Much has been written about Hollywood’s Jewish history. This, on the other hand, is a little more startling. In the early days of the similarly dynamic Indian film industry – Bollywood – Jews played a significant role. A number of Jewish actresses, in particular, grabbed the interest of Indian audiences with their charm and beauty….
The Hindi film business, also known as Bollywood, is one of the world’s largest worldwide film industries, with a population of over 1.3 billion people. It is also home to some of the world’s most famous actresses. Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Deepika Padukone, for example, have risen to international prominence as a result of their…
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) – Protests by India’s small Jewish population caused star actor Anupam Kher to drop out of a film about Adolf Hitler’s final days, a rare subject for a Bollywood film. Following an outpouring of messages on social networking sites and protests, Kher, who was set to play Hitler, told Reuters that he…
As you know, the story of the Jews in Hollywood is well-known. But what about the Jews in Bollywood? Bollywood makes more movies than Hollywood does in a year. There are more than 1,000 movies made in Bollywood each year. There is also a very interesting Jewish Bollywood story that needs to be talked about….
The acting of four Jews had a huge impact on the Indian film industry. They were all female. This is one of the lesser-known facts in all of cinema, and it is the topic of Danny Ben-groundbreaking Moshe’s 2013 documentary “Shalom Bollywood.” Men played women’s roles in the early days of Indian film since it…
Imagine yourself in the spring of 1913, at the start of Indian cinema — what we now know as Bollywood, the song-and-dance escapist film business. Because it was deemed impolite for Hindu and Muslim women to appear on film at the time, they hired big males with typical Indian mustaches to portray women by donning…
During his visit to India this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his love for Bollywood clear. “The world loves Bollywood, Israel loves Bollywood, and I love Bollywood,” he stated while extending an invitation to Mumbai’s film industry to shoot additional films in Israel. What better time than now to remember the many Jewish…
Satamkar (also Satamker) is a Bene Israel family who lived for centuries in Kolaba (now Raigad District) in the Konkan region, India. Most members moved to Israel from the 1960s through the 1980s; some have settled elsewhere in the world. Origins The Satamkar family has its origins in the village of Satamba/Virjoli (18.343726°N 73.092846°E), Roha…
Gerry Judah is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces. Early life Gerry Judah’s maternal and paternal grandparents came from Baghdad to settle in the already established Baghdadi Jewish community in India and Burma. His mother was born in Calcutta and his father in Rangoon….
Ranjit Chowdhry (alternate spellings: Ranjit Chowdhary / Ranjit Chowdhury) is an Indian actor, with around forty movies and television performances to his credit, besides acting in theatre as well. Varied spellings of his names have been used in credits. He has also appeared in several episodes of The Office, as Vikram, a telemarketer who worked…