Bollywood

Bollywood Family Values

Kaveree Bamzai

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

Kaveree Bamzai

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

Kaveree Bamzai

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

Kaveree Bamzai

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

Kaveree Bamzai

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

Kaveree Bamzai

The tragedy of second-generation starlings in Bollywood

The Pilgrim’s Progress

Rachel Dwyer

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

Sushant Singh Rajput: Forever Young

Kaveree Bamzai

It’s been a year since the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, a rising star who never quite fulfilled his early potential, but whose alleged suicide exposed much of the ugliness inherent in Bollywood’s beautiful people

Fear Is the Key

Kaveree Bamzai

Samantha Akkineni is one of the few actors to talk about the impostor syndrome

Two Is a Family

Kaveree Bamzai

Nearly two decades after their first indie film, and with a triumphant second season of The Family Man to their credit, Raj and DK are now Bollywood’s quirkiest storytellers