Adventures in the Public Domain: Aladin and Arjun: The Warrior Prince

Ahead of the release of Walt Disney’s new live-action Aladdin, we discuss the Bollywood version alongside Disney’s own animated Hindi-language fantasy, Arjun: The Warrior Prince.

Show Notes:

• Thank you Anshita Makwana! 10 BiFL points!

• Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin

• Disney loves Alan Tudyk 

• Comparisons to Bollywood & Naomi Scott in Entertainment Weekly  

• Fancasting Disney with Matt

• Will Smith will be in Student of The Year 2

• One Thousand and One Nights

• “Aladdin”

• Brief digression on Aladdin the animated series and Mozenrath 

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed and The Thief of Bagdad (1940)  

• Aladin

• Sahil Khan, India’s Rob Lowe?

• Ringmaster and his dark circus 

• Aladin’s birthday party: “Tak Dhina Din”

• Genius grants Aloo’s first wish: “O Re Saawariya”

• Genius sings for Aladin, Cyrano style: “You May Be”

• The school’s costume party: “Bachke O Bachke”

• Not enough parkour 

• Ratna Pathak

(INTERVAL ( “Genie Rap” from Aladin)

• Disney’s most violent movie?

• Walt Disney India

• Arjun: The Warrior Prince

• El Capitan Theatre

• The Mahabharata

• Grant Morrison’s 18 Days

• Too simple and yet too complicated

• Indian mythological television series

• Animated Rajinikanth: Kochadaiiyaan 

• Please tell us about the best animated films from India!

• “Sanjay’s Super Team” and Sita Sings the Blues

• We are out of our depth and we know it

NEXT TIME: Manish Mathur drops by to school us on Yash Chopra

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