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Bollywood (Hindi:             ) is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai-based Hindi
language film industry in India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian
cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry.[1] Bollywood is the largest film producer in
India and one of the largest in the world.[2][3][4]

The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center
of the American film industry. However, unlike Hollywood, Bollywood does not exist as a real
physical place. Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a
poor cousin to Hollywood, it seems likely to persist and now has its own entry in the Oxford
English Dictionary.

Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindi cinema, even though quot;Hindustaniquot;, understood as
the colloquial base common to both Hindi and Urdu, might be more accurate. There has been a
growing presence of Indian English in dialogue and songs as well. It is not uncommon to see
films that feature dialogue with English words and phrases, even whole sentences. There are a
growing number of films made entirely in English.[5]


Contents
       1 History
       2 Influence
       3 Genre conventions
       4 Cast and crew
       5 Sound
       6 Bollywood song and dance
       7 Dialogues and lyrics
       8 Finances
       9 Advertising
       10 Awards
       11 Film education
       12 Popularity and appeal
           o 12.1 Asia
o  12.2 Africa
           o  12.3 Russia and Eastern Europe
           o  12.4 Western Europe and the Americas
           o  12.5 Oceania
       13 Plagiarism
       14 See also
       15 References
       16 Further reading
       17 External links



History




The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931)

Raja Harishchandra (1913) was the first silent feature film made in India. It was made by
Dadasaheb Phalke. By the 1930s, the industry was producing over 200 films per annum. The first
Indian sound film, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931), was a super hit. There was clearly a huge
market for talkies and musicals; Bollywood and all the regional film industries quickly switched
to sound filming.

The 1930s and 1940s were tumultuous times: India was buffeted by the Great Depression, World
War II, the Indian independence movement, and the violence of the Partition. Most Bollywood
films were unabashedly escapist, but there were also a number of filmmakers who tackled tough
social issues, or used the struggle for Indian independence as a backdrop for their plots.

In 1937, Ardeshir Irani, of Alam Ara fame, made the first colour film in Hindi, Kisan Kanya. The
next year, he made another colour film, Mother India. However, colour did not become a popular
feature until the late 1950s. At this time, lavish romantic musicals and melodramas were the
staple fare at the cinema. Successful actors included Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor
and actresses like Nargis, Meena Kumari, Nutan and Madhubala. In the late 1960s and early
1970s, romance movies and action films starred actors like Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra. In
the mid-1970s, romantic confections made way for gritty, violent films about gangsters and
bandits. Amitabh Bachchan, the star known for his quot;angry young manquot; roles, rode the crest of
this trend with actors like Mithun Chakraborty and Anil Kapoor, which lasted into the early
1990s. Actresses from this era included Hema Malini, Helen Richardson,Jaya Bachchan and
Rekha.[6]

In the mid-1990s, the pendulum swung back towards family-centric romantic musicals with the
success of such films as Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
making stars out of a new generation of actors (such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Shahrukh
Khan) and actresses (such as Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit,Juhi Chawla and Kajol).[6] In that point of
time, action and comedy films were also successful, with actors like Govinda and Akshay Kumar
and actresses such as Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor appearing in films of this genre.
Furthermore, this decade marked the entry of new performers in art and independent films, some
of which succeeded commercially. These films featured actors like Nana Patekar, Manisha
Koirala, Tabu and Urmila Matondkar, whose performances were usually acclaimed by critics.

The 2000s saw a growth in Bollywood's popularity in the world. This led the nation's filmmaking
to new heights in terms of quality, cinematography and innovative story lines as well as technical
advances such as special effects, animation etc.[7] Some of the largest production houses, among
them Yash Raj Films and Dharma Productions were the producers of new modern films.[7] The
opening up of the overseas market, more Bollywood releases abroad and the explosion of
multiplexes in big cities, led to wider box office successes in India and abroad, including
Devdas, Koi... Mil Gaya, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Veer-Zaara, Dhoom 2 and Om Shanti Om, delivering
a new generation of popular actors (Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan) and actresses
(Aishwarya Rai, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji[8][9]), and keeping the popularity of actors of the
previous decade.

The Indian film industry has preferred films that appeal to all segments of the audience (see the
discussion in Ganti, 2004, cited in references), and has resisted making films that target narrow
audiences. It was believed that aiming for a broad spectrum would maximise box office receipts.
However, filmmakers may be moving towards accepting some box-office segmentation, between
films that appeal to rural Indians, and films that appeal to urban and overseas audiences.

Influence
There have generally been six major influences that have shaped the conventions of Indian
popular cinema. The first was the ancient Indian epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana which
have exerted a profound influence on the thought and imagination of Indian popular cinema,
particularly in its narratives. Examples of this influence include the techniques of a side story,
back-story and story within a story. Indian popular films often have plots which branch off into
sub-plots; such narrative dispersals can clearly be seen in the 1993 films Khalnayak and Gardish.
The second influence was the impact of ancient Sanskrit drama, with its highly stylized nature
and emphasis on spectacle, where music, dance and gesture combined quot;to create a vibrant artistic
unit with dance and mime being central to the dramatic experience.quot; Sanskrit dramas were
known as natya, derived from the root word nrit (dance), characterizing them as specacular
dance-dramas which has continued Indian cinema. The third influence was the traditional folk
theatre of India, which became popular from around the 10th century with the decline of Sanskrit
theatre. These regional traditions include the Yatra of Bengal, the Ramlila of Uttar Pradesh, and
the Terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu. The fourth influence was Parsi theatre, which quot;blended realism
and fantasy, music and dance, narrative and spectacle, earthy dialogue and ingenuity of stage
presentation, integrating them into a dramatic discourse of melodrama. The Parsi plays contained
crude humour, melodious songs and music, sensationalism and dazzling stagecraft.quot;[10]

The fifth influence was Hollywood, where musicals were popular from the 1920s to the 1950s,
though Indian filmmakers departed from their Hollywood counterparts in several ways. quot;For
example, the Hollywood musicals had as their plot the world of entertainment itself. Indian
filmmakers, while enhancing the elements of fantasy so pervasive in Indian popular films, used
song and music as a natural mode of articulation in a given situation in their films. There is a
strong Indian tradition of narrating mythology, history, fairy stories and so on through song and
dance.quot; In addition, quot;whereas Hollywood filmmakers strove to conceal the constructed nature of
their work so that the realistic narrative was wholly dominant, Indian filmmakers made no
attempt to conceal the fact that what was shown on the screen was a creation, an illusion, a
fiction. However, they demonstrated how this creation intersected with people's day to day lives
in complex and interesting ways.quot;[11] The final influence was Western musical television,
particularly MTV, which has had an increasing influence since the 1990s, as can be seen in the
pace, camera angles, dance sequences and music of more recent Indian films. An early example
of this approach was in Mani Ratnam's Bombay (1995).[12]

In more recent years, Bollywood has also begun influencing North American cinema,
particularly the North American musical; Baz Luhrmann's successful musical film Moulin
Rouge! (2001) was inspired by Bollywood musicals and the film also incorporates a Bollywood-
style dance sequence;[13] The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin feature Indian-style song-and-
dance sequences; A. R. Rahman, a film composer, was recruited for Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Bombay Dreams; and a musical version of Hum Aapke Hain Koun has played in London's West
End. Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), which has won four Golden Globes and been
nominated for eleven BAFTA Awards and ten Academy Awards, was also directly inspired by
Bollywood films,[14][15] and is considered to be a quot;homage to Hindi commercial cinemaquot;.[16]

Genre conventions
Bollywood films are mostly musicals, and are expected to contain catchy music in the form of
song-and-dance numbers woven into the script. A film's success often depends on the quality of
such musical numbers.[17] Indeed, a film's music is often released before the movie itself and
helps increase the audience.

Indian audiences expect full value for their money, with a good entertainer generally referred to
as paisa vasool, (literally, quot;money's worthquot;). Songs and dances, love triangles, comedy and dare-
devil thrills are all mixed up in a three-hour-long extravaganza with an intermission. Such
movies are called masala films, after the Hindi word for a spice mixture. Like masalas, these
movies are a mixture of many things such as action, comedy, romance etc. Most films have
heroes who are able to fight off villains all by themselves.
Melodrama and romance are common ingredients to Bollywood films. Pictured Achhut Kanya
(1936)

Bollywood plots have tended to be melodramatic. They frequently employ formulaic ingredients
such as star-crossed lovers and angry parents, love triangles, family ties, sacrifice, corrupt
politicians, kidnappers, conniving villains, courtesans with hearts of gold, long-lost relatives and
siblings separated by fate, dramatic reversals of fortune, and convenient coincidences.

