Podcasts by Parde Ke Peeche (PKP) Podcast
Started by two film(i) nerds, Parde Ke Peeche (Behind the Curtains) is a monthly podcast that explores Indian cinema through a critical lens. Hosted by Raeesa Farooqi & Ankur Desai.
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S2xEp1: Keeping it Real (Docs x Indian Cinema) from 2022-01-22T11:00
In the first episode of season 2, PKP hosts Ankur and Raeesa explore the rich and vast history of documentary cinema in India, from pre-Independence to current times. Follow along as they uncove...
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Ep 19: The Ramsay Brothers from 2021-10-30T10:00
Happy Halloween! This month’s episode explores the fantastical tale of the Ramsay Brothers. Not averse to filmmaking families in the Hindi film Industry, the Ramsay Brothers stood out from the K...
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EP 18: LIVE AT CIFF with Brenda Lieberman from 2021-10-03T13:00
WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF PKP
In this special episode, PKP went live at the Calgary International Film Festival! Lead Programmer Brenda Lieberman sat down with Ankur and Raees...
Indian Film Noir from 2021-08-10T10:00
WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF PKP!.
On this month's episode we explore the mysterious genre: Indian Film Noir. Though hard to define, either as a genre, a style, or just a vi...
Pandemic Watches from 2021-05-17T15:00
WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF PKP! This month, hosts Raeesa and Ankur catch up with the last three Indian films they watched during the lockdown. Tune into see what they had to say about th...
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Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: The Music of The Cinema from 2021-02-23T06:00
One of the greatest hallmarks of Indian cinema is the use of song and dance to convey story and emotion, but it is quite different and much more popular than the musicals found in Hollywood. In...
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Cinema of Prayoga: Indian Experimental&Avant-Garde Cinema from 2020-12-15T15:00
Coined by film historian Amrit Gangar, “cinema of Pray?ga” is a conceptual framework used to describe experimental and avant-garde Indian cinema, and to locate it within an ancient history of pr...
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Diasporic Identity&Filmmaking: A Conversation with Amair Javaid from 2020-11-04T10:00
Hosts Raeesa and Ankur sit down with Calgary-based filmmaker Amair Javaid to discuss his new short film Hafiz (2020), which was selected to be part of the Coalition of South Asian Film ...
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Colourism in Indian Cinema from 2020-06-25T12:00
With the on-going Black Lives Matter protests erupting in America and across the world, an interesting response took place in Bollywood. While many of the stalwarts of Indian cinema showcased th...
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Favourites From The Past from 2020-06-05T17:00
WELCOME BACK!
We hope you are safe and healthy during the COVID-19 quarantine, and to make your social-distancing a little more bearable, we got a new episode of PKP for you!
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Tamil Cinema from 2020-04-30T09:00
Raeesa and Ankur take a deep-dive through the film industry of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the second largest film industry in India after Bollywood. They explore the beginnings of Tamil Nadu&apos...
Top 10 Films of the'10s (Hindi Cinema) - Part Two from 2020-03-19T11:00
WELCOME BACK to a new episode of Parde Ke Peeche! The 2010s in Hindi cinema were marked by big changes such as the introduction of digital streaming, the #MeToo movement, and the election of Mod...
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Top 10 Films of the'10s (Hindi Cinema) from 2020-02-26T07:00
WELCOME BACK to a new episode of Parde Ke Peeche! The 2010s in Hindi cinema were marked by big changes such as the introduction of digital streaming, the #MeToo movement, and the election of Mod...
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Top 5 Films of 2019 (Hindi Cinema) from 2020-01-26T13:00
WELCOME BACK to a new episode of Parde Ke Peeche! For the first episode of 2020 we decided to look back, and discuss our favourite Bollywood films from 2019. Even though Bollywood did not have t...
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Cinema of West Bengal from 2019-12-09T13:00
Welcome back to a new episode of Parde Ke Peeche! So far, we have focused on the development & popularization of Hindi cinema in India. However, just as there is no one language in ...
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Desi Diaspora Le Jayenge - A Journey Through Hindi Cinema ( Pt 3 of 3) from 2019-09-06T20:00
The final episode of our three-part series exploring Hindi cinema's transition to Bollywood. In the first two episodes we looked at how India transitioned from a post-colonial country in t...
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Angry Young India - A Journey Through Hindi Cinema ( Pt 2 of 3) from 2019-06-04T21:00
Further exploring Hindi cinema's transition to Bollywood, hosts Ankur Desai & Raeesa Farooqi explore two classic seventies films: Yaadon Ki Baarat, and Deewar. Both films are seminal in...
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The Golden Age: A Journey Through Hindi Cinema (Pt 1 of 3) from 2019-03-29T17:00
Hindi cinema wasn't always known as Bollywood. In fact, the term "Bollywood" only started in the 1970s and came to represent a completely different type of Bombay-based filmmaking...
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Ep1: Theatre&Bollywood from 2019-02-04T22:00
(Note: This is the first-ever episode of PKP!)
WELCOME TO PARDE KE PEECHE! Our podcast is dedicated to looking at the various cinemas of India, through a critical and academic lenses...
S1xEp1: Theatre&Bollywood from 2019-02-04T22:00
(Note: This is the first-ever episode of PKP!)
WELCOME TO PARDE KE PEECHE! Our podcast is dedicated to looking at the various cinemas of India, through a critical and academic lenses...
Ep1: Theatre&Bollywood from 2019-02-04T22:00
(Note: This is the first-ever episode of PKP!)
WELCOME TO PARDE KE PEECHE! Our podcast is dedicated to looking at the various cinemas of India, through a critical and academic lenses...