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

Bollywood is For Lovers

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

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