India is home to over 1.4 billion people, with 22 official languages spoken across the subcontinent—so it should come as no surprise that the country boasts the world's largest film industry.

New Delhi: Remakes have dominated Hindi cinema, and Bollywood has adapted several preexisted films from different places; be it Hollywood, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, or other regional languages.

Inside the Maratha Mandir movie theater, audience members jump to their feet as the first notes of an iconic mandolin riff play, their bodies casting silhouettes against the opening credits of a film ...

Bollywood films have a unique ability to capture hearts, transcend language barriers, and, yes, make dancing through fields look impossibly romantic. But it may surprise many readers to know that ...