The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 144: Golden Globes, Inside Edge, citizenship law ad campaigns, and more

Talking about the popularity of Punjabi songs:

Abhinandan: My Tamil niece and nephew got married. I went there and I was aghast that they were dancing to Punjabi songs. I said, “If these guys can dance to punjabi music, we are fucked.” There is no one that can withstand that onslaught…

Rajyasree: (Interrupting) But no Bengali will dance to Punjabi music. They are too classy and cultured.

Abhinandan: Because your steps would be just…

Abhinandan starts singing in Bengali (read gibberish). 

Abhinandan and Rajyasree burst out laughing. 

This and a lot more as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globes speech, Cadbury, Licious and Canara HSBC ads, and the BJP’s ad campaign defending the citizenship law. They also talk about Season 2 of Inside Edge, and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome.

Awful and Awesome letters: On the rights of transgender people

References

Ricky Gervais Golden Globes speech

Cadbury ad 

Licious ad

Canara HSBC’s campaign

Inside Edge Season 2

BJP pro-CAA ad

BJP’s pro-CAA film with artists

Caroline Cossey

Produced by Parikshit Sanyal and Ivneet Kaur, recorded by Anil Kumar, edited by Umrav Singh.

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