| Bollywood
is the name given to the Mumbai-based film industry in India. It is considered
to be the largest in the world in terms of number of films produced.
The films it produces are mostly in Hindi. They are generally lively, energetic
musicals. Bollywood films often have their own sense of internal logic and can
be as surreal as any musical produced by American or European studios. The music
is generally pre-recorded, sung by a core group of singers, with actors miming
the words (known as playback singing). Generally, professional playback singers
provide the voices but of late there's a trend of the actors singing for themselves,
like Aamir Khan in Ghulam. Bollywood films are often engaging spectacles that
tell timeless stories of love and turmoil.
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Bollywood
films usually feature caucasian looking indians (Aryan as opposed to Dravidic),
usually from the northern regions of India. The dancing usually involves very
strong and quick body movements, and large groups of dancers.
During
the period that Bollywood was not known outside of India and the various Indian
communities, a lot of licences were probably used without permission.
Currently due to increased visibility and increasingly large audiences, some Bollywood
films can have fairly large budgets, allowing them to use famous film sets such
as Hatfield House and Blenheim Palace in the United Kingdom. In modern Bollywood
films, location shooting is quite important and good sceneries are sought after.
However, funding for Bollywood films remains hit-and-miss. There are no large
studios which fund films. Often funding comes from private distributors. In 2001
the Central Bureau of Investigation, India's national police agency, seized all
prints of Chori Chori Chupke Chupke after the movie was found to be funded by
members of the Mumbai underworld.
Another problem facing Bollywood is
piracy of its films. Often pirated DVDs arrive before the print for the picture.
The term Bollywood was created by conflating Bombay (the city now called
Mumbai) and "Hollywood". Mumbai is a major centre for the production
and editing of Indian films.
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