In this supplement episode, we talk about Zoya Akhtar. Listen to us as we dive into his three movies Luck By Chance, Dil Dhadakne Do and Gully Boy. You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.     Podcast Episode Summary: We have strong feelings about the dog's voice over in Dila Dhadakne Do We talk about Zoya's placement of songs in her movies We talk about her unique point of view and how she refuses to compromise Quotables: I came at it a little skeptical, like she comes form this industry - Anisha All her movies make a comment on society without hammering it on your head - Tanvi I am just happy that Zoya exists - Flo 

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In this supplement episode, we talk about Jaya Bachcan. Listen to us as we dive into his three movies Guddi, Piya Ka Ghar and Mili. You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.         Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about how movie stars in the 70s are different from movie stars now,  We talk about Jaya Bachchan's rockstar attitude off screen We talk about how they wrote more feminist movies in the 70s and how Jaya bachcha was a part of them   And we talk about her minimal makeup and her sarees. Quotables: She was the bigger actor in some of her movies and  she was credited before the actor - Upasna  She is much more fascinating than Amitabh Bachchan - Tanvi   She's like a chameleon, she just transforms like that - Flo

Jaya Bachchan, the actress - Just Because We Can

In this supplement episode, we talk about Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Listen to us as we dive into his three movies Parinda, 1942-A Love Story and Mission Kashmir. You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.                 Podcast Episode Summary:   We talk about background score in his movies We talk about ho he shot his women and made the look flawless   We talk about how Tanvi's love for Javed Akhtar came about, thanks to Vidhu Vinod Chopra   Quotables:   I would call it a cult movie - Tanvi   Background score was the hero for me - Flo Some of the dialogues were so laughable - Flo   This time, when I re-watched this movie, I wasn't blown away - Tanvi

Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the director - Just Because We Can

We are wrapping up our Top 10 Love Triangles series with this episode. In this episode, we talk about the common thread running through all the movies, the reason we picked these movies and read out some of the lovely reviews you guys have left for us. You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.   Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about how our favourite meet-cutes We talk about our favourite women characters We talk about our favourite male characters   Quotables: You can escape ..see someone else fall in love - Flo   It is very easy to look in the rear view mirror and be like \"oh we should have done this\" - Tanvi   Who was your favourite woman character that you would be friends with? - Flo   The use of alcohol went down after the first few movies - Tanvi

11: S05E11:Top 10 Love Triangles - Wrap Up Episode

Dil To Pagal Hai is a 1997 Indian drama film directed by Yash Chopra, starring Sharukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor. DIL TO PAGAL HAI is the story of Rahul (Shahrukh Khan), who does not believe in love. Rahul fails to understand how two people can spend their lives together. It is the story of Pooja (Madhuri Dixit), who believes that there is someone who is made for her and she is destined to meet that person. It is also the story of Nisha (Karisma Kapoor) who believes that love is friendship and one day her dream will come true. Dil To Pagal Hai is a grand musical about passionate people with dreams. Will their dreams come true? Will they find their true love?(Source:ImdB) You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below. Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about the amazing opening sequence We talk about Yash Chopra's sense of style for the women in his movies We talk about why Sharukh is called the king of romance  We talk about how cool Karisma's character in this movie was Quotables: This could as well be my go-to video to watch when I am feeling crappy - Flo They are the spice girls generation - Tanvi I am glad that at one time I was innocent enough to believe in this - Tanvi I feel like Karisma's character was too cool for Sharukh's character - Flo

10: S5E10: Dil toh Pagal Hai (1997) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Rangeela is a 1995 Indian drama film directed by  directed and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. It stars Aamir Khan, Jackie Shroff and Urmila Matondkar.  A middle class young woman (Urmila), who dreams of Bollywood fame, is caught in a love triangle between her childhood friend (Aamir Khan) and a famous actor (Jackie Shroff).(Source:ImdB) You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.   Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about the opening credits  We talk about fashion that changed the entire industry We talk about the connection between Saagar and Rangeela Quotables: This was definitely THAT one movie that I was excited about - Tanvi   I am pretty sure every 90s kids will have had that phase after watching Rangeela - Flo   I still remember when the teaser came out - Tanvi   Some of the songs are still too hot for TV - Flo

