Anushka Sharma’s Clean Slate: NH10, Phillauri, and Pari

In this episode we discuss three films produced by and starring Anushka Sharma.

Just a note, we discuss some mature subjects in this episode including sexual assault, honour killings, and infanticide. There’s also a fair amount of spoilers.

Show Notes:

• We hope all our fellow Canadians had a happy Canada Day

• Thank you karenrayan and Airia101

• Eros Now, Hotstar, and Amazon Prime Video

• We can finally watch Aisha

• Amazon isn’t a great company, Amazon Prime Video in Canada versus America

• Access Bollywood

• Anushka Sharma

• Clean Slate Films

• Kaneda

• NH10

• Women can be complicit in toxic masculinity

• Deadly Road Trip

• Comparison to rape revenge films and honour killings

• Urban versus rural India

• Violence and grindhouse aesthetics

(INTERVAL ( “Naughty Billo” from Phillauri)

• Phillauri

• Suraj Sharma

• This is not magic realism; Shaandaar might be considered MR

• Paranormal romance

• Poets and poetry

• Jallianwala Bagh massacre and unfinished business

• Commitment issues

• The modern day is so weird!

• Sexy times

• Special effects

• Pari: Not A Fairytale

• More paranormal than romance

• Feral Woman trope

• Ifrit

• Menstrual Menace

• Themes regarding childbirth and motherhood

• Erin hates eye stuff (and teeth stuff)

• Overuse of cheap jump scares

• Comparisons to contemporary Hollywood horror

• Naked zebra!

• Overarching themes and new voices

NEXT TIME: Sanjay Dutt and the biopic Sanju

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