123: Crisis on Infinite Singhams: Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe with Devin Bruce

Bollywood is For Lovers

Sooryavanshi has finally unloaded itself into theatres and our good friend and cinephile Devin Bruce has dropped by to discuss Rohit Shetty’s ethically questionable Cop Universe.

Show notes:

Heads up, one of these films deals with sexual violence.

• Devin's in the three-timers club
• Singham is the most important being that has ever existed
• Rohit Shetty's Cop Universe (we haven't seen Sooryavanshi yet)
• Singham
• When Indian action movies get memeified
• Buford T. Justice is actually in Smokey and the Bandit, I apologize to everyone this offended. Walking Tall is about Sheriff Buford Pusser
• Backpfeifengesicht, a "face that should be slapped"
• Pervasive police corruption and brutality in Hindi film
• Singham Returns

(INTERVAL "Singham" from Singham)

• Singham's relationship with '80s American action flicks
• "Copaganda"
• Matt's "Bad Cop, Bad Cop" list on letterboxd
• Singham vs. Dabangg, which is more fascist?
• "Ranveer Ching Returns"
• Simmba
• "Aankh Marey"
• The real-life case that inspired Simmba and Delhi Crime (cw, sexual assault)
• Adam Curtis: "There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed"

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