'A major filmmaker got very upset!' - Anupama Chopra, Rahul Desai, Sucharita Tyagi - Film Companion

Anupama Chopra, Rahul Desai, and I used to do a fun segment at Film Companion on Mondays called ‘Let's Talk Movies’. The audience loved it and we used to get some really sweet comments to do it more often. Now that Film Companion has shut its operations I wanted to sit down one last time with them to go down the nostalgia path, talk about our journeys at FC, about the Film Critics Guild and so much more. How do we take the patli gali at the screening when we haven't liked a film, why did Anupama Chopra start Film Companion and so many more fun stories! Watch the full interview now.

0:00 - Highlights
0:29 - The Film Companion Journey
4:21 - Sucharita entering FC
6:13 - Rahul Desai's journey with Film Comapnion
7:35 - Baradwaj Rangan and FC South was strategic?
10:05 - The earlier days of Youtube
12:42 - "A major filmmaker got very upset!"
17:30 - Importance of video reviews on Youtube
20:07 - Reading Comments from old Let's Talk Movies videos
27:54 - Expanding Film Companion
29:54 - About the Film Critics Guild
33:32 - A word on FC and Film Journalism

Location Courtesy - Once Upon A Dine, Khar

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Anupama Chopra (née Chandra) is an Indian author, journalist and film critic who served as the festival director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival from 2015 to 2023.She is also the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion, which offers a curated look at cinema. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, India Today, as well as the Hindustan Times. She also hosted a weekly film review show The Front Row With Anupama Chopra, on Star World.She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic. She presently critiques movies and interviews celebrities for Film Companion.

Sucharita Tyagi is an Indian film critic and former radio jockey. Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, she moved to Mumbai, transitioned into web content in 2015, and recorded weekly review videos for Film Companion. She now has her own YouTube Channel and posts reviews and interviews there.

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Sucharita

[architful]

This year I celebrated my daughter 1st birthday and I swear when I am saying this, you read my comment that too the one I wrote 5 years back, that’s my highlight of the year, I have never felt so good !! I will miss you guys so much !! So so much, thank you for teaching us so much !!

[aparajitadutta]

Petition to make this reunion regular. I am too close to this. No. I. WANT. MORE.

[PopDiveWithVishal]

FC was such an integral part of my weekly YT binge for the love of cinema. Will really miss you guys. ❤

[archanagain]

Why only 35 min... We want 2-3 hours conversation

[fahadjawaid]

thank you so so much for this sucharita.. Coming from Pakistan, I felt included somehow.. You folks are so genuine and kind and I rarely heard any antipakistan rhetoric on Film companion which was so refreshing as my love for hindi movies is eternal.. I really wish it didnt end.. I never thought it would actually..

[PokhrajRoy.]

4:31 Sucharita’s initial reviews were a cultural reset. ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo’ is my favourite.

[RK]

Just imagine Sandeep Reddy Vanga as the 4th participant in this conversation, it would surely become the biggest blockbuster youtube video of all time 😂

[architful]

Imagine it’s middle of the night, you are watching a video of your favourite three people in a really low voice because your daughter and wife is sleeping and you are already so emotional and then you see your name being called upon, that kind of happiness and then I started bouncing everywhere and they both wake up and my wife understood how much it means to me and she hugged me and that kind of feeling is just top notch !!

[SimpforAreason]

I watch Film Companion all the time with lunch or dinner. It feels like a friendly chat where I am actually giving inputs in the conversation. It was the only review I watched to decide whether to watch a movie. Every Friday I searched the web for your reviews. I will miss FC.

[vansharora]

i know one guy who's probably weeping crying and feeling all sad is Youtube Comment star Pokhraj😂😂

[nibedita]

FC closed 😢 Now i dont know what to watch anymore. I am lost. Will continue to watch Sucharita!!!

[saibharadwaj]

My most favourite comment on the channel is "Woh raat apun 2 baje tak piya, Rahul Desai ne achcha review diya"

[SMon-whom]

It's like one last retirement party of my teachers. I intend to start my own YT channel where I review movies sometime this year. I've mostly been influenced by Sucharita, Anupama & Jammy (in that order) and I hope I be even half as good as them when I debut on my channel. Fingers crossed. Thank you for everything. ❤

[VKLight]

Thank you for putting this together Sucharita. I got my closure now and I can live In peace . ❤

[PokhrajRoy.]

Rahul Desai YouTube Channel would be quite something especially with the scheduling. Although I’m low-key excited about the Comments section on that channel turning into an Open Mic

[lagnajeetdash]

Transfer of baton, Sucharita is such a worthy successor. Theory of natural selection the best ones thrive 😊

[mohdbilalabbasi]

Great to see Anupama and Sucharita again

[sdoyle]

The first FC film review I ever watched in 2015 was a “Not a movie review”.. and FC became a regular YT watch for me. I do watch Sucharita for the movie reviews nowadays but at the same time I miss the FC reviews on Fridays! I live in US, and movies, their discussions and interviews help connect me to India. I will miss FC and the place it had created in my life. Wish you all the best in all your future endeavors!

[redoyislam]

Anupama ma'am please don’t stop reviewing at least.
I love listening to you so much.
It's really very heart breaking to know that I can't hear you anymore.

I'm with you guys from 2017 when I was in seventh standard and Annu from 2015 or so. I grew up listening to you.

[muhammedkhandookhee]

Really enjoyed this interview and seeing you interact with Anu mam again... I am definitely going to miss Film Companion, it was my go to YouTube channel.... Also I watched this video, whilst having my lunch at the office, all the way from South Africa ❤