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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
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Netflix and Dil: We Signed the Black Warrant
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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164: Bachchan '07 - '09
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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Netflix and Dil: Pilot Season Teen
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...
Supplemental Episode 22: Om Shanti Om - Endless Cycle of Love
In this supplemental we travel to Japan to see Om Shanti Om, Takarazuka style.
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Takarazuka Revue
163: Madhubala Madness 2025: Mrs and Mrs '55 and Barsaat Ki Raat
March may be over, but we are still mad, mad for Madhubala!
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162: Madhuri Madness 2025: Aaja Nachle and Maja Ma
Have we finally been cured of our madness? Find out in our last Madhuri Madness, at least for now.
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Netflix and Dil: The Roshans and Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, or The Little Family That Could
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,...
161: Anil Kapoor's 2000s: Bulandi, Calcutta Mail, and Welcome
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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160: 2024 Year End Review
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...
159: Halloween X: Vicious Voyeurs, or Ram Gopal Varma Strikes Again
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...
158: Bachchan '92, '98-'99
We continue the tricky journey of following Amitabh Bachchan's career through its most treacherous stretch: the '90s.
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Supplemental Episode 21: A Tale of Two Events
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 b...
Netflix and Dil: Angry Young Men, Angrier Young Viewers
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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157: 2024 Midyear Review
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 fro...
156: Preity Woman: Kal Ho Naa Ho and Salaam Namaste
We travel back to the mid-2000s with one of Bollywood's most fearless actresses, Preity Zinta.
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Netflix and Dil: Lahore Girl, Give Us Nothing!, or Heeramandi
We travel back to the opulence of 1940s Lahore with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's lush Netflix period drama Heeramandi.
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155: Sad Songs Say So Much: Qala and Amar Singh Chamkila
We are belting our hearts out with two Netflix features on the turbulent lives of popular singers.
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154: Murder Most Fun: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! and Murder Mubarak
We are polishing our magnifying glasses and donning our deerstalkers, because once again, murder is afoot!
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153: Madhuri Madness 2024: Aarzoo and Pukar
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...
152: Madhuri Madness 2024: Mrityudand and Lajja
To celebrate International Women's Day, we are kicking off Madhuri Madness 2024 with two feminist consciousness raising ensemble dramas.
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Supplemental Episode 20: Rainbow Rishta Director Jaydeep Sarkar
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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151: 2023 Year End Review
Somehow we made it through 2023, which certainly was a year in Bollywood. Did Tiger 3 hit the jackpot? Did we soldier through Jawan? Find out now!
Supplemental Episode 19: Two Million Apologies!
It's hard for us to believe, but we've reached two million downloads! To celebrate, we wanted to look back at the evolution of the show and apologize...
150: Detective Vidya-chu: Bobby Jasoos and Neeyat
We are on the case with Bollywood's leading actress, the incomparable Vidya Balan, will we solve it before she does? Listen to find out!
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149: Sujoy (Ghosh) Division: Kahaani and Jaane Jaan
To celebrate Noirvember this year, we delve into the catalogue of Sujoy Ghosh with the (not exactly noir) thrillers Kahaani and this year's Netflix re...
Halloween IX: Interview With the Dentist, or Dedflix and Kill (Again)
Happy (belated) Halloween Lovers! We may be late but our tradition of exploring all things spooky that Hindi cinema has to offer lives on! This year w...
Supplemental Episode 18: Sunny Singh's Bollywood State of Mind!
We welcome writer Sunny Singh to the show to discuss her fascinating new book A Bollywood State of Mind!
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148: Two wives, or two brothers? Daag and Deewaar
We return to the career of Yash Chopra with two iconic mid-70s blockbusters: one, the first film to carry the YRF name and the other, maybe the most i...
Netflix and Dil: Girlzapur, or Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo
We go to the lawless deserts in Homi Adajania's blood-soaked Hotstar crime drama, Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo, to find out who Dimple Kapadia will choose...
Supplemental Episode 17: It's All About Loving Their Family, or Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani with Manish Mathur
After bemoaning the state of Bollywood in our last episode, Karan Johar has given us something worth celebrating!
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147: 2023 Midyear Review
Somehow we are more than halfway through 2023, which means it's time for the midyear review where we discuss 11 Hindi-language films that have come ou...
Netflix and Dil: Pilot Season Dobaara
It's been a rough year so far for Bollywood, but luckily there are plenty of new streaming shows that have caught our attention, some might say too ma...
Supplemental Episode 16: Our Chat with Shashaa Tirupati
We welcome Canadian musician and playback singer Shashaa Tirupati on to discuss her career in Indian cinema, as well as winning a National Film Award...
146: “I'm the Dude, Playing a Dude, Disguised As Another Dude”: Don and Don 2
Strap in Lovers, we’re going on an international chase to catch Asia’s biggest criminal mastermind, Don.
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145: Whodunnit Watusi: Gumnaam and Teesri Manzil
We go back to the swinging sixties to get our groove on and maybe solve a murder or two, or ten, if we don’t end up dead ourselves!
Netflix and Dil: Bombay’s Dream Factory, Jubilee
We go back to the golden age of filmmaking in Bombay with Vikramaditya Motwane’s period drama Jubilee.
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144: Inside the Actors Studio: Kaamyaab and An Action Hero
Who better to play actors in Bollywood, than Bollywood actors? We discuss two films that present a very different take on the lifestyles of working sc...
143: Madhuri Madness 2023 - Dutt v Dixit: Dawn of Romance
In our second annual Madhuri Madness we discuss two awards-nominated performances from the early 90s.
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Supplemental Episode 15: The Romantics Director Smriti Mundhra
We welcome The Romantics director Smriti Mundhra on to discuss her new Netflix docuseries on Yash Raj Films, Bollywood stars' bookshelves, the nepotis...
Netflix and Dil: High and Low - Cinema Marte Dum Tak and The Romantics
We go behind the scenes to learn about the making of some of Hindi cinema’s most famous and infamous films with two new docuseries.