Bollywood
The Fall from Grace
Anupama Chopra
Karan Johar’s TV show offers just a glimpse of the rudeness that has overcome Bollywood.
The Kingdom of Khan
They have ruled Bollywood for as long as you can possibly remember. Plain coincidence?
Scheduled Cast
Almost every big-budget movie is losing money in Bollywood. And yet, even if a small-budget movie makes thrice its cost, the industry does not count it as a blockbuster. Welcome to the warped economics of la-la-land
Smokin’ Hot Sheila
Farah Khan has the country tripping on a Bollywood number with a difference: an item girl who hints at onanism and has hearts throbbing all the more for it
MoTown
The moustache, that original marker of male vanity, has made a comeback. Even a cursory look at Bollywood’s Mo Bros will confirm this.
The Truth Behind Bollywood Lies
From adoption of kittens to underworld calls from Dubai, there’s an entire industry of spin doctors churning out fake news.
Bollywood on Trial
Can mainstream Hindi cinema defend itself against the charge that it is creatively bankrupt?
It Just Happened
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, arguably the funniest Indian film ever made, was made on a meagre budget, featured mostly unknowns, and hardly anyone involved believed in it. It became a classic, and almost all its alumni went on to highly successful careers. A celebration
Billboard Blockbusters
A book on the painted posters and hoardings that lured Indian masses into cinema theatres reminds Kiran Nagarkar how essential they were to the spread of the gospel of Bollywood.
Bum Bum Bole
The gifted Darsheel Safary apart, Iranian minimalism just can’t be stretched to Indian melodrama.
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