What is that one industry in Mumbai that shapes the way the city is perceived? Bollywood, you'd have to say. Hindi films have such a hold over the population that lakhs of people are willing to suspend belief on a daily basis, happy to be transported into a cinematic realm where they can leave their everyday worries behind for three hours. It all started with Dadasaheb Phalke's silent feature, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913. And then Alam Ara, the country's first talkie, made in 1931, changed the game.

Only this striking façade of the defunct Bhanganwadi Theatre in Kalbadevi remains, as testament to its heyday