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@filmiladies answer LTM pod listeners questions on Maut ke saudagar, recasting Qurbani and the Bollywood presence at the Met Gala.

Sharon Comello is a Sydney based painter and artist who's recent collection of art work in on women. Her paintings are bright, vibrant portraits of women and capture women in all their glory and beauty.

She drops by the to talk about her journey from being a sports captain in school to a painter and much more.

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I hope you enjoy this episode.

As the final episode of the film series on Hindi cinemas most influential directors, Manish Mathur and I discuss the career and influence of Zoya Akthar.

Zoya made her debut with a smashing, now cult movie Lucky By chance, she went on to make many good movies and not so good adaptation of the Archies comics.

On the episode we talk about her films, her visual and writing style and her influence and legacy and he take on class commentary.

I am always delighted to have Manish on the pod, this is his third appearance - he always has such rich and interesting takes on all things cinema. He is the host and producer of the very popular podcast Bollywood drafts.

I hope you've enjoyed this episode and series, would love to hear your thoughts.

Aditya Aggarwal is a Toronto based film curator and writer. He drops by the pod this week to deep dive into one of the founding furthers of Hindi Cinema Bimal Roy. Roy's Do Bigha Zamin was nominated for the Palme d'Or and he went to make many critically and commercially successful movies such as Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Devdas, Madhumati, Sujata, Parakh.

Aditya and I talk about Roy's movies, cinematography, framing, music and his legacy. Aditya is a thoughtful, informed voice, who is both succinct and eloquent in his insights and observations on cinemas, it was pure joy to talk to an avid cinema lover and chronicler, if you've not read his movie review on Raj Kapoor's Awara - (https://inreviewonline.com/2024/09/24/the-thief-turns-bardic-on-raj-kapoors-awaara/?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwKCOAtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp677o15lfGzpIdvlR0kp-eneASMrRJrQr2tubP6aW5Kdhl85cyMjQIAhCcwl_aem_3MFGUx9gxEMUlaW3Wxb44A ) It's a gorgeous piece of film writing. When you have film fans on the pod it does add to the episodes POV. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Aditya is on IG (https://www.instagram.com/intnlmnlgue/?igsh=M2k5cHdsNG5uNnYx# )

Pitu Sultan is the co-host of the amazing movie podcast Filmi Ladies and is also my movie twin. She and I mostly - and uncannily - like the same movies. She also is an eloquent and thoughtful movie chronicler and on the pod this week as part of the movies stories showcasing hindi movie directors - we discuss the career of one of our favorite directors Rajiv Rai.

Yudh, Tridev, Vishwatma, Mohra and Gupt - he has a winning streak, making banging movies in line, on the pod we discuss his rule in brining the masala in action/commercial movies. I hope you like this episode and please feel free to share your feedback.

My favorite movie podcast is Filmi Ladies hosted by Beth Watkins and Pitu Sultan, both the lovely ladies create great content and kindly drop by the pod to discuss the movies series showcasing Hindi Directors. Beth and I bond and gush over our favorite Khan - Feroz Khan - the director.

His career, his style, his verve and his women. We hope you like the episode and if you do please leave a comment.

As part of the movies series, this is the second episode and part 2 on Karan Johar in our showcasing Hindi movies influential directors. I have Leha back with us to talk Kjos growth as a director, his cult, Koffee with Karan and his obsessions with Alia Bhatt and our favorite movie of Kjo and our favorite Kjo directed movie performances. I hope you like this episode.

This week on the Let's Talk, Melbourne podcast, we're doing a special movie series, discussing the five most influential directors of Hindi Cinema. Our first director is the prolific, notorious and extremely popular Karan Johar. To discuss his career origins and his meteoric rise, I've invited the luminous Leha Selam - an informed and interesting voice on all things cinema.

We hope you enjoy this episode and leave your thoughts and comments.