Time on Bollywood

Time Magazine's Asia Edition has a cover story on Bollywood: Queen of Bollywood, with Aishwarya Rai on the cover. And a nice appreciation by Richard Corliss: Bewitched by Bollywood:

...For I am that strange, nearly solitary creature: a non-Indian fan of Indian movies.

Indian popular movies, that is. The movies that sing. The movies that show beautiful people suffering glamorously, wrestling with dilemmas of family honor and filial loyalty and, when words can't express the ache or ardor in their hearts, dancing vigorously with a couple of hundred of their best friends. The movies that enthrall, enrage and obsess a billion Indians, on the subcontinent and around the world. The ones that almost no serious film critic west of Suez notices, let alone cherishes. ..