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Bollywood

Make-Up Chauvinism

Haima Deshpande

How the stranglehold of an all-male association bars women from becoming make-up artistes in Bollywood

Schmoozer’s List

The directory of India’s most wanted phone numbers

The Comeback Girls

Bollywood no longer sees a heroine’s advancing years as a liability. This should let older actresses break the glamour mould and take on edgier roles

My Undying Love Affair

Why, after so many years, am I so in Bollywood’s thrall? It’s the stories, really. The ones you never see turned into films

Bollywood’s Number Game

And why no one but the producer really knows how much money a film has made

Confessions of an Upcoming Model

“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

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

A Mystic in Bollywood

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

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

First, the Cause

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

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