She chose to return after a brief hiatus to television, as an actor and a reality show judge

She has been sensual and subservient, rustic and cosmopolitan. She is as much at ease in a lavish BBC series as she is in her latest, a Hindi horror comedy blockbuster where she plays a ghost

The superheroine taps into the young Muslim woman’s identity

What happens in Varanasi resonates throughout India

Is the revisionist appraisal of the country’s most celebrated monument dislodging it from its cultural perch?

KK’s career was the embodiment of a unique diversity

It is a metaphor for many young women in Bollywood now who are slowly overcoming their fears, choosing to expand their art rather than stay in the groove

True-crime documentaries and films come of age in India

His conviction in a terror-funding case could be the beginning of the long shadow of retribution

Mukesh Chhabra is the first port of call for most major directors who want a cast that is authentic and diverse

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…