There have always been Indian films with more artistic aims and more sophisticated stories, both
inside and outside the Bollywood tradition (see Art cinema in India). They often lost out at the
box office to movies with more mass appeal. Bollywood conventions are changing, however. A
large Indian diaspora in English speaking countries, and increased Western influence at home,
have nudged Bollywood films closer to Hollywood models.[18]

Film critic Lata Khubchandani writes,quot;..our earliest films...had liberal doses of sex and kissing
scenes in them. Strangely, it was after Independence the censor board came into being and so did
all the strictures.quot;[19] Plots now tend to feature Westernised urbanites dating and dancing in clubs
rather than centering on pre-arranged marriages. Though these changes can widely be seen in
contemporary Bollywood, traditional conservative ways of Indian culture continue to exist in
India outside the industry and an element of resistance by some to western-based
influences.[18]Despite this, Bollywood continues to play a major role in fashion in India.[18]Indeed
some studies into fashion in India have revealed that some people are unaware that the changing
nature of fashion in Bollywood films which are presented to them are often influenced by
globalization and many consider the clothes worn by Bollywood actors as authentically
Indian.[18]

Cast and crew
       for further details see Indian movie actors, Indian movie actresses, Indian film directors,
       Indian film music directors and Indian playback singers

Bollywood employs people from all parts of India. It attracts thousands of aspiring actors and
actresses, all hoping for a break in the industry. Models and beauty contestants, television actors,
theatre actors and even common people come to Mumbai with the hope and dream of becoming
a star. Just as in Hollywood, very few succeed. Since many Bollywood films are shot abroad,
many foreign extras are employed too.[20]

Stardom in the entertainment industry is very fickle, and Bollywood is no exception. The
popularity of the stars can rise and fall rapidly. Directors compete to hire the most popular stars
of the day, who are believed to guarantee the success of a movie (though this belief is not always
supported by box-office results). Hence many stars make the most of their fame, once they
become popular, by making several movies simultaneously.

Only a very few non-Indian actors are able to make a mark in Bollywood, though many have
tried from time to time. There have been some exceptions, one recent example is the hit film
Rang De Basanti, where the lead actress is Alice Patten, an Englishwoman. Kisna, Lagaan, and
The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey also featured foreign actors.

Bollywood can be very clannish, and the relatives of film-industry insiders have an edge in
getting coveted roles in films and/or being part of a film's crew. However, industry connections
are no guarantee of a long career: competition is fierce and if film industry scions do not succeed
at the box office, their careers will falter. Some of the biggest stars, such as Dharmendra,
Amitabh Bachchan, and Shahrukh Khan have succeeded despite total lack of show business
connections. For film clans, see List of Bollywood film clans.

Sound
Sound in Bollywood films is rarely recorded on location (otherwise known as sync sound).
Therefore, the sound is usually created (or recreated) entirely in the studio, with the actors
reciting their lines as their images appear on-screen in the studio in the process known as
quot;looping in the soundquot; or ADR—with the foley and sound effects added later. This creates
several problems, since the sound in these films usually occurs a frame or two earlier or later
than the mouth movements or gestures. The actors have to act twice: once on-location, once in
the studio—and the emotional level on set is often very difficult to recreate. Commercial Indian
films, not just the Hindi-language variety, are known for their lack of ambient sound, so there is
a silence underlying everything instead of the background sound and noises usually employed in
films to create aurally perceivable depth and environment.

The ubiquity of ADR in Bollywood cinema became prevalent in the early 1960s with the arrival
of the Arriflex 3 camera, which required a blimp (cover) in order to shield the sound of the
camera, for which it was notorious, from on-location filming. Commercial Indian filmmakers,
known for their speed, never bothered to blimp the camera, and its excessive noise required that
everything had to be recreated in the studio. Eventually, this became the standard for Indian
films.

The trend was bucked in 2001, after a 30-year hiatus of synchronized sound, with the film
Lagaan, in which producer-star Aamir Khan insisted that the sound be done on location. This
opened up a heated debate on the use and economic feasibility of on-location sound, and several
Bollywood films have employed on-location sound since then.
Bollywood song and dance




Songs in Bollywood are sung by professional playback singers, rather than actors, who lip-sync
the lyrics. Pictured here is Mukesh, a famed playback singer.

Bollywood film music is called filmi music (from Hindi, meaning quot;of filmsquot;).

Songs from Bollywood movies are generally pre-recorded by professional playback singers, with
the actors then lip synching the words to the song on-screen, often while dancing. While most
actors, especially today, are excellent dancers, few are also singers. One notable exception was
Kishore Kumar, who starred in several major films in the 1950s while also having a stellar career
as a playback singer. K. L. Saigal, Suraiyya, and Noor Jehan were also known as both singers
and actors. Some actors in the last thirty years have sung one or more songs themselves; for a
list, see Singing actors and actresses in Indian cinema.

Playback singers are prominently featured in the opening credits and have their own fans who
will go to an otherwise lackluster movie just to hear their favourites. Going by the quality as well
as the quantity of the songs they rendered, most notable singers of Bollywood are Lata
Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum and Alka Yagnik among female
playback singers; and K. L. Saigal, Talat Mahmood, Mukesh, Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey,
Hemant Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Kumar Sanu,S.P.Balasubramanyam,Udit Narayan and Sonu
Nigam among male playback singers. Mohammed Rafi is often considered arguably the finest of
the singers that have lent their voice to Bollywood songs, followed by Lata Mangeshkar, who,
through the course of a career spanning over six decades, has recorded thousands of songs for
Indian movies. The composers of film music, known as music directors, are also well-known.
Their songs can make or break a film and usually do. Remixing of film songs with modern beats
and rhythms is a common occurrence today, and producers may even release remixed versions of
some of their films' songs along with the films' regular soundtrack albums.
Bollywood dances usually follow songs

The dancing in Bollywood films, especially older ones, is primarily modelled on Indian dance:
classical dance styles, dances of historic northern Indian courtesans (tawaif), or folk dances. In
modern films, Indian dance elements often blend with Western dance styles (as seen on MTV or
in Broadway musicals), though it is not unusual to see Western pop and pure classical dance
numbers side by side in the same film. The hero or heroine will often perform with a troupe of
supporting dancers. Many song-and-dance routines in Indian films feature unrealistically
instantaneous shifts of location and/or changes of costume between verses of a song. If the hero
and heroine dance and sing a pas-de-deux (a dance and ballet term, meaning quot;dance of twoquot;), it
is often staged in beautiful natural surroundings or architecturally grand settings. This staging is
referred to as a quot;picturisationquot;.

Songs typically comment on the action taking place in the movie, in several ways. Sometimes, a
song is worked into the plot, so that a character has a reason to sing; other times, a song is an
externalisation of a character's thoughts, or presages an event that has not occurred yet in the plot
of the movie. In this case, the event is almost always two characters falling in love.

Bollywood films have always used what are now called quot;item numbersquot;. A physically attractive
female character (the quot;item girlquot;), often completely unrelated to the main cast and plot of the
film, performs a catchy song and dance number in the film. In older films, the quot;item numberquot;
may be performed by a courtesan (tawaif) dancing for a rich client or as part of a cabaret show.
The dancer Helen was famous for her cabaret numbers. In modern films, item numbers may be
inserted as discotheque sequences, dancing at celebrations, or as stage shows.

For the last few decades Bollywood producers have been releasing the film's soundtrack, as tapes
or CDs, before the main movie release, hoping that the music will pull audiences into the cinema
later. Often the soundtrack is more popular than the movie. In the last few years some producers
have also been releasing music videos, usually featuring a song from the film. However, some
promotional videos feature a song which is not included in the movie.

Dialogues and lyrics
       Main article: Bollywood songs

The film script or lines of dialogue (called quot;dialoguesquot; in Indian English) and the song lyrics are
often written by different people.
Dialogues are usually written in an unadorned Hindi or Hindustani that would be understood by
the largest possible audience. Some movies, however, have used regional dialects to evoke a
village setting, or old-fashioned courtly Urdu in Mughal era historical films. Contemporary
mainstream movies also make great use of English. In fact, many movie scripts are first written
in English, and then translated into Hindi. Characters may shift from one language to the other to
express a certain atmosphere (for example, English in a business setting and Hindi in an informal
one).

Cinematic language, whether in dialogues or lyrics, is often melodramatic and invokes God,
family, mother, duty, and self-sacrifice liberally.

Music directors often prefer working with certain lyricists, to the point that the lyricist and
composer are seen as a team. This phenomenon is not unlike the pairings of American composers
and songwriters that created old-time Broadway musicals (e.g., Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein II, or Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe). Song lyrics are usually about love.
Bollywood song lyrics, especially in the old movies, frequently use Arabo-Persic Urdu
vocabulary. Another source for love lyrics is the long Hindu tradition of poetry about the
mythological amours of Krishna, Radha, and the gopis. Many lyrics compare the singer to a
devotee and the object of his or her passion to Krishna or Radha.

