Filmi Ladies

05/05/2025

19th century British literature in Hindi cinema!
Fitoor (Great Expectations) 🤷🏻‍♀️
Dil Diya Dard Liya (Wuthering Heights) (AVOID YAAR) 🤢
Sangil (Jane Eyre) 😍
https://youtu.be/PEePVbgQZCw?si=7LjCIz8q2SrFAEzE

We already covered our fave Jane Austen. 💝 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fNDFUXWZkM&t=1s

We time travel to 19th century Britain for our next installment of Filmi Ladies book club. We discuss Dil Diya Dard Liya, a 1966 adaptation of Wuthering Heig...

03/04/2025

New episode on Yeh Dillagi and its Hollywood original Sabrina!

https://youtu.be/S4lJ1v8FV6A?si=h6qgFwmxiJ9qoI5I

Spoiler: Beth likes the Hindi remake more?????

We time travel between 1950s Hollywood and 1990s Bollywood to discuss two movies that are same same but different - Sabrina (1954) and its Hindi adaptation Y...

12/02/2025

Hi friends! I apologize for not posting here more regularly; I'm probably about to leave FB altogether. :( Please do reach out to us at filmiladies at gmail dot com, and if you're on Bluesky, I (Beth) am there at bethlovesbollywood. I may set up a Filmi Ladies account there too.

In the meantime, here's our latest episode on LOVE TRIANGLES, perfect for all of you who like a Valentines Day filled with other people's drama.

Happy Valentine's Day!What could be a messier and filmier way to celebrate Valentine's than discussing that most dramatic of story lines - the love triangle?...

11/09/2024

Our Kapoor series ends with Ranbir! Is he possibly the best actor of them all? Beth, of course, is not willing to take that title away from Shashi, but it's definitely worth discussing.

We conclude our Kapoor series with the heir of the Kapoor dynasty - Ranbir.We discuss his versatility, his chameleon like ability to get into his character's...

11/07/2024

Ending the third generation in our Kapoor series: Rishi and Neetu 🥰🥰🥰

We continue with our Kapoor family series and discuss Rishi, the most famous and successful Kapoor of his generation, and his onscreen and offscreen hit jodi...

03/07/2024

This week: the debut films of Akshaye and Rahul Khanna, plus of course some detours into their dad's career. What an interesting trio of cinema celebrities!

Perhaps nowhere in the history of Hindi cinema do two siblings have more divergent debuts, more unusual filmographies, or more unpredictable trajectories. We...

19/06/2024

This week the Kapoor series continues with an episode on Shashi's family: Jennifer, Kunal, Karan, and Sanjana. I know, I know, except for Jennifer there's arguable not much acting talent there, but this lineup of films is a treat: 36 Chowringhee Lane, Vijeta, Sultanat, and Hero Hiralal!!!

Continuing our Kapoor series, we discuss Shashi Kapoor's family in this episode: wife and actress Jennifer Kendal and their children Karan, Kunal, and Sanjan...

12/06/2024

This week is a general catchup with some of what we've been watching, including—shocker—things from 2024!

Did you know there's no ketchup emoji?!? Beth didn't until she went looking for it to put in this episode title, but a can of soup will do nicely, given that...

07/06/2024

The Kapoor series continues with Randhir, Babita, and Rajiv. Their careers are not very interesting to us, but we still manage to chat for an hour. Too long didn't listen? FF to 49:46 to see if you hate Ram Teri Ganga Maili as much as Beth does!

In today's episode of Filmi Ladies, we continue discussing the Kapoor family. We've previously done episodes on Prithviraj Kapoor and his three sons - Raj, S...

23/05/2024

This week: SHASHI KAPOOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exB0p86ZosM 😍😍😍😍😍

This is our longest episode yet, and it had to be in order to give this often underappreciated Kapoor the respect he deserves. Masala, parallel, and internat...

17/05/2024

And last week: the Kapoor series arrives at Shammi! YAHOO!

We discuss the second son of Prithviraj Kapoor - Shammi, a giant superstar who brought flamboyance, giddy delight and uninhibited, joyous dancing to Hindi c...

17/05/2024

This week: the superstar series continues with Shabana Azmi. https://youtu.be/eMn-GVrJcME?si=vZWjx8ygo5vkyPMt