MUMBAI (Reuters) – He’s starred in several Bollywood blockbusters, an Oscar-winning film and played a Middle Eastern leader on the American TV series “24″.

Anil Kapoor is now wooing Indian audiences with an adaptation of the hit thriller series about a counter-terrorism agent.

MUMBAI, April 18 (Reuters) – In a bylane next to Mumbai’s
biggest mall, in a suburb teeming with people even at midnight,
is a building that at first glance looks like an abandoned
warehouse.

The decrepit exterior hides the set of what may be one of
India’s most ambitious TV shows yet – the domestic version of
the U.S. television hit action series “24″, which its makers
hope will revolutionize Indian TV.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bollywood’s most famous villain Pran will receive the highest award in Indian cinema, the government announced on Friday, in a rare honour for an actor whose career spanned over 300 films in the second half of the 20th century.

Pran Krishan Sikand, 93, known to moviegoing audiences just by his first name, is the 2012 recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke award, instituted in the name of the man who made India’s first feature film a century ago.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Dinosaurs, rides named after Hindu gods and a dash of Bollywood put the spotlight on a new theme park on the outskirts of Mumbai that promoters say would match the lure of Disneyland and the Universal Studios theme park in Hollywood.

Adlabs Imagica, built at the cost of 11 billion rupees, opens next week and aims to woo India’s growing middle class with more spending power for tourism.

MUMBAI, April 5 (Reuters) – Bollywood is branching out from
its traditional song-and-dance dramas and slapstick comedies
with its first zombie films which filmmakers hope will entice
younger crowds back to Indian films from Hollywood’s living
dead.

Few horror films are made in Bollywood and those that do
make it to the big screen tend to focus on ghosts and the
after-life, which are common themes in Hindu mythology.