Bollywood Is For Lovers

To celebrate the podcast’s first anniversary we reflect on the past year before turning our focus to one of Hindi cinema’s most iconic and celebrated films, Lagaan. Show Notes: Happy anniversary to Bollywood is For Lovers and thank you to all of our guests and listeners! Understanding and appreciating popular cinema versus art house Western film criticism’s bias by omission towards Bollywood BBC’s The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films) Arbitrary markers of cinematic quality Forbes’ The World’s Highest-Paid Actors 2016 (http://www.forbes.com/actors/#130fee382740) (also Erin meant Andy Lau, who doesn’t seem to appear on the list this year, but he did last year) Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagaan) Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcademyAwardforBestForeignLanguageFilm) (INTERVAL (“Chale Chalo (https://youtu.be/LQmHKl3oNu0)” from Lagaan