SPEAKER_04 0:02

So hello, hello, Money. How are you today? Hi, I'm good. How are you? I'm great. It's cold. That's the only issue I'm having right now, but it's fine otherwise. Yes. So we have a lovely guest from London today. Yes, international. Look at that. International. Oh my God. Our Instagram friend, Filmy Sonia, is joining us. She's got all the Bollywood tea, the trends, the masala behind the movies. And we're just excited to talk to her today. So, Sonia, tell us more about yourself.

SPEAKER_06 0:35

Yay, I'm so glad to be chatting with you guys. This is Filmy Sonia here. And yeah, we're gonna have a great time talking lots and lots about Bollywood.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Yes. Yeah. Tell us how did you get started on this? Like what was your like how did that get there?

SPEAKER_06 0:56

So I've always loved Bollywood since I was a little kid. And you know how parents are like, like, I remember one time I was doing my GCSEs, which is exams that you do in the UK when you're 16. And my parents were like, if you spent as much of your time and memory remembering Bollywood trivia and Bollywood information as you did in your exams, you'd do very well. So I then ended up doing finance, trying to get a good salary. Did that, but obviously there was no job satisfaction there. Um ended up on maternity leave with my first child and tried to do something on the side whilst I was on leave. Um again, it was something to do with events, and I love events, but just not my passion. Then with my second son again on maternity leave, and I thought, hmm, let me actually do something which I'm very passionate about, and that is Bollywood. So just started putting up trivia. I love trivia. Like, I don't know if you guys were like that when uh like a couple of decades ago, we used to have the magazines like Cinnablitz and Film Fair and that kind of stuff. Yes, yes, yes, start reading that. This was stardust.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Yep, all the gossip.

SPEAKER_06 2:17

Yeah. Well, you would gossip, and I was so into that before this is before social media, right?

SPEAKER_04 2:22

Now we've got social media for gossip. For us, I don't know about like in London, but for us in America, it was really hard to get our hands on those. Like somebody had to go to India or any of us. Like we maybe, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:36

Well, I well, where I grew up, the India stores had it all the time.

SPEAKER_04 2:39

It might have been like a New Jersey. I grew up in Florida. I did.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

You're right, you're right. I grew up in a like very like Desi-centric area.

SPEAKER_04 2:46

So like Indiaville. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're right.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Exactly. Disiville, very much Disney Village. So it was easy for me to get those. And you're right, like seeing all that type of stuff was exciting, right? And there's like it's like, oh wow, what's gonna happen? What's going on? Some of the rumors that I know are from those type those filmfare magazines and startups.

SPEAKER_06 3:04

Yeah, definitely. Yes, yeah, yeah. I still follow some Instagram profiles.

unknown 3:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 3:12

Do you remember when it was the whole Sanjay Dutt Madhury thing? Yes. And at that time, I was like, no, it can't be, it can't be. Now, decades later, it's confirmed that they were in a relationship. Yep. And I still can't believe it, but it's confirmed.

SPEAKER_03 3:25

It was I remember I I distinctly remember that particular thing. It had like a picture of Sanjay Dad going to jail and Madhury with her head covered in like some kind of gungart and is like dramatically looking at the screen. And I was just, I remember like in my head visually, I can remember it. So, what made you like want to do these type of videos, these reels that you come up with?

SPEAKER_06 3:46

Um, so like I said, that I love Bollywood trivia, and um I just wanted to share the information that I know. I feel like I have a lot of information in my head, and I just wanted to share it. And it started getting popular, like people really loved it. Um, so I tried to make videos which I know that I would enjoy as well, but keep the consistency off my face at the beginning so you recognize that it's it's me and I'm gonna give you a brilliant piece of Bollywood information. Um, and like I said, it just got popular, and I was like, right, let's start doing a real day and see where this goes. And audience are enjoying it, so I'm really glad I do.

SPEAKER_03 4:26

We do, we enjoy. I love the quickness of your videos.

SPEAKER_04 4:30

Okay, so Sony, I'm gonna start with you. Did you watch anything fun? It doesn't have to be Bollywood, it can be like non-Bollywood. Anything that you enjoyed watching in the last few days?

SPEAKER_06 4:40

Um, so I've watched a couple of movies recently, and the the worst thing is it's nothing new. I haven't been able to watch anything new, but it's like old stuff that that I haven't watched and is supposed to be cult classics, or I have watched and are still a cult classic. So I ended up watching Deli Billy, cult classic. It was a flop, but everyone goes on and on about it. Um watched these everyone's cult the cult followers, the cult followers. Um but uh I was disappointed. Like I was expecting something amazing, but for me it ended up being like some artsy pre-adversion type movie.

SPEAKER_04 5:21

I was gonna say, like, maybe like now, maybe now, or maybe even back then it would have made sense, but I watched it back then and it didn't it didn't make sense.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

So like it's just not huge in every generation for us, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:35

Like, but I did like Imran Khan. I thought he was good. I was like, oh, okay, this guy can act. Because he was very different from his other movie that he was in.

SPEAKER_06 5:42

So And then I ended up doing Chris, like watching Krish. I was like watching it again. I was like, you know what? I loved the movie when I first watched it, and I still love it. It's such a good superhero movie. I don't think there's any other superhero movie that has beat this one.

SPEAKER_03 6:01

But when I watched it, I was like, oh, this is not as bad as I thought it would be. It was actually pretty good. The story was good, Rithik's acting was really good. So I think I have to go back and watch Krish again to just like remember like why it was good. Um but I remember watching it and did like it.

