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All articles in INDIVUE – Trip to Bollywood are related to Indian movies, Bollywood and Hindi cinema.
INDIVUE has been online since 2005 and the first Bollywood movie review was written in 2008. In 2018 Trip to Bollywood renews itself and from now on it will guide you also to listen to the excellent music from these movies!
In addition you will find plenty of good Bollywood movies to watch. With English subtitles. All this with the guidance of INDIVUE – Trip to Bollywood.
Let’ss start with the introduction, which is a video titled a Successful landing in Mumbai (the home of Bollywood). Video, images and music by Indivue:
BEST OF BOLLYWOOD MOVIES
To help you find good Bollywood movies easily, Indivue checked plenty of movies and aggregated the best of 5 of Bollywood cinema. Those movies have all English subtitles. Find them here and have yourself the best movie experience ever!
Movies by actresses:
| Best of Anushka Sharma |
| Best of Deepika Padukone |
| Best of Kareena Kapoor Khan |
| Best of Priyanka Chopra |
| Best of Vidya Balan |
Movies by actors:
| Best of Aamir Khan |
| Best of Hrithik Roshan |
| Best of Ranveer Singh |
| Best of Salman Khan |
| Best of Shah Rukh Khan |
History of Indian cinema in short
Hindi cinema is also known by the name of Bollywood, because they combined the names of Hollywood and Bombay. Other theories have also been made about the birth of this concept. Nowadays Bombay is known as Mumbai, and as the commercial capital of India.
India itself is a huge country where people speak several languages. India has over 20 official languages and Indian movies are produced with over 30 different languages. The biggest and most important languages are Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Malayalam and Bhojpuri.
Movie itself came to India in 7th of July 1896.
The first Indian document was a wrestling match in Mumbai, Hanging Garden, in 1897.
Bollywood itself is over one hundred years old concept. The first Indian silent film Raja Harishchandra was published in 1913, as I mentioned in 21st of June 2012.
Alam Ara in 1931 was the first Indian movie with a sound, and a year later came the first movie with a background music. That movie was called Chandidas.
The first Indian movie in the Venice Film Festival was seen in 1934. It was called Seeta and it got also the first international reward.
Famous Indian movie awards are National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards, Stardust Awards, Star screen Awards, Bollywood Movie Awards and Zee Cine Awards.
The first Indian movie with singing was Bhagya Shakra in 1935.
The first commercially successful movie in India was Chandra Lekha in 1948.
The INDIVUE Trip to Bollywood in Finnish will tell you about the Bollywood movie premieres also. Find for example what was happening in Bollywood in 2017. Most of those movies have come for sale by now.
If you wish to read and see all that Indivue has written about Hindi cinema in Finnish in the past, then follow the preceding link. You will get to read hundreds of articles.
For example in 2016 Indivue wrote an article about the Best of Bollywood movies in 2000-2016 in Finnish.
The best, five star Bollywood movies of the beginning of this millennium were:
| Bajrangi Bhaijaan 2015 | * Listen the soundtrack of Bajrangi Bhaijaan |
| Dabangg 2010 | – Dabangg review *Listen the soundtrack of Dabangg |
| Dev.D 2009 | – Dev.D review *Listen the soundtrack of Dev.D |
| Dharm 2007 | – Dharm review *Listen the soundtrack of Dharm |
| Dil Chahta Hai 2001 | – Dil Chahta Hai review *Listen the soundtrack of Dil Chahta Hai |
| Goliyon ki Raasleela Ram-Leela 2013 | *Listen the soundtrack of Ram-Leela |
| PK 2014 | *Listen the soundtrack of PK |
| Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi 2009 | – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi review *Listen the soundtrack of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi |
| Road, movie 2009 | – Road, movie review |
| Tere Naam 2003 | – Tere Naam review *Listen the soundtrack of Tere Naam |
| Veer-Zaara 2004 | – Veer-Zaara review *Listen the soundtrack of Veer-Zaara |
| Woh Lamhe 2006 | – Woh Lamhe review *Listen to the soundtrack of Woh Lamhe |
These music samples here, provided by Apple Music, will tell you some essential names behind the music in Hindi movies, like Lata Mangehskar, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Lucky Ali, Shreya Goshal and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.
It is worth mentioning that all the movies reviewed by INDIVUE have been seen through Western eyeglasses. That way much of the movie experience is based on translation and English subtitles made by somebody else. This might explain why some Hindi cinema masterpiece does not ring the bell of the Finnish viewer. And this goes vice versa as well, of course.
In any case, it will be interesting for an Indian to see what Western people like in Bollywood. That’s one more reason to write this Indivue – Trip to Bollywood.
Bollywood movie reviews
Find movies reviewed on the scale of 1 to 5 stars here:
| Three star Bollywood movies *** |
| Three and a half star Bollywood movies ***½ |
| Four star Bollywood movies **** |
| Four and a half star Bollywood movies ****½ |
| Five star Bollywood movies ***** |
The first Bollywood movie I saw in an Indian movie theatre was called Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, and that was in Regal Cinema in Mumbai back in 2006. Those were the poor days for bloggers, when computers were withering slow and internet connections between Europe and India even more slower. Even today some big blog article in Indivue.com, like All the Salman Khan -movies, can take some time to open.
Some ten years later after Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna I managed to see another movie in an Indian movie theatre, and that was Shamitabh. The movie had been shot in Finland, partially, and it was the first movie as such.
But because of them essential subtitles, dvds and blurays were always my favourites. Luckily nowadays it is easy to see Bollywood movies with English subtitles also through Apple and iTunes.
When you don’t need the art to be packed in plastic covers, the art is less of an environmental burden.
The best and most well known female actresses in Bollywood and Hindi cinema at the moment
| Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan (Fin) |
| Alia Bhatt (Fin) |
| Anushka Sharma |
| Deepika Padukone |
| Kajol (Fin) |
| Kangana Ranaut |
| Kareena Kapoor Khan |
| Karisma Kapoor (Fin) |
| Katrina Kaif |
| Preity Zinta (Fin) |
| Priyanka Chopra (Fin) |
| Tabu (Fin) |
| Vidya Balan |
The best and most well known male actors in Bollywood and Hindi cinema at the moment:
| Aamir Khan |
| Amitabh Bachchan (Fin) |
| Abhay Deol (Fin) |
| Farhan Akhtar (Fin) |
| Hrithik Roshan (Fin) |
| John Abraham (Fin) |
| Kay Kay Menon (Fin) |
| Nana Patekar (Fin) |
| Ranbir Kapoor (Fin) |
| Ranveer Singh |
| Salman Khan |
| Shah Rukh Khan |
Indivue has been blogging and bringing online this Trip to Bollywood for over ten years. The latest updates to it are the safe affiliate links to Apple Music and iTunes -services. You can easily find Bollywood movies and music through them and if you have the Apple Music subscription, you can listen everything freely. (Apple and Apple Music are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.)
Back in 2012 Indivue wrote an article Celebrating the 100 years of Bollywood movies. There’s over 70 movies with English subtitles from one decade reviewed by Indivue.
Bollywood -movies by actresses
Here below is a list of actresses in the Hindi cinema, Bollywood. You can find film songs, music videos and movies starred by them in the following links.
In 2020 Trip to Bollywood in Facebook is filled with unique photos from India and with a touch of Bollywood – check it out, listen and follow!
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