A once-popular romantic telenovela actor recently announced that he would lead an effort to launch a socialist propaganda film industry in Venezuela backed by an accused money launderer for the regime there, Venezuelan media reported this weekend.
Indian actress and model model Poonam Pandey says she faked her own death to raise awareness of cervical cancer, adding her actions were “necessary” to raise awareness around the malady.
Police officers in Mumbai, India, filed a first information report (FIR) — which is the initial step taken by police during a criminal investigation in India — against Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh on Tuesday accusing the star of “obscenity” for recently posting nude photos of himself to his social media accounts, the Indian Express reported on Wednesday.
India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is conducting a high-profile investigation into a drug ring that allegedly includes some top “Bollywood” entertainers and wealthy socialites as its customers.
Some of the most popular actors in India’s thriving movie industry, affectionately known as “Bollywood” by aficionados, have reported testing positive for the coronavirus. Hopes for a speedy recovery are being sent by millions of fans and high-ranking Indian politicians.
An Indian journalist said on Friday that she is facing “rape threats” after being suspended from her job at the Hindustan Times, one of India’s most prominent newspapers, for a post on Twitter in which she referred to Krishna as, among other things, a “fuckboi.”
NEW DELHI — Irrfan Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India’s best-known exports to Hollywood, has died. He was 54.
President Donald Trump applauded the release of an upcoming Bollywood film featuring its first-ever gay male lead, as his administration continues to push for the decriminalization of homosexuality around the world.
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton danced with “King of Bollywood” Shah Rukh Khan at the $100 million Mumbai wedding on November 30.
MUMBAI – Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu makes an emotional visit this week to a Jewish centre targeted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, in a trip that India’s tiny and shrinking Jewish community hopes will boost its profile.
During his four-day visit to India next week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to strengthen the Jewish state’s ties with the Bollywood film industry, according to media reports.
A regional chief media coordinator for India’s ruling party, Suraj Pal Amu, offered a 100 million rupee ($1,542,615) prize to anyone who would behead starring actress Deepika Padukone and director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for the film Padmavati, a period epic depicting the life of the Rajput queen Padmini.
The new Bollywood film Raees is on track to be one of the year’s biggest films in India. According to the Times of India, it is the third-biggest film of the year. However, it will not be playing in Pakistan, where the government has banned it for “not showing the real face of Islam.”
Pakistan has decided to block all television and radio channels that broadcast content from its regional nemesis and neighbor India, a testament to the ongoing tension between the nuclear armed countries that has prompted media tit-for-tat bans, reports Reuters.
British soldiers working to dislodge the Islamic State from Libya are using loud Bollywood music — the percussion-heavy genre popularized by Indian films — to annoy and disorient the enemy, according to multiple reports.
Jerry Bruckheimer told a Loyola Marymount University film school audience last week that “Tinsel Town” is about to cede its moviemaking dominance to China, and TV is the future.