SPEAKER_06 6:16

Well, what what have you watched? What have you watched?

SPEAKER_04 6:19

I um so I started, I was telling Muni on our last um recording, I was watching this show. It's an English show called All All Her Fault, and I found out it's based on a book. It's um so it's about this family that has a child, and then the child gets kidnapped by the nanny, and then you that you find out later on about why the nanny kidnapped her.

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Him Oh, I know this. I've seen the thing clip, but I see a trailer of this. I saw it.

SPEAKER_04 6:42

It's on peacock.

SPEAKER_03 6:43

Yeah, it's on that trailer.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

It's on NBC P. It's so good.

SPEAKER_03 6:47

I finished it two days ago and I'm like, I think I know the whole story, so I'm not gonna say anything in case Sonia wants to watch it.

SPEAKER_04 6:52

It's good, it's really good. I haven't I didn't watch anything Bollywoody. Sorry, I had no time. What'd you watch, Money?

SPEAKER_03 7:01

I watched this movie called Ek Chaturnar. It's been coming up on my Instagram that, oh, it's supposed to be really good. Blah blah blah. Like, okay, let me just give it a chance. Let me see what it is. It's Divya Kosla Kumar. I don't know if you guys know this. She's married to that Crazy! Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I started watching it. Neil Netin Mukesh is in it. I like him. I think he's a good actor. I just don't think he got like the right amount of acting uh opportunities like everyone else did. The story itself is really funny. I'm only halfway in, I haven't watched full, I haven't finished it. Uh the story itself is funny. Um, she's not bad, but she has a strange face where she doesn't blink in her acting. Like the whole time she talks, she talks with her eyes open. Yes. Yeah, it's and it's kind of creepy because she's making expressions with everything here, but her eyes are just open the whole time. Like Can you Botox your eyelids or something? Like maybe she did that.

SPEAKER_06 7:56

Maybe, but like, no, no, no, no, no. She's always been like because if you look at her in an old Falogani Bata music video that she was in, her eyes were always like popping.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

It's just open, like she doesn't blink. Like she doesn't. The entire scene I watched her, maybe like five minutes of her talking, and her eyes didn't close.

SPEAKER_04 8:15

I was like, wait, Money's counting. She's like, Come on. She'd be hard to play staring contest with.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Yeah, she would because I was watching her. I was like, is it me? Am I just focused on her eyes? But then the everyone else next to her was acting and they were blinking and they had expression in their eyes, but she didn't. She had like nothing. But the movie, the storyline is kind of fun.

SPEAKER_04 8:37

Talking about people blinking. She didn't blink. She blinked and she didn't blink.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

She did not.

SPEAKER_04 8:43

Wait, so wait, what was the controversy with Divya Khosla again? I was trying to figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

Remember during during the movie that um came out. Oh, Jigra?

SPEAKER_04 8:52

Was it Jigra? Jigra.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

Al yeah, Algae's movie Jigra. Apparently the year before, or six months before, she did a movie very similar to that. And Savi.

SPEAKER_04 8:59

Was that Savi?

SPEAKER_03 9:00

Yes, exactly. And it did really bad. And then when Jigra came out, she was one of the ones that went to watch it in the theater, and they were calling it, oh, Jigra is sold out. And she went there, like, it's not sold out. There's no one. Nobody's here. Yeah. They just bought out the they just bought out the theaters to make it look like it was sold out.

SPEAKER_04 9:15

Naughty girl. That can be. Okay. Well, thank you for letting me know what y'all watch. Okay, money, give us your Bollywood buzz.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

What should we care about this week? Well, I don't know how much people are gonna care about it. Trending topics. Yeah. So one of the songs, recent songs that just came out. I don't know if you've seen it. It's called Chikri Chikri from the movie Pedi. Is that Pedi?

unknown 9:39

Pedi.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

Is that how you pronounce it? Pedi, Pedi. Um, it's with Ram Charan and John V, which the song I think is kind of fun, and Ram Charan's dancing is really cool because Ram Charan's a great dancer in general. Like all this, a lot of the South Indian dancers are such amazing dancers. So I love watching him.

SPEAKER_04 9:55

But so fun fact, your favorite, Alu Arjun, that's his cousin. They're cousins.

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Wait, Ram Chur and Alu Arjun are cousins?

SPEAKER_04 10:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

You guys didn't know this?

SPEAKER_04 10:04

I didn't even know this either.

SPEAKER_06 10:06

No. See, the thing is, South for us is new. Well, let's do it.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

South is that is old news. So Ramchan's mom and Alu Arjun's dad are brother and sister.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

That's so interesting. So this is the what like Sonia said, it's interesting that we don't know so much about the South as much because there's so much nepotism in the South that we don't like, we don't it's so much nepotism. But the one thing I would say, there's good nepotism because a lot of them are amazing actors. Like they're not gonna be able to do it. They can act. In Chickri Chickri, the one thing that I don't personally like is the way John V looks so much younger than Ram Churn. And I know we do that often, but she looks really young, and they made him look older because he has a heavy beard and the heavy hair. And it makes him look much older than her, and they made her look really like a young village girl. And it's just a weird concept for me to see that together. So I don't know. We'll see how the movie is.

SPEAKER_04 11:03

Well, I'll tell you a fun fact, another fun Telugu fact. Um, Chiranji V, who is Ram Turan's dad, and Sri Devi, who is John V's mom, did one of the best movies together when they were back in their prime. And you know that song, the original song is from that movie, the original Telugu song, and it's still a big hit. Oh wow, okay. I don't know that song. So I don't know if they were trying to recreate that with the kids, you know, like recreate like an iconic pair with the kids or something. You know, I don't know if they're a real idea. That's a good real idea.

SPEAKER_03 11:41

De Pare de 2 is releasing on November 14th. So I'm not sure who's like want to watch that one.

SPEAKER_04 11:47

I'll watch it for Mr. Hadi Makat's Mizan Javid. Yes, beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

I watched the first one. I thought it was funny, I thought it was hilarious. Um, so I'm hoping this one looks funny also, and again, you're right with Mizan, he looks really good. So probably watch this movie of his.

SPEAKER_04 12:06

It's a dancing, the combination of looking and dancing, it's like wow. Yes, so good.

SPEAKER_03 12:09

Yes, he's really good.

SPEAKER_04 12:11

I don't know about that beer song though. Isn't there a shoulder beer song? Yeah, Joom Sharabi. It's like this. And it's all based in London, so that's exciting for you. Question for you. So many shootings happen in London. Do you have you seen any?

SPEAKER_06 12:27

Oh god, I've been in them. So I've been in '83. So famous. So my first movie was LaVage Girl. You know the songs. So me and my sister are in that song. You'll see us. Yeah, yeah. You'll see us. We're in like yellow Punjabi suits, like yellow salwarakamis. You'll see us right at the front. Oh. Then our next one was Juru. Did you get to meet them all?

unknown 12:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 12:55

And the funny thing at that time was no one knew that Safely Khan was dating Karina Kapoor and Karina was on sets. She was on the set with uh Safe at that time. So you had the scoop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We already had the side.

SPEAKER_04 13:07

Imagine if you're doing reels back then.

SPEAKER_06 13:10

I know, tell me about it. And then our next, I mean my sister, our next movie that we were in was Houseful 3. We were in the song London Ma la ma sonia, if you remember that song. It's the wedding song. I remember that's but that's so fun. Are you I gotta look at all these songs just so I can see you. And then another was like Namaste England, the one with Ojun and Boringiti, 83 with Ronville, then we did Juruva 2 with Varun Powen. But sometimes I get like um knowledge about shoots that are happening around. So I won't go to do the movie, but I'll go and go and say hello. Like, yeah, like I did that for Bibasha. I knew there was a scene happening in Liverpool Street Station, which I used to work right next to. So at my lunchtime, I just went over, saw her scene, asked for a photo. So I've yeah, I get to meet because they do a lot of shooting in London. Saying the mana amazing. Yeah, there was a shoot shoot. I do um there was a shoot near Tower Bridge. I was having my lunchtime walk, and I came across Dhamna doing a shoot with Kunal Koli, the director. It was a South Indian movie. Mm-hmm. But yeah, like and the other day. Oh, I remember that movie. It was very bad. I know, I can imagine. The other day there was a Um I like the Manna though, but uh it there was a couple of months ago where I don't know if you had heard that Shah Rukhan was unveiling the DDLJ statue in Trafal in Leicester Square. Yes. And they had to cancel it because of the bombings, right? The India Pakistan bombings. Funnily on that day, we were waiting for Shah Rukhan ended up bumping into Ajay Delgan in Leicester Square. Which was a bit more downgrade.

SPEAKER_05 15:04

Oh dear.

SPEAKER_04 15:06

Full circle back to Dede Piade.

SPEAKER_05 15:09

Yeah, exactly. Back to Ajay Delga.

unknown 15:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:15

Okay, so I think uh me and Money will be coming to London soon, and you're going to find a shoots for us, and we'll be the background dancers.

SPEAKER_06 15:25

So I've heard Marjorie's touring in American Canada, and it's not going so well. Yeah have you guys been on set?

SPEAKER_04 15:33

No. We've seen the reels, and it's supposedly so we talked about it a little bit on our last pod, but it's not getting better. Like, I mean, the last reels, I think there was the latest ones was maybe New Jersey money, and I heard it's not good. It's still terrible. It's like almost like a talk showy type of uh show, but people were expecting her to do some you know, dancing.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

But like I think I think what we talked about last episode was that if she had if they had promoted it as that such, then people would expectation. You set expectation, but if you're just saying Madhury is coming, everyone's thinking she's coming to whoa.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

But do you see? I feel like this Madhury performance is the same thing. All I see is clips of her doing chat banchie, sad that no, like that's all I see.

SPEAKER_03 16:20

And then the one song, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:22

It's a one song, and that's what I see. That's what I saw with Rithik, like Ikpal Kajina, and then that's all you see, right? So it's I don't know if it's following that scene.

SPEAKER_06 16:30

I think it's the promoters, it's what you're saying, Muni, is that it's just so badly advertised. They're promoting uh huge shows or that oh my god, Rithik is coming, Madhuri is coming, but they don't say in what format, right? No, like exactly, and so these are all older actors and actresses that yeah, are not gonna perform. If you ask, say, like Nora Fatehi to come, you'll expect background dancers and her doing her whole show, but not these guys.

SPEAKER_03 17:00

Absolutely. I was very excited. I wanted to go, Kabita did not, but I really wanted to go, but I knew I couldn't go because I just have the whatever day she was coming close to us, I couldn't make it. So I was like, I'm not gonna go.

SPEAKER_04 17:09

Well, because the money I told him, like, what is she going to do for you? There's nobody else coming with her. I have no background dancers. What is she going to do? And she was three hours late, and you would have gotten so mad.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

But that was in Canada, not in the US one. I think she learned her lesson on that.

