We welcome Beth Watkins of Beth Loves Bollywood to discuss two films starring, directed, and produced by Raj Kapoor.

Show Notes:

• Welcome to Beth Loves Bollywood!

• Mujhse Dostu Karoge!

• Shree 420

• Bengali cinema and Satyajit Ray

• Raj Kapoor

• Take that Hugh Jackman

• Prithviraj Kapoor and the Kapoors

• Comparisons to Charlie Chaplin

• Aag

• “Dude’s got a type”

• Chiaroscuro lighting

• “Raat Ko Jee Chamke Taare”

• Nimmi(s)

• Comparisons to Orson Welles

• Kapoor as India

(INTERVAL (”Jeena Yahan Marna Yahan” from Mera Naam Joker)

• Mera Naam Joker

• “Duff beer For Me, Duff Beer For You”

• Kseniya Ryabinkina

• Shankar Jaikishan

• It-Up-Vintage-Bollywood-SDL242271388-1-a45e1.jpg">Creepy clown doll

• No one likes clowns (at least they aren’t as bad as mimes)

• Why do auteurs like the circus?

• Hot for teacher

• Is the Russian comprehensible?

• Entitlement and the male ego

• Dom DeLuise

• Black and white vs. colour

• “Jaane Kahan Gaye Woh Din” and “Angh Lag Jaa Baalma”

• They do sell the clown doll

• Ajooba

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