Bollywood

Reshma Pathan was born into a conservative Muslim family. She was the eldest of five children.

According to the Indian publication Business India, there is a juggernaut of movies from South India that has taken over the Indian box office as Bollywood films are turning out to be a “feeble competitor. ” Quoting a CII South Media & Entertainment report, Business India reports that 62% of the all-India box office collections of movies in 2021 came from South Indian films and the trend is getting stronger.

Aamir Khan is an Indian actor, film director, and producer who works in Hindi films. Throughout his 30-year career, Khan has established himself as one of the most popular and influential actors in Indian cinema.

As India’s 1. 3 billion people are under lockdown, all commerce and activities have come to a grinding halt.

In 2008, Newsweek listed him as one of the top 50 most powerful people in the world, a list that included Obama, Oprah and Osama Bin Laden. In 2011, the Los Angeles Times called him “the biggest movie star you’ve never heard of.

Bollywood - the Indian film industry - is largest in the world in terms of the amount of content produced every year. Yet it has been known mainly for its larger-than-life musical productions.

Those of us who regularly attend the Mumbai Film Festival know how to deal with the shortcomings of Mumbai when making the 24-hour trip from Los Angeles. Aside from the jet lag, you steel yourself for the 95-degree heat, allow hours of lead time to battle the horrendous traffic, and then strive for a zen state of mind, because if you don’t, the sweltering, noisy, overcrowded city bursting at the seams will strain your last reserves and turn you into a gibbering wreck.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. The fifth highest-grossing movie ever in the biggest film-producing country in the world is not a Bollywood film.

When one hears the name Bollywood, what comes to mind, most often than not, are three-hour-long movies with song and dance no matter what the genre, movies driven by star power such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar. These stars will still shine but they seem to be losing a little bit of their luster as is evident from the latest box office figures, all recent films starring the four actors have opened with good box office numbers and then have taken a nosedive.

Documentary filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe focuses on the Jewish community in India and their contributions to Indian cinema. In his latest endeavor Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema.