| Bollywood Icons:
100 Years of Indian Cinema, 8th March - 16th
June 2013 |
 This
year is the centenary anniversary of the first
Indian feature film, Raja Harishchandra, and
the National Media Museum Bradford is marking
the historical occasion with the exhibition
Bollywood Icons: 100 Years of Indian Cinema
(March 8th – June 16th 2013). The exhibition
will display 53 vintage posters including
rare first prints from Bambaiwali (1941) Coolie
(1983) Teesri Manzil (1966) & Ram Teri
Ganga Maili (1985). It also features clips
from the first Indian feature, Raja Harishchandra.
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| Raj
& Pablo launch 'Love Bollywood' compilation
album, 25 October 2010 |
 Bollywood
“IT” Boys, Raj&Pablo are set
to release ‘Love Bollywood’, a new
compilation album featuring over 40 of the
duo’s favourite tracks ranging from great
classics such as ‘Dum Maro Dum’
(from the film Hare Rama Hare Krishna) to
the very latest hits such as ‘Tere Liye’
from Prince.
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| 'The
Art of Bollywood' by Rajesh Devraj & Edo
Bouman, Out 15 March 2010 |
 'The
Art of Bollywood by Edo Bouman and Rajesh
Devraj features some of the best examples
of hand-painted Bollywood movie posters. Since
its inception in the the 20th century, the
Bombay-based Indian film industry has developed
a unique visual language, articulated by the
vivid hand-painted movie posters that have
since become highly-desirable collectors'
items.
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| Bollywood
Weddings By Kavita Ramdya, USA Release 1 Feb
2010 |
 Kavita
Ramdya’s debut book, 'Bollywood Weddings:
Dating, Engagement and Marriage in Hindu America'
is an anthropological study of Indian-American
Hindus in the tri-state New York area. It
attempts to answer the age-old question -
Why do we marry the people we choose to marry?
Ramdya attempts to answer the question and
what our choice means in terms of expressing
our national identity.
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| Top
10 Favourite Bollywood Dance Songs |
 Listing
my top ten favourite Bollywood dance songs
is a tall order, so what I've done is choose
mine on the basis that either they make me
want to dance or the dance choreography is
stunning. 'Inhi Logon Ne' from the 1971 classic
film 'Pakeezah' and 'Shava Shava' from 'Kabhi
Khushi Kabhie Gham' didn't quite make it into
the top ten but are great songs.
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| BOLLYWOOD
CRAFTS FOR CHILDREN, OUT NOW |
 The
glitzy, vibrant and alluring style of Bollywood
is captured here with 20 eye-catching, easy-to-make
projects inspired by 10 classic Bollywood
films from the 1961 'Mughal E Azam' to 2003
film 'Koi Mil Gaya'. Simple
step-by-step instructions and photographs
show how to create fabulous accessories and
lavish home furnishings, painted candles and
trinket boxes.
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| ROMANTIC
BOLLYWOOD MOVIE GUIDE - TOP 20 FILMS |
Ask any two experts for their favourites and
you'll get more points of disagreement than
agreement, so when Redhotcurry.com asked six
female Bollywood movie experts for their choice
of the most romantic Bollywood movies ever,
we were quite surprised by the results. Classics
like Awara, Andaz, Pakeezah and Mugal-e-Azam
appeared to be among our experts' favourites.
Featuring stars of yester year like Raj Kapoor,
Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Nutan and Meena Kumari;
it is hardly surprising that the early days
of Bollywood are seen as the Golden Era of
the great romantic movie.
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| BOLLYWOOD
HOMES |
Selfridges recreated
the home of real-life Bollywood film star,
Dimple
Kapadia in store during their 23 1/2
days of Bollywood' promotion in May 2002.
The 333 square foot space was complete with
a living room, bedroom, study, dining room
and powder room and was of a style only
seen on film. The opulent recreation was
the work of designers Abu Jani and Sandeep
Khosla.
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| 'BOLLYWOOD
WORKOUT' EXERCISE VIDEO |
 With
Europeans having acquired a seemingly insatiable
appetite for Indian culture in all its forms,
it seems that the UK cannot get enough of
the vibrant colours, passion, glamour and
energy of Bollywood. To follow this trend,
Momentum Pictures has released Honey Kalaria's
'Bollywood Workout', an exercise video and
DVD based on the music and dance of the Indian
film and dance music industry.
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| THE
MUSIC OF BOLLYWOOD - OUT NOW |
 A
definitive anthology of Bollywood music, this
CD box set is a MUST HAVE for all filmi fans.
Bollywood was really born with the advent
of sound. The first Indian "talkie",
'Alam Ara', was released in March 1931. It
caused a storm, as it included seven songs
which were a massive hit with the audience.
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| THE
ROUGH GUIDE TO BOLLYWOOD |
 What
a trip down memory lane! DJ Ritu of 'Kuch
Kuch' Club fame has teamed up with Asian broadcaster
Bhagwant Sagoo to sift through some of the
best Bollywood songs of the last thirty years
in a CD entitled 'The Rough Guide to Bollywood'
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| BOLLYWOOD
BOOKS |
 Read
our overview of some of the hottest Bollywood
Books, ranging from the Encyclopaedia of Indian
Cinema by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Bollywood -
The Indian Cinema Story by Nasreen Munni Kabir,
Bollywood Cinema by Vijay Mishra, Bollywood
Pocket Essentials by Ashok Banker to Bollywood
Boy by Justine Hardy and Balham to Bollywood
by Chris England.
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| 'SHOLAY'
TOPS POLL ON INDIAN CINEMA |
 'Sholay',
Ramesh Sippy’s 1975 ‘curry western’,
has topped the British Film Institute’s
poll on Indian cinema. With a dialogue that
achieved cult-status, the film tells the story
of two runaway thieves defending a village
against bandits.
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