Mississippi Masala with Durba Mitra
The Bechdel Cast
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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This week, Jamie, Caitlin, and special guest Durba Mitra discuss Mississippi Masala (1991). Check out Durba's essay on the film at https://www.publicbooks.org/mississippi-masala-at-30-revisiting-a-film-classic-in-authoritarian-times/
Follow Durba on Instagram at @thirdworldwomen and check out her new book, The Future That Was -- https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691233604/the-future-that-was
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | On the Bechdelcast, the questions asked if movies have women in them. |
| 0:09.8 | Are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, or do they have individualism? |
| 0:14.5 | The patriarchy's effing vast. |
| 0:17.1 | Start changing it with the Bechdel cast. |
| 0:20.5 | Yep, just driving along with my auntie with 25 gallons of milk in the car. |
| 0:26.2 | Okay, and as with every person does this in every single movie and it stresses me out every |
| 0:31.9 | single time, why don't you turn your body around 180 degrees while still fully accelerating, giving every audience member |
| 0:40.3 | a panic attack, and then, and then scree-crish, crash. |
| 0:46.1 | Collide with the hottest living man on the planet. |
| 0:49.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.3 | Yes. |
| 0:50.8 | God, what a meat cute. |
| 0:52.3 | I was like, well done. |
| 0:54.0 | Well done, everybody. I liked it. |
| 0:56.2 | It was great. It was great. That would be such a great way to meet somebody. |
| 1:00.6 | I would not call this a car accident. I had a car blooper, I would say. I very lightly tapped someone's rear. I was going like one mile an hour, tap someone's rear bumper. |
| 1:14.2 | Just a kiss, really. It was just a little smooch. Yeah. Bumper to bumper smooch. And there was a man |
| 1:19.8 | involved like the other driver was a man, but I did not start dating him. So. Oh, someone kisses the back of my car. |
| 1:28.8 | I'm just like, you know what? |
| 1:30.3 | Life's hard. |
| 1:31.4 | And it's like keep driving, keep driving, whatever. |
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