Category "indian-cinema"

Hindi movie where prisoner escapes by collecting matchsticks from prison guard [closed]

I remember seeing this Bollywood Hindi movie on TV around 1990, so it might have released in the mid-80's. The scene that I remember went so

Do Indian movies screened outside India, have intervals as well?

Do American movie theaters really have the intermission for Indian movies or do they skip it? Like: Indian movie theater do have an intermission for Baahubali

Why is Indian movie industry called as Bollywood? [duplicate]

Why does Indian movie industry use a portmanteau as a name? For instance, I never heard of "Hong Kong-wood".

Indian Movies have song where Actors Dance but hollywood movies don't [duplicate]

I have Been watching hollywood movies since 2005 but never saw a film where actor dance in beautiful garden and make love.whereas in Indian ci

Sarath Sandhya - Hindi film adaptation of the novel Manju

It is written in Wikipedia that, Manju, the Malayalam novel of MT, has a film adaption in Hindi too, named Sarath Sandhya. I tried Googling to find some info re

Whose phone numbers are shared in Indian Movies?

Many of the Indian movies contain dialogues which include phone number (of valid number of digits) shared with another character as per requirement in that movi

Why is Bandit Queen banned in India?

Bandit Queen is an Indian biographical film based on dacoit Phoolan Devi. I know that she fought to get it banned in India. But what is the exact reason behind

Which was the first Indian mythological movie to use the phrase 'Narayana, Narayana' whenever Sage Narada appears on the scene?

Viewers of mythological movies made in many prominent Indian languages (such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi), for many decades now, will instantly recogniz

Gopalan Nairude Thadi

According to Wikipedia and PRD, Govt. of Kerala website, Indian actor M. R. Gopakumar won the Kerala State Film Award for the Second Best Actor in 1999 for his

Why are Aamir Khan's movies so popular in China?

According to Wikipedia page for PK: PK became the highest-grossing Indian film in China in just 72 hours and grossed US$19.5 million (Rs 122 crore) in China

Are Bollywood actors actually filming 30 to 40 films at any one time?

In this interview Aamir Khan says most Bollywood actors are filming at various stages 30 to 40 films at any one time. Is this

Does Baahubali explicitly indicate that the cow scene is CGI?

I was watching Baahubali: The Beginning (acquired from questionable provenance) and during one scene, it had "C.G.I" in the corner of the frame as a watermark.

Why was Captain Ranvijay Singh's dead body released in the sea in the movie "The Ghazi Attack"?

In Ghazi (also called The Ghazi Attack), after Captain Ranvijay Singh died, his body was released in the sea. Is it due to religious reasons or is a naval code?