Indian media is full of reports about Bollywood’s increasing influence in the world movie industry and how it is catching up with the big boy Hollywood. Let us look at some facts.
Bollywood was born in 1899 with the production of a short film and Hollywood’s birth happened 11 years later in 1910 with a Biography melodrama.
Hollywood produces 500 films per year on average and has a worldwide audience of 2.6 billion whereas Bollywood produces more than 1000 (not consistently) films every year and has a worldwide audience of 3 Billion. In terms of vieweship, Bollywood overtook Hollywood in 2004 and has been leading ever since.
Hollywood’s Domination
Bollywood made a revenue of $1.75 Billion in 2006(estimated to rise to $3.4 Billion in 2010) which is only half the revenue of what one Hollywood studio, Walt Disney made in 2006 – and that is saying a lot. However, while Hollywood’s market inside the US has almost saturated, India’s 500 million population under the age of 20 will ensure that the market inside India will grow exponentially in the coming years.
Although Hollywood produces only a fraction of the number of films made all over the world, it garners a staggering 75% of total revenues. Also, 50% of its earnings(expected to grow to 80% in the next 20 years) come from the foreign market whereas for Bollywood it is 20%.
Hollywood has an overwhelming domination among the top grossers worldwide – almost all of the top 50 movies are made in Hollywood. It has virtually eclipsed all other film industries except Bollywood – for instance, the European film industry cut down to 1/10th of its size since 1910.
Spiralling Production Costs and Risks
The average cost of producing, marketing and distributing a Hollywood film is more than US$60 million though a Star Wars or Harry Potter costs around $100 million and only one out of ten succeeds. At the same time Shekhar Kapur’s ‘Paani’ which is tipped to be the costliest film ever to be made in Bollywood will cost $20 million and the average cost of a big movie is around $ 5 Million. 50% of the movies produced in Bollywood are never released and on an average more than 95% of those released results in losses.
Bollywoods NRI Connection
Around 15 million Indian expatriates living in different parts of the world account for over 65% ofBollywood’s earnings. An estimated $800 is spent by NRI’s in Indian movies and music. US (2 million Indian expats), UK(1.5 million) , South Africa(1 million of Africa’s 2 million Indian population) are major markets for Bollywood.
The Bottomline
Despite the hype surrounding Bollywood’s increasing influence in the world movie industry, it is a long way from being a threat to Hollywood’s influence.
Revenue-wise Hollywood movies does not depend on ticket sales alone. It follows the time-tested ‘franchise-formula’ where a major part of the revenue comes from other segments like TV networks, magazines, home-videos etc. Ofcourse, Bollywood is toying the same line but it is too early to say if a successful process is in place.
A few years ago, 70% of the money for movies made in Mumbai came as liquid cash from traders in real-estate, jewellery and the Mumbai underworld. Things have improved, but the financing of Bollywood movies is still shady business coming largely from the non-organised sector and with virtually no financing from the banking sector unlike Hollywood where production studios and the organised sector treat it as an industry and has a well established network. Bollywood was officially recognised as an ‘industry’ by the government only in 1998.
And if Bollywood basks in the glory of dubious ‘Shah Rukh Khan has more fans than Tom Cruise’ reports for too long, it may not be a happy ending afterall.
Sources: Variety International Film Guide, Asianfilms.org, Reuters
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February 1, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Really nice summary of the two film industries.
There is one thing though..that is Hindi films or Bollywood films have a huge market with non-Indian community in Africa, and Middle East.Like one New York cabbie told me…I don’t know who Clint Eastwood or Robert Niro was in Africa, but I knew who Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra were. Telling statement.
Thanks,
Kamla
February 1, 2007 at 11:08 pm
The popularity of Bollywood actually shows a huge issue that is India’s population. The Bollywood movies are mostly watched by “India citizens” (or people of Indian origin) across the world.
Bollywood can never even dream of Hollywood, because Hollywood has a huge list of fine actors, directors and producers (producers who are into Cinema not only to make money, but also has a good idea of it) and has amazing technical perfection even in the artsy films and fresh ideas. See the list of movies that has been or being considered for Oscars, most of them are great movies. Then compare it to Bollywood and we will see.
