Rhythm Nation: Dil To Pagal Hai and Taal with I Don't Get It

In this episode we’re joined by Paul Blinov and Fawnda Mithrush of I Don’t Get It to discuss two films about performers.

Show Notes:

• Welcome Paul & Fawnda

• So many wind machines!

• Erin is still mad that Oprah lied to her

• The early Shah Rukh Khan film with the steamy love scene is Maya Memsaab with Deepa Sahi

• Dil To Pagal Hai

• Baby Shahid Kapoor

• 90s+ fashion

• Shiamak Davar

• The Baxter)

• Opening song: “Le Gayi"

• Dance telepathy

• “Rhythm Nation”

• Art and ego

• What is Maya?

• Karisma Kapoor deserves better

• Fritz Lang’s M and whistling

• Europa-Park

(INTERVAL (“Taal Se Taal Mile” from Taal)

• Taal

• Amrish Puri) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

• Roger Ebert’s review

• Hot take: Aishwarya Rai is gorgeous

• So much Coca-Cola

• Obligatory Clone High reference: song taking

• Comparisons to Dil To Pagal Hai

• Opening dream

• Art versus commerce and rural versus urban and tradition versus modernity

• Anil Kapoor’s rules

• The SkyDome

• Brownie

• Is Akshaye Khanna a good match for AR?

• “Ramta Jogi)”

• Links to the Race series

• The real villain

• Visual appeal

• “Ni Main Samajhh Gayi”

• SRK versus Anil Kapoor

NEXT TIME: Nisha Sharma, author of the upcoming My So-Called Bollywood Life

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