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Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Four: Review of Animal and Sam BahadurTwo big Bollywood stars and two very different movies that released on the same day.#RanbirKapoor's #Animal and #VickyKaushal's #SamBahadur were variedly different not only in tone but format as well.Which one won our vote? Listen in.Download all podcast episodes at desis.live/podcastsLove,Team DesisDesislive podcast delivers the latest movie and show reviews to your devices. Wherever in the world you are, tune in to desislive.2023-12-0730 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Four : Review of GanapathOh boy,What it meant to watch this movie - the pain and the suffering.Let us tell you about the agony we went through.In this podcast - only #ganapath could inflict it.download at desis.live/podcastsLoveTeam DesisDesislive podcast delivers the latest movie and show reviews to your devices. Wherever in the world you are, tune in to desislive.2023-11-0314 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Four : Review of Cirkus, Tara v Bilal, Pitchers S 2 and Kathmandu Connection 2New Season Y'all.Team Desis is back with another season of our very hot, fun and sizzling with opinion on toast podcast.We know you will find it fun to download as you make your way to the gym to shed those extras but let us tell you one BIG Truth.It does not make a difference to us. We love you anyway!So this first week of the New Year - how about Cirkus? Naah! IT was bad. Hear what we thought abou this #RanveerSingh flick.Then there was...2023-01-0226 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Dhrishyam 2, Dharavi Bank and Santa ClausesHola Hola,Back from food coma? We just don't want to. But here is the dope for this week, albeit a day late.We start with a pulsating #Dhrishyam2 where performances and story gave us a thrilling high. Get it on your list.Then Suniel Shetty and Vivek Oberoi's #DharaviBank had great actors and weak storyline. Santa Clauses made way for a Desi Santa replacement. Let's see if that becomes a reality thoughWelcome to Monday babies.Try to keep your eyes open.Download this pod for help. Anywhere in the world y...2022-11-2816 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three : Review of Ram Setu, Thank God, Gali Guleiyan and Indian Predator: Murder in the CourtroomHow's the halloween week been? The holiday season has officially started and we are so excited for the entire slate of movies dropping every week now!This week we reviewed an ultra nationalistic Akshay Kumar avatar in #RamSetu, a very weird afterlife tale in #ThankGod and a heart breaking story of a lonely Khadoos in #GaliGuleiyan on #amazonprimevideo.And then ofcourse the third season of #IndianPredator with #MurderintheCourtroom which we thought was the best so far.Enjoy our reviews this week and let us know what you think.Download our POD on Apple, Google, Spotify...2022-11-0529 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Rocketry, The Terminal List, Mr Malcolm's List and Rashtra Kavach OmLet's start by wishing y'all a very happy Eid folks !We review for your R Madhavan's labor of love Rocketry, which is playing in theaters. Not without defects, yet a story worth telling, this movie has its high points nationalistically for Indian story telling.The Terminal List delivers action like we love it on Prime, Regency romance if you like Bridgerton, you will enjoy #MrMalcolm'sList , the new movie featuring #FreidaPintoAnd then the highly ridiculous #RashtraKavachOm, please don't watch it. It was so bad that out eyes hurt even when the gorg body of Aditya Roy K...2022-07-0827 minDesis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of JugJugg Jeeyo, Avrodh Season 2, ForensicHiya And a happy 4th to all of you folks!!We spent our weekend watching some flicks for ya but we wanted to have the last week's stash on your POD before the long weekend hitsThis week in Desis POD, you got the extremely loud JugJugg Jeeyo which gave us an ear ache in theaters, we also reviewed the espionage thriller Avrodh 2 and liked the flow, Its streaming on sonyLiv so enjoy the series.We also review Forensic on Zee5 for which we had high, apple pie hopes, but those ate themselves up in t...2022-07-0426 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Masoom,, She Season 2 and Suzhal- The VortexHere we are this week with another episode desi reviews for y'all.We start with #Masoom which streams on #Hulu and #Hotstar and tell you how we loved the show about the relationship between a father and a daughter. Then came #ImtiazAli's #sheS2 which we found absolutely great in its content and presentation. Streams on @netflix. And then we speak about another phamazing series which we absolutely went gaga over - #Suzhalthevortex which streams on #Amazonprime.Hope you enjoy our chatter this week.Michael was out at the lake for Father's Day so we missed him...2022-06-2541 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Ms.Marvel, Broken News, Janhit Mein Jaari, Code MThis week we got a bagful of reviews for you which you will have fun listening to.We start with Ms Marvel and how delighted we are at the mainstream representation that desis are getting now. Then, #thebrokennews on #Zee5 which was a series about the news industry so pertinent to our times. #SonaliBendre makes her come back with this one.Then the quirky, #janhitMeinJaari about a woman who sells condoms. In Theaters.