The fact that I have to start a discussion of Shalimar (1978) by specifying that this is the English-language version of the film, which is only 60% as long as the Hindi and therefore almost automatically makes less sense than the fuller work, tells you that we are […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate the 20th anniversary of Veer Zaara (2004)! “Veer Zara celebrates its 20 year anniversary and Pitu and Beth disagree on basically everything about it. 😆 The only things we agree on: • Preity’s cute outfits […]
Celebrate Diwali with Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins with a special filmi Q&A! “If you get together with cinematically-minded loved ones in the festive season, whatever your festivities are, these questions can make for great conversation!” Listen here.
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch Aditya Sarpotdar’s horror comedy, Munjya! “We talk about another good movie from the Maddock horror verse: Munjya. Points discussed: • Green flag heroes • Suhas Joshi as Aaji 😍 • Entitled boys • Marathi Gollum • The […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins look at the career of filmi superstar, Meenakshi Sheshadri! “We are firmly in the 80s now as Meenakshi Seshadri is our first 80s superstar. A beautiful, talented actress and dancer, she doesn’t get talked about as […]
I’m not even sorry about that title. Boom (2003, directed and written by Kaizad Gustad) really is about a group of models behaving badly. But it’s also an artifact of one of the classic paths to stardom in Bollywood: the model-turned-actor. The models in the film have to […]