Bollywood celebrates rocking year, riding high on action flicks, unbridled masculinity and misogyny


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Bollywood stars Deepika Padukone (left) and Shah Rukh dance at an event to celebrate the success of their movie Jawan. — AP

Bollywood has made a financial comeback this year worthy of one of its traditional singing-on-top-of-the-hills moments.

India’s Hindi language movie industry made an impressive recovery after a pandemic-driven slowdown, audience fatigue with big studio productions and Bollywood megastars, and streaming platforms taking away a large chunk of viewership.

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