SPEAKER_06 17:26

Like you don't believe in Yeah, they've changed the marketing, they've put now posters off meet and greet. It's called meet and greet now, rather than performance.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Oh, see? All right, Bollywood's been going through some sad stuff lately. We just found out that Larmindra has been hospitalized and a lot of fake news is coming out. Constantly is changing. People are saying he passed away, then Isha Deo has to come out.

SPEAKER_04 17:48

So the last two days. Like, poor guy. Poor guy.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

He's like apparently he's but apparently he's stable and he's recovering. So whatever. They don't haven't said like what actually happened, but he was hospitalized. And I know Isha Deo came out and was like very upset. And then him and Melanie also came out and was very upset. Like, why are you guys spreading rumors? Like, like there was a moment where I thought I got the news and I was about to post it, and then as I was posting, the post got deleted because it was untrue.

SPEAKER_07 18:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:17

So yeah, Auntie was really mad though. Hema Malaniantium, dude. She she was like she was mad. She went off. Yeah. So I'll tell you a story about Hima Malanianti too. So she came to Florida um to Orlando for like a because she's a Berthanatium dancer, right? So she came for a show and she yelled at the audience because the audience was talking to her show. I love her. I love that. I'm here doing a show for you and you're not paying attention. Something along those lines. Like wow. Went off. So when I say hey, Mamala Nyante went off, like I've seen it live in person. So I can imagine her Twitter.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

I think what happened with these stars, they're like taken to a different level in Bollywood. I don't think anyone, any other industry does so much like praising or like kind of like celeb uh like I don't know, like worshipping yeah, like but like like Bollywood does. Even Hollywood doesn't Hollywood doesn't worship. No, no, we don't. But the way Bollywood does it, and I think they're so used to that type of respect and that type of thing. So when they come here and we give them nothing, they're like, what the hell? Like I'm performing, and why are you being yeah, why aren't you not giving me your undivided attention? You know who I am type of thing. This is what they do. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

So I think that's you know who you are. We paid you money, you're rich because of us. Yeah, same as it's how we see it. Like you're winning more because of us. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. So Mundi and Sonia, we're gonna talk about my least favorite topic, which is why do people remake original songs? Like the original songs are so, so good. Why do we need to have remakes? It really makes me mad. So, some examples I'm gonna give you. Like Ankh Mare. Okay, the actually the remake was not so bad, but why do they have to remake it to begin with? It's such a good song originally.

SPEAKER_06 20:16

Wait, hold on. Sonia does not like the remake. I mean, I'm such a big fan of the original of Ankh Mare. That was like on right. That was probably What did we need the remake?

SPEAKER_04 20:26

We didn't need the remake. So I'll tell I'll tell you a little bit of why of why I like it is because um my son performed to it. That's why I liked it. Because I was like, oh, he looks so cute. But I think that's probably the only reason why I like it. Because even Karen Johar, who made the remake in the song says, one more remake, like yes. So why are you doing it?

SPEAKER_03 20:52

Okay, so I'm gonna tell this is an unpopular opinion amongst like people who are song lovers. I personally amongst yeah, but I personally, Akhmare is one of my favorite, again, Sony with you, original song, Arshad Warsi dancing on that song was so good, loved it. But when they did the remake, I felt like it did it justice. I felt like it wasn't taking away from the original song, but yet it still was able to bring it back and people are remembering it. And it's just such a it was a fun song back then, and I felt like it was still a fun song, even when the re-release of it, like the remake of it. And I love the dance moves of it. I love again, original, great, and remake is great for me too.

SPEAKER_06 21:30

I think because Thanish Bhakchi, who does a lot of these uh film remakes, he does it really well in the sense that he doesn't just take the song at a beat and then call it a a remake. He actually sometimes there's changes in lyrics, there's um you know, bits added on, there's like rap added on to it. It's it's changed into a whole different song with that little bit of nostalgia nostalgia of the original. And I think that's what you're liking, Munni. Yes, right? That it's not exactly.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

And Tanik Bakshi is one of my Tanik Bakshi is actually one of my favorites right now because I feel like every song that he com comes out with, I'm usually like loving it. So I I didn't realize that was his song. Akamare was his song, that his remake. But yeah, I think that could that could be an I personally don't like rap in it, and I think probably that one didn't have I don't think that one had rap in it, but it was just like a good song. Again, good song to dance with and like really fun for me to like enjoy and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 22:45

Another one I absolutely love is Saki. And I'll tell you something. I don't know if you heard the controversy of Saki with Nora Fatehi. Original was controversial. The original was Vishal Shekha, and this new one, I don't know who did the new one. And um I'll look it up, I'll look it up really quickly. They didn't get the copyrights from Vishall Shekha. So Vishal Schecker sued them. So yeah, they were like, I love it. Richal was like, how can you just take my song and remake it? Like, I'm still alive. I'm still alive, like you can still ask me for it. I might say no, but at least ask.

SPEAKER_04 23:23

And he's so relevant, Vishal, right? Like, isn't he the one of the judges for exactly?

SPEAKER_06 23:28

They remake they did remake it well though. I prefer the remake to the original, even though I love the original, but the remake with Nora and that the whole thing was so good. It was Danish, it was Danish back to the first time.

SPEAKER_04 23:42

Yeah, naughty fellow.

