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...
When we think of the subcontinent, we think of the Mughal invasions of 1526 and the partition dates of 1947. The subcontinent's destiny and final division would be shaped by the Durrani regimes, Mughal emperors, British rule, and the...
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...
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 Jewesses of Bollywood were small, but they had a lot of power.
Bollywood, which is a term used to describe the Indian film industry, makes more than a thousand movies a year that are seen by 3 billion people...