Bollywood

What the Stars Are Foretold

Aastha Atray Banan

If Anaita Shroff Adajania and Niharika Khan get to tell Hrithik Roshan or Vidya Balan what to wear (and what not), there’s a good reason. They are Bollywood stylists

An Outsider in Bollywood

Neelesh Misra

From a meeting with Mahesh Bhatt at his fourth floor office that led him to write the song Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai to another meeting at a fourth-floor office, this time with Aditya Chopra, about writing the film Ek Tha Tiger, journalist Neelesh Misra speaks of his first ten years in Bollywood

That 70s Showman

Shaikh Ayaz

Milan Luthria, director of The Dirty Picture, on his fear of beginnings, love of dark characters and favourite Bollywood era

So Gloriously Mean

Anupama Chopra

The greatest villains of Bollywood cinema

Bombay in His Veins

Suhit Kelkar

Kiran Nagarkar was watching movies to put off writing, but ended up writing a novel set in Bollywood

Actors or Mannequins?

Anupama Chopra

Why is Bollywood so besotted with style?

Confessions of a Bollywood Struggler

arindam

“Even top people in the industry are sleeping with someone or the other. That’s just how it works. But nobody talks about it”

From Russia with Bolly Love

Vijai Maheshwari

An Indian theme party in St Petersburg reveals just how well India’s soft power is working in these parts

Bollywood’s Revised Cheque List

Shaikh Ayaz

Kareena Kapoor looks close to being paid on par with male film stars, but if you see this as a sign of a shakeup in the Hindi film industry’s salary structure, think again