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Yash Chopra, Bollywood’s ‘King of Romance,’ Dead at 80
The camera pans over a pristine valley of green Swiss mountains and a cozy-looking hamlet tucked into the hillside. A honeymooning couple appears, strolling...
Bollywood Actress Kidnapped, Killed by Her Co-Stars
Actress Meenakshi Thapar was strangled to death by two aspiring actors she met on a film set.
Finnish Flight Attendants Go Bollywood for India’s Republic Day
Passengers on a Finnair flight from Helsinki to Delhi Thursday got a surprise when the crew busted a move, Bollywood-style.
Bollywood Royalty: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Gives Birth to Baby Girl
Another star has just been born to India’s most famous film family.
Bollywood Bids Farewell to Actor and Icon Dev Anand
Legendary Bollywood actor and film-maker Dev Anand passed away in London on Sunday. Anand, who acted in more than 11o films, was 88. With his irresistible good...
Raavan: Scandal Over a Bollywood King Kong
For the lovers of Indian films at home and around the world — and they number in the hundreds of millions — the coming of Raavan held the promise of...
Hollywood Meets Bollywood: Finally, a Love Story?
The new year got off to a good start for Hollywood in Bollywoodland. As expected, the global success of James Cameron's Avatar is also playing out in India: it's...
Bollywood Star Shah Rukh Khan
As international travelers know, there's nothing unusual about airport security officers pulling passengers out of line for extra screening. But that generally...
Ring, Ring, Bollywood Calling!
In 2006, long before Slumdog Millionaire awakened U.S. moviegoers' inner Bollywood, three Americans of Indian heritage nurtured an instinct that digital...
Reflections on Oscar: Bollywood Takes Hollywood
Oscar went international with a vengeance on Sunday night, as the underclass-boy-makes-good fable Slumdog Millionaire took home eight Academy Awards, including...
Movie Review: Bollywood Goes East
A veggie-slicing galoot from Delhi goes to China to realize his destiny as a martial-arts master — and just from the synopsis, I'm on board with Chandni Chowk to...
The Bollywood Strike Hits Festival Season
There's been no lights, camera or action in Bollywood since Wednesday, when roughly 150,000 film workers began a strike to demand better wages, less punishing...
Spielberg's Bollywood Wedding
Steven Spielberg is no stranger to India. He shot part of Close Encounters of the Third Kind here in 1977 and the second Indiana Jones installment was set in a...
Bollywood's Viral Videos
Bollywood is widely known as the world's most prolific movie industry, with about 1,000 films produced every year. But its audience is also one of the most...
Bollywood Changes Its Tune
Chak De India is not your average Bollywood blockbuster. The film, released on August 10, may star Shah Rukh Khan, but the A-list heartthrob plays a disgraced...
When Superstars Feud
Imagine Leonardo DiCaprio publicly slamming Harrison Ford as too old, too last century, and Ford slapping back by questioning DiCaprio's acting abilities. A feud...
Hollywood Loves Bollywood
We were gypsies, Sooni and I. two sisters in saris surrounded by tuxedoed strangers. But instead of taking our Banjara bullock cart to the nearest water hole, we...
Interview: Aamir Khan
More than any other Indian film star, Aamir Khan has made a career out of being choosy. In an industry where actors often complete several movies a year, Khan's...
Shah Rukh Khan
Pity Shah Rukh Khan's bodyguard. The king of Bollywood is a week into a two-month song-and-dance tour of Europe and North America, and Jitu has already had so...
