Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is all about the wedding season in 2021. Okay, not really but in a year where the film content has been middling to terrible, we’ll take joy where we can find it and at the end… Read More »Ep 116- Katrina Di Wedding ft Pitu Sultan
Welcome to Upodcast Presents the Wheel of Time Recap Show and our take on Episode 7, the one that got Amazon excited enough to commission a second season. We had a lot of opinions about this episode, which finally kicks… Read More »Ep 5- The Dark Along The Ways- The Wheel Of Time Recap Show
KHANDAAN: A BOLLYWOOD PODCAST is slowly coming back from hiatus with our end of year mini-episodes. Asim, Sujoy and Amrita would like to thank you all for your patience and the wonderful messages we’ve received while we were on break.… Read More »Ep 115- Khandaan Returns
In the latest episode of Upodcast Presents The Wheel of Time Recap Show, we discuss Episode 6 in which we are introduced to a major new character and see a twist in the tale. This was Amrita’s favorite episode of… Read More »Ep 4- The Flame Of Tar Valon- The Wheel Of Time Recap Show
Welcome to another special episode of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast. Once again, we hosted a Twitter Spaces to discuss four new trailers that dropped the last week of October and we were joined by Pulkit Kochchar and @Pappuchaaru whom we’ve… Read More »Ep 114- Khandaan Twitter Space 2
Welcome to yet another special edition of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast. We gathered a few of our friends (@get_filmy and @bethlovesbolly) and a number of our listeners for a little catch up on Twitter Spaces. Topics included: – Salman’s launch… Read More »Ep 113- Khandaan Podcast Twitter Spaces Event
Still on our hiatus, we have been watching Disney Hotstar’s The Empire so we thought we would drop by and give us our thoughts. The Empire is series created by Nikhil Advani and directed by Mitakshara Kumar based on the novel… Read More »Ep 112- The Empire
Dropping in with a catch up episode with our Top Friend Beth Loves Bollywood. We’re still on hiatus but thought we would drop a casual episode! We discuss: Haseena Dilruba Compare Toofan and Sarpatta Parambarai Season 2 of Never Have… Read More »Ep 111- Haseena Dilruba, Toofan, Sarpatta Parambarai and Never Have I Ever S2 ft @BethLovesBolly
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with a selection of current streaming finds! We are joined once more by our old friend @Get_Filmy to discuss: Shownotes: Intro: A message to our listeners 15.10 DHOOP KI DEEWAR on Zee5, a controversial-ish… Read More »Ep 110- Dhoop Ki Deewar, Ray, Sherni and Jagame Thandiram ft @Get_Filmy
Welcome to Episode 109 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast where we continue our limited edition Other Khans series with the legendary Dilip Kumar. Born Yusuf Khan in Peshawar in present day Pakistan, Dilip Sahib is an icon for audiences and… Read More »Ep 109- Madhumati
Welcome to the third episode of Upodcast Presents the Wheel of Time Recap Show in which we discuss the fifth installment of the Amazon Prime series. Episode 4 was a high point for the show thus far, garnering universal praise… Read More »Ep 3 – Blood Calls Blood- The Wheel Of Time Recap Show
Welcome to Episode 108 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast. We are gathered here today to discuss all the hot buzz and trending shows in the desi space. 01:12 First, we received a lovely email from a listener. More of you… Read More »Ep 108- The Family Man Season 2 Review
Welcome to the second episode of Upodcast Presents: The Wheel of Time Recap Show with Asim (who doesn’t know anything about the books or the show), Sujoy (who’s never read the books but has read everything about the show), and… Read More »Ep 2- The Wheel Of Time Recap Show – The Dragon Reborn
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast continues its limited edition Other Khans run with 2001’s PYAAR TUNE KYA KIYA. Starring Fardeen Khan (our Other Khan of the Day) and Urmila Matondkar, this redo of FATAL ATTRACTION through the lens of RGV’s The… Read More »Ep 107- Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya
Welcome to the first episode of Upodcast Presents: The Wheel of Time Recap Show with Asim (who doesn’t know anything about the books or the show), Sujoy (who’s never read the books but has read everything about the show), and… Read More »Ep 1- The Wheel Of Time Recap Show
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with a lot of thoughts (ok, some thoughts) on everything streaming right now. 0.55 Mailbag – our favorite section where we hear back from our listeners. 12.00- Live Reaction: Family Man Season 2 Trailer… Read More »Ep 106- Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, Karnan, The Family Man S2 Trailer
Episode 105 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is extremely retro with star of the week, Amjad Khan. Our journey into the world of The Other Khans goes way back in the time machine this week with 1981’a LAAWARIS. Directed by… Read More »Ep 105- Laawaris
Episode 104 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast marks a brief return to the world of current releases with Salman Khan’s Eid release RADHE. This incoherent mishmash of Bhai’s most wanted movies (you define “wanted”) brought up a lot of… Read More »Ep 104- Radhe
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with a… bang? Well, here’s what we’ve been watching in May 2021 at all events. 11:35 Amrita has been watching Chinese dramas and recommends the historical murder mystery series, THE STORY OF YANXI PALACE.… Read More »Ep 103- Mumbai Saga, Starstruck and Radhe Songs
Episode 102 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is all about 2004’s HUM TUM. Kicking things off for our limited edition series about The Other Khans of Bollywood, this little romcom proved to be a milestone in the careers of Saif… Read More »Ep 102- Hum Tum
For Episode 101, Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast shook things up with a YouTube livestream! We take you through the trailers for RADHE starring Salman Khan and Disha Patani, and SARDAR KA GRANDSON starring Arjun Kapoor and Rakul Preet Singh. Watch… Read More »Ep 101- Radhe, Ajeeb Dastaans and Roohi
Episode 100 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is finally here! We are joined by Top Friend Beth from Beth Loves Bollywood and Her Majesty Pitu Sultan – and it’s a full on party! We want to thank several people for… Read More »Ep 100- YouTube Live pt 2 with Khandaan Podcast
Episode 99 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is here and was brought to you live on YouTube. Our first hour saw us take questions from the audience, answer questions sent to us via email and our Instagram account (@khandaanpodcast <—… Read More »Ep 99- YouTube Live pt 1 with Khandaan Podcast
Episode 97 of KHANDAAN: A BOLLYWOOD PODCAST is here with Yamini (aka @pappuchaaru on Twitter). A Telugu film professional, Yamini was the perfect person for us to inflict this movie upon. The movie in question 2013’s CHENNAI EXPRESS starring Shahrukh… Read More »Ep 98- Chennai Express ft @pappuchaaru
Episode 97 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is off to a rocking start with Yamini a.k.a. @pappuchaaru on Twitter. A great many things happened in Bollywood this week, so we had tons to discuss including: Time Stamp: 01.00 We announce… Read More »Ep 97- Toofan, Sandeep Aur Pinky Trailers and Bombay Begums
Episode 96 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is all about 2000’s HAR DIL JO PYAAR KAREGA. We are joined once more by friend of the podcast Haroon Rashid of the BBC’s brand new podcast, Beyond Bollywood and he explains why… Read More »Ep 96- Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega ft @iHaroonRashid
Welcome to Episode 95 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast. We are joined today by friend of the podcast Haroon Rashid of the BBC’s brand podcast, Beyond Bollywood. If you haven’t heard it yet, we highly recommend you check out his… Read More »Ep 95- Priyanka Chopra, Gangubai Kathiawadi, Roohi Trailers and Drishyam 2, The Girl On the Train Reviews
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with Saleha i.e. @Salandthebadpunof Twitter fame to discuss a movie that has long been requested – 1998’s HUM DIL DE CHUKE SANAM. The last full blown collaboration between director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Salman… Read More »Ep 94- Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam ft @SalAndTheBadPun
Episode 93 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is here in the midst of a slow week. We are joined this episode and the next by the wonderful Saleha (@salandthebadpun on Twitter) and you’ll know exactly why she was the only… Read More »Ep 93- Showgirls of Pakistan, Chhor Denge and listener’s mailbag
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. In our final episode, we are joined by friend, guest host, and romance reader Tanya to discuss what it all means for us, and… Read More »Ep 9- Binging Bridgerton
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. We discuss the eighth and final episode with guest host Uday Bhatia, film critic at Mint Lounge. As Daphne and Simon arrive at a… Read More »Ep 8- Binging Bridgerton
Episode 92 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast features 1992’s DAULAT KI JUNG. Our guest this week was Her Highness Pitu Sultan and this was her one and only choice for you, her adoring public. Loosely based on the Hollywood film… Read More »Ep 92- Daulat Ki Jung ft Pitu Sultan
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. In our seventh episode we are joined by guest host Uday Bhatia, film critic at Mint Lounge, to discuss the fallout of the previous… Read More »Ep 7- Binging Bridgerton
Episode 91 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast sees us racing towards a century of episodes! We can scarcely believe it! So we start this stretch with a dive into our listener’s mailbag – featuring a little hate, a lot of… Read More »Ep 91- Listener Mail Bag, White Tiger and Master Review
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. We are joined by guest host Sal Salam for the sixth episode – i.e. the shagging episode. While Daphne and Simon christen every inch… Read More »Ep 6- Binging Bridgerton
It’s Episode 90 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast and we’re joined by writer, critic, blogger and podcaster Shah Shahid from BlankPageBeatdown.comwhose podcasts you can follow on splitscreenpod.com and Comic Years to discuss YES BOSS (1997). Starring Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla… Read More »Ep 90- Yes Boss ft @TheShahShahid
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. Guest host Sal Salam joins Beth and Amrita to discuss the fifth episode in which Simon makes a speech, the King is definitely mad,… Read More »Ep 5- Binging Bridgerton
Episode 89 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast features a visit from writer, critic, blogger and podcaster Shah Shahid from BlankPageBeatdown.com. You can also catch up on his podcasts on splitscreenpod.com and Comic Years. In this episode, we discuss: 16:40 Ali… Read More »Ep 89- Tandav, Maara, Sir
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. Guest host Manish Mathur (host of the excellent It Pod to be You as well as Queer and Now) joins Beth and Amrita to… Read More »Ep 4- Binging Bridgerton
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for Episode 88 and a look back at 2020 with @bethlovesbolly from Beth Loves Bollywood. It’s been a bizarre year for media consumption but here are all the movies and streaming content that made… Read More »Ep 88- Best of 2020- Khandaan Podcast
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. Hosts Beth Watkins and Amrita Rajan are joined by Manish Mathur (host of the excellent It Pod to be You as well as Queer… Read More »Ep 3- Binging Bridgerton
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. Hosts Beth Watkins and Amrita Rajan discuss the events of the second episode, consider the importance of sexual education, the way women utilize whisper… Read More »Ep 2- Binging Bridgerton
BINGING BRIDGERTON is a deep dive into the eight episodes of the eponymous series on Netflix. Hosts Beth Watkins and Amrita Rajan discuss the events of the first episode, investigate the term “historical romance”, and question what sets this series… Read More »Ep 1- Binging Bridgerton
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast kicks off 2021 with Episode 87 in which we are joined by Top Friend Beth from Beth Loves Bollywood to discuss all the movies and shows we’ve been watching through the end of the year. Amrita… Read More »Ep 87- Coolie no 1 and Ak vs Ak Reviews and Catch up 2020 ft @BethLovesBolly
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast arrives at Episode 86 – our last for the year 2020 – with special guest Pulkit Kochar! This week’s film is 2005’s MAINE PYAR KYUN KIYA starring Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Sushmita Sen, Katrina Kaif, Arshad… Read More »Ep 86- Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya ft @kocharpulkit
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast welcomes you to Episode 85 with special guest Pulkit Kochar! You know Pulkit from his work with everyone from EIC to FilterCopy – now you can catch him on his Instagram and his YouTube channel where… Read More »Ep 85 – Streaming wars, Ak vs AK Trailer and Durgamati Review @kocharpulkit
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with Aamir Khan’s GHULAM (1998) for episode 84. Join us for a nostalgia-filled episode wherein we refamiliarize ourselves with this classic. Directed by Vikram Bhatt – a fact that stuns us in 2020 –… Read More »Ep 84- Ghulam
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is bursting at the seams with Episode 83! Timeline: 2.00 We have complicated feelings about the new COOLIE NO.1 trailer starring Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan 19.41 We watched the trailer for DURGAMATHI, the Hindi… Read More »Ep 83- Coolie no 1, Durgamati, Indoo Ki Jawaani Trailer and TFLOBW Review
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast has 2005’s NO ENTRY for Episode 82. Co-starring Salman Khan in an extended special appearance, this multi-starrer boasts of an eclectic line up: Anil Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Celina Jaitley, Lara Dutta, and Esha Deol… Read More »Ep 82- No Entry ft Jai Arjun Singh
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast has a jam packed Episode 81. Joining us this week is film scholar Jai Arjun Singh, author of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron – Seriously Funny Since 1983 and The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. You can see… Read More »Ep 81- Ludo, Taish and Scam 1992 Reviews
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is not superstitious, but if ever there was a cursed project, it would have to be 1995’s Shahrukh Khan starrer TRIMURTI. A Mukta Arts production directed by Mukul Anand, this movie should have been a slamdunk.… Read More »EP 80- Trimurti
Season 2 of the Tolly Folly Podcast features a Bengali icon: Byomkesh Bakshi. The various adaptations of Byomkesh, starring some of the best talents of the day, span decades of not just Bengali cinema but also Hindi film and television.… Read More »TOLLY FOLLY SEASON 2 EPISODE 3: HAR HAR BYOMKESH & OTHER BENGALI ADAPTATIONS
Season 2 of the Tolly Folly Podcast features a Bengali icon: Byomkesh Bakshi. The various adaptations of Byomkesh, starring some of the best talents of the day, span decades of not just Bengali cinema but also Hindi film and television.… Read More »TOLLY FOLLY S2 EP2: DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY!
