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Y200 PoliTics and Film

November 8 , 2011. Y200 PoliTics and Film. Bollywood vs. Hollywood. Bollywood films are made by companies headquartered in Bombay (Mumbai) Bollywood makes twice as many films per year as Hollywood but in several Indian languages and with much lower budgets

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Y200 PoliTics and Film

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  1. November 8, 2011 Y200 PoliTics and Film

  2. Bollywood vs. Hollywood • Bollywood films are made by companies headquartered in Bombay (Mumbai) • Bollywood makes twice as many films per year as Hollywood but in several Indian languages and with much lower budgets • The largest number of films are made in Hindi • Other languages include Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu and Gujarati

  3. Standard Bollywood Format • Song and Dance • Melodramatic Plots • Mostly puritanical boy-girl elements although with plenty of romance Bollywood Star AishwaryaRai

  4. Films Produced per year, Major Countries

  5. India Supplies Its Own Film Demand

  6. Serious Films Made in India before 1998 • PatherPanchali (1955) • Aparajito (1956) • The Music Room (1958) • The World of Apu (1959) • Shakespeare-Wallah (1965) Satyajit Ray James Merchant and Ismail Ivory

  7. Serious Films made in India since 1998 • Satya (1998) • Lagaan (2001) • Devdas (2002) • Rang De Basanti (2006) • The Darjeeling Limited (2007) • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

  8. TajMahal

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