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 continue their look at the Kapoor film dynasty with an episode devoted to Shammi Kapoor: “We discuss the second son of Prithviraj Kapoor–Shammi, a giant superstar who brought flamboyance, giddy delight and uninhibited, joyous dancing to […]
The Gutter’s own Beth Watkins joins Pitu Sultan and special guest Amrita from Khandaan Podcast to talk party songs on the Filmi Ladies Podcast! “”Party song” is a concept we all think we understand, but this decades-old building block of Hindi cinema deserves a closer look. The one […]
“Khandaan: A Bollywood Podcast continues its ‘Other Khan’ series with Sharmila Tagore who became Begum Ayesha Sultana Khan when she married the Nawab of Pataudi–Mansoor Ali Khan. If you’re a Khandaan Podcast listener you know we set our own rules! As decided by our Patrons…we went with 1967′ […]
On Twitter, @samjawed65 has shared letters and autographed photographs from Indian film stars in the 1950s and 1960s that her aunt solicited and kept in a photo album. Look at them all together here and/or read the Twitter thread, which includes translations of the 1962 letter in Urdu […]
Ajooba is one of those Bollywood movies that almost everybody dismisses—cheap costumes, awkward giant monsters, make-do special effects—until you get them to actually think about it. Released in 1991, this bank-breaking Indian and Soviet co-production features a plot that sounds more at home in the 1970s in the […]
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