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings you an Episode 79 that’s brimming with all the stuff we watched! 7:30 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and the nature of satire in the world today 17:00 It’s time for the mailbag as we catch… Read More »Ep 79 – Trailer Breakdown Ludo and The White Tiger, Mirzapur and Putham Pudhu Kaalai Review
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast dives deep into BAAZIGAR (1993) starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol for its 78th episode. Shilpa Shetty’s debut feature (and what a historic debut it was!), Baazigar is hands down one of the best Abbas Mustan movies… Read More »Ep 78- Baazigar ft @JustinJRao
This episode we got a chance to speak with the team behind Amazon Studio’s Blumhouse collaboration with Priyanka Chopra Jonas called “Evil Eye” – no streaming on Amazon Prime Video. First we speak with writer Madhuri Shekhar who is mainly… Read More »Ep 242: Evil Eye Interviews with writer Madhuri Shekar and directors Elan and Rajeev Dassani
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is joined by Justin Rao of PTI for our 77th episode. You know him from his offscreen cameos on Saloni Gaur’s Kangana videos (“Shut Up, Justin!”) as well as his excellent Bollywood mashups that beautifully marry… Read More »Ep 77- Scam 1992, Evil Eye, Serious Men and Laxmi Bomb Trailer with @JustinJRao
Season 2 of the Tolly Folly Podcast features a Bengali icon: Byomkesh Bakshi. The various adaptations of Byomkesh, starring some of the best talents of the day, span decades of not just Bengali cinema but also Hindi film and television.… Read More »TOLLY FOLLY S2.E1 SATYAJIT RAY’S CHIRIYAKHANA (1967)
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast arrives at it’s 76th episode with Sohail Khan’s HELLO BROTHER and Pitu Sultan dancing hand in hand to Chandi ki Daal Par Sone Ka Mor. Released in 1999, Hello Brother was a join Khan family exercise… Read More »Ep 76- Hello Brother ft Pitu Sultan
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast welcomes back the one, the only Pitu Sultan for our 75th episode! For this landmark episode, this week we discussed: 06.15 The sad demise of SP Balasubramaniam who was the voice of our childhood 16.02 The… Read More »Ep 75- Abhay 2, Khaali Peeli, Ginny Weds Sunny Trailers and catch up with Pitu Sultan
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast has taken its time, but we’ve finally arrived at the film that forever changed the Hindi film industry: 2001’s DIL CHAHTA HAI. Farhan Akhtar’s debut feature had a glitzy starcast: Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye… Read More »Ep 74- Dil Chahta Hai
Episode 73 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is part of our new format where we alternate weeks with general topics and our usual deep Khan dives. This week, join us as we discuss: 07.25: Listener’s Mailbag 13.40 Amrita continues her… Read More »Ep 73- Cargo, Khaali Peeli and Revisiting Mohra
For Episode 72, Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast concludes it’s two-part discussion with Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser of the amazing Bollywood is for Lovers Podcast with a full fledged review of DHOOM 3: This Time it’s Aamir. Requested by Matt… Read More »Ep 72- Dhoom 3 ft Bollywood Is For Lovers
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast kicks off Episode 71 with the first of our two-part discussion with the wonderful Matt Bowes & Erin Fraser of Bollywood is for Lovers Podcast. Join us as we discuss: 6.51 Matt and Erin’s thoughts on… Read More »Ep 71- Streaming, Podcasting and Movies with Matt and Erin from @BollywoodPod
Episode 69 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings you everyone’s favorite (or is it?) Bollywood sports movie: 2007’s CHAKE DE! INDIA. Directed by Shimit Amin, a less than prolific director of tremendous talent, this underdog Shahrukh Khan starrer surprised everyone… Read More »Ep 69- Chak De! India
Our very last CoronaCast episode before our return to the regular schedule has us catching up after nearly a month. In the meantime, Sujoy and Amrita collaborated with Beth from Beth Loves Bollywood for the Tolly Folly Podcast a limited… Read More »Ep 68- Breathe: Into the Shadows and Dil Bechara
Tolly Folly, our limited run podcast about Bengali film, anchored by Sujoy, Beth, and Amrita, concludes with this third episode featuring two separate performances by Suchitra Sen in AANDHI and Uttam Kumar in NAYAK. Aandhi (1975) is counted as one… Read More »Mini Series: Tolly Folly Ep 3 – Aandhi – Nayak
Tolly Folly, our limited run podcast about Bengali film, anchored by Sujoy, Beth, and Amrita, is back for its second episode. Join us as we discuss two vastly different performances that live and die on the basis of the famed… Read More »Mini Series: Tolly Folly Ep 2 – Saptapadi – Chaowa Pawa
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for Episode 67 with Salman Khan’s DABANGG! Directed by Abhinav Kashyap, this 2010 movie co-starred Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Sonu Sood, Arbaaz Khan and introduced Sonakshi Sinha. For various unfortunate reasons, however, this movie… Read More »Ep 67: Dabangg
Tolly Folly is a brand-new limited run podcast about Bengali film, anchored by Sujoy, Beth, and Amrita. The first series focuses on the legendary movies of Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. Episode One is on Agni Pariksha (1954), one of… Read More »Mini Series: Tolly Folly Ep 1 – Agni Pariksha
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for it’s 66th episode with Top Friend Beth from BethLovesBollywood to review the latest from Anushka Sharma’s production house: BULBBUL, a Bengali Gothic horror starring Tripti Damri, Avinash Tiwari, Rahul Bose, Paoli Dam, and… Read More »Ep 66: Bulbbul and Aarya
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back for Episode 65 where we are joined by friend of the podcast Shai Hussain to discuss a true legend of Indian cinema: LAGAAN (2001). Join us as we throw brickbats and flowers. Check out… Read More »Ep 65: Lagaan
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back to the CoronaCast with Episode 64. Unfortunately, this episode was recorded just as news broke about Sushant Singh Rajput’s tragic passing, so while we do mention it, we’ll have a more in-depth discussion of… Read More »Ep 64: Sushant Singh Rajput, Gulabo Sitabo and Axone
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast’s 63rd episode proves to be the charm with Shahrukh Khan’s iconic KABHI HAAN KABHI NAA (1994). If “wholesome” was a movie, it would be this film by Kundan Shah. Reportedly SRK’s own favorite out of his… Read More »Ep 63: Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Choked and Chintu Ka Birthday
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is now on it’s 62nd episode… and we’re once again doing a Corona round up. For those of you struggling with all the current events in the world and need a break, we suggest you skip… Read More »Ep 62- Kaamyaab, Betaal and Jackie Shroff – Khandaan Ko Rona Aa Gaye
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast sails on to its 61st episode with Shahrukh Khan’s PARDES (1997). This patriotic ode to a visually composite India was directed by Subhash Ghai, his last big hit, and stars debutants Mahima Chaudhary and Apoorva Agnihotri… Read More »Ep 61 Pardes
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is now 60 episodes old and we wouldn’t have gotten here so fast if it weren’t for the Corona Virus, so here we are with another one of our freewheeling RonaCasts. Join Asim, Sujoy and Amrita… Read More »Ep 60- Mrs Serial Killer and Paatal Lok Reviews
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings in episode 59 in the wake of one of the saddest weeks in Hindi film history: when we lost two towering stars, Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor. [Note: this episode is mainly in English mixed… Read More »Ep 59- Remembering Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with Top Friend Beth from Beth Loves Bollywood to discuss 1998’s Shahrukh Khan double-header DUPLICATE. Allegedly directed by Mahesh Bhatt, DUPLICATE was the first double role for SRK and he really put in the… Read More »Ep 58- Duplicate
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is now a full-time quarantine podcast! And to celebrate, we’re answering our mailbag today. Join us as we answer listener questions, pull Asim’s leg, and discuss our love for the Khans. We don’t have a timeline… Read More »Ep 57- Listener Mail Bag- Ko Rona Aa Gaya
Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is back with another Corona Cast for those of you who’re stuck at home and would like to hear other people’s voices. We are joined this episode by Suchin Mehrotra of Film Companion fame. If you’ve… Read More »Ep 56- Streaming with Suchin – Ko Rona Aa Gaya
Episode 54 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is takes us back to regular programming with 2000’s (!) MELA starring Aamir Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Faisal Khan, and the regular acting troupe of director Dharmesh Darshan. This megaflop from the turn of… Read More »Ep 55: Mela (That’s it!)
Episode 54 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is a Quarantine Pod, a RonaCast, a Viral Episode, whatever you want to call it. Just Asim, Sujoy and Amrita shooting the breeze about the content they’ve been consuming over these days of… Read More »Ep 54- Khandaan Ko Rona Aa Gaya- She, Emma and Afsos
Episode 53 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is your refuge from the monotony of lockdown, wherever you might be experiencing it. Top Friend Beth rejoins us for the second dose of bitter medicine as Sujoy chooses his winner for the… Read More »Ep 53- Khandaan Ko Rona Aa Gaya – Saajan
Episode 52 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is a blast from the past – Aamir Khan’s past. 1990’s blockbuster DIL, co-starring Aamir and Madhuri Dixit with Saeed Jaffrey, Anupam Kher and a host of people you’ll recognize as That Guy… Read More »EP 52: Baaghi 3, Thappad and Dil
Episode 51 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings you 2016’s SULTAN starring Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, SULTAN was part of Salman’s storied run at the box office, a sports drama about an out of… Read More »Episode 51 : Filmfare Comp Results, Malang, SMZS and Sultan
It’s Episode 50 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast! A big thank you to all our listeners for all their support, brickbats, and reviews. Long may your tribe increase! We are joined for this special episode by Top Friend Beth from… Read More »Ep 50: Filmfare 2020 predictions and Main Hoon Na
Episode 49 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is where we discuss one of the most controversial movies to be made in the past 10 years: Rajkumar Hirani’s PK. Released in 2014, this movie stars Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh… Read More »Ep 49- PK, Street Dancer 3D and The Forgotten Army
Episode 48 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast brings us back from the holiday hiatus to discuss the Khantastic decade that just ended. We are joined by friends of the podcast as we talk about the bests and worsts, the highlights… Read More »Ep 48- Best of the Khan Decade
Episode 47 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is the first of our “Produced by YashRaj” series, 2008’s Shahrukh Khan-starrer Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. This rare Aditya Chopra directorial outing and Anushka Sharma’s debut feature is a fairly controversial choice… Read More »Ep 47: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Dabangg 3 songs and FC Adda
Episode 46 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast features our first Salman Khan – David Dhawan collaboration. Coasting on nostalgia, the audience selected 1999’s Biwi No. 1, a film we had all mostly forgotten. Co-starring Karisma Kapoor as the titular biwi… Read More »Biwi no 1, Drive review and Panipat Trailer
Episode 45 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is a blast from the past – specifically, Aamir Khan’s past. Tum Mere Ho (1990), directed by Tahir Hussain a.k.a. The Aamir Dad has everything: a wronged and vengeful snake mom, a grubby… Read More »Ep 45: Tum Mere Ho Review, Dabangg 3 and Commando 3 Trailer reactions
Extra Special: WAR, The Family Man, Bard of Blood Episode 44 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is all about WAR, starring Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff. This departure from our Khan focus is due to a number of factors, including… Read More »Extra: WAR, The Family Man and Bard Of Blood
This episode we have a chat with one half of the writer, producer, director duo Raj and DK. You might know their work be it Shor In the city, Go Go Goa Gone, Happy Ending or Stree. Their new show… Read More »“We’re not judging people or interested in vilifying communities” – Raj Nidimoru talks The Family Man
Episode 43 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is all about FAN (2016). We also discuss the recent movie releases, Chhichore and Dream Girl; new streaming shows Mission Over Mars on AltBalaji and The Family Man on Amazon Prime; plus new… Read More »Ep 43- Dream Girl, Chhichhore and Fan
Episode 42 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is a celebration of 25 years of Hum Aapke Hain Koun…, arguably the most influential film to emerge from Bollywood in the 1990s. Director Sooraj Barjatya’s sophomore effort, 1994’s HAHK instantly cemented the… Read More »Ep 42 Sacred Games and Hum Aapke Hain Koun
Episode 41 of Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast is all about 1997’s Koyla, a movie no one, absolutely no one was asking for except for our featured guest, the beloved, the one-and-only, the hilarious Pitu Sultan! Directed by Rakesh Roshan, who… Read More »Ep 41- Typewriter Season 1 and Koyla
Episode 40 of Khandaan – A Bollywood Podcast brings you John Matthew Matthan’s seminal Sarfarosh (1999), starring Aamir Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Sonali Bendre, Mukesh Rishi and others. For our “Cops” theme, readers voted for the movie that made a real… Read More »Ep 40: Sarfarosh, War, Mission Mangal and Aryan Khan
See more options Embed Code Episode 39 came as a bit of a surprise – we didn’t expect so many people would be interested in the Dreamz Unlimited movie Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. Directed by Aziz Mirza who had… Read More »Ep 39- Phir Bhi Hai Hindustani plus Saaho, Judgementall Hai Kya and others
Welcome to Episode 38 of the Khandaan podcast where we discuss 2001’s Shahrukh Khan-Kareena Kapoor starrer, Asoka. Directed by Santosh Sivan, this movie handily won our poll of the week – a nod to its cult status today compared to… Read More »Ep 38- Asoka, Kabir Singh and Yesterday
This episode we had the opportunity to speak with director Anubhav Sinha whose new film Article 15 is having it’s worldwide premier at the London Indian Film Festival tonight – 20th June. It is on general release next week and… Read More »Ep 240- “The priviliged have to question the priviliged…” Anubhav Sinha talks Article 15
In Episode 37 of the Khandaan podcast, we discuss a new Khan movie – 2019’s Salman Khan-on-Eid release, Bharat. This movie hit the headlines even before it went into production when Priyanka Chopra, the original lead actress, chose to leave… Read More »Ep 37- Bharat, Chopsticks, Saaho, Super 30
Welcome to Episode 36 of the Khandaan podcast – your home for all things related to The Khan Troika. This week we make a deep delve into the past with 1995’s Rangeela, starring Aamir Khan, Urmila Matondkar and Jackie Shroff.… Read More »Ep 36- Rangeela
Episode 35 of the Khandaan podcast features our return from a much-needed break, so you know we’ve got something big for you – yes, it’s 1995’s monster hit, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge! Aditya Chopra’s debut film changed Hindi cinema in… Read More »Ep 35- Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (+SOTY2)
Episode 34 of the Khandaan podcast is here for one last hurrah before we go on a short break for the month of April. Our special feature is 2001’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. Directed by Karan Johar, this is an… Read More »Ep 34- Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…
Episode 33 of the Khandaan podcast brings you one of our favorite movies, 2007’s Om Shanti Om. Directed by Farah Khan, this Shahrukh Khan-starrer was also Deepika Padukone’s debut film. Co-starring (Chowkidar) Kirron Kher as Maa, Shreyas Talpade as Friend,… Read More »Ep 33- Om Shanti Om
Episode 32 of the Khandaan podcast brings to you the results of your vote – or that of dedicated Aamir bots, you be the judge – 1997’s Ishq, starring Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Kajol and Ajay Devgan with Sadashiv Amrapurkar,… Read More »Ep 32- Kalank Teaser, Badla and Ishq
This episode we’re talking to Parineeti Chopra who is starring with Akshay Kumar in this week’s Hindi release Kesari. Kesari is about The Battle of Saragarhi in 1897 between Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army and Pashtun Orakzai tribesmen.… Read More »Ep 239- “I’m coming back to the movies I want to do…” Parineeti Chopra talks Kesari
Episode 31 of the Khandaan podcast is a bit of a departure for us – it’s the first episode that doesn’t feature a Khan! Originally recorded as part of our upcoming Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham episode (so much fun!) with… Read More »Ep 31- Bonus Ep- Made In Heaven Spoiler Free Review
Made in Heaven is the new Amazon series from Excel Entertainment. Written by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, this critically acclaimed miniseries follows two wedding event planners in glitzy, high society Delhi as they battle their personal demons while simultaneously… Read More »Ep 238- Reema Kagti and Alankrita Shrivastav Interviews- Made In Heaven
Episode 30 of the Khandaan podcast stars Aamir Khan in a movie directed by Kiran Rao – 2011’s Dhobi Ghat with Prateik Babbar, Monica Dogra, and Kriti Malhotra. Joining us to discuss this surprise winner (the other movies up for… Read More »Ep 30- Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Episode 29 of the Khandaan podcast has arrived with 1991’s Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, starring Aamir Khan and Pooja Bhatt. Directed by Mahesh Bhatt, this remake of the beloved Hollywood classic It Happened One Night was a star vehicle… Read More »Ep 29- Gully Boy/ Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi
On this episode of Upodcast Bollywood Edition we talk to director Shelley Chopra Dhar about her about the first commercial female queer love story in Hindi cinema, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga. We speak about the marketing of… Read More »Ep 237- “Love is Love” dir. Shelley Chopra Dhar talks Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Laga
Episode 28 of the Khandaan podcast we try to bring India Pakistan together by the force of Bhainess and Munni cuteness. Haroon Rashid from the BBC Asian Network joins us to give us the low down and we cover a… Read More »Ep 28- Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Episode 27 of the Khandaan podcast brings to you the one, the only Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998)! As soon as it showed up on our list, we knew this was going to be everyone’s pick because this movie is… Read More »Ep 27- Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Episode 26 of the Khandaan podcast kicks off 2019 in style! Thank you for joining us in the new year as we return to our voting roots and discuss the Khan movie of your choice – 2009’s Wanted starring Salman… Read More »Ep 26- Simmba, Gully Boy, Wanted
