In this episode of The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, Rajyasree Sen and Abhinandan Sekhri discuss Sonchiriya, the Oscars, Three Identical Strangers, and more.
Rajyasree kicks off the podcast with the recently-concluded Academy Awards. Abhinandan asks her what was good about the show this year. She praises the event’s opening with Queen’s performance. “It was really nice to see how much the audience get involved,” she adds. Addressing the outrage over Green Book winning Best Picture, she says, “I did like it a lot. I didn’t understand why people weren’t happy about it.”
The conversation moves to recently-released movie Sonchiriya. Both Abhinandan and Rajyasree liked the film. Abhinandan says, “The use of slow motion was unnecessarily long … Music was completely unremarkable … the art direction and costumes were outstanding.”
Next up is two documentaries: Three Identical Strangers and Leaving Neverland, which is about the alleged child sexual abuse by Michael Jackson. Abhinandan addresses young listeners of the podcast, explaining why Jackson is still popular despite the allegations, as described in several opinion pieces following the documentary’s release. He says: “You can’t comprehend how big Michael Jackson was … He is the basis of an entire pop culture movement.”
For this and much more, listen up!
References
Trailer of Sonchiriya
Sucker by Jonas Brothers
Trailer of Leaving Neverland
It’s Too Late to Cancel Michael Jackson
After Leaving Neverland, What Do We Do With Michael Jackson?
Clip from The Daily Show by Trevor Noah
Produced by Kartik Nijhawan, edited by Umrav Singh, and recorded by Anil Kumar.
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