Bollywood Beauty

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For those on my flist who are not familiar with it, Bollywood is the name for Indian movie industry. I simply adore Bollywood movies (which you can find in movie theaters and on-line rental places with English subtitles). They are lavish, beautiful musicals, often with happy endings. Often they are wonderfully melodramatic love stories. And they always have a bit of everything: fighting, love, comedy, tragedy, the works. And visually, they are stunning.

So here is a bunch of my favorite Bollywood pictures, beneath the cut:



Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra celebrating Holi in the upcoming Waqt:


Salman Khan and Sneha Ullal (with a LOT of back-up dancers) in the upcoming "Lucky," a Bolly star-crossed love story filmed entirely in Russia:


John Abraham and Lara Dutta as an Assasin and his Moll in Elaan:


Vidya Balan and Saif Ali Khan in the upcoming Parineeta:


Sushmita Sen as a courtesan in Kisna, a movie about a poet protecting an English woman during the Partition:


Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta in my favorite movie last year: Veer-Zaara, the story of a doomed love affair between an Indian air force pilot and a Pakistani aristocrat:


Abhishek Bachchan as an Enforcer in the gritty, harsh Yuva:


Ashwaria Rai and Ajay Devgan in the art-house Raincoat:


Madhubala as a doomed slave-girl in the newly colorized Mughal-e-Azam:


Arjun Rampal in Moksha, a movie with the neatest cinematography I've ever seen:


One of Bollywood's most famous movie couples, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, in Kabhi Khushi Kabie Gham:


The most visually amazing BW movie (Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit in Devdas):


Kareena Kapoor as a low-class hooker in Chameli


Amitabh Bachchan as an elderly patriarch separated from his wife in Baghban: