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Add Sharmila Tagore 's name in the golden era actresses from 1940s to 1960s. Her performance oriented films included Anupama, Devar, An Evening in Paris, Aradhana and Satyakam. 2607:FEA8:FCC0:8068:C922:8C37:2358:B6C (talk) 15:17, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Day Creature (talk) 10:16, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
Merge proposal
I propose merging Hindutva boycott of Hindi cinema into Hindi cinema. I think the content in Hindutva boycott of Hindi cinema can easily be explained in the context of this article, and merging them would not cause any article-size or weighting problems. Dagoofybloke (talk?) 19:15, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
- Further comment: this main article currently lacks any criticism topics and povs (except plagiarism, which i think can be covered under a general criticism subtopic too). So merging Hindutva boycott of Hindi cinema into this should be a good start point. Dagoofybloke (talk?) 19:34, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not opposed to mentioning the boycotts in the main article, but it's a pretty small aspect of Hindi cinema and I don't know how much actually needs to be included. We definitely should not be treating negative content as a goal and need to be careful not to add any more than what's prominent in sources about Hindi cinema. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 18:28, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
Orphaned references in Hindi cinema
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Hindi cinema's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "nyt":
- From Orion Pictures: "BUSINESS PEOPLE; Chief at Orion Pictures Is Joining Paramount". The New York Times. February 21, 1992. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
- From Dharmendra: Kelly, Kevin (14 May 2006). "Scan This Book!". New York Times Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 December 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
- From Deutsche Welle: Johnson, Ian (21 August 2014). "German Broadcaster Fires Chinese Blogger". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
Deutsche Welle is owned by the government, much like the British Broadcasting Corporation or the Voice of America.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT⚡ 15:33, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
Requested move 15 March 2026
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Hindi cinema → Bollywood – Most WP:COMMONNAME. Looking at the sources, the term “Bollywood” is used 103 times while the term “Hindi cinema” is used six. Nutella lover • [ chat│supervise ] 12:43, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Lekritz: are you going to propose the name changes of these other topics aswell?
- ―Howard • 🌽33 13:51, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, I am. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. If this R.M. ends positively, I will later argue for a move of those articles. Nutella lover • [ chat│supervise ] 16:28, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
- Comment Previously discussed in 2022, which resulted in the current article title. 162 etc. (talk) 16:54, 15 March 2026 (UTC)