Prabhudheva’s journey from southern dance sensation to hit actor to one of Bollywood’s most wanted directors

A new exhibition brings together works by all 13 of the ballsy youngsters who formed Bombay’s Progressive Artists’ Group

Salim-Javed’s Zanjeer case and the good turn it may do Hindi film scriptwriters

A new book revisits the film Amar Akbar Anthony and shines light on director Manmohan Desai’s enduring legacy

Once Bollywood’s girl-next-door, the actress has had several setbacks to take in her stride, not least her son’s recent arrest

Director Kiran Rao talks about her cinematic influences, marriage as partnership and why she gave her son Azad Rao Khan a double-barrelled surname

The unique life-and-work model of the Deols of Bollywood

Maker of cult indie film Om-Dar-Ba-Dar, Kamal Swaroop has spent the last 23 years zealously researching Dadasaheb Phalke’s life

For years, Mithun Chakraborty has been a victim of elite prejudice—what multiplex goers call a ‘downmarket’ star. But the emergence of filmmakers from small-town India can change that

Parallel cinema of the 1970s and 80s remains influential in Bollywood though chances are you will not notice it

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…