Tag: Bollywood
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How Bollywood movies helped Rohingyas settle in India
By Nikhil M. Babu, New Delhi : After Mohammad Haroon turned 15, he began watching Bollywood movies, walking four kilometres to a theatre near his village in Myanmar. Little did he know that the Hindi he learnt watching these films would one day help him settle down in a foreign country to which he and…
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Indian film industry is citadel of secularism: Javed Akhtar
Mumbai : The Indian film industry is a citadel of secularism where there’s no scope for communal bias, says veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar. “I had joined the film industry in 1965 on a salary of 50 rupees a month. In these 53 years, not for a second I have experienced or even seen any communal…
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Top 10 movies which were made more than once: An overview of Pakistani and Indian movies with same titles and same stories
By Azhar Iqbal, Pakistani Cinema and Indian Bollywood Industry have a plenty of similarities like a common language, music lyrics, themes, highlighting social and domestic issues, action and romance, poetic verses in dialogues, anger and love etc. You have certainly watched many of the Bollywood and Lollywood feature films in which the plot of the…
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GST discouraging cinema-going habit: Filmmaker Siddharth Roy Kapur
By Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi : The Goods and Services Tax (GST), implemented by the central government from mid-2017, has proved to be a strain on the overall economics of film-making and is also discouraging the public’s cinema-going habit, says Film and Television Producers Guild of India President Siddharth Roy Kapur. The year 2017 threw…