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The Producers Guild of India is launching a wide-scale vaccination drive for its members and associated production crews. The multi-day program will be held at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai and will begin June 1. The intention is to vaccinate thousands of production house personnel and crew. Organizers said that mass…

The Mumbai film industry is on de facto lockdown after the local government mandated that all film and TV shoots be paused until at least May 1 due to spiraling Covid-19 cases in the country. Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister of the Maharashtra region, announced the decision on Wednesday evening (April 14). He stopped…

EXCLUSIVE: For Janhvi Kapoor, playing the lead role in the first major Bollywood film to hit Indian cinemas since they returned to full capacity earlier this month is a nerve-wracking responsibility. The movie, the horror comedy Roohi, has pressure on its shoulders to paint a rosy picture of the Indian box office…

Bollywood actor Asif Basra, best known for his role in the 2006 comedy feature Outsourced, was found dead Thursday at a private guest house in Dharamsala, northern India. His death is being investigated as an apparent suicide, according to Indian news outlets. He was 53. Born in Amravati, western India, Basra has…

After a prolonged period of shutdown, cinemas in certain regions of India begin re-opening today. The famously cinema-hungry nation has been deprived of physical venues since March, when it entered a serious lockdown that continues today. India is currently recording the highest global daily rate of confirmed COVID…

EXCLUSIVE: We recently caught up with Bollywood megastar Akshay Kumar (Rustom) about his latest movie, Bellbottom, the 80’s set spy movie which wrapped last week in Scotland. Kumar also discussed his next projects and whether, given his huge following, he could be tempted into other fields such as politics. Directed…

Alexa, make way for Amitabh Bachchan. Amazon announced Monday that the Bollywood star will lend his voice to the tech giant’s assistant device Alexa starting next year. He will be the first Indian actor to voice the Amazon artificial intelligence gadget. In a post for its India blog, Amazon said the new feature will…

UPDATE: Amitabh Bachchan, one of India’s most famous film stars, has been discharged from the hosptal after testing negative for COVID-19. The 77-year-old actor spent three weeks in the hospital after a positive test. However, “I have tested COVID negative, have been discharged. I am back home in solitary…

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India crossed one million today, meaning the country now has the third highest infection rate in the world behind only Brazil and the U.S.. That compounded news earlier this week that Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, and his family, had tested positive for the virus and…

Despite finding his entire industry shutdown by this pandemic, Bollywood megastar Abhishek Bachchan says he has had a productive few months developing his own projects, recording an English dub for his new Amazon show Breathe: Into The Shadows, and most crucially, spending time with his loved ones. That's not…

Saroj Khan, one of the most prominent Indian dance choreographers in Hindi cinema whose career spanned more than 40 years, has died. Khan passed away Friday from cardiac arrest in a Mumbai hospital, her nephew Manish Jagwani confirmed to PTI news agency. She was 71. Over the course of her career, Khan known as The…

India's film and TV biz continues to edge closer to a return to production with the publishing of a government-endorsed set of COVID-19 shooting guidelines The protocols, which you can read a scan of here, cover increased hygiene, distancing and testing, mirroring many similar documents we have seen published around…