Bollywood Is For Lovers

In this episode we celebrate Valentine’s Day with Hindi cinema’s current reigning sweetheart, Alia Bhatt.  Show Notes: We celebrated Valentine’s Day early and went for a spa day Narayanni’s Restaurant Erin has been taking a Bollywood dance class at the University of Alberta At only 22 and with only five films, Alia Bhatt’s cinematic output is very strong  Student Of The Year and Highway 2 States: A Culture Clash Romance There are a lot of schools in Bollywood films, and they all look the same to us Romancing the family “Iski Uski,” Punjabi wedding song vs. “Hulla Re,” Tamil wedding song The festival song, check out the super steamy sex scene: “Offo!”  Erin’s favourite Bollywood look ever INTERVAL (“D Se Dance” from Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania) Karan Johar’s involvement in Alia Bhatt’s career Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania: DDLJ Redux  Gender reversals Kavya’s drinking challenge to Humpty Humpty is a much more likeable guy than Raj Kavya is a baller and AB does SRK “Saturday Saturday,” a pointless club banger