Jessica Hines

Jessica Hines is co-author, with Imran Khan, of a book of photographs by Gavin Fernandes about the Bombay cinema industry. A consultant to Channel 4 for their Indian season next year, she is currently writing the biography of Amitabh Bachchan.

Bollywood: beyond the boundary

Western films these days are littered with deconstructed men. Not so Lagaan. The vital difference today between a Hollywood star vehicle and a Bollywood spectacular is that Bollywood heroes are

By Jessica Hines

/ 29 Aug 2001