The Jeff & Ishan Show #10 –Jolly LLB 3

Grab some eggnog and a hunk of fruitcake, curl up by the fire and watch our 10th review. Always our goal. Took us a year but we made it.

We close out 2025 with Jolly LLB 3, a 2025 Hindi-language courtroom comedy starring Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi, directed by Subhash Kapoor, written by Kapoor and Nandan Singh, streaming now on Netflix. Rated TV-14. Our original theme music by Ano Malee.

It’s the third installment in the Jolly series of courtroom comedies…You do not have to have seen the first two. They are standalone films, but in the first one, we have a lawyer whose nickname is Jolly…The second movie is about another lawyer in a different city whose nickname is also Jolly. Jolly 3 puts them together for twice the–jollity. Double the Jollys, double the fun…One last thing before we go. Do you guys like my pajamas?

Unmute and Rock to the FIIG Film Festival

Hey you, current or former Fulbrighters who’ve made a film about South or Central Asia in the past 5 years: the Fulbright India Interest Group (FIIG), sponsored by the Fulbright Association, has launched another annual film festival just for you after last year’s tremendous success with our inaugural fest. Your Fulbright research/teaching award doesn’t have to have been in Central or South Asia for you to submit your film.

Registration is FREE. The festival will be online, also FREE, and open to the worldwide general public for max exposure of your work.

Deadline January 30, 2026.

Apply here.

The Jeff & Ishan Show #9 – Ek Chatur Naar

Watch our review of Ek Chatur Naar (One Clever Woman), a 2025 Hindi-language comedy-thriller starring Divya Khosla Kumar and Neil Nitin Mukesh, written by Siddhaarth Goel, Jay Master and Deepak Nirman, directed by Umesh Shukla, streaming now on Netflix.

It’s the kind of movie I love most, a comedy with a social message about oppressed people stickin’ it to the man. It reminded me of some of my favorite films in this tradition, My Man Godfrey from the US, 1936, the 1956 Indian film Jagte Raho starring Raj Kapoor, and the 2019 Hoichoi limited streaming series Astey, Ladies (Salon de Paris) written and directed by Abhijit Chowdhury. That’s one of our favorites as well.

The Jeff & Ishan Show #8 Halloween Edition – Virupaksha

We had a blast making our Halloween edition reviewing Indian horror film Virupaksha (Formless Eyes), a 2023 Telugu-language film starring Sai Dharam Tej, Samyuktha and Harsh Roshan, written by Bandreddi Sukumar and directed by Karthik Dandu, streaming now on Netflix. We hope you have as much fun watching it as we had making it. Hello India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the USA!

Surya returns to his ancestral village for a brief visit.   Everything’s going great until somehow a curse on the village is activated and people start dying by suicide.  Surya starts investigating because he wants to save the village by solving who placed the curse, why they did it, and what he can do to stop it before it’s too late . . . I love that Surya’s two main allies in fighting evil are a man of medicine and a sadhu, so he’s got science and spirituality on his side. . . Harsh Roshan might be one of my favorite Indian actors.

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