Finances
Bollywood films are multi-million dollar productions, with the most expensive productions
costing up to 100 crores (roughly 1 billion). Sets, costumes, special effects, and cinematography
were less than world-class up until the mid-to-late 1990s, although with some notable
exceptions. As Western films and television gain wider distribution in India itself, there is
increasing pressure for Bollywood films to attain the same production levels. In particular, in
areas such as action and special effects. Recent Bollywood films have employed international
technicians to improve in these areas, such as Krrish (2006) which has action choreographed by
Hong Kong based Tony Ching. The increasing accessibility to professional action and special
effects, coupled with rising film budgets, has seen an explosion in the action and sci-fi genres.

Sequences shot overseas have proved a real box office draw, so Mumbai film crews are
increasingly filming in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States,
continental Europe and elsewhere. Nowadays, Indian producers are winning more and more
funding for big-budget films shot within India as well, such as Lagaan, Devdas and other recent
films.

Funding for Bollywood films often comes from private distributors and a few large studios.
Indian banks and financial institutions were forbidden from lending money to movie studios.
However, this ban has now been lifted.[21] As finances are not regulated, some funding also
comes from illegitimate sources, such as the Mumbai underworld. The Mumbai underworld has
been known to be involved in the production of several films, and are notorious for their
patronisation of several prominent film personalities; On occasion, they have been known to use
money and muscle power to get their way in cinematic deals. In January, 2000, Mumbai mafia
hitmen shot Rakesh Roshan, a film director and father of star Hrithik Roshan. In 2001, the
Central Bureau of Investigation seized all prints of the movie Chori Chori Chupke Chupke after
the movie was found to be funded by members of the Mumbai underworld.[22]

Another problem facing Bollywood is widespread copyright infringement of its films. Often,
bootleg DVD copies of movies are available before the prints are officially released in cinemas.
Manufacturing of bootleg DVD, VCD, and VHS copies of the latest movie titles is a well
established 'small scale industry' in parts of South Asia and South East Asia. Besides catering to
the homegrown market, demand for these copies is large amongst some sections of the Indian
diaspora, too. (In fact, bootleg copies are the only way people in Pakistan can watch Bollywood
movies, since the Government of Pakistan has banned their sale, distribution and telecast). Films
are frequently broadcast without compensation by countless small cable TV companies in India
and other parts of South Asia. Small convenience stores run by members of the Indian diaspora
in the U.S. and the UK regularly stock tapes and DVDs of dubious provenance, while consumer
copying adds to the problem. The availability of illegal copies of movies on the Internet also
contributes to the piracy problem.

Satellite TV, television and imported foreign films are making huge inroads into the domestic
Indian entertainment market. In the past, most Bollywood films could make money; now fewer
tend to do so. However, most Bollywood producers make money, recouping their investments
from many sources of revenue, including selling ancillary rights. There are also increasing
returns from theatres in Western countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United
States, where Bollywood is slowly getting noticed. As more Indians migrate to these countries,
they form a growing market for upscale Indian films.

For an interesting comparison of Hollywood and Bollywood financial figures, see chart. It shows
tickets sold in 2002 and total revenue estimates. Bollywood sold 3.6 billion tickets and had total
revenues (theatre tickets, DVDs, television etc.) of US$1.3 billion, whereas Hollywood films
sold 2.6 billion tickets and generated total revenues (again from all formats) of US$51 billion.

Advertising
Many Indian artists used to make a living by hand-painting movie billboards and posters (The
well-known artist M.F. Hussain used to paint film posters early in his career) This was because
human labour was found to be cheaper than printing and distributing publicity material.[23] Now,
a majority of the huge and ubiquitous billboards in India's major cities are created with
computer-printed vinyl. The old hand-painted posters, once regarded as ephemera, are becoming
increasingly collectible as folk art.[23]

Releasing the film music, or music videos, before the actual release of the film can also be
considered a form of advertising. A popular tune is believed to help pull audiences into the
theaters.[24]

Bollywood publicists have begun to use the Internet as a venue for advertising. Most of the
better-funded film releases now have their own websites, where browsers can view trailers, stills,
and information about the story, cast, and crew.[25]
Bollywood is also used to advertise other products. Product placement, as used in Hollywood, is
widely practiced in Bollywood.[26]

Bollywood movie stars appear in print and television advertisements for other products, such as
watches or soap (see Celebrity endorsement). Advertisers say that a star endorsement boosts
sales.

Awards
The Filmfare Awards ceremony is one of the most prominent film events given for Hindi films in
India.[27] The Indian screen magazine Filmfare started the first Filmfare Awards in 1954, and
awards were given to the best films of 1953. The ceremony was referred to as the Clare Awards
after the magazine's editor. Modelled after the poll-based merit format of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, individuals may submit their votes in separate categories. A
dual voting system was developed in 1956.[28] Like the Oscars, the Filmfare awards are
frequently accused of bias towards commercial success rather than artistic merit.

As the Filmfare, the National Film Awards were introduced in 1954. Since 1973, the Indian
government has sponsored the National Film Awards, awarded by the government run
Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF). The DFF screens not only Bollywood films, but films from
all the other regional movie industries and independent/art films. These awards are handed out at
an annual ceremony presided over by the President of India. Under this system, in contrast to the
National Film Awards, which are decided by a panel appointed by Indian Government, the
Filmfare Awards are voted for by both the public and a committee of experts.[29]

Additional ceremonies held within India are:

       Stardust Awards
       Star Screen Awards

Ceremonies held overseas are:

       Bollywood Movie Awards - Long Island, New York, United States
       Global Indian Film Awards - (different country each year)
       IIFA Awards - (different country each year)
       Zee Cine Awards- (different country each year)

Most of these award ceremonies are lavishly staged spectacles, featuring singing, dancing, and
numerous celebrities.

Film education
       Film and Television Institute of India
       Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
       Asian Academy of Film & Television
On the Set

Popularity and appeal
       See also: List of highest-grossing Bollywood films

Besides being popular among the India diaspora, such far off locations as Nigeria to Egypt to
Senegal and to Russia generations of non-Indian fans have grown up with Bollywood during the
years, bearing witness to the cross-cultural appeal of Indian movies.[30]

Over the last years of the twentieth century and beyond, Bollywood progressed in its popularity
as it entered the consciousness of Western audiences and producers.[7][31]

Asia

Bollywood films are watched in South Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and
Sri Lanka. Most Pakistanis watch Bollywood films,[32] as they understand Hindi (due to its
linguistic similarity to Urdu). Despite a government ban on Indian films since 1965,[32] a few
Bollywood films were legally released in the country in 2006, including Taj Mahal and Mughal-
e-Azam, decades after its release, though more movies followed.[33] For the most part, Bollywood
movies are watched on cable television in Pakistan; there is also a huge market for Bollywood
movies in local video stores. Historically, video piracy was another accessible venue to watch
Indian movies.[34]

Bollywood movies are also popular in Afghanistan due to the country's proximity with the Indian
subcontinent and certain other cultural perspectives present in the movies.[35] A number of
Bollywood movies were filmed inside Afghanistan while some dealt with the country, including
Dharmatma, Kabul Express, Khuda Gawah and Escape From Taliban.[36][37]

Hindi films have also been popular in numerous Arab countries, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt, as
well as the Gulf countries.[38] Imported Indian films are usually subtitled in Arabic upon the
film's release. Since the early 2000s, Bollywood has progressed in Israel. Special channels
dedicated to Indian films have been displayed on cable television.[39]

Some Hindi movies also became big successes in the People's Republic of China during the
1950s. The most popular Hindi films in China were Awaara (1951) and Do Bigha Zameen (Two
Acres of Land) (1953). Raj Kapoor was a famous movie star in China, and the song quot;Awara
Hoonquot; (quot;I am a Trampquot;) was popular in the country. Hindi films have since declined in
popularity in China, with Lagaan (2001) being the first Indian film to have a nation-wide release
there in decades.[40]

Africa

Historically, Hindi films have been distributed to some parts of Africa, largely by Lebanese
businessmen. Mother India (1957), for example, continued to be played in Nigeria decades after
its release. Indian movies have also gained ground so as to alter the style of Hausa fashions,
songs have also been copied by Hausa singers and stories have influenced the writings of
Nigerian novelists. Stickers of Indian films and stars decorate taxis and buses in Northern
Nigeria, while posters of Indian films adorn the walls of tailor shops and mechanics' garages in
the country. Unlike in Europe and North America where Indian films largely cater to the
expatriate Indian market yearning to keep in touch with their homeland, in West Africa, as in
many other parts of the world, such movies rose in popularity despite the lack of a significant
Indian audience, where movies are about an alien culture, based on a religion wholly different,
and, for the most part, a language that is unintelligble to the viewers. One such explanation for
this lied in the similarities between the two cultures. Clothing is largely similar, where men often
wear long kaftans similar to the Hausa dogon riga and palmaran. Other similarities include
wearing turbans; the presence of animals in markets; porters carrying large bundles, chewing
sugar cane; youths riding Bajaj motor scooters; wedding celebrations, and so forth. With the
strict Muslim culture, Indian movies were said to show quot;respectquot; toward women, where
Hollywood movies were seen to have quot;no shamequot;. In Indian movies women were modestly
dressed, men and women rarely kiss, and there is no nudity, thus Indian movies are said to quot;have
culturequot; that Hollywood films lack. The latter choice was a failure because quot;they don't base
themselves on the problems of the people,quot; where the former is based socialist values and on the
reality of developing countries emerging from years of colonialism. Indian movies also allowed
for a new youth culture to follow without such ideological baggage as quot;becoming western.quot;[30]
Bollywood is also popular among Somalis and the Somali diaspora, where the emerging Islamic
Courts Union found a bete noire.[41] Chad and Ethiopia have also shown an interest in the
movies.[42]

Several Bollywood personalities have avenued to the continent for both shooting movies and off-
camera projects. The film Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav (2005) was one of many movies
shot in South Africa. Dil Jo Bhi Kahey (2005) was shot almost entirely in Mauritius, which has a
large ethnically Indian population.

