"Reviewing Bollywood' is an effort to investigate the various aspects and multi-faceted arena of mainstream Hindi film industry at the crucial juncture while Indian Cinema is celebrating its centenary. Discussions have been made on the history of Bollywood and its golden age, influential factors shaping convention of mainstream Hindi popular films, cast and crew, song, music, lyrics and dance, dialogues, finance, advertising, award, popularity and appeal. How far Bollywood mainstream follow realism or inspired by the reality, how far Bollywood script has become successful to arrest the attention and emotion of film buffs are in the purview of study.