Even in the last celebrated movie of Bollywood “Krrissh”, they had to copy a batman mixed with the gown, flying and fighting style of Neo from Matrix and the Roshans got red carpet in a carnival called Goa “Film” Festival. Even in its prequel “Koi Mil Gaya”, they had to bring in an Australian to do the special effects and they created a clown like “Jadoo” which is a ‘comic’ imitation of Spielberg’s wonderful E. T.
At the same time, there are a lot of wonderful people in India like Aparna Sen, Mani Ratnam, Ritu Parno Ghosh, Shyama Prasad, Shaji N. Karun etc (am not even mentioning the great veteran names like Adoor Gopalakrishnan) but we still go ga-ga over Bollywood that tries to imitate Hollywood in each and every move.
February 4, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Can you point us to a list of the approx 1000 films made by Bollywood last year?
February 4, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Hey checkout this great bollywood dances….on a single postcard
http://www.zimoz.com/zimo/user/Rajesh%20Chokhani/1170600959049.postcard
February 4, 2007 at 10:22 pm
I think that you are WAY over simplifying the issue. Hollywood is richer, therefore it’s better, is all you’re saying.
Hollywood spends a lot, and makes a lot. Bollywood spends little, and makes little. It’s a much cheaper and possibly more efficient. Bollywood tickets are MUCH cheaper than Hollywood tickets, and Bollywood actors/producers/director/whatever need less money to live large than their Hollywood counterparts.
Gross salaries are never a good way to compare nations. In America, a family needs to make at least a 100,000 USD to live happily. In India, this is more like 20,000 USD. You have to compare in terms of purchasing parity, NOT gross income. Likewise, Shah Rukh Khan can live like Brad Pitt (same cars, houses, service, etc) with a 5th of Brad Pitt’s money.
I bet if you look at the overall spending of Bollywood versus how much it makes, it will prove better than the overall spending of Hollywood versus how much it makes.
And apparantly the big money spent in Hollywood goes to waste, considering the fact that nowadays Indian movies AESTHETICALLY look almost identical to Hollywood movies.
Besides that, Bollywood has much stronger viewership – 3.6 billion in TICKETS sold yearly (middle east, africa, eastern bloc european, south asia, south east asia, etc). And this figure doesn’t include the pirated Bollywood VCDs that Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East, Bangladesh, and even India (and actually now even the USA) are rife with.
I think Bollywood has a strong hold over Hollywood, and it’ll only get better.
February 5, 2007 at 10:42 am
Matt,
The numbers come from seven different regional film industries. Wiki has a list of most of these movies here apart from the list of hindi movies here . I havent come across a comprehensive list encompassing all online though it should be available with the Film Federation of India.
namantra,
I did not imply Hollywood is ‘better’.
Just pointing out to some numbers which works in favour of either one of them.
Parallel cinema in Hollywood is in much better shape than in Bollywood.
If Bollywood has to compete with H’d it has to be in US and the rest of world and this is where H has a definite advantage in being successful in breaking cultural barriers. B might successful in the subcontinent and parts where there are a large no:of south asians but it is the ability to bring in a new audience who does not speak hindi which will be the the big hurdle.
As of now B has a a very small audience from this segment.
February 5, 2007 at 11:19 am
That’s actually completely untrue. Bollywood has a strong grasp on non-Hindi speaking populations. Talk to anybody who has lived in Africa, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Central Asia, etc. I guarantee you that while they lived there, they watched way more Bollywood movies than Hollywood movies. 100% guarantee. Even people in eastern European countries and Russia used to watch only Bollywood movies (however over time this has reduced significantly in these two areas).
I agree that the situation of parallel cinema is much better in Hollywood, but Bollywood is definitely getting there (gradually/slowly, but continuously).
February 5, 2007 at 11:25 am
I would be grateful if you could point out some survey report supporting your argument of 100% guarantee.
The one I came across in India Today cited a 2% penetration of non-hindi speaking masses while it was more than 20% for Hollywood among the non-english speaking masses.
But yes Bollywood may catchup in future.
