MUMBAI, India (Reuters) – Protests by India's small Jewish population caused star actor Anupam Kher to drop out of a film about Adolf Hitler's final days, a rare subject for a Bollywood film.
Following an outpouring of messages on social...
As you know, the story of the Jews in Hollywood is well-known. But what about the Jews in Bollywood? Bollywood makes more movies than Hollywood does in a year. There are more than 1,000 movies made in Bollywood each...
The acting of four Jews had a huge impact on the Indian film industry.
They were all female.
This is one of the lesser-known facts in all of cinema, and it is the topic of Danny Ben-groundbreaking Moshe's 2013 documentary "Shalom...
Imagine yourself in the spring of 1913, at the start of Indian cinema — what we now know as Bollywood, the song-and-dance escapist film business.
Because it was deemed impolite for Hindu and Muslim women to appear on film at...
During his visit to India this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his love for Bollywood clear. "The world loves Bollywood, Israel loves Bollywood, and I love Bollywood," he stated while extending an invitation to Mumbai's film industry...
Satamkar (also Satamker) is a Bene Israel family who lived for centuries in Kolaba (now Raigad District) in the Konkan region, India. Most members moved to Israel from the 1960s through the 1980s; some have settled elsewhere in the...
Gerry Judah is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces.
Early life
Gerry Judah's maternal and paternal grandparents came from Baghdad to settle in the already established Baghdadi Jewish community in...
Ranjit Chowdhry (alternate spellings: Ranjit Chowdhary / Ranjit Chowdhury) is an Indian actor, with around forty movies and television performances to his credit, besides acting in theatre as well. Varied spellings of his names have been used in credits....
Florence Ezekiel Nadira (5 December 1932 – 9 February 2006), commonly known as Nadira, was an actress in Indian cinema. She is best remembered for her performance in films in the 1950s and 1960s such as Shree 420 (1955),...
Pearl Padamsee (1931–2000) was an Indian theatre personality as a stage actress, director and producer of English language theatre in Mumbai active in 1950s–1990s.
She also acted a few Hindi and English language films. She performed in at least ten...