Spoilers for a key event in the first half of the film; if you’re experienced with Bollywood, it’s nothing you wouldn’t predict. ~~~ I can’t explain why I decided to revisit this time-travel flop from 2008. Maybe 2025 is making me empathize with flops. Maybe I hoped I […]
Even if you don’t watch Indian films, I can promise you that you’ve very probably seen, or at least heard, some of this movie. It gave the world an incredibly infectious song that crossed international borders to appear on tv with The Cramps, on stage with California band […]
Gaddaar is maybe the best Hindi film of 1973, if not the first half of the 1970s, that you probably haven’t seen. Maybe I’m wrong and you already love it as much as I do, but whenever I bring up this movie, I’m mostly met with blank stares […]
The fact that I have to start a discussion of Shalimar (1978) by specifying that this is the English-language version of the film, which is only 60% as long as the Hindi and therefore almost automatically makes less sense than the fuller work, tells you that we are […]
I’m not even sorry about that title. Boom (2003, directed and written by Kaizad Gustad) really is about a group of models behaving badly. But it’s also an artifact of one of the classic paths to stardom in Bollywood: the model-turned-actor. The models in the film have to […]
[somewhat spoiler-y] My current slot to publish at the Gutter falls just a day before the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist festival for snake deities, Naga Panchami, so I take this auspicious coincidence as a sign to bring forward another Indian snake film. If my research is accurate, the first Indian snake […]
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