Khandaan- A Bollywood Podcast

Episode 73 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is part of our new format where we alternate weeks with general topics and our usual deep Khan dives. This week, join us as we discuss: 07.25: Listener's Mailbag 13.40 Amrita continues her journey into Turkish dramas with SIYAH BEYAZ AŠK while dipping a toe into K-Dramas with GOBLIN 26.43 Sujoy watched CARGO and THE SOCIAL DILEMMA when he got some time o...

For Episode 72, Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast concludes it’s two-part discussion with Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser of the amazing Bollywood is for Lovers Podcast with a full fledged review of DHOOM 3: This Time it’s Aamir. Requested by Matt and Erin, 2013’s Dhoom 3 stars Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra and Jackie Shroff in a brief appearance. It has the distinction of being...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast kicks off Episode 71 with the first of our two-part discussion with the wonderful Matt Bowes & Erin Fraser of Bollywood is for Lovers Podcast. Join us as we discuss: 6.51 Matt and Erin’s thoughts on GULABO SITABO, the Amitabh Bachchan / Ayushman Khurana project that premiered on Amazon Prime (our previous discussion here) 14.50 Erin and Sujoy watched TENET, the big mo...

Episode 70 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast takes us back to our roots… and boy, is it a trip! Our feature of the day is the 1991 South-remake LOVE, starring Salman Khan, Revathi, Rita Bhaduri, Shafi Inamdar, and sadly enough, Amjad Khan. This topnotch pick comes courtesy an old friend of the podcast and shy netizen Shakeela aka @Get_Filmy whom you should follow on Twitter for some absolutely scor...

Episode 69 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings you everyone’s favorite (or is it?) Bollywood sports movie: 2007’s CHAKE DE! INDIA. Directed by Shimit Amin, a less than prolific director of tremendous talent, this underdog Shahrukh Khan starrer surprised everyone by not only succeeding at the box office but also becoming a perennial fan favorite.  In fact, it was the only choice for our guest,...

Our very last CoronaCast episode before our return to the regular schedule has us catching up after nearly a month. In the meantime, Sujoy and Amrita collaborated with Beth from Beth Loves Bollywood for the Tolly Folly Podcast  a limited series about the classic Bengali movies of Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. In between all the movies Sujoy was watching for Tolly Folly, he also caught up with the...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for Episode 67 with Salman Khan’s DABANGG! Directed by Abhinav Kashyap, this 2010 movie co-starred Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Sonu Sood, Arbaaz Khan and introduced Sonakshi Sinha.  For various unfortunate reasons, however, this movie has been back in the public eye of late - so we invited ace film critic and journalist Anna Vetticad (visit her site here) to...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for it’s 66th episode with Top Friend Beth from BethLovesBollywood to review the latest from Anushka Sharma’s production house: BULBBUL, a Bengali Gothic horror starring Tripti Damri, Avinash Tiwari, Rahul Bose, Paoli Dam, and Parambrata Chatterjee. Directed by Anvita Dutt, this feminist reframing of fantasy marries historical events with Indian folklore to cr...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for Episode 65 where we are joined by friend of the podcast Shai Hussain to discuss a true legend of Indian cinema: LAGAAN (2001). Join us as we throw brickbats and flowers. Check out Shai’s work at his personal page and join the fun at Bombay Funkadelic! Directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar who joined the big leagues with this film, Lagaan starred Aamir Khan, Gracy...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back to the CoronaCast with Episode 64. Unfortunately, this episode was recorded just as news broke about Sushant Singh Rajput’s tragic passing, so while we do mention it, we’ll have a more in-depth discussion of the fallout in our next episode. The news also cast a pall over the episode but… you know, sometimes you just try your best to keep your head above water....

