141: The Manmohan, the Myth, the Legend: Bluff Master and Coolie

Bollywood is For Lovers

We celebrate the work of iconic masala director Manmohan Desai with two of his films, made twenty years apart.
Notes:

• Our episodes on Amar Akbar Anthony and Mard
• Masala film
• Manmohan Desai
• The source that Erin looked at that had different information on Desai than what’s online is Tejaswini Ganti’s Bollywood: a guidebook to popular Hindi cinema 1st edition
• Chhalia
• 1977
• Bluff Master
• We are concerned about Pran’s drug problem
• Desai’s signature
• Songs: “Chali Chali Kaisi Hawa,” “Are Husn Chala,” “Govina Aala Re,” and “Jab Se Tujhe Jaan”
• Matt got his Dutch angles

(INTERVAL (“Mujhe Pine Ka Shauk” from Coolie)

• Coolie
• Listen to the very end to hear our thoughts on Allah Rakha
• The film that almost killed Amitabh Bachchan
• Songs: “Sari Duniya Ka Boj,” “Lambuji Lambuji Bolo Tinguji,” and “Accident Ho Gaya All Rakha,”
• 3-hour Bollywood movies versus 3-hour Hollywood movies
• Nation-building and labour rights
• Erin and Matt’s Letterboxd

Next time: 2022 year-end
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