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Bollywood tries to get back its glitter
The Indian cinema industry now often makes many predictable films that fewer people want to pay to see.
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Once a force that shaped national narratives, India cinema now produces a glut of predictable films, often with nationalist overtones.
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Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay
Few families in India have shaped the country’s glitzy Hindi-language film industry more than that of Kareena Kapoor Khan.
Her great-grandfather, grandfather, great-uncles, uncles, mother, sister, cousins and now a nephew, along with her husband and mother-in-law, are Bollywood nobility: actors, directors, producers. Kapoor Khan herself has performed in more than 60 films.
