Filmi Ladies episode 169: Bollywood for Beginners episode 4 - Laila Majnu and Chak De! India
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Welcome to the Bollywood for Beginners series episode 4 where we are being très dramatique!Pitu explores star-crossed lovers in snowy Kashmir whose initial romance and cuteness descends into madness and death, in 2018's Laila Majnu.Beth picks a movie about a humiliated coach who takes a ragtag group of squabbling women to hockey victory in 2007's Chak De! India.Both are cult classic films that prove drama can be both positive and inspiring as well as heartbreaking and bleak.Watch Laila Majnu on Netflix.Watch O meri Laila song on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gR9xawiSy8A?si=ffBPghPn1wD6_x33Watch Chak De! India on Amazon Prime or Youtube: https://youtu.be/LGB61HyL-IQ?si=o19KG9wE5BUe33ZxRead the "70 Minutes" speech translated here https://shahrukholik.wordpress.com/chakde-india-70-minutes/Subscribe to Filmi Ladies on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7Ib9C1X5ObvN18u9WR0TK9 or Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/filmi-ladies/id1642425062@filmiladies on Instagram Pitu is @pitusultan on InstagramBeth is @bethlovesbollywood on BlueskyEmail us at filmiladies at gmailSee our letterboxd for everything discussed on this podcast. https://boxd.it/qSpfyOur logo was designed by London-based artist Paula Ganoo @velcrothoughts on Instagram https://www.art2arts.co.uk/paula-vaughan
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