Episode 25 of the Khandaan podcast is also our last for the year 2018! Thank you for joining us this year as we made our way through the highs and lows of the three Khans of Bollywood. We hope to… Read More »Ep 25- Wrap up 2018 and Zero Review
Welcome to Episode 24 of the Khandaan podcast. Today we’re joined by Jay Mamtora, founder of BollyBrit, one of the last few outposts of independent Bolly-focused media on the internet. Join us as we discuss 2014’s Farah Khan-directed glitzy spectacular… Read More »Ep 24- Simmba Trailer, Kedarnath, 2.0 and Happy New Year
Welcome to Episode 23 of the Khandaan podcast in which we welcome Shivani Tripathi (@Shivani510) writer for The Aerogram, Brown Girl Magazine, The NRI and the return of friend of the show Anisha Jhaveri (@Jhavanis). In this episode, we go… Read More »Ep 23- Raakh
Welcome to Episode 22 of the Khandaan podcast in which we welcome Dr. Sunny Singh, writer, academic, and co-founder of the UK’s Jhalak Prize for writers of color. Her latest book, Amitabh Bachchan, is now available from the BFI. In… Read More »Ep 22- Thugs Of Hindostan
We recorded Episode 21 slightly earlier as we’re all off for a small break, but we didn’t want to leave you guys without a good ear time. This week we are talking about: The Manikarnika teaser and Kangana’s scorched earth… Read More »Ep 21- Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke
For Episode 20, our guest is a fellow podcaster: Maxdavinci of The Lewd Cabal, your go-to podcast for an eclectic selection of topics including deep dives into South Indian cinema, food, sports, and a whole lot more to come. For… Read More »Ep 20- Sui Dhaaga – TOH- Suryavanshi
On Episode 19 of the Khandaan podcast, we continue our limited edition run of favorites with everybody’s preferred incendiary film critic, Raja Sen. A reviewer with Hindustan Times and the author of a children’s book based on The Godfather (!),… Read More »Ep 19- Dil Se – Khandaan Podcast
We’re changing things up a trifle in Episode 18 of the Khandaan Podcast – for the next few episodes, we’ve asked our guests to choose their favorite Khan movie to discuss. First up, is the delightful Sammy (a.k.a. @lipstickpatrol on… Read More »Ep 18- Ghoul- Dil To Pagal Hai
Welcome to Episode 17 of the Khandaan Podcast in which our audience thinks it’s doing us a favor and makes us watch Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai (1998). Starring Salman Khan in one of his last candyfloss (?) romance roles,… Read More »Ep 17- Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai- Trailer Breakdown
In Episode 16 of the Khandaan Podcast, we continue with our new limited edition format: this time, a buy-one-get-one-MUFT! MUFT! MUFT! film called Karan Arjun (1995). Starring Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan, this film has penetrated deep into desi pop… Read More »Ep 16- Dhadak- Karan Arjun- Khandaan Podcast
In Episode 15 of the Khandaan Podcast, we switch up our format for a special series: over the next few episodes, we will discuss movies nominated by our audience as their all-time favorites. We begin with 1992’s Jo Jeeta Wohi… Read More »Ep 15- Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar- Sanju- Sacred Games
Episode 14 of the Khandaan Podcast brings you 1996’s Khamoshi the Musical which stars Salman Khan, Manisha Koirala, Nana Patekar, Seema Biswas, and a very lovely Helen. However, Asim, Sujoy and Amrita begin the podcast with a raucous discussion of… Read More »Ep 14- Race 3- Khamoshi The Musical – Khandaan Podcast
Together with Josh Hurtado and Omar Ahmed, we discuss the line up for this year’s London Indian Film Festival. The 9th edition of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, runs at 15 cinemas, across London, Birmingham and Manchester, from… Read More »Ep 236: LIFF 2018 Preview – Upodcast BE
Welcome to Episode 13 (gulp!) of the Khandaan Podcast where we discuss 2011’s Don 2, starring Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Lara Dutta, and Kunal Kapoor. In this podcast, we talk about the consistently high production values of Excel… Read More »Ep 13- Don 2 – Khandaan Podcast
Welcome to Episode 12 of the Khandaan Podcast! This week we’re discussing 2006’s Jaan-e-Mann, starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Preity Zinta. While JEM has gained a bit of a cult following in the years since its release, it was… Read More »Ep 12- Jaan E Mann – Khandaan Podcast
Welcome to Episode 11 of the Khandaan Podcast and 1999’s Hum Saath Saath Hain, Sooraj Barjatya’s follow-up to his game-changing Bollywood classic, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun… Starring Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, and Mohnish… Read More »Ep 11- Hum Saath Saath Hain – Khandaan Podcast
Welcome to Episode 10 of the Khandaan Podcast, where we come at last to the one movie we’ve constantly been quoting – 1994’s Andaz Apna Apna. Starring the rare movie combination of Aamir Khan and Salman Khan, this Khantastic film… Read More »Ep 10- Andaz Apna Apna – Khandaan Podcast
Welcome to Episode 9 of the Khandaan Podcast, where we turn our eagle eyes toward Kal Ho Na Ho (2003), starring Shah Rukh Khan at the height of his stardom. Commonly believed to be a remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s weepie… Read More »Ep 9- Kal Ho Naa Ho- Khandaan Podcast
Episode 8 of the Khandaan Podcast features Chandramukhi (1993), starring Sridevi as a celestial being and Salman Khan as her child lover. An uncomfortable mish-mash of Tom Hanks’ Big by way of Telugu blockbuster Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari, starring Chiranjeevi… Read More »Ep 8- Chandramukhi – Khandaan Podcast
We catch up with Asim Abassi director of the Pakistani film Cake releasing in UK theaters on the 29th of March. Asim talks to Asim if there is an actual revival of Pakistani cinema, claiming a cinematic identity and “gola-ganda”… Read More »Ep 235: “Making Bollywood replica’s won’t get us anywhere!” Asim Abbasi talks Cake
Episode 7 of the Khandaan Podcast finds co-hosts Asim, Sujoy and Amrita reunited to discuss Paheli (2005), starring Shahrukh Khan in a double role, Rani Mukherjee and a whole host of cameos from Juhi Chawla to Amitabh Bachchan. This Red… Read More »Ep 7- Paheli – Khandaan Podcast
Episode 6 of the Khandaan Podcast finds co-hosts Sujoy and Amrita missing Asim, who is off doing other things just as we’re handed an opportunity to discuss Talaash (2012), starring Asim’s fave (or so he says) Aamir Khan. However, to… Read More »Ep 6 – Talaash – Khandaan Podcast
Episode 5 of the Khandaan Podcast finds co-hosts Asim, Sujoy, and Amrita discussing the first film voted to screen by their audience – 2001’s Salman Khan-starrer, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (CCCC). First, however, we make a short foray into current… Read More »Ep 5- Chori Chori Chupke Chupke Review and Padmaavat Discussion
Asim, Sujoy, and Amrita, co-hosts of the Khandaan podcast, wrap up their re-watch of the Khan-debuts with Deewana. This 1992 blockbuster is the movie we chose as Shahrukh Khan’s debut feature despite his earlier appearance as a supporting character in… Read More »Ep 4- Deewana – Khandaan Podcast
Asim, Sujoy, and Amrita, co-hosts of the Khandaan podcast, continue their Khan-journey with Maine Pyaar Kiya (MPK). This 1989 blockbuster romance is the movie we chose as Salman Khan’s debut feature despite his earlier ill-starred appearance as a supporting character… Read More »Ep 3- Maine Pyaar Kiya – Khandaan Podcast
Asim, Sujoy, and Amrita, co-hosts of the Khandaan podcast, begin their foray into all things Khan-related with Qayamat se Qayamat Tak (QSQT). Almost a relic of another era, this 1988 romance is the movie we chose as Aamir Khan’s debut… Read More »Ep 2- Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak – Khandaan Podcast
Can one really overstate the Khan effect on Bollywood these past 25 years? Asim, Sujoy, and Amrita, co-hosts of the Khandaan podcast, don’t think so. The movies of Aamir, Salman, and Shahrukh are significant threads forming the rich cinematic tapestry… Read More »Ep 1- What is the Khandaan Podcast?
This week’s episode is filled with tons of goodies! We speak to the amazingly talented Richa Chadha about Fukrey Returns which is the Hindi theater release from last Friday. I do keep mistakenly calling the movie “Fukrey two” which is… Read More »Ep 234: “Parts like these aren’t written for women in India” – Richa Chadha talks Fukrey Returns
This episode we speak to the luminescent Mahira Khan about her movie releasing in theaters today, Verna. We recorded the interview last week, before the controversy surrounding the release became big news, but glad to hear everything seems to be… Read More »Ep 233: “Insomnia is my obsessed lover” – Mahira Khan Talks Verna
Denis Villeneuve has made enough better than decent films for Upod to give him his own episode, but what better opportunity than Blade Runner 2049 to get the ball rolling?! Much has been made of the original and its many… Read More »Ep 232 Blade Runner 2049 Review
British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud’s t MY PURE LAND is this week’s Upodcast Review and it was also announced as Britain’s selection for submission to the Academy Award® in the category of Foreign Language Film . Based on true events, My… Read More »Ep 231 My Pure Land Review
At a time when trust in politicians, in pretty much all countries is eroding to the point it may never return in a meaningful sense, it is refreshing to say the least, to be made aware of how politicians can… Read More »Dennis Skinner: nature of the beast // A portrait of one of the UK’s most respected (and feared) MPs
This is one from the secret Upodcast vault! We spoke with the wonderful Taapsee Pannu during the release of Naam Shabana but never managed to post the episode. Since we talk a little about Judwaa 2 and the release is… Read More »EP 230: “Woman Need to be their Own Heroes” Taapsee Pannu Talks Naam Shabana
What a great little (under 90 minutes) movie this is! Is it one of these movies that will herald the rebirth of the long lost & last seen in the 90s, genre movie? I’m not so sure, but it fits… Read More »The Vault: a missing John Carpenter
This week’s Upodcast review is for Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhavan) which came out last year in India, has been cleaning up awards at film festival and now is getting a UK release through the BFI. We are joined by the… Read More »Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhavan) Upodcast Review
We spoke to Shubhashish Bhutiani, director of Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhavan), at the London Indian Film Festival just before his UK festival premier. The movie is releasing this week through the BFI in the UK so it was the perfect… Read More »Ep 228: “We are all living stories”- Shubhashish Bhutiani Talks Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhavan)
On this week’s episode of Upodcast, we are talking to Bhumi Pednekar who is starring in Toilet Ek Prem Katha with Akshay Kumar, which is releasing in theatres this FRIDAY. We talk about to Bhumi about: Game of Thrones and… Read More »Ep 227 Bhumi Pednekar talks Toilet Ek Prem Katha with Upodcast
This week’s episode of Upodcast we talk to the amazingly talented singer Neeti Mohan who is joining AR Rahman on his “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” concert at SSE Arena Wembley on Saturday 8th July 2017. “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” marks the first… Read More »Ep 226: Neeti Mohan talks AR Rahman’s concert to Upodcast
The debut feature from Amit Ranjan Biswas, Bridge, draws together a lot of big questions, into a relatively small setting. In summary, a simple story; two strangers, both at the end of their tether, encounter each other on a bridge… Read More »Bridge: review
This week’s episode the gang is talking about the new Netflix exclusive by Bong Joon Ho: Okja. Notable for many reasons, we talk about: Being vegetarian (or not) Factory farming Is a movie a movie if it doesn’t play in… Read More »Ep 225: Okja Review Upodcast
In director Amit Masurkar’s second feature, we land into the ever so old tussle between idealism and reality. Set in the backdrop of the world’s largest democratic election in India, with an extremely volatile political air, we see our protagonist… Read More »Newton Review LIFF 2017
The London Indian Film Festival (LIFF), regarded as Europe’s largest Indian film festival returns for its 8th edition to London and Birmingham and we are joined by Josh Hurtado from Screen Anarchy to help us navigate through broad choice of… Read More »Ep 224: LIFF 2017 Preview – What To Watch?
This week we review Baahubali 2 The Conclusion also known as the most successful Indian movie every to be released. And for this mammoth task we have brought in the most knowledgeable and best online voices to dissect this breaker of… Read More »EP 223: Baahubali 2 The Conclusion Review
We were lucky enough to attend the UK press junket for what was supposed to be the UK premiere of Baahubali The Conclusion with director SS Rajamouli in attendance. Since the movie had already released and is a massive success… Read More »Ep 222: “Baahubali is not pro Hindu or anti Hindu…” SS Rajamouli Interview Upodcast
On this week’s episode we review the first 6 episodes of Marvel’s Iron Fist, the final Marvel Netflix series before The Defenders kick in to gear. We’re joined by our friend and comic book connoisseur Akin Aworan to breakdown the… Read More »Marvel’s Iron Fist Review Upodcast
The cast and crew of the upcoming comedy movie “Mubarakan” are in London for the 50 day schedule of their comedy set to release in cinemas in July 2017. The cast includes Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Ileana D’Cruz and Athiya… Read More »Mubarakan Press Conference kicks off London schedule
Two people who pride themselves on being punctual, Karan Johar and Anupama Chopra, are running late for their discussion panel at the London School of Economics SU India Forum. It’s not a starry late entrance though – they simply didn’t… Read More »Karan Johar : “I don’t discriminate”- LSE India Forum Event Full report
It’s been a long day for Kelly Reichardt, whose latest film Certain Women is due out in the UK this Friday, 3 March. When she listens to you, she folds into herself, her chin tucked in, almost disappearing into the… Read More »Certain Women- an Interview with director Kelly Reichardt
Legendary hitman John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off… Read More »Ep 220 John Wick Chapter 2 Review Upodcast
A new Brit horror brings the creepy back to Upod, along with discussion about some new TV shows Powerless 24: Legacy Santa Clara’s Diet RiverdaleWe move on to our main review of indie horror Don’t Knock Twice – where it… Read More »Ep 219 Don’t Knock Twice Review Upodcast
We’ve got a jam-packed show today and not only because of the amazing roundtable of guests we’ve put together. After all a Shahrukh Khan movies needs the best of the best of bollybloggers to come together (of course we’re not… Read More »Ep 218: Raees Review Upodcast
The guys, joined by Sujoy aka @9e3k , get stuck into the season finale of the BBC’s Sherlock and there is much afoot! Firstly a quick intro talking about Ben Affleck and his new film, Live by Night. And then… Read More »Ep 217: Sherlock- The Final Problem and La La Land Review
We recorded this episode during the holidays but never got a chance to post it, so with this UPOD brings you a belated festive cheer! Returning with a Santa’s sack of new TV to consider Ahmed talks about Hulu Original… Read More »Ep 216: Spectral Upodcast Review
The game is well and truly afoot! As Sherlock dives further into series 4, so Upodcasting dives further into Sherlock. Coming up in this latest episode, we continue our own investigations, talking through all of the key issues and talking… Read More »Ep 215: Sherlock – The Lying Detective Upodcast Review
Hot on the trail of the BBC’s series (no seasons please, we’re British) four opener, Upodcast takes a deep dive into the first episode. Will Watson and Holmes get it on? What the hell happened during the one-off Christmas special… Read More »Sherlock – The Six Thatchers Review Upodcast
After many troubles Ae Dil Hai Mushkil finally released this weekend and we’re joined by Anisha Jhaveri (@Jhavanis) writer for Indiewire, to talk about Karan Johar’s new movie starring the all star cast of Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Fawad Khan… Read More »Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Review Upodcast
This week we review Marvel’s Doctor Strange starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams and Tilda Swinton directed by Scott Derickson. From IMDB: A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of… Read More »Doctor Strange Review Upodcast
This episode of Upodcast we discuss Mira Nair’s uplifting Disney produced story Queen of Katwe, starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi who came from the streets of rural Uganda to becoming an… Read More »Queen Of Katwe Review Upodcast
Milind Dhaimade’s Tu Hai Mera Sunday is a charming little surprise of a movie. This story of five amiable friends in Mumbai trying to navigate a little football time for themselves isn’t really attempting to re-invent the wheel – and… Read More »Tu Mera Sunday LFF Review
Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe tells a traditional tale of the underdog who triumphs against insurmountable odds over the space of three acts but tells it so well and in such fresh context that it must be a hard heart… Read More »Queen of Katwe LFF Review
Our best episodes are the ones where we see things completely differently. Rakesh Omprakash Mehra’s adaptation of the Mirza Sahiban folktale is one such movie. Mirzya stars Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher (Check out our interview with her by clicking here),… Read More »Mirzya Review Upodcast
“This experience has been life changing…” We speak to Saiyami Kher who is making her big screen debut this Friday in Rakesh Omprakash Mehra’s Mirzya, a re-imagining of Mirza Sahibaan’s legendary folk tale. We talk about her preparation for her… Read More »Saiyami Kher Mirzya Interview Upodcast
The big question going into Neeraj Pandey’s M.S. Dhoni: An Untold Story was – why? Why does it exist? Given the sheer number of articles, think pieces and news reports that come out annually on the Indian cricket captain, who… Read More »M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Review
Dressed in a golden embroidered jacket, sitting center stage on a bar stool and accompanied by a simple back up band, the heir of Pakistan’s qawwali legacy, Rahat Ali Khan performed before a sold out crowd at the London O2… Read More »Rahat Ali Khan at the O2 Concert Review
For chance to win a copye of the DVD of Identicals: Like our Facebook page/ Follow us on Twitter and drop us a mail with subject line: “I want to win!” on Upodcasting@gmail.com UK entries only and competition deadline is… Read More »Win a DVD of the Stunning Sci- Fi Identicals!
