Goin’ Down the Road: Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and Piku

We bid adieu to the summer season with a trio of road films.   

Show Notes:

• We were out late partying at our friends’ wedding

• Thanks vcx100

• Karwaan

• The road movie

• Matt remembers a robot museum in Wisconsin

• Is the road movie a genre? How is it different from a chase movie? or a travelogue? 

• Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.

• Just like Sorcerer

• Reema Kagti

• The film’s super twist

• Radio DJ narrator 

• “Sajanaji Vari Vari”

• Public versus private lives

(INTERVAL (“Dil Dhadakne Do” from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)

• It’s the following evening, Erin made a cocktail

• Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

• Customary explanation of Katrina Kaif’s accent

• Running of the bulls

• “Senorita”

• Masculine vulnerability 

• Bagwati

• La Tomatina and “Ik Junoon (Paint it red)”

• Piku

• Age difference bwteen love interests 

• “The sexual power of Irrfan Khan”

• Coming to terms with loss

• Parineeti Chopra turned the title role down

• While Irrfan Khan turned down The Martian 

• Understated romance

• Howrah Bridge

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