Bollywood is For Lovers

Bollywood is For Lovers

Join hosts Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser for a bi-weekly podcast that explores the wonderful world of Hindi Cinema through the lens of two Canadian cinephiles! Contact us at bollywoodisforlovers@gmail.com

Episodes

July 14, 2025 32 mins
We watched the latest Vikramaditya Motwane project, Netflix's 2025 hit Black Warrant. We really liked it, which is not a huge surprise.

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We continue our longest running series in which we explore Amitabh Bachchan's career year by year, this time we are in the late 2000s. 

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  • Our Bachchan series playlist
  • We are jumping ahead a bit, because we felt like it
  • 2000 to 2006 Bachchan highlights
  • Amitabh Bachchan's elderly statesman reinvention
  • Cheeni Kum
  • Thoughts on R. Balki's filmography
  • A "Super R"?
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May 26, 2025 54 mins
There hasn't been much drawing us out to the theatre these days, so we asked ourselves, is there anything to watch at home? That's right lovers, it's time for another pilot season where we watch the pilot of six shows and choose which one we are going to watch, and review, a whole season of!

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NEXT TIME: Mid-2000s Bachchan<...
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In this supplemental we travel to Japan to see Om Shanti Om, Takarazuka style. 

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NEXT TIME: Pilot Season 3

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March may be over, but we are still mad, mad for Madhubala!

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INTERVAL ("Thandi Hawa Kali Ghata" from Mr. & Mrs. '55)

  • Mr. & Mrs. '55
  • The Orson Welles of India/The Guru Dutt of Hollywood
  • Limitation...
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Have we finally been cured of our madness? Find out in our last Madhuri Madness, at least for now. 

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INTERVAL ("Aaja Nachle" from Aaja Nachle)

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We watched the latest in the ongoing series of Bollywood family-based puff pieces, Netflix's The Roshans, as well as the debut film of Hrithik Roshan, Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai.

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We return to our Anil Kapoor decades series with three films from the 2000s: a double role, an action mystery, and an ensemble comedy. 

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January 16, 2025 122 mins
2024 has come and gone, and before we start to get excited about what movies the new year will bring us, we must first look back at the highs and the lows of Bollywood’s past six months.

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INTERVAL ("B(h)adass" from CTRL)

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Hindi Horror Halloween turns 10! And for this landmark entry in our longest running series, we're going back to the beginning and giving horror auteur Ram Gopal Varma another chance... to scare us!

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October 1, 2024 77 mins
We continue the tricky journey of following Amitabh Bachchan's career through its most treacherous stretch: the '90s.

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  • Thank you DT24x
  • Time for a Tezaab rewatch?
  • The Big B recap
  • Amitabh Bachchan Corporation
  • Begun, the Dadscension has
  • Khuda Gawah
  • Buzkashi, the national sport of Afghanistan
  • Why did Badshah Khan actually go to jail?
  • Amitabh Bachchan's School for Gifted Youngsters
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September 17, 2024 87 mins
Alongside Nim (@MapleBrownie), we discussed the opening night event of the tenth annual India Film Festival of Alberta, as well as a workshop put on by film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.

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July 16, 2024 102 mins
It's midyear review time! We check in on the first six months of the year and all of the Bollywood (and Bollywood-adjacent) movies that made it in front of our eyeballs.

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INTERVAL ("Ghagra" from Crew)

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We travel back to the mid-2000s with one of Bollywood's most fearless actresses, Preity Zinta.

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We travel back to the opulence of 1940s Lahore with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's lush Netflix period drama Heeramandi.

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Next time: Preity Zinta

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We are belting our hearts out with two Netflix features on the turbulent lives of popular singers. 

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INTERVAL ("Baaja" from Amar Singh Chamkila)

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We are polishing our magnifying glasses and donning our deerstalkers, because once again, murder is afoot! 

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To wrap up Madhuri Madness 2024 we're joined by our good friend Rashmeet to discuss two action films in which our beloved heroine finds herself at the centre of a deadly love triangle. 

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To celebrate International Women's Day, we are kicking off Madhuri Madness 2024 with two feminist consciousness raising ensemble dramas.

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