Marriages are fixed in heaven, but its conduct depends on us mortals. Bollywood never fell short of weaving sometimes fascinating, sometimes irritating tales around this plot. Time and again, the vulnerability of this relationship and its ups & downs are brought alive on screen. It’s the life after marriage that has found more prominence in Hindi cinema than the run up to it. It’s the fascination to show that marriage is not the end but just a beginning, which made filmmakers take up these storylines. Here’s a roundup of some films which will give a clear picture of how Hindi films portrayed the life after marriage.

The Saif Ali Khan's Padmashree fiasco might have put the Indian Government in the front seat burdened with questions like why are actors getting Padmashrees. But it was not the case before. Earlier, people with genuine contribution to their field were picked up by the jury, which included many Bollywood denizens. A trend started by talented actress Nargis way back in 1958, time and again many B-town actors have been nominated and awarded. However, the presence of Bollywood names on the list of awardees increased manifold over the last decade. With Saif Ali Khan and industry people still mulling over why he doesn't deserve the award and why does he deserve the award respectively, let's take a quick look at the actor and actresses who made Bollywood proud by clinching the fourth highest civilian award of the country in the last decade.

Salman Khan’s Veer once again brings into foray the historical richness of India. Though it’s a fictional story about a brave warrior, it did highlight a genre that’s becoming fast elusive – Period films. India began its cinematic journey with a historical film Raja Harishchandra. Earlier every third movie told the story of a certain facet of India’s heritage. However now, the larger than life portrayal of these ancient tales has been subjected to budget constraints. Nevertheless, Hindi cinema did produce in bounty some of the awe-inspiring historic sagas over the years. Here’s a look at those film which reprised the bygone eras of Indian history.

Notwithstanding the fact that 2009 had been the worst year in the history of Hindi film industry, filmdom is all sparked up for its upcoming 2010 bonanzas. The list is impressive with big movies, monumental star cast and hefty budget endeavours filling it. But how many of them will be able to prove their shine is something to watch out for. Nevertheless, here’s a sneak peak into some of the prolific movies ready to flock theatres in the first quarter of 2010.

Where recession set in, industrywallahs claimed that Hindi film industry won’t be touched. To assert it, they even went about releasing big budget movies one after the other. Unfortunately for them, they couldn’t control their fate at the box-office. Every big budget movie in 2009 beat the dust at the box-office adding more failures to this already loss-infested Bollywood. Here’s a list of those big budget movies which turned out to be nothing but turkeys.