Cinema
The Centre of Gravity Has Moved South
The biggest Indian films of the decade were not made in Mumbai. The industry is finally admitting what the box office has been saying for years.
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Cinema.
Bollywood and far beyond it — the screen, big and small.
Cinema
The Single-Screen Survivors
India once had 24,000 single-screen cinemas. The few hundred that survived the multiplex and the pandemic are becoming something stranger: beloved.
Cinema
Streaming Finds Its Next Billion in Bhojpuri
The platforms spent a decade chasing English-speaking India. The growth, it turns out, was waiting in Bhojpuri, Haryanvi, and Rajasthani all along.