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Bollywood
Of Movies and Midriffs as Market Signs
Aresh Shirali
Hindi film advertising is under pressure, and what works has plenty to say about India as a mass market
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.
The Invisible Legacy of ‘Art Films’
Parallel cinema of the 1970s and 80s remains influential in Bollywood though chances are you will not notice it
In the Beginning There is an Opening Scene
After Aamir and No One Killed Jessica, Raj Kumar Gupta’s third film, Ghanchakkar, is going to hit the screens in June. While the earlier films were hard-hitting gritty fares, Ghanchakkar is a darkly humorous, quirky entertainer. Gupta speaks about realism, changing genres, working style, creative process and his evolution as a filmmaker
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