Ominously, however, the popularity of old Bollywood versus a new, changing Bollywood seems
to be diminishing the popularly on the continent. The changing style of Bollywood has begun to
question such an acceptance. The new era features more sexually explicit and violent films.
Nigerian viewers, for example, commented that older films of the 1950s and 1960s had culture to
the newer, more westernised picturisations.[30] The old days of India avidly quot;advocating
decolonization ... and India's policy was wholly influenced by his missionary zeal to end racial
domination and discrimination in the African territoriesquot; were replaced by newer realities.[43] A
greater globalised world worked in tandem with the sexualisation of Indian films so as to become
more like American films, thus negating the preferred values of an old Bollywood and
diminishing Indian soft power.

Russia and Eastern Europe

Bollywood films are particularly popular in the former Soviet Union. Bollywood films have been
dubbed into Russian, and shown in prominent theatres such as Mosfilm and Lenfilm.

Ashok Sharma, Indian Ambassador to Suriname, who has served three times in the
Commonwealth of Independent States region during his diplomatic career said:
“
     The popularity of Bollywood in the CIS dates back to the Soviet days when the films
     from Hollywood and other Western countries were banned in the Soviet Union. As
     there was no means of other cheap entertainment, the films from Bollywood
     provided the Soviets a cheap source of entertainment as they were supposed to be
     non-controversial and non-political. In addition, the Soviet Union was recovering
     from the onslaught of the Second World War. The films from India, which were also
     recovering from the disaster of partition and the struggle for freedom from colonial
     rule, were found to be a good source of providing hope with entertainment to the
     struggling masses. The aspirations and needs of the people of both countries matched
     to a great extent. These films were dubbed in Russian and shown in theatres
     throughout the Soviet Union. The films from Bollywood also strengthened family

                                                                                               ”
     values, which was a big factor for their popularity with the government authorities in
     the Soviet Union.[44]

The film Mera Naam Joker (1970), sought to cater to such an appeal and the popularity of Raj
Kapoor in Russia, when it recruited Russian actress Kseniya Ryabinkina for the movie. In the
contemporary era, Lucky: No Time for Love was shot entirely in Russia. After the collapse of
the Soviet film distribution system, Hollywood occupied the void created in the Russian film
market. This made things difficult for Bollywood as it was losing market share to Hollywood.
However, Russian newspapers report that there is a renewed interest in Bollywood among young
Russians.[45]

Western Europe and the Americas

Bollywood has experienced a marked growth in revenue in North American markets, and is
particularly popular amongst the South Asian communities of such large cities as Chicago,
Toronto and New York City.[7] Yash Raj Films, one of India's largest production houses and
distributors, reported in September 2005 that Bollywood films in the United States earn around
$100 million a year through theater screenings, video sales and the sale of movie soundtracks.[7]
In other words, films from India do more business in the United States than films from any other
non-English speaking country.[7] Numerous films in the mid-1990s and onwards have been
largely, or entirely, shot in New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto. Bollywood's
immersion in the traditional Hollywood domain was further tied with such films as The Guru
(2002) and Marigold: An Adventure in India (2007) trying to popularise the Bollywood-theme
for Hollywood.

The awareness of Hindi cinema is however more spread in the United Kingdom,[46] where they
frequently enter the UK top ten. Many films, such as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) have
been set in London. Bollywood is also appreciated in Germany, France, and the Scandinavian
countries. Various Bollywood movies are dubbed in German and shown on the German
television channel RTL II on a regular basis.[47] A considerable number of Hindi movies has been
shot in Western Europe as well, particularly in Switzerland, starting with Dilwale Dulhania le
Jayenge.
Bollywood's popularity, however, is not greatly matched in the non-English speaking countries
of South America, though Bollywood culture and dance is recognised. In 2006, Dhoom 2 became
the first Bollywood film to be shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[48] The feeling was reciprocated as
Latin America's largest theater chain, Mexico's Cinepolis, was considering expanding its
domains outside the Spanish-speaking areas of the continent as it appeared to be bound for
Bollywood.[49]

Oceania

Bollywood is not as successful in the Oceanic countries and Pacific Islands such as New Guinea.
However, it ranks second to Hollywood in countries such as Fiji, with its large Indian minority,
Australia and New Zealand.[50]

Australia is one of the countries where there is a large South Asian Diaspora. Bollywood is
popular amongst non-Asians in the country as well.[50] Since 1997 the country has provided a
backdrop for an increasing number of Bollywood films.[50] Indian filmmakers have been
attracted to Australia's diverse locations and landscapes, and initially used it as the setting for
song-and-dance sequences, which demonstrated the contrast between the values.[50] However,
nowadays, Australian locations are becoming more important to the plot of Bollywood films.[50]
Hindi films shot in Australia usually incorporate aspects of Australian lifestyle. The Yash Raj
Film Salaam Namaste (2005) became the first Indian film to be shot entirely in Australia and
was the most successful Bollywood film of 2005 in the country.[51] This was followed by Heyy
Babyy (2007) Chak De! India (2007) and Singh Is Kinng (2008) which turned out to be box
office successes.[50] Following the release of Salaam Namaste, on a visit to India the then Prime
Minister John Howard also sought, having seen the film, to have more Indian movies shooting in
the country to boost tourism, where the Bollywood and cricket nexus, was further tightened with
Steve Waugh's appointment as tourism ambassador to India.[52] Australian actress Tania Zaetta,
who co-starred in Salaam Namaste, among other Bollywood films, expressed her keenness to
expand her career in Bollywood.[53]

Plagiarism
Constrained by rushed production schedules and small budgets, certain Bollywood writers and
musicians have been known to resort to plagiarism. They copy ideas, plot lines, tunes or riffs
from sources close at hand from other Indian films or far away (Hollywood and other Western
movies, Western pop hits). This has lead to significant criticism towards the film industry.[54]

In past times, this could be done with impunity. Copyright enforcement was lax in India. The
Bollywood film industry was not widely known to non-Indian audiences (excluding the Soviet
states), who would not even be aware that their material was being copied. Audiences may also
not have been aware of the plagiarism since many audiences in India were unfamiliar with
foreign films and music.

While copyright enforcement in India is still somewhat lenient, Bollywood and other film
industries are much more aware of each other now and Indian audiences are more familiar with
foreign movies and music. Organizations like the India EU Film Initiative seek to foster a
community between film makers and industry professionel between India and the EU.

