Stories
For decades, Bollywood relied on body doubles, prosthetic makeup and careful lighting to make actors appear younger on screen. A new generation of artificial…
A Bollywood premiere in London or Dubai is far more than a red-carpet photo opportunity. It is a carefully priced international marketing event designed to…
Why Bollywood's superhero universe is slow to emerge compared to Hollywood comes down to more than budgets or special effects. The two industries built their…
Few moments in Hindi cinema capture colour, music and communal energy as vividly as a major Holi or Diwali sequence. These scenes can pause a film’s plot for a…
Bollywood has long used emotional suffering as a source of drama, romance or redemption. Recent Hindi films are beginning to treat mental health as a lived…
Bollywood action sequences are built to look spontaneous, yet the safest scenes depend on careful preparation. Fight managers, also called action directors or…
Hindi cinema has long used disability as a source of emotion, inspiration or comic relief. Yet recent films and performances suggest a more thoughtful…
Bollywood has long treated the launch of a film's soundtrack as a spectacle on par with the movie itself. From a handful of journalists crowded into a Mumbai…
Bollywood retrospectives have moved from dusty archival halls to glamorous festival centrepieces. Curators across India are reassembling the legacies of actors…
Bollywood's appetite for reinvention has found a fresh canvas in the streaming era, where web series now experiment with formats that cinema rarely attempts.…
