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...lost in Cannes's worship of directors: star quality. Choi had already vaulted to celebrity in the Korean blockbusters Shiri and Failan. Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li were bulwarks of Hong Kong cinema, before they decamped to Hollywood. And in India, actors like Amitabh Bachchan are near-deities. (Alas, the delirious seductions of Bollywood musicals still elude the Cannes programmers?no Indian pop musical has been invited to compete for the Palme d'Or in nearly a half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Cannes, Asia's star shines | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...DIED. HARIVANSHRAI BACHCHAN, 96, eminent Hindi poet and father of Bollywood film icon Amitabh Bachchan; in Bombay. The elder Bachchan is best remembered for Madhushala (Tavern), a 135-verse epic that celebrates the virtues of drinking. He was appointed a member of the Rajya Sabha, India's upper house of Parliament, from 1966 to 1972 for his contribution to Hindi literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...What the heck is Bollywood? Well, it's not your uncle's Satyajit Ray movies--stately pace, unknown actors, Ravi Shankar sitar music. Bollywood is a star-driven cosmos--actresses with names like Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor; hunks of every age, from stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, 59, to giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Bollywood | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...What the heck is Bollywood? Well, it's not your uncle's Satyajit Ray movies?stately pace, unknown actors, Ravi Shankar sitar music. Bollywood is a star-driven cosmos?actresses with names like Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor; hunks of every age, from stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, 59, to giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Bollywood | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...good part of Kabhie Khushi's $10 million budget went to pay for the leads: Amitabh Bachchan, who lit up the screens in the '70s and '80s; Shah Rukh Khan, who pulled in the audiences in the '90s; and current heartthrob Hrithik Roshan. Each is paired with an equally stellar actress: Bachchan with his real-life wife, Jaya, whose impish charm once made her the girl Indian men would have loved to take home to mom; Khan with Kajol Mukherjee, whose girl-next-door persona spawned some of the biggest hits of the past decade; and Roshan with Kareena Kapoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aiming for the Stars | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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