Khandaan- A Bollywood Podcast

Episode 97 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is off to a rocking start with Yamini a.k.a. @pappuchaaru on Twitter.   A great many things happened in Bollywood this week, so we had tons to discuss including:   Time Stamp: 01.00 We announce the Khandaan-100th episode Live event on YouTube Live on Sunday, the 28th of March at 20.30 IST- 1600 UK- 11.00 EST. Come join us by subscribing to our YouTube pa...

Episode 96 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is all about 2000’s HAR DIL JO PYAAR KAREGA. We are joined once more by friend of the podcast Haroon Rashid of the BBC’s brand new podcast, Beyond Bollywood and he explains why this movie is a worthy successor to his all time favorite, Ishq, which he discussed last time. Co-starring Preity Zinta and Rani Mukherjee, this remake of the hit Sandra Bullock r...

Welcome to Episode 95 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast. We are joined today by friend of the podcast Haroon Rashid of the BBC’s brand podcast, Beyond Bollywood. If you haven't heard it yet, we highly recommend you check out his first episode interviewing Priyanka Chopra and her new memoir, Unfinished.    In this episode we talk about:    05:45 Haroon’s new show and the controversies surrounding Pr...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with Saleha i.e. @Salandthebadpun of Twitter fame to discuss a movie that has long been requested - 1998’s HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM. The last full blown collaboration between director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Salman Khan, this is a movie that occupies a special, albeit difficult, space in Indian film history. Aishwarya Rai became a bonafide star actress with th...

Episode 93 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is here in the midst of a slow week. We are joined this episode and the next by the wonderful Saleha (@salandthebadpun on Twitter) and you’ll know exactly why she was the only possible choice for these episodes when you hear her speak. Strap in for two amazing episodes! In this one we cover: 03:35 Mailbag Part Deux in which we catch up with a few more re...

Episode 92 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast features 1992’s DAULAT KI JUNG. Our guest this week was Her Highness Pitu Sultan and this was her one and only choice for you, her adoring public.  Loosely based on the Hollywood film MCKENNA’S GOLD, this movie is several things, none of them good: it is a college romance, an elopement story starring the greatest elopers of their generation, a Romeo and...

Episode 91 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast sees us racing towards a century of episodes! We can scarcely believe it! So we start this stretch with a dive into our listener’s mailbag - featuring a little hate, a lot of love, and some deep questions from friends new and old.  Amrita finally watched LUPIN, the French series taking Netflix by storm and had several thoughts about it. Asim and Sujoy wa...

It’s Episode 90 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast and we’re joined by writer, critic, blogger and podcaster Shah Shahid from BlankPageBeatdown.com whose podcasts you can follow on splitscreenpod.com and Comic Years to discuss YES BOSS (1997).  Starring Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and Aditya Panscholi, this 90s classic was directed by then-frequent SRK-collaborator Aziz Mirza and show his touch for p...

Episode 89 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast features a visit from writer, critic, blogger and podcaster Shah Shahid from BlankPageBeatdown.com. You can also catch up on his podcasts on splitscreenpod.com and Comic Years.  In this episode, we discuss: 16:40 Ali Abbas Zafar’s TANDAV featuring an excellent starcast headed by Saif Ali Khan and Zeeshan Ayub but also a incredibly silly script. 43:47 Asi...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for Episode 88 and a look back at 2020 with @bethlovesbolly from Beth Loves Bollywood. It’s been a bizarre year for media consumption but here are all the movies and streaming content that made an impression. Movies people seemed to love but we didn’t get Movies we got but feel the audience didn’t get  The most played bop threw up a few surprises all around Wo...

BINGING BRIDGERTON is a brand new limited edition podcast hosted by Beth and Amrita. Eight episodes featuring an in-depth discussion of the Netflix series with the occasional guest host, releasing Monday-Wednesday-Friday on Upodcast Main Event.  Available on your preferred platform.

