Ep 169- Class, Post Pathaan QnA and dir Saim Sadiq talks JOYLAND

Sign up to the Khandaan Newsletter and get a chance to win 1 of 2 blu ray copies of BONES AND ALL! Support this podcast and get ad-free episodes and bonus episodes by becoming a paid member at Patreon.com/KhandaanPodcast! Welcome to Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast where today we discuss a pair of new releases.  First up is Netflix's CLASS which is an adaption of the Spanish show Elite (08.45). Then we discuss CINEMA MARTE DAM TAK (12.30) on Amazon Prime. A documentary series about the B movies that emerged from Hindi cinema in the 90s and the truly fascinating characters who made them, CMDT is a love letter to the movies. It’s funny, sad, nostalgic and full of surprise anecdotes. If you’re the kind of person who enjoys a Bollywood podcast, this documentary is for you!  Next, we discuss the new Pakistani film JOYLAND (23.00) which is expected to premiere in India in March. Asim had a chance to not only view the movie but also interview the director Saim Sadiq (51.15). You can listen to the interview at the end of the episode.  But before the interview we discuss some more Pathaan as we try to answer the questions in our inimitable andaaz that were sent by our Patrons. (28.00) And lastly, we’re launching a monthly newsletter at Khandaan.substack.com to bring you news of all the exciting things we hope to bring to our audience over the next year. We’re starting with a bang and giving away two Blu Rays of the new Timothee Chalamet movie BONES AND ALL to two lucky subscribers of our newsletter.  Last year, we launched our Patreon which was a wild success beyond our imagination, so don’t let this flop, fam! Subscribe today to Khandaan.substack.com! We promise we won’t spam you with useless things.   Shownotes: Patreon: Watch the video version the interview with Saim Sadiq the director of Joyland on our Patreon page. JOYLAND will be released in UK cinemas on February 24th. JOYLAND, the first film by a Pakistani director to win at the Cannes Film Festival 2022. Alongside its jury prize win, JOYLAND received the Queer Palme Award at Cannes as well as Special Jury Mention at SXSW and an Honourable Mention for the Sutherland Award at the London Film Festival. JOYLAND is the first feature film from Pakistan to make the shortlist for the Academy Awards. Here is a link to the trailer. We are giving away 2 BLU-RAY copies of "Bones And All" to subscribers to our new Khandaan Podcast Newsletter. “Bones and All” is a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter… as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness. Here is a link to the trailer. The Khandaan Merchandise store is live: A great new way to support your favourite Bollywood podcast. Your support will help us create and grow the show. Check out some of the first designs here. More to come soon!Don’t forget to subscribe! Subscribe to our Khandaan Podcast YouTube page. Follow us on Instagram or Tik Tok  pages for some masti over there too!Follow and subscribe to Amrita's new Youtube Book channel by going here!Find us on Apple Podcasts! and Stitcher! and AudioBoom! and iHeartRadio! and Spotify! and Google Podcasts!And now you can also listen to us on Hubhopper!Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook!You can follow all of us on @AmritaIQ, Sujoy on @9e3k and @asimburneySujoy’s instagram which has amazing shots can be found here, we strongly recommend you follow him!