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The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 104: Gully Boy, Period, the Oscars and more


In this episode of The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Ankur Pathak, entertainment editor at Huffington Post. They discuss Gully BoyPeriod. End of Sentence., the Oscar awards and more.

They start off with Gully Boy, with Abhinandan asking Ankur what worked for him in the movie. Ankur says: “I just felt that Zoya is basically … fighting for your right to dream fearlessly.” He feels Zoya Akhtar made interesting points about the relevance of art. Abhinandan thinks films made with Western cultural references are usually very self-conscious and contrived, but for Gully Boy, he says, “It was comfortably cool, although rap and hip hop is not an Indian thing … it seems very authentic.”

The discussion moves to Period. End of Sentence., a 25-minute documentary based in India which recently won an Academy Award. Both Abhinandan and Ankur liked it immensely. Abhinandan says, “Its message was more profound or impressive than crafting … storytelling.” They also thought it did have its weak points and think it takes much more to merit an Oscar win. 

Speaking of the Oscars, they talk about the award ceremony this year, which was accused of being more about “wokeness” than craft. They also criticise the Academy for, among other things, its choice for Best Picture this year, stating BlacKkKlansman and Roma were better options in this category.

For this and much more, listen up!

References

Roma

A subscriber’s review of Roma

BlacKkKlansman

Gully Boy

Period. End of Sentence.

The Favorite

Nike commercial

This podcast has been produced by Parikshit Sanyal, edited by Samarendra K Dash and recorded by Anil Kumar.

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