Celebrate Our Cinemas Episode 3: Asim Chaudhry

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate Our Cinemas is a brand new limited edition podcast series, brought to you by Empire in association with Meerkat Movies from Compare The Market. Each week, Chris Hewitt will sit down with a notable guest from the world of film and dig deep into their cinema-going history. What was the first film they remember seeing? What film made them laugh so hard that tears were streaming down their face? What's their favourite cinema? And, perhaps most important of all, what's their snack of choice? In this week's episode, Chris has a fun chat with Asim Chaudhry, who once again plays the iconic Chabuddy G in People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan, the big-screen spin-off from the beloved BBC sitcom. Asim tells Chris all about his formative cinematic experiences growing up in Hounslow, the time Paranormal Activity nearly got him in trouble with U.S. Customs, and he talks about the movie he thinks might just be the greatest of all time. Its identity may surprise you. Oh, and do be advised: there's some fairly adult language in this one, and a smidgen of literal toilet humour. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the latest episode of Celebration of Cinema
0:20.2	or Celebrate Our Cinemas, depending on what you prefer, in association with Miracat
0:25.9	Movies From Compare The Market, it's the podcast which sees me talk every week to someone
0:31.8	from the world of film and ask them about their own memories of going to the cinema
0:36.4	over the years.
0:37.7	The movies that made them laugh, the movies that made them cry, the movies that made
0:41.7	them jump up and terror, that sort of thing.
0:45.0	This week's guest is the wonderful, wickedly funny, one and only, Asim Chowdry, star of
0:51.1	people just do nothing big in Japan.
0:54.2	That's the big screen spin-off or escalation if you prefer, of people just do nothing,
0:59.8	the long-running BBC sitcom in which Chowdry stars as Jibadi G, the iconic and slightly
1:05.4	hapless wannabe entrepreneur, slash manager of Corrupt FM.
1:10.1	You'll never guess where they go in the movie, by the way, folks.
1:13.7	Japan.
1:14.7	Decades up.
1:16.7	Wasn't obvious.
1:18.2	And Japan is where we start in this interview in which Chowdry also talks about the formative
1:22.0	experiences of his movie going life, the films that made him laugh, cry and, you know,
1:27.8	the other one as well.
1:28.8	I would speak to which he talks about that time paranormal activity, almost got him into
1:33.3	deep trouble with US customs, and we almost started business together.
1:39.2	You'll have to listen to find out what and why.
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