There’s no denying that Bollywood is continuing to move into Hollywood. Movies have been available, mostly in straight-to-video format in the U.S. for years, but Bollywood influences are sneaking on to the small screen, as well. Americans are big fans of reality competition television shows, such as “American Idol”, “Dancing with the Stars”, and “So You Think You Can Dance.” In fact, “So You Think You Can Dance” (SYTYCD) has already featured two Bollywood-influenced dances in their competition this summer! The bright colors, the novelty, the upbeat tempos, and the joyous spirit of the dances are grabbing American television viewers’ attentions. It’s also rumored that the first big screen version of High School Musical, HSM3, will feature a Bollywood-inspired dance number. If Disney’s embracing it, it can’t be long before Bollywood-inspired exercise routines are burning up American gyms, a Bollywood animated flick and/or cartoon (along with all of the merchandising that comes with it!), and a Bollywood sitcom hits mainstream American television. No, seriously! It’s good news, though. Increased interest in Bollywood will lead to increased interest in Indian tourism, leads to increased wages and benefits and a better overall quality of life for Indian’s hardworking citizens. Stay tuned!

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Bollywood movies are generally three hours long; and are full of romance, action and music. Music is considered as the backbone of Bollywood movies. If the movie has a good music it is expected to do well at the box office.

Friday is considered as a lucky day in Bollywood therefore all the films get released on Fridays. A film is considered as a hit if it stays successful at the box office for more than two or three weeks. Hundreds of movies get released every month but only a few of them get successful.

Some of biggest Bollywood movies that are critically acclaimed all over the world are “Mother India”, “Sholay” and “Lagaan” etc. These films add grace to Bollywood movie industry. The actors and actresses put in 100% to show the originality of their characters.

Bollywood movies can be big budget to low budget to medium budget. The fate of the movie depends upon the story line and the strong music. The recently released movie “Jodha Akbar” starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bacchan is the costliest movie of Bollywood; it was produced by Aashutosh Gowarikar, the same producer that produced “Lagaan”.

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Bollywood has produced so many superstars; in late 1960s and 1970s Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor were ruling the Hindi film industry - they were considered the biggest stars of Bollywood. People used to relate to them, and worship them like Gods. Among the heroines Nargis, Meena Kumari, Madhubala and Nutan were the top ones. Posters of these heroines were all over the place. These heroines were loved by mass audiences. People were crazy about them.

There was a change in the theme of Bollywood movies in late 1970s, Film makers started to produce romantic and action packed films, and with the change new hero and heroines were introduced. Rajesh Khanna, known as Kaka Babu, and Dharmendra were considered chocolate heroes; Dharmendra in particular was considered the most handsome of faces of Bollywood, and used to star in most of the romantic Hindi movies. Amitabh Bacchan was considered the angry young man of Bollywood movies. Heroines that matched these superstars were Hema Malini, Jaya Bacchan, Rekha and Jai Mala.

Super stars of early 1990s were Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Mithun Chakarborty and once again Amitabh Bacchan; the heroines were Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawala and Meenakshi.

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Shahrukh Khan is undoubtedly the biggest superstar of Bollywood movies. He started his journey as an actor in late 1990s with the movie “Deewana”; his co- stars were Rishi Kapoor and Divya Bharti, and people appreciated his work.

His career started along with other great stars, Salman Khan, Amir Khan, Govinda and Saif Ali Khan. S.R.K left all these stars behind with his work and popularity among the people. Films like “Dil to Pagal Hai”, “Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jayenge” made him the biggest super star; his fan following increased tremendously - not only in India but abroad as well. The biggest reason behind the recognition of Bollywood movies among other countries is Shahrukh Khan.

Shahrukh Khan was born into a middle class family, and wanted to become a sportsman but that didn’t eventuate. He was also doing theatre; from theaters he got a chance to work in a television serial called Fauji; Bollywood movie makers appreciated his work and gave him his first break in films.

The statue of Shahrukh Khan has recently been placed in famous Madam Tussad’s Museum in London, along with most famous people of the world.

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The Hindi film industry ‘Bollywood’ started its journey way back in 1913. It was inaugurated by the most renowned name in the Hindi film industry Mr. Dada Sahib Phalke. The first Hindi film released was Raja Harish Chandra in 1913 by Mr. Dada Sahib Phalke; it was a silent film without sound.

The first Hindi film with sound was released in 1931; the film was produced by Mr. Ardeshir Irani and the name of the film was “Alam Ara:” the film was a huge hit at that time, the love and support shown by mass audiences prompted film makers to produce more and more films with sound. Bollywood confronted turbulent times during the war, and India’s independence movements, though the films were still produced by the film makers and people were still interested in watching them.

The first colored Hindi movie was produced in late 1950s, although the majority of Bollywood movies were still black and white till mid 1960. One of the most successful directors and producers of this era was Mr. Prithviraj Kapoor; he launched his very own banner called R.K Kanners; all R.K banner movies were great hits. The legacy of Mr. Prithviraj Kapoor is still kept alive by his grandchildren.

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Bollywood is a huge Hindi film fraternity of India, located in one of the biggest and most popular cities of India, called Mumbai. It is known as one of the biggest film industries for producing huge numbers of films every year. Bollywood produces Hindi language films only; other regional languages such as Punjabi, Bengali, Bhojpuri etc have their own regional film industries.

Bollywood movies generally consist of drama, emotion, dance, love, romance, action and the biggest thing of them all: Music. The chances of a movie to become a hit on the silver screen doubles, if the movie has good quality music. Songs are considered as the media to reach audiences; directors spend huge amount of money for the music and songs of the film.

Bollywood movies used to be hero-oriented, and heroines had a very little to do in the movies, but now with the passage of time heroines are also getting the equal importance in the movie.

Bollywood movies are recognized all over the world, films like “Lagaan” starring Amir Khan being nominated in the Oscars, which is quite a big achievement for Bollywood. Movies on bold subjects are now getting produced in the Bollywood; people really appreciate these films.

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