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hindi cinema

On SRK’s Birthday, Read How He Has Inspired Indian Women

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In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories–the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries–of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Read an excerpt from the Hindi edition of

A Timeline of Pure Evil: Ode to the Classic and Immortal Villains of Bollywood

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Sholay (1975): Gabbar chops off Thakur’s arms with a sword in each hand. Karz (1980): Kamini murders her husband by ramming him repeatedly with a jeep. Mr. India (1987): Mogambo kills hundreds of innocent citizens. No, you don’t want to meet these Bollywood baddies in a dark alley; you may

HarperCollins Presents The Bollywood Affair by Gauri Sinh

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About the Book What is haunting Bollywood’s reigning superstar? Late 1990s, Mumbai. Bollywood superstar RK is traumatized by the inexplicable wails that have begun echoing through his sprawling heritage home. Is the superstar really being haunted? Or could the screams have something to do with his latest movie, a Bollywood

HarperCollins Presents Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster by Uday Bhatia

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Uday Bhatia revisits the making of Satya, with testimonies from Ram Gopal Varma, Anurag Kashyap, Manoj Bajpayee, Vishal Bhardwaj and many more Praise for the Book ‘This book took me right back to my formative years. It was as if I was back there on the sets, watching Ramu with