The Brown Table - A Bollywood Podcast

Episode 8: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Hits the Stage

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?

Episode 7 - Iram Parveen Bilal: Gender and Filmmaking

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.

Episode 6 - Fatherhood & Bollywood: A Chat with Jugal Hansraj

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?

Episode 5 - Reframing Sexuality in Bollywood

Intro Music by Dean Sultani, The Asian Highway's Music Supervisor Ajay Gehlawat's profile: http://hutchins.sonoma.edu/faculty-staff/ajay-gehlawat

Episode 4 - Colorism and Film: Bollywood's Biases Exposed by AI

* The report can be found here: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2021/march/ai-analyzes-movies.html.