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Pick of the Day: Drunk Bollywood (in NYC) 4/26

March 19, 2024

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Sure, you’ve seen Drunk History and multiple iterations of things being recounted or reread or re-enacted while inebriated, but it’s pretty new territory to give that treatment to the multiplex cinema of India, better known as Bollywood.

Drunk Bollywood Live aims to do just that with a live staged reading of a celebrated Bollywood production, but done with, as one might have guessed, a drunk cast. For this latest edition of Drunk Bollywood Live, they’re tackling big budget action hit Main Hoon Na! starring one of Bollywood’s biggest action stars Shah Rukh Khan.

Even if you’re not well versed in India cinema, we have a hard time imagining this wouldn’t be one hell of a good time. This next Drunk Bollywood Live is set for Fri. Apr. 26th at 7:30PM. Tickets are $31 and you best go get them here.

TCB Debriefing 9/15/23: Joe Pera Special, Derrick Brown Album, Spaghetti Fest, Thank You For Coming, Conan on Trump, Hasan Minhaj

September 15, 2023

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1. The most gentle soul in comedy, Joe Pera, is releasing his very first special, self-produced and set to be released on YouTube on Fri Oct. 6th. True to his spirit, it’ll be called Slow & Steady and very likely be the sort of soothing and surprising glee with the way the world is these days. Please enjoy Joe’s announcement here.

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2. The multi-talented, multi-faceted, very funny and very evocative Derrick Brown has just come out with his first album, A Close Shave with Heaven, fresh off the presses from Pretty Good Friends. We’ll fill you in on Brown’s synchronous blend of comedy & poetry soon, but enjoy the record (and amazing cover) as it has dropped today (wherever you get your comedy albums).

3. The Elysian‘s Spaghetti Festival (AKA Forget About Spaghetti Fest) is set to return with completely original new, never before seen comedy productions come Nov. 1st-11th. Tickets, details, and line-up to come soon!

4. One of the gala films at TIFF is a Bollywood sex comedy that takes aim at the patriarchy cheekily called Thank You For Coming (Variety). A female empowerment comedy hailing from Bollywood is a pretty big deal and we hope Thank You For Coming finds its way to American theaters soon.

5. Preach, Conan O’Brien, preach.

6. Hasan Minhaj admitting to embellishing his stories in service of comedy is actually very much at the heart of the art form of comedy itself; artistic expressions that are, above all, in service of the joke.

Hasan Minhaj Launches 186K Films with Bollywood Dance Competition Comedy “For The Culture”

December 9, 2021

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(via Deadline)

When the cancellation announcement for Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj came, it was heartbreaking and seemingly being entirely out-of-left field. We thought that Minhaj was on the forefront of where topical/late night comedy was heading and it kind of gave us a spark of new vitality in the genre. Netflix and their ever-mysterious metrics seem to disagree.

Thankfully, that was only a milestone in the rise of Hasan as he has gotten a major role on season 2 of The Morning Show on Apple TV+ and, now, is pushing forward with his own production arm, 186K, with his go-to collaborator, Prashanth Venkataramanujam. Minhaj already hit the ground running with a feature comedy that is focused on competitive Bollywood dancing called For The Culture.

Other than Prashanth and Hasan co-writing the movie, there are no other details for it at this time, but we can only hope that this is yet another milestone in a set of several grand milestones for Hasan. We truly have a hard time imagining that Hasan put out Homecoming King and doing Patriot Act and then not doing something even bigger in scope than all of that combined. We hope that 186K might be that very thing.

Relativity Media To Do Indian Remakes of Their Film Properties Including “Masterminds” with Zach Galifianakis

March 25, 2015

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(via Variety)

China is not the only giant film market that American companies are trying to break into. India’s got a booming film business and Relativity Media is going to attempt to bridge their way into it with Indian remakes which will include the heist comedy Masterminds starring Zach Galifianakis and more.

Other comedies that could potentially get a similar remake are Take Me Home Tonight, Movie 43, Hector and the Search for Happiness, and Don Jon.

One can only wonder will look like with Indian stars, done in Indian languages, and done in the Bollywood arena where CGI effects go crazy and singing and dancing are still very popular.