has raked in millions of dollars and cha...

With Demi Moore winning her first Golden Globe best actress in a Musical or Comedy for The Substance and delivering the best speech of the night, this movie has generated memes, raves, pans, walk outs since it's debut at Canne last year. I sat down with fellow Melbournian Alice to do a deep dive into the movie and Moores terrific performance. I hope you enjoy this episode. As always, please share...

Lara Bourguignon is an industry veteran having essayed various leadership roles within the Banking and Superannuation industry in Australia. She drops by the pod to talk about her stellar career, running her own consultancy business and more. It's a pleasure and honour to have her on the pod. I hope you enjoy this episode and please don't forget to subscribe to our channel and follow us on https:/...

Hayden Dun is a Melbourne based pianist and musician. As an up-coming artist in Melbourne, he talks about the city, the challenges and opportunities for young artists like him and the love Melbourne city has with music, arts and culture. He also does a special music performance on the pod, which you should listen. You can follow Hayden on IG https://www.instagram.com/haydendun?igsh=MWlnMXprZXluOWZ...

Rob Goddard is a men's coach helping them with life transformation and development. He is also a writer, appeared in music videos and a very popular instgram influencer. He drops by the pod to talk about his journey, his new book, coaching and lots more. He is funny, intelligent and insightful. You can pre order his book and his socials are below. I hope you enjoy this episode. Instagram: @robgodd...

Julian Wright is back on the pod to discuss the ten best movies of 2024. He talks about the movies that impressed him the most and I talk about mine. It's always good to exchange notes with Julian. Did your movies make it to the list? Let's us know.

For this very special episode I've bought four of my favourite film people from across the world to talk movies and discuss the ten best movie performances. This was the best time I've had discussing movies on the podcast, we also play a game of rapid fire. You just don't want to miss. Appearing on the pod are: LEHA (https://x.com/Salandthebadpun?t=zB1ar-7tzdeuFJDoYqfZww&s=09) Manish from Boll...

Catherine Robson currently serves as a group board director and chair of subsidiary entity Equity Trustees Superannuation and various other organizations. She worked previously as a financial adviser and also serves on various other boards in Australia. She drops by the pod to talk about her career, her role as a former columnist for major publications, being a board member, the industry and more....

I'm really excited to present the Season 3 of the Let's Talk, Melbourne podcast. The season drops on Dec 9 on Spotify, Apple & Amazon Music. You can also watch on our YouTube channel. Our first guest for the season is journalist and broadcaster Nick Hose (https://www.instagram.com/nick.hose?igsh=MXZuYjUzdHZwaDUwbA==) from 7 news Australia. Nick speaks at length on this episode about his journe...