In pictures: 100 years of Bollywood 1933 to 1943

Fearless Nadia: Bollywood’s B-Grade cinema queen was an Australian-born woman who could barely speak Hindi. But that didn’t stop her because her fan base only wanted to see their heroine exercise with clubs, put on leather chaps and a mask and hunt do???

P C Baruah: One of the great tropes of Hindi cinema is that of Devdas, the young man who loses his love because of his own inability to assert himself against his father, his social position and the decadence of society. PC Baruah was the first to see the???

Shobhana Samarth: One of the great stars of the 1930s, Shobhana Samarth, played Sita, the wife of Rama, in several cinematic versions of the great Indian epic, the Ramayana. She thus ‘became’ Sita and generations of calendar and comic book artists wou???

V Shantaram: Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram set up the Prabhat film company with Sheikh Fattelal and VS Damle, also highly regarded directors. Prabhat made some magnificent films on socially relevant issues such as communal harmony and the caste problem. But ???