MUMBAI – From a family of prominent lawyers, he was expected to follow in their footsteps, but instead chose a career in the fledgling Hindi film industry — and uncharacteristically, not as a hero.

It was in 1993 that Shah Rukh Khan’s Darr re-established the era of antiheroes in Bollywood films. For those who do not remember, there came a time in Indian Cinema when the main lead was a man with ...

‘Mahal’ (1949), starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala, is widely regarded as India’s first psychological supernatural horror film. The story follows an aristocrat who moves into a centuries-old mansion ...