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Jews in Bollywood: The Jewish actresses that shaped Indian cinema

New Delhi mural memorializes pioneering Baghdadi-Jewish film divas that helped shape the Bollywood film industry.

|ByGIL ZOHAR
Meenakshi Lekhi (left) and Naor Gilon unveil the mural of Nadira at Connaught Place in New Delhi.
HISTORICAL CASE revisited in a new light: ‘The Kashmir Files.’

Bollywood hit draws parallels with Kashmir, Israel-Palestinian conflict

Is justice served cold? The Bollywood feature film Kashmir Files is a raging sensation in India

|ByYESHAYA ROSENMAN
Priyanka Chopra attends the Oscar de la Renta runway show during fashion week in New York, US, September 10, 2019.

Indian commercial taken down following mass criticism over rape culture

This faced mass criticism from some of the biggest Bollywood stars for using a sexist and outdated narrative of objectifying a woman and even seemingly threatening her with sexual assault.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Indian film actor Abhishek Bachchan, his wife Aishwarya Rai and their daughter Aaradhya in a 2019 photograph

Bollywood's Bachchan family hit by coronavirus; Aishwarya joins Amitabh

People in northern and western India were conducting Hindu prayer rituals for the Bachchan family, social media and television footage showed.

|ByREUTERS