February 6, 2007 at 4:50 am
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February 6, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Though Bollywood is popular BUT we are far behind in terms of being original.If we don’t come up with good and original writers (who are the backbone of Hollywood) we will always be lagards.
But I still love to watch a Salman or a priety!!
Good Article.
February 13, 2007 at 1:07 am
Well the fact remains that hollywood is the big boy. I think bollywood lags so behind its not even right to think of making a comparison. Its a sin, hehe.
The fact that names like narmantra and rahul are writing about brad pitt and tom cruise tells us the extreme diversified fame of hollywood. No chris, johnny, or angela wud write about aamir khan or shahrukh khan in that way, they dont know!
Hollywood has a ‘global fame’ and this is a technical term by the way. In today’s world, in wot kind of people u’r famous is as equally important as in how many. Its not just about the numbers, its about who, how much diversified, and wot ethnicities. Bollywood is only known in indian subcontinent, or the indian diasporas and an exception being the middleeast side. Hollywood is known everywhere. In austrailians, indians, pakistanis, europeons, american, every corner of the world. This is well also obvious coz hollywood films are in the universal language and the media coverage is global. Your tom cruise comes to pakistan and u have all the pakistanis showing up at the airport. Your shahrukh khan shows up at JFK and there’s no gora there, only the indians who live there, that is if they come.
Well its a laugh comparing bollywood to hollywood
so dont! hehe
February 13, 2007 at 1:58 am
who the hell says bollywood has a AUDIENCE of 3.2 billion…bollywood has a TICKETS SALE of 3.2 billion…does anyone realizes the crazy repitition factor among indian citizens in watching movies in theaters…lets say u have 50 indians…and each of them watches the an indian movie 4 times…that doesnt make the audience 200! the audience is 50…anyone here who’s thinking with the right mind shud know people of indian subcontinent including the relatively low diasporas comprise of a population of not more than 1.5 billion…so there’s obviously huge repitition…thats not the case with hollywood…crazy repititions dont happen there
and i think this whole scenario of comparing bollywood with hollywood is crap…bollywood films are in hindi and they will thus always have a limited audience…they have no tech…nothing…and bollywood has zero influence outside the indian community…unlike hollywood…which has a extreme global coverage and impact…and has a huge ethnically diversified audience all over the world in every culture
HOLLYWOOD BIG BOY…rajiv is rite…its a sin to even compare
February 13, 2007 at 2:01 am
Hi everyone. I just came across this forum and i dont really know, but wots bollywood? i believe its a film industry but i really thought someone mispelled hollywood
wot’s with that uncanny resemblance of the name?
February 13, 2007 at 10:19 am
Rajiv and Adnan,
I think you are mixing up statistics with a diversified following. True, Bollywood’s global appeal is negligible compared to H, but these are figures – not an inference on which is ‘better’.
David,
Once in a while, look beyond your neighbourhood in Milton and you might just come across the word.
Or if that is too demanding, look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood
February 13, 2007 at 2:35 pm
As far as better is concerned…which means the quality of films…bollywood is obviously total crap to hollywood…i wud say negative
Bollywood is a huge copy cat…and thats not inspiration wot i’m talking…this ‘inspiration’ is a very cool word for the copy cat’s to hide their motives…zeher film is full copy of denzel washington’s out of time…even the shooting script has a similiarity…that is extremely pathetic…i dont say ‘sarkar’ is a copy…thats a true inspiration and its a nice film…but like zeher i can name a dozen films which are shot to shot copy of hollywood films…another example is killer from collateral…there are many
Plus hollywood has all the tech in the world which lets them make such dramatic…diversified…and appealing films bollywood can never imagine…they’r just happy with their family dramas of ‘kuch kuch hota hai’ and ‘kabhee alvida naa kehna’…hehe
February 13, 2007 at 2:36 pm
by the way…this copy makes mahest bhatt the biggest sucker alive!
February 13, 2007 at 2:38 pm
True man.
And yea mahest bhatt really sucks! the guy has no talent and originality
February 13, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Rafay agrees with Adnan 2 mins after Adnan’s comment and both of them have 203.81.231.157 as the IP address.
