Bollywood's new slew of homegrown musical blockbusters have recently played an industry-morale-boosting game of cost one-upmanship: Records for the highest-budget Indian film were broken four times in under three years, according to studio publicity claims. BAM's series offers big-screen revivals of these adrenaline-pumping superhits. Those unacquainted with the new Bollywood may be surprised by how the relatively coy, low-tech cinema of previous decades has evolved into glossier, global idioms: MTV beats, hip-hop-inspired dance moves, hard-bodied young stars, middle-class consumerist settings, and—perhaps the most... More >>>