Flagrant plagiarism may have diminished—however, there is no general agreement that it has.[55]
The makers of Partner and Zinda have been targeted by the owners and distributors of the
original films, Hitch[56] and Oldboy[57] [58][59]. Possibly a response to this, film companies may
have begun the process of securing rights to do official remakes of international films, with
Orion Pictures's securing of the rights to the Wedding Crashers possibly being the first.[60]

See also

  South Asian cinema

  Cinema of Afghanistan


  Cinema of Bangladesh


  Bengali cinema


  Cinema of India


  Assamese cinema


  Bengali cinema


  Bhojpuri cinema


  Hindi cinema


  Kannada cinema


  Malayalam cinema


  Marathi cinema
Oriya cinema


 Punjabi cinema


 Tamil cinema


 Telugu cinema


 Cinema of Nepal


 Cinema of Pakistan


 Karachi film industry


 Lahore film industry


 Pashto film industry


 Cinema of Sri Lanka


      Bollywood songs
      Cinema of India
      List of Bollywood films
      List of top Bollywood films
      List of Bollywood film clans

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Further reading
        Alter, Stephen. Fantasies of a Bollywood Love-Thief: Inside the World of Indian
        Moviemaking. (ISBN 0-15-603084-5)
        Begum-Hossain, Momtaz. Bollywood Crafts: 20 Projects Inspired by Popular Indian
        Cinema, 2006. The Guild of Mastercraftsman Publications. (ISBN 1-86108-418-8)
        Bernard 'Bollywood' Gibson. Passing the Envelope, 1994.
        Ganti, Tejaswini. Bollywood, Routledge, New York and London, 2004.
        Jolly, Gurbir, Zenia Wadhwani, and Deborah Barretto, eds. Once Upon a Time in
        Bollywood: The Global Swing in Hindi Cinema, TSAR Publications. 2007. (ISBN 978-1-
        89-4770-40-8)
        Joshi, Lalit Mohan. Bollywood: Popular Indian Cinema. (ISBN 0-9537032-2-3)
        Kabir, Nasreen Munni. Bollywood, Channel 4 Books, 2001.
        Mehta, Suketu. Maximum City, Knopf, 2004.
        Mishra, Vijay. Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire. (ISBN 0-415-93015-4)
        Pendakur, Manjunath. Indian Popular Cinema: Industry, Ideology, and Consciousness.
        (ISBN 1-57273-500-5)
        Prasad, Madhava. Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction, Oxford
        University Press, 2000. (ISBN 0-19-565295-9)
        Raheja, Dinesh and Kothari, Jitendra. Indian Cinema: The Bollywood Saga. (ISBN 81-
        7436-285-1)
Raj, Aditya (2007) quot;Bollywood Cinema and Indian Diasporaquot; in Media Literacy: A
          Reader edited by Donaldo Macedo and Shirley Steinberg New York: Peter Lang
          Rajadhyaksha, Ashish and Willemen, Paul. Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema, Oxford
          University Press, revised and expanded, 1999.

External links

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General guides

          IMDB - A database of Hindi movies
          Bollypedia German Lexicon of Bollywood
          An article on Bollywood in National Geographic archives
          quot;Cinema Indiaquot;. Asia. Victoria and Albert Museum.
          http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1153_cinema_india/. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.

