Bollywood for Beginners

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Yo what's up everyone.

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We wanna do a special pod for all the people in the house that aren't

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diehard Bollywood fans, , which is actually a bunch of you.

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So a lot of you guys have been saying, Hey, what movies should I start with?

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Like, what are good Bollywood movies for beginner?

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Cause some of the movies we talk about are just like very Bollywood E so

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we wanted to give our top threes for what are the movies you start with?

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What are the Bollywood movies for beginners?

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honey, good.

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What is your number?

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So My number one is three idiots.

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I think it's a movie that a lot of people who don't typically

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watch Bollywood have already seen.

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Um, so I think it's a good one for people who've never seen a Bollywood movie.

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Uh, it kind of touches on a lot of the different tropes of

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Bollywood, whether it be drama, comedy, family relations, romance.

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Um, so I think it's a great place to start to get kind of introduced

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to what Bollywood is like.

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And it's a great watch.

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That's true.

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Yeah, it's a real, , Messala movie, basically.

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It's like a jumbalaya of like all sorts of genres.

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So if you really want the true Bollywood experience, which that's kind of what

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it's like, there's everything in there.

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That's a good one.

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So mine's kind of like that two, was debating between two movies

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between coach, coach and DDL J , I.

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DDL J which is an acronym for di Del is the better movie to start with.

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It's the longest running movie in the Guinness world records, which is kind of.

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It's one theater in Mumbai, which is later for the longest.

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and it's just pro typical Bollywood.

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I mean, it is the romantic story.

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There's a little bit of action in there.

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there's a lot of, kind of like general ideas and themes that may not be super

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available if you're not Indian, but I think it's like a good introduction to

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what a typical Bollywood romance is.

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And it set the.

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For every movie coming . after.

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So

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it's funny that you say that because I've never seen DLJ.

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yeah, that's wild and you're doing a podcast about

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Bollywood, so that's kind of insane.

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don't be like me.

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Watch it first.

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Uh, I think a cool thing about DLJ too is every, almost every RO romantic

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movie that came after it pulls.

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On

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the thread of DDJ.

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it's kind of like

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Basically every movie

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copied that

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It's like the hairy meant Sally of Bollywood movies.

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that that's so good.

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Yeah.

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That's exactly where

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my second one For beginners is a Zoya ter movie.

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And we talk about this a lot in our podcast.

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When we talk about her, but Zoya ter is an incredible director and she's slowly

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shaping a new industry of Bollywood.

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Um, so my movie is Zin GUI I'm, Liga Delbar.

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And the reason I, I put this one is it's not a typical Bollywood

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movie, like DDL, J three idiots.

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Um, it's I think a little easier for non Bollywood people to watch cuz they're.

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They're not used to the Messala and the, the craziness that is Bollywood, whether

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that be the drama or the crazy action scenes, this is a little bit more grounded

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so I think this is a great place for people who want to ease into the Bollywood

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aspect or the Bollywood industry.

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this is a good introduction.

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My second pick is a movie called deli belly, which is like the

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best way I can describe it is it's like a guy Richie movie with Indian elements.

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It's a caper, it's a comedy.

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It, it's just like a really fun watch And I've shown, a couple friends,

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American, Mexican, those movies, and, um, of many different like ethnicities

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and like they've all enjoyed it.

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Like it's, it's pretty accessible.

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So I feel like that that would be, um, a good pick as well.

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If you like . Kind of those caper, heist fun, hijinks things go

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wrong, mistaken identity type

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Yeah, and this movie is also just a great time.

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So whether you end up watching this and saying, I wanna watch Bollywood or

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not like, you know, you're gonna have a good time going into this movie.

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And I will say this isn't.

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A big reason as to why to watch this movie, but this movie's

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only an hour and 45 minutes long.

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So for those of you who know about Bollywood, they can

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drone on for a while.

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I mean, DD LJ might even be a three hour movie.

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still recommend you watch it, but it is long.

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but

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three idiots is super long too.

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Deli belly is only an hour and 45 minutes.

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So it's, it's honestly shorter than like all of the Nolan movies.

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It's shorter than a lot of, American movies

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Every single Marvel movie.

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And you're gonna love it.

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Like it's, it's just every little scene in this movie.

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There's something happening and there's something funny happening

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and you'll come out of it thinking it's an incredibly hilarious movie.

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So it's, it's a great choice, um,

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Yeah, we gotta do that one soon though.

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That's

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really fun.

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Fun.

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One.

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My last, movie is whom two.

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And I was talking to someone, , and they asked me, do I need to

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watch whom one to watch whom two?

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And the answer is a hundred percent.

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No, do not watch whom one first watch whom two.

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Um, the reason I say that is because doom two is one of those movies that

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even now all my friends will remember as one of their favorite action mystery.

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Crime movies with a Bollywood twist.

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It's literally about a cop trying to catch a robber and the robber is super

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smart and the cop is just one step behind the robber the whole time.

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And it's always fun.

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I mean, I love crime movies.

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I love mystery movies.

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Like how did he, I mean, how did he steal the Juul?

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How did he do this?

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And the cops are slightly behind,

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I feel like calling a crime is like maybe an exaggeration.

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Um, but yeah, this is a great movie.

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You know what it is.

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It's like if you guys know heat, which is like a pretty famous movie, it's like

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a really cheesy version of heat, but the difference is Robert DERO doesn't

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dress like an old man and fly off water jets and then skate away from Pacino.

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Pacino and Robert DRO don't have a whole item scene where they

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dance and sing for four minutes.

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So it's, uh, it's basically like a cheesy Bollywood version of heat.

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So if you like those sorts of movies, , and you, uh, ditch all the

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realism that heat is well known for.

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I think, uh, I think, I think you'll love it.

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Yeah.

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Think of it,

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as think of it, of right.