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast’s 63rd episode proves to be the charm with Shahrukh Khan’s iconic KABHI HAAN KABHI NAA (1994).  If “wholesome" was a movie, it would be this film by Kundan Shah. Reportedly SRK’s own favorite out of his many films, this is a film that has stood the test of time. Joining us for the episode is Aditya from The Other Banana podcast aka @gradwolf on Twitter.   A short time...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is now on it’s 62nd episode… and we’re once again doing a Corona round up. For those of you struggling with all the current events in the world and need a break, we suggest you skip the first 10 minutes because we’re not in the best of moods to be honest.    However! We soon move on to discussing the latest Red Chillies Production for Netflix: BETAAL. Sujoy is happy t...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast sails on to its 61st episode with Shahrukh Khan’s PARDES (1997). This patriotic ode to a visually composite India was directed by Subhash Ghai, his last big hit, and stars debutants Mahima Chaudhary and Apoorva Agnihotri in addition to Amrish Puri, Alok Nath, and a full team of people whose faces you will recognize. Shot across North America, which stood in for Hollyw...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is now 60 episodes old and we wouldn’t have gotten here so fast if it weren’t for the Corona Virus, so here we are with another one of our freewheeling RonaCasts. Join Asim, Sujoy and Amrita as they talk about a variety of things, such as: Amrita’s appearance on The Other Banana podcast to discuss the latest Allu Arjun release, Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo Avatar: The Last...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings in episode 59 in the wake of one of the saddest weeks in Hindi film history: when we lost two towering stars, Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor. [Note: this episode is mainly in English mixed with Urdu/Hindi and a little bit of Pashto.] How do we address the passing of two men, gone before their time, who meant so much to us as film-lovers? They came from two separa...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with Top Friend Beth from Beth Loves Bollywood to discuss 1998’s Shahrukh Khan double-header DUPLICATE.  Allegedly directed by Mahesh Bhatt, DUPLICATE was the first double role for SRK and he really put in the effort - but was it worth it? Beth finds herself in the unique position of having more nostalgia for a film than the other three for once.  Co-starring...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is now a full-time quarantine podcast! And to celebrate, we’re answering our mailbag today. Join us as we answer listener questions, pull Asim’s leg, and discuss our love for the Khans. We don’t have a timeline for you as this is as freewheeling a discussion as it was last time, with a multitude of topics and tangents. Join us next week for some regular programming as...

Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with another Corona Cast for those of you who’re stuck at home and would like to hear other people’s voices.  We are joined this episode by Suchin Mehrotra of Film Companion fame. If you’ve been following his show on YouTube, you know Suchin is the man you want to talk to regarding streaming content during this time. The resulting conversation was rather too l...

Episode 55 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is takes us back to regular programming with 2000’s (!) MELA starring Aamir Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Faisal Khan, and the regular acting troupe of director Dharmesh Darshan. This megaflop from the turn of the century is something of a niche classic featuring tropes we haven’t seen in A-list Bollywood since the 1980s. A fitting welcome to our brand new, plag...

Episode 54 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is a Quarantine Pod, a RonaCast, a Viral Episode, whatever you want to call it. Just Asim, Sujoy and Amrita shooting the breeze about the content they’ve been consuming over these days of social distancing. Remember, we need to maintain a physical social distance but we’ll only make it through these dark times with each other. So tune in every other week...

Episode 53 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is your refuge from the monotony of lockdown, wherever you might be experiencing it. Top Friend Beth rejoins us for the second dose of bitter medicine as Sujoy chooses his winner for the FilmFare challenge: 1991’s SAAJAN starring Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, and Madhuri Dixit with Reema Laagoo, Kader Khan, Laxmikant Berde and others. This take on Cyrano de...

Episode 52 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is a blast from the past - Aamir Khan’s past. 1990’s blockbuster DIL, co-starring Aamir and Madhuri Dixit with Saeed Jaffrey, Anupam Kher and a host of people you’ll recognize as That Guy from the 80s and 90s, is our Khan film of the week. Asim, Sujoy and Amrita discuss whether director Indra Kumar’s debut feature holds any nostalgic value, Madhuri’s imp...

Episode 51 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings you 2016’s SULTAN starring Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, SULTAN was part of Salman’s storied run at the box office, a sports drama about an out of shape wrestler whose rise, fall, and rise took you through every emotion in the book. Although it is a fairly recent release, we discuss how well it’s held up, how Salman...

It’s Episode 50 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast! A big thank you to all our listeners for all their support, brickbats, and reviews. Long may your tribe increase!   We are joined for this special episode by Top Friend Beth from BethLovesBollywood as we discuss an old favorite, Farah Khan’s debut feature Main Hoon Na (2004). Starring Shahrukh Khan as Ram, Zayed Khan as Laxman, Amrita Rao as Christ...

Episode 49 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is where we discuss one of the most controversial movies to be made in the past 10 years: Rajkumar Hirani’s PK. Released in 2014, this movie stars Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput and others in the story of an alien who is left stranded on earth when he encounters the lying, thieving, deceitful humans who populate it.    Infused with the...