Overview
While Northern India’s 100-year-old film industry is best known for flamboyant dance sequences and romantic plot lines, its directors have begun to step outside established formulas and explore grittier subject matter. This program surveys the world of Bollywood filmmaking, examining the personalities as well as the commercial and thematic concerns that drive central Asia’s answer to Tinseltown. Interviews with directors Karan Johar, Ashutosh Gowariker, and Yash Chopra are included, along with commentary from choreographers, musical directors, and Cinemaya Magazine editor Aruna Vasudev. The industry’s newfound attention to poverty, homelessness, and other social concerns is examined. Several film excerpts are included.
Top billed cast
- Remesh Panicker Narrator
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Anupam Kher
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali
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- Aruna Vasudev Self
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Mrinal Sen
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Jahnu Barua
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Yash Chopra
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Ashutosh Gowariker
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Karan Johar
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Vishal Bhardwaj
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Urmila Matondkar
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Vaibhavi Merchant
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- Willard Carol Self
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Malaika Arora
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Sonu Nigam
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Actresses in this database credited here
- Malaika Arora as Self