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Revamping Bollywood - Bold is Beautiful

Gone are the days, when actors and actresses were hesitant to show too much skin or refused to wear 'revealing' clothes or changed hairstyles to get into character(instead wore quite obvious wigs!!). Also gone are the days when a hero or heroine gradually stepped into aged roles after crossing a certain age limit. And even with the new brigade of actors like Ranbir, Imran, Harman, Sonam, Deepika or Shruti, the superstars that ruled the Bollywood stage since more than a decade have not yet called it quits and are still sizzling hot. So, who dares say that Bollywood is filled with stereotypes.

New Wave in Bollywood - More Experimenting Less Form...

Bollywood film undergoes a change as the new breed of filmmakers are now experimenting with new genres of short duration film-making, rather than sticking to age old three hours of dream drama. Like many other film industries across the world, Bollywood too has two streams of film making namely - Popular or mainstream commercial cinema and Parallel cinema. Bollywood filmmakers till now had an unrestrained eye for action, drama, song and flight sequence in their films to heighten dramatic effects. With plenty of time at disposal, watching a film used to be a popular form of entertainment...