9: S5E9: Rangeela (1995) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Saajan is a 1991 Indian drama film directed by Lawrence D'Souza and starring Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit and Salman Khan.A poet (Sanjay Dutt) and his best friend (Salman Khan) fall in love with the same woman (Madhuri Dixit).(Source:ImdB) You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.   Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about Madhuri's fashion and makeup in the 90s We have differing views on choreography  We talk about the innocence of the film and ours ;) Quotables: What I liked about the movie was that it was set in the innocence era - Tanvi   These portrayals have been the foundation of our existence - Tanvi   Salman Khan is just good at comedy - Flo   We time travel, go back and crush on him and come back - Flo

8: S5E8: Saajan (1991) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Saagar is a 1985 Indian drama film directed by Ramesh Sippy, starring Rishi Kapoor, Kamal Haasan and Dimple Kapadia. Raja(Kamla Haasan), a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona(Dimple Kapadia). When wealthy Ravi(Rishi Kapoor) comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. Raja is devastated by this turn of events. But when Kamladevi gets to know that Ravi is seeing Mona, she puts pressure on Mona to give up Ravi and marry someone else.(Source:ImdB)   Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about Dimple's hair and her comeback after her marriage We wonder if this rain song was one of the first sexy rain songs in Hindi movies We talk about \"quintessential-y hindi movie\" this was Quotables: This movie put such a big smile on my face - Tanvi   That is what they have reduced Goa to ..now - Flo I loved SPB's voice on Kamla Hassan as well - Tanvi   The whole movies as a package was good - Flo

7: S5E7: Saagar (1985) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Arth (English: Meaning) is a 1982 Indian drama film directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Raj Kiran and Rohini Hattangadi. A film-maker (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress (Smita Patil) decides to leave his wife (Shabana Azmi). Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.    Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about parallel cinema queens Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi We talk about Mahesh Bhatt and his art of marrying commercial and parallel cinema We talk about three different marriages that are portrayed in the movie   Quotables: Even though she is an actress, she is still wearing wearable clothes - Tanvi   The house was filled with wicker furniture..even the couch felt very lived in - Flo   Ghazals were not a part of hindi movies per se - Tanvi   The way he had shown the bond between Shabana and her maid - Flo

6: S05E6: Arth (1982) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Silsila is a 1981 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Yash Chopra. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Shashi Kapoor and Sanjeev Kumar. Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) a poet decides to bury his past life along with his love for Chandni (Rekha) when he meets Shobha (Jaya Bachchan). Shobha's life has come to a standstill after her fiancé and Amit's brother Shekhar (Shashi Kapoor) dies in a plane crash. Amit had only come to mourn the death of his brother with Shobha but ends up sacrificing his own love and life in an attempt to give Shobha a new lease of life. When fate brings Amit and Chandni face to face again, both are married to different people - but neither can ignore their feelings for each other. (Source: IMDb) You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.   Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about THE biggest casting coup that ever was in Bollywood   We talk about Amitabh's swagger and specifically the 70s and the 80s Amitabh   We talk about just the beauty of all the cast involved Quotables:   If this is not a love story..I don't know what is - Flo   You know how when you love something so much ..you have no words and you feel like a giggly teenager - Flo   If this is not sex on screen, I don't know what is - Tanvi   This affair refuses to die - Tanvi

5: S05E5: Silsila (1981) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Sangam  is a 1964 Bollywood romance film, directed by Raj Kapoor, written by Inder Raj Anand, and produced by Kapoor with Mehboob Studio and Filmistan. The film stars Vyjayanthimala, Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar in the lead roles, with Iftekhar, Raj Mehra, Nana Palsikar, Lalita Pawar, Achala Sachdev and Hari Shivdasani appearing in supporting roles. Sundar (Raj Kapoor), Gopal (Rajendra Kumar) and Radha (Vyjayantimala) have been friends since childhood. As they grow into adults, Sundar develops an obsessive romantic attraction to Radha, but she prefers Gopal, who is also in love with her. Yet, as Sundar has confided his feelings for Radha to him, Gopal decides to sacrifice his love for his friend's sake. (Source: Wikipedia) You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.   Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about the wardrobe and how this might have been the longest honeymoon ever We talk about how indulgent Raj Kapoor's magnum opus is We talk about how this was the prototype of all Yash Chopra movies that followed Quotables: The movie felt so indulgent - Tanvi   I would happily have her entire wardrobe from the movie - Flo   Many songs have become a parody and when you watch these movies, you realize they are not as caricature-ish as we have made them to be - Tanvi   That whole premise of the movie was so weak - Flo

