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.
2 May, 2008