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Podcast: Filmi Ladies
Episode: Filmi Ladies episode 187: Shashi Kapoor Birthday Special: Siddhartha and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Description: No mere Merchant and Ivory for us: we're going much further afield with Siddhartha (1972), based on the Herman Hesse novel and directed by American Conrad Rooks, and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), directed and written by Brits Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi. These films have more in common than we thought, but one of them is much less irritating than the other. Either way, these are films that only Shashi Kapoor could have done, and we are so glad he gave them a try. What a career!Both films...