New Podcast for your Ear holes! This week we take to task the Buddy Action revival directed by Rohit Shetty starring younger brother Varun Dhawan, John Abraham and Jacqueline Fernandez. We are joined by Hani from wonderful podcast The Bollywood… Read More »Dishoom Review Upodcast
Pakistan’s most famous Qawwali singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Khan, the nephew of the late, world-renowned singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, will perform his greatest hits live for the first time at The O2 on Sunday 14 August 2016. Tickets… Read More »Win 2 tickets to the Ustad Rahat Ali Khan Concert at the O2, London
Although Shekhar Kapur was at the BFI Southbank to talk about making Elizabeth (surely this would have sat better at the London Film Festival than the London Indian Film Festival? #justsaying), I was not so secretly hoping that he would… Read More »SHEKHAR KAPUR: A LIFE WITH ELIZABETH LIFF 2016 at the BFI
The devotion some fans have towards their favourite superstars can be witnessed on a daily basis on many a Twitter thread but as this insightful film shows, the dedication some Rajnikanth fans have for him not only dictates the course… Read More »For The Love of a Man Review LIFF 2016
Before we even start talking about Song of Lahore, do yourself a favour. Go and watch the following video. This was the video that started it all. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken’s Song of Lahore is a documentary that chronicles… Read More »Song of Lahore Review LIFF 2016
“Are my answers too long?” Sharmila Tagore asks halfway through her answer to the first question about her esteemed lineage (her great grandfather was responsible for bringing Cubism to India whilst her grandfather was the poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore). The… Read More »AN EVENING WITH SHARMILA TAGORE LIFF 2016 Q+A
It does sound ironic that the film industry across the world has chosen digital media over film as its preferred future, even though it’s named after it. Much has been already said about this deviation, and only a select few… Read More »Cinemawala Review LIFF 2016
For this week’s major Bollywood release Sultan, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and starring Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma, we are joined by Sujoy (@9e3k) and Anisha (@jhavanis) to break down a myriad of topics: We gingerly discuss the topic… Read More »Sultan Review: Bhaicot, Feminism and Muslim Superheroes Upodcast
The team of Sujoy Ghosh (this time as producer) , Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vidya Balan (switching roles as lead vs guest appearance) that brought us one of the best Indian movies, Kahaani, of the last few years comes together again… Read More »Te3n Review Upodcast
We had the opportunity to speak with the amazingly talented Vidya Balan about Te3n which hits theaters today in the UK. As usual on Upodcast we talk about the most random things: Greed as an actor Our theory that Vidya… Read More »Vidya Balan Talks Te3n Upodcast
The consistently amazing season of CW’s The Flash comes to an end and what a season it has been. In the episode the Upodcast team breaks down some of their favorite moments, why they are still surprised how much they… Read More »The Flash Season 2 Review Upodcast
Releasing this week in the UK, The Nice Guys stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in a retro 70’s buddy action comedy like they used to make when Shai Hussain, our guest of this week, and I used to be… Read More »The Nice Guys Review Upodcast
Europe’s Largest South Asian Film Event, the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, now into year seven, returns to London, from 14 – 24 July, today announces the first raft of its programming with key festival partners BFI. The full… Read More »7th Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival and BFI Reveal 2016 Programme
The third installment in Marvel’s Captain America franchise, Civil War, pits our superheroes against each other. Will our host be on different teams when reviewing this movie? We keep it spoiler free until our spoiler warning towards the end of… Read More »Captain America Civil War Review Upodcast
We’ve been having quite a few amazing acts lately at the O2 AR Rahman, Atif Aslam but we got very excited to hear that Pakistan’s most famous Qawwali singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Khan, the nephew of the late, world-renowned singer… Read More »Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – The Greatest Hits Live at the O2
This week’s we join Jon Favreau on his re-imaginging of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book in an updated CGI jungle bonanza. Our guest this week is the overall awesome dude Dj Shai Hussain ( you can check out more of… Read More »The Jungle Book Review Upodcast
We bring out the big guns for this one. Critically derided but a massive box office hit, where does the Upodcast team stand on Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice which sorta a sequel to Man Of Steel… Read More »Batman V Superman Dawn Of Justice Review
A Tarantino way to start the new year and an obvious choice for UPOD. The boys are back in the hotseat and talk about 2 highly anticipated events: the return of the X-files (are you under the age of 30? … Read More »The Hateful Eight and X-Files Upodcast
The trailer for Kapoor & Sons just dropped and here are some free flowing thoughts whilst watching it: Hey, at least Bollywood now accredits the internet when they steal a joke (looking at you Shahrukh) Is this a Badshaah song?… Read More »Kapoor & Sons Trailer Thoughts: Dysfunction is the new black!
In one of the only emotional scenes of this movie, a very old Punjabi grandfather character (played wonderfully by the veteran Indian TV actor Arun Bali) speaks of the horrors of getting uprooted from what you once considered home, and… Read More »Review: Airlift’s screenplay never takes off!
Wazir tells the tale of two unlikely friends – a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster (Amitabh Bachchan) and an ATS officer (Farhan Akhtar). Both are brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate as part of wider conspiracy that has… Read More »Wazir Review Upodcast
Revealing the true story and inspiration behind Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, the new film from Ron Howard recounts the tale of the Essex, a whaling ship from New England. Based on a book by Nathaniel Philbrick, (in the heart of… Read More »In the heart of the sea: review
Rohit Shetty’s big release, Dilwale, is just over a week away so ShahRukh Khan, Kajol, Kriti Sanon and Varun Dhawan were in town for a press conference. Upodcast had the change to sit down with Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon… Read More »Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon talk Dilwale with Upodcast
Bond is back business with the hotly anticipated SPECTRE, the latest in a long line of blockbusters in 2015. Upodcasting casts its critical eye over the ghostly goings on of Daniel Craig, acting outside the control of British Secret Service… Read More »Spectre Review Upodcast
Last week Fox arranged a video conference with Salman Khan and Sonam Kapoor in London for the release of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Here are some excerpts of the Q&A session with the UK press. Q/ WHAT DO YOU… Read More »Prem Ratan Dhan Payo London Press Conference
We got the chance to speak with Anupama Chopra, Festival Director, 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival With Star India about why these movies and the festival is important, which movies you should watch out for and how they dealt with… Read More »Anupama Chopra Talks Jio Mami Upodcast
This episode we visit Mars with Matt Damon and stick around longer than intented. Together with Paresh (from the CurrySmugglers) and Anandini (from Bollystalgia) both card carrying space geeks, we talk about Ridley Scott’s latest offering and especially how it… Read More »The Martian Book Vs Movie Upodcast
Priyanka Chopra US TV debut Quantico is a big deal! So much so that we needed to dedicate an hour just to dissect the first 2 episodes. We’re joined by Jay also known as @Bollybrit (Nominated as a finalist in… Read More »Quantico Ep 1 & 2 Upodcast Review
This episode we talk about the new Woody Allen movie, an Irrational Man and the Netflix Original Series, Narcos. Of course, Woody isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but Asim has a strange relationship with the director (OK, it’s not THAT… Read More »Narcos and Irrational Man Upodcast Review
This week’s episode FilmiGirl and Asim square off in the octagon to break down Karan Malhotra’s Akshay Kumar- Siddarth Malhotra starrer Brothers. Although a massive success at the Box Office, Akshay Kumar movies tend to be critically derided, together we… Read More »Brothers Review Upodcast
For India’s Independence Day AR Rahman, held a concert at the O2 Arena to a sold out crowd, accompanied by an orchestra of musicians, singers, table players and qawwalli’s. The concert was dubbed as « The Greatest Hits of AR Rahman » and… Read More »AR Rahman Greatest Hits at the O2 Review
This time we’re attempting to unpick and unravel the ever expanding Marvel universe of superheroes and shine a light on what was previously a sub-genre restricted to Superman and Batman and therefore DC. All levels of geekdom are catered for,… Read More »Marvel Phase 2 Review Upodcast
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is a uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human… Read More »Me and Earl and The Dying Girl featurette: ‘This is Where We Explain The Story’
Why is this film important to you? This movie is very close to my heart, it means a lot to me, especially because it is a movie about Martial Arts, which makes it even more important for me. The movie… Read More »Akshay Kumar Brothers Press Q&A
People have been raving about the music of Muzaffar Ali’s Jaanisaar for a while now and here is your chance to win 1 of 3 CD’s of the soundtrack with Upodcast. To win a copy: 1. Like us on… Read More »Win Jaanisaar’s soundtrack on CD!
The double Grammy and double Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe winner, AR Rahman returns to The O2 after five years, with a one off greatest hits show on Saturday 15 August 2015. AR Rahman will be joined by very special guests including;… Read More »Win 2 VIP tickets for AR Rahman’s London O2 Show!
Haraamkhor is exactly the kind of film one hopes to see at a film festival – a film that pushes the envelope, has been made with care and attention and has lots of soul. Keeping a packed audience engaged throughout,… Read More »Haraamkhor (The Wretched) Review LIFF 2015
Debutante director and lead actress Churni Ganguly’s semi-biographical take on controversial writer Taslima Nasrin is absolutely soul stirring. In Nirbashito (Banished), even though the protagonist has no name, and is always referred to as Lady, or Madam, the resemblance to… Read More »Nirbashito Review LIFF 2015
Mani Ratnam is pretty much how I expected him to be – unpretentious, likeable and a man who doesn’t waste words. When he does speak, there was much to inspire and after the hour and bit talk, I am sure… Read More »Screen Talk: Mani Ratnam – London Indian Film Festival 2015, BFI Southbank
Most fans of popular Hindi cinema will be familiar with films like Zubeidaa (2001) and Welcome To Saajanpur (2008) but as The Master: Shyam Benegal shows, Bengal has a formidable body of work before mainstream success; films that won many… Read More »Review The Master: Shyam Benegal LIFF 2015
AntMan oh AntMan! Upodcasting has been looking forward to this one for so long now that the sense of anticlimax was a real and present danger. It proved to be unfounded in the final analysis but the possible overexposure through… Read More »Ant Man Review
I really hope for Imran Khan’s career that things turn around a little. We’ve always liked the guy, and have even spoken to him quite a few time snow but his last few movies really haven’t worked at the box… Read More »Katti Batti Images and Promos
After the Fan Teaser which was released last week, we now have the first look and teaser trailer of Raees. Shahrukh Khan’s collaboration with Rahul Dholakia whose not worked with any big canvas movies until now.Although the next movie SRK… Read More »Raees Teaser and posters!
The yearly London Indian Film Festival started with the usual festivities and since we don’t take half measures here at Upodcast. We decided to give you 2 different perspectives by our good buddies Bhushan Kumar (@bogeyno2) and Sujoy Singa (@9e3k)… Read More »Umrika Review: Opening Night LIFF 2015
Peter Pan’s isn’t one of those characters that is near and dear to our hearts although we did enjoy Hook when it came out (BANGERANG) but it seems to be a real gold mine for film makers to keep going… Read More »Pan Official Poster
Brooklyn, is the critically acclaimed, heart-breaking, movie starring Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Domhnall Gleeson (About Time), Emory Cohen (The Place Beyond The Pines), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Julie Walters (Billy Elliot) and directed by John Crowley (Intermission) and is… Read More »Brooklyn Trailer: So very Irish!
Every year Comic Con bring’s tons of goodies and even though Marvel didn’t make an appearance, Disney managed to rock the house with a very interesting sneak peak at the next Star Wars movie. Fans at San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall… Read More »Star Wars Comic Con Sizzle Reel
Is Terminator the movie franchise that just won’t die? Martin and Asim discuss the re-imagined cast, the legacy of Skynet and if Time Travel can actually make sense in any movie. To listen and download, click on the link… Read More »Terminator Genisys Review Upodcast
A very short teaser released for Sultan, Salman Khan’s 2nd collaboration with YRF after the massive success of Ek Tha Tiger. Although we’re no fans of such short teasers or motion posters but we’re always willing to make an exception… Read More »Sultan’s teaser doesn’t reveal much….
We were pleasantly surprised with the 2nd Kung Fu Panda, it might not be on the level of a How To Train Your Dragon that we anxiously anticipate but whenever we sit down to watch it, it’s always a fun… Read More »Kung Fu Panda 3 Trailer and Images
Everything related to the lastest Mission: Impossible looks so awesome, the new poster that just released has a slight retro feel and makes pretty much everyone in the movie look cool. The movie definetly looks like a big summer box… Read More »New Poster Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
This is the latest film by director Patrick Brice and executive produced by Jay and Mark Duplass and Adam Scott. Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) have recently moved to LA with their son RJ. Looking to make new… Read More »The Overnight: review
The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival kicks off with Sundance winner Umrika with hard-hitting cricket documentary Death of a Gentleman to close the festival. Prashant Nair’s Umrika, winner of the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, starring… Read More »London Indian Film Festival (16 – 23 July 2015)
The double Grammy and double Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe winner, AR Rahman returns to The O2 after five years, with a one off greatest hits show on Saturday 15 August 2015. AR Rahman will be joined by very special guests including;… Read More »AR Rahman announces UK concert dates at the O2
The cruise liner of Bollywood Podcasts is back, this time joined by our friend Anisha Jhaveri, to break down the ups and downs of Zoya Akhtar’s dysfunctional family drama Dil Dhadakne Do. Now that she’s 3 movies in, we can… Read More »Dil Dhadakne Do Review Upodcast
We’re really up for the new film with Pierce Brosnan – Survivor – and this is a great preview clip showing why Pierce can still mix it with both good and bad characters. And given there isn’t really a terrible… Read More »Survivor: The Watchmaker clip, sneak preview
The 5th instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise’s release is just around the corner and personally I couldn’t be more psyched. It might be an unpopular opinion but the movies haven’t had a misstep at least in my book (yes… Read More »Mission Impossible Rogue Nation: New Character Posters
San Andreas is the new film starring Dwayne Johnson and imagines what would happen if the biggest earthquake ever recorded struck in California, devastating Los Angeles, before travelling along the San Andreas faultline to wreak destruction on San Francisco. It… Read More »San Andreas: review
The latest smash from Disney studios hits screens in the UK this Friday 22nd May. But what can we expect from such a potentially stunning combination of actors, writers and directors? George Clooney is the main lead on stage, with… Read More »Tomorrowland Upodcast Review
I haven’t been bowled over by anything related to Gabbar yet (how terrible is that Chitriganda- Honey Singh Promotional song?) , apparently it is a remake of a South Indian movie (alarm bells ringing already) with the big difference that… Read More »Gabbar Is Back Press Interview
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by… Read More »Far from the madding crowd
As long as you’ve not been living under a rock recently, you’ll know Daredevil has started on Netflix. Or quite possibly you’ll know exactly that and also have watched all of the first series by now! Whilst the show builds… Read More »Daredevil – suit close-ups
Coming to UK cinemas from 19th June, THE LONGEST RIDE centres on the star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job… Read More »The longest ride, preview clip
Sometimes a man can be so talented that facing him for a short chat can be intimidating. Writer- Producer- Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra is one of those men. He’s been involved with ground breaking cinema for a few decades and… Read More »Vidhu Vinod Chopra Interview- Broken Horses
The latest Upod is a busy one and we are back in familiar territory to start with! 2015 is a pretty impressive year with its line-up of films, so with the newest James Bond trailer released, we had no choice… Read More »John Wick and Focus Review Upodcast
In cinemas today, Broken Horses is Vinod Chopra‘s debut Hollywood feature and makes him the first Indian filmmaker to write, produce and direct a Hollywood film Set in the shadows of the US-Mexico border gang wars, Broken Horses is an epic thriller… Read More »Broken Horses: review
’tis the season to be Oscar. Asim and Martin take aim and set their sights on Clint Eastwood’s latest target, American Sniper. The most successful war movie of all time has taken America by storm, smashing box office records left,… Read More »American Sniper Review and Oscar Predictions
“How did we end up here? This place smells of balls.” says the disembodied voice of Birdman; the alter-ego of Michael Keaton’s Riggan Thomson in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s ‘Birdman or (The Virtue of Ignorance)’. What’s Riggan doing whilst his inner… Read More »Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Review
Superstar Rajinikanth returns to the big screen in a live action role after 4 years with KS Ravikumar’s Lingaa. As every release of the megastar there is quite a bit of excitement and looking at the initial box office numbers,… Read More »Lingaa Upodcast Review
Warning, review contains mild spoilers Black Sea, is the latest from director Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland). It features Jude Law (Sleuth, Dom Hemmingway) as submarine captain Robinson, on the hunt for a submarine, lost somewhere in the… Read More »Black Sea: review
Farah and Shah Rukh Khan come together again after a long hiatus to give us Happy New Year which is shattering records left and right. Part Heist movie, part dance movie are they able to recreate the magic of their… Read More »Happy New Year Review Upodcast
Sometimes in life, they say less is more, but we beg to differ. For this episode of Upodcasting, more is more! We squeeze in a load of TV shows and 2 movies. Well, 3 movies if you include Asim coming… Read More »Gotham/How To Get Away With Murder and Frank Review Upodcast
As the London Film Festival rolls onwards, we are joined by writer, producer, DJ Shai Hussain and talk about the movies we are most looking forward to as well as give short thoughts on the ones we have already caught… Read More »The Imitation Game Review and London Film Festival Preview
Farah Khan is suddenly a little tearful – “I’ve realised the journey is coming to an end“. Watching the star studded line up at the European press conference for the upcoming Happy New Year in a Central London hotel on… Read More »Happy New Year / Slam Tour Report + New Charlie Promo
Let’s get rid of the obvious to begin with. If you are here to know if you should consider watching Haider, releasing in cinemas on the 2nd October 2014, then here’s my comment. Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider might possibly be his… Read More »Haider Review: Hamlet in Kashmir
Wei Ling Soo, (real name Stanley Crawford) renowned magician and exposer of fake mediums and scam artists, is summoned to the south of France by an old school friend and fellow magician to reveal and expose Sophie Baker who is… Read More »Magic In The Moonlight Review
This Episode of Upodcast we are joined by the always wonderful Anisha Jhaveri in our search for Fanny. Before we get into our review of Homi Adijani’s follow of Cocktail starring the lumiscent Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor, Pankaj Kapur, Dimple… Read More »Finding Fanny Upodcast Review
It might have been a rainy Tuesday morning after a bank holiday weekend but nothing was going to dampen spirits at the swanky London hotel where visionary director Vishal Bhardwaj and the dynamic Shahid Kapoor were in attendance to talk… Read More »Haider Press Conference
Our good friend FilmiGirl was nice enough to join us this episode and we had a VERY long but long overdue chat about tons of topics any Bollywood afficionado would be interested in. We start with a rundown of this… Read More »Kick Review and Bollywood Catch Up Upodcast
A Copy/Paste job of some PR Media interviews we received from the Kick Cast (Sajid Nadiadwala, Nargis Fakhri, Chetan Bhagat, Mithun) Usual Questions and quite bland answers but in a weird way, i’m having a very sanitized feeling about Kick… Read More »Kick Cast Interviews
In true tradition, the closing night of the 5th London Indian Film Festival featured one of the biggest and highly anticipated movie premieres of the festival – Samruddhi Porey’s biopic Hemalkasa. Based on the life of renowned social worker and… Read More »Hemalkasa Review Liff 2014
London Indian Film Festival brought with it the golden opportunity to spend an evening with ace Indian cinematographer/director – Santosh Sivan. As a fan of his work, this was something not to be missed, and I went in with high… Read More »Santosh Sivan MasterClass BFI LIFF 2014
Yash Raj has just released the first song promo from Daawat E Ishq starring Parineeti Chopra and Aaditya Roy Kapur, releasing in theaters september 5th. Here is the synopsis of the movie from the YRF website and to be honest… Read More »Daawat-e-Ishq Title Song and Trailer
I’m trying to rack my brain when I was last excited for a Brett Ratner movie, it might have been Kites, how young and innocent were we back in those days? But Hercules has me totally psyched, The Rock can… Read More »HERCULES – NEW ‘ARMED FOR BATTLE’ FEATURETTE : The Rock throws a horse!
