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Old melodies, new mayhem: How Dhurandhar gives killer twist to retro songs

In Raneer Singh's Dhurandhar, retro melodies don’t just return, they resurrect with a vengeance. Old favourites are retooled into thumping, adrenaline-fueled accomplices to chaos, which will just ...
The Washington Post

This 17th-century hatred is fueling India’s politics

INDIA - DECEMBER 10: Portrait of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb known as Alamgir I (1618-1707), ruler of India from 1658 to 1707, 18th century Indian miniature. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) (DE ...
Los Angeles Times

Could this movie based on a Hindu epic become India’s ‘Avatar’?

Movies from India’s prolific film industry have found success on the world stage before. “RRR,” an over-the-top Telugu-language action film, energized audiences in the U.S. and elsewhere a few years ...
CNN

‘DDLJ’: Why a Bollywood classic about forbidden love still captivates Indian movie-goers 30 years on

Inside the Maratha Mandir movie theater, audience members jump to their feet as the first notes of an iconic mandolin riff play, their bodies casting silhouettes against the opening credits of a film ...
The Hollywood Reporter

You Think Bollywood Is Big? Meet Telugu Cinema

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. By Vishal Menon “Pan Indian” ...
NPR

An Indian movie, loved abroad, is snubbed at home for Oscar submission

MUMBAI, India — There's a scene in All We Imagine as Light, where a middle-aged cook and a nurse, lit by the glare of streetlight, laugh and hurl rocks at a banner advertising a luxury development — ...