Second only to cricket – or is it the other way around? – is the Indian obsession with Bollywood (Mumbai Film Industry). The glitz, them glam, the masala movie, the melodrama and the aspirational lifestyles portrayed on screen took the masses by storm several decades ago and the craze is only getting stronger. Fuelled by the obsession to ‘reach for the stars’, it seems it’s almost every Indian’s ambition to take a Bollywood tour, even if it means only a peep at the actors’ homes from the outside. Not surprisingly, the famous Mumbai Darshan (sightseeing) tour run by the State Tourism Department and private tour operators in Mumbai have a mini Bollywood tour on their itinerary. This usually includes a drive-by the homes of the big stars, including the Bachchans in Juhu, and Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan in Bandra. Well, much of the action takes place on the sets of studios, where a large percentage of films are shot. There are structured Bollywood tours in Mumbai as Bollywood ...
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