Bollywood

Confessions of an Upcoming Model

arindam

“One night, the Chennai-based model coordinator who boasted of Bollywood contacts called with the offer of a holiday with him”

How Hindi Films Got So Good

Rahul Bhatia

...and started looking beyond tired formulas and megastars and multi-starrers and all those yawns

A Mystic in Bollywood

Lalitha Suhasini

Tochi Raina, the voice behind the dreamy Saibo and grungy Dilli, on meditation, meltdown and the strains of success

New Kid on Ranbir’s Block

Rajeev Masand

New Kid on Ranbir’s Block • The Lie Detector • A Happy Friendship

First, the Cause

Rahul Bhatia

How a bold new venture hopes to shake things up in the movie financing business by focusing exclusively on social themes that can work at the box office

‘Survival Is Another Kind of Success’

Shaikh Ayaz

Says an impish Tusshar Kapoor on the cusp of ‘surviving’ 10 years in Bollywood and the success of a film with all the right noises

Kiran Rao asked Aamir to shut up on the sets of Dhobi Ghat, Rakeysh Mehra’s wife Bharathi nearly walked out of Rang De Basanti. A look at the complexities and comforts of Bollywood’s working couple equations

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

Shubhangi Swarup

They have ruled Bollywood for as long as you can possibly remember. Plain coincidence?

Scheduled Cast

Satyen K Bordoloi

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