At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins start as series looking the seven deadly sins in cinema. First up: Pride. “We discuss what it means to be prideful and why that’s bad through the characters in our chosen movies Kalyug (1981) and Raincoat (2004). Both films are film adaptations of literary source material. Kalyug is based on the mighty epic Mahabharata and Raincoat is based on O Henry’s short story ‘The Gift Of The Magi.’ While Kalyug has giant egos, warring families and machinations, Raincoat explores the softer side of a bruised ego and the little fibs and lies we tell to soothe ourselves and others.

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