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Bollywood

Discovering India

Kaveree Bamzai

Bhediya can help put the beautiful Arunachal Pradesh on the map of the world

Hard Truths

Neena Gupta’s memoir is about persistence, patience and the ability to pick up the pieces

Bollywood Family Values

Blended families, co-parenting by exes, single parent surrogacies and households headed by women. Middle-class cosmopolitan social norms and celebrity values have never been more similar

Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original

With the flicker of an eyelash, an artfully displaced lock of hair, a careful modulation of his voice, he could make women swoon and men weep. Muhammed Yusuf Khan was the last of a gilded trinity that defined an era

Amit Masurkar: King of the Jungle

With his new movie, director Amit Masurkar returns to the forest with a quiet, contemplative film about who really is the beast amongst us

Business Class Bollywood

A $3 trillion economy does not have a substantial middle class that spends, which means the model of film consumption today is business class

Every Woman’s a Tigress

For Indian movies, these are still radical ideas, and who better than Balan, in her unsmiling, solitary alter ego, to articulate them?

Sense of Entitlement

The tragedy of second-generation starlings in Bollywood

The Pilgrim’s Progress

From the martyrdom of Thomas Becket to the holy relics of Hindi cinema

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