Now that is originality
February 13, 2007 at 3:07 pm
man u hacker or sumthing…yes we’re on the same pc
but wots keeping u so bonded with the crap?
February 13, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I believe u’r some indian who for no reason is defending bollywood…u shud admit how things are moving and forgodsake get off that ‘my industry-my support’ crap
dont post here with some defense for mahest bhatt
February 13, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Well i’m just gonna get off this subject…i think the whole bollywood comparison with the big boy sucks in the first place
bye everyone
February 13, 2007 at 3:11 pm
By crap, if you mean B’wood, I hate it more than you do. As for the IP, fairly easy to figure out from the WP admin.
February 13, 2007 at 3:12 pm
thats originality…the exact minutes…way to go dude
February 13, 2007 at 3:13 pm
hey thats a originality…3:11 and 3:11…are we chatting
February 24, 2007 at 3:52 am
I find it funny that the people here are actually saying Hollywood is original. That’s laughable. Maybe you should watch some Japanese anime or movies, and see how much material Hollywood takes from them. You remember Kill Bill? Well, read the Manga (graphic novels) called Lone Wolf and Cub, which was written in the 1970′s, and you will see where all the ideas for that movie came from. Matrix? Heavily inspired by the anime Ghost in the Shell. I can name many many more examples.
Though I don’t disagree that Bollywood produces crap. It does, but I disagree that Hollywood does much better, though they do produce more excellent material, and their crap is just done better.
March 5, 2007 at 3:29 pm
i think bollywood movies will take time to catch up with holllywood atleast after 15 to 20yrs i think the main problem is the language if want to enjoy a bollywood movie you got to have sound command over hindi then only you can enjoy the emotions, spicy dialouges of a bollywood movie
March 9, 2007 at 9:32 am
FACTS ABOUT BOLLYWOOD:
I will post the ACTUAL REASONS, BEHIND THE “POPULARITY” OF BOLLYWOOD IN 100′S Of countries. Its absolute shortcomings. Total production cost vs net gross. Where and how bollywood fails, and where and how bollywood succeeds. And many such things. Factual numbers and analysis and constructive criticism.
Lets start with Bollywood’s global viewership and why it is around 2 – 3 Billion.
1) Bollywood does have a global audience that boasts in numbers close to 2.5 Billion, however, interestingly the audience is primarily from poor/developing countries. The implication here is about the majority of the audience. Obviously, bollywood as audience from Australia, Sweeden, USA, etc etc[rich nations], however its “majority” of the non-indian viewers are from Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela, Kenya, West Indies, Bulgaria, Latvia etc etc to name few of such “random” countries where not only the “NRI” population comprises of viewership, but the local/Native population as well. Therefore regardless of approx 2.5 billion viewers, the total revenue generated is less, as these countries do not boast strong currencies.
You have to keep in mind the fact, that other than Hollywood, the Indian movie industry is the only “professional” industry out there in terms of entertainment, production, distributors, investors and most importantly an avid viewership. Remember the fact that the “NON WHITE” population of the planet, intrisicly identify to a “darker” shade of humans. Because people “identify” the body and facial expressions, color and imagery as their own. Again, remember that these massive viewers are from Middle East, Africa, South America the Carribeans, and what is their skin color?? Brown-tan-black, anything but white. This is not to suggest that white ppl, such as Eastern Europeans, do not watch it, but we are talkin about majority here.
..more to come …
March 9, 2007 at 12:41 pm
….
In fact we can take in depth analysis of every major/minor country from where this “2.5″ billion Bollywood viewers originate.
1) India [Population 1.3 billion] [TV/Movie Watching audience [700 Million] at any given time. Example during Cricket Matches, especially a world cup match against Pakistan.
2) Pakistan [Pop 165 Million] [TV/Movie audience is over 50 Million. Culture very similiar to India, there Hindi movies are desired and watched the most]
3) Russia [Anti USA [World War + Cold War]]
Pro commmunist/socialist which India initially was and still is to some extent, however things have changed. Therefore interest in India was genuine/strategic for the Russians. Anti Hollywood/capitalist economy, helped Russians [not all, but many] to diversify their movie interest in Hindi movies.