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  • 1. Bollywood From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Editing of this article by new or unregistered users is currently disabled to prevent sock puppets of currently blocked or banned users from editing it. See the protection policy and protection log for more details. If you cannot edit this article and you wish to make a change, you can discuss changes on the talk page, request unprotection, log in, or create an account. Bollywood (Hindi: ) is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the Indian film industry.[1] Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest in the world.[2][3][4] The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry. However, unlike Hollywood, Bollywood does not exist as a real physical place. Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it seems likely to persist and now has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindi cinema, even though quot;Hindustaniquot;, understood as the colloquial base common to both Hindi and Urdu, might be more accurate. There has been a growing presence of Indian English in dialogue and songs as well. It is not uncommon to see films that feature dialogue with English words and phrases, even whole sentences. There are a growing number of films made entirely in English.[5] Contents 1 History 2 Influence 3 Genre conventions 4 Cast and crew 5 Sound 6 Bollywood song and dance 7 Dialogues and lyrics 8 Finances 9 Advertising 10 Awards 11 Film education 12 Popularity and appeal o 12.1 Asia
  • 2. o 12.2 Africa o 12.3 Russia and Eastern Europe o 12.4 Western Europe and the Americas o 12.5 Oceania 13 Plagiarism 14 See also 15 References 16 Further reading 17 External links History The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931) Raja Harishchandra (1913) was the first silent feature film made in India. It was made by Dadasaheb Phalke. By the 1930s, the industry was producing over 200 films per annum. The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931), was a super hit. There was clearly a huge market for talkies and musicals; Bollywood and all the regional film industries quickly switched to sound filming. The 1930s and 1940s were tumultuous times: India was buffeted by the Great Depression, World War II, the Indian independence movement, and the violence of the Partition. Most Bollywood films were unabashedly escapist, but there were also a number of filmmakers who tackled tough social issues, or used the struggle for Indian independence as a backdrop for their plots. In 1937, Ardeshir Irani, of Alam Ara fame, made the first colour film in Hindi, Kisan Kanya. The next year, he made another colour film, Mother India. However, colour did not become a popular feature until the late 1950s. At this time, lavish romantic musicals and melodramas were the staple fare at the cinema. Successful actors included Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor and actresses like Nargis, Meena Kumari, Nutan and Madhubala. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, romance movies and action films starred actors like Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra. In the mid-1970s, romantic confections made way for gritty, violent films about gangsters and bandits. Amitabh Bachchan, the star known for his quot;angry young manquot; roles, rode the crest of this trend with actors like Mithun Chakraborty and Anil Kapoor, which lasted into the early
  • 3. 1990s. Actresses from this era included Hema Malini, Helen Richardson,Jaya Bachchan and Rekha.[6] In the mid-1990s, the pendulum swung back towards family-centric romantic musicals with the success of such films as Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) making stars out of a new generation of actors (such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan) and actresses (such as Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit,Juhi Chawla and Kajol).[6] In that point of time, action and comedy films were also successful, with actors like Govinda and Akshay Kumar and actresses such as Raveena Tandon and Karisma Kapoor appearing in films of this genre. Furthermore, this decade marked the entry of new performers in art and independent films, some of which succeeded commercially. These films featured actors like Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala, Tabu and Urmila Matondkar, whose performances were usually acclaimed by critics. The 2000s saw a growth in Bollywood's popularity in the world. This led the nation's filmmaking to new heights in terms of quality, cinematography and innovative story lines as well as technical advances such as special effects, animation etc.[7] Some of the largest production houses, among them Yash Raj Films and Dharma Productions were the producers of new modern films.[7] The opening up of the overseas market, more Bollywood releases abroad and the explosion of multiplexes in big cities, led to wider box office successes in India and abroad, including Devdas, Koi... Mil Gaya, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Veer-Zaara, Dhoom 2 and Om Shanti Om, delivering a new generation of popular actors (Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan) and actresses (Aishwarya Rai, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji[8][9]), and keeping the popularity of actors of the previous decade. The Indian film industry has preferred films that appeal to all segments of the audience (see the discussion in Ganti, 2004, cited in references), and has resisted making films that target narrow audiences. It was believed that aiming for a broad spectrum would maximise box office receipts. However, filmmakers may be moving towards accepting some box-office segmentation, between films that appeal to rural Indians, and films that appeal to urban and overseas audiences. Influence There have generally been six major influences that have shaped the conventions of Indian popular cinema. The first was the ancient Indian epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana which have exerted a profound influence on the thought and imagination of Indian popular cinema, particularly in its narratives. Examples of this influence include the techniques of a side story, back-story and story within a story. Indian popular films often have plots which branch off into sub-plots; such narrative dispersals can clearly be seen in the 1993 films Khalnayak and Gardish. The second influence was the impact of ancient Sanskrit drama, with its highly stylized nature and emphasis on spectacle, where music, dance and gesture combined quot;to create a vibrant artistic unit with dance and mime being central to the dramatic experience.quot; Sanskrit dramas were known as natya, derived from the root word nrit (dance), characterizing them as specacular dance-dramas which has continued Indian cinema. The third influence was the traditional folk theatre of India, which became popular from around the 10th century with the decline of Sanskrit theatre. These regional traditions include the Yatra of Bengal, the Ramlila of Uttar Pradesh, and the Terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu. The fourth influence was Parsi theatre, which quot;blended realism
  • 4. and fantasy, music and dance, narrative and spectacle, earthy dialogue and ingenuity of stage presentation, integrating them into a dramatic discourse of melodrama. The Parsi plays contained crude humour, melodious songs and music, sensationalism and dazzling stagecraft.quot;[10] The fifth influence was Hollywood, where musicals were popular from the 1920s to the 1950s, though Indian filmmakers departed from their Hollywood counterparts in several ways. quot;For example, the Hollywood musicals had as their plot the world of entertainment itself. Indian filmmakers, while enhancing the elements of fantasy so pervasive in Indian popular films, used song and music as a natural mode of articulation in a given situation in their films. There is a strong Indian tradition of narrating mythology, history, fairy stories and so on through song and dance.quot; In addition, quot;whereas Hollywood filmmakers strove to conceal the constructed nature of their work so that the realistic narrative was wholly dominant, Indian filmmakers made no attempt to conceal the fact that what was shown on the screen was a creation, an illusion, a fiction. However, they demonstrated how this creation intersected with people's day to day lives in complex and interesting ways.quot;[11] The final influence was Western musical television, particularly MTV, which has had an increasing influence since the 1990s, as can be seen in the pace, camera angles, dance sequences and music of more recent Indian films. An early example of this approach was in Mani Ratnam's Bombay (1995).[12] In more recent years, Bollywood has also begun influencing North American cinema, particularly the North American musical; Baz Luhrmann's successful musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001) was inspired by Bollywood musicals and the film also incorporates a Bollywood- style dance sequence;[13] The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin feature Indian-style song-and- dance sequences; A. R. Rahman, a film composer, was recruited for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams; and a musical version of Hum Aapke Hain Koun has played in London's West End. Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), which has won four Golden Globes and been nominated for eleven BAFTA Awards and ten Academy Awards, was also directly inspired by Bollywood films,[14][15] and is considered to be a quot;homage to Hindi commercial cinemaquot;.[16] Genre conventions Bollywood films are mostly musicals, and are expected to contain catchy music in the form of song-and-dance numbers woven into the script. A film's success often depends on the quality of such musical numbers.[17] Indeed, a film's music is often released before the movie itself and helps increase the audience. Indian audiences expect full value for their money, with a good entertainer generally referred to as paisa vasool, (literally, quot;money's worthquot;). Songs and dances, love triangles, comedy and dare- devil thrills are all mixed up in a three-hour-long extravaganza with an intermission. Such movies are called masala films, after the Hindi word for a spice mixture. Like masalas, these movies are a mixture of many things such as action, comedy, romance etc. Most films have heroes who are able to fight off villains all by themselves.
  • 5. Melodrama and romance are common ingredients to Bollywood films. Pictured Achhut Kanya (1936) Bollywood plots have tended to be melodramatic. They frequently employ formulaic ingredients such as star-crossed lovers and angry parents, love triangles, family ties, sacrifice, corrupt politicians, kidnappers, conniving villains, courtesans with hearts of gold, long-lost relatives and siblings separated by fate, dramatic reversals of fortune, and convenient coincidences. There have always been Indian films with more artistic aims and more sophisticated stories, both inside and outside the Bollywood tradition (see Art cinema in India). They often lost out at the box office to movies with more mass appeal. Bollywood conventions are changing, however. A large Indian diaspora in English speaking countries, and increased Western influence at home, have nudged Bollywood films closer to Hollywood models.[18] Film critic Lata Khubchandani writes,quot;..our earliest films...had liberal doses of sex and kissing scenes in them. Strangely, it was after Independence the censor board came into being and so did all the strictures.quot;[19] Plots now tend to feature Westernised urbanites dating and dancing in clubs rather than centering on pre-arranged marriages. Though these changes can widely be seen in contemporary Bollywood, traditional conservative ways of Indian culture continue to exist in India outside the industry and an element of resistance by some to western-based influences.[18]Despite this, Bollywood continues to play a major role in fashion in India.[18]Indeed some studies into fashion in India have revealed that some people are unaware that the changing nature of fashion in Bollywood films which are presented to them are often influenced by globalization and many consider the clothes worn by Bollywood actors as authentically Indian.[18] Cast and crew for further details see Indian movie actors, Indian movie actresses, Indian film directors, Indian film music directors and Indian playback singers Bollywood employs people from all parts of India. It attracts thousands of aspiring actors and actresses, all hoping for a break in the industry. Models and beauty contestants, television actors, theatre actors and even common people come to Mumbai with the hope and dream of becoming
