The Bollywood Ticket
Jennifer Hopfinger,
editor of The Bollywood Ticket, spotlights all things filmy in her column,
Open to Interpretation.
Ekta Garg is a contributing writer to The Bollywood Ticket and a guest columnist for Open to Interpretation.
Who’s Who in Bollywood: Directors of Yesteryear
In the first of a three-part series on the great directors of Bollywood, learn about the notable Hindi filmmakers of the past, from Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor to Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra. Their work is revered today as classics.
Books Bollywood fans will love
Hindi film may be one of the most dynamic mediums ever, so much so that its magic springs from mere written words about it with undiluted vibrancy—in the hands of a skilled author, that is. The Bollywood Ticket recommends essential reading for film buffs and bookworms alike.
Bollywood deserves its own Oscar category
Bollywood, the largest film industry in the world, has never won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards—and it’s not because Bollywood films don’t deserve the honor. The category should be renamed Best European Film for the sake of accuracy—and Bollywood should get its own category.
The claim that Hollywood is realistic because it focuses on the marginalized and degenerate and that Bollywood is not because it focuses on different social realities doesn’t make any sense. And realistic or not, on a basic level, all entertainment is escapist—otherwise, what would be the point?
Who’s Who in Bollywood: Part 2 - Actresses
You met the biggest actors in Bollywood in Part 1—now learn about the top actresses who light up the screen.
Who’s Who in Bollywood: Part 1 - Actors
Despite the fact that Bollywood exceeds Hollywood in film output, Bollywood has a much smaller star system—and that makes it easier for new fans to figure out who’s who. In the first of two parts, a rundown of the biggest and brightest in the Bollywood universe.
Hollywood and Bollywood are melding right now, with big bucks driving the fusion, and those financial forces were bringing the two industries together long before the phenomenon of Slumdog Millionaire.
