Stardom

How Bollywood stars are made and kept: careers, comebacks, fan culture, star kids and the business of fame, reported with sources by the Gulabi desk.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: The Business of Being a Brand

Priyanka Chopra Jonas turned fame into producing, investing and products. The ventures her record documents, and where the reports show setbacks.

Kartik Aaryan came from Gwalior with no film connections. His path from auditions to a National Award shows how audience goodwill builds a star.

Ananya Panday debuted as an actor's daughter and faced the nepotism debate. How her films and her own words answer the star-kid question.

Sunny Deol's career stalled for years before Gadar 2 in 2023. What his biography records about the gap, the return and the reasons critics give.

Ayushmann Khurrana went from radio and Roadies to small-budget hits and a National Award. A look at the career, its flops and its comeback.