  • 6. a star. Just as in Hollywood, very few succeed. Since many Bollywood films are shot abroad, many foreign extras are employed too.[20] Stardom in the entertainment industry is very fickle, and Bollywood is no exception. The popularity of the stars can rise and fall rapidly. Directors compete to hire the most popular stars of the day, who are believed to guarantee the success of a movie (though this belief is not always supported by box-office results). Hence many stars make the most of their fame, once they become popular, by making several movies simultaneously. Only a very few non-Indian actors are able to make a mark in Bollywood, though many have tried from time to time. There have been some exceptions, one recent example is the hit film Rang De Basanti, where the lead actress is Alice Patten, an Englishwoman. Kisna, Lagaan, and The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey also featured foreign actors. Bollywood can be very clannish, and the relatives of film-industry insiders have an edge in getting coveted roles in films and/or being part of a film's crew. However, industry connections are no guarantee of a long career: competition is fierce and if film industry scions do not succeed at the box office, their careers will falter. Some of the biggest stars, such as Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, and Shahrukh Khan have succeeded despite total lack of show business connections. For film clans, see List of Bollywood film clans. Sound Sound in Bollywood films is rarely recorded on location (otherwise known as sync sound). Therefore, the sound is usually created (or recreated) entirely in the studio, with the actors reciting their lines as their images appear on-screen in the studio in the process known as quot;looping in the soundquot; or ADR—with the foley and sound effects added later. This creates several problems, since the sound in these films usually occurs a frame or two earlier or later than the mouth movements or gestures. The actors have to act twice: once on-location, once in the studio—and the emotional level on set is often very difficult to recreate. Commercial Indian films, not just the Hindi-language variety, are known for their lack of ambient sound, so there is a silence underlying everything instead of the background sound and noises usually employed in films to create aurally perceivable depth and environment. The ubiquity of ADR in Bollywood cinema became prevalent in the early 1960s with the arrival of the Arriflex 3 camera, which required a blimp (cover) in order to shield the sound of the camera, for which it was notorious, from on-location filming. Commercial Indian filmmakers, known for their speed, never bothered to blimp the camera, and its excessive noise required that everything had to be recreated in the studio. Eventually, this became the standard for Indian films. The trend was bucked in 2001, after a 30-year hiatus of synchronized sound, with the film Lagaan, in which producer-star Aamir Khan insisted that the sound be done on location. This opened up a heated debate on the use and economic feasibility of on-location sound, and several Bollywood films have employed on-location sound since then.
  • 7. Bollywood song and dance Songs in Bollywood are sung by professional playback singers, rather than actors, who lip-sync the lyrics. Pictured here is Mukesh, a famed playback singer. Bollywood film music is called filmi music (from Hindi, meaning quot;of filmsquot;). Songs from Bollywood movies are generally pre-recorded by professional playback singers, with the actors then lip synching the words to the song on-screen, often while dancing. While most actors, especially today, are excellent dancers, few are also singers. One notable exception was Kishore Kumar, who starred in several major films in the 1950s while also having a stellar career as a playback singer. K. L. Saigal, Suraiyya, and Noor Jehan were also known as both singers and actors. Some actors in the last thirty years have sung one or more songs themselves; for a list, see Singing actors and actresses in Indian cinema. Playback singers are prominently featured in the opening credits and have their own fans who will go to an otherwise lackluster movie just to hear their favourites. Going by the quality as well as the quantity of the songs they rendered, most notable singers of Bollywood are Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum and Alka Yagnik among female playback singers; and K. L. Saigal, Talat Mahmood, Mukesh, Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Kumar Sanu,S.P.Balasubramanyam,Udit Narayan and Sonu Nigam among male playback singers. Mohammed Rafi is often considered arguably the finest of the singers that have lent their voice to Bollywood songs, followed by Lata Mangeshkar, who, through the course of a career spanning over six decades, has recorded thousands of songs for Indian movies. The composers of film music, known as music directors, are also well-known. Their songs can make or break a film and usually do. Remixing of film songs with modern beats and rhythms is a common occurrence today, and producers may even release remixed versions of some of their films' songs along with the films' regular soundtrack albums.
  • 8. Bollywood dances usually follow songs The dancing in Bollywood films, especially older ones, is primarily modelled on Indian dance: classical dance styles, dances of historic northern Indian courtesans (tawaif), or folk dances. In modern films, Indian dance elements often blend with Western dance styles (as seen on MTV or in Broadway musicals), though it is not unusual to see Western pop and pure classical dance numbers side by side in the same film. The hero or heroine will often perform with a troupe of supporting dancers. Many song-and-dance routines in Indian films feature unrealistically instantaneous shifts of location and/or changes of costume between verses of a song. If the hero and heroine dance and sing a pas-de-deux (a dance and ballet term, meaning quot;dance of twoquot;), it is often staged in beautiful natural surroundings or architecturally grand settings. This staging is referred to as a quot;picturisationquot;. Songs typically comment on the action taking place in the movie, in several ways. Sometimes, a song is worked into the plot, so that a character has a reason to sing; other times, a song is an externalisation of a character's thoughts, or presages an event that has not occurred yet in the plot of the movie. In this case, the event is almost always two characters falling in love. Bollywood films have always used what are now called quot;item numbersquot;. A physically attractive female character (the quot;item girlquot;), often completely unrelated to the main cast and plot of the film, performs a catchy song and dance number in the film. In older films, the quot;item numberquot; may be performed by a courtesan (tawaif) dancing for a rich client or as part of a cabaret show. The dancer Helen was famous for her cabaret numbers. In modern films, item numbers may be inserted as discotheque sequences, dancing at celebrations, or as stage shows. For the last few decades Bollywood producers have been releasing the film's soundtrack, as tapes or CDs, before the main movie release, hoping that the music will pull audiences into the cinema later. Often the soundtrack is more popular than the movie. In the last few years some producers have also been releasing music videos, usually featuring a song from the film. However, some promotional videos feature a song which is not included in the movie. Dialogues and lyrics Main article: Bollywood songs The film script or lines of dialogue (called quot;dialoguesquot; in Indian English) and the song lyrics are often written by different people.
  • 9. Dialogues are usually written in an unadorned Hindi or Hindustani that would be understood by the largest possible audience. Some movies, however, have used regional dialects to evoke a village setting, or old-fashioned courtly Urdu in Mughal era historical films. Contemporary mainstream movies also make great use of English. In fact, many movie scripts are first written in English, and then translated into Hindi. Characters may shift from one language to the other to express a certain atmosphere (for example, English in a business setting and Hindi in an informal one). Cinematic language, whether in dialogues or lyrics, is often melodramatic and invokes God, family, mother, duty, and self-sacrifice liberally. Music directors often prefer working with certain lyricists, to the point that the lyricist and composer are seen as a team. This phenomenon is not unlike the pairings of American composers and songwriters that created old-time Broadway musicals (e.g., Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, or Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe). Song lyrics are usually about love. Bollywood song lyrics, especially in the old movies, frequently use Arabo-Persic Urdu vocabulary. Another source for love lyrics is the long Hindu tradition of poetry about the mythological amours of Krishna, Radha, and the gopis. Many lyrics compare the singer to a devotee and the object of his or her passion to Krishna or Radha. Finances Bollywood films are multi-million dollar productions, with the most expensive productions costing up to 100 crores (roughly 1 billion). Sets, costumes, special effects, and cinematography were less than world-class up until the mid-to-late 1990s, although with some notable exceptions. As Western films and television gain wider distribution in India itself, there is increasing pressure for Bollywood films to attain the same production levels. In particular, in areas such as action and special effects. Recent Bollywood films have employed international technicians to improve in these areas, such as Krrish (2006) which has action choreographed by Hong Kong based Tony Ching. The increasing accessibility to professional action and special effects, coupled with rising film budgets, has seen an explosion in the action and sci-fi genres. Sequences shot overseas have proved a real box office draw, so Mumbai film crews are increasingly filming in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, continental Europe and elsewhere. Nowadays, Indian producers are winning more and more funding for big-budget films shot within India as well, such as Lagaan, Devdas and other recent films. Funding for Bollywood films often comes from private distributors and a few large studios. Indian banks and financial institutions were forbidden from lending money to movie studios. However, this ban has now been lifted.[21] As finances are not regulated, some funding also comes from illegitimate sources, such as the Mumbai underworld. The Mumbai underworld has been known to be involved in the production of several films, and are notorious for their patronisation of several prominent film personalities; On occasion, they have been known to use money and muscle power to get their way in cinematic deals. In January, 2000, Mumbai mafia hitmen shot Rakesh Roshan, a film director and father of star Hrithik Roshan. In 2001, the
  • 10. Central Bureau of Investigation seized all prints of the movie Chori Chori Chupke Chupke after the movie was found to be funded by members of the Mumbai underworld.[22] Another problem facing Bollywood is widespread copyright infringement of its films. Often, bootleg DVD copies of movies are available before the prints are officially released in cinemas. Manufacturing of bootleg DVD, VCD, and VHS copies of the latest movie titles is a well established 'small scale industry' in parts of South Asia and South East Asia. Besides catering to the homegrown market, demand for these copies is large amongst some sections of the Indian diaspora, too. (In fact, bootleg copies are the only way people in Pakistan can watch Bollywood movies, since the Government of Pakistan has banned their sale, distribution and telecast). Films are frequently broadcast without compensation by countless small cable TV companies in India and other parts of South Asia. Small convenience stores run by members of the Indian diaspora in the U.S. and the UK regularly stock tapes and DVDs of dubious provenance, while consumer copying adds to the problem. The availability of illegal copies of movies on the Internet also contributes to the piracy problem. Satellite TV, television and imported foreign films are making huge inroads into the domestic Indian entertainment market. In the past, most Bollywood films could make money; now fewer tend to do so. However, most Bollywood producers make money, recouping their investments from many sources of revenue, including selling ancillary rights. There are also increasing returns from theatres in Western countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, where Bollywood is slowly getting noticed. As more Indians migrate to these countries, they form a growing market for upscale Indian films. For an interesting comparison of Hollywood and Bollywood financial figures, see chart. It shows tickets sold in 2002 and total revenue estimates. Bollywood sold 3.6 billion tickets and had total revenues (theatre tickets, DVDs, television etc.) of US$1.3 billion, whereas Hollywood films sold 2.6 billion tickets and generated total revenues (again from all formats) of US$51 billion. Advertising Many Indian artists used to make a living by hand-painting movie billboards and posters (The well-known artist M.F. Hussain used to paint film posters early in his career) This was because human labour was found to be cheaper than printing and distributing publicity material.[23] Now, a majority of the huge and ubiquitous billboards in India's major cities are created with computer-printed vinyl. The old hand-painted posters, once regarded as ephemera, are becoming increasingly collectible as folk art.[23] Releasing the film music, or music videos, before the actual release of the film can also be considered a form of advertising. A popular tune is believed to help pull audiences into the theaters.[24] Bollywood publicists have begun to use the Internet as a venue for advertising. Most of the better-funded film releases now have their own websites, where browsers can view trailers, stills, and information about the story, cast, and crew.[25]
  • 11. Bollywood is also used to advertise other products. Product placement, as used in Hollywood, is widely practiced in Bollywood.[26] Bollywood movie stars appear in print and television advertisements for other products, such as watches or soap (see Celebrity endorsement). Advertisers say that a star endorsement boosts sales. Awards The Filmfare Awards ceremony is one of the most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India.[27] The Indian screen magazine Filmfare started the first Filmfare Awards in 1954, and awards were given to the best films of 1953. The ceremony was referred to as the Clare Awards after the magazine's editor. Modelled after the poll-based merit format of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, individuals may submit their votes in separate categories. A dual voting system was developed in 1956.[28] Like the Oscars, the Filmfare awards are frequently accused of bias towards commercial success rather than artistic merit. As the Filmfare, the National Film Awards were introduced in 1954. Since 1973, the Indian government has sponsored the National Film Awards, awarded by the government run Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF). The DFF screens not only Bollywood films, but films from all the other regional movie industries and independent/art films. These awards are handed out at an annual ceremony presided over by the President of India. Under this system, in contrast to the National Film Awards, which are decided by a panel appointed by Indian Government, the Filmfare Awards are voted for by both the public and a committee of experts.[29] Additional ceremonies held within India are: Stardust Awards Star Screen Awards Ceremonies held overseas are: Bollywood Movie Awards - Long Island, New York, United States Global Indian Film Awards - (different country each year) IIFA Awards - (different country each year) Zee Cine Awards- (different country each year) Most of these award ceremonies are lavishly staged spectacles, featuring singing, dancing, and numerous celebrities. Film education Film and Television Institute of India Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Asian Academy of Film & Television