SPEAKER_03 23:44

He is, and I and now I'm realizing all the songs that I like, I think are from him, his remakes that I actually really enjoy. You do love him because he's Sayarian. I do love him. I do love him. I don't know if his comp he's a great composer, I think. But um Yeah, because he copies everybody, but he does a good job of it. If you're gonna be a copier, be be good. Be good and do bad. If you go make a fake knockoff Chanel, you're doing well.

SPEAKER_06 24:07

Be an Anumalik.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

But Anomalik, I'm not.

SPEAKER_06 24:10

I don't love his songs though. I love his copying. Oh my god, he's so I don't like a lot of his.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

His voice is so annoying sometimes. No, his voice sucks, but his songs, you know, when he does good songs, he's not bad. Maybe. But going back to Saki Saki, I like the original and I like the remake. Like, I'm gonna like it. I think Snora killed it with the dance move.

SPEAKER_06 24:29

Like, there's reasons for doing this. It's an easy moneymaker. You just you've already got a song with a lot of nostalgia. It's an easy moneymaker to get people dancing. A lot of the like if you remember back in the early 2000s when it was like DJ doll, DJ Baby Doll, and there was another DJ, they all did remakes of the 60s and 70s songs.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

Now, as a child, but they did more of a they did more of a remix, or they took the original and just added beats to it, right? Like they did that version of it. No, it's not true.

SPEAKER_06 25:05

As opposed to like, I don't know, like for example, like Merenasi Mere. Like again, they added rap to it, they added extra to it, like what is happening now. So what they did was they Bali Sagu, like like Bali, Bali Sagu's version. Yeah, exactly. So they used all the 60s, 70s songs, which you didn't need to get copyright for. They didn't even need to pay, they would just steal it, remix it. All the millennials when we were kids loved it because of the music videos as well. They were so like raunchy and we we couldn't watch them because they had half half naked women and good-looking guys in a um, but it was our parents who mocked those remixes and said, Look at what they're doing to the songs. The song songs used to be so good, and look at what they're doing. Millennials were like, Oh my god, we love this, we can play this at parties. Yes, and now it's the next generation. Now we are our parents saying, like yourself, Gavita, oh my god, they're spoiling our songs. Like, we've become our parents. And Munni, Muni is a proper Gen Z being like, oh my god, this is such a cool song.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

Yeah, but I mean, like, I for me, I'm like, I really like the original. So the for me, I felt like there was no need to remake some of these songs, like I've mentioned before, but some of them maybe were okay. Like Saki Saki was actually really good, like you guys said.

SPEAKER_06 26:28

So she likes one. Goita liked one. Yeah, you I'm giving you one.

SPEAKER_03 27:00

Uh original Mocabla with uh oh Prabudeva. I love, love him watching him dance, watch hearing the song. But the remake that they did, again, loved it. I thought it was so fun to dance to. I love dancing to the remake of it.

SPEAKER_04 27:15

Which movie was the remake in?

SPEAKER_03 27:17

Oh, of your favorite movie, ABC3D.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

Oh, my baby. Okay, all right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

But yeah, I didn't, I mean, I don't know. I liked it. It's so good. I love the dance, I love dancing to it. I think the original is harder for me to dance to because I couldn't, like, for me, but I I've done it, yeah. But like uh the new version, I just I liked it. I heard it. I was like, God, I love it. It's called extra beats that you can actually dance to. Exactly. And Prabhu Dewa look so good doing it after like so many years, still have the exact and they use a bit of the original song too. Like it wasn't just that part, they used the original bit. The same thing with like the how Akmare used the original parts of it and then they threw in beats to it.

SPEAKER_04 27:58

And even the latest one, um Mere Mehebuba Mere Sinam, they used the original. I didn't like the Koshul and Charukan. I didn't like that one. I didn't like it either. I didn't like it either. But but they used a little bit of the original. It was closer to the original than it was to the actual.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Yeah, I that's one of the ones that I don't like. I don't like that one.

SPEAKER_06 28:19

Same thing. But sometimes it feels like that they just do it for the sake of it as well. Like, why do Mira Mehbub like, did they do they just pick any old song and be like, you know what, we'll just do that on that one? Like, what's the thinking behind it? I don't get an idea.

SPEAKER_04 28:34

None, nothing.

SPEAKER_06 28:35

No idea. Um so another one I really, really like is it's probably an unpopular opinion, is Mungada with Sonakshi Sina from Tojo Damal, which is a remix of Um the Helen, the Helen. The remake of Helen Sar. Yeah. Yes, yes. I yeah, I really like it. I just think it's got a good beat that you can actually dance in a party. It does. Whereas if you put an original Mungada on, you can't dance to that in a party.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

No, you can't. You can't. Because it's more it's slower beats, it's like more talking and more like expression with the body that way. Whereas opposed to exactly with opposed to new remakes are like beats in it where you're like actually like like can bop to it back and forth or come up with like fun dance moves and things like that.

SPEAKER_06 29:53

You guys have probably noticed this in your performing dancing as well. Like when you were in your 90s and 2000s, you guys were. Doing more expressive dancing. Whereas now it's more like jumping and street because of the beats that are used in popular songs. Oh, trust me. I know. Yeah. And now it's just like the beats. It's just like one, two, three, four, five. You got that because of the beats. The reason she says, I know, because we just performed that remake.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

We just performed it and we had 20, 30 year olds choreographing it, and we are not 20, 30-year-olds choreographing it. And I'm like, where I'm missing a beat. Yeah. They're like, yeah, because there's a one and two and a half. And I'm like, huh? Where is the half? I don't hear the half beats. There's half beats that you have to hit to hit the three. No, that they count. We do not need to count those, but they want to count those. And I'm like, but they're great choreographers. I love them all. I like it. I I love I love the choreography. Oh but I got that song. Now I like it. Now that I got it after the show, now I know it. Now I like it.