4: S5E4: Sangam (1964) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is a 1962 Indian Hindi film produced by Guru Dutt and directed by Abrar Alvi. A lowly servant, Bhootnath (Guru Dutt) gets close to the wife (Meena Kumari) of his employer, and narrates her story through his eyes and perspective. Source:IMDb You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.   Podcast Episode Summary:   We talk about the courtesan dancers and the beauty of Madhubala  We talk about why they would show independent but never let them be and instead give them a crutch to fall back and get regressive We wonder if anyone can even replicate that charisma that yesteryear actors had Quotables: He doesn't see his wife as a desirable woman - Flo I saw the movie for what it was - Tanvi I just LOVED her makeup and her nose pin - Tanvi I would go back watch these specific scenes between Madhubala and her husband - Flo 

3: S5E3: Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Devdas is a 1955 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood_films_of_1949) Indian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_people) Bollywood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood) film, directed  by Bimal Roy, with music by Naushad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naushad) . The film stars Dilip Kumar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip_Kumar) , Suchitra Sen and Vyjayanthimala in a love triangle. Set against the backdrop of rural (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_triangle) Bengal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal) during feudal times, it's the story of childhood friends, Devdas and Paro and whose love blossoms as they grow older, but are not able to get married due to Devdas' last minute cowardly decision and the story is about his descent into alcoholism and his friendship with Chandramukhi (Vyjayanthimala). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.     Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about the lack of English words in the movie We talk about is Devdas is a loser We talk about if it e liked the way Paro and Chandramukhi were portrayed and comparisons were obviously made between this version and SLB's version Quotables: The author did not like this piece of work and he was not happy with it - Tanvi It's almost 30 minutes that they show their childhood and thye even have a song sequence? - Flo I had to set my brain to 1900 - Tanvi I have always liked Paro - Flo 

2: S05E2: Devdas (1955) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Andaz (English: Style) is a 1949 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood_films_of_1949) Indian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_people) Bollywood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood) film, directed by Mehboob Khan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehboob_Khan) , with music by Naushad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naushad) . The film stars Dilip Kumar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip_Kumar) , Nargis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nargis) and Raj Kapoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Kapoor) in a love triangle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_triangle) , with Cukoo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cukoo) and Murad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murad_(actor)) in supporting roles. Nina (Nargis) is the rich and spoiled daughter of a rich businessman. One day while horse-riding she loses control of her horse and is rescued by a young man named Dilip (Dilip Kumar). Dilip falls in love with her but Nina is already engaged and gets married to Rajan (Raj Kapoor). Would this cause a strain in their relationships? You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on this player below.   Podcast Episode Summary: We talk about depiction of modern India We talk about character arcs that took the easy way out We talk about if it is ok to cut out problematic dialogues and re-release them Quotables: This movie released two years after the independence..let that sink in - Tanvi   The decor was so classily and elegantly done - Flo   And all of them talk to each other in riddles - Tanvi And then..the story took a deep dive - Flo

1: S05E1: Andaz (1949) - Top 10 Love Triangles

Shakespeare once said that \" Is it even a love triangle if Bollywood has not made a movie on it\"? ok, fine, he did not say that. But if he had, he would not be lying. We are back with Season 5, and we are discussing all the iconic love triangles in Hindi cinema. Give it a listen here and find out why we picked this particular genre and what you can expect in this series. 

Introducing Season 5

We are Flo and Tanvi! Join us as we talk about Hindi movies aka Bollywood. Each season, we will talk about specific categories like Marital Dramas, Family Saga etc. We are not critics (thank god for that!), we pick a movie and talk about our favorite songs, favorite scenes, gossip and why we picked that movie for that category - All served with a side of nostalgia!

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