Tag: Shakti Kapoor

Commando: Bollywood with Ninjas

Years ago, when we were both new to Indian cinema, Gutter contributor Keith Allison mentioned to me that he was hoping to find a Bollywood film that also featured ninjas. This is the kind of question I love: its answer could just as easily be “of course there’s […]

Mithun Chakraborty Returns!

On a Special Beth Loves Bollywood Audio Edition, Beth and the Gutter’s own Carol discuss Mithun Chakraborty’s Gunmaster G9/secret agent films: Surakksha (1979); Wardaat (1981); and Guru (1989). Fights, mad scientists, zombie robots, radio-controlled locusts, the Green Revolution, amazing clubs that look like Nintendo games or that have […]

Ramsay International Horror

“The ‘Ramsay Brothers,’ as they are called, have in these films, and in India’s first horror show on television, featured ghosts, ghouls, monsters, zombies, witches, vampires and every conceivable version of things that go bump in the night. Mostly, they’ve been the first to do so.”  More on […]