Beth Loves Bollywood (Beth Watkins)
@bethlovesbollywood
Indian cinema enthusiast. Co-host of the Filmi Ladies podcast. 💃🏾🎬 Academic museum professional @ UIUC. 🥞 Breakfast, history, pets, British detective shows, puns, knitting. 🧶 Chambana, Illinois. She/her. www.bethlovesbollywood.com 🍿
I cannot express how aesthetically hideous this era was. We really did do this to our hair and then head out to classes and jobs. Pleather pants with giant belt buckles and shiny draped-neck handkerchief tops were the least of our sins.
Filmi Ladies watched #Ikka and made faces about it. “‘How ‘bout you shut up?’ is a lot if this movie.” youtu.be/ub_oH_ySCh0
Quite possibly the best Hindi film of the 21st century so far? #Omkara #desiwatch
I think I've posted this before, maybe on the bird site, but it bears repeating: what did Dharmendra do this poster artist?
Bhai-Bhai (1970) has a Mumu cancan?!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7YY... I am not an expert in Mumtaz's filmography (yet) but it seems to me she should get more mention in the discussion of the collapse of vamp and heroine into one role.
I'm in this photo and I don't like it. (Bhai-Bhai, 1970) #desiwatch
So thoughtful to give a protective fur layer to the black pants I was planning to wear to a work event tomorrow.
Glowing geometric artworks at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
He thinks he’s getting leftovers from one of our Chinese restaurants profiled in the NYT and he is incorrect.
Buoying their humans is such a big responsibility to put on these little ones.
Sad 60s film heroine ingredients: ✓ unusually shaped bed (extra point for pedestal) ✓ velvet cover ✓ cotton-candy-colored canopy ✓ coordinating telephone ✓ lush carpeting ✓ one red item (Love in Tokyo, 1966) #desiwatch
A stranger in the parking lot gave me a rose. HAS MY LIFE FINALLY BECOME A BOLLYWOOD FILM as has been foretold????
This is the me-est t-shirt I’ve ever had.
I do not remember Meena Kumari being blonde and blue-eyed as part of the Pakeezah discourse.