This is a repost, but a repost of a really interesting important topic, so you should all read it and enjoy it.
Continue readingBad Girls Month: The Tawaif! Who Is She in Life and on Film?
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Female Films Week: Anarkali of Aarah, the Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself
What a satisfying movie! The heroine does everything I want her to do and her “punishment” for being outspoken is much less than I feared.
Continue readingHindi Film 101: The Tawaif, Who Was She in Life and on Film?
I finally watched Umrao Jaan, and now I am all interested in Tawaif’s. Hopefully you are too!
Continue readingHindi Film 101: The Structure of the Tawaif/Item Song, Inspired by how “Suraiyya” Wasn’t Quite Right
I already did a general post on item songs (here), this is specifically looking at how they are structured, the components of them, inspired by how “Suraiyya” from Thugs of Hindostan kind of twisted the standard structure.
Hindi Film 101: Nargis Dutt Part 1, Nargis Before Raj
Nargis Dutt! Finally! After teasing her for the past several weeks. And also, yet another actress after Rekha and Meena. Why is it that actresses have so much more interesting personal lives than actors? Or is it just that I find their lives more interesting? Or is it that the media plays up their lives a little more than with actors? It’s probably the last.
Guide Part 2: The Actual Film (Well, The Beginning of It)
Yesterday I did an in depth post on the whole behind the scenes process of making Guide and who all the personalities involved where and what their background was and so on and so on (not including the Murder and Sex Cult part of the Anand brothers’ story, because those hadn’t happened yet). I wanted to say aaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll of that before I got into discussing the actual film. Which is what I will do now, only I will be referring back to stuff from the other post, so read this first!
Hindi Film 101: Rekha! The Queen of Embracing the Narrative the Press Gave
Oh, this is gonna be a fun one! And I am sure it will only be able to scratch the surface, so please add on nifty details in the comments. And I should also acknowledge, it is almost entirely taken from This Book. If you like this post, Buy It! And if you disagree with this post, Blame It! (not really, I’m the one who bought the book and chose which parts to believe and repeat)
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