S. S. Rajamouli was born in 1973, in the South Indian state of Karnataka, to a family from a dominant caste. He learned how to make movies from various odd jobs and apprenticeships, including a years-long stint working for his father, the successful screenwriter Koduri Viswa Vijayendra Prasad. In the past two decades, Rajamouli has earned a reputation among Indian moviegoers for a series of formally ambitious blockbusters, including the spectacular "Baahubali: The Beginning," from 2015, which inspired a new wave of Indian historic epics. But he has found a new level of global success with his latest film, the joyously over-the-top action-fantasy "RRR"--short for "Rise Roar Revolt"--which is among the highest-grossing Indian movies of all time. "RRR" was first released last March but caught on with American viewers over the summer, after an unusual U.S.-wide theatrical rerelease organized by the distributor Variance Films and the film consultant Josh Hurtado.

Tired of all those "JOIN" in SQL? Did you have a headache every time you need to modify a schema in a relational database? If either answer is "Yes", then you should give graph database such as Neo4j a try. Nodes are connected via edges and they both have properties. We can retrieve and aggregate data with queries. Because their logics and semantics are closer to the way that our minds model the real world, graph databases are easy to learn.

These are some of the observations scientists have made after an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven study of hundreds of Bollywood movies.

ORGINIALLY PUBLISHED AT - CMU.EDU Babies whose births were depicted in Bollywood films from the 1950s and 60s were more often than not boys; in today's films, boy and girl newborns are about evenly split. In the 50s and 60s, dowries were socially acceptable; today, not so much. And Bollywood's conception of beauty has remained consistent through the years: beautiful women have fair skin. Fans and critics of Bollywood -- the popular name for a $2.1 billion film industry centered in Mumbai, India -- might have some inkling of all this, particularly as movies often reflect changes in the culture. But these insights came via an automated computer analysis designed by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists.

Fashion has come a long way in India. It doesn't imitate the international couture anymore like the mid 90s. It has build up a signature of its own in the global market, which is why we see Sabyasachi and Manish Malhotra becoming the favourite couturier for Hollywood celebrities. Fashion was always very artsy. So a designer would require a pencil and paper to draw his imagination and rely solely of pen and paper research. But no more, thanks to the cloud, things have become convenient.