# What’s the new movie on the floors?
# Who is hot in Bollywood and who is not?
# How are assorted special effects and underwater scenes filmed?
# Why are all movies flopping so bad?
# When is the next big one releasing?
# What’s new in the music scene?

If you find all these questions crucial and seek correct unbiased answers from an intelligent, reliable, no-nonsense source, then catch Bollywood Tonight Monday to Thursday on Zee Cinema at 8.30pm repeated on etc at 10.30 p.m.

This is not your everyday dumb filmi countdown show with dumber VJs. In addition to shootings coverage and star interviews, there also are sections on film business and marketing, shrinking returns on investment, logistics and distribution patterns, and other pressing issues facing the business economies of this industry, all dealt in a brusque, corporate like manner.

Bollywood Tonight is also not only about masala Hindi films. Be taken by surprise when the anchor discusses Oscar winning documentary films like ‘Birju’ etc. and such other off-beat cinema being analysed and people associated with them interviewed.

Besides making you meet directors, musicians, dance directors, latest starlets with lissome bodies, newest hunks and also superstars, Bollywood Tonight has also a 2-3 minute section in the end dedicated to a star, who is usually their ‘star of the fortnight’ featuring in all episodes of that period. So if you have spent sleepless nights wondering where Jimmy Shergill goes for a haircut, which bholay baba Priyanka Chopra believes in and whats Tushaar Kapoor’s favourite Italian food joint, Bollywood Tonight is the place to get all these crucial facts in your face.

So who rushes into the sets with cameramen after fixing difficult to obtain appointments to take a peek at what’s happening there? Who chases the airy stars, puts them at ease coaxing them to answer eloquently? Our very own MS member Bhavna, one of the team of reporters on this show.
Catch this pretty lady in yellow chit chatting the stars, checking their wardrobe and eating out with them. and evidently she enjoys each minute of her work. [Tell me Bhavna, how do you manage to keep such a straight face while talking to Tusshaar. OK I’ll stop, I won’t make fun of your occupational hazards. But please, can we have Karan Johar as the next star of the fortnight?]

Remember, how we read filmi magazines at while waiting at barber shops. These publications may not have died out yet, but Bollywood Tonight is a more stylish, sophisticated and clean journalism TV version of the same, hajaar times better than other TV shows of its genre, and something I find myself halting at while surfing channels for both filmi gyaan and filmi fun.