The Awful & Awesome Entertainment Wrap

In this episode of The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, our hosts Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the 64th Filmfare Awards, The Music Teacher, Selection Day season 2, Bharat's trailer and Akshay Kumar’s interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The podcast kicks off with a discussion on a Netflix movie, The Music Teacher. Rajyasree says, “While there is a poignancy to it, it’s very stretched out." Despite being a movie based on music, the dubbing of the songs and its lip syncing by the actors is extremely poor. Abhinandan says, “For a film about music and music teachers, they couldn’t get the singing right which is ridiculous.” However, Abhinandan praises the frame of the film as it is shot in the hills of Shimla. The hosts then discuss the trailer of Bharat. In awe of Salman Khan, Rajyasree thinks that the movie is going to be a blockbuster. She says, “To pack so much into a trailer is also a skill in itself.” The film encapsulates documentary evidence of Jawaharlal Nehru’s passing. Abhinandan says, “What they have said is something along the lines of Forrest Gump because they use documentary evidence of Nehru’s passing.” The discussion moves on to Akshay Kumar’s interview with Modi. According to Rajyasree, the choice of Akshay Kumar as the interviewer was fabulous in terms of the stance on social issues and politics that he has in general. But on a whole, the hosts condemn the idea of this interview itself. Abhinandan says, “I thought it was a complete PR exercise, it’s a disgrace that all television channels are carrying it. It’s a disgrace for ANI that it did something like this, it is clearly to avoid the Election Commission cracking down on them...” Also, he takes a dig on what Modi speaks about his chat with Obama and regards it as completely nonsensical. Stay tuned for more!