[Spoilers!] You can tell from the title: The Burning Train is a huge disaster movie imperiling half of the Bombay film industry’s contemporary A-listers, and I couldn’t be more delighted. Pick up your #2 pencils and answer the following: 1) What is the maximum possible speed of our […]
After 21 years of watching lots and lots of Indian films, my life is still tragically underpopulated by Indian secret agent movies. Fortunately, there is at least one reliable purveyor: director Ravikant Nagaich, whom we haven’t seen around on the Gutter for ages (shame on me!). After debuting […]
I want to write this as a flowchart, dividing readers into those who are familiar with mainstream Hindi cinema, those who are not, those who have seen Merry Christmas (2024) already, and those who have not. Instead, please forgive me the list-y nature of this that I hope […]
This movie raises an eternal question: is this plot Bollywood or is it Dickens?
Note: technically I have read little Dickens, so we’re going on ✨VIBES✨!
Years ago, when we were both new to Indian cinema, Gutter contributor Keith Allison mentioned to me that he was hoping to find a Bollywood film that also featured ninjas. This is the kind of question I love: its answer could just as easily be “of course there’s […]
I don’t have official permission from everyone at the Gutter to speak on their behalf, but I suspect I’m correct in saying that this publication’s position on a story about a roguish criminal taking the place of a goody-goody police officer of whom he is coincidentally an exact […]
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