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Awful and Awesome Ep 226: Thalaivii, Bell Bottom, Only Murders in the Building

The pop culture podcast that isn’t afraid to pop the bubble.

ByNL Team07 Oct, 2021

While talking about the film Bell Bottom:

Rajyasree: How do we know that he’s Bell Bottom? Because he’s wearing bell bottoms and he’s riding a bike outside Red Fort so then we know this is him, not the guy who’s wearing the pencil trousers. That’s Pencil.

Abhinandan: And there’s this other guy Baggy?

Rajyasree: And then his brother is Baggy.

Abhinandan: And there’s a Half Pant? Is there a Chaddi also?

Rajyasree: Chaddi is the one who sells tickets outside that movie theatre y'all used to have in Delhi.

Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen review the films Bell Bottom and Thalaivii; web series Only Murders in the Building and The Morning Show Season 2; Tinder’s short film Closure; the Manyavar controversy; and the new Coca-Cola ad.

PS: Abhinandan and Rajyasree give themselves code names.

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Timecodes

00:01 - Introduction

06:49 - Subscriber letters

09:39 - Bell Bottom

23:42 - The Morning Show Season 2

30:15 - Subscriber letters

34:35 - Coca-Cola ad

36:42 - Thalaivii

44:51 - Subscriber letters

47:44 - Manyavar ad