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 […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins look at the career of filmi superstar, Tabu! “We love Tabu! And so does everyone else apparently. What’s not to love? She’s strong, fearless, complex, talented and plays complicated characters with an […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins “time travel between 1950s Hollywood and 1990s Bollywood to discuss two movies that are same same but different–Sabrina (1954) and its Hindi adaptation Yeh Dillagi (1994). Olé Olé indeed!” Listen/watch here.
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss “Feroz’s Dharmatma, his 1975 adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972). Pitu approaches her first viewing of Dharmatma as a Godfather fan and especially likes its twist on handling Michael […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch M. F. Husain’s Gaja Gamini (2000) and Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (2004): “We are not aMUSEd. Ugh, these movies. It’s Beth’s fault that we watched them, and we’re both glad to have finally […]
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 […]
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