Indian Cinema

India's top court upheld the death penalty on Thursday for a mastermind of the country's deadliest series of attacks and ruled a Bollywood star who bought weapons from the bombers must return to jail.

Indian actress Freida Pinto, of Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" fame, said on Friday she would have become a wedding planner if she had not succeeded in show business.

US director Steven Spielberg was in India's entertainment capital Monday to meet Bollywood filmmakers and stars of the country's film industry.

The director of a new Bollywood movie on the 2008 Mumbai attacks is promising an unflinching depiction of the tragedy, which some traumatised survivors fear will be too painful to watch.

Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has called for "immediate" action to protect women in India following the fatal gang-rape of a student that horrified the country.

"Kai Po Che", an Indian film about cricket, love and politics set against a tumultuous backdrop of brutal sectarian violence and an earthquake, bowled over the crowd at the Berlin film festival Thursday.

A court in Mumbai has ruled that Bollywood star Salman Khan will be tried for culpable homicide over a 2002 hit-and-run case which could land him behind bars for 10 years, his lawyer said Friday.

The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Thursday defended its ban on a new film by veteran actor Kamal Haasan, which has renewed fears over freedom of artistic expression in the country.

The money-spinning Hockey India League has made a promising start in its first season, drawing the world's top stars, a dash of Bollywood glamour, live television coverage and reasonable crowds.

Acclaimed British author Salman Rushdie cancelled a film promotional event and veteran Indian actor Kamal Haasan threatened to go into exile Wednesday after Muslim groups protested their work.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has insisted he is "safe and happy" in India in a bid to end a controversy sparked by an article he wrote on being Muslim in the Hindu-majority country.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan tops the first Forbes India Celebrity 100 with annual estimated earnings last year of $37.7 million, the magazine said on Friday.

A new Indian film looks at the sensitive topic of sexual harassment in the workplace at a time when Bollywood has come under fire for its portrayal of women, after a fatal gang-rape shocked the nation.

India's communications minister, already a poet in his spare time, has found another outlet for his creative ambitions: penning a slushy love song for a new Bollywood film.

India's communications minister, already a poet in his spare time, has found another outlet for his creative ambitions: penning a slushy love song for a new Bollywood film.

Blackburn global advisor Shebby Singh has rubbished claims that a Bollywood actor is a candidate to become the Championship club's manager.

Indian police have charged Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan for allegedly assaulting and breaking the nose of a South African businessman at a luxury hotel earlier this year, a report said Friday.

Bollywood wives were once expected to stay loyal, discreet and out of sight, but today they forge influential careers as businesswomen, designers and producers as India embraces celebrity culture.

Bollywood "demigod and prince charming" Shah Rukh Khan whipped thousands of Moroccans into a frenzy at the Marrakesh film festival when he danced to the tunes of movie songs at the Jamaa El Fna square.

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan returns to the big screen in his first commercial film release for three years, taking up the role of a mustachioed police inspector in a Mumbai crime thriller.