This week on The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Newslaundry subscribers Amrita Roy and Aditya Relangi to discuss Season 3 of the series Atypical, Tamil movies Asuran and Kaithi, the album Khulle Naagde by the Bandish Projekt, and three advertisements that have become the talk of the town.
Referring to Atypical, Amrita says the sitcom series is “more representative of the world we live in”. “It’s brave to pick up a subject like this because it’s very easy to get it wrong,” she adds. Aditya applauds the makers of Asuran for the intense visuals of the film.
Up next is the Knorr soup commercial starring Karan Johar. Amrita argues that it is a “fine, lowkey and funny ad” that is also progressive. “KJo maintains his way of making fun of his wishy-washy stand on being homosexual,” she notes.
The panellists also laud the latest Australia Tourism ad as having the perfect ingredients to attract an Indian audience.
The discussion moves on to a major release of 2019, Kaithi. Aditya argues, “Kaithi is a gritty film, a suspense thriller, they were able to hold the suspense through the entire 2.5-hour film.”
This episode also features the bilingual Netflix documentary American Factory, the Citibank ad plagiarism row, and Bandish Projekt’s Khulle Naagde album.
References
Bandish Projekt : Khulle Naagde
Hamilton mixtape : ‘Immigrants: we get the job done’
Recommendations
Aditya: In the End Telugu
Produced by Parikshit Sanyal, recorded by Anil Kumar, edited by Umrav Singh.
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