Saturday, November 28, 2020

On the Khandaan podcast: No Entry, Scam 1992, Soumitra Chatterjee, Ludo etc

I was invited recently to participate in the Khandaan podcast run by Amrita Rajan, Asim Burney and Sujoy Singha. Asked to pick a specific "Khan film" for discussion, I chose Anees Bazmee's No Entry, which is (in bits and pieces, especially in the midsection) one of my favourite Hindi films of the last decade and a half. I went into the podcast all set to give defensive-sounding speeches about the value of “tasteless” or “offensive” humour and how it stimulates those parts of our reptile brains that have nothing to do with the moral/ethical codes we have constructed for ourselves over the last few millennia – but as it turned out I didn’t really have to worry about all that because at least two of the other members of the podcast (Asim and Sujoy) had even more lowbrow tastes. What I did provide instead was an important insight into the usefulness of Fardeen Khan. Here's the link.

We also discussed a few general subjects such as the excellent new series Scam 1992 and Anurag Bansal's new film Ludo, and paid a small tribute to the late Soumitra Chatterjee. Here is the link for that conversation. (See the Timeline for the list of discussion points and when they begin.)

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