Bollywood

14 March 2008 -- India's Supreme Court has suspended legal proceedings against Hollywood actor Richard Gere, who faced obscenity charges for publicly kissing Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty last year.

Friday, the court indefinitely stayed the arrest warrant issued against Richard Gere and granted him permission to travel to and from India.

Richard Gere embraced and kissed Shilpa Shetty on her cheek at the public AIDS awareness event in New Delhi last year, prompting Hindu hard-liners to allege the pair had offended India's conservative culture.    » read more »

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 -- From political headlines to interviews with policymakers and economists, musicians and Bollywood royalty, "South Asia NOW" examines the latest in news, politics and culture of South Asia. "South Asia NOW" is America's first network show all about South Asia -- Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka - that includes reporting from ABC News correspondents based in the region and news and interviews with South Asia's most fascinating people.    » read more »

Popular Story of "The Cheetah Girls" Continues as Chanel, Aqua and Dorinda Travel to India to Star in a Bollywood Movie

BURBANK, December 17, 2007 -- Disney Channel viewers will play a part in determining certain elements of the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie "The Cheetah Girls One World" via a global online poll, Play Your Part, at DisneyChannel.com/CheetahGirls rolling out beginning December 31 and concluding February 1, 2008.    » read more »

28 September 2007, Washington (By Ray McDonald) -- Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of her much-condemned kiss with fellow movie star Richard Gere.

Immigration authorities at Mumbai Airport briefly detained the Indian actress on September 26, saying she was still wanted for obscenity charges filed in the wake of her April 15 kiss.    » read more »

Trivandrum, India, 23 August 2007 (By Raymond Thibodeaux) -- India's movie industry raked in about $2.1 billion last year, a figure that experts expect to double in the next four years. "Bollywood," the film industry centered in Bombay, has become synonymous with Indian films, but India has other "Ollywoods," each with its own devoted fans. Raymond Thibodeaux reports from Thiruvananthapuram- better known as Trivandrum - the capital of Kerala State in southwestern India.    » read more »

New Delhi, 31 July 2007 (By Anjana Pasricha) -- A popular Indian film star, Sanjay Dutt, has been sentenced to six years in prison for illegally acquiring arms from gangsters involved in serial bombings that rocked Mumbai in 1993. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, Dutt was among the last to be sentenced in a trial that has dragged on for more than a decade.

Sanjay Dutt arrives at a special court in Mumbai, 31 July 2007
Sanjay Dutt arrives at a special court in Mumbai, 31 July 2007    » read more »

29 May 2007 -- For decades, the first choice of movie-obsessed audiences in India has been the Hindi-language films produced by the country's hugely popular film industry, known as "Bollywood." But a surprisingly successful run by the American-made Spider-Man 3 reveals the rising popularity in India of Hollywood movies. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi.

When Spider-Man 3 was released in India in early May, it was not just English-speaking audiences in the big cities queuing up to watch the film.    » read more »