That Farhan Akhtar is a multi-talented being is beyond doubt – just look to his amazing body…of work as an actor, director, writer, singer, lyricist, producer and general Mr Congeniality of Hindi cinema. But damn it, he is rather likeable… Read More »Farhan Akhtar LIFF Screen Talk at the BFI
The moment I was walking out of the screening of Anima State I was accosted by an elderly Pakistani gentleman. He asked me if I was from a TV channel (I said no) then he started a 15 min diatribe… Read More »Anima State Review LIFF 2014
[Disclaimer: Due to messed up scheduling at the screening venue (for London Indian Film Festival), I missed the first 30 minutes of Ulidavaru Kandante, as I was still watching Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya (review link here). This post is hence,… Read More »Ulidavaru Kandante Review LIFF 2014
Before I say anything about the movie, can I just applaud director Shilpa Ranade first, to have thought of remaking a Satyajit Ray classic that has been loved by generations. The classic short story by Upendra Kishore Rowchowdhury has already… Read More »Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya Review LIFF 2014
Director Amit Masurkar’s slacker bromance ‘Sulemaani Keedha’ (SK) on the surface is pretty much what one of its characters wants a movie to be like. That character is Gonzo, a producer’s son, a big fan of out-of-the-box ideas and who… Read More »Sulemaani Keeda Review LIFF 2014
The London Indian Film Festival started with the UK premier of Sold, directed by Jeffrey D. Brown, Oscar winning director for best short film (Molly’s Pilgrim -1985) and starring Niyar Saikia, a 13 year old girl Lakshmi who under the… Read More »Sold Review Liff 2014
“I’ll let the product speak for itself” declares actor Madhur Mitthal enthusiastically when introducing the screening of Disney’s crossover offering Million Dollar Arm at the London Indian Film Festival. And that is precisely what Million Dollar Arm is – a… Read More »Million Dollar Arm Review Liff 2014
There are some films that remain with the viewer long after the fade to black – Qissa: The Tale Of The Lonely Ghost one of them. This haunting tale tells of Umber Singh (Khan) who is uprooted by the Partition… Read More »Qissa: The Tale Of The Lonely Ghost Review LIFF 2014
It was the opening night of London Indian Film Festival 2014. Now in its 5th year, the festival has become a major platform to showcase the best of what the Indian indie cinema scene has to offer. Running from the… Read More »London Indian Film Festival 2014 starts with Dhol Dhamaka!
We’re quite looking forward to Tammy, Melissa McCarthy is going balls out and here she is having a bagged conversation with Sarah Barker, who was great in the unfortunatley cancelled Go On and also had a very memorable monologue in… Read More »New Clip Tammy: I Do like Apples
Bobby Jasoos is directed by Samar Shaikh, whose impressive cache of work includes being the assistant director on the worldwide hit franchise Dhoom. The film is co-produced by Bollywood actress Dia Mirza and Sahil Sangha under their production banner Born… Read More »Samar Shaikh Director of Bobby Jasoos’ Press Interview
Karan Johar, brought in fresh faces for his latest rom-com (I think we can all be grateful he took a break from the Imran Khan – Kareena Kapoor combo). Here is some of the press release: Bollywood heartthrob Varun Dhawan… Read More »Karan Johar Press Interview Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
Ali Fazal has been grinding in Bollywood since quite a few years now. Most probably most people noticed him in 3 Idiiots as the engineer who committed suicide. But now he’s looking forward to his biggest release yet paired opposite… Read More »Bobby Jasoos Press Interview Ali Fazal
This is a busy episode so comes with a “wide load” sticker on the back. Martin walks down the more arty path, talking about a classic Bernardo Bertolucci, The Conformist, before keeping up the Italian end by frankly, gushing about… Read More »What Have We been Watching? And Robocop (2014) Upodcast
Being huge Stallone fans, we were quite excited for his career resurrection from the past years but it seems that he wasnt able to maintain that fire in his last few releases. The Expendables 2 was quite the dissapointed as… Read More »The Expendables 3 UK Trailer
To celebrate last week’s release of Clint Eastwood’s JERSEY BOYS, Warner Bros. Pictures is pleased to make available an exclusive JERSEY BOYS infographic. JERSEY BOYS stars Christopher Walken, John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda and Vincent Piazza and is… Read More »Jersey Boys Infographic
Mardaani has been under the radar for a while now but I had assumed wrongly that it was going to be a female version of a Southploitation movie along the lines of a Rowdy Rathore but with Rani Mukherjee instead… Read More »Mardaani Trailer Breakdown: Rani is a bad ass!
One of the best UK Indian Film Festivals is upon us again from the 10th to 17th of July. And since there are a ton of films on offer we roped in some old friends and new to help cover… Read More »LIFF 2014 Top Picks The Upodcast team
The new UK trailer for Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy just hit the site and it looks pretty hilarious! Not only has McCarthy been an MVP as a supporting actor but now she is branching out and becoming the main reason audiences… Read More »New Tammy Trailer: Melissa McCarthy fights a deer
As the resident Upodcasting sport fan and thankfully for this release, long time Manchester United fan it was an absolute pleasure to see this for review. This is the story of how six 14 year-old working class boys (David Beckham,… Read More »The Class of ’92: extended collector’s edition – review
Emma Thompson’s Sold, Million Dollar Arm & Bollywood Stars at London INDIAN Film Festival Executive produced by actor Emma Thompson, Sold will be the red carpet European Premiere opening night film of the Fifth annual London INDIAN Film Festival (July… Read More »LIFF 2014: Europe’s Largest South Asian Film Event is Back!
What does the “Rajini Effect” mean? It is extremely hard to encompass the meaning of these two words. No superlative feels adequate to describe the force of the superstardom and religious fan following of the one and the only Thalaivaar… Read More »The Rajini Effect Review
Vidya Balan has managed to carve quite a unique and enviable niche for herself in Hindi Films with movies like The Dirty Picture and Kahaani where she isn’t reliant on an having a male star share the screen with her… Read More »Bobby Jasoos New Song Trailer, Images and Poster
They say good things come in 3s and after a short break, Ahmed returns to complete the 3 musketeers, joining Asim and Martin to talk about 3 movies. Appropriately, we first talk about Kevin Costner’s latest film 3 days to… Read More »Pompeii, Godzilla, 3 Days to Kill Upodcast
Back in the chair this week we have Asim and Martin discussing some of the latest sequels. Asim also talks about the english dubbed version of HayaoMiyazaki’s last ever film, The Wind Rises (In Uk Theaters since Friday)! Here’s the… Read More »Sequel Special Upodcast: The Raid 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spiderman 2
We look forward to the London Indian Film Festival and this year they seem to be bringing in the big (although maybe slighlty downbeat) guns for this year’s premiere. Sold will have its red carpet European Premiere at the opening… Read More »Sold Will open the 2014 London Indian FilmFestival
Akshay Kumar doesn’t make it easy to root for him as a fan, not only repeating the same genre repeatedly but now he seems to be revisiting characters too. Singh Is King was a massive success although I did not… Read More »Singh Is Bling: New Posters for Akshay and Prabhu Deva’s latest team up
After the night is a portrayal of life in the slums of Lisbon. Directed by Basil da Cunha we see life through the eyes of Sombra, who returns to his life as a drug dealer after coming out of jail.… Read More »After the night (Ate ver a luz): Review
Probably my favorite animated movie of the past years is How To Train Your Dragon, the world and character building the filmmakers showed was so touching, funny and heartpounding, there wasn’t a shadow of a doubt in my mind that… Read More »How To Train Your Dragon 2: 5 Minute Preview!
Good ‘ole Guvernator has been slowly coming back to the big screen lately, and he continues to work with exciting filmmakers and in ensembles instead of going solo. Teaming up with director David Ayers (Training Day, End Of Watch) and… Read More »Sabotage New TV Spots: Cartels and Gunshots!
Clint Eastwood would not be the first name you would think of adapting the Tony Award-winning musical “Jersey Boys” to the big screen. But as soon as you watch the trailer, you get an immediate sense of his no nonsense… Read More »Jersey Boys Trailer
Bringing together a very promising cast of Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (aka the King Slayer) and actor- writer- director Nic Cassavetes, The Other Woman might just be one of those movies that rises above the… Read More »The Other Woman: An Unlikely Trio featurette
Pritam has become an unstoppable force on the Bollywood music scene in the past few years. His steady flow of chart toppers and the frequency and ease he drops them on people is something that is pretty much incomparable to… Read More »Pritam Comes to Wembley (London) and brings a bunch of friends
The Machine is a British indie sci-fi movie, first screened last year before its general release in 2014. Set in the near future, the West is in the midst of a new cold war with China that has sent the… Read More »The Machine: review
Since I follow the Rock on twitter (who knows when he might hint at another super secret military intervention before the president of the US) we have been seeing his dedicated transformation to become the mythical superhero Hercules. Directed by… Read More »Hercules Teaser: The Rock Roars!
Almost a decade after dining in hell, we revisit the CGI vision of ancient Greece set through the eyes of Zach Snyder and Frank Miller. Ad Film maker, Noam Murro takes over the directing reigns with returning cast members Rodrigo Santoro,… Read More »300 Rise of an Empire Review Upodcast
Breaking up is never easy, and saying sorry can sometimes be just as tough – so it seems for Swedish House Mafia in Leave the World Behind, the new film from Christian Larson which documents the trio’s final million-ticket-selling world… Read More »Leave the World Behind Review
Gulaab Gang released last friday and provides the unique pairing of Bollywood screen Godesses Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla squaring off against each other. Released in a very crowded weekend of 2 other releases (Queen and Total Siyapaa) but pushed… Read More »Gulaab Gang Review Upodcast
It’s been 9 years since the last Sin City and the sequel has pretty much been talked about since that day. Co-Directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller bring together an amazing cast with some returning faces. Here is the poster… Read More »Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Trailer
We take a road trip through the lens of Imtiaz Ali’s Highway. Starring Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda, Highway is cute a departure from the movies Imtiaz has made up to now. So does it measure up to his previous… Read More »Highway Review Upodcast
If ever there was a perfect role for Nick Frost, then surely being Cuban Fury is it. Beneath Bruce Garrett’s shabby, flabby exterior, beats the heart of once great Salsa king! Only one woman can reignite his Latin fire. Spotlight hits,… Read More »Cuban Fury
If you’re wondering what kind of war film George Clooney has made in The Monuments Men, it can be easily summed up a third of the way through the film. Two American soldiers share a cigarette with a German solder… Read More »The Monuments Men Review
Here is the first teaser and poster for Melissa McCarthy’s next “Tammy” directed by Ben Falcone, who is also her husband (he played the Air Marshall in Bridesmaids), and co-starring Susan Sarandon, Dan Aykroyd, Allison Janney, Kathy Bates, Toni Collette.… Read More »Tammy Teaser: Melissa McCarthy is having a bad day!
First up, I’ll be candid and say that if you’re even vaguely curious to see this film, then I would urge to act on that impulse and watch it. The recounting of Ron Woodruff’s post-AIDS life is a remarkable one… Read More »Dallas Buyers Club Review
The trailers of Akshay Kumar movies have started to follow a distinct pattern since he made Rowdy Rathore and it seems not much has changed for the trailer of Holiday- A Soldier is Never Of Duty. First the trailer will… Read More »Holiday Trailer Breakdown: Ek Tha Soldier
Quite a few interesting tid bits about the forthcoming sequel of 300, firstly that it isn’t really a sequel but a movie about concurrent events. This time we follow the Athenian navy as they battle the onslaught of Persian God/King… Read More »300: Rise of An Empire Behind The Scenes Featurette
It’s a Thursday night in London, there’s the cold, the wind, the rain, and the tube strikes to tackle if you’re going to get anywhere. But if you can brave the elements and the train unions, in a London Hotel Screening… Read More »Rio 2 Footage Screening and Q&A
Every movie directing by Imtiaz Ali is something to look forward to, he seems to be able to craft characters that stay with you for a long time after leaving the theater. Especially when he teams up with composer AR… Read More »HighWay Posters and Behind the Scenes tidbits
I feel I haven’t professed my love enough for Gravity probably because when I got around to actually watching it, it was already in the last days of it’s theatrical run, and it seemed that I wouldn’t have anything else… Read More »New Gravity Poster for Imax
Right in time for V-day we have a dreamy, magical love story to defy our yearly cynism. Come on people, it’s once a year, get over it! A New York Winter’s Tale (quite the horrible title) hits cinemas February 21st. starring… Read More »A New York Winter’s Tale: 2 new trailers
Teaming up again with director Jaume Collet Serra (after Unknown, and with an equally forgettable title Non Stop) Liam Neeson is burned out Air Marshall, in another mid budget, high octane action movie. Sometimes I wonder if the surprising success… Read More »Non Stop Trailer: Liam Neesons is one scary Air Marshal
There seem to be so many adaptations of Young Adult novels lately that it’s become increasingly hard to keep track of them. Although studios are hoping for another Hunger Games some end up just being Ender’s Games. Shaileen Woodley is… Read More »Divergent Trailer and Infographic
This week we take to task Salman Khan’s latest release Jai Ho. A movie big in hype but ultimately a let down in terms of Box Office and some would say in entertainment value. Upodcast is joined by Bollyspice Editor,… Read More »Jai Ho Review Upodcast
Warning, contains plot spoilers. A film right up my street to almost kick-off the year with. An interesting one this as Chris Pine is now the 4th incarnation of the seemingly evergreen Tom Clancy character, having been played previously by… Read More »Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – review
The game is on..! Upodcast returns for 2014 with a TV and movie doubleheader. First up we celebrate the return of Sherlock to our screens. The long overdue (in our opinion) resolution of the “how did he die but live?”… Read More »Sherlock Season 3 and American Hustle Review Upodcast
Dhoom 3, the third in the bikes- babes and abs series is poised to be the biggest blockbuster ever to have been made in Hindi Film history. But clocking in near 3 hours, does it deliver on the promise of… Read More »Dhoom 3 Review Upodcast
The first return to Hobbit country might have not gone as planned for Peter Jackson’s as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was critically derided but still made mint at the box office. So is second part in this new Middle… Read More »The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Review Upodcast
After the first poster release of last week, we finally have the first teaser trailer and boy is it chilling! Here is a plot synopsis and the teaser itself: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is… Read More »Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: New teaser trailer!
Joy of joys in the season of goodwill, my co-host Asim was unable to attend our screening of Anchorman 2. One man’s pain is another man’s gain. It is a hard life, but sometimes you just have to take one… Read More »Review: Anchorman 2 – does the legend continue?
The Trailer for Edge Of Tomorrow just landed in our inbox with this pretty awesome looking one sheet. Tom Cruise has been on a sci fi trip lately, and although his previous release Oblivion had some issues it had some… Read More »Edge Of Tomorrow Trailer, Images and Poster: Tom Cruise’s Source Code GroundHog Day
Who knew this quirky show would last until season 5? Creator Dan Harmon is back after a troublesome season 4 which we didn’t hate as much as the rest of the fanbase but it did feel like a waterdowned, clone… Read More »Community Season 5 Trailer : Beyond The Darkest Timeline
Finally the trailer for Salman Khan’s next release is upon us. Now that we finally know Jai Ho is finally coming out, flowers seems to smell better, food tasts better, we can hear the singing of birds again. Seemingly melding… Read More »Jai Ho Teaser: Joy to the world Salman is back!
The first trailer for the sequel to the prequel releases next week but we received this beautifully creepy looking posters. A lot of the people that made the 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes a critical and box… Read More »Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Poster
Back in the chair for Upod we have a varied episode, covering a multitude of films. Heavy duty stuff to begin with as Asim and Martin have been watching documentaries. Utopia, the latest from John Pilger, takes its name from… Read More »Clear History, Thor 2, Hunger Games and much more Upodcast
It truly has been a long wait for Darren Aronofsky to follow up his critically acclaimed Black Swan, but now that the trailer for Noah starring Russel Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins and Logan Lerman is… Read More »Noah Trailer: It’s about to get Biblical!
