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 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, 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
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
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
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!
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Today we have a Podcast interview with the lovely Amy Jackson, award winning (runner-up miss Britain and miss Liverpool 2010) British model now making her Bollywood debut in Ekk Tha Deewana with Prateik, releasing the 17th of February. We speak… Read More »Amy Jackson UPodcast for Ekk tha Deewana
This week we bring together the biggest and snarkiest voices on the Bollywood Blogosphere to review the year past. We are joined by FilmiGirl, Rum from RotiKapadaAurRum and the infamous CurryBear! We start of with our thoughts about the… Read More »Best of Bollywood 2011
As most of you know we’re mildly obsessed with the music of AR Rahman, the promo’s for his fortchcoming compositions of Gautam Menon’s Ekk Deewana Tha has been doing the rounds and you have a chance to win 2 copies… Read More »Competition! Win 2 copies of A.R. RAHMAN’S MUSICAL, EKK DEEWANA THA
When we posted the generic media interview a couple of days ago we put ourselves the challenge that if we get to interview Farhan Akhtar for his forthcoming movie Don 2, we would as much better questions. Lo and behold… Read More »Upodcast Interviews Farhan Akhtar for Don 2
RaOne is more of an event than just a Hindi Film so Upodcast got together with some of the most interesting voices on the internet to talk about ShahRukh Khan’s latest sci-fi epic. Already having set records in terms of… Read More »Ep 42 RaOne Special
Part 2 of our massive Episode 39 and of course we can’t have Filmigirl as a guest and not dedicate a whole episode on Bollywood! Put your Snark Helmet as Filmigirl and Asim take a swing and dissect the late… Read More »Ep 39 Part 2 Recent- Bodyguard, MBKD, Force, Mausam- and Upcoming Releases in Bollywood (Ra.One vs Don2) with FilmiGirl
I’ ve been quite intrigued with Azaan since I first came across the trailer but been so busy lately that didn’t have the chance to post it, we havent been able to review the latest Bollywood releases either but will… Read More »Azaan Preview
We had a chance to speak with Kuly, one third of the biggest Bhangra band of the moment RDB or Rhythm Bhangra Dhol known for their massive songs, international collaborations with acclaimed rappers like Snoop Dogg and Ludacris and their… Read More »Ep 38 RDB Interview with Kuly for Sheera Di Kaum
Force is this week’s big Hindi release and we had a chance to have a conversation with Vidyut Jamwal, the surprise package and debutant villain pitted against a very buffed up John Abraham, in the remake of South Indian Kaakha… Read More »Ep 37 Vidyut Jamwal Interview Exclusive – playing the villain in Force
The buzz for Salman Khan–Kareena Kapoor starrer Bodyguard is on full swing! The trailers and song promo’s are out on all music channels. Now Upodcast has access to exclusive pictures of the Item Number with the wonderful Katrina Kaif stepping into her Sheila boots again. But there is another surprise appearance and that is Shera, Salman Khan’s Bodyguard for over a decade will also be getting his thumka on with Salman and Katrina. Check out these behind the scene images of the song being shot after the jump!Read More »Exclusive: Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif’s Item Song In BodyGuard
With the release of Murder 2 and Singham, message boards and twitter timelines are rife with calling out movie makers as lazy thiefs and intellectual hacks. Bollywood has always had a rich tradition of playing fast in loose with it’s ‘inpirations’ so Upodcast decided to take on this subject head on with our unique view of the world of Hindi Film and music industry and accompanied by an esteemed panel of sharpshooter bloggers, we give you the discussion to end all discussions. Check out our take on Remakes, Adaptations and Straight Lifts in Bollywood!Read More »Ep 31- It’s a CAAAAPY, Yaar!- Remakes, Adaptations and Straight Lifts in Bollywood
The Trailer for Shahrukh Khan‘s Sci Fi extragavabonanza Ra.One directed by Anubah Sinha has just been released. He jumps, he flies, runs in leather bootsies, flips cars on Battersea Park Power Station, raises his arms slowly and romantically (i’m guessing… Read More »Ra.One ‘s Underwhelming Trailer Analyzed
NEW SEASON! And we are back from our short break, with an amazing Bollywood episode. This week Beth, FilmiGirl and I discuss the critics/fan reactions to the release of Farah Khan‘s Tees Maar Khan. We delve into many controversial topics and many feathers will get ruffled, so listen to the complete episode after the jump!Read More »Upodcast:The Perils of Bollywood fandom and reactions to Tees Maar Khan
Do you want to see your eminent Upodcast host Asim dance on the Internet and make a fool of himself! Of couse you do! Watch Project Munni, our tribute to one of our favorite movies of 2010 Dabangg and our friends from CurrySmugglers. Watch… Read More »CurrySmugglers: Project Munni
This week we crack a main ingredient of Bollywood movies. The Item number! Asim is joined by our very own Bollywood Diva Kara also known as FilmiGirl and Paresh, one half of the music mix masters duo, The CurrySmugglers. Together we dissect what makes Bollywood Item Numbers such a unique phenomenon and what makes them really tasty, we pick our favorite tracks that made us throw our hard earned cash on screen and making it rain. We finish off with the Paresh’s “Memorial Picks of Filthiest Item Numbers”. Our mommy’s will be proud. Check out the full episode after the jump!
