Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about actor/director Feroz Khan! “We love his stylish, action-packed, surprisingly complex and nonjudgmental films in which MORE IS MORE! Or as Pitu phrases it, ‘Why half-a*s anything when you can go for the jugular?’ This episode focuses on Qurbani, […]
Shah Rukh Khan is back and the Filmi Ladies (Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins) are here to discuss ! “We saw [Pathaan] and we loved it! Highlights of our conversation: • his hair • loving Dimple Kapadia • being pleasantly surprised by John Abraham • taking joy […]
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 […]
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins joins Pitu Sultan and special guest Amrita from Khandaan Podcast to talk party songs on the Filmi Ladies Podcast! “”Party song” is a concept we all think we understand, but this decades-old building block of Hindi cinema deserves a closer look. The one […]
Dobaaraa, a Hindi-language film released earlier this year, stands in intriguing contrast to mainstream Indian cinema’s habits, not just in how this compelling remake handles it source material but also just more generally as a contemporary project. It is one of only a handful of Indian adaptations of […]
The Gutter’s own Beth writes about the 1970s masala movie, Shamshera, at Beth Loves Bollywood! “For all the complaints that Shamshera is old-fashioned…well yes, it is, gloriously so, beautifully executing a known formula with a weariness and bitterness that are perfectly suited to right now. As I watched, […]
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