We know all the cool kids have been complaining high and low about big bad Hollywood remaking Paul Verhoeven classic Robocop but as usual Upodcast has a different point of view and is kinda excited! Here is the new trailer… Read More »Robocop Trailer and Poster
Kareena Kapoor and Imran Khan were in London promoting their forthcoming rom-com Gori Tere Pyaar Mein and we had the chance to speak to them face to pretty face (you can decide who has the pretty face for once). Both… Read More »Kareena Kapoor & Imran Khan Gori Tere Pyaar Mein Upodcast Video Interview
The boys are back in town. And they’re not in a good mood. Although Martin hasn’t watched TV in about 3 weeks Asim and Ahmed have been tucking into Agents of Shield and that hasn’t gone down very well. Are… Read More »R.I.P.D, Marvel’s Agents Of Shield and Captain America: The Winter Soldier Upodcast
With the release of MAN OF STEEL available on BLU-RAY 3D™, BLU-RAY™ 3D STEELBOOK, BLU-RAY™, DVD and DIGITAL DOWNLOAD from 2nd December 2013, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, we have been receiving quite a few of the clips of the extras… Read More »Man Of Steel: Behind the Scenes clips Zod and Flying as Superman
Here is a media interview done with Sonakshi Sinha and Jimmy Shergill, Jimmy (and Vidyut Jammwal) being the main reason I would want to watch this movie, its a shame that “the media” didnt bother to find any decent questions… Read More »Sonakshi Sinha and Jimmy Shergill Media Interview
The Stars of Krrish 3, Hritik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra, were in town promoting their upcoming superhero movie and Upodcast had the chance to attend the Press Conf. There was also an Event at the Apple Store which is a… Read More »Krrish 3 Press Conference London Upodcast
Bad Grandpa is the latest release in the long line of Jackass related features, either TV or movie screen based. Starring Johnny Knoxville as the aforementioned ill-behaved grandfather. Jeff Tramaine directing and Spike Jonze and others behind the scenes, return… Read More »Bad Grandpa Review Upodcast
The Book Thief is one of those books that has been on my reading shelf for a couple of years now and although I have vowed to read it before the adaptation by director Brian Perceval (who directed a few… Read More »The Book Thief: New Trailer
Time to spray on the Sex Panther and head on over to the pants store! The Channel 4 newsteam is back, this time placing Ron Burgundy and his crew in the 80’s is a perfect gold mine for comedy. I… Read More »Anchorman 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES Trailer
By now most people have heard of this little underground movie called Krrish 3, although none of us have figured out how to write the title without googling it or why it isn’t just simply called Krrish 2. The marketing… Read More »Krrish 3 Hritik Roshan Media Interview
It’s always hilarious to see kids act and say inappropirate things. The Jackass team behind Bad Grandpa are very aware of that and I assume quite a bit of their forthcoming release is centered around that premise. Here is the… Read More »Bad GrandPa “Cinnamon” Clip
There is always a slight reluctance on my part to post these PR- Media interviews with actors. On the one hand it keeps feeding the PR bullshit machinery which none of us really want, but having done enough interviews I… Read More »Akshay Kumar Boss Media Interview
A Woody Allen movie, despite the annual appearance, is always an event. Upod casts its eye over Blue Jasmine, his latest release. Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is a former New York socialite, broke (although still travelling 1st Class), homeless and a… Read More »Blue Jasmine review: Jasmine is truly Blue in Woody’s latest bid for another actress Oscar
The team of Abhinav Kashyap’s Besharam came down to the UK to talk about their fortcoming release. Our good friend Sujoy Singha from Bollypop, attended and managed to even liven up the proceedings at the press conference. Here’s the audio… Read More »Besharam UK Press Conference Upodcast
A mini-podcast dedicated to Vin Diesel’s Riddick return. Asim and Martin take a look at the latest blockbuster sci-fi to hit screens worldwide. There are mercenaries and bounty hunters, space dogs and beasties, the odd bit of nudity and much… Read More »Riddick Upodcast Review: Please sir, I want some more
Like most Bollywood fans, we have spent the morning refreshing our social media feeds for the launch of the Ram Leela trailer and finally the wait is over. Rumored to be an adaptation of Romeo And Juliet, Sanjay Leela Bhansali… Read More »Ram Leela Trailer: Romeo And Juliet through Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Lens
You’d expect that after the massive success of Bridesmaids, we would be seeing a lot more of Kristen Wiig on screen, unfortunately that’s not been the case. Even Girl Most Likely which was previously called Imogene and premiered last year… Read More »Girl Most Likely Trailer and Poster
The long-awaited (?) Robocop re-vamp has finally come to life with this trailer for the 2014 release of Paul Verhoeven‘s mid-80s sci-fi cult classic. 25 years or so really is a long time, so we can’t begrudge a re-make on… Read More »Robocop: The New Trailer
Quite looking forward to The Counsellor, beside an amazing cast of Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Brad Pitt. It’s a return for Sir Ridley Scott to a smaller story based thriller written by Cormac McCarthy, so im… Read More »The Counsellor Character Posters and Clips
We’ve been having a hard time understanding what Besharam is all about. From the throwback promo to having Abhijeet sing Dil Ka Jo Haal Hail, it seems the team has been stuck in some sort of time warp where the… Read More »Besharam Media Interview and New Song Promo
When we met the Kochadaiiyaan team for a press conference back in April 2012 producer Murali mentioned: “Kochadaiiyaan is going to be a very different animation film with Indian and international technicians. Even better than Tin- Tin. And first of… Read More »Kochadaiiyaan Teaser looks choppy!
In cinemas this Friday is the new film from Ron Howard and normally, I’d not be arsed to be honest. HOWEVER…Rush is a re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between two Formula 1 drivers: James Hunt and Niki Lauda. And… Read More »Rush: out this Friday
Dhoom 3’s trailer has arrived and finally gives us something to look forward to in 2013, even if the movie releases just before the year ends. An established and massively succesfull franchise being spearheaded by one of the most bankable… Read More »Dhoom 3 Trailer Breakdown
Drum rolls please…The title has been revealed as Transformers: Age Of Extinctions. Adding Mark Wahlberg to the cast and rumours of Dinobots, this is probably going to be another massive smash hit and after the success of Pain & Gain,… Read More »Transformers 4 has a name and Teaser poster
If the Chinese celebrated more than just animals in their yearly zodiac, then 2013 wouldn’t be the year of the snake, it would be the year of The Rock. Our latest podcast talks about one of Dwayne Johnson’s many movies… Read More »EP 83 Empire State Review, Bat-Fleck and a dissapointing summer of movies- Upodcast
Dial M for Murder 3D. During what has become my unofficial Hitchcockathon at the British Film Institute this month, I had the chance to watch a restored version of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1950s classic in 3D. Possibly a surprise given… Read More »Dial M for Murder 3D – a review in 2 dimensions
Here is the trailer for the latest Coen Brother’s movie Inside Llewyn Davis, after winning the Grand Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival this year. As usual the Coen’s have brought together an amazing cast of performers in Oscar… Read More »Inside Llewyn David Trailer
Here’s the new poster and a first trailer for Jackass’ spin off movie Bad Grandpa, starring Jonny Knoxville as Irving Zisman. Maybe not the most popular of Jackass characters and certainly not my favourite, but they seem to have mixed… Read More »Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Poster and trailer
About Time is the latest film from British director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill, Four Weddings). A great cast of Brits, plus of course Rachel McAdams and Margot Robbie (Neighbours and the ill-fated/rubbish Pan-Am). With the exception of those… Read More »About Time: Review
In honour of what would have been Alfred Hitchcock‘s 114th birthday this August, Upodcasting is delighted to shed some light on the great man’s films, legacy and influences. Kicking things of for us, is this wonderful introduction by Elizabeth Eckhart.… Read More »Happy Birthday Alfred Hitchcock!
A good title for this movie I have to say. Adapted from a truly horrific real life story Michael Bay‘s newest on screen adventure is a crime-comedy starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie. The film is based on a story published in a 1999 series… Read More »Pain and Gain review: Michael Bay’s best film?
We’ve kept you waiting but finally our Chennai Express Upodcast Episode is finally ready! Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and Siddarth Roy were in town promoting their biggest Eid release which has also become the biggest box office earner in the… Read More »Chennai Express Upodcast Interviews
Got Sky, love Facebook and want to keep your mates up to speed on the latest and greatest that you’re watching? Sky Share is probably the thing for you in that case. Well, I say that, but you don’t need… Read More »Sky Share
Director Shoojit Sircar’s latest – Madras Cafe, sees him teaming up again with actor/producer John Abraham after the successful Vicky Donor to bring a different story to life. This time, John takes matters in his own hands, as he takes centre-stage as the… Read More »Madras Cafe Review
Never been a huge fan of Indian Television, which are formulaic, melodramatic family dramas that keep going on and on! But there was always potential in the vast audience and talent available and it seems that legendary actor Anil Kapoor… Read More »First Trailer India’s 24 Looks Dhin-a Din Da!
If per chance you are looking to send your favorite movie and Podcast host some well deserved Xmas gifts, then the Man Of Steel Blu Ray is probably a sure shot. Available to pre-order from August 23rd in the UK,… Read More »Man Of Steel DVD and Blu Ray will release in time to save Xmas
Sometimes you loose count if it’s in vogue to like Woody Allen’s movies or not, Blue Jasmine has some great buzz surrounding it but when it comes to Woody, you’re in or your out as he has been doing his… Read More »Blue Jasmine Trailer: Woody Allen’s forthcoming release
After quite a successful release in the US, 2 Guns is prepping arrival at our shores on august 16 with a brand new trailer. Denzel Washington is probably the most reliable actor on the planet and the odd couple teaming… Read More »2 Guns Trailer
James Wan has a developed quite a knack for scaring the bejusus out of audiences with genre that have been done to death. Fresh off the success of The Conjuring )which is still playing very successfully in theaters now and… Read More »Insidious: Chapter 2 Trailer
Following the trend of adapting Young Adult novels, here is the trailer for Kevin Mcdonald’s How I Live Now starring Saoirse Ronan which starts out like a coming of age story set in idyllic English country side which turns into… Read More »How I live Now Trailer
Released this Monday, August 12th, the DVD and Blu-Ray of Evil Dead, one of my movies of the year so far. A fitting remake for the 21st century, this has some things the original lacks: consistently good acting across all… Read More »The Evil Dead: coming to your home from August 12th
Everyone that listens to UPodcast knows that my tastes veer towards massy entertainers that have had some thought put into it. I don’t need added sound effects to punctuate punch lines but I cant’ stand slow, dreary movies that only… Read More »Shahid Review at LIFF 2013
Whatever we’ve seen of Madras Cafe until now has been quite intriguing, it might be because John Abraham makes a savvier producer than leading man and because casting Nargis Fakri as a foreign war correspondent might actually work. We received… Read More »Madras Cafe New Images and Video’s
Moving from darker themed movies like The Experiment and The Downfall in his native Germany, director Oliver Hirschbiegel is now taking on the final 2 years of Princess Diana’s life. The most interesting part in these biographies is how much… Read More »‘Diana’ First Official Trailer
The Heat is the latest movie from Paul Feig, director of the acclaimed and universally adored Bridesmaids. Starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy (also in Bridesmaids), The Heat is about an over-dedicated FBI agent teaming up with a no-nonsense… Read More »The Heat
Monsoon Shootout was the perfect opening film to the wonderful yearly non-Bollywood Indian film Festival LIFF. Not only was Amit Kumar’s 10 years in the making debut still riding on it’s praise from Cannes, it was a movie… Read More »LIFF Review Monsoon Shootout
Is he a star in the making or just another producer’s son getting a huge launch? Girish Kumar talks to Upodcast with the release of Ramaiya Vastavaiya which is in theaters today! Truth be told we give him quite a… Read More »Girish Kumar Talks to Upodcast About Ramaiya Vastavaiya
Any new feature by Edgar Wright is guaranteed to get us excited here at Upod and with the concluding part to the Cornetto trilogy, we have not been disappointed. The action takes place in a sleepy English town when 5… Read More »The World’s End Upodcast Review
During Part 2 of Our Bollywood catch up Upodcast ft FilmiGirl and Getfilmy (click here if you haven’t listened to it yet), I accidentally mentioned Madras Cafe as one of the movies I was looking forward to. Luckily enough my… Read More »Madras Cafe Trailer Breakdown
Released back a couple of months ago and quite a success in the US, Michael Bay “smaller personal” movie Pain & Gain is set for a UK screens on August 30th. Starring along Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne The Rock Johnson,… Read More »New Poster Pain & Gain flexes it’s muscles
Maybe a bit late out of the gate but our geek hearts were still aching to talk about Zach Snyder’s Man Of Steel. Together with Paresh from the CurrySmugglers (check out their latest awesome episode by clicking here) and Sujoy… Read More »Man Of Steel Upodcast Review and Criticism surrounding the movie
When I read Irvine Welsh original novel just after seeing Trainspotting, there was not even the possibility that this could be made into a feature just as most of the content was just plain shocking. Now more than 15… Read More »New Trailer Filth: Welcome to the world of Bruce Robertson
Coming of age stories are a dime a dozen, and especially coming from the team that brought you “Little Miss Sunshine”, you might have a good idea what the story beats might be. But the directing duo Jim Rash and… Read More »The Way, Way Back Trailer
Ridley Scott is back on earth directing what seems to be one of the best ensemble cast we have seen in a while! The movie stars Michael Fassbender who plays a lawyer, who finds himself in over his head when… Read More »The Counsellor Trailer and Images
A short featurette about Hugh Jackman’s 6th* reprisal of The Wolverine character gives us a peak into the story and some new images that weren’t in the trailer. It really looks like they went back to what audiences like about… Read More »A Ronin Story- The Wolverine Featurette
Since we didn’t manage to fit in all we wanted to in one episode, we are joined again by the best bollybloggers in the business Filmigirl and Getfilmy to continue our filmi chat in this second part of our Epic… Read More »Upodcast’s Bollywood 2013 Mid Year Catch Up Part 2
What an amazing line up that LIFF has in stall for London Audiences! Some of these movies you won’t be getting a chance to see in the UK anywhere else. The London Indian Film Festival will be running from the… Read More »Monsoon Shootout, Bombay Talkies to bookend Fourth London INDIAN Film Festival
For those of you who’ve seen the video I posted on here last week – Without You by Lapalux – that may give a clue as to the music I like to listen to. Down-tempo, not with a 4:4 (or,… Read More »Cuttooth by Cuttooth
The Wayans have a particular brand of humor that straddles the line between spoof and gross out comedy combining it with what can be described as FLAVA. It gets derided by critics as low bro when it comes to movies… Read More »A Haunted House Review: More laughs than the Hangover
World War Z produced by Brad Pitt’s company Plan B had an uphill PR battle to face up to it’s release. The movie was a very heavy departure from the original source material by Max Brook’s zombie novel, which was… Read More »World War Z Review
Not being a huge fan of Biopics or sports related movies, the cast invovled in Bhaag Milka Bhaag is the reason I still mentioned the movie as one I am looking forward to in our Mid Year 2013 Bollywood Upodcast… Read More »Bhaag Milka Bhaag Songs and Images: Farhan working out, Sonam Smiling
The Twilight Saga has created such a bad taste in the mouths of non twihard audiences that any property even closely resembling it sends knee jerk reactions, sometimes unfairly. Of course movies studios are working the opposite way where they… Read More »The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones Trailer and Character Posters
Director of the run away hit Band Baaja Baraat, Maneesh Sharma is back, this time teaming up Sushant Singh Rajput (Kai Po Che) with Parineeti Chopra (Ladies vs Ricky Bahl and Ishaqzaade) and newcomer Vaani Kapoor. Yash Raj have released… Read More »Shuddh Desi Romance Digital Poster
The Naughtiest Hindi Film Bloggers are back again for your listening pleasure. FilmiGirl, Getfilmy and Upodcast got together for an epic Bollywood catch up of which this is just the first part. The 2nd part of our chat will be… Read More »Upodcast’s Bollywood 2013 Mid Year Catch Up Part 1
The stylistically-gory trailer for 300: Rise of an empire has just been released and Upod has also been given some cracking new posters for it. Sequel to the hugely successful 300, these posters re-capture the original’s aesthetic and make me wish… Read More »300: Rise of an empire
Dedicated to the only TV show worth watching before its season finishes, we bring you our thoughts on the story so far and dissect the 3rd season. Joined by Moviesbybowes‘ Danny Bowes we’ll let you know some of our high… Read More »Game Of Thrones Season 3 Finale Upodcast Review
Rohit Shetty and Shahrukh Khan’s collaboration Chennai Express finally hits audiences with it’s first proper trailer and the result is an odd marriage of established tropes of both these brands. We have SRK character named Rahul, who helps girls catch… Read More »Chennai Expres Trailer Breakdown
The new Wolverine trailer just went love and its looking pretty damn amazing. Showing quite a bit of the action set pieces and revealing pretty much all the plot. But we’re sold! Synopsis: Based on the celebrated comic book arc,… Read More »New Wolverine International Trailer
If in my last post I said that the video was way cool, then this video has to be way weird. It’s brilliant…but ever so weird. Directed by Nick Rutter and featuring Natalia Tena (better known for starring in Harry… Read More »Highly odd but highly brilliant: Without You – Lapalux
Being a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings book and movie series, I was quite looking forward to it’s sequel but when I started watching it when it finally came out on DVD, I fell asleep twice and… Read More »New Trailer The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Check out this video of The Greeks by Brit band Is Tropical. It’s ages old (2011), but worthy of a post I’d say. In fact, the video is so bloody good I can’t tell you anything of any note… Read More »Way cool video: Is Tropical – The Greeks
We just recorded a massive episode of UPodcast where we do 2013 mid year wrap up and also talk about the movies we are looking forward to in the 2nd half of the year. The one movie that both our… Read More »New Trailer Lootera: Reveals more of the plot!
