The Podcaster: The Way We Were

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  • 'The Way We Were' connects the dots between the past and the present to reveal that cinema, popular culture, all forms of artistic expression, politics, and music are purveyors of ideas and impulses that reveal to us what we most need to learn about ourselves. The podcast revisits films, songs, watershed moments in art, culture, society and politics to show how a thread of continuity runs through them all and connects them inextricably to each other. Rich with nostalgia, trivia, lived anecdotes, and the larger meaning of events that are making news and impacting the zeitgeist, 'The Way We Were,' is about the pixels that make the big picture, exclusively on The Podcaster.
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  • 12: Ep 012 - Blurred Lines: Indian Cinema and the Underworld

    12: Ep 012 - Blurred Lines: Indian Cinema and the Underworld
    Oct 25 2024
    The recent incidents involving a self styled mobster and Salman Khan are indicative of just how easy it is to target the industry - sometimes for money and sometimes for notoriety that is mistaken as fame.

    One thing, however, is very clear.
    The line between good and evil has been blurred decisively, on the screen and off it.
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    8 mins
  • 11: Ep 011 - The Writers Who Gave Hindi Cinema its Soul

    11: Ep 011 - The Writers Who Gave Hindi Cinema its Soul
    Sep 27 2024
    The three-part documentary, 'Angry Young Men- The Salim Javed Story' (Amazon Prime Video) affords us an intimate glimpse into the homes and family dynamics, of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, positioning them as the only definitive voices of Hindi cinema.

    But let's not forget the other writers who came before them. Writers like Rajinder Singh Bedi, Abrar Alvi, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas and Rahi Masoom Raza who not only enriched Hindi cinema but also gave us a nuanced vocabulary to discuss love, loss, injustice and human values.
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    16 mins
  • 10: Ep 010 - Women deserve better. In life and in fiction.

    10: Ep 010 - Women deserve better. In life and in fiction.
    Aug 23 2024
    The message is clear - women are disposable; even in fiction.
    Most crime shows open with the dead body of a woman. Extending that list are hugely popular shows on serial killers who target women. There are multiple documentaries and shows, for example, on Ted Bundy. Everyone remembers him. Nobody remembers his victims.

    Rarely though, some films and shows get it right. Dijo Jose Antony's 2022 film "Jana Gana Mana" delves into not just a gender crime but the reasons behind it. And, the 2019 Netflix drama "Unbelievable" got women right, too. One of its most insightful lines was “Rape has three crime scenes. The body of the victim. The body of the rapist. And the place where the crime actually happens.”

    The series also adds another crime scene to the list without naming it - the mind of the victim. Against which, a cruel warfare is waged by a brutal, desensitised justice system. On this episode of 'The Way We Were', we explore.

    TW: This episode contains references to rape and sexual violence against women.
    Listener discretion is advised.
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    13 mins

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