India, Oct. 4 -- As I came to the end of Aryan Khan's entertaining The Ba***ds of Bollywood, I found myself thinking back to all the movies set in the Hindi film industry.

Films about films haven't been as popular with directors as one would expect, which is puzzling, given the immense possibilities of such storylines. I imagine that audiences, always fascinated by how movies are made, would also be keen for an inside view, particularly of what goes on behind the closed doors of Mumbai's shining dream factory.

Perhaps such tales cut too close for comfort. Or filmmakers prefer safer, tried-and-true themes such as romance, family drama, the underworld and crime. Still, there have been a few Hindi films about the making of movies that have...