148: Two wives, or two brothers? Daag and Deewaar
Bollywood is For Lovers - A podcast by Bollywood is For Lovers
We return to the career of Yash Chopra with two iconic mid-70s blockbusters: one, the first film to carry the YRF name and the other, maybe the most influential Bollywood film ever made.
Show notes:
- Past Yash Chopra films we have discussed: Netflix and Dil: High and Low - Cinema Marte Dum Tak and The Romantics and Yaasssh Chopra: Lamhe & Veer-Zaara with Manish Mathur
- Zanjeer and the Angry Young Man
- Yash Chopra
- Rajesh Khanna
- Thomas Hardy and the cad awareness book
- "Ab Chahe Maa Roothe"
- Comparisons to Douglas Sirk
INTERVAL ("Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni" from Daag)
- Deewaar
- Gunga Jumna and Mother India
- Matt is the evil brother
- Influences on Hong Kong cinema and Slumdog Millionaire
- What can we bring to a conversation about this film?
- Bachchan: Back to the Beginning
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