In the 100th episode of Awful and Awesome, our hosts Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen go live to talk about the best and worst of pop-culture. They discussed Thackeray, the new Firstpost advertisement, Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Jaipur Literature Festival and a lot more.
The conversation begins with Thackeray, which Abhinandan describes as a metaphor for the Shiv Sena. “Simplistic, endorses violence, made by morons, for morons,” he says. Rajyasree quipped about the costume design of the film saying, “It casts Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and his nose, his prosthetic nose.” Later she also dismisses Manto saying, “I think Nawazuddin needs to stop acting as real people.”
The duo then discusses the new Firstpost ad for the publication’s new weekly newspaper. Rajyasree pointed out the lack of humility in the fact that the paper claims itself to be “the last word in news”. Abhinandan further criticizes, “It is a flawed idea to have the last word in news, there ain’t no last word in news.”
Rajyashree then brings up the new Amazon series Four More Shots Please!. She describes it as “India’s answer to Sex in the City.” Adding her scathing review, she says, “I watched four episodes, which I thought was far too many.” She also deems it an inaccurate portrayal of female interactions remarking that “he dialogue is so stilted, women do not talk to each other like that”.
Abhinandan then brings up JLF. He says, “There’s one bunch of people trashing JLF, there’s some who love it, but I haven’t seen anyone aggressively defend it,” as he goes on to aggressively defend JLF. He argues, “What it offers is amazing…it’s very easy to shit on it because of the Suhel Seths, but for every Suhel Seth there is a Ben Okri.”
Tune in for more!
References:
Thackeray trailer
Killing Eve trailer
Four More Shots Please! trailer
Real Time with Bill Maher S17 E02
Bundy trailer
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile trailer
Soni trailer
Free Solo trailer
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski trailer
Nayakan trailer
Pariyerum Perumal trailer
This podcast has been produced by Parikshit Sanyal, recorded by Manoj and edited by Samarendra K. Dash.
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