Filming Ladies: Party Song!
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk party songs! Listen here.
Filmi Ladies: “Dunki!”
At the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins disucss the recently released Dunki and the films of director Rajkumar Hirani! “Pitu saw and loved Dunki; it’s not playing near Beth, so she doesn’t pipe up much until we get to a bigger discussion […]
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: Kal Naa Ho 20th Anniversary
On the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate 20 years of Kal No Haa! “Commemorating 20 years of Shahrukh’s turn as a tragic angel/Mary Poppins character in Kal Ho Na Ho! Borrowing a fair bit from two Hrishikesh Mukherjee films–Anand and Bawarchi […]
Filmi Ladies: Dance Dance!
On the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss “two films in which dancing is a plot element: Disco Dancer and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. That’s about all they have in common, other than being fairly lightweight concoctions that we enjoy very much. Episode […]
Filmi Ladies: “Spooky Season with Manichitrathazhu and Bhool Bhulaiyaa”
Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins has some spooky business to attend to in this episode of the Filmi Ladies Podcast! “This Halloween, we bring you the very famous and much beloved Manichitrathazhu, along with its Hindi remake Bhool Bhulaiyaa. Even though they’re technically not stories […]
The Cultural Gutter 