1997: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my time-reversed year-end film listings, we come to 1997
1998: The Year in Bedlam
Movie-wise 1998 will go down in memory as a year of misunderstood classics
2000: The Year in Bedlam
The following marks the inaugural entry in a new and ambitious project: an overview of my favorite films from each year, starting with 2000 and working my way backward
SHOLAY: THE MAKING OF A CLASSIC
In the rarefied world of Bollywood SHOLAY is possibly the most iconic and influential film in existence
BANDH DARWAZA
The infamous Ramsay Brothers made this 1990 horror fest, one of the last entries in India’s “Gloom Boom” period of genre cinema
WOHI BHAYANAK RAAT
This film differs from other bad horror movies in that it’s a Bollywood horror movie. This means many large-scale musical numbers, much over the top melodrama, a two-and-a-half hour running time and a painfully low budget
VEERANA
More Bollywood lunacy from the wonderful Ramsay Brothers. VEERANA is actually one of the Ramsay’s more accomplished efforts, a colorful and energetic swirl of vampire movie madness
100 DAYS
This is the 1991 Bollywood remake of Lucio Fulci’s 1977 chiller THE PSYCHIC, and, if you’re at all familiar with Bollywood cinema, exactly what you’d expect
AJOOBA KUDRAT KAA
A very, very, very, very stupid Indian Bigfoot movie with all the Bollywood trimmings
AATANK
Bollywood’s take on JAWS, a wholly ridiculous action/suspense/romance/musical/monster mash!