Awful and Awesome Ep 343: Laapataa Ladies, Mr & Mrs Smith, The Holdovers

Abbas: Did you see? Karan Johar has put up a high production quality pre-wedding video of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. Our pre-wedding videos are by some random ‘Chandu video wala’. 

Nainika: No, Abbas. You’re Bombay royalty. You should have one of your director friends come in and shoot your wedding with a film camera. 

Abbas: I think I’d get Suraj Barjatya, or maybe Quentin Tarantino. The joota-churai ceremony would be epic.

Nainika: Oh my god, you did not just say that. (laughs)

This and a whole lot of awful and awesome as Abbas Momin and Nainika Singh Rathore discuss the movies The Holdovers and Laapataa Ladies, the series Mr and Mrs Smith, and the hullabaloo around Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding festivities. 

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Timecodes

00:00 - Introductions

02:18 - Headlines

04:02 - Ambani bash 

21:06 - NL-TNM Election Fund announcement 

22:08 - Mr & Mrs Smith

28:59 - Subscriber letter

30:05 - Laapataa Ladies

37:56 - Subscriber letter

40:05 - The Holdovers 

References

General Elections 2024 Fund

Laapataa Ladies 

The Holdovers 

Mr and Mrs Smith

Has It Aged Well?

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Produced and recorded by Priyali Dhingra and Shubang Gautam, edited by Samarendra K Dash and Umrav Singh. 

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