Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Giovanna Rampazza and Babu Patel, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.
This year, we are proud to announce Indian Summer, a fortnight looking at two of the Indian films on the list. We hope to make this an annual event. This year, we’ll be covering Rajkumar Hirani’s PK and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Rang De Basanti. This week, we’re discussing the first of those two films, PK.
In the middle of the desert, a mysterious stranger arrives from a far away land. When events conspire to strand the visitor in this strange land, he makes a desperate attempt to get home. Along the way, he asks tough and probing questions about the bizarre world in which he has found himself.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 11th August 2018.
- PK at The Internet Movie Database.
- Rob Cain at Forbes on whether Aamir Khan can be described as the biggest movie star in the world financially, October 2017.
- Rob Cain at Forbes on whether Aamir Khan can be described as the biggest movie star in the world culturally, October 2017.
- Rob Cain at Forbes on the box office strengths of Bollywood stars like Aamir Khan, December 2017.
- Brad Brevet at ComingSoon on audiences asking for refunds after seeing Ben Stiller in Greenberg, April 2010.
- Shalvi Mangaokar at Hindustan Times on reports that Aamir Khan is learning Bhojpuri for the role, April 2013.
- Madhu Purnima Kishwar at FirstPost on some of the controversy around PK‘s portrayal of Hinduism, January 2015.
- Maseeh Rahman at The Guardian on the religious controversy around PK, January 2015.
- Aamir Khan requests that Prime Minister Modi watch PK in The Indian Express, December 2014.
- Baradwaj Rangan at The Hindu wonders who is really offended by PK, January 2015.
- The BBC on self-flagellation in Catholicism, November 2009.
- David Berman on religion and madness in the Journal of Religion and Health, Autumn 2006.
- The BBC reports on mass conversions of Christians and Muslims to Hinduism, December 2014.
- The BBC reports on clashes between the authorities and local gurus in India, November 2014.
- Jane Coaston at Vox on how white Christian Americans practice their own “identity politics”, March 2018.
- James Fell at Body for Wife on the use and popularity of the insult “low-t soy boy”, May 2018.
- Michelle Dudash at Men’s Journal on the impact of soy on testosterone levels, August 2018.
- Sanjay Dutt discusses the trials and tribulations around his gun ownership with The Telegraph, October 1996.
- Puja Changoiwala at the BBC on how Sanjay Dutt spent his time in prison, February 2016.
- The BBC on the controversy around Sanju, the biography of Sanjay Dutt, July 2018.
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