Sixty-year-old Margaret Whiteley watches more Bollywood movies than your average cinema goer.
In fact she loves Bollywood movies so much she has watched one recent blockbuster no less than five times!
"I started going to the movies a couple of years ago and instantly fell in love with Bollywood straight away.
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"I know some people say the movie lasts three hours but for me the time just passes in an instant because I enjoy them so much.
Margaret or Mags as she is known to many people watched the movie Race which stars Katrina Kaif and Saif Ali Khan five times in three weeks.
"I like Bollywood movies because of they are so colourful and everyone is a musical in one way or another."
"I tend to like the thrillers more than the love stories and Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif are my favourite actors.
"I know I am not someone you would class as your average Bollywood film fan."
Sixty-year-old Mags watches all her movies at Vue Cinemas Blackburn and does not have a TV at home.
"The staff are really good and all know me by name now."
She ranks Guru, Jab we Met and Jodha Akbar has some of her favourites.
The recent Ajay Devgan and Kajol film U, Me Aur Hum wasn't too much to her liking.
"I do get the odd strange look from some people at the cinema but most people have got used to me being at the front of a queue when a new Bollywood movie comes out.
"Most Bolllywood movies tend to attract families so I get with most people and I can even speak a little Urdu I've picked up through the movies.
"That wasn't so hard all the movies have subtitles and you can generally learn some of the more familiar phrases by looking at facial expressions.
Mags also volunteers as a presenter on Radio Blackburn Hospitals and plays some of her favourite Bollywood music on air every week.
"I play a bit of rock'n'roll and then follow it up by blasting some bhangra out for patients.
"I think bhangra is great as it is so uplifting.
"To be honest I would love to play one Bhangra tune after the next if I could but it is a request show so I play what patients want to hear.
"My favourite bhangra band are the Safri Boys."
So next time you see Mags in the cinema remember she probably knows more about Bollywood than you do!
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