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Bollywood

The Brazenness of Bollywood

Lhendup G Bhutia

Why their Saifai shindig was neither their first, nor will it be their last

Bollywood’s Banker Bashing Blockbuster

So, does the success of Dhoom 3 seal Aamir Khan’s reputation as a market whiz?

The Second Life of Chunky Pandey

Leading man and the hero’s best friend in the early 1990s, Pandey went to Bangladesh when his career was on a decline and became a superstar. In the past couple of years, Pandey has made his way back to A-list Bollywood, albeit with silly films

Of Movies and Midriffs as Market Signs

Hindi film advertising is under pressure, and what works has plenty to say about India as a mass market

A Family Affair

A Family Affair • “Star-crossed Lovers” • A Fine Friendship

Shuffling the Deck

Shuffling the Deck • Match Fixing • The Miserly Megastar

On Top of the World

The unusual filmmakers of Ladakh

What Bollywood Must Do

Indian filmmaking needs not just a surge of originality, it needs to rethink every aspect of the art it is failing to be

“I don’t view cinema as a high art form”

Imran Khan grows himself up as an actor through trial, error and humour

‘Most urban people don’t know where they belong’

Though I was born in Belwa, a small village in Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border, I was packed off to a boarding school in Bettiah after class four.

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