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This Hindi movie tells the story of a former athlete, now a working mother, who sets out to recapture her former glory.

In this Bollywood action flick, Salman Khan is a one-man wrecking crew. When not knocking heads, he dances.

Nitesh Tiwari’s follow-up to “Dangal” has a sweetly bland message and not much fizz.

Prabhas cuts a path of destruction in this convoluted Indian action movie.

A new movie about the superstar ballet dancer has a familiar documentary problem: great story, not-so-great storytelling.

Abhishek Varman’s maximalist melodrama delivers spectacle (some of it mind-numbing) but fails to tell a gripping story.

It’s all about the money and the numbskull gags in this third installment of a popular series.

The romance is pushed to the edges of “Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga” so lessons of tolerance can take center stage.

It inspired protests and threats of violence in India, but “Padmaavat” is something of a bore: a 3-D epic with the depth of a children’s pop-up book.

Kavi Raz’s film, based on the true story of Duleep Singh, never finds a rhythm or dramatic arc.

This Bollywood rom-com, directed by Shashank Khaitan, describes the growing pains of a gentleman whose fiancée teaches him to acknowledge her equality.

The “king of Bollywood” rarely plays the bad guy, but in this film he’s a criminal who’s also fighting corruption in 1980s and ’90s India.

The life of the captain of the winning 2011 World Cup team is recounted in this biopic from Neeraj Pandey.

Set in 2016 B.C., this Ashutosh Gowariker film is a standard epic adventure with music and romance.

Fists and feet fly in this movie with the usual grab bag of romance, comedy and drama, directed by Sabbir Khan and starring Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor.

Based on “Great Expectations,” the film, directed by Abhishek Kapoor, is more Bollywood than Charles Dickens.

A Hindu man falls for a Muslim woman in 18th-century India, in this film from Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Sooraj R. Barjatya’s film stars Salman Khan as a decent and playful fellow who intervenes in the power battles of a royal family.

Meghna Gulzar’s film is a fictionalized account of a sensational true-life crime in India.

Wim Wenders’s fiction-documentary hybrid introduces the Skladanowsky brothers, who shot playful scenes with a hand-cranked camera they invented in the 1890s.