The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 181: Criminal UK, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, and more
The pop culture podcast that isn’t afraid to pop the bubble.
Talking about the Bhojpuri Rap ‘Bambai Main Ka Ba’:
Rohit: Abhinandan, I’m not being a linguist because Bhojpuri is not my first language but it’s not Bambai Main Kaaba, it is Bambai Main Ka Ba.
Abhinandan: Oh, I thought Kaaba.
Rajyasree: Kaaba, as in the Islamic structure?
Abhinandan: As Jagjit Singh said, “Kaabe se parda mat uthao varna wa bhi vahi...”
Rohit: No, no, no! “Khuda ke waaste parda na kaabe se uthaa zaalim.”
Rajyasree: Even that’s incorrect! Very good!
Rohit: Oh, my God! Brilliant! So, we are on top of the things already.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri, Rajyasree Sen and Newslaundry subscriber Rohit Mehrotra discuss the series Criminal UK, PariWar, and Tehran; Manoj Bajpayee's Bhojpuri rap Bambai Main Ka Ba; Dua Lipa’s New Rules for Covid Dating; Ali Sethi’s Pehla Qadam; and Mariah Carey’s memoir.
Tune in!
Timecodes
0:08: Introduction
03:36: Bambai Main Ka Ba
07:49: New Rules For Covid Dating by Dua Lipa
14:42: Pehla Qadam by Ali Sethi
19:44: Paar Chanaa De by Shilpa Rao and Noori
29:34: Letters from listeners
31:57: Criminal UK Season 2
38:01: PariWar
49:13: Oppo ad #BeTheInfinite
55:35: Cred Series
1:00:55: Tehran
1:07:08: The Meaning of Mariah Carey
References
Dua Lipa: New Rules For Covid Dating
Shilpa Rao & Noori: Paar Chanaa De
Saieen Zahoor, Abrar-ul-Haq: Allah Hu
Noori and Saieen Zahoor: Aik Alif
Recorded and produced by Jude Weston, edited by Samarendra K Dash.
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