California-based Himanshu Joglekar describes his podcast Love of Cinema, currently in its third season, as “a labour of love”. Completing two years this month, the podcast began as a way of having long-form discussions about the movies he grew up watching with the people who made them. “I used to love watching interviews and shows on Hindi and regional films, but most of those conversations were centred around promotions of new films or books and I found that the discussions [never] went beyond a certain depth,” says Joglekar, who works full time in tech. A conversation with his wife one weekend threw up the possibility of creating something himself to fill that gap. There were bound to be at least a handful of people out there, he believed, who would share his interests.

He remembers [using Twitter to approach] people whose works he had long admired. Joglekar’s very first episode was with Atul Sabharwal whose 2010 crime television show Powder he had been a fan of. Writer Yasser Usman was yet another early guest, his episode prompted by the fact that Joglekar was reading Usman’s biography, Rajesh Khanna: The Untold Story of India’s First Superstar, at the time.