Bollywood Online on IndiaFM : India’s premier Bollywood portal
There are numerous Bollywood and other sites that claim to be the most comprehensive websites on the web. But are they really that good? Not at all!
I can site you many examples and you can check it by yourself how ’’great’’ these sites are :
https://radiosargam.com/
https://planetbollywood.com/
https://filmfare.com/
...and numerous more!
Now check out IndiaFM, and you’ll feel the difference pretty soon.
Coming back to the website, it is awesome, amazing, excellent, brilliant... Well, I am running out of adjectives at this stage. The site has many features that will appeal to a movie buff like me. In short, an ideal for a die-hard Bollywood fan!
IndiaFM is updated daily (except Sundays) at around 09:30 AM, and if the need be, it is updated even 4-5 times a day with all the latest scoop and news. IndiaFM stands out due to it’s own uniqueness which no other site can boast about -
Comprehensive: Undoubtedly, IndiaFM is the most comprehensive Bollywood site on the net. Besides being updated several times daily, it brings to our notice even the minutest happening in bollywood, thanks to the efficient resources, specially Taran Adarsh who is a big asset to the site. Infact, many other sites comes to know the story from this very site, mould it in their own words, and post in on their website as real. Really fake!
Very informative: I have mentioned about this in my previous topic. Anyways, IndiaFM not only tells us about the happenings, but is also updated daily with the pics of Launch of a certain film, celebration party of a film, inaugration of certain off-screen events by stars, on the sets of movies, and many other events and things!
First Look: IndiaFM gives us the first look of recently launched films as well as some in-production films, exclusively by this site. Great to get an insight into the upcoming movies !
Wallpapers and Screensavers: Now this is the best part. A wallpaper (mainly of an actress) is daily added to the website. Besides, every month, the most viewed wallpapers are taken in a section, and the most Hottest ones and New ones are available too. A large collection of wallpapers is available through it’s great database, ranging from actors to actresses to movies as well. Wallpapers of the movies are combined to form a screensaver which is quite cool too.
Movie Trailers: This site has the distinction of the largest number of movie trailers available on one site on the net. Beginning right from 2000, there is not a single movie whose trailer is not available on this site. Infact, theatrical trailers and other new trailers are added to the site much before they are even aired on the Television. As a matter of fact, some of the long trailers [of size 6mb, 7mb or more] are not even aired on Television. Just for you to enjoy!
Database: Right on the homepage of IndiaFM, there is a Database section that gives you information of all the movies between 1931-2002 in great details, including the starcast, year of release, music, directors, etc.
Factoid and Poll of the day: Being daily added with a new factoid by Taran Adarsh, the ’’Factoid’’ column gives us information about earlier happenings and facts. The poll is conducted on a weekly basis and believe me, it is the most unbiased one. You cannot cast more than one vote from a single static IP address. Fine, you are allowed to cast vote for the same poll after a while, but that indicates that you are changing your earlier casted vote.
Music Review: This is one of the average features of the website. no doubt Joginder Tuteja does write well, but his music review contain more information about the prospects of the film, and about predicting whom the song will be picturized on, less than the music of the film. Anyways reading the last paragraph of his review does give us a fair idea of what the music of the film is all about.
MOVIE REVIEWS: THIS COMES THE MOST DEBATABLE TOPIC OUT HERE. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, I JUST LOVE TARAN ADARSH’S REVIEWS AGREE WITH HIM MOST OF THE TIMES. TARAN HAS BEEN THE MOST HAPPENING THING FOR INDIAFM TO HAPPEN, AND MORE THAN 65% OF THE SURFERS VISIT THE WEBSITE JUST TO READ HIS REVIEWS, WHICH ARE UPDATED VERY QUICKLY, USUALLY BY THE EVENING OF EVERY FRIDAYS. OCCASIONALLY, WHEN HE IS CALLED FOR A PREMIERE OF A FILM, HE GIVES HIS VIEWS ON TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY ITSELF. THOUGH THERE ARE MANY WHO SAY THAT HE IS BIASED, I OPPOSE THAT.
MANY HAVE CRITICIZED HIM FOR BEING VERY APPREHENSIVE ABOUT SWADES. BUT I SOMEWHAT AGREE WITH HIS VIEWS. THE FILM WAS DEFINITELY NOT THAT BAD AS HE PUT IT, BUT WAS REALLY VERY SLOW AND VERY LOW IN ENTERTAINMENT. I WOULD GIVE THE MOVIE TWO STARS. WHAT WAS THE RESULT? THE MOVIE FLOPPED MISERABLY AND WAS PERHAPS, A FLOP THAT SRK TASTED AFTER A LONG-LONG TIME.
IF YOU WANT I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT THIS TOPIC REGARDING EACH AND EVERY MOVIE, BUT I THINK FOR NOW, I SHOULD STOP!
Miscellaneous: The site has been a good choice by many of the producers to promote their film due to the creativity of the people at IndiaFM. The marketing research is done very well by experts at the site.
Now let’s come to terms with some of the negative aspects of the site. As about those, I find very few. Previously, the site had audio feature with the soundtrack of an upcoming movie being available. It had a jukebox as well, which was quite fun. But that is no more. God knows for what reason was it removed.
There should have been a video section in the site as well featuring videos of released films with the copyrights of their full songs. This would add to the value of the website by leaps and bounds!
OVERALL
On the whole, IndiaFM is the most comprehensive (pardon me for using this adjective too often, but I really can’t get a better word) Bollywood website on the web, with Taran Adarsh being it’s greatest strength. I hope IndiaFM continues to entertain all movie buffs like me for years and years to come !!
© Aliasgar Poonawala, 2005

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