Filmi March Madness!
The Gutter’s own Beth has once again set up Filmi March Madness! This year vote for your favorite Vamps and Villainesses! Vote in the sweet sixteen round here!
Chandra Mukhi (1993)
If you like alien princesses, dance routines in bike shorts, and murder by picnic baskets, this is the film for you! The late 1980s and early 1990s were a terrible time in Hindi cinema. The explanation I’ve heard is that more and more people owned VCRs and bought […]
“Sugar and Spice but Not All Things Nice”
Friend of the Gutter Aditi Sen writes about cakes in Hindi movies for The Hindu. “I have heard this all of my life, “Follow your dreams, never give up on your passion.” Honestly, I have had no idea what my passion is. Sure, I love Hindi cinema and […]
Never smile at a crocodile: Khoon Bhari Mang
In the real world, I generally think vigilante justice and conceptually literal revenge are a bad idea. So why does Khoon Bhari Maang, a 1988 Bollywood remake of (and improvement on) the 1983 Australian miniseries Return to Eden, make me abandon my own moral code? Why is it so fun […]
Demon Seed: Rudraksh
Rudraksh (2004) is a famously terrible Bollywood movie. Since I first started watching Hindi films in 2005, I have read multiple blog posts gleefully detailing its shortcomings, and an Indian comedy duo made further mincemeat out of it in an episode of their recent series “Pretentious Movie Reviews”: […]
So Many Musicals!
The Vulture has a list of fifty swell-looking non-Holllywood, non-English musicals for your perusal!
The Cultural Gutter 