Stories
The lights dim in a suburban multiplex in Harris Park, the credits roll up after a three-hour Shah Rukh Khan film, and half the audience stays glued to their…
Bollywood actors who once moved between theatrical blockbusters, music videos and celebrity endorsements are now discovering a wider creative runway in…
Hindi cinema has long used India’s landscapes as more than attractive backdrops. Snow-covered valleys can signal romance or separation, palace courtyards can…
For decades, Bollywood conversations about film music centred on the singers, lyricists and music directors who produced the songs. The musicians crafting the…
Bollywood stars have long influenced what audiences watch, listen to and wear. Their clothing labels have extended that influence into everyday wardrobes,…
Walk past any suburban multiplex on a Friday night and chances are the longest queue is not for a sci-fi spectacle or a glossy romance, but for a film about a…
Few cinematic traditions in the world are as emotionally charged, visually saturated and financially ambitious as the wedding sequence in a Hindi film. From…
For decades, a Bollywood blockbuster was measured through opening-day collections, packed single-screen theatres and the noise surrounding a Friday release. A…
For decades, the Hindi film industry relied on a familiar template: a charismatic male lead dispensing justice through choreographed fights, with the leading…
When Kiran Rao's "Laapataa Ladies" arrived in theatres, viewers across India and abroad registered something subtle in their ears. The film's dialogues,…
