How & Where Dancelover learned about "jodis"

Spring 2007 I began watching AVS - Total Request, because I love dancing, and watching dances.
In 2009 USA television switched from analog to digital. More channels and programs became available.
I started watching AVS (AsianVarityShow) News, and the occasional movie on TV. (Jab We Met, & Life Partner).
I also started NamasteAmerica: Geet TV, BW gossip, & News Of India (all compressed into one hour/week).

After 2011 AVS stopped showing movies. Instead, it uses one hour per week to show "On Location" how particular films were made,
and then half-an-hour of "AVS-Clasics" music videos from the 20th century. Recent themes included Sridevi, and Amitaub & Rekha.

In 2010 I got some books from Interlibrary Loan:
Anapuma Chopra: Shah Rukh Khan, King of Bollywood
Madhu Jain: The Kapoors (2002 HB edition)
also two short histories of BW, and a book about musicians in BW, especially those from Goa.
I had to return them all in a few months, of course.
Then I acquired:
Snell & Weigmann: Teach Yourself Hindi
I have not learned very much, but the Hindi-to-English glossary has been of use.
Lonely Planet: Indian English  

websites in the order I found them:
www.bollywoodgate.com No updates since 2010, but still has useful data available.
www.bollywoodworld.com news, reviews, & gossip that is still updated five or six times per season (was: week).
www.bollywoodhumgama.com which today is listed "in the marketplace"

Then I found www.bollywhat.com and its forum. I joined in winter 2011.
As you must have seen, it is now at bollywhat.boards.net having migrated in November 2013.
Much of the old data is still being reposted. Please look us over, hai?

www.boxofficeindia.com for films in the theaters and how well they have done, as well as how they are doing.

I also used the Times Of India website in 2012 and 2013.
Today, May 28, 2014, timesofindia.com is working for me.

Of course there is www.wikipedia.com I select "English" and then "Bollywood"
For many BW actors it has Filmographies, which usually list the Casts of movies,
and often a Plot Summary which is usually useful.
It is not always possible to prove the Jodi, or Romantic Triangle, from the Wiki plot summary.
I have sometimes made the best guess that I can, but other times omitted a film for lack-of-data.

Threads in this jodi project:
bollywhat.boards.net/thread/393 BW leads born 1978 or later. (also, Learning Thread)

bollywhat.boards.net/thread/435 BW leads born 1959-77.

bollywhat.boards.net/thread/396 BW leads born before 1959 (some overlap with 435).

bollywhat.boards.net/thread/523 Southern leading men (beginning with Index Post for men & women).

bollywhat.boards.net/thread/799 Southern leading actresses.

Winter 2015 I discovered www.koimoi.com which has some data which Wikipedia lacks, especially some actors' birthdays,
and also offers an alternate view (to BoxOfficeIndia) of how films are doing and have done in the theaters.

For Chiranjeevi, and his descendants, www.chiranjeeviblog.com is useful.

It was when I began work on G(arikapati) Varalakshmi's data,
that I learned to use Internet Movie Database. www.IMDb.com
It has a page for almost every film, more than Wikipedia, and the pages are usually linked better.
Where Wiki pages do exist, they usually have more data than IMDb.
Now my pages are much more complete, but they take much longer to make.

For actors who work in Kannadan, such as Rajkumar, www.chiloka.com is useful.

In August 2016 I have found Complete Index To World Films, www.citwf.com
which is credited to Alan Goble. It has much data of who is in which film,
though not which characters they portrayed, much less how the characters are related. 

The Jodi-list choices, of which actors to list first, and next, and what constitutes a "Jodi," are mine,
based on the (thodi) vidya I have gained from the above sources.
Thodi vidya khatarnick cheese hai, I know, but I do the best I can.

Howard "Dancelover" Wilkins, lifelong Philadelphian since 1950