Entertainment

27,000+ international runs and a T20 World Cup final Player-of-the-Match award: Kohli's career is the case study of individual brilliance inside a team sport.

Bollywood's family advantage is real and structural — but new platforms are cracking it open. The nepotism debate is more nuanced than the binary suggests.

Streaming made Indian classical music accessible — and stripped the context that makes it comprehensible. Raga on shuffle: democratization without transmission.

Hindustani and Carnatic are revered high art — yet command a tiny fraction of young India's listening time. Preservation kept them alive but elite.

Bollywood built its empire on opening weekends; Netflix builds on subscriptions and algorithms. Talent, money, audience are moving — theaters now the exception.

India-Pakistan is the world's most politically charged sporting rivalry — hundreds of millions watch, and the match has become a proxy for a conflict

Indian films dominate screens from Dhaka to Kathmandu — by scale and storytelling, not force. How Bollywood won the region, and the cost to local cinema.

After Kamal Haasan claimed his 1988 divorce from Vani Ganapathy left him bankrupt, his ex-wife hit back: 'Can alimony make a man bankrupt?'

Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet dazzles with jazz, art deco and grandeur, but the storytelling falls flat. Our 2015 review of the Ranbir Kapoor starrer.

Arup Raha reviews Shoojit Sircar's Piku — a father-daughter road trip built on great performances by Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, and Irrfan.

Chicago-area Hindi theater group Ekjut called for local talent — stand-up, shayari, and one-act plays — for its May 2015 event.

Shah Rukh Khan's Fan (2016) cast him in a double role — a superstar and his obsessive lookalike fan — in one of his most challenging performances.

In January 2015, Deepika Padukone spoke openly about her depression and anxiety — one of Bollywood's first major stars to do so.

At the 2015 Golden Globes, Boyhood won Best Drama while Transparent became the first streaming series ever to win a Golden Globe.

Arup Raha's Bolly Volley column reviews PK and picks the Top 10 Bollywood films of 2014 — from Queen and Haider to Dedh Ishqiya and Filmistaan.

Rajkumar Hirani's PK, starring Aamir Khan as an alien baffled by organized religion, released December 19, 2014 — and went on to become the highest-grossing

Indian singer-songwriter Surjo released his debut album 'The Key Has Turned' in November 2014 — twelve acoustic songs written over three months.

After the Sony hack, five films — Annie, Fury, Mr. Turner, Still Alice, To Write Love on Her Arms — leaked onto file-sharing networks.

A 2014 report claimed SRK would return for Don 3 — but history took a different turn: in August 2023 Farhan Akhtar announced Ranveer Singh as the new Don.