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In between the spectrum of heat and Johnny English.

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So if you, I dunno if

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yeah, that's actually very accurate.

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incredibly cheesy.

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A PTU is not as cheesy.

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It's probably right in the middle between the seriousness of heat and

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the, the cheesy of Johnny English.

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Yeah, that sounds about right.

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So for my third movie, it's actually also a crime movie, a little bit

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more, , serious and grounded.

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, and the hard thing about this movie, which is called UNE is that.

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I almost don't want to say anything about the movie because saying anything

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about the movie kind of gives it away.

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So all I'll say is it's about this pianist.

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And you know, Something bad happens.

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And there's a whole crime situation that happens through it.

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And it's a big mystery and thriller, and it kind of loses the thread

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a little in the ending, but it's just a really fun time throughout.

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So I would definitely recommend that movie.

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Try not to read any synopsis.

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Um, just take me on my word if you like crime movies.

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if you like kind of mysteries, thrillers, uh, that sort of thing.

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It's not that cheesy.

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It's not that comedic.

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It's just, it's just really well made and has a lot of twists and turns that.

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Yeah, there's an, and I can't stress the comment

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that, my brother just made.

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Don't look at.

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Or plot summary or anything of this movie, there's a lot of right.

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Turns in this movie, where it's going one way and it switches.

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and you don't want that ruined.

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I think this is an incredibly good watch.

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The first time I watched it, I was floored that Bollywood came

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up with something so interesting.

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, so it's definitely worth the watch.

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For all these top threes, we'll put them in the show notes

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because if you're new to Bollywood, if you don't know Hindi, it's

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probably hard to understand how to spell any of the things we just said.

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So just look in the show notes and, um, I'll probably link to like letter box

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or something like that, and you can kind of click on it and see for yourself.

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Yeah.

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And then one also comment I wanna say is, me and my brother don't know Hindi.

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so don't let the fact that it's a foreign

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film freak you out.

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I don't know.

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Hi, I watch it with subtitles and I still love this industry so much.

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so hopefully you guys check these, these movies out and and I do want to.

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An honorable mention.

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And my brother has his own honorable mention that he'll,

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he'll talk about, but I do wanna drop an honorable mention of R R.

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Um, and many people have probably heard of this movie.

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It was incredibly huge in America, incredibly huge in India.

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Uh, it's not a Bollywood movie, so it's actually a algo movie, directed by

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moley.

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but it's such an incredible time.

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I watched it in theaters twice.

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When I went to, I mean, what my brother can even talk a little bit more about

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this when he went to watch it in theaters, he, him, my mom and her dad were the

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only Indian people in the theaters.

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and everyone else was not Indian, probably had never seen a Bollywood

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or Hollywood movie before.

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So I definitely wanna put that down as an honorable mention,

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uh, because it's getting

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so.

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much traction right now.

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And it's an it's think of it like the end game of India.

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It's so incredibly hype and you don't need to really know anything going into it.

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It's just a good.

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We'll do a pod about it, but, um, if you watch the movie, Patrick H

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Willow made a great movie, a great video, I say about it and just look up stuff

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on Twitter, because like, people were like wilding out in the theaters, man.

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Like people were dancing and shit.

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And even the theater I went to, like people were like, like

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yelling, like, yeah, let's go.

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And like, it was just a dope time.

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Like, it felt like a real, real experience.

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So for mine, which is I don't for our honorable mentions, we, you know, in

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this podcast, we're gonna talk about some movies that aren't, don't fit

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neatly into the Bollywood spectrum.

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So we might talk about some Hollywood movies, some Moala movies, all sorts of.

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Movies.

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Um, there's a movie called lunchbox, which I think is technically Bollywood.

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don't know what to classify it as it in has actors who are Bollywood actors.

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It's just an lunchbox is an incredible movie.

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It's very kind of artsy and about moan moments and poetic.

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And I wanted to include kind of one of those kind of indie

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artsy movies in here too.

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And I wanna reiterate, like Anique had said for all these movies, , you know,

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don't let the subtitles get in your way.

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I remember when parasite won the Oscar Bo ho the director para I

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had this great quote where he says.

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, if you overcome the one inch barrier of subtitles, you'll be introduced to many

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more amazing films, something like that.

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I'm paraphrasing, but,, did you have any other thoughts on the, on any of

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these top threes are honorable mention?

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Yeah.

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I mean, I think I've, I've hit most of the points I wanna talk about, but

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I, I hope you guys watch these movies.

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If you don't watch these specific movies, don't, don't put yourself

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in a box and think these are the movies you have to watch.

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Um, definitely go out and explore if you guys want, uh, different

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suggestions, reach out to both of us.

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Uh, if you watch the, if you

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watch all of these eight movies and you're like, dope, I want

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more, I don't know where to.

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Reach out to us

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cuz we've

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you you can reach out to us by the way.

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At, uh, brown bros, binge gmail.com.

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All one

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Yeah, we we've watched, I don't wanna say maybe probably over a hundred

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Bollywood movies, like collectively between the two of us, if not more.

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we love Bollywood.

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We love this industry and we want this industry to grow amongst not just Indian

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people, but everyone around this world.

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And that's kind of why we have this podcast.

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It's partly because we wanna share our thoughts.

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It's partly because we love talking about Bollywood between the two of us and we

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thought it would be cool outlet to do it, but a big reason we do this is we want

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share this incredible industry to others and to our friends and to people that

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maybe didn't think they would want to get into Bollywood or watch Indian movies.

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Um, and we hope that this is a good jumping off point for you guys to, to,

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join into the world of Indian cinema and Bollywood and Hollywood, whatever it may.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah, he's very well said.

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So guys let us, uh, guys and gals, let us, uh, know what you think and

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we'll see you in the next podcast.