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast kicks off 2021 with Episode 87 in which we are joined by Top Friend Beth from Beth Loves Bollywood to discuss all the movies and shows we’ve been watching through the end of the year. Amrita and Beth watched BRIDGERTON (11m40s), the new Shondaland romance on Netflix. Everyone was super excited to watch WONDER WOMAN 1984 (43m48s)but it was sadly a racist, turgid mess a...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast arrives at Episode 86 - our last for the year 2020 - with special guest Pulkit Kochar! This week’s film is 2005’s MAINE PYAR KYUN KIYA starring Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Sushmita Sen, Katrina Kaif, Arshad Warsi, and others. Directed by David Dhawan towards what was then the end of his career before it was revitalized by his son Varun Dhawan, Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya is an...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast welcomes you to Episode 85 with special guest Pulkit Kochar! You know Pulkit from his work with everyone from EIC to FilterCopy - now you can catch him on his Instagram and his YouTube channel where he’s posting original content. Timeline: 07.05 We begin by discussing all the content that’s coming to a streaming service near you and how it’s going to impact the variou...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with Aamir Khan’s GHULAM (1998) for episode 84. Join us for a nostalgia-filled episode wherein we refamiliarize ourselves with this classic. Directed by Vikram Bhatt - a fact that stuns us in 2020 - this remake of ON THE WATERFRONT is a movie that has somehow never received its due. Harkening back to tropes explored across violent Hindi action movies, this is...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is bursting at the seams with Episode 83!   Timeline: 2.00 We have complicated feelings about the new COOLIE NO.1 trailer starring Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan 19.41 We watched the trailer for DURGAMATHI, the Hindi remake of BHAAGAMATHIE starring the fabulous Anushka Shetty 27.09 We discuss the cross cultural ramifications of the trailer for INDOO KI JAWAANI 34.30 W...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast has 2005’s NO ENTRY for Episode 82.  Co-starring Salman Khan in an extended special appearance, this multi-starrer boasts of an eclectic line up: Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Celina Jaitley, Lara Dutta, and Esha Deol in what was to become the first of many successful sex comedies directed by Anees Bazmee. A convoluted tale of cheating husbands, suspicious...

 Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast has a jam packed  Episode 81.    Joining us this week is film scholar Jai Arjun Singh, author of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron - Seriously Funny Since 1983 and The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. You can see more of his work at http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/ and contact him at jaiarjunATgmailDOTcom to join his free online film discussion group.    Timeline: 7:55 We were saddened...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is not superstitious, but if ever there was a cursed project, it would have to be 1995’s Shahrukh Khan starrer TRIMURTI. A Mukta Arts production directed by Mukul Anand, this movie should have been a slamdunk. Instead, it just dunked on the hosts of this podcast who soon lost the ability to tell what was up and what was down. Possibly the worst film we’ve reviewed on...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings you an Episode 79 that’s brimming with all the stuff we watched! 7:30   Borat 2 and the nature of satire in the world today 17:00  It’s time for the mailbag as we catch up with our listeners! 35:20 Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkumar Rao star in surprise Netflix adaptation, The White Tiger 42:20 The other Netflix feature is Ludo and we’re cautiously optimistic f...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast dives deep into BAAZIGAR (1993) starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol for its 78th episode. Shilpa Shetty’s debut feature (and what a historic debut it was!), Baazigar is hands down one of the best Abbas Mustan movies ever made.  Combining a revenge drama with youthful shenanigans, this is the movie that firmly established SRK’s anti-hero credentials and cemented his stori...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is joined by Justin Rao of PTI for our 77th episode. You know him from his offscreen cameos on Saloni Gaur’s Kangana videos (“Shut Up, Justin!”) as well as his excellent Bollywood mashups that beautifully marry images from recent films with older songs. Check out his Twitter and Instagram for updates and videos. We discuss: 08.30: Bollywood’s biggest names launching a...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast arrives at it’s 76th episode with Sohail Khan’s HELLO BROTHER and Pitu Sultan dancing hand in hand to Chandi ki Daal Par Sone Ka Mor. Released in 1999, Hello Brother was a join Khan family exercise and it shows! From the adolescent fart humor to the weird fetishization of Arbaaz to Salman kicking everybody’s butt, this movie is an unconscious deep dive into the intra-...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast welcomes back the one, the only Pitu Sultan for our 75th episode! For this landmark episode, this week we discussed: 06.15 The sad demise of SP Balasubramaniam who was the voice of our childhood 16.02 The drama around Deepika Padukone 24 37 That pointless YRF logo exercise 27.35 The KHAALI PEELI trailer with Ananya Panday and Ishaan Khattar 33.18 The GINNY WEDS SUNNY...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast has taken its time, but we’ve finally arrived at the film that forever changed the Hindi film industry: 2001’s DIL CHAHTA HAI. Farhan Akhtar’s debut feature had a glitzy starcast: Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta, Ayub Khan, Sonali Kulkarni, Suhasini Mulay, and the by-now patented list of talented supporting actors.  Everything f...