132: Outlaw Country: Paan Singh Tomar, Sonchiriya, and Thar

We set out on the back country trails with three modern takes on the western genre.  Notes: Content Warning: two of these films feature sexual assault as plot points What is a Western? Did they die out?  The Emergency The period Hindi Westerns: The Magnificent Two (Sholay) Revisionist Hollywood Westerns, Dark Westerns, Blaxploitation Westerns, the list goes on We miss Irrfan Khan and Sushant Singh Rajput Spoiler alert, none of these movies end very well for the main character Paan Singh Tomar We have watched many sports biopics, they usually don’t have this many gunfights though (INTERVAL (”Baaghi Re” from Sonchiriya) Sonchiriya Alberta is the wild west Caste politics and feminism Thar Violence should have a point Catharsis and heroic bloodshed (see RRR) Spoiler Zone: 55:57 - 1:00:54 Next time: 2022 midyear review Bollywood is For Lovers is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network Check out Taproot Edmonton Listen to High Level Hip Hop Find us on Apple Podcasts! and Stitcher! and audioBoom! and iHeartRadio! and Spotify! and Google Podcasts! Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork! Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook! #Western, #CurryWestern, #DacoitWestern, #PaanSinghTomar, #IrrfanKhan, #TigmanshuDhulia, #MahieGill, #VipinSharma, #NawazuddinSiddiqui, #Sonchiriya, #SushantSinghRajput, #AbhishekChaubey, #BhumiPednekar, #AshutoshRana, #ManojBajpayee, #RanvirShorey, #Thar, #RajSinghChaudhary, #AnilKapoor, #HarshvardhanKapoor, #FatimaSanaShaikh, #JitendraJoshi, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema