The Brown Table's Shailee Butalia talks with blue13 Dance Company's Achinta McDaniel about the stage adaptation of DDLJ on Broadway. Will the show capture the magic of one of Bollywood's most endeared films? Or will it miss the mark?
The Brown Table scratches the surface about Gender and Hollywood & Bollywood. Pakistani American filmmaker Iram Parveen Bilal speaks with P-Mo and Shailee Butalia about being a female director and the challenges women face in Hollywood and Bollywood.
Bollywood actor/director/writer Jugal Hansraj (Mohabbatein, Kahaani 2) chats with The Brown Table team about the evolving role of Desi fatherhood. What role, if any, is Bollywood playing in guiding the evolution of being a father?
Intro Music by Dean Sultani, The Asian Highway's Music SupervisorAjay Gehlawat's profile: http://hutchins.sonoma.edu/faculty-staff/ajay-gehlawat
The report can be found here: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2021/march/ai-analyzes-movies.html.
Emmy-nominated host Rasha Goel, film editor Imran Shaikh, actor Aseem Tiwari and podcast host Seema Govil chat with P-Mo and Shailee Butalia of The Asian Highway about 'The White Tiger.' Did the film properly represent India's class differences? Or is it poverty porn?
Sangita Gopal teaches cinema studies at the University of Oregon.Sangita authored Conjugations: Marriage and Film Form in New Bollywood Cinema.Sangita is finishing her next book, Indian Feminism and Feminist Media in India.Tejal Toprani Misra is a licensed psychotherapist based in Southern California.Tejal moved her practice to Southern California after working with clients in the Philadelphia area.
Moderator: Shailee Butalia, The Asian Highway's Film ReviewerPanelists:Neha Patel, podcaster & co-founder of Hatch BrighterTejal Toprani, a licensed psychotherapistSimran Butalia, multimedia entrepreneurNikita Ganatra, educatorImran Shaikh, cinematographerParimal M. Rohit, journalist and co-founder of The Asian Highway
The first episode follows this prologue and deep dives into the film, Chhichhore.