At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins present another episode of “Bollywood for Beginners” with Sholay (1975) and Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)! “Welcome to the second episode of our Bollywood for Beginners series. We take you back in time […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate the 20th anniversary of Veer Zaara (2004)! “Veer Zara celebrates its 20 year anniversary and Pitu and Beth disagree on basically everything about it. π The only things we agree on: β’ Preity’s cute outfits […]
Iβm not even sorry about that title. Boom (2003, directed and written by Kaizad Gustad) really is about a group of models behaving badly. But itβs also an artifact of one of the classic paths to stardom in Bollywood: the model-turned-actor. The models in the film have to […]
Hera Pheri (1976) does weird things to my sense of time. It is so up my alley that I have rewatched it repeatedly while also wishing it were still out there waiting to be discovered anew. I want to keep it in a perpetual state of having been […]
For years, I have wondered why there is no Bollywood adaptation of Face/Off (1997). The story and the OTT performances seem perfect for the filmi treatment. Bollywood loves the following key elements of this beloved classic: convoluted, unlikely scientific processes, complete with bubbling lab equipment brothers grieving parents […]
Friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs has put together a collection of of her pieces on Asian film artists at Cinebeats! “May is Asian Heritage Month or to be more exact, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. To celebrate I decided to collect links to some of […]