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Rachel Saltz is the dance editor on the Culture desk. She is looking forward to New York City Ballet's winter season, but in the meantime she watches too much TV [...]

Rachel Saltz, the dance editor, misses live performance, but is happy to take in a Hindi movie or three from home. 'Three by Raj Kapoor' The multi-hyphenate Kapoor -- writer-director-star-producer-studio [...]

Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana star in this charmingly low-key Hindi comedy. Mirza, the landlord of Fatima Mahal, the picturesquely crumbling mansion at the center of the Hindi film ''Gulabo [...]

This Hindi movie tells the story of a former athlete, now a working mother, who sets out to recapture her former glory. Jaya, the heroine of ''Panga,'' a working mom [...]

Rachel Saltz, the dance editor, has written about movies and theater. Her friends and colleagues (and colleagues who are friends) think she doesn't like anything. Not so. Here are her [...]

In this Bollywood action flick, Salman Khan is a one-man wrecking crew. When not knocking heads, he dances. The Bollywood movie ''Dabangg 3'' opens with several bangs: Wedding robbers are [...]

Don't worry if you don't get an A+ in math, kids. You are more than your successes in life, and more than your failures. That's the blandly sweet message of [...]

The action-thriller ''Saaho'' opens ''far from India,'' a voice intones, in an almost sci-fi city of gleaming, antiseptic skyscrapers. It could be Hudson Yards or Abu Dhabi (where some recognizable [...]

The life of the ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev has all the makings of an exceptional drama, or two or three. His rags-to-princes tale has Cold War intrigue, a thriller-worthy defection, [...]

In ''Kalank,'' a lavish Bollywood melodrama, people talk in mysterious ways. ''Some relationships are like debt,'' the hero says, gazing into the heroine's dark eyes. ''They cannot be redeemed. They [...]

''Got porn, Madam?'' That's what the high school boy known variously as Milk Carton and Egg Muffin asks a DVD store clerk after some stammering feints in the Tamil movie [...]

It's rare for a movie to announce so bluntly and accurately what it's about and why it exists, but the numbskull Bollywood caper ''Total Dhamaal'' wastes no time: ''It's all [...]

The makers of the Bollywood movie ''Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga'' have a touching, if slightly demented, belief in the transformative power of art. How to combat ugly [...]

The makers of the Bollywood movie ''Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga'' have a touching, if slightly demented, belief in the transformative power of art. How to combat ugly [...]

Before the opening credits roll in ''Padmaavat,'' a disclaimer carefully notes that the film is based on an epic poem that is considered a work of fiction. So, please, it [...]

At the beginning of Kavi Raz's ''The Black Prince'' we hear in a stentorian voice-over that the Lion of Punjab, a Sikh king, was ''fearsome, fearless and feared.'' Alas, the [...]

Recent Bollywood movies have tried out, hesitantly and conservatively, versions of the Modern Woman: Heroines can have careers; they can live alone in the big city; they can even (if [...]

The ''king of Bollywood,'' Shah Rukh Khan, rarely plays the villain. His specialty has been goofball sweetie-pies: romantics, naïfs, the occasional superhero with a runny nose. So it's not surprising [...]

You don't have to understand cricket to enjoy a good cricket movie. ''Lagaan'' (2001), whose centerpiece was a rousing match of underdog (Indian) versus overdog (British colonials), got the heart [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBefore the action starts, the Bollywood movie ''Mohenjo Daro'' assures that no animals were harmed during its making. More unusual, a note tells us that the film doesn't support [...]

The trailer for ''Baaghi'' has a body-count ticker -- a winking boast about the movie's martial spirit -- that tops out at 114. And though I didn't tally 'em up, [...]

''Kapoor & Sons -- Since 1921'' isn't about the dynastic family of Hindi movie directors, actors and producers. But it does star one of them, Rishi Kapoor (son of Raj, [...]

Based, sometimes loosely, sometimes carelessly, sometimes pointlessly, on ''Great Expectations,'' the Hindi movie ''Fitoor'' is at all times more Bollywood than Dickens. The Urdu word ''fitoor'' means ''madness,'' as in [...]

You know the story or one like it: Underdog boxer from the mean streets is taken up by a coach, himself in need of redemption. Together, this scruffy pair hope [...]

At the beginning of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ''Bajirao Mastani,'' a Bollywood romance set in 18th-century India, there's much talk of planting saffron (that is, Hindu) flags in Delhi, the heart [...]

The Bollywood movie ''Prem Ratan Dhan Payo'' is set in contemporary India, though it's one of palaces and quaint villages and low-rise cities, with the occasional iPhone and Mercedes thrown [...]