Although Behind The Candelabra didn’t get a theatrical release in the US but did in the UK, we revisit Steven SoderBergh’s second to last movie, Side Effects. Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s a Steven Soderbergh… Read More »Side Effects and Steven Soderbergh’s Career Upodcast Review
Tied in with the release of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani in theaters everywhere, we bring you a very special interview with did with the one and only Ranbir Kapoor right here in London during his press tour. As usual we… Read More »Ranbir Kapoor Upodcast Interview for Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewaani
The marketing collateral and trailers for the The Hangover III all promised that this final chapter would be “…the epic conclusion to an incomparable odyssey of mayhem and bad decisions…” As adverts always say the truth my expectations were set… Read More »Hangover 3 Review
Jason Sudeikus and Jennifer Aniston were the best part in the mediocre Horrible Bosses, this time they are back directed by Rawson Marhsall Thurber, director of Dodgeball, which is one of my favorite comedies of recent years and the trailer… Read More »We’re The Millers Trailer and Poster
THE EAST starring Brit Marling (ANOTHER EARTH), Alexander Skarsgård (TRUE BLOOD), Ellen Page (JUNO) and Patricia Clarkson (STATION AGENT) will be released in cinemas across the UK & Ireland on June 28th 2013. An official selection at this year’s Sundance… Read More »The East is coming
After 17 years, the cast and crew of the brilliant British film ‘Trainspotting’ (1996) came together for a very special reunion screening in London. The first in a series of Classic Cinema Reunions, the Trainspotting event was curated by the… Read More »Danny Boyle revisits Trainspotting
Upod seems to be all a bit pic ‘n’ mix this week. Variety is however the spice of life and who are we to knock back the goodies on offer right now? Unless you’ve been living on the moon in… Read More »Star Trek Into Darkness, Evil Dead and TV Upodcast Special
Having grown up in the 90’s it’s virtually impossible to not be huge fans of Madhuri Dixit, probably the last legendary heroine Bollywood has produced that exuded old world charm together with an abundance of talent, which made her reign… Read More »Ghagra Song Promo Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Steven Soderbergh’s been claiming that he will soon be retiring from film making, so it’s quite interesting to see the project that he wants to finish. One of which is the Behind the Candelabra based on the life of Vegas… Read More »Behind the Candelabra Trailer
Releasing this week is the movie adaptation of Beat Girl a novel by Jasmine Kallay, about young Heather Jennings (played by Louise Dylan known to some form BBC’s Jane Austin’s Emma) who after the passing of her mother has to move… Read More »Beat Girl Review
When we come back, we come back kicking ass! For our return after our hiatus from podcasting, we are taking on Donnie Yen – Takeshi Kaneshiro’ Draong (Wu Xia) just released in the UK! Part Martial Arts western, Part a… Read More »Dragon (Wu Xia) Upodcast Review
Suddenly, last summer. But for me, more a case of: finally, this winter. Courtesy of the BFI Southbank and their screenings of Montgomery Clift movies I was able to catch this excellent movie. Also starring Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn,… Read More »Suddenly Last Summer BFI Review
Picture the scene; it’s Tuesday, in the UK. The weather is warming up nicely (it is where I live, so tough if it’s cold and wet where you are) and you’re wondering what you should have watched over the bank… Read More »21 and Over New Clip
Here is a song from Excel’s forthcoming “Young Indian men bonding over shenanigans and learning life lessons along the way”- movie Fukrey. Frankly after Dil Chahta Hai, 3 Idiots, Delhi Belly, Kai Po Che, I’m done with this story trope… Read More »Fukrey’s New Title Track
We received these beautiful Banner posters for Man Of Steel and I just had to share them. Not much to say much else as I’m going officially not going to watch any promo material anymore until the movie comes out… Read More »Man Of Steel Banner Posters
We’ve been fortunate enough to have been covering the London Indian Film Festival for the past couple of years and we just received exciting news that in July the festivities in London are starting again! Previous years we chatted with… Read More »The 4th London INDIAN Film Festival Launches in July
We’ve got a new trailer from The Wolverine that Premiered at Cinemacon, some great news shots in there of the action and even the Silver Samurai. It’s starting to look good people! Based on the celebrated comic… Read More »The Wolverine Cinemacon trailer
Honestly there hasn’t been much to talk about going on in Bollywood worth talking about. Lately the release schedules of the bigger and more exciting movies has been consistently been pushed back in the 2nd half of the year, banking… Read More »Raanjhanaa Trailer Breakdown: A Love Story for All Ages
When 300 came out it pretty much blew people away partly because of the way it was shot. The technology was nothing new and we had seen it before in movies like Sin City and Sky Captain but the fluidity… Read More »300: Rise of An Empire Exclusive Stills and Poster
Already my most anticipated movie of the year, this trailer has just left me speechless. Showing us much more of the action, visuals and leading man Cavill (literally). Since the release is just around the corner, it’s fun to see… Read More »Man Of Steel Trailer is ZOMG!
I have to admit that I’m getting quite excited for Baz Luhrman’s grand vision the roaring 20’s. There probably isn’t another director that could do the era justice and together with a great cast of Leonardo Dicrapio, Tobey Maguire starring… Read More »The Great Gatsby: New Trailer and Character posters
Upod are pleased to make show you a new clip from 21 and Over, the upcoming comedy from the writers of The Hangover; Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Straight-A college student Jeff Chang has always done what’s expected of him.… Read More »21 and over – new preview clip
…A NEW FILM BY PEDRO ALMODÓVAR, OPENING MAY 3RD IN THE UK Usually I wouldn’t care too much for the darling of Spanish cinema, but on this occasion I’ll waive my usual cynicism. I can only hope the melodrama isn’t… Read More »I’m so excited! Trailer & poster
We hadn’t had a chance to post The Wolverine’s new trailer that got posted last week but since we received some new images, we didn’t want to let go of the opportunity. Looking like a vast improvement than the X-men… Read More »The Wolverine New Stills and Trailer
James Wan and Patrick Wilson have previously worked together on Insidious and now are back with The Conjuring, based actual American Ghost Hunter’s (I’m sure they preferred to be called differently) Ed And Lorrain Warren’s case files. I have always… Read More »The Conjuring Trailer and Poster
You might think that this was going to be a new Marvel Superhero movie but lucky for us it’s Michael Shannon “icing” people with a gun. As soon as I read the words Michael Shannon plays a contract killer I… Read More »The Iceman Trailer and Poster
Basically looking like Die Hard in the White House, Antoine Fuqua’s next starring Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart looks kinda fun. He’s not a director I anxiously await a next release but when I do stumble across his movies, they… Read More »Olympus Has Fallen: New Clips, Trailer and Behind the Scene Featurette
Never let it be said Upod lacks flair, sophistication or an eye for the unusual. Starting today, April 4th, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema is back in London for its 4th edition, with fantastic films and a host of famous actors… Read More »4th Rendez-vous with French cinema
Coming out this Friday, a new (but 2 years old…) Donnie Yen movie: Dragon / Wu-Xia. We love Donnie Yen at Upod so getting to see this was a treat. Spoilers below; you have been warned 🙂 Liu Jin-xi (Yen)… Read More »Dragon (Wu Xia)
DEAD MAN DOWN exploding into cinemas on May 3 When the body of a gang member is discovered in the freezer of crime boss Alphonse’s (Terrence Howard) mansion – a clear message has been sent… or has it? As the… Read More »Dead man down
Maybe it’s the legacy of the Transporter movies or the realm of B-grade actioners they roam in but Jason Statham movies just dont get the respect they deserve. Apart from some serious action set pieces, he really seeks out exciting… Read More »Hummingbird Trailer – Statham and the power of a Combover
Seems like the producers of Commando are finally seeing what everyone already saw in Force. Vidyut Jamwal is awesome! I feel we should have a weekly post just praising the guy, and with the release just a couple of weeks… Read More »Commando First Poster + New Videos
Being a huge fan of the X-men comics as well as Hugh Jackman as an actor, his 2009 solo outing X-Men Origins: Wolverine was such a disspointing movie that I quite watching anything with Jackman in it (except for Real… Read More »The Wolverine- New Images
Already released in the US, the Jason Bateman- Melissa McCarthy comedy of errors Identity Thief releases in the UK, the 22nd of March, and we got our hands on some new clips from the movie. Director Seth Gordon has been… Read More »Identity Thief New Clips
Seems like Yash Raj has been sitting on these promo shots of Arjun Kapoor’s Aurangzeb for a while, Arjun seems to have Arshad Warsi’s hair from Tere Mere Sapne, but banking on the buzz for Gunday this might be the… Read More »Aurangzeb First Look
Upodcasting are pleased to present five stunning new character banners for the upcoming release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The posters feature Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci), Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) and the symbol of… Read More »Hunger Games Catching Fire: new artwork and posters
The latest instalment of booze-fulled mayhem and its after-effects is here! Directed by Todd Phillips and starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong & John Goodman, The Hangover III is released May 24th. This time, there’s no… Read More »The Hangover 3 Teaser Trailer
As I stood up from the chair in the cinema, as the end credits rolled, I suddenly realised how desperately I needed a wee. And then, a few members of the audience started clapping. And I yelled “Are you fucking… Read More »Cloud Atlas Review
So last week I was trying to get psyched for A Good Day to Die Hard (OR as any normal thinking person calls it – Die Hard 5) a movie which until a month ago I had not even heard… Read More »A Good Day to Die Hard Review
Dreamworks and Pixar have been competing animation studios from the start and lately Dreamworks has really been stepping up their game and have totally landed on my good boosk since the wonderful How To Train Your Dragon (and even MegaMind… Read More »The Croods: Meet the Characters of Dreamworks PreHistoric Adventure
Brilliantly laugh out loud Rom-Com with a perfect 50/50 blend of British bad gags accompanied with warm fuzzy lovely scenes between the unlikely (and obviously likely) couples. Overall the cast was perfectly handpicked for this movie (Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall,… Read More »I Give It a Year Review
Vidyut Jamwal is an awesome dude, we had a great time chatting with him when Force was released last year and even then it was clear that this was going to be his break out role and not John Abraham’s… Read More »Commando The War Within/ A One Man Army Trailer Breakdown
Trying to repeat the success of the last time she played an FBI agent in Miss Congeniality, America’s Sweetheart Sandra Bullock is teaming up with Mellissa McCarthy for what might be the studio driven odd couple cop comedy since Kevin… Read More »The Heat Trailer
Arnie is coming back on screen this Friday on our screens and he is teaming up with Kim Jee Woom, the amazing Korean director of The Good, The Bad and The Weird, I Saw The Devil and A BitterSweet Life… Read More »The Last Stand: Arnie’s Awesome Illustrated Poster
Only last night we were having a discussion about Damages the court room drama which just finished it’s final season in the US and after the promise of the first season, it couldnt really live up to it’s potential. As… Read More »I Give it A Year New Clips and Poster
Celebrating its re-release today, Samsara and Baraka, two “movies” that will stun the viewer. As a fan of Koyaanisqatsi, the Godfrey Reggio release from 1983, getting to take a peak at the newly refurbed versions of Samsara and Baraka was… Read More »Samsara / Baraka Blu Ray Review
The Upodcast episode you have been waiting for! We break down 2012 in Bollywood together with special guests FilmiGirl, GetFilmy and Charla Manohar. We speak about the good, the bad and the ever so sad. Agneepath, Vicky Donor, Pan Singh… Read More »Best of Bollywood 2012 Upodcast
It’s that time of year again where we start wrapping up and looking back at the year that was. As every year we will be having our big yearly Upodcast episode with loads of our blogger friends and this year… Read More »Movies you might have missed in 2012 (Bollywood)
Sometimes you come across a book that comes so close to your personal experiences growing up that it feels like the author has been following you your entire life in a Truman show kinda way. But rarely is there a… Read More »Are You Indian? Author Sanjit Singh aka Bad Swami talks to Upodcast
A sneaky little Upodcasting stocking-filler of a podcast for our next episode. The main event is Disney’s Brave and all of the long, bouncy, exceedingly life-like curly red hair that goes with it. Maybe it makes sense for Asim and… Read More »Pixar’s Brave Review Upodcast
After the massive success of Dabangg, no one was surprised by the announcement of a sequel. What was surprising was that neither director Abhinav Kashyap nor Sonu Sood were coming back. Instead Arbaaz Khan, previously producer of Dabangg, was going… Read More »Dabangg 2 Review Upodcast
Desi dude friendship = Shirtless street dancing + jumping in lakes Or at least that’s what seems to be the case for Abhishek Kapoor who gets back in the directing chair after a conspicuously long delay after his massively successful… Read More »Kai Po Che: Trailer + Poster
Not only is Leonardo Dicaprio teaming up with Baz Luhrman after Romeo + Juliet, but also with long time friend Toby Maguire. It seems that Baz Luhrman is bringing a lot of his trademark elements to this adaptation of F… Read More »The Great Gatsby: New Trailer + Character Posters (Trailer Contains Amitabh Bachchan!)
Upod’s final fling with Bond culminates in an extravaganza of mind blowing proportions. This time we give you not one, not two, but four Bonds for your money and take a detailed look at Skyfall for good measure. We start… Read More »SkyFall and Final Part of 007 James Bond Retrospective
Needless to say our readers know our allegiances and we are firmly planted in camp Dabangg, we loved the first part (here is our Upodcast) and have very high hopes for the 2nd one. We wrote a trailer breakdown about… Read More »Dabangg 2 Exclusive Stills and Synopsis
Lights, camera, action! Or in Upod’s case: pizza, ice cream, movie! The venue? Martin’s flat, London. The food? Domino’s meat-based pizzas and Ben and Jerry’s Vermonster and Cookie Dough ice cream. The occasion? A Upod get together and a chance… Read More »Mel Gibson’s summer vacation with pizzas
Louis Leterrier’s has been making visually striking and fast paced action movies but hasn’t really been able to match the success of his work with Jason Statham and the first 2 transporter movies. Here he is back after the critically… Read More »Now You See Me Trailer
*Before you start reading, I would suggest you scroll down and start listening to the embedded episode of the Curry Smugglers below, even more so if you have never heard the show before. Done? Let’s go. The Curry Smugglers… Read More »Curry Smugglers Chill 6 is Finally Upon us!
