Bollywood

Actor Irrfan Khan wasn’t the biggest star in Bollywood, but he was unique.Irrfan Khan died last week from endocrine cancer. He was 53. Sandip Roy…

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck really…

Sandip Roy remembers the iconic Indian actress Sridevi, who died unexpectedly on Feb. 24, 2018. Age 54.

Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening in a…

An iconic Indian "Bollywood" film reminds Sandip Roy that a solid relationship can transcend the oceanic gap of language.

July 2, 2014: R.D. Burman would have turned 75 last week and Bollywood threw a great birthday bash. Sandip and Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington…

This is a story about two films that are in the eye of a peculiar storm in India.One is called Gulaab Gang. The other is called Gulaabi Gang with an "I."…

It may have been passed over for an Oscar nomination, but the New York Times calls The Lunchbox a Bollywood anomaly - a quiet movie of unexpressed anguish…

Love in India is often over the top. In the weekly magazine Open I read about a 30-year old lawyer in the town of Patna. He leaves I love you notes for…

On May 3 1913 D G Phalke stunned Indians with Raja Harishchandra, a melodramatic mythological film he called a performance with 57,000 photographs. He…