Tolly Folly, Ep. 2!
The Gutter’s own Beth returns to the limited run Tolly Folly Podcast! “Our Uttam-Suchitra miniseries continues with the mega classic Saptapadi and one of my favorites Chaowa Pawa, a wonderful adaptation of It Happened One Night.”
Beth on Tolly Folly!
The Gutter’s own Beth has new shenanigans to keep up on: Tolly Folly! Two of the hosts of the Khandaan Podcast and [Beth Watkins] are doing a mini series on the classic Bengali cinema of Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar, starting with Agni Pariksha.”
It Happened One Night Somewhere in Bengal: Chaowa Pawa
I’d like to introduce you to one of India’s greatest movie superstars. Active from around 1950 to 1980, Uttam Kumar is still the biggest name in the popular cinema made in Calcutta. The term “matinee idol” doesn’t imply enough scope or staying power to describe his career, and […]
Bengali Noir
“Looking for film noir in India is to miss the point of Indian cinema altogether.”–Lalitha Gopalan, “Bombay Noir,” A Companion to Film Noir. (Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013). There’s a lot about Calcutta—the center of the Bengali film industry, metropolitan capital of the state of West Bengal, […]
The Cultural Gutter 