Bollywood

Cinema’s Biggest Mythmaker

Kaveree Bamzai

SS Rajamouli and the craft of the spectacular

The Elder Statesman?

It won’t be a stretch if Aamir Khan takes on the role that the industry desperately needs at this moment—that of an elder statesman

Aditi Rao Hydari: Sparkling Star

Kaveree Bamzai

She is finally getting the due that the Hindi film industry was unable to give her

Ray of Light

Kaveree Bamzai

Say hello to Ray in the new Netflix series

Queer Love Story

Kaveree Bamzai

Queer people tend to be over-sexualised, says Badhaai Do’s director Harshavardhan Kulkarni

The White Swan

Kaveree Bamzai

The film Gangubai Kathiawadi wants to valorise sex workers on the margins of society but its morality is confused

Amitabh Bachchan: National Coach

Kaveree Bamzai

Who better than the grand patriarch of Bollywood to make caste visible and audible in his new film?

Dysfunctionally Functional

Kaveree Bamzai

What seems progressive in one era may well seem retrograde in another

Daily Heroes

Divya Unny

Three documentaries—about pioneering women journalists, brothers who rescue birds, and the lookalikes of Bollywood stars—are getting international recognition

Madhuri Dixit: The Return of the Queen

Kaveree Bamzai

Madhuri Dixit set the template for the modern-day heroine in Bollywood and now she is back to challenge it in a new series that casts her as an ageing diva