The Allure of India’s Underworld on Screen Indian gangster movies have always been a favourite among masses due to its realistic depiction of crimes, power and human mind. These movies crawl…
Mumbai Noir: How India’s Maximum City Became the Star of Its Own Crime Stories Introduction: Mumbai as More Than a Setting In the world of Indian movies, Mumbai is more…
A Darker Side of Bollywood Emerges For many years, Bollywood’s freewheeling mix of vibrant song-and-dance numbers and emotional melodrama has been known worldwide for its colorful spectacle. But beneath those sheen-kissed…
The Bollywood known for its “masalas and melodramas” but also its irresistible jaunty numbers is seeing a major transformation. The Indian film industry has seen a boom in experimental noir-themed thrillers in…
The Shadows of the Silver Screen Indian films are frequently associated with colorful dance sequences, melodious music, and romantic grandeur. But beneath this glossy exterior also lurks a genre of gritty, haunting…
The Rise of Noir in Modern Bollywood Since 2000, the year 2000, Bollywood, India’s lively answer to Tinseltown, has morphed from a euphoric song-and-dance industry into something else entirely. A new…
The Rise of New-Age Noir in Bollywood For the longest time, Bollywood has stood for glitzy, song-and-dance-filled jamborees, colorful aesthetics, and fantastical love stories. But in recent years, a darker and…
From Masala to Murk Indian film coupled with its bright colours, music and drama, had changed completely. Buried beneath the shiny surface of Bollywood’s stock stories is a dark, urban genre which…
The Evolution of Bollywood’s Dark Side Bollywood, known for its colorful musicals and love-soaked melodramas, is also gravitating toward the dark side. The past few years a curious sea change has…
Bollywood has been changing its style, which is known for the colorful musicals with dramatic narratives. And now, a new generation of filmmakers is picking up the neon noir baton a blend…