For decades, Hindi dominated India’s film industry — the largest in the world. Then some underdog filmmakers from the south released a movie that would change everything.

For nearly a century, Bollywood has held a mirror to Indian society, the plotlines of the world’s most prolific movie industry reflecting the changing tides of a vast, developing nation. India ...

Last year, 15 percent of Indian movies surveyed hired women for key production positions, up from 10 percent in 2022, according to a report by Ormax Media and Film Companion Studios.

India's Bollywood film industry, long part of the cultural fabric of the movie-mad country of 1.4 billion people, is facing its biggest-ever crisis as streaming services and non-Hindi language ...

Similarly, Baahubali 2, RRR (2022), which won the Oscar for best original song, and superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan , raked in between £6.7m and 11.2m in the US market out of over £88.1m ...

Bollywood director Sudipto Sen speaks during a press conference for the movie “The Kerala Story” in Mumbai, India, May 17, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade Subscribe for ads-free reading ...

Fawad Khan, an actor, singer and producer with a huge following in India, announced his Bollywood comeback last week, sending fans into a frenzy. Pictured in Mumbai on March 25, 2016. Stringer/AFP ...

Yet, big-name Bollywood producers are queuing up to add propaganda movies to their slate. Pre-approved films get shout-outs from Modi downwards to his ministers and chief ministers.

By 2022, Netflix had begun to have doubts about the show's feasibility. After struggling with the show's direction for years, Netflix began 're-evaluating' the show's fate in 2022, Variety reported .