Outside the Bollywood dhinchak and the thumps of EDM, music in India has had an older and longer history whose traditions are being kept alive by many young musicians. We introduce you to some of them
'He is a phenomenal guy.' 'The clarity with which he does his work and the way he wants to present it to the rest of India, I'm amazed at it.'
'The cross-pollination between the states has always been happening.' 'It's only over the past one or two years that all this talk about South versus Bollywood has been happening.'
Get your lowdown on what's going on in the world of Bollywood right here.
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From spending time with family to singing and making music, here's how they are keeping themselves busy.
Cashing on the success of celebrity show Big Brother and her last film Metro, the actress is promoting a new production of the musical Miss Bollywood in London.
1997: Sukanya Verma offers a recap of its memorable imagery.
When done well, these horror movies do pretty well at the box office.
'Reality shows don't teach contestants how to deal with the reality of being a singer.'
'He said, "There was nobody to help me. I came from Kolkata to Mumbai to make a career of my own".' "'I have my own journey, and you need to experience that to value what you will have in the future.".'
Sukanya Verma offers a glimpse of Bollywood's foodie folks.
Believe it or not, our desi Greek God is all of 50 today. Celebrating Bollywood's golden star with 10 of his coolest introduction scenes.
The Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit dance face-off from the 2002 box-office hit Devdas has been voted the greatest Bollywood dance number of all time.
As Kabir Singh races ahead for superhit status, Joginder Tuteja looks back at the biggest opening earnings for Bollywood's adult films in the recent past.
Sukanya Verma goes through the cool and crazy ways moon/chand/chanda/chandrama is depicted in Bollywood movies.
Writer, director, actor, singer, producer, Farhan Akhtar dons many, MANY hats and makes the world, well Hindi cinema for sure, a cooler place.
Those who want their Bollywood music to have a dash of the 1990s will lap up the Junooniyat album with glee.
Daphne Beal joins the growing list of Americans who are smitten by Bollywood's music.
Sukanya Verma takes a look at some of Bollywood's most playful, popular Gujarati acts in recent times.
Like there's no dearth of memorable bus scenes and train imagery in Hindi movies, planes are equally prolific on silver screen.
It's not uncommon for performers to become bigger than the stories they are placed in and Sreehari Nair would happily pay to watch Isha Talwar and Paramvir Singh Cheema riffing on love, bad life choices, psychology, rhythm, and oven-baked Kulchas in Chamak.
'There is no cringe shot in the film which could give me a sleepless night.'
A controversy has erupted over A R Rahman's rendition of a popular patriotic song of legendary Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a new Bollywood film, with the litterateur's family and singers expressing outrage over the 'distortion' in rhythm and tunes.
Be it scenic Kashmir or majestic Swiss Alps, Bollywood's trendsetting winter wear is the A to Z of style and snug. Sukanya Verma looks at its winter fashion over the years.
Blaring music. Manic shoppers. A foreign brand launch.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood celebrities are tweeting.
Reviewers rated it high, but still, these films unfortunately flopped.
Baharla Ha Madhumas has made Sana Shinde a star, and Namrata Thakker takes a closer look at her.
Dressed in beautiful multicolored lehenga bollywood actress Gahaur Khan walked and danced on a mix of bollywood music played on the ramp.
'Padmini and I are very different people.' 'Our acting styles are very different. She's from a different era.'
In Dubai, A Ganesh Nadar encountered high speeds on smooth-as-silk-roads, no bureaucracy, gold, Mr Toad's. And snow!
'What happened to Raj and Simran after running away on the train at the end of DDLJ 20 years later? Have they become flatmates instead of lovers? What happens when the initial chemistry has worn off and love becomes a habit? This has always fascinated me.'
'A face like this cannot go wrong,' Salman Khan endorses Punjabi actor Gippy Grewal at the trailer launch of the latter's new film, Maujaan Hi Maujaan.
The Rs 19,100 crore 'Indian film industry' is more than its monikers for three simple reasons, feels Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
How can you make the most of your summer vacation? Jahnavi Patel takes some cues from Bollywood.
Sukanya Verma looks at the variety of daughter characters served by Bollywood on the big screen.
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