SPEAKER_03 31:15

Well, like just talking about the artist, like Masakali's one song from Delhi 6. Yeah. Uh it's Ayar Rahman, and they remade it for this movie called Marjava. Yeah. And and I think I think Ayair Rahman came out and said, like, this is awful. Like, why are you remaking these songs? So this is not good. It's like, don't do that to my song. So don't do that to my song. But like I because some of the songs they don't have right to it, right? I hope they paid him for his royalties on that. Some of them don't have the right to it because they because it is for a movie. So they it's the it belongs to the people or like the production house, I think, belongs to it. So they kind of give up their to it. So when they do that, then the production company ha like they have the right to, or whatever the the group is, they have the right to it. So then they can remake it without the original composer agreeing to it. So Masakali is one of them, which I personally like again. Me going back to it, I like the remake of it too. To me, it was like it still had the feel of the original, and it was good for the dancing part of it for me. So another song that I think absolutely loved, I think it was like international hit called the song Pasuri that Coke Studia Pakistan came out with uh about two years ago. And that song, I think it just transcended all everywhere. People were just playing it all the time, and it was such a beautiful song with so many different layers of it. And then like like six months later, or sorry, no, sorry, not six months, two years later they come up with like Bollywood comes up with their own version with RJ to sing. And it's called Pasuri Nu. And it was so bad that there was so much backlash from everyone saying, like, why are you guys even trying to do that? Like, why did you even try to do something like that? So there's some songs I personally feel you should not even touch. Like, just it's just so good. Don't touch it. Like it's and not so thank you to me either.

SPEAKER_04 33:23

Come to the covey side. Exactly. Do not not for everyone. So here's the thing. Here's the thing. RG should have said no to that because RJ, you know better. You should not have done this song.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

And it and it just came out like two years ago. Two years ago. Like it's one thing if it was like ten years ago they brought it back. Two years ago, that is in is still running as a hit in the world. Like, why would you come up with a new song? Why would you come up with a new version of it?

SPEAKER_06 33:47

And this comes back to the question I had like, what do singers think in their head when they're doing I'm gonna say cover, sorry, Gaita. A remake. A cover or a remake of like another famous song? Like, what was Sunidi thinking doing ulkas? I can understand like a Neha doing an Aka because Neha is still new in the industry. Sunidi I know what you're saying. Origit, like, what are they thinking in their head? Do they want controversy for the movie? Is that what they want as well? Do they want to be spoken about?

SPEAKER_04 34:18

Or maybe they got paid really well. I don't like maybe they got paid really well. Like, because that is really Pasuri was such a good song, still such a great song as the original. And that I heard it, and I I honestly was hoping to like it because I really love Arjit Singh. I hated it. It's terrible. I hated it. Same here. All right, my buddies. It is blind time. These two star wives have been covering up their husbands' womanizing for decades. It's Bollywood's worst kept secret. They have played an active role in bailing out their husbands from trouble arising out of their womanizing. They recently scored a PR goal while sty while trying to whitewash their husband's philandering. This led to a lot of backlash. As per a source, one of the wives is very abusive towards her husband. She is known to abuse her husband in front of outsiders who visit their home. Can you guess the stars?

SPEAKER_06 36:05

I mean unless Sonia Sonia guess. Oh my god, this is such an easy one. I was expecting a harder one from Yokoita. This obviously the gargel and twinkle kanna like saying that the physical, what was it? The physical affairs were less than the emotional affairs. Yes. Rat rat, what is it? Rat. Ratgey badge, yeah. Which I yeah. You know what? The thing is, I think it got blown out of proportion because if you were to choose one or the other, right? You had to choose what is worse, physical or emotional. In in that sense, I kind of would say I agree with them. The emotional affair is worse than a physical affair.

SPEAKER_03 36:52

See, for so I think I agree with John V. To me, both of them are bad.

SPEAKER_06 36:57

But that that was never the question. But you have to pick one. You have to pick one. Because that was you had to go in one corner or the other.

SPEAKER_03 37:03

I I I think that's fine. I think I think the question isn't as bad as their reaction to what why John V didn't want to choose. I think is that's what is is the what they kept saying. They're like that gate, the bat gate, and then then Kaja was like, oh, there's three against one. Who are you gonna choose? Or like, oh, she's so young, she doesn't know what it's like. She'll come to our side when she's older. I think that's what really was the thing. It's not the question itself. I really think it's their outlook afterwards and how they were talking about it. And that just brings a spotlight onto the husbands. Like all of these times we've heard all these rumors about both of those guys, right? All and now all of a sudden their wives are like saying they're confirming they're kind of confirming, exactly. Yeah, and I think the blind is talking about Akshekumar and Twinkle, that she is abusive to Akshekumar.

SPEAKER_04 37:49

I was gonna ask you guys, who did you think the abusive wife was?

