
Bolly Volley Volume 5
Ah, Diwali is less than a week away! It always brings back memories of the days when it was okay to burst a loud “chocolate bomb” just about anywhere. Words…
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Bollywood, Hollywood, books and the arts: films, stars, music and the stories Indian audiences in India and abroad are talking about.
226 articles

Ah, Diwali is less than a week away! It always brings back memories of the days when it was okay to burst a loud “chocolate bomb” just about anywhere. Words…
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…He has gotten up and exited from the gathering, and it’s as though one of the lights in our family room has been snuffed out …
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September 2011 tabloids alleged Ashton Kutcher cheated on Demi Moore on their sixth anniversary weekend — first cracks in Hollywood's age-gap marriage.
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At a 2011 Obama fundraiser, Lady Gaga used her moment with the president to press him on bullying and gay teen suicides — days after Jamey Rodemeyer's death.
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Imagine you are barely out of your teens and the anointed crown princess of your country. Every starry-eyed teenager wants to be you…But you, however, want…
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Farhan Akhtar called the 3D trailer of Shah Rukh Khan's RA.One 'outstanding' on Twitter, as he wrapped shooting Don 2 ahead of its December 2011 release.
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Mohammed Ayazuddin, 19, younger son of former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin, died after a Hyderabad bike accident and was laid to rest in September 2011.
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In 2011 Forbes named Tyler Perry the highest-paid man in entertainment at $130 million — the story of serving an audience Hollywood ignored.
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I am ready with a new edition of Bolly Volley (late again!). I know many are eager to watch the major Bollywood release this weekend – “Mere Brother Ki…
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Bodyguard's record ₹21.6 crore opening made Kareena Kapoor Bollywood's undisputed No. 1 heroine in September 2011 — with four Khan films lined up next.
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Google's animated doodle marked Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday — a tribute to the Queen frontman born Farrokh Bulsara to a Parsi family from Gujarat.
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Bodyguard crossed Rs 200 crore, making Salman Khan's third straight blockbuster. The commercial logic of Bollywood now bends around one man — who is
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In 2011, newlywed Reese Witherspoon toured a $14M Malibu home then occupied by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Inside the celebrity real-estate carousel.
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Tabloids fretted over Angelina Jolie's thinness in 2011 — while celebrating the thinness they claimed to worry about. The double bind, examined.
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Reports in 2011 said Rihanna spent about $23,000 a week, not a month, on her hair. Revisiting the tabloid claim, her stylist, and the sauna rescue.
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After admitting he fathered a child with a household staffer, Arnold Schwarzenegger began the long road back — personally and professionally.
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Farhan Akhtar sent a legal notice to the Times of India group over an April 2011 Bombay Times story linking him to an assistant director.
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After nearly a decade together, Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza married in February 2012 in a Hindu ceremony and a church wedding the next day.
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Osama bin Laden hid next to Pakistan's top military academy for years. The 2011 jokes wrote themselves — here is our lovingly illogical explanation.
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Aishwarya Rai's 2011 pregnancy raised a real Bollywood question: can a top actress keep a major career after becoming a mother?
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