Tag: Yash Chopra

Filmi Ladies: The Burning Train!

At Filmi Ladies, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins talk about the star-studded Bollywood disaster movie, Burning Train (1980)! “This movie is everything the title promises plus so much more! Starring half of the 1980 film industry and putting most of them […]

The Burning Train

[Spoilers!] You can tell from the title: The Burning Train is a huge disaster movie imperiling half of the Bombay film industry’s contemporary A-listers, and I couldn’t be more delighted.  Pick up your #2 pencils and answer the following: 1) What is the maximum possible speed of our […]

Darr: Frightfully Great

Of all the things to admire about Darr (1993) (trailer)—its uncompromising tension and insistence on menace, the superstar-confirming work by a young Shah Rukh Khan, its creative sequences of characters’ imaginations, the wonderful use of background score—my favorite is how this film disrupts its maker’s own persona. Respected, […]