4) South America
5) Africa [Kenya, South Africa, Egypt etc]
6) Eastern Europe [Bulgaria, Latvia, etc]
7) Middle East [UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel etc]
These four “continents” have almost the same reasons as listed below.
Family values + Songs + Dancing + Skin color + Struggling economies/people
Many countries from the above regions, identify very closely to India, when it comes to culture and family values. Music, rhythm, the “hero” concept. One poor guy from the village..goes in search for a job in the “Big” city…and his struggles against corruption and his eventual victory over the system..is a classic concept that every country and more sore developing countries can identify to. Amitabh Bacchan was one such typical hero. Tall, dark in color, seemingly ordinary looking, an image that a random south american, middle eastern, african, srilankan, pakistani, and random Eastern Europeans can identify with. As suppose to Marlon Brando, Bradd Pitt, Tom Cruise, Sean Connery. Too white, too american…too capitalist…too flashy.. too “perfect” ..that a random person in any of the above countries/regions could be like ..hey ..my local village/town person looks like Marlon Brando. NO!
India is also the only Non-Muslim country in the world, which has the most Muslims, almost 200 million. The frequent use of Urdu words in movies, give many muslims, especially Arabs, a chance to identify the muslim culture/certain words/language.
Indian movies on top of all these factors are dubbed in native languages as well.
Again, like i said NRI’s regardless of where they are, 70%-85% will most likely watch Hindi movies. White people from countries such as [USA, UK, Australia, NewZealand, Canada will 99% chance not watch Hindi movies]
Chinese people will 99% chance not watch Hindi movies.
And there it is, the rest of the world is open to Bollywood. Again, remember that a lot of European countries with “WHITE” population, like Sweeden, Netherlands etc are prime locations for bollywood movies. More than half of the “foreign location/sets” are based in these European countries, thus not only do they help their tourism economy, they also incorporate these white people in their movies for random roles, or crowd.
March 10, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Movie making is not just money its art. Before even thinking of money you need to have a concept which comes withouth any cost. Once you have a great concept money can always follow. The thing is Indian movies just want to make a masala movie and just get away with it. Hollywood does a hell lot of research for minutest things. They do a research on location,research on character(his life,his actions,his mannerisms),research on how extras fit in) . I dont think there is problem with money with bollywood,when they can spend 50 crores on crap movie like devdas they can always get money. Till now actors like big b,srk,hritik have never done a role which depicts a real life character eg
Tom cruise in born on the 4th of july(he played ron kovic)
philip seyomor hoffman in CAPOTE(he played Truman Capote)
Leornardo in The Avaitor(howard hughes)
Russel crow in the beautiful mind(john nash)
U tal about money ,The blair witch project was shot on a handy cam..Thatz what i call creativity. You dont need money all u need is creativity to think and come up with new concepts. We always end up imitating all the crap of West..I have written so many stories which i cant share with stupid brainless directors like Yashchopra or aditia chopra as they will never understand my stuff.. I wil defenitely have to send it to martin scorcese..
March 13, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Would “Chronicc” care to elaborate as where he found facts saying that Venezuela has a great deal of non-hindi speaking audience to Bollywood films? I live in Caracas, and on a normal cinema, 1 of out 5 movies are not Hollywood films, but that doesn’t mean it’s from Bollywood, it could be european, indenpendent films from the US, latin american, etc… But there hasn’t been a Indian film at the cinema with countrywide release.