''A decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night'' -- certainly not with a man who is not her father or brother. That's what Mukesh Singh, interviewed in [...]

Wielding a rusty sword, justice fights an awkward battle against corruption, incompetence and viral gossip in the Hindi movie ''Talvar.'' Directed by Meghna Gulzar, from a script by Vishal Bhardwaj, [...]

France has the aptly named Lumire brothers and their Cinmatographe. America has Thomas Edison and his Kinetoscope. And Germany has the Skladanowsky brothers and their Bioskop. ''A Trick of the [...]

''Paint doesn't talk back,'' Paul Taylor muses in Kate Geis's absorbing new documentary, ''Paul Taylor: Creative Domain.'' But dancers do, and choreographers need dancers. Mr. Taylor seems to have figured [...]

Daniyal (Saif Ali Khan) and Nawaz (Katrina Kaif), the hapless secret agent heroes of Kabir Khan's revenge thriller ''Phantom,'' could have used some pointers before being sent into the field. [...]

''Fighter, are you ready?'' These words ring out again and again during the mixed martial arts tournament that dominates the second half of Karan Malhotra's body-thudding, blood-spurting Hindi movie ''Brothers [...]

In the period world of ''Bombay Velvet,'' Ranbir Kapoor -- with his pencil mustache, crop of flyaway hair and broad-shouldered jacket -- looks more than a bit like his grandfather [...]

''Piku,'' an offbeat Hindi comedy, would have you contemplate the intestines and mortality of one Bhashkor Banerji and the actor who plays him, Amitabh Bachchan. Bhashkor's life and conversation may [...]

Brainy, analytical and more interested in the truth than in social niceties, the detective Byomkesh Bakshy is a kind of Bengali cousin to Sherlock Holmes. Like Sherlock, Byomkesh started on [...]

You won't find talk about dwindling audiences or the need to expand repertories in Heddy Honigmann's documentary ''Around the World in 50 Concerts.'' Ms. Honigmann's movie, which follows the Royal [...]

''Vivacious Lady'' (1938) is a good place to start when contemplating the charms of Ginger Rogers, the subject of a MoMA Acteurism series. First there's that title, a reminder of [...]

About flying and freedom (and, of course, love), the Bollywood movie ''Hawaizaada,'' directed by Vibhu Virender Puri, spins legend into more legend. The year is 1895, and the setting is [...]

I Opened on Wednesday Directed by Shankar In Tamil, with English subtitles 3 hours 8 minutes; not rated An exercise in maximalism in everything except its title, ''I,'' a Tamil [...]

John Huston made his 1946 documentary, ''Let There Be Light,'' about soldiers with ''neuropsychiatric disorders'' -- what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder -- for the Army. But the Army [...]

No religions were harmed in the making of this film. That's the gist of a title card that runs before the credits in the Hindi movie ''PK,'' directed by Rajkumar [...]

Maverick and iconoclast are two words that have stuck, with good reason, to the director Robert Altman, an indie spirit avant la lettre, and the subject of a meaty retrospective [...]

''We felt like we were changing the world,'' says one of the women interviewed in Mary Dore's documentary ''She's Beautiful When She's Angry,'' about the early years of the women's [...]

Like most Bollywood movies, ''Kill Dil'' is a cocktail of familiar ingredients. Here, the mix is one part outlaw buddy film with one part romance, served with songs and twists. [...]

''Light and shadow, the two secrets of motion pictures,'' the faded film star tells her companion in ''Veronika Voss.'' Part of a generous Fassbinder retrospective running through Nov. 26 at [...]

There are no trade secrets or magic formulas revealed in ''Getting to 'The Nutcracker,' '' Serene Meshel-Dillman's documentary about a dance school preparing for a big performance. The unsurprising way [...]

''Oh, shut up!'' Elaine Stritch yells at a playback of herself singing ''The Ladies Who Lunch,'' captured by the filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker in ''Company: Original Cast Album'' (1970). At [...]

Instead of ''Haider,'' the director Vishal Bhardwaj might have considered calling his fast-and-loose adaptation of ''Hamlet'' ''Ghazala,'' after its Gertrude character. As played by the sad-eyed Tabu, Ghazala has such [...]

''Chinese Coffee,'' at the Roy Arias Stage II Theater, is an actors' evening. It's directed by a wonderful one, Louise Lasser (an ad for her acting studio is on the [...]

'The dead stay dead, but money's real,' says a character in 'Good Men, Good Women,' a 1995 film by the great Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Except in 'Good Men,' the […]