SPEAKER_03 37:52

And I think it's- I thought it would have been Gajol. Really? I think Twinkle. No, I don't feel like it's Gajel. I think it's definitely Twinkle because the way she even talks to Gajol in the show is like it's like, why are you speaking to her this way? Like, isn't it? I have. I watch it. I watch it. I haven't had a chance. Don't Mundi will watch it for both of us. Yeah, and I'll tell you guys. I'll tell you what's been happening. Tell us the tea. It's not it's not good. Like, it really is not good. It's not Garage or her type of like fun banter. It's like Trinkle is trying to be like very like, I'm gonna ask these like thought-provoking questions, but the guests aren't ready for that type of thought provider provoking questions, and I don't think the viewers want to see that either. And Twinkle is very dismissive when Gajal talks, like she'll like shush her or like interrupt, like it's so bad, right? It's so bad. And she gives that persona that she's gonna be Jaya Badhari in like a year, like that is what she's giving out, like the way she speaks. So I can absolutely see her being the one that yells at Aksha Kumar. And then recently I saw just watching Pinkle on working too much. We understand why Aksha Kumar does 25 movies a year.

SPEAKER_06 39:03

I was just about to say this. I was gonna say that's why he works so much. But you know what? And he goes to sleep early and wakes up early and leaves. Like he's like, I have to go to work. Right. It's it's the guys that are doing the bad things, but it's the women that have to then deal with the public because of the way they've reacted to it, which is really sad. Because of course you're gonna react like this. That's why everyone always says, you know what, hold on, Jaya Butchen is like this because Amitabuchen doesn't treat her properly. Like when they first got married, if you ever see any Simi Garouel um interviews of Amitab and Jaya, it's like Prince uh Charles and Diana. You know, when uh they first got engaged, they the journalist asked Charles, like, oh, you know, why do you love her? And he just gave some weird answer about Diana. You see a similar thing. I remember this interview. And you see a similar thing with Amitabh and Jaya, and Amitabh's like, oh, you know, kind of like it's almost like they want to say, like, well, I ha I Yeah, like I had no choice. Yeah, I have to.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

You know, it's part of society. I have to get married, kind of thing. Because most of the time the affairs are happening with married men. Yes, the women are part of it, but the men don't get as much backlash as women do. Like the whole Amitabh Jaya Bhajan and uh Rika, who do we talk the most about? We talk about Rika, like how could she have Priyanka Priyanka Akshay, Priyanka Sharuka? Exactly. Who got it bad? Priyanka got it bad. Priyanka Priyanka had to leave Bollywood. Well, that was an interesting blind.

SPEAKER_04 40:37

Okay, I got another one. Yeah, go on. Okay, this.

unknown 40:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 40:42

This actress has been part of the industry for several years, but is not an A-lister. Despite having a mediocre acting career, she is seen in top-end chauffeur-driven cars, seems to own a home beyond her pay grade. She claims to come from old money, but our sources say that there's a bit more to it. The reason behind her immense wealth is a good old Dubai Sheik. She was paid a whopping 350 crore by a du b Dubai-based Sheik for her services. Can you bew?

SPEAKER_03 41:17

I don't know. I want to say Jacqueline, but I don't know if that's true.

SPEAKER_06 41:21

To be honest, that could be any, anyone, you're ready. I mean, the first person that popped into my head was Amisha Patel. But I know Amisha being. Bing bing bing bing bing. No, but Amisha comes from a wealthy family because actually um my cousin married into her family, and that family, like I met her at my cousin's engagement party. Oh wow. And um yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just like last summer. Is she was she still delusional? Because I feel like she's just delusional nowadays. She wasn't at the party, she was really, really nice. She took photos with everyone, she didn't say no. She was so nice, and it was her birthday that day, and we all celebrated her birthday with a cake, and we all sang up the Yeah, that's so cute. But she comes from a wealth and also, sorry, I was just gonna say, I didn't know, but she's actually family friends with the Roshan family. Her family is family friends with the Roshan family. Yeah, so I think she is already from a wealthy family, and she does a lot of like um purse uh like where she goes to openings and shows, and that I think that's how she gets her money.

SPEAKER_04 42:34

Okay, so a lot of the comments are saying uh Mitha Patel, but then there are a few that are saying Urvishi Rotella, um Jacqueline is another one. Disha Patani is another one. Yeah, Jacqueline I've heard of. Urvashi I can see being that.

SPEAKER_03 42:53

Um, Malaika Sherowet is another one. I could also see her too, but like I don't know they're like what they're where they're living, what their homes are. But like Jaclyn was one of my first ones because I remember reading something about that.

SPEAKER_04 43:05

But she was her Jacqueline was also that Sri Lankan guy. Remember, she was like dating some Sri Lankan business trouble. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:15

So I have to say again, this is it's it's really sad that when women get into money and people can't see where it's from, the first thing they'll think is it's because of a rich guy. But you'll never see that. She has a sugar daddy. Yeah. If a guy is all of a sudden rich and like everyone's like, where's that money come from? You know Sharu Khan. Oh, he must have earned it. Yeah, oh yeah, he earned it. So you know Sharu Khan when in the 90s he used to do so many paid weddings. He used to dance at weddings, and that's how he got so much money to get mannath. This is what all these girls are doing. This is exactly what all these girls are doing.

SPEAKER_04 43:50

No, but then who is this chick then? I need to know who's getting paid 350 crores.

SPEAKER_06 43:55

I don't think there is any chick. It's again just made up? Yeah, if a woman is doing good, it's because it's beh it's because of a rich guy. But if a rich guy is doing good, it's they never say, oh, there's a rich woman behind here. So I really think this blind item is fake. Anyone. I think it's fake. I really think it's fake.

SPEAKER_04 44:14

It could be it could be, okay, so I I think it could be somebody. I just don't know who the somebody is. Sonia thinks it's a fake, completely written up thing. Mundi, what do you think?

