India is home to over 1.4 billion people, with 22 official languages spoken across the subcontinent—so it should come as no surprise that the country boasts the world's largest film industry.

Many fans call the 90s the golden era of Bollywood romance. It was the time when romance transitioned from simple, family-oriented melodrama to emotionally-charged, larger-than-life romantic musicals.

Inside the Maratha Mandir movie theater, audience members jump to their feet as the first notes of an iconic mandolin riff play, their bodies casting silhouettes against the opening credits of a film ...