Bollywood

Remy_3D

The world's movie capital is not Hollywood but Bollywood. Bollywood is the nickname for the Indian film industry located in Bombay (now known as Mumbai, though Mollywood hasn't caught on.)

Indians are in love with movies, even though most films follow a similar format called masala (the word for a collection of spices). Movies are three to four hours long (and include an intermission), include dozens of songs and dances (featuring 100 or so choreographed dancers), top stars, the story between the songs of boy meets girl (without any kissing or sexual contact), lots of action (though no bloodshed), and always - a happy ending.

Fourteen million Indians go to the movies on a daily basis (about 1.4% of the population of 1 billion) and pay the equivalent to the average Indian's day's wages (US $1-3) to see any of the over 800 films churned out by Bollywood each year. That's more than double the number of feature films produced in the United States.

Although American-made films have been edging into India, only the blockbuster Titanic has ever made India's top five list. One hundred and fifty U.S. films arrived in India in 1998. However, Indian films have become somewhat of an international obsession.

Bollywood films are being shown in American and British theaters on a more and more frequent basis. These theaters have become community foci for the South Asian communities around the world. Though separated by a vast distance from home, South Asians have found Bollywood films to be a great way of staying in touch with their culture and their fellow South Asians. The popularity of Bollywood films has soared - last June Hero No. 1 ranked 13th on the U.K. charts.

Since India is a country of sixteen official languages and a total of twenty-four languages spoken by over a million people each, some portions of the film industry are fragmented. While Mumbai (Bollywood) leads India in film production, its specialty lies with Hindi movies. Chennai (formerly Madras) produces films in Tamil and Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is the Bengali movie capital. Neighboring Pakistan's Lahore calls itself Lollywood.

Bollywood's film production center is a government-owned studio facility known as "Film City" in the northern suburbs of Mumbai. Bollywood traces its start to 1911 when the first silent Indian feature film was released by D.P. Phalke. The industry boomed and today there are over 250 theaters in Mumbai alone.

The stars of Bollywood are very popular and highly paid, considering the budget of the films. The lead star in a film often receives as much as 40% of the US $2 million budget for the typical masala film. Stars may be in such high demand that they're working on ten films at once. Photographs of Bollywood stars grace shop windows and homes throughout the country.

Providing three to four hours of escapism is the primary objective of Bollywood and it's a recipe done well. Indian movies are becoming more and more popular around the world so look for them in theaters and video stores near you.

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Hindi Power....

Indian Film Industry




The film industry in India began in two very contrasting sectors. On the one hand, distribution agencies (such as Bourne & Shepherd, Calcutta, Clifton & Co., Bombay, or the Madras Photographic Stores) often extended their business in still photography to distribute both 揳nimated photographs

MUMBAI - The capital of Bollywood




Mumbai is one of the most important centres in India for the production of cotton textiles. Other leading industries include printing and publishing, shipbuilding and repairing, and the manufacture of chemicals, machinery, metals, metal products, and fertilizers. Mumbai is also the centre of India抯 large film industry, and colloquially termed 揃ollywood

seribulan

huh...baru jer tengok IIFA Awards tadik...diorg buat kat Singapore...last year kat Malaysia...sebelum tuh pernah kat South Africa kalau tak silap...jadik boleh dilihat
betapa Internationalnya filem Hindi nih...ada pasaran di mana2...sampai ke Negara Afghanistan dan Arab dengarnya...

mbhcsf

apakah feadah dan kesan langsung bollywood ni kepada negara pengeluar? apakah motif di sebalik bollywood ni
kenapa i panjang sangat ?

adakah pendudk negara pengeluar suka akan cerita ini?

Remy_3D

Providing three to four hours of escapism is the primary objective of Bollywood and it's a recipe done well. Indian movies are becoming more and more popular around the world so look for them in theaters and video stores near you.

Originally posted by Remy_3D at 7-6-2004 03:31 AM:
Providing three to four hours of escapism is the primary objective of Bollywood and it's a recipe done well. Indian movies are becoming more and more popular around the world so look for the ...

Not just Bollywood , but history of all films have shown that escapism  is their main reason why film industries flourished.

Even Hollywood film industry that flourished in the 20s was meant as a form of escapism during the Great Depression.

