Awful and Awesome Ep 209: Mandela, Nomadland, The Disciple

While talking about the character Fern in Nomadland:

Abhinandan: See now! If I was a plant, if I was a tree, I would be a soli-tree. (laughs) But you see…

Rajyasree: This is why you’re solitary, na. Because you crack these jokes.

Abhinandan: So, everyone leaves. They say “live on your own”.

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 films Mandela, The Disciple and Oscar winner Nomadland; the Switzerland tourism ad featuring Roger Federer and Robert De Niro, and more.

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Timecodes

00.01 - Introduction

03:47 - Nomadland

16.15 - Subscriber letters

22:16 - Mandela

31.42 - Tourism ad

35.12 - Subscriber letters

38.50 - Usha ad

43.26 - The Disciple

54.32 - Subscriber letters

56:07 - Payal Rohatgi

References

Mandela

Nomadland

Nomadland by Jessica Bruder

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A Single Man

The Disciple

Tourism ad

Usha ad

Modi ji WE feel so helpless - Payal Rohatgi

After Twitter Suspension, Instagram Takes Down Kangana Ranaut's Post on COVID-19

Newslaundry’s Hindi website and Hindi newsletter

Recorded and produced by Jude Weston, edited by Satish Kumar.

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