Young, Adult: Gippi and Secret Superstar with That's a Thing?!

We welcome Elizabeth Spencer and Karen Unland of That’s A Thing?! to discuss two films about teen girls, and their moms.

Show Notes:

• Thanks Sri Rao for the Nimbu Pani recipe, get his book Bollywood Kitchen (sorry for all the noise our metal straws make)

• That’s A Thing?!

• Erin knows nothing about teens

• Do teenagers even watch movies anymore?

• The Lobby

• Are today’s teen movies as good as the ones from the ‘90s?

• The YA genre

• Why aren’t there a lot of Bollywood films about teenagers?

• The best joke

• Gippi

• SO MUCH SMOKING

• Fat jokes

• “It’s nice to watch a movie”

• Twilight parallels?

• Blackface… (more here on Bollywood and blackface)

• Realistic portrayal of teen life?

• The Kraz

(INTERVAL (“Main Kaun Hoon” from Secret Superstar)

• Secret Superstar

• Meghna Mishra

• Age appropriate songs

• Songs: “Nachdi Phira,” “Meri Pyaari Ammi,” and “Sapne Re”

• Box office and popularity in China

• Domestic violence

• Daughters supporting mothers

• An inaccurately positive portrayal of the Internet

• Young love

• Shakti Kumar’s first YouTube video: “Sexy Baliye”

• The human right to dream

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