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Sanjay Patel was the first South Asian to make a Pixar film, Sanjay’s Super Team, but after 20 years with the studio he was ready for a new adventure.
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- Added: Dec 19, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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The TV show "Friends" might have been about a group of close-knit white New Yorkers but somehow it resonated in many corners of the world including...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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Wes Anderson's new adaptations of Roald Dahl short stories have won a lot of critical praise. Sandip notices that two of them neatly sum up two co...
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- Added: Oct 10, 2023
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Barbie has made the color pink a"thing," but in India a Bollywood film is even more pink and it celebrates a shade of pink called Rani Pink.
- Added: Aug 08, 2023
- Length: 06:00
One of the most memorable lines from Oppenheimer the film comes from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. Sandip explains our abiding cultural ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The release of Barbie the movie seems the perfect excuse to look for the origins of patriarchy with science writer Angela D Saini.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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Sandip Roy remembers Tina Turner as the only rockstar whose poster he put up in his bedroom as a boy in Kolkata.
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The short documentary Oscar win for The Elephant Whisperers is being widely celebrated in India because it's a first for India. But what will it me...
- Added: Mar 21, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy is getting nostalgic after Naatu Naatu wins an Oscar for best song in a film, and a real Indian production at that!
- Added: Mar 14, 2023
- Length: 06:00
Pathaan, the biggest Bollywood hit of recent times is being hailed as the return of its star Shah Rukh Khan. But a lot more is being read into its ...
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The French author Dominique LaPierre died recently and that made Sandip Roy think of the author's legacy on his hometown of Kolkata.
- Added: Jan 24, 2023
- Length: 06:00
India does not have a spot in World Cup football. But Kolkata, as usual, has two teams in the game.
- Added: Nov 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Why are there so many prequel spinoffs in the theaters and on streaming services right now?
Sure, capitalizing on a franchise is one reason, but p...
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- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Netflix’s new series Uncovered might be referred to as the gay “Sex in the City,” but Sandip Roy finds a reason why everyone can relate to it.
- Added: Sep 06, 2022
- Length: 06:00
The Bay Area Indian American theatre group Naatak became famous as "techies doing theatre."
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- Added: Aug 30, 2022
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- Added: Jun 21, 2022
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In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey, not just for Alaudin Ullah, but for our understanding of the complex histories of South As...
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- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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Many towns and cities are indelibly tied up with certain books and films. But few changed the fortunes of a town like a 1974 Bengali film named Son...
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- Added: May 03, 2022
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The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...
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- Added: Apr 11, 2022
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Everyone is talking about the great Slapgate incident at the Oscars ceremony, but all of that trivializes what it ultimately was.
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- Added: Mar 29, 2022
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It’s been a sad 2022 for music in India. Even while India was mourning the loss of its greatest singer, Lata Mangeshkar, the empress of song, it lo...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2022
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For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
When the Sex and City reboot “Just Like That” chose to go multi-culti Indian, they decided to make it a Diwali episode and have Sarah Jessica Parke...
- Added: Jan 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
The New York Times “Spelling Bee” word game really took off during the pandemic lockdown. But Sandip finds the Bee to be a bit exiguous.
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
