Filming Ladies: Party Song!
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk party songs! Listen here.
Darr: Frightfully Great
Of all the things to admire about Darr (1993) (trailer)—its uncompromising tension and insistence on menace, the superstar-confirming work by a young Shah Rukh Khan, its creative sequences of characters’ imaginations, the wonderful use of background score—my favorite is how this film disrupts its maker’s own persona. Respected, […]
Filmi Ladies: Superstar Series #12: Parveen Babi
At the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss the life and career of filmi superstar, Parveen Babi! “For such a short career on screen, the glamorous, charismatic Parveen Babi is indelible. In this episode, we focus on two films, Deewaar and Rang […]
Filmi Ladies: Baaziger 30th Anniversary
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins on the classic Hindi film, Baaziger (1993): “We are celebrating Baazigar’s 30th Anniversary with this episode! 30 years of Machiavellian Shah Rukh Khan, vendetta, Abbas Mastaan’s clever direction, big hair, colored contact lenses, weepy Rakhee, race […]
Curses, Creatures, and Creeps: the Ramsay Brothers and Purana Mandir
No one will be more surprised than I am that I enjoy Ramsay Brothers films. Since the 1970s, this family’s output has occupied a special place in Indian horror cinema. Working primarily in Hindi, the seven Ramsays made over 30 films (not quite all of them horror). For […]
Filmi Ladies: “Dimple Kapadia”
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their series on Bollywood’s female superstars with a look at Dimple Kapadia! “Some may argue that Dimple Kapadia doesn’t quite count as a superstar of Hindi cinema, but she’s so interesting that we couldn’t resist! […]
The Cultural Gutter 