Awful and Awesome Ep 343: Laapataa Ladies, Mr & Mrs Smith, The Holdovers
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Abbas: Did you see? Karan Johar has put up a high production quality pre-wedding video of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant. Our pre-wedding videos are by some random ‘Chandu video wala’.  Nainika: No, Abbas. You’re Bombay royalty. You should have one of your director friends come in and shoot your wedding with a film camera.  Abbas: I think I’d get Suraj Barjatya, or maybe Quentin Tarantino. The joota-churai ceremony would be epic. Nainika: Oh my god, you did not just say that. (laughs) This and a whole lot of awful and awesome as Abbas Momin and Nainika Singh Rathore discuss the movies The Holdovers and Laapataa Ladies, the series Mr and Mrs Smith, and the hullabaloo around Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding festivities.  Have something to say? Write to us at newslaundry.com/podcast-letters. By the way, general elections are around the corner, and Newslaundry and The News Minute have ambitious plans together. Choose an election project you would like to support and power our journalism. Click here. Timecodes 00:00 - Introductions 02:18 - Headlines 04:02 - Ambani bash  21:06 - NL-TNM Election Fund announcement  22:08 - Mr & Mrs Smith 28:59 - Subscriber letter 30:05 - Laapataa Ladies 37:56 - Subscriber letter 40:05 - The Holdovers  References General Elections 2024 Fund Laapataa Ladies  The Holdovers  Mr and Mrs Smith Has It Aged Well? Click here to download the Newslaundry app on Android. And here for iOS. Produced and recorded by Priyali Dhingra and Shubang Gautam, edited by Samarendra K Dash and Umrav Singh.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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