SPEAKER_03 44:23

I think it could be anyone, like honestly, because it could be anyone. Yeah, it could be anyone they're talking about, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:30

It's just a lot of juicy juicy stuff happening, and we don't know what the juicy juicy stuff is. Okay, it is vow time. My vow for this week is it's an older song. It's um from the movie Guther 2. Cheltere Ishkume. It's Niti Mohan. She sounds so pretty in this song. Um, I just really like it. It just, I don't know, it's like a nice, cute little flowy song to listen to. Oh, nice. I don't think I've I don't think I don't think I've heard of that. Really? Oh my gosh, Money, you'll love it. It's really nice. I have to listen to it. I have to listen to it.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

Alright, what's your vow? My vow this week, it's a song by Yo-Yo Honey Singh and featuring AP Dylan, and it's called Ada. Okay. You like AP Dylan a lot. I do like AP Dylan, and I like yo-yo too. Like, I like yo-yo. Most of his songs I like, not all of them, but most of them I like. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:59

Jinna marazimava zordaskyo. Jinny marazin'aba hordaskyu. Jinna tera das to make lemon be. Jinunin de ni ti na si bjinab. Zarada rutarena di paidi kill. Kara gala tere like the shy kill. Teri cara de udi kenaraj, hoge umaratu a depar Sony eve ay ni tu. Menu pataya to melodya kat. Tenu par the langed upadeni yad uh. Jetera husana jan leva Sony Eve Muruto imot and I'll hideo and a hat uh.

SPEAKER_04 46:37

Alright, fabulous filmy Sonya.

SPEAKER_06 46:39

What is your vow for the week? My vow for the week. I love the new chikeri song from Betty uh Ramchan. Oh my god, I'm obsessed with him. Since since he started, I've been obsessed. But this is Mohi Chohan again with Aya Reman. I have only listened to the Hindi version, um, because I don't understand Telugu or Tamil, so I don't know. Um but I'm loving the Hindi version. It's it's got like such a good beat and the the dance, and he's so cute in it. He's very cute. Yeah, he is really cute.

SPEAKER_03 47:12

It's a really fun song. I heard I heard that Delugu version, I think. I haven't heard the Hindi version, and even though I don't understand it, it's just the beats and the way they do it. It's so good. It just sounds good. And the voice is so good.

SPEAKER_04 47:24

Very good, guys. Well, this is such a fun episode. Thank you so much, Sonia, for joining us.

SPEAKER_03 47:31

Can you tell our listeners your um Instagram handle or your TikTok handle so they can start following you as well? Sure.

SPEAKER_06 47:36

My Instagram handle is at filmy full stopsonia. Hold on, say it say that again. Because you are Americans, right? You don't say full stop, right?

SPEAKER_04 47:45

I was gonna say, in in American, that's filmmy.sonia dot.

unknown 47:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 47:50

Yeah. Or period, whatever you won't say. Period. Okay, so um my Instagram handle is at filmy.sonia. That's filmy f I lm.sonia S-O-N-I-A.

SPEAKER_03 48:05

Um, thank you so much. We had so much fun. We can't wait to have you again. Um, like, share, follow, guys. Let us know what you think about this episode, and make sure to follow Sonia and see her amazing content that she has out there. Bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_14 48:29

Oh, chickeri, chickady, chikity, chicken, chicky, ticket, beat it, fit. Oh, what's that one sound from that one movie?

SPEAKER_02 48:47

Yes, yes. I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04 48:49

You know that one song from that one movie.

SPEAKER_02 48:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it. That's my song. Yes. I know what you're talking about exactly. I was gonna pick the exact same one. Shh, shut up. Okay, ready? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:06

Don't touch it. Like putting out in the world, do not touch that song. It's just so iconic. It's so good. You touching it would might just like.

SPEAKER_06 49:15

You know, you know, Monique Daniel Bugchi is listening to this podcast and being like, right? I'm gonna do Chengyao Chengya now.

SPEAKER_04 49:26

There's an original Middle Arkishadihe, and then they have like the Vicky Chopra one.

SPEAKER_03 49:31

Yeah, Chopra. Oh no. What's his name?

SPEAKER_04 49:35

What's that guy's name?

SPEAKER_02 49:36

Vicki Kosho? The ugly guy. No, I don't know. The Chopra. I don't know. I can't think of his name.

SPEAKER_06 49:41

Oh, they're Chopra. So what movies? What movies are these new remakes, eh? I don't like her here.

SPEAKER_03 49:49

I like her pre-US, pre-Bolyon. Go back to where you came from. Oh god. That's not what I mean, technically. Um you want to jump into things that we uh we kind of dislike. All of them. No, okay, no.

SPEAKER_06 50:08

Let's not let go of that talk in this section.

SPEAKER_03 50:16

What is it? Okay. Okay, perfect.

SPEAKER_04 50:18

Yeah, an hour and ten. I think an hour and ten. Oh, then we're fine. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Let's try not to tangent, ladies. I know you're very why what happened?

SPEAKER_06 50:28

I don't like him. I don't like him.

SPEAKER_04 50:30

Because he looks like a chaiwala.

SPEAKER_06 50:34

She's had it, she's had her hair, like hair lined. You know what? I'm gonna tell you the truth. If I had the money, I would do a lot of shit too.

SPEAKER_03 50:41

Same too.

SPEAKER_08 50:42

Same, same.

SPEAKER_06 50:45

That's why they say you're not ugly, you're poor. You're not ugly.