Remy_3D

Dari segi geography, apa yg menyebabkan filem melayu tidak dapat menandingi file bollywood?

fly_in_d_sky

Originally posted by Remy_3D at 7-6-2004 11:46 PM:
Dari segi geography, apa yg menyebabkan filem melayu tidak dapat menandingi file bollywood?

maybe filem melayu masih ketinggalan zaman dlm beberapa aspek ...... :stp:

Remy_3D

Originally posted by fly_in_d_sky at Wed 09th Jun 04 02:21:



maybe filem melayu masih ketinggalan zaman dlm beberapa aspek ...... :stp:

aspek yg bagaimana?

Originally posted by Remy_3D at 9-6-2004 02:39 AM:

aspek yg bagaimana?

Sejarah telah membuktikan yg antara sebab2 kenapa hollywood dan bollywood boleh  flourish is because mereka amalkan the studio system.

Pada zaman dulu (50s and 60s) , kenapa filem2 P Ramlee begitu popular sebab filem2 dia adalah keluaran studio system... S'pore pada masa tu amalkan Studio System dlm idustry perfileman.

Shaw Brothers dan Cathay-Keris adalah 2 Studio yg besar pada masa itu.....

Itu pasal bila P Ramlee berhijrah semula ke KL , semua filem2 dia tak laku dan tak berquality sebab dia tak ada backing...dan selepas itu juga , Studio System ni collapse dekat Spore sebab Loke Wan Tho , ketua cathay-Keris pun meninggal dunia sebab accident (plane crash) , whereas Shaw Brothers pulak concentrate buat filem kat Hong Kong.....

[ Last edited by PeNinGLaLaT on 10-6-2004 at 12:06 PM ]

eva

Originally posted by Remy_3D at 6-6-2004 19:31:
Providing three to four hours of escapism is the primary objective of Bollywood and it's a recipe done well. Indian movies are becoming more and more popular around the world so look for the ...

:setuju:

kat UK sendiri.. bollywood makin menular pengaruh...
contohnya.. there's a program 'bollywood star' lebih kurang mcm pop idol/american idol kat tv 4l.. slot nie on air last month about 4 weeks or more selama sejam ditaja oleh barangan keluaran org India.. manggo juice...

dorang tunjuk camana org India kat sini nak cari bintang berbakat sebagai star of bollywood... ramai jugak yg bercita2 utk menjadi star of bollywood.. i dunno what so special about industry perfileman mereka... coz..my parents pon rajin tengok citer hindustan.. kalau anak dah selalu disajikan citer dan lagu industan.. mestila anak pon jadik hantu industan juga.. :lol

eva

Originally posted by PeNinGLaLaT at 9-6-2004 04:46:


Sejarah telah membuktikan yg antara sebab2 kenapa hollywood dan bollywood boleh  flourish is because mereka amalkan the studio system.

Pada zaman dulu (50s and  ...

:setuju:

simple perbandingan.. ketika kita masih disajikan cerita hitam putih.. contohnya cerita Ibu Mertuaku dan cerita penarik beca.. producer film hindi seperti Raj Kapoor (datuk kepada karisma dan kareena kapoor) iaitu pemilik R.K Film Production telah menerbitkan film bermutu dan berwarna seperti 'Sanggam'.. soo dr segi teknologi industry perfileman India merupakan antara negara Asia terawal yg mempunyai teknik perfileman yg bagus..  Disamping itu mereka bangga menggambarkan keindahan negara mereka sendiri contohnya Kashmir.. ini menyebabkan org lain yg melihat keindahan negara India bercita-cita someday akan melawat kws tersebut... so ini sebenarnya membawa kesan positif kepada sektor pelancongan mereka... :bgrin:

[ Last edited by eva on 7-7-2004 at 12:37 AM ]

Macamana filem2 Bollywood boleh maju sekarang ni ????

Kalau kita lihat sejarah , filem2 Hollywood dan European bermula lebih awal dari Bollywood. Tapi kecekalan para aktivist filem di India cukup mengkagumkan sehingga mereka dapat membawa filem2 mereka ke tahap antarabangsa sekarang , contohnye di Cannes Film Festival.

tightcherry

kat london pun omputeh dah terpengaruh dgn bollywood, siap ada little india kat london, fesyen bollywood pun diterima kat london..makanan ala india pun omputeh dah mula makan mcm curry,papedam..

redCeri^cet

sbbnyer India diaspora ni dimerata dunia, lagi pun 1.1 billion penduduk dia lom msk yg ada
kt Europe  6.3juta org, ASEAN 4.3 juta, Arab 3.8 juta, North America 3.8 juta,
Carribean 1.2juta, Africa 2.5juta, Oceania 700,000
so ada permintaan, bleh la filem2 diaorg msk ke pasaran negara tuh