Bollywood’s Three Hottest Actresses

  • Aishwarya Rai, crowned Miss World 1994, is Bollywood’s most famous actress. After marrying Abhishek Bachchan, she became practical royalty, with festivities that captured the nation. She is the highest paid actress is Bollywood and starred in the industry’s most succesful film Devdas. Additionally, she is the first performer from India to be featured on the cover of Time magazine.
  • Rani Mukherjee has been one of Bollywood’s brightest stars since her first film Raja Ki Aayegi Barat released in 1996. A year in Bollywood doesn’t go by when she is not headlining the biggest films. Along with Aishwarya Rai, she is considered one of the only Bollywood actresses who can open a film on her own merit.
  • Bipasha Basu was already a household name before she made her first film role because of her infamous appearance in Sonu Nigam’s video Tu. At only seventeen, she won Famous Ford Supermodels Contest. The incredibly sexy actress has gone on to work with Bollywood’s hottest actors and respected filmmakers. An insider note: her name means “deep dark desire.”
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Romance in Bollywood: A Few Popular Plot Lines

  • Love Aaj Kal is based in the year 2009 and takes us across the cities of London, San Francisco and Delhi. We get a peek into the life of Jai (Saif Ali Khan) and Meera (Deepika Padukone). They make a contemporary couple, living in London. They love each other and are leading a happy life. One fine day, they find their life being pulled in different directions. Not a couple who believes in tying each other down, they decide to go with the flow and let things take their course. They live life by practical rules – Love Aaj!
  • Anjaana Anjaani is the story is about a handsome boy, Akash and a chic girl, Viara, who are all set to end their life. Just when the two are supposed to [...]
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Bollywood Thrillers: A Few Popular Plot Lines

  • Allah Ke Banday is the story of two young boys aged 12 and 13 who live in one of the most ruthless slums of India (which the world recognizes as ‘Bhool Bhulaiyya’ or a maze – a place where you once enter cannot find your way out). Aspiring to make it big in the mafia world, the boys start delivering drugs and burgling people, only to be wrongly convicted for committing a murder. They are sent to the Juvenile Reformatory where they discover life is more chaotic and tougher in the reformatory than the world they belong to.
  • Aakrosh is a hard-hitter on the honor killings based on a newspaper article that appeared in the Times of India in 1995. The movie also reveals the reality behind a love story that is an outcome of barriers of caste.
  • Prince webs around a tech-savvy thief who is on a pursuit to get back his lost memory and a [...]
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Bollywood Comedies: A Few Popular Plot Lines

  • Jhootha Hi Sahi is rumored to be based on the 1999 British romantic comedy movie Notting Hill, and this Bollywood flick is a simple yet not-so-simple love story revolving around lies, laughter, friendship, love, and ‘true love’
  • Do Dooni Chaar revolves around the life of a middle-class man living in a metropolitan city. Santosh Duggal (Rishi Kapoor) is a school teacher, residing in a DDA flat in Delhi with wife Kusum Duggal (Neetu Kapoor) and kids Archit and Aditi. Santosh is coping with the daily inflation worries. As if this is any less, his wife Kusum constantly nags him for a luxurious life
  • Aisha is a perfect rom-com, what with its aesthetic looks, super stylish avatars and not to forget the ‘ah! so adorable’ characters. So, for all those who went head over heels with the chicks in ‘Sex and The City’, [...]
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Bollywood: Some FAQs

What is Bollywood? Simply put, Bollywood is the name ascribed to the Hindi-language film industry based in India. When it is combined with other Indian film producers (such as Tamil and Kannada) it is considered by some to be the largest producer in the world in terms of number of films released and that includes Hollywood.Is there a typical style attributed to Bollywood movies? The genre typically produced has been musical with melodramatic plots, but as time progresses the varieties reach across the spectrum to include horror and science fiction.Why is there so much dancing in Bollywood movies? The people of India have been raised on musicals and expect to see this familiarity in their movies. Certain producers have noted that if a movie does not contain choreography it doesn’t perform as well at the box office.Are there awards in Bollywood similar to those in Holywood? Yes, the Indian screen magazine Filmfare introduced their Filmfare Awards back in 1953 (which were modeled after Hollywood’s Academy Awards). Additionally, there are several other awards ceremonies such as the Zee Cine Awards and the Star Screen Awards.What’s on the horizon for Bollywood? Keen to get in on the profitability of Bollywood, US film companies are setting up offices in India to be front and center of this growing industry. Since Bollywood films [...]

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