This film, which became a very popular topic on social media, was banned from release in India because of serious controversy ...

A senior politician in India’s financial capital Mumbai has been shot dead weeks before a key state election. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

Kamal Haasan, the actor-turned-politician and chief of Makkal Needhi Maiam, was sworn in as a Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu ...

Really, it’s as simple as teaching women that it’s OK to be able to wear whatever they want and it’s OK to go to the movies at 11 p.m. The problem with India in particular is that rape has been so ...

The Hindi movie industry’s pluralistic and liberal ethos—Bollywood’s three leading men are Muslims—is resented by India’s current rulers, who aim to remake the secular republic as a ...

Vijayakanth appeared in 154 films and earned the moniker “Captain” from his 1991 action movie, Captain Prabhakaran. India’s prime minister Narendra Modi was among those who paid tribute to ...

Why Tamil movie heroes become politicians Fan clubs can quickly become get-out-the-vote operations . ... Tamil films in the 1950s and 60s were unashamedly political, anti-Brahmin and anti-Hindi.

Forced shut during a 1990s insurgency, cinemas are reopening in Kashmir. A new generation will now get to see Bollywood idols on the big screen. Is it a political maneuver, or a return to normalcy?