Love of Cinema
Interviews and conversations centered on cinema and streaming shows. Discerning conversations; organic interviews.
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Rangeela. Satya. Kaun. Company. Bhoot. Sarkar.
Ram Gopal Varma was belting out solid films almost one after another for ten years, between 1995 and 2005. Film critic and Entertainment Editor at Mid Day, Mayank Shekhar, joins me to jam on RGV and the movies he made during those ten years when he was at the peak of his powers. Join us!
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Delighted to have Chandan Arora on the pod to chat about one of my favorite films of 2010s, Striker. Striker is a Mumbai story, a sub-culture film, and a coming-of-age story, all rolled into one. Chandan talked about the genesis of the film, the film's world-building, the casting process, and shared some terrific stories including the story behind the stellar ...
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Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar The Revenge have stormed into the history books of Indian cinema, broken all box office records, challenged hierarchies, swept into pop culture, and disrupted Hindi cinema.
Abhijeet Shirish Deshpande (Ani... Dr Kashinath Ghanekar, Natasamrat, Wazir, Breathe) joins me as we try to deconstruct and decode the Dhurandhar phenomenon. ...
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Vishek Chauhan is here. Hailing from a family that's been in the business of film exhibition(theaters) for more than six decades, Vishek's got strong informed opinions and isn't afraid to voice them! The historical success of Dhurandhar and the reasons behind it, why Netflix should release their original films in theaters before landing them on their platform,...
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2025 was a great year for Indian cinema! We had massive blockbusters, sleeper hits, and indie-arthouse darlings. And then in the last month of the year, we got a film that might very well turn out to be one of the biggest milestones in the history of Hindi cinema — Dhurandhar.
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Suparn Varma is here! A true-blue film nut turned film journalist turned film critic turned filmmaker. We talked about everything from Feroz Khan and Mukul Anand to Weapons and Sinners, and from Karam and Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena to Manoj Bajpayee and Haq.
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Ram Gopal Varma's Shiva (1989) is a tremendous action drama. Everybody from Ashutosh Gowariker to S. S. Rajamouli to Anurag Kashyap to Sandeep Reddy Vanga count Shiva among their personal favorites. RGV is back on the pod for a deep dive of his stunning debut film.
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Omkara, Vishal Bhardwaj's critically acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, is unarguably one of the best Hindi film adaptations of all-time. Jamie Alter joins me as we look back on one of our favorite films of last 25 years.
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Raj Khosla, one of the absolute greats, made films across genres. His films were often marked by outstanding music, well-written women characters, and self-referential nods. National Award-winning writer Amborish Roychoudhury has written a fantastic new biography of the man. I was delighted to host Amborish on the pod, for the second time, to take a closer loo...
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Sholay turns 50 this year! Film Heritage Foundation's Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is here to talk about the film that over the years, as he puts it, has become part of our consciousness. We fanboyed over Sholay and talked about his foundation's years-long effort to restore the Ramesh Sippy classic to the director's original vision. Join us!
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Writer and co-architect of the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe, Niren Bhatt, is here for a deep dive of Bhediya! We also talked about writing horror comedies, how our horror comedies differ from the horror comedies in the West, Niren's takeaways from working on a VFX-heavy film, and much more. Join us!
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Screenwriter Alok Sharma and author Yasser Usman are here for a freewheeling discussion on Guru Dutt and his legacy, as we mark the filmmaker's centenary this month. Join us!
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Writer-director duo Pushkar and Gayatri are here for a deep dive of their compelling action thriller, Vikram Vedha. They talked about both Tamil and Hindi versions of the film and shared fascinating insights and interesting stories behind the two films. Join us!
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Director Pankuj Parashar joins us as we focus on Sridevi's most popular film, ChaalBaaz (1989). Stories, memories and more!
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Showrunner Sudip Sharma joins us for a probing discussion on the excellent second season of Amazon's hit crime thriller, Paatal Lok. And yes, I also got a chance to ask him about Kohrra 2 and why Balbir won't be returning this season.
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Senior film journalist and author Dilip Thakur joins us to recount memories of covering Hindi cinema in the 80s and the 90s. The excitement of muhurat shots, the glitz of premiere parties, the charm of single screen cinemas, Bachchan media boycott, access to stars, and Mumbai of the old — it's all here. Join us!
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Deewaar (1975) turns 50 this year. The Bachchan Coolies (Alok Sharma, Diptakirti Chaudhuri and Shiva Krishnamurthy) are back to celebrate the film that proved to be a landmark film not just for Bachchan, Salim-Javed and Yash Chopra but Hindi cinema itself. We discussed how Deewaar is a goldmine of quotable as well as throwaway lines, how Bachchan sensed very e...
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Mithun is among the actors who have become an integral part of Indian pop culture. Author Avijit Ghosh joins me as we look back on Mithun's career in the 80s, when he broke through as a star, not just in India but across the globe, including countries as far as Russia and Egypt.
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The second part of my conversation with Aditya Sarpotdar where we talked about his favorite films and shows, his A R Rahman fandom (including an anecdote which he has never shared publicly until now), and much more!
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Aditya Sarpotdar is here! His horror comedy Munjya is one of the biggest hits of 2024 and his next film Vampires of Vijay Nagar is one of the most eagerly anticipated films of 2025. Before making his Hindi debut with Munjya, Aditya made some of the more interesting and refreshing Marathi cinema of recent years, including Narbachi Wadi, Faster Fene, Unaad and t...
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