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
June 14, 2025 • 63 mins
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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April 22, 2025 • 62 mins
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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April 3, 2025 • 63 mins
March may be over, but we are still mad, mad for Madhubala!
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- Thanks to tommydan
- Noir '58: Howrah Bridge and 12 O'Clock
- The Great Epic: Mughal-e-Azam
- Bollywood Drafts
- A brief aside on Mahal
- Tragically struck down too soon
- Mr. & Mrs. '55
- The Orson Welles of India/The Guru Dutt of Hollywood
- Limitation...
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March 19, 2025 • 68 mins
Have we finally been cured of our madness? Find out in our last Madhuri Madness, at least for now.
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- Madhuri Madness
- 2000s Madhuri
- Devdas vs. Dev.D with Paul Matwychuk
- Ladies Be Angry: Gulaab Gang, Akira, & Mom
- Aaja Nachle
- Steve
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
- Comparison with Dil Toh Pagal Hai
- Creative ego vs community cohesion
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February 26, 2025 • 75 mins
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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- Thank you Señorita for the review!
- Previously on Bollywood Family History Story Time: our episodes on The Romantics, and Angry Young Men
- Three generations, four guys: Roshan, Rajesh Roshan, Rakesh Roshan, and Hrithik Rosha...
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February 9, 2025 • 69 mins
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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- Anil Kapoor's 80s and 90s
- Moving from lead actor to ensemble films
- Aesthetic shifts in 2000s Bollywood
- Reflecting on Slumdog Millionaire and its impact
- Bulandi
- Remake of Nattamai
- "Gourd scene"
- Songs: "Saari Duniya Mein," "Teri Meri Ik Jind," and "Ab Bujho Ri B...
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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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October 22, 2024 • 46 mins
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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- This our tenth Hindi Horror Halloween!
- We still know nothing about Ram Gopal Varma
- Bollywood Drafts
- Erin thinks Matt just remembers that David Cronenberg made a film with Marilyn Chambers
- ...
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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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August 27, 2024 • 55 mins
We checked out the latest talking heads documentary about Bollywood cinema, Namrata Rao's Angry Young Men. Did we learn anything?
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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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June 26, 2024 • 81 mins
We travel back to the mid-2000s with one of Bollywood's most fearless actresses, Preity Zinta.
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- The Stanley Cup finals are on (we lost)
- Bollywood Drafts
- Preity Zinta (has not made an impression on Matt)
- We would really like to see Sangharsh
- Heaven on Earth (and its gorgeous poster)
- Erin's thesis on Preity Zinta
- ...
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May 28, 2024 • 41 mins
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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May 8, 2024 • 70 mins
We are belting our hearts out with two Netflix features on the turbulent lives of popular singers.
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- Straight-to-streaming films are legit now
- Qala
- Comparison to Amadeus
- Halloween VI: Hell Hath No Fury, Stree and Bulbbul with Matthew Stepanic
- Elvis and Norah Jones
- Style over substance
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April 17, 2024 • 62 mins
We are polishing our magnifying glasses and donning our deerstalkers, because once again, murder is afoot!
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- We just love murder mysteries!
- Our Noirvember playlist
- To Those Who Killed Me and Call of the Void, the mystery books Matt has edited
- You can't have too few or too many characters in a murder mystery
- Detective Bymokesh Bakshy!
- "When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood"
- Byomkesh Bakshi
- Comp...
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March 29, 2024 • 60 mins
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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- Welcome Rashmeet!
- Madhuri Madness
- Madhuban Performing Arts and Urja Yeg
- Aarzoo
- Gaslight, Girlboss, Gatekeep
- Obsession gazebo
- Darkman
- "Dosti Karte Nahin" and "Mil Jaate Hain"
- St. Andrews
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March 7, 2024 • 62 mins
To celebrate International Women's Day, we are kicking off Madhuri Madness 2024 with two feminist consciousness raising ensemble dramas.
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- Happy International Women’s Day
- Madhuri Madness
- Every film industry is patriarchal (except Paradise Island)
- Hollywood vs Bollywood women’s pictures
- Mrityudand
- Shabana Azmi and Om Puri
- Prakash Jha’s political filmmaking
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February 13, 2024 • 36 mins
We welcome filmmaker Jaydeep Sarkar, series director and executive producer of Rainbow Rishta, a new docuseries available now on Amazon Prime.
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NEXT TIME: Madhuri Madness
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