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China Gate (1998)
Sep 20, 2023 ·
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China Gate (1998)
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Rajkumar Santoshi's China Gate is Seven Samurai with ten disgraced soldiers. Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Danny Denzongpa, and company take on Mukesh Tiwari's bandit Jageera, and the film...
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Rajkumar Santoshi's China Gate is Seven Samurai with ten disgraced soldiers. Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Danny Denzongpa, and company take on Mukesh Tiwari's bandit Jageera, and the film tips its hat to Kurosawa up front. It runs two hours and forty-seven minutes with almost no musical numbers, and the one big one, Urmila Matondkar's Chamma Chamma, has outlived the film. Can ensemble chemistry carry a story less interesting than the actors telling it?
The Bollywood Cinema Club's Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, and Mike White (The Projection Booth) talk how all ten men get distinct personas where The Hobbit's dwarves blur together, the young outsider who earns his place, the little girl and her shiftless uncle, Sholay's Viju Khote among the soldiers, Indian cinema's matter-of-fact gore, Chamma Chamma's second life in Moulin Rouge, and why a film this good is nearly impossible to find with synced English subtitles.
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Bollywood Cinema Club is a film podcast from Weirding Way Media, hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, with a rotating table of guest co-hosts. Every episode is one film from Indian cinema that's worth your evening.
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The Bollywood Cinema Club's Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, and Mike White (The Projection Booth) talk how all ten men get distinct personas where The Hobbit's dwarves blur together, the young outsider who earns his place, the little girl and her shiftless uncle, Sholay's Viju Khote among the soldiers, Indian cinema's matter-of-fact gore, Chamma Chamma's second life in Moulin Rouge, and why a film this good is nearly impossible to find with synced English subtitles.
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Bollywood Cinema Club is a film podcast from Weirding Way Media, hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, with a rotating table of guest co-hosts. Every episode is one film from Indian cinema that's worth your evening.
New episodes every Wednesday.
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bollywood-cinema-club/id1662966232
Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZH148q8FUQKTDfB7xFMzU
More from the network → https://weirdingwaymedia.com
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