Read More »Bonus Episode: Bollywood Special- The Art of the Item Number
DABANGG has been my most anticipated Bollywood movie for 2010 and I am elated to see that the trailer is catering to all our masala sensibilities and delivers an all fronts. It’s like an explosion of all things yummy and dipped in awesome juice!
Starring Salman Khan and introducing Shotgun Sinha’s daughter, Sonaksi. Dabanng is a movie about a “bad ass Robin hood corrupt cop” set in rural India. Arbaaz Khan is producing (and acting) with Abhinav Kashyap in charge of direction and the trailer looks uh-ma-zing!. Check it out our thoughts and the full trailer after the jump!Read More »DABANGG: The most BANGGin’ Bollywood trailer of 2010!
Here is the Voltron of all Bollywood Podcasts. Combining the powers of Beth from Bethlovesbollywood, Katherine from TotallyFilmi, Kara from Filmigirl and Bollyspice and a lone Asim sans his usual co-hosts, this bumper episode of Upodcast goes through the best and worst of 2010. No punches are held back and no performance is safe. we review the prominent releases of Bollywood give our take on Twitter Celebs, The Bikini issue and a look forward to the rest of the year. Listen to this EPIC episode after the Jump!Read More »Bonus Episode Bollywood Mid Year Wrap Up 2010- Upodcast
Fresh off the presses Abhishek bachan has just tweeted the new teaser trailer for his upcoming movie Raavan.
It’s directed by acclaimed south Indian director Mani Ratnam after their awesome collaboration in Guru. It also stars the wonderfully effervescent Aishwarya Rai of which we only see a passing shot. Watch it here now before it get’s pulled by the man!
Read More »Teaser trailer Raavan starring Abhishek Bachan and Aishwarya Rai
It’s time for a run-down of some of the hottest trailers coming from the outsourcing capital of the world! We all need a bit of spice in our lives (unless you suffer from IBS then you should clearly avoid anything relating to Bollywood or Mexican). And I look forward to the new batch of emotional overdoses coming our way.
Keep reading for some of the most exciting Bollywood trailers and our thoughts on them!Read More »Latest Trailers from Bollywood
The superhero bug has bitten the entire world and the Indian film industry is no different. Except for the ridiculous Govinda- Kimi Katkar Indian Superman scene on YouTube, the first real superhero that I can remember was Amitabh Bachan in… Read More »First look Disney’s first Bollywood: Zokkomon
My Name is Khan… and I’m not a terrorist. A line spoken many times in this movie by Indian Superstar Shahrukh Khan, playing a good hearted Muslim man suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome, resonated with me in a very strong way.… Read More »FilmBlog: Review My Name Is Khan
I’ve been meaning to write a little bit about Bollywood (I know some people hate the word as they feel it’s derivative of the term Hollywood and the colonial name of the City of Mumbai– I like using it as… Read More »Favorite Bollywood Movies of 2009
After India and New Zealand, you will travel back in time to 1988 to check out Robert De Niro (in his Golden Globe-nominated performance) as a bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as his prisoner! Check out the trailer for Midnight… Read More »Episode 3 The 80’s Classics- Midnight Run
Small ticket entertainment we may be, but you can’t accuse us of not trying to visit the corners of the world India one week and New Zealand the next. That’s right folks for episode 2 we visit the land… Read More »Episode 2 Horror- Black Sheep
