At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins are joined by Vikas Raheja to talk about NRI films, or “Non-Resident Indian” films about people in the Indian diaspora. “Special guest Vikas Raheja from the Let’s Talk, Melbourne podcast joins us […]
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their “Watching the Rainbow” film series with the color gray! “Before you dismiss gray, think about all it can represent: ambiguity, aging sadness, life-giving rain, sublime and enduring stone, mysterious or cooling shadows, or even the […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins celebrate the 20th anniversary of Farah Khan’s Main Hoon Na! “Re-united family! India Pakistan! Chiffon sarees! Riverdale vibes! Zayed Khan’s crunchy wig! Shahrukh in vardi! Kabir Bedi’s baritone! Sunil Shetty’s ice blue contacts! Fantastic music! What […]
Like George Costanza, I’ve often wanted to pretend to be an architect, and an offshoot of this dream is to do some kind of major study of the architecture of evil spaces in Hindi movies. The most distinctive visual marker—physical manifestation, even—of evil in Bollywood is the villain […]
Mainstream Hindi cinema doesn’t particularly gravitate towards making superhero films. It hardly needs to, given what physical feats the average film hero can pull off anyway. But like many parts of the world, Indian audiences certainly have a taste for American-style superhero films, so home-grown characters pop up, […]
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