148: Two wives, or two brothers? Daag and Deewaar

Bollywood is For Lovers

We return to the career of Yash Chopra with two iconic mid-70s blockbusters: one, the first film to carry the YRF name and the other, maybe the most influential Bollywood film ever made.
Show notes:

• Past Yash Chopra films we have discussed: Netflix and Dil: High and Low - Cinema Marte Dum Tak and The Romantics and Yaasssh Chopra: Lamhe & Veer-Zaara with Manish Mathur
• Zanjeer and the Angry Young Man
• Yash Chopra
• Rajesh Khanna
• Thomas Hardy and the cad awareness book
• "Ab Chahe Maa Roothe"
• Comparisons to Douglas Sirk

INTERVAL ("Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni" from Daag)

• Deewaar
• Gunga Jumna and Mother India
• Matt is the evil brother
• Influences on Hong Kong cinema and Slumdog Millionaire
• What can we bring to a conversation about this film?
• Bachchan: Back to the Beginning

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