The Artists: Arts, Culture, and Cinema with Suchita Bhhatia

How would you feel like living in a town where there is Shakespeare parked in every corner, staring at you!!! And how would it feel to be surrounded by actors who only play Shakespeare and his characters all the time!! Dr Darren Freebury-Jones is a Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon. He is the author of multiple books, all having a relation w...

What is the taste of audiences in small towns of India? How different it it? OR is it not after the arrival of OTT? How do they think? What do they enjoy? Why are filmmakers and content creators not including them in their creation? or is it OK to include them? Some of these pertinent questions and more with our guest Akkshay Rathie. Mr. Akkshay Rathie is a film exhibitor & distributor with op...

How does Aamir Khan think? What makes him stand out as an actor and a producer? What are his choices of people around him? Because your collaborations define you and your work. We try and dissect Aamir through Christina Daniels, the author of the book- I will do it my way- the only book written on the actor's journey- currently running on top of the book charts. Digs: 1) How much of the truth come...

Shardul Bharadwaj is an actor you would have seen in the film Kuttey, produced by Vishal Bharadwaj, or in the film Eeb Aalay oo which is running on Netflix. His most recent work is getting screened at the Busan Film Festival starting in October; some very hands-on pointers for actors in this episode of THE ARTISTS podcast with Suchita. 1) Why be an actor? 2) Falling in love with the medium n the p...

This is our first Hinglish podcast episode- HINDI ( LOCAL LANGUAGE OF INDIA) AND english mixed. Our guest is Ankur Mishra:Entrepreneur By Day, Writer by Night! Traveler, Tea Lover! Building Kavishala. Kavishala is a platform for poets and writers, with no age bar- and they have provided the platform to even 80 years plus poets with 10+ million monthly users. 2 lakh plus content creators. 1) Buildi...

PART OF ARTISTS N MENTAL HEALTH SERIES:: This cross over episode is part of THE ARTISTS & THE SOS SHOW. Can you define your ambition? What is your edge? Where do you want to go? Who are your friends, your family, your support systems? Do you have one or you are lonely, trying to make it in a cutthroat world and dying fast without you even knowing about it !! Our guest for this episode is Bhawa...

Konstantin Stanislavski, often simply referred to as Stanislavski, was a Russian actor, director, and theatre practitioner. Stanislavski was one of the co-founders of the Moscow Art Theatre and directed many of its early productions. He is best known for his pioneering work in the field of acting and for developing the Stanislavski system, also known as the method of physical actions or method act...

In this cross pollinated episode between #THEARTISTS N #THESOSSHOW, we have actor Abbas Ali who was the face of Late 90's and early 2000's cinema in Tamil and Telugu having worked with the likes of Kamal Hassan and Rajiv Menon, and also with actors like Tabu and Aishwarya Rai. In this Artists and Mental Health Series, we discuss some of the potent questions on what makes an actor and also Abbas ha...

INSIGHTS: A special section in THE ARTISTS PODCAST that we will keep dropping in between our main episodes; INSIGHTS is aimed to give an insight into where the future is heading in terms of arts, culture and cinema and perhaps course correct. These will be under 15 minute episodes- let us know what you think. If you have an insight- and would like us to talk about it on the podcast, you can connec...

Most of us if not all of us are fans of DC, MARVEL, and of course the DARK KNIGHT. We own the merches, we have watched the films. The journey of graphic novels began from comic books around 1927, before transitioning to Graphic novels; How have they influenced our culture.? As comic con begins next week in the U.S we try and understand this journey from the CEO and President of the iconic brand Am...

EVERYBODY, just got released in the US on JUNE 30TH. One of the rare documentary films getting a wide theatrical release by FOCUS features. EVERYBODY is an intimate, important and urgent documentary on INTERSEX.It is light hearted and fun as much as it is educating and impactful- primarily because of the way director Julie Cohen chose her real characters and wove the narrative. Julie Cohen is an A...

Why do you go to the movies? Why do you want to make a movie? how is AI going to impact this in the near future? How this might create a tectonic shift in our very understanding of movies in the near future?   Stephen is an established data researcher in the film industry whose work has been featured in the New York Times, The Times,  The Guardian etc. Stephen has taught at major film schools like...

William Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers in English Language; even after 400 years, and a time when humans might get taken over by AI, Shakespeare is still relevant. SHAKESPEARE REIGNS ! WHY? A snacky episode with Suchita. A longish episode coming soon. STAY TUNED @THE.ARTISTSPODCAST ON INSTA Email id: metaphysicallab@gmail.com/   You can follow us and leave us feedback on  Facebook ,  Ins...

Continuing with our special series- Artists & Mental Health, that gets cross pollinated between our two podcasts THE ARTISTS AND THE SOS SHOW, OUR SPECIAL GUEST is BERNARD BEITMAN, M.D., Founding Director of The Coincidence Project which encourages people to tell each other their synchronicity and serendipity stories. His book, Meaningful Coincidences: How and Why Serendipity and Synchronicity...

EP 126 of THE ARTISTS podcast has Screenwriter Tom Vaughan. Tom Vaughan has been writing professionally for over twenty years. He has written for Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and Disney. He has developed screenplays for Matthew McConaughey, Nicolas Cage, Barry Sonnenfeld, Chow-Yun Fat and many others. WINCHESTER, the film he co-wrote starring Helen Mirren and Sarah Snook, about the infamous Winc...

An existential crisis refers to a period of deep questioning and reflection about the fundamental nature of one's existence, purpose, and meaning in life. It is often characterised by feelings of confusion, anxiety, and a sense of being lost or disconnected from one's values, beliefs, or goals. And Artists who I might call thinkers are most prone to fall into existential crisis. How can they deal...

This episode is a part of Artists n mental health series. These episodes we cross-pollinate between our mental health podcast THE SOS SHOW and THE ARTISTS. The last episode we did was with actor Rajeev Khandelwal- chk that out if you haven't yet. Our guest for todays episode is peace activist Azim Khamisa who started the Forgiveness movement that has now reached millions of people. This movement i...

After we did the Ep 117 on Who are you making your films for, and then Ep 120 trends in indie monetisation and streaming, we thought we will try and solve a problem for filmmakers, if we can, by getting an opinion from Industry leaders, thought leaders, filmmakers on this one question that can help us all. Now making a film takes a lot of effort, time, resources, and if they do not reach the right...

This snacky episode of THE ARTISTS podcast has Suchita trying to understand the phenomena called Oscars, and how and why it is a BIG part of our Culture- Worldwide. But, are we missing out on something!! Enjoy!! Email id: metaphysicallab@gmail.com/   You can follow us and leave us feedback on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Twitter  @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email...

I'm sure all of you heard the amazing speech by one of the best storytellers, Charlie Kaufmann, "Don’t get trapped in their world of box office numbers. You don't work for them. You don’t work for the world of box office numbers. You work for the world. Don't worry about how to pitch, don't pitch. Be nervous, be vulnerable. Make your story honest and tell it. " But, how much of this will be applic...

Guy Bisson is an experienced media & entertainment analyst and commentator with in-depth knowledge of the international television business across the entire industry value chain. Wide-ranging experience in forecasting and sizing markets and industry segments with a proven track record of accuracy. He was part of the panels at the Berlin Film Festival 2023. Suchita digs into dynamic changes in...

How did Algorithms come to be? How can content creators make them work for their content? How are the algorithms different on Twitter, on Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube!!! Which platform is currently the best for your content? A snacky episode of THE ARTISTS podcast, to decipher and tackle the algorithms. Email id: metaphysicallab@gmail.com/   You can follow us and leave us feedback on  Facebook...

The origin of blues is ambiguous, but some details mention a 19th-century origin in the southern plantations. The inventors of blues were slaves, and descendants of slaves- African in origin, who sang while they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields; heart-wrenching, empathetic, could be the reason I identify with this music genre the most. And, our guests for today are part of the only kind o...

There were approx 15000 plus films (15858) submitted to Sundance 2023. More than half of them were made by first-time directors. There were 4,061 feature-length films,1,662 were from the U.S., and 2,399 were international. Out of this, only 101 feature films had to be selected for the final competition section of the festival. With this rush for making a movie, what are the chances that a worthy f...

In this snacky episode of THE ARTISTS PODCAST, we decipher CHAT GPT and the possible future that needs to be relooked at for content creators, and movie makers. Lots of questions, that have no answers right now: Differentiating between content created by an AI BOT AND A HUMAN. Does an AI bot need to be given credit:) What happens when the AI becomes conscious like Samantha in the movie HER? What a...