This episode, Bollywood Drafts is taking a break from the usual format. Your host and moderator Manish welcomes Aahil for a casual ranking of their 10 favorite directors. They each picked ten and chose a film to represent that director's career. The conversation includes heavyweights and more lowkey filmmakers, and brings up nostalgia, innovation, and just pure emotions around film!

The players:

Aahil (@vertigay314)

Manish (@vertigay314)

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Theme music: "Yeh ishq hai," Jab We Met (2007, T-Series, music by Pritam and lyrics by Irshad Kamil)

Intermission/outtro music: "Dhoom tana," Om Shanti Om (2007, T-Series, music by Vishal Shekhar and lyrics by Javed Akhtar)

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After celebrating inspiring stories about women's perseverance in the previous episode, Bollywood Drafts is flipping the coin. It's time for the Women's Wrongs Top 10, with movies about bad girls, women committing crimes, and taking their lives in their own hands. Through any means necessary! Join host and moderator Manish (@vertigay314) in finding the top 10 "women's wrongs" movies as we close out International Women's History Month!

The players:

Erin (@erinefraser)

Erin on Instagram: @balconycocktails

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Meher (@meherness)

Meher on Instagram: @mehermanda

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Nim (@MapleBrownie)

Nim on Instagram: @MapleBrownie

Up next: Action/Crime Top 10

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Theme music: "Yeh ishq hai," Jab We Met (2007, T-Series, music by Pritam and lyrics by Irshad Kamil)

Intermission/outtro music: "I want to make love to you," Aitraaz (2004, Sony Music/Tips, music by Himesh Reshamiya and lyrics by Sameer)

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For Women's History Month this March, Bollywood Drafts is doing a two-part episode celebrating women's stories: both the inspiring and the salacious! For part 1, host and moderator Manish looks for the top 13 "women's rights" movies. These are films about liberation, independence, freedom, and survival. With movies across all genres, this category is wide open and expansive!

The players:

LLN (@ThisIsLLN)

LLN on Letterboxd: thisislln

Shivani (@shivani510)

Shivani on Letterboxd: Shivani_T

Stacey (@bollywriter)

Stacey @ BollySpice: https://bollyspice.com/

Stacey on Instagram/Threads: @staceybollywriter1111

BollySpice on Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/@bollyspicemagazine

Yamini (@pappuchaaru)

Yamini on Instagram: @ya.minute

Up next: Women's Wrongs Top 13

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Theme music: "Yeh ishq hai," Jab We Met (2007, T-Series, music by Pritam and lyrics by Irshad Kamil)

Intermission/outtro music: "Kangana re," Paheli (2005, T-Series, music by MM Kreem and lyrics by Gulzar)

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