After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad)

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — America's 250th Birthday Special 1987. A Telugu film was shot not in Hyderabad or Madras, but in Missouri and Washington DC. In the living rooms and shops of Indian families who had made America their home. On a $25,000 budget, with a 17-year-old American actor who was making his film debut. Bharath and Neelima rewatch Padamati Sandhya...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Episode 9 — 25th Anniversary Special August 10th, 2001. A film released in India that changed what Hindi cinema thought it could look like, sound like, feel like. No villain. No grand tragedy. No sermon about family values. Just three friends. A road trip to Goa. It is the most honest depiction of male friendship in urban India that Hindi ci...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Episode 8 1978. Post-Emergency India. A country that had just exhaled after two years of authoritarian rule, hungry for stories about fighting back. About power being taken apart from the inside. About sons who refused to accept what their fathers had built on injustice.  Into that India, Trishul arrived. Bharath and Neelima rewatch Yash Cho...

Send us Fan Mail 1980. Telugu cinema was dominated by mass entertainers. No distributor would touch a film about a classical musician and a social outcast. One producer said yes, and changed Telugu cinema forever. Kala Tapasvi Kasinadhuni Viswanath. The ascetic of art. A man who believed that cinema could be a form of devotion. That traditional music, classical dance, and social complexity need no...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Season 1, Episode 6 Remember that feeling? The theater goes dark, that first note of music hits, and for the next three hours, nothing else matters. 1992. A new India was cracking open. Zee TV had just launched. The Three Khans were in Hindi cinema simultaneously for the first time. And in the misty hills of Dehradun, a director made a film...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Season 1, Episode 5 Remember that feeling? The theater goes dark, that first note of music hits, and for the next three hours, nothing else matters. You asked. We heard you. Today, we come home. 1989. A country cracking open. A new India is emerging. And in the misty hills of Ooty, a director who had never made a Telugu film walked onto a hi...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Special Episode Remember that feeling? The theater goes dark, that first note of music hits, and for the next three hours, nothing else matters. On April 12th, 2026, we lost Asha Bhosle. Ninety-two years old. Eight decades of music. Over twelve thousand songs. A voice that could be a seventeen-year-old in love and a grandmother in grief, som...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Season 1, Episode 3 Remember that feeling? The theater goes dark, that first note of music hits, and for the next three hours, nothing else matters. 1993. Bombay (Mumbai) was still healing from the riots and the bombings. A new India was cracking open — cable TV, foreign brands, liberalization. And into that grieving, dreaming country came a...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Season 1, Episode 2 1983. India just won the Cricket World Cup. A country learning not to expect too much — from its institutions, its politicians, or its cricket team — watched a bunch of underdogs change everything. And that same year, a group of broke, brilliant FTII graduates made a film for six lakh rupees that nobody watched, nobody di...

Send us Fan Mail After The Interval (Interval Ke Baad) — Season 1, Episode 1 Remember that feeling? The theater goes dark, that first note of music hits, and for the next three hours, nothing else matters. Bharath and Neelima kick off After The Interval with the film that launched a thousand imitations — and one very talented pigeon. We rewatch Sooraj Barjatya's 1989 blockbuster Maine Pyar Ki...