Fixing Bollywood, in more ways than one


Bollywood in crisis: The death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput has become a political issue in India, hogging the national headlines, often outdoing dire news on the Covid-19 pandemic, economy and a tense border stand-off with China. — AFP



MOST weekends, my golfing quartet includes a friend named Amos Ng, and it is the rare outing that he does not bring up Bollywood, which he seems to follow more closely than I do.

There are few Aamir Khan movies this Singaporean businessman has missed, and last weekend he surprised me by talking of another production called Bahubali, of which I was not aware.

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