The Awful & Awesome Entertainment Wrap

Timestamps 00:01 - Introduction 01:29 - A Call to Spy 12:10 - Mank 28:50 - Letters from listeners 37:28 - The Wilds 47:46 - Letters from listeners 51:09 - Swipe 56:25 - Letters from listeners 1:01:27 - Smiths City ad Talking about Noor Inayat Khan, played by Radhika Apte in A Call to Spy: Rajyasree: One of her parents was Indian and she was a pacifist. So all those things... Abhinandan: She was a...

Timestamps 00:01 - Introduction 06:13 - Jallikattu  25:08 - Quiz 34:13 - Letters from listeners 39:39 - Bhaag Beanie Bhaag 50:44 - Letters from listeners 57:10 - Girl like me by BEP ft. Shakira 1:00:18 - Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog 1:03:00 - Letters from listeners 1:05:18 - Doc Morris ad 1:07:30 - Diljit Dosanjh and Kangana Ranaut's twitter clash Talking about the Netflix s...

Timestamps 00:01 - Introduction 05:02 - Hillbilly Elegy 16:47 - Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives 30:18 - Subscriber letters 34:31 - Tinder ad 38:17 - RC Cola ad 40:16 - Coolie No. 1 trailer Talking about Tinder’s new ad campaign: Rajyasree: So by midnight tonight, guys, y’all can search for Abhinandan on Tinder, and please reach out to him. He will be in the pre-section because he’s too cheap to...

Timestamps 00:01 - Introduction 01:16 - Subscriber letters 07:35 - Boy Erased 18:04 - Subscriber letters 21:34 - Bichhoo Ka Khel 28:48 - Subscriber letters 33:25 - The Life Ahead 43:25 - Subscriber letters 50:13 - Bingo ad controversy 54:36 - Dollar Ultra ad 1:00:55 - If Anything Happens I Love You Talking about the children Madame Rosa, a holocaust survivor, takes care of while discussing The Lif...

Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 03:38 - Subscriber letters 07:15 - Ludo 26:41 - HP ad 31:59 - LG ad 34:38 - The Crown Season 4 45:50 - Subscriber letters 47:57 - Soumitra Chatterjee 58:06 - Facebook ad 1:02:35 - Subscriber letters 1:04:20 - Soorarai Pottru While discussing a scene from Ludo , where six-year-old Mini's parents must choose between retaining their house help or keeping their pet dog...

Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 03:50 - Laxmii 16:18 - Subscriber letters 18:29 - First Man 25:36 - Tanishq Diwali ad controversy 29:09 - Senco Aham ad featuring Sourav Ganguly 32:04 - Subscriber letters 34:10 - Lucy in the Sky 45:01 - Usha exhaust fan ad 47:41 - Subscriber letters 54:51 - Cadbury ad 57:15 - Zomato ad While talking about Lucy in the Sky : Abhinandan: Other than technology, it’s a...

Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 02:45 - Kaali Khuhi 15:18 - Jump Cuts 20:58 - Skore and Durex ads 26:40 - Ford EcoSport ad 27:21 - Subscriber letters 29:39 - The Undoing 39:31 - Subscriber letters 42:18 - Taish Talking about the Ford EcoSport ad: Rajyasree: I wanted to buy an EcoSport. It’s a very expensive car, I want people to know. Abhinandan: Then you would have to put a ladder to get in. Raj...

Talking about Mirzapur Season 2: Rajyasree: Munna’s character is very important because…  Abhinandan: Because he has no character. Rajyasree: He really has no character, he’s a horrible character. Abhinandan: That’s why it was funny. You don’t have to justify my joke, it was implicit in the joke. Rajyasree: No, no, you have to explain. Hindi cinema has taught me. Abhinandan: Making a joke in...

While talking about the Oppo ad : Abhinandan: It ends with a line, “Let’s be the light in each other's lives.” So, on that note, Rajyasree, I have no idea what…  Rajyasree: I’m the light in your life, you’ll have to admit. I’m not the light in your life? My name means light of the kingdom. Abhinandan: So nice. That kingdom of chudails you can go light up! Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out la...

While talking about Ginny Weds Sunny : Abhinandan: She's really good. Yami Gautam, I think… Rajyasree: Please ya, Abhinandan! She was not good at all in this. Abhinandan: You said your bit, na? Rajyasree: Arrey, but you can't be delusional. I don't want you to be, na? Abhinandan: You are completely allowed to be delusional. See! We do this podcast together for, I don't know how many 300 episodes,...

While talking about their favourite James Bond actors: Abhinandan: This was I think about eight or nine years ago. He’s much taller in person than he looks. He looks slight. Rajyasree: What do you mean, Abhinandan? He looks tall only. Abhinandan: He does? Acha , he doesn't look like…he’s a biggish guy. There was this guy with this white dhaadi (beard) and a white mooch (moustache) and with a shirt...

Talking about the Bhojpuri Rap ‘Bambai Main Ka Ba’ : Rohit: Abhinandan, I’m not being a linguist because Bhojpuri is not my first language but it’s not Bambai Main Kaaba , it is Bambai Main Ka Ba . Abhinandan: Oh, I thought Kaaba. Rajyasree: Kaaba, as in the Islamic structure? Abhinandan: As Jagjit Singh said, “ Kaabe se parda mat uthao varna wa bhi vahi...” Rohit: No, no, no! “ Khuda ke waaste pa...

While talking about Paytm’s First Games ad : Abhinandan: I don’t know how this world works, Rajyasree. I just don’t know it. Rajyasree:  Oh my god! You have to go and live on that cliff, na, which you’ll push me off. You’ll build a hut on that cliff and become a recluse there. When I come to meet you, then you push me. Abhinandan: I don’t have to live there, I can just push you off and come b...

While talking about  Wakaalat From Home: Abhinandan: You are basically indulging in shameless nepotism that you’re plugging your friend’s show on this very credible pop culture podcast...So you are using it for nepotism. Kangana was right! I’m sure you’re also doing drugs in your spare time. Rajyasree:  I’m doing drugs? Dedo na , drugs dedo . I’m telling everyone, no one’s giving only. I...

While talking about Bandish Bandits: Abhinandan: Rajyasree, sing one line of any song you want, just one. Rajyasree:  No, now I don’t want to sing like that because you’ll get it doctored from the backend and make me sound bad. So, why will I do that? Abhinandan: You’re the crappiest singer ever and I must say that much as I have problems with the place you come from, Bongs have music in...

While talking about Sadak 2: Abhinandan: Suppose there was a tribe that caught us and they said, “We’ll kill you,” and we said, “No, please let us live.” They said, “Ok, you have to watch Sadak .” Even then I would think twice. You watched it when it was optional, no one was going to kill you. Rajyasree: If the tribe said this to me, I would say, “If I watch Sadak will you kill him [Abhinandan]?”...

Talking about The Man from Earth: Rajyasree: Because he doesn't age and after 10 years being in one place, he realises that people obviously know that he’s not aging. Then he keeps moving on. I know what Abhinandan says. Abhinandan: Why don’t you move then? Rajyasree: Why? You didn’t say, “Oh, then I should be moving.” Abhinandan: Why should I say that about myself? What do you think I am? Rajyasr...

While talking about Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl: Rajyasree: Also the change in behaviour, that commanding officer who takes her under his wing. The change in behaviour can’t happen because of one instance like... Abhinandan: Not under the wing, under the rotor. If she was flying planes, it would be under the wing. But she’s flying helicopters which are under the rotor. Did you get it? Rajyasree...

While talking about Clint Eastwood’s movies : Abhinandan: Since I’m from the ‘70s generation, let me say a sexist line: “ Humne bhi chudiyan nahi pehen rakhi hai .” Rajyasree: Now if no one writes mails on this, na? I’m going to be so disappointed. Abhinandan: That means people are unnecessarily attacking you and I get a free pass on all the shit that I say. Rajyasree: I crack a joke about somethi...

While talking about Raat Akeli Hai: Rajyasree: I would not recommend it but if you all have time, you all should watch. What else is everyone doing? You’re sitting at home. Watch it. Abhinandan: You know only you are! Everybody is working by the way. Rajyasree: I’m working. I do three things... Abhinandan: Then why do you assume...“Since all of you are sitting home doing nothing. Abhinandan, you d...

While reading out a letter from a listener : Abhinandan: “ As someone who is active in the field of theatre, Hamilton is sacred to me and I would've loved it had Abhinandan Sir, a former thespian himself, watched it.” So... Rajyasree: She’s very young. Abhinandan: Have you passed out? Are you choking? Rajyasree: No, I’m choking so they’ll get me my smelling salts, I’ll be fine. But you must n...

How dependent are journalists and film critics on access to power for their stories? Has the entertainment beat always been close to power structures – or have things improved/worsened? In this session of #TheMediaRumble - Dispatches, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Anupama Chopra, Mayank Shekhar, Ravina Rawal and Sowmya Rajendran to discuss this, and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Abhinandan sharing his first acting experience in a play : Abhinandan: I didn't have dialogue, so I was just showing love with expressive eyes and my eloquent facial expressions. He [the director] said, “Okay, show love.” Then I was showing love and he said, “What are you doing?” I said, “I’m showing love!” Rajyasree: This explains why you’ve never gotten married because when you’re showing love,...

Talking about The Old Guard: Abhinandan: If Charlize Theron did an Alibaba film with Jack Ma... Rajyasree: Hmm? Abhinandan: If she made an ad for Jack Ma and she played a thief in it, it would be called Alibaba and Charlize Chor . Rajyasree: Okay, we will get back to the film I was discussing so we cannot hear bad jokes. Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing. This and a whole lot of other st...

Abhinandan’s version of how he and Rajyasree met: Abhinandan: I was shooting a documentary in Bengal actually. I was in the Sundarbans and late at night, I was going with my crew. Rajyasree: And? Chudail came? Abhinandan: Suddenly there was this [malicious laugh] and the whole crew ran off. I was like, what is this? Then suddenly she emerged. Rajyasree: And then? Abhinandan: Then I said I’m not sc...