
Bolly Volley Volume IV
Bolly Volley returns: Mere Brother Ki Dulhan hits theatres this weekend, with Mausam and Force lined up. A monthly shower of Bollywood previews and views.
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Bolly Volley returns: Mere Brother Ki Dulhan hits theatres this weekend, with Mausam and Force lined up. A monthly shower of Bollywood previews and views.

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.

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.

Retro Reel opens its run: why classic Hollywood — Casablanca, The Godfather, and the studio era — still outshines most of what plays today.

Bodyguard crossed Rs 200 crore, making Salman Khan's third straight blockbuster. The commercial logic of Bollywood now bends around one man — who is

In 2011, newlywed Reese Witherspoon toured a $14M Malibu home then occupied by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Inside the celebrity real-estate carousel.

Tabloids fretted over Angelina Jolie's thinness in 2011 — while celebrating the thinness they claimed to worry about. The double bind, examined.

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.

After admitting he fathered a child with a household staffer, Arnold Schwarzenegger began the long road back — personally and professionally.

Bolly Volley Volume 3 (July 2011): Arup Raha's monthly shower of Bollywood previews, reviews, and unsolicited views from the Hindi film beat.

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.

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.

Osama bin Laden hid next to Pakistan's top military academy for years. The 2011 jokes wrote themselves — here is our lovingly illogical explanation.

Aishwarya Rai's 2011 pregnancy raised a real Bollywood question: can a top actress keep a major career after becoming a mother?

John Abraham confirmed his nine-year relationship with Bipasha Basu had ended — quietly, directly, and without the usual Bollywood drama.

Tabloids claim Brad Pitt's parents prefer Aniston to Jolie. The real story is why the public can't let the love triangle end.

Reese Witherspoon will take the MTV Generation Award at Sunday's Movie Awards — joining Bullock, Stiller, Sandler, and Tom Cruise.

Hrithik Roshan's TV debut as a dance-show judge came with advice from Cat Deeley: be honest, be constructive, and remember personality wins votes.

A TOI story on Akshay Kumar's mango-loving humility has all the hallmarks of planted PR — until the humble farmer friend owns hundreds of acres.

Maria Shriver reportedly suspected the truth long before the LA Times broke it: how the Schwarzenegger marriage unraveled in May 2011.