To anyone who has listened to our Jab Tak Hai Jaan Review (If you haven’t you should by clicking here) you can safely say that we are quite enamored by Anushka Sharma, I mean she could be reading the ingredients… Read More »Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola Poster and Song Promo
Tomorrow sees the release one of the most awaited movies of the year Talaash, starring Amir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor and Nawazuddin Sidiqqui. We have been covering the movie extensively with promo songs, trailer, an exclusive interview with director… Read More »Amir Khan And Rani Mukerji Interviews for Talaash
We have 3 Blu-Ray’ss to give away from Jet Li’s 3D extravaganza. We reviewed the movie at the time of it’s release (read it here) but since then it has garnered quite a few positive reviews (reaching up to a… Read More »Blu Ray Competition Jet Li’s Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate
This week we dissect Shah Rukh Khan’s latest movie Jab Tak Hai Jaan where he starts along side Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma (After Rab Ne Banadi Jodi). Unfortunately this became legendary film director Yash Chopra’s… Read More »Jab Tak Hai Jaan Review Upodcast
We were lucky enough to catch Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnights Children at the London Film Festival, and Martin Cawley loved it. Here is his review if you didn’t get a chance to read it. But now… Read More »Midnights Children an Alternative Review
From AD, to script writer to director of HoneyMoon Travels ltd., Reema Kagti has been slowly working together with her partners at excel movies towards giving us this year’s Amir Khan release, Talaash. Tagged as a Suspense drama and starring… Read More »Reema Kagti Director of Talaash Interview Upodcast
We posted quite a few posters a couple of days ago and now we get the full trailer and a few still from the movie, set to be Disney first big release of 2013. I love most of the cast… Read More »Oz The Great and Powerful: New Full Trailer and Movie Stills
Director Duo Abbas Mustan have been on a mission to prove that Hindi movies can be as slick, fast paced but also inane and uninspired as any the studio action movie from Hollywood. It’s a template they’ve had quite… Read More »Race 2 Trailer Breakdown
There really isn’t much to say about The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, if you loved the previous LOTR trilogy by Peter Jackson and have seen the trailers, you are pretty much completely on board and probably have the date of… Read More »The Hobbit: Amazing New Stills
Although I wasn’t blown away from the first teaser of Oz The Great and Powerful, rewatching the trailer and seeing some of the image and artwork has gotten me more and more excited as time goes by. Maybe it’s the… Read More »Oz The Great and Powerful New Posters
Every shot we have seen from Life of Pi has just been excruciatingly beautiful, and although we haven’t read Yann Martel’s book the movie is based on yet, it has been recommended to us at least a gajillion time (no… Read More »Life Of Pi: Exclusive Video Diary Suraj Sharma
…or Psycho x 5 as was last week’s reality, at the Leicester Square theatre; screened with www.cigaretteburnscinema.com. Let me start with a brief description of the concept: 1 main screen showing Alfred Hitchcock’s original and 5 smaller screens showing the… Read More »Psycho versus Psycho
In August 2008, 22 climbers from various international expeditions reached the High Camp of K2, the final pit-stop before the peak of the mountain, on an expedition renowned among adventurers as extremely dangerous to attempt – far worse than Everest,… Read More »LFF 2012 The Summit Review
Salman Rushdie‘s first film screenplay adapts his own Booker Prize-winning novel – an allegory that parallels the upheavals in one family’s history with the events that would shape a post-colonial India, from the British exit to the partitioning of… Read More »LFF 2012: Midnight’s Children Review
For the promotion of Student of the year, Karan Johar accompanied by Sid Malhotra,Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt flew over to London to talk to the UK press and Upodcast was invited. If you have ever seen a full press… Read More »Karan Johar and the cast of Student Of the Year Upodcast Interview
For the promotion of Student of the year, Karan Johar accompanied by Sid Malhotra,Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt flew over to London to talk to the UK press and Upodcast was invited. If you have ever seen a full press… Read More »Karan Johar and the cast of Student of the Year Upodcast Interview
After the massive success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon back in 2000 and it’s subsequent Oscar win for best Foreign movie, there has been a steady flow of what I like to call poetic/esoteric martial arts movies, none have them… Read More »Flying Swords of Dragon Gate Review
Although Jab Tak Hai Jaan has been creating the most waves in terms of promotions, the movie we are most looking forward to this year is Amir Khan’s Reema Kagti directed suspense drama Talaash. The buzz has been building up… Read More »Muskaanein Jhooti Hai Song Promo from Talaash
Part two of Upodcast’s Bond retrospective sees us tackle the inimitable incarnation of Roger Moore’s James Bond. Very much the “difficult second album” syndrome at play here and that’s not to forget the unfortunate stab at Bond by George Lazenby.… Read More »007 James Bond Retrospective Part 2- The Roger Moore’s Upodcast
A young and in-love couple Kanya (Sadawo Abe) and Satoko (Takako Matsu) see their restaurant burn down in an accident and their savings are wiped out by a compensation claim. Not knowing where to turn or what to do. Kanya… Read More »LFF 2012: Dreams for sale / Yume Uru Futari
Akshay Kumar has officially jumped ships from Slap Stick Akshay to Action Akshay and donned his Khiladi tag again after 12 years (the horrible Khiladi 420). Partnering up with Himesh Reshammiya we get the first teaser trailer for Khiladi 786 and… Read More »Khiladi 786 Teaser Trailer
Here is a review from our guest blogger Miss FooFantastic from FrightFest in London, she’ll be posting a couple of reviews here, so if you are a horror fan, keep your eye out for them. (this one I’m actually quite… Read More »Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes) Review
Here’s your chance to win DVD’s for the gritty new British Crime Flick hitting shelves in October. We’ll be reviewing the movie on Upodcast very soon and looking at the trailer, it looks Extremely British. ‘Don’ You Go Rounin’ Roun… Read More »Your Chance to Win 2 DVD’s of GBH
Here is a review from our guest blogger Miss FooFantastic from FrightFest in London, she’ll be posting a couple of reviews here, so if you are a horror fan, keep your eye out for them. A movie such as Remnants… Read More »Remnants Review
Here is a Battle of the Remakes review from our guest blogger Miss FooFantastic from FrightFest in London, she’ll be posting a couple of reviews here, so if you are a horror fan, keep your eye out for them. … Read More »Maniac Review: Battle of the Remakes
Fall is by far my favorite season. The leaves are starting to change around my house, the weather is getting more pleasant, and one more thing. The return of all my favorite sitcoms! It has been a long summer of… Read More »TV New Season Preview: The Most Anticipated Fall Premieres
We recorded this podcast just a day after Don 2 came out in a casual late night chat with our good friend Danny Bowes, from MoviesByBowes and also IndieWire (he’s been firing from both barrels so definitely check out his… Read More »Don 2 Upodcast FlashBack
The trailer for the most looked forward to movie for the rest of the year is finally out after so much teasing and marketing strategizing. And when you finally watch it, you wonder, why didn’t they just show us the… Read More »Jab Tak Hai Jaan Trailer and an Analysis of the 2 Shahrukh’s
This Episode of Upodcast is Part 1 of a 4 part retrospective, With Skyfall’s imminent release in the Golden-eyenniversary year of the world’s most famous drinker, smoker, gambler, womanizer and spy, Upodcast takes the chance to head down memory lane.… Read More »007 James Bond Retrospective Part 1- “The Connery’s” Upodcast
This week Upodcast is on a quest for perfection. Joined by our guests Paresh from the phenomenal music podcast “The CurrySmugglers” and the always insight and thought-provoking Anisha Jhaveri, writer for Urban Asia, we slice through the Japanese documentary by… Read More »Jiro Dreams of Sushi Upodcast review
Riots, Corrupt Coppers, Hooligans, we seem to have a gritty British flick on our hands people. From the star and producer of The Rise And Fall Of A White Collar Hooligan and accompanied by some pretty strong recommendations from online… Read More »GBH Trailer Exclusive
The long awaited trailer for Talaash has finally arrived after the release date got bumped from June 1st to November 30th and quite a few rumors about Amir Khan’s alleged disappointment with the direction Reema Kagti took or not wanting… Read More »Taalaash Trailer Finally Surfaces
Directed by enfant terrible of Hindi Film cinema Shirish Kunder, starring Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Shreyas Talpade and Alex O’Nell, follows up his 2006 gem Jaan E Mann with a Sci-fi village hoax movie Joker. Unfortunately already one of the… Read More »Joker Review Upodcast
The US has Honey Boo Boo and before that Jersey Shore, India has Rakhi Sawant and Pakistan has Veena Malik. Some enjoy her antics ironically, but we can’t disregard the fact that she must have some genuine fans out there?… Read More »VEENA MALIK RELEASES HER FIRST LOOK FOR HER SINGLE DRAMA QUEEN
Faran Tahir may not be considered a household name yet but he has a face familiar to millions around the world. The talented actor has appeared in a number of big Hollywood films and has guest starred in the many… Read More »Q&A with Hollywood Actor, Faran Tahir for DALLAS (New Series)
A podcast we recorded earlier this year but never got a chance to post it, but now since Hunger Games has just released on DVD and Blu Ray, we thought it was the right time to revisit our chat with… Read More »Hunger Games Upodcast
British Asian actor, Kamal Khan, is preparing to take the music industry by storm with the release of his debut single and music video, Pariyon Ki Rani. “Pariyon Ki Rani is a soulful hindi love ballad about meeting someone special… Read More »Kamal Khan, in search of his queen of angels
Yash Raj Films (YRF) and Salman Khan finally come together for the first time under the direction of Kabir Khan to bring us the story of what happens when a RAW Agent called Tiger starts using his “heart” when he… Read More »Ek Tha Tiger Review
“I told you all I was going to be No. 1 and I just did that” We certainly can’t accuse the aptly named Jamaican sprinter of lacking confidence. And now that he’s defended successfully both of his Olympic golds in… Read More »Usain Bolt: The Movie DVD Release
Last week there The British Film Institute released it’s Sight And Sound Poll, a survey they do every decade with over 800 Film critics, distributors and academics. The big news this year was that Citizen Kane was knocked out the… Read More »Top Ten Movies of Upodcast – An Alternative to the Sight and Sound Poll
Remember last year when Christian Bale almost got arrested in China for visiting blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who had been under house arrest for more than 15 months in his village at that time? Well he was actually in… Read More »The Flowers of War Trailer
As July draws to a close, so does the small-scale marathon I’ve undertaken at the British Film Institute this month. I’ve already written about a classic Japanese horror, Onibaba but last week I had the fortune to watch Kuroneko, another Japanese… Read More »Kuroneko
The Awesome Roop Kumar Rathod (I still regularly rock “Tujme Rab Dikta Hai” From Rab Ne Banadi Jodi) and his wife Sonali Rathod will be touring the UK and picking up some selected songs throughout the 100 years of Bollywood… Read More »Celebrating the Legends from 100 years of Bollywood UK Concert Dates Announced!
Not a huge fan of this genre of movies but at least the soundtrack will be ace looking at the people involved and when can you ever get enough of Bipasha Basu. The poster seems like a zombie version of… Read More »Raaz 3 Poster
Here is a write up we wrote for HeyUGuys so slightly adapting (adding the Jism 2 promo as you never have enough Sunnyshine in your life) and reposting since we already posted the Joker Trailer, but do head over to… Read More »Bollywood Catch Up: Heroine, Son Of Sardaar, Jism 2 ,Ek Tha Tiger
We usually don’t dabble in obituaries as it seems a bit tasteless but Kuly was such a nice guy we wanted to at least post this. Here is the tribute track by Smooth featuring Nindy Kaur (his sister in… Read More »Tut Gaya Dil- RDB’s Kuly Tribute Track
Another Upod exclusive? That’s right folks – we really do suffer so you don’t have to. Upod attended a little launch for Now TV yesterday evening, appropriately held in London’s Film Museum in Covent Garden. We were treated to in-person… Read More »Now is the time for Now TV
Not just a pretty face New Episode Of UPODCAST is LIVE: One the most recognisable and enduring of the Marvel super-heroes, Spiderman, makes a welcome return to our big screens with Mark Webber’s The Amazing Spiderman. Upod shines its bright… Read More »The Amazing Spiderman Review Upodcast
The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator: episode 4 As you will have already seen from a couple of blog previous posts, Brandon Generator is easily the best collaborative project that Microsoft have worked on to inspire people to learn more… Read More »Brandon Generator: Part 4
Tin Drum AKA Martin’s continuing voyage into yet more “weird old movies”. If you thought I might have struggled with Onibaba‘s oddities and very loose write-up then that was a cake walk by comparison to what follows. At least there… Read More »Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)
It’s finally out, the trailer of the movie I was most looking forward to before Ek Tha Tiger snuck up on me with ninja awesome awesomeness. I’m currently at my 10th rewatch so will be posted a longer post on… Read More »Joker First Trailer
Onibaba On a strong recommendation from a friend, I signed-up to watch this 1964 black and white Japanese movie. I didn’t know the director, the actors or the plot so this was the movie equivalent of a blind tasting. It’s… Read More »Onibaba
Some Like it Hot. Although in Britain this “summer” we seem to like it mild and a bit damp. A members exclusive screening at the BFI seems like the perfect kick-off to a month of intense viewing on London’s Southbank.… Read More »Some Like It Hot
Yet another gangster flick made its London Premiere (the other one being Gangs of Wasseypur) at the London Indian Film Festival. And like a moth to the flame, I sniffed my way to the cinema screen to witness one of… Read More »Aaranya Kaandam Review at LIFF 2012
The promo’s for Jism 2 have pretty much taken the internet by storm and mostly because of the presence of the beautiful Sunny Leone making her feature film debut in Bollywood. The acceptance that was shown to her Big Brother… Read More »Jism 2 Promo and Stills: Scorchio!
Yesterday evening between 6 and 7 UK time, Internet Explorer 9 hosted a Brandon Generator webchat. For those of us lucky enough to have been reading the random adventures of Brandon Generator it wasn’t just any old webchat, as creator Edgar… Read More »Edgar Wright & Tommy Lee Edwards – Brandon Generator, webchat
Hey Guys, here are some media type questions that were asked to Abhishek Bachchan at a recent media Q&A as usual they are as generic and harmless like kitten wrapped in a silk blanket wathching day time TV. The pictures… Read More »Abhishek Bachchan Press Q&A and Exclusive Stills for “Bol Bachchan”
There can never be too many “children’s films”, especially ones which take you on a journey back to the days of innocence, where the mind was free from materialistic cravings, and all that mattered was to win a kite fight.… Read More »Gattu Review at the LIFF 2012
Our intrepid reporter Sujoy (@9e3K) continues his coverage at the London Indian Film Festival with a review of Dekh Indian Circus. What do you expect from a movie, which has a poster showing a young boy, with the fluttering Indian… Read More »Dekh Indian Circus Review at LIFF 2012
Anurag Kashyap, the firebrand director, was at the London Indian film Festival which is going on this week and took the time to speak to Upodcast! Sujoy discusses the differences between his brother and his approach to masala cinema, the… Read More »Anurag Kashyap chats with Upodcast at LIFF 2012
To discuss Akshay Kumar‘s return to action movies with Rowdy Rathore by shattering box office collections with a weird spinny saw whilst twirling their moustaches Upodcast is joined by the always awesome FilmiGirl and Bollywood Gif creator extraordinaire Sujoy Sinha… Read More »Rowdy Rathore Podcast
Right from the 6 minutes uncut first shot which has enough guns blazing to make Tarantino proud, Gangs of Wasseypur (GoW) sets out on a journey that will leave you gasping, shaken and stirred to the core. We are thrown… Read More »Gangs of WasseyPur Review At LIFF 2012
Very short post with some images we received from Bol Bachchan which releases on 6th of July and might be the first Rohit Shetty comedy we are actually looking forward to. And the main reason is the addition of Abhishek… Read More »Bol Bachchan New Poster and Images
UPDATE: THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED We have a great give away today to take away the doom and gloom of UK weather! UPODCast and HiFi-Tower want to upgrade your home cinema in this brand new competition! We’re giving away… Read More »Win a Klarstein Mini Home Cinema Projector with Upodcast and Hi-Fi Tower
The 3rd Edition of the London Indian Film Festival (20 June – July 3) is a feast for the senses, featuring circuses, mobsters, cockfights, transvestites and kite-flying, set in some of the world’s greatest cities and some never before seen… Read More »Gangsters, Queens and Rappers: 3rd LIFF serves up an explosive cocktail
One movie that we have totally been looking forward to is Rowdy Rathore and since the release is just around the corner, there is quite a bit of promotion going on especially in India where the stars and director Prabu… Read More »Plot Spoilers for Rowdy Rathore: Bollywood’s Original Action Hero Akshay Kumar Gets ‘Rowdy’ In Bollywood’s Latest Action Drama
It’s always saddening when talented, young people pass away, here are some tribute fan pages, links to RDB’s work and the official press release of his passing. Our deepest condolences to the family and close ones. We also had the… Read More »Tribute and Official Press Release for Kuly from RDB’s passing
The movie we are licking our lips to watch like a cat looking at a goldfish in a bowl, with the bowl being the Cannes film festival is Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs Of Wasseypur. On a charming offensive since Girl With… Read More »Gangs of Wasseypur’s World Premiere Opens to Packed Houses At 65th Cannes Film Festival
The renowned illustrator for Marvel and Lucasfilm, Tommy Lee Edwards, has joined forces with Edgar Wright, – award-winning director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – to create a world first innovative animated story with Internet Explorer called… Read More »The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator
Anurag Kashyap has been firing on all guns lately, after Cannes he will be flying over to London for the premier of Gangs of WasseyPur at LIFF but before that his production house will be competing for Camera d’Or Award… Read More »Anurag Kashyap’s Peddlers in the International Critics’ Week, Cannes 2012
It’s been a long long time, although not in a galaxy far far away sadly. Returning to Upod with some content, I thought I’d kick-off with an intro to director Nima Nourizadeh. A London born British-Iranian, he is probably most… Read More »Nima Nourizadeh
The Trailer for Despite the Gods combines two things that I love hearing about: the making of a movie that ends up in a disaster for the film makers (Lost in La Mancha, Heart of Darkness) and non-indians thinking that… Read More »Despite the Gods Trailer: Jennifer Lynch and the making of Hisss
We team up with FilmiGirl to talk about Sujoy Ghosh’s Kolkata based thriller Kahaani starring Viday Bhalan. Upodcast are in depth film discussions for film geeks so we have two part in the show. We stay spoiler free until the… Read More »Review Kahaani Upodcast ft FilmiGirl