Bollywood
Hollywood and Bollywood form alliance to fight piracy
March 27, 2010By Anjana Pasricha The world's two biggest film industries - Hollywood and the Indian Hindi language movie industry known as Bollywood - have come together for the first time to fight film piracy in India. Piracy has long been a problem in India, where...
Sanjay Dutt to be released from jail
November 28, 2007The Supreme Court in New Delhi has granted jailed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt bail and he should be able to leave a Pune prison in the next couple of days. Dutt had been sentenced to six years in jail for buying weapons from bombers who attacked Mumbai...
Rai, Kingsley to star in Taj Mahal tale
October 04, 2007Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai has signed on to co-star with Britain's Ben Kingsley in a feature film about the Taj Mahal, the BBC said Wednesday. Rai, the 33-year-old star of "Bride and Prejudice" and "Provoked," will play the...
Indian actress detained for Gere smooch
October 02, 2007Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was detained and questioned by officials at an airport in India regarding her public kiss with U.S. actor Richard Gere. "The Celebrity Big Brother" winner was stopped during the weekend at Chatrapati Shivaji...
Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah to star in Bollywood movie on London transit bombings
April 02, 2007Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah will play a Muslim police officer in a Bollywood film about the suicide bombings on the London transit system two years ago, film director Jagmohan Mundhra said. Shah will play a 55-year-old officer whose commitment...
Bollywood great receives French honor
January 29, 2007The French government honored Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan with France's highest civilian honor, the Legion d'Honneur. French Ambassador to India Dominique Girard said the award was to recognize the "quality and height of his achievement...
Clooney glad to star into Bollywood movies
December 12, 2006George Clooney admitted he would love to star into a Bollywood film. In a recent interview, the famous Hollywood actor and director said he was a fan of the Hindi films and hoped they would become more popular in the West. Asked about appearing...