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Only five years ago, it looked like it was all over for the King of Bollywood. After ruling Indian cinema as its undisputed superstar for a quarter century, Amitabh Bachchan began to bomb. A succession of films bled money. Endorsements dried up. Even his company's 1996 production of the Miss World beauty pageant was plagued by protests from both Indian conservatives and feminists. By the turn of the millennium, Bachchan found himself $20 million in debt and staring obscurity in the face. "The industry thought he was finished," says Ram Gopal Varma, director of Bachchan's latest hit, Sarkar...
...India. Movie buffs remember Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players, a classic in which the British seize the Indian kingdom of Avadh, and Lagaan, a crowd-pleaser nominated for an Oscar in 2002, in which the Indians thrash the British at cricket. But these are the exceptions. Most Bollywood films focus predictably on ishq?love?and little else. The travails of The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, India's most ambitious historical movie in years, show...
...this is solid material for a movie, and The Rising has been keenly anticipated, not least because it stars Aamir Khan, widely considered Bollywood's best actor. An aggressive marketing campaign saw images of Khan, looking livid but dashing in his red British uniform, plastered on billboards across India. Theaters were sold out on opening day. Then the protests began...
...actors in contemporary Shanghai filming a musical set in the decadent 1930s. A love triangle ensues, giving the stars a chance to work out their feelings in song?and dance, choreographed by India's Farah Khan. ("Chinese people don't dance," Chan explains. "I had to go to Bollywood.") In a Christmas season choked with high-profile Asian films like Memoirs of a Geisha, Perhaps Love promises to sing out above the rest...
...very classy quartet takes on one of Bollywood composer R.D. Burman's trashiest melodies, and the musicians are wise enough to keep the meticulousness of their playing from overwhelming the main attraction--the exuberant juxtaposition of Indian tabla, Chinese lute and rock rhythm...