  • 12. On the Set Popularity and appeal See also: List of highest-grossing Bollywood films Besides being popular among the India diaspora, such far off locations as Nigeria to Egypt to Senegal and to Russia generations of non-Indian fans have grown up with Bollywood during the years, bearing witness to the cross-cultural appeal of Indian movies.[30] Over the last years of the twentieth century and beyond, Bollywood progressed in its popularity as it entered the consciousness of Western audiences and producers.[7][31] Asia Bollywood films are watched in South Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Most Pakistanis watch Bollywood films,[32] as they understand Hindi (due to its linguistic similarity to Urdu). Despite a government ban on Indian films since 1965,[32] a few Bollywood films were legally released in the country in 2006, including Taj Mahal and Mughal- e-Azam, decades after its release, though more movies followed.[33] For the most part, Bollywood movies are watched on cable television in Pakistan; there is also a huge market for Bollywood movies in local video stores. Historically, video piracy was another accessible venue to watch Indian movies.[34] Bollywood movies are also popular in Afghanistan due to the country's proximity with the Indian subcontinent and certain other cultural perspectives present in the movies.[35] A number of Bollywood movies were filmed inside Afghanistan while some dealt with the country, including Dharmatma, Kabul Express, Khuda Gawah and Escape From Taliban.[36][37] Hindi films have also been popular in numerous Arab countries, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt, as well as the Gulf countries.[38] Imported Indian films are usually subtitled in Arabic upon the film's release. Since the early 2000s, Bollywood has progressed in Israel. Special channels dedicated to Indian films have been displayed on cable television.[39] Some Hindi movies also became big successes in the People's Republic of China during the 1950s. The most popular Hindi films in China were Awaara (1951) and Do Bigha Zameen (Two Acres of Land) (1953). Raj Kapoor was a famous movie star in China, and the song quot;Awara Hoonquot; (quot;I am a Trampquot;) was popular in the country. Hindi films have since declined in popularity in China, with Lagaan (2001) being the first Indian film to have a nation-wide release there in decades.[40] Africa Historically, Hindi films have been distributed to some parts of Africa, largely by Lebanese businessmen. Mother India (1957), for example, continued to be played in Nigeria decades after its release. Indian movies have also gained ground so as to alter the style of Hausa fashions,
  • 13. songs have also been copied by Hausa singers and stories have influenced the writings of Nigerian novelists. Stickers of Indian films and stars decorate taxis and buses in Northern Nigeria, while posters of Indian films adorn the walls of tailor shops and mechanics' garages in the country. Unlike in Europe and North America where Indian films largely cater to the expatriate Indian market yearning to keep in touch with their homeland, in West Africa, as in many other parts of the world, such movies rose in popularity despite the lack of a significant Indian audience, where movies are about an alien culture, based on a religion wholly different, and, for the most part, a language that is unintelligble to the viewers. One such explanation for this lied in the similarities between the two cultures. Clothing is largely similar, where men often wear long kaftans similar to the Hausa dogon riga and palmaran. Other similarities include wearing turbans; the presence of animals in markets; porters carrying large bundles, chewing sugar cane; youths riding Bajaj motor scooters; wedding celebrations, and so forth. With the strict Muslim culture, Indian movies were said to show quot;respectquot; toward women, where Hollywood movies were seen to have quot;no shamequot;. In Indian movies women were modestly dressed, men and women rarely kiss, and there is no nudity, thus Indian movies are said to quot;have culturequot; that Hollywood films lack. The latter choice was a failure because quot;they don't base themselves on the problems of the people,quot; where the former is based socialist values and on the reality of developing countries emerging from years of colonialism. Indian movies also allowed for a new youth culture to follow without such ideological baggage as quot;becoming western.quot;[30] Bollywood is also popular among Somalis and the Somali diaspora, where the emerging Islamic Courts Union found a bete noire.[41] Chad and Ethiopia have also shown an interest in the movies.[42] Several Bollywood personalities have avenued to the continent for both shooting movies and off- camera projects. The film Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav (2005) was one of many movies shot in South Africa. Dil Jo Bhi Kahey (2005) was shot almost entirely in Mauritius, which has a large ethnically Indian population. Ominously, however, the popularity of old Bollywood versus a new, changing Bollywood seems to be diminishing the popularly on the continent. The changing style of Bollywood has begun to question such an acceptance. The new era features more sexually explicit and violent films. Nigerian viewers, for example, commented that older films of the 1950s and 1960s had culture to the newer, more westernised picturisations.[30] The old days of India avidly quot;advocating decolonization ... and India's policy was wholly influenced by his missionary zeal to end racial domination and discrimination in the African territoriesquot; were replaced by newer realities.[43] A greater globalised world worked in tandem with the sexualisation of Indian films so as to become more like American films, thus negating the preferred values of an old Bollywood and diminishing Indian soft power. Russia and Eastern Europe Bollywood films are particularly popular in the former Soviet Union. Bollywood films have been dubbed into Russian, and shown in prominent theatres such as Mosfilm and Lenfilm. Ashok Sharma, Indian Ambassador to Suriname, who has served three times in the Commonwealth of Independent States region during his diplomatic career said:
  • 14. The popularity of Bollywood in the CIS dates back to the Soviet days when the films from Hollywood and other Western countries were banned in the Soviet Union. As there was no means of other cheap entertainment, the films from Bollywood provided the Soviets a cheap source of entertainment as they were supposed to be non-controversial and non-political. In addition, the Soviet Union was recovering from the onslaught of the Second World War. The films from India, which were also recovering from the disaster of partition and the struggle for freedom from colonial rule, were found to be a good source of providing hope with entertainment to the struggling masses. The aspirations and needs of the people of both countries matched to a great extent. These films were dubbed in Russian and shown in theatres throughout the Soviet Union. The films from Bollywood also strengthened family ” values, which was a big factor for their popularity with the government authorities in the Soviet Union.[44] The film Mera Naam Joker (1970), sought to cater to such an appeal and the popularity of Raj Kapoor in Russia, when it recruited Russian actress Kseniya Ryabinkina for the movie. In the contemporary era, Lucky: No Time for Love was shot entirely in Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet film distribution system, Hollywood occupied the void created in the Russian film market. This made things difficult for Bollywood as it was losing market share to Hollywood. However, Russian newspapers report that there is a renewed interest in Bollywood among young Russians.[45] Western Europe and the Americas Bollywood has experienced a marked growth in revenue in North American markets, and is particularly popular amongst the South Asian communities of such large cities as Chicago, Toronto and New York City.[7] Yash Raj Films, one of India's largest production houses and distributors, reported in September 2005 that Bollywood films in the United States earn around $100 million a year through theater screenings, video sales and the sale of movie soundtracks.[7] In other words, films from India do more business in the United States than films from any other non-English speaking country.[7] Numerous films in the mid-1990s and onwards have been largely, or entirely, shot in New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto. Bollywood's immersion in the traditional Hollywood domain was further tied with such films as The Guru (2002) and Marigold: An Adventure in India (2007) trying to popularise the Bollywood-theme for Hollywood. The awareness of Hindi cinema is however more spread in the United Kingdom,[46] where they frequently enter the UK top ten. Many films, such as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) have been set in London. Bollywood is also appreciated in Germany, France, and the Scandinavian countries. Various Bollywood movies are dubbed in German and shown on the German television channel RTL II on a regular basis.[47] A considerable number of Hindi movies has been shot in Western Europe as well, particularly in Switzerland, starting with Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge.
  • 15. Bollywood's popularity, however, is not greatly matched in the non-English speaking countries of South America, though Bollywood culture and dance is recognised. In 2006, Dhoom 2 became the first Bollywood film to be shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[48] The feeling was reciprocated as Latin America's largest theater chain, Mexico's Cinepolis, was considering expanding its domains outside the Spanish-speaking areas of the continent as it appeared to be bound for Bollywood.[49] Oceania Bollywood is not as successful in the Oceanic countries and Pacific Islands such as New Guinea. However, it ranks second to Hollywood in countries such as Fiji, with its large Indian minority, Australia and New Zealand.[50] Australia is one of the countries where there is a large South Asian Diaspora. Bollywood is popular amongst non-Asians in the country as well.[50] Since 1997 the country has provided a backdrop for an increasing number of Bollywood films.[50] Indian filmmakers have been attracted to Australia's diverse locations and landscapes, and initially used it as the setting for song-and-dance sequences, which demonstrated the contrast between the values.[50] However, nowadays, Australian locations are becoming more important to the plot of Bollywood films.[50] Hindi films shot in Australia usually incorporate aspects of Australian lifestyle. The Yash Raj Film Salaam Namaste (2005) became the first Indian film to be shot entirely in Australia and was the most successful Bollywood film of 2005 in the country.[51] This was followed by Heyy Babyy (2007) Chak De! India (2007) and Singh Is Kinng (2008) which turned out to be box office successes.[50] Following the release of Salaam Namaste, on a visit to India the then Prime Minister John Howard also sought, having seen the film, to have more Indian movies shooting in the country to boost tourism, where the Bollywood and cricket nexus, was further tightened with Steve Waugh's appointment as tourism ambassador to India.[52] Australian actress Tania Zaetta, who co-starred in Salaam Namaste, among other Bollywood films, expressed her keenness to expand her career in Bollywood.[53] Plagiarism Constrained by rushed production schedules and small budgets, certain Bollywood writers and musicians have been known to resort to plagiarism. They copy ideas, plot lines, tunes or riffs from sources close at hand from other Indian films or far away (Hollywood and other Western movies, Western pop hits). This has lead to significant criticism towards the film industry.[54] In past times, this could be done with impunity. Copyright enforcement was lax in India. The Bollywood film industry was not widely known to non-Indian audiences (excluding the Soviet states), who would not even be aware that their material was being copied. Audiences may also not have been aware of the plagiarism since many audiences in India were unfamiliar with foreign films and music. While copyright enforcement in India is still somewhat lenient, Bollywood and other film industries are much more aware of each other now and Indian audiences are more familiar with
  • 16. foreign movies and music. Organizations like the India EU Film Initiative seek to foster a community between film makers and industry professionel between India and the EU. Flagrant plagiarism may have diminished—however, there is no general agreement that it has.[55] The makers of Partner and Zinda have been targeted by the owners and distributors of the original films, Hitch[56] and Oldboy[57] [58][59]. Possibly a response to this, film companies may have begun the process of securing rights to do official remakes of international films, with Orion Pictures's securing of the rights to the Wedding Crashers possibly being the first.[60] See also South Asian cinema Cinema of Afghanistan Cinema of Bangladesh Bengali cinema Cinema of India Assamese cinema Bengali cinema Bhojpuri cinema Hindi cinema Kannada cinema Malayalam cinema Marathi cinema
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