#JenniferWinget' #CodeM on #Voot is a thriller you def need to watch - all the elements of a binge!Enjoy your week...2022-06-1933 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of 9 Hours, Aashram Season 3 and MajorHola PeepsWe are back with another epi of our weekly pod for y'all.This week we watched 9 Hours on Hulu/ Hotstar filmmaker Krish Jagarlamudi’s adaptation of the Telugu novel Thommidhi Gantalu (nine hours), written by Malladi Venkata Krishnamurthy. Directed by Niranjan Kaushik and Jacob Verghese, the series has diverse and complicated characters falling on different sides of the moral compass. Three inmates have escaped prison right after their roll call to execute a robbery of three major banks. However, the robbery is not the challenge here. The catch is t...2022-06-1236 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three : Review of Jayeshbhai Jordaar and Modern Love MumbaiPeeps,This week was a lot of watching. Michael and Miraal went to watch Jayeshbhai Jordaar in the theater and came back with a mixed bag of reactions. A man being a hero of a women empowerment movie. Enuf pussyfooting , we say.Modern Love Mumbai: Another anthology we thought !! But here's the twist - we kinda liked this one !!The actors, the directors, the entire over reaching theme is beautifully plotted.Amazon Prime Video’s anthology Modern Love Mumbai, the first of the three localized Indian versions of the widely acclaimed international series Mode...2022-05-2129 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Thar and Home ShantiPeeps,Welcome our new team member - Michael.He is a sophomore at Stanford but a desi at heart. Apart from Biryani, he likes Ranveer Singh and stans Deepika :PWhile Shriya has been busy shooting saree vids at weddings in the mid-west; we reviewed the desi-western Thar on Netflix and the slow mo series Home Shanti on HuluHear what we thought about it Catch y'all soonLoveTeam DesisDesislive podcast delivers the latest movie and show reviews to your devices. Wherever in the...2022-05-1426 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Sharmaji Namkeen, Hey Sinamika, Attack and Kaun Pravin TambeHola peeps!How's it going ?We reviewed four movies for you this week and we cannot help but be excited about some of them!!We started with #Rishikapoor's swan song #SharmajiNamkeen which we thoroughly enjoyed. It streams on Prime.We watched the Tamil hit #HeySinamika featuring #DulquerSalman who we fell for hook, line and sinker and now we cannot help but harp DQ all day!! Watch it on Netflix.We also had a lot of fun watching #Attack and have been on Ab...2022-04-0951 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Sutliyan, Jhund, Rudra and Undekhi Season 2We had a lot to review this week. We started with the Zee5 series Sutliyan, which is the story of Supriya struggles to manage her responsibilities after her husband dies in the pandemic. She gets help from her kind neighbors—a grocery store owner, Trilok aka Loki (Suneel Sinha) and his daughter Dipanita (Niharika Lyra Dutt). But she holds a grudge with her children as they did were not able to come to attend their father's last rites. As Supriya is striking out on her own with her by launching Sutliyan, a handmade macrame business, sh...2022-03-1346 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Gehraiyaan, Death on the Nile and Badhai DoWhile on a weekend getaway in Alibaug, Alisha, a yoga instructor who who is building a yoga app, connects intimately with Zain, a real estate tycoon.There is a complication though, Zain is Alisha's cousin Tia's fiancé. #Gehraiyaan is a rivetting story of human emotions and it plays on #AmazonPrime. Watch it for the performances and the finesse of storytelling.We all gave it a Thumbs Up.#DeathOnTheNile released in theaters last week and we watched it !!!!This classic #AgathaCristie whodunnit has probably half of the population of Beverly Hills starring in it so w...2022-02-2046 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowREVIEW OF AZIZ ANSARI AND KAPIL SHARMA'S STANDUP GIGS AND DONKEYHEADThis week we review two standups that weren't.Why Netflix chose to market them as standups beats us. One was a change your life like I did and American life commentary and the other was a biography of sorts. Both not funny.Does not mean that they were not good content, they most definitely were -but that they were meant to be funny was lost in translation.We totally enjoyed arguing our review about DonkeyHead and it was almost impossible to get Scott to agree with Miraal and Shriya decided to take the middle road.2022-02-0743 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Definition Please, Unpaused and 36 Farm HouseThis week Shriya and Miraal review 2 movies and an anthology#DefinitionPlease is a slice o f life about a former Spelling Bee champion who makes a choice of staying in her hometown to take care of her ill mother so she can stay close to her. Her troubled relationship with her brother needs to be sorted when he visits for their father's death anniversary. Will the siblings reconcile? Story of an Indian American family growing up with the expectations of their immigrant parents and a desire to follow their own dreams. Hear our review of this @n...2022-01-3138 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Eternals, Human and Yeh Kaali Kaali AnkheinMiraal and Shriya break it down this week with reviews of a movie and two series.We start with #Eterrnals on @disney+ where now they must get their OG band back together. This is because of “global earthquakes” and the reemergence of the baddies Deviants, who are back from the dead with the vengeance of cosmic proportions.We also review #Human playing on the @hulu/@disneyplushotstar platform of Disney where Dr. Gauri Nath (Shefali Shah), one of India’s top neurosurgeons and owner of a Bhopal hospital called Manthan, and her cardiac surgeon hire Dr. Saira...2022-01-2340 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Three: Review of Pushpa, Humble Politician Nograj and Kaun Banegi ShikharwatiThis week we had a riot, we have a disagreement and we have a lot of fun !! Shriya watched and reviewed Pushpa- because of Allu Arjun. Streams on #AmazonPrimeVideoWe absolutely loved Humble Politician Nograj that streams on #Voot.Nograj of One Big Party, and Krishna Gundu Bala aka Gundu aka KGB of Most Secular Party both desire to become chief minister. Nograj will let KGB win if he changes his name to Balu and buys three legislators. Between Danish and the phenomenal Prakash Belawadi, the characters are a riotOne Big Party and...2022-01-1346 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowI JUST WANNA EAT IT, SAYS TESHERTesher is a household name today after two international hit songs.. This kid from Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada is influenced by his Indian heritage. Growing up listening to Indian as well as Western hip hop music, Tesher began to fuse Bollywood and hip-hop songs together and create mashups from a young ageThe story of Hitesh Sharma becoming Tesher is here to stay.Hear him speak with us on this pod.Download at podcast.desis.liveor anywhere you get your POD.Desislive podcast delivers the latest movie...2021-11-2433 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowBRINGING FANTASY TO LIFE : INDRAJIT NATTOJI ABOUT AAFAT-E-ISHQAafat-E-Ishq’ is a definitive hybrid genre at new-age storytelling making it difficult for us to fit it into a box. The beauty of such an inventive narrative is that it brings a new age story making to the forefront of Indian cinema. There is nothing run-off- the- mill here so a lot of traditional critics will find it hard to digest yet the adaptation of a Hungarian story to a small-town Indian format is the brilliance of the plot. The writing is superb. The screenplay was a bit cheesy but fit into the small-town India format well. Af...2021-11-2423 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowHOW TO SUJATA DAY : DO THE BOLLYWOOD WITH AMERICAN PROTAGONISTSA former national spelling bee champion struggles to live up to her potential in 'Definition Please,' a fresh American take on Bollywood tropes from writer-director Sujata Day. In writer-director Sujata Day’s debut feature Definition Please, the lead character Monica Chowdry is a college grad who still lives at home with her mother. A former national spelling bee champion, she now finds herself tutoring a new generation of spelling champion hopefuls in her hometown of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.We talk to @sujataday, the writer, director, producer, and actor of @definitionplease which is a masala blend of comedy, ro...2021-11-2422 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowWHAT DO YOU BRING TO THE TABLE, ASKS RAJIV SATYALRajiv Satyal is a Los Angeles-based comedian/host who performs regularly at all the major LA comedy clubs and has been featured on/in Amazon, NBC, NPR, Nickelodeon, Netflix, GQ, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Variety, and Advertising Age. He has shared a stage with Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Tim Allen, Russell Peters, and Sebastian Maniscalco.Satyal has 12 videos with over 100,000 YouTube views each, including I AM INDIAN (50 million+ views). He’s played on five continents, 100 colleges, and has interviewed everyone from Seth Godin to Kevin Nealon to Preity Zinta.We spoke to...2021-11-2414 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowRIGHT NOW IS VERY GOOD TO BE PEOPLE LIKE US ; RUSHI KOTARushi Kota is no stranger to the world of movies and shows in Hollywood. Rushi Kota is in the new Netflix Award-Winning, and the global hit show "Never Have I Ever," created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. Kota plays the role of Prashant in the series.Most familiar to fans as Dr. Vik Roy on ABC/Shonda Rhimes hit drama "Grey's Anatomy" and "Grey's Anatomy B-Team"Kota's mother brought him to America to achieve the American dream. America was where he learned the value of perseverance and hard work. Kota has set out...2021-11-2427 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowRIANJALI: I WANT TO SEE A FEMALE A R RAHMANRianjali started singing when she was just 6. Her father, a well-known Bengali singer made sure she grew up listening to music all her life! She started taking classical Indian music classes and then picked up the guitar when she was 14 or 15 years old. She went to LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, which really changed her life. It was a very tough school where she was surrounded by all kinds of music and had to learn so many styles. It was there where she really picked up some of her American music influence, Her brother was...2021-11-2328 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowSeason Two: Review of India Sweets and Spices, Bunty Aur Babli 2 & DhamakaThis week was a fun review session. Apart from an Indian American production, India Sweets and Spices which saw a US release, we also had in queue Bunty Aur Babli 2 , the second coming of the story of cons Bunty and Babli who pull cons on people and help the needy ( of course). Both movies were in theatersWe also reviewed @netflix's #Dhamaka where @kartikAaryan really made one huge explosion of a story execution.Did you watch these two? Let us knowDownload...2021-11-2343 min
Desis.Live Weekly Bollywood ShowLIVING THE CHARACTER OF LALLO : NEHA SHARMA SPEAKS ABOUT AAFAT-E-ISHQNeha Sharma is smart, vivacious, and absolutely effervescent but when she slips into the skin of Lallo, she embodies the insecurities of the character she plays with great finesse.We caught up with Neha and spoke to her about getting into the character's skin and her understanding of this character who is both naive and incisive. We talk about Lallo's unaffected simplicity; lacking in worldly wisdom which sets the stage for world-building her out of her simplicity.We talk more about this Indrajit Nattoji classic.Download this podcast at podcast.desis.live2021-11-2210 min