Required Viewing 09: Laapataa Ladies

Two brides in matching red veils board the same crowded train in 2001, and only one of them gets off at the right stop. Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies (2024), produced by Aamir Khan and India's official Oscar submission, turns a village mix-up into a comedy of mistaken identity: Sparsh Shrivastava's Deepak goes looking for the wife he lost, Nitanshi Goel's Phool waits on a railway platform for someone to come and find her, and Pratibha Ranta's Jaya quietly makes the most of becoming someone else, with Ravi Kishan's police inspector never far behind.

Dr. David D. Perlmutter joins Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, to talk watching a film from another culture to learn from it, mistaken identity as a core comedy principle, why Indian cinema has no small parts, Hindi remakes of Hollywood films, and so much more.

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The Kulturecast is a film and culture podcast from Weirding Way Media, hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, alongside a rotating table of guest co-hosts. Each week digs into where film and culture meet — and how each one bends the other. Now home to sub-feeds including Required Viewing: A 360° Film Study with Dr. David D. Perlmutter.

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