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Awful and Awesome Ep 216: Toofaan, How to Become a Tyrant, Cannes Film Festival
The pop culture podcast that isn’t afraid to pop the bubble.
Talking about the docuseries How to Become a Tyrant:
Abhinandan: We will talk about a series called How to Become a Tyrant.
Rajyasree: Which is about Abhinandan.
Abhinandan: It’s a six-part series.
Rajyasree: He’s written it. It’s about his life.
Abhinandan: No one will believe you that I’m a tyrant. No one!
Rajyasree: Shall I tell them how you threw a chair at me once?
Abhinandan: Tyrants don’t do that. Tyrants will just…
Rajyasree: Kill!
Abhinandan: Yeah.
Rajyasree: Once you tried to run me over but I was so quick. I just stepped another way.
Abhinandan: That’s why I had to buy a new car because I had to re-tyre.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the film Toofaan; Netflix docuseries How to Become a Tyrant; the trailer of the film Mimi; and the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival.
PS: Abhinandan and Rajyasree talk about their favourite rain songs.
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Timecodes
00.01 - Introduction
03.34 - Subscriber letters
06.09 - Toofan
24.38 - Subscriber letters
36.00 - How to become a tyrant
47.22 - Cannes Film Festival
54.23 - Subscribers letters
55.53 - Mimi trailer
59.24 - Rain songs
References
Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant by Randall Wood, Carmine DeLuca
Why Bollywood stopped romancing the rain
Pegasus Project: How Phones of Journalists, Ministers, Activists May Have Been Used to Spy On Them
Newslaundry Hindi website and Hindi newsletter.
Recorded and produced by Jude Weston, edited by Samarendra K Dash.
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