March 19, 2007 at 11:54 pm
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April 21, 2007 at 1:07 pm
So thers is comparision gonig over for hollywood and bollywood.let me tell you one thing bollywood is more famous for making rumours rather than doing their work. You are asking about bollywood in countries outsude india. first look inside, in indian multiplexers hollwoood movies making more money than bollywood movies. In india 300 movie ranked top in multiplexers a.d that’ll be in the case of spiderman-3. In my hostel none of the hostler has bollywood movies in their PCs all have hollywood movies. even if you look in india hollywood increased their number of viewers and bollywood lost their viewer its all becuse of communication resources increased. even in india we have south indian film industry. South indians very rarely watch bollywood movies. in south india rajnikant is like god and is more famous than Big B. and he is highest paied actor in india for ‘sivaji’ 40 cr INR.You are just looking at countries where indians are but look at in those countries how many people undertand hindi. and just look at the countries and number of people speak english. if bollywood is more famous tell me why every year indian government sends bollywood movies for oscar and every year they failed to win oscar. tell you one thing as far as i ananlyzed that india media and bollywood stars make rumousrs to become more famous.there are some
1) No body knew that who will be next james bond untill daniel craig becomes. But indian media was saying that aishwaya rai is next bond girl.I don’t know whether producers need to find first next Bond or bond girl for making movie. Afterall we saw Eva Green as bond girl. far good looking and sexiest than ash.
4) 4-5 years back i heard that ash is comming with brad pitt and richar gere in a movie based on buddhism. Hritik is coming with syllwestor stallone. abhishek is coming witj kate winslate. in the end no movis came.
last thinh hollwood has revenue of 63% in whole world and rest is for other film industries. like chinese, latin american, french, german.
I think that bollywood is far behind not only than hollywood but also than chinese, french, australian, UK, Korean, Japenease and hongkong film industries.
Look if you are shooting in Euorpe or US it doesn’t mean their people will watch bollywood movies until his origin is indian. Look anybody watches movies for entertainment. if you don’t understand language you’ll only get bored
April 21, 2007 at 1:28 pm
if you think bollywood is better than hollywood than look below:
total worlwide bollywood revenues: 1.3 bn USD
titanic gross: 1.9 USD
total sum of all bollywood movies gross is 2/3 of single hollywood movies.
April 21, 2007 at 1:29 pm
sorry 1.9 bn USD
April 29, 2007 at 9:18 pm
hey! my study is ‘How Bollywood has become Americanised over the last three years, with specific reference to the films ‘Don’ ‘Girlfriend’ and ‘Krrish’.anyone have any views???
May 3, 2007 at 11:20 pm
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May 4, 2007 at 9:03 am
People, why are we so obsessed with comparing ourselves with everybody else. So what if B*d isnt as ‘good’ as H*d or whatever ??? The most important thing is that film-makers, actors and writers get a medium to express their ideas and use their talent. So maybe our movies dont look as good or whatever …. I recently saw Black Friday and Namastey London and I really liked both. Swades was good too so was K ka Ghosla. Actually I havent seen a good H*d movie in a while but there are many gr8 H*d movies. In the process of making B*d as ‘good’ as H*d we might end up turning B*d into another H*d. Has no one here read 1984?
June 3, 2007 at 1:55 pm
“Even in the last celebrated movie of Bollywood “Krrissh”, they had to copy a batman mixed with the gown, flying and fighting style of Neo from Matrix…”
Neoe flying and fighting like chinese man’s from chineses films 30 years ago. HAHAHA
June 7, 2007 at 1:35 pm
According to me bollywood movies not only entertain to public but also give social message to public.
for ex. bagban film gives to message to parent that parents should not spend all money for embellishing
life of their children. They should save some money for their future.
June 17, 2007 at 2:32 am
First we have to think here that we can not compare the “ART”.Can two paintings of Picasso be compared.Never. We can not say
that ‘this’ painting is superior than ‘other’.
So the point is clear…what are the points to compare.
~Quantity– Bollywood leads.
~Money—–Hollywood’s business is much far beyond than Bollywood.
~Popularity—–Bollywood takes the lead.
~Technically—Hollywood wins.
~Contents—-sci-fi
stories,Extraterrestrial,supernatural,
aliens,calamities,war
~Contents–Family,values,drama,emotions,tragedy
As bollywood movies have these contents , they become closer to “heart” (which everyone of us have).Language is not much barrier here.
conclusion—’Popularity’ of bollywood will increase more than now…and ultimately [from 'Popularity'],’Money’ can be earned. Finally [with the help of 'Money'], ‘technical’ aspects of the film can be improved.
so ultimately Bollywood will win the race.
June 22, 2007 at 11:56 pm
america copies alot of movies and ideas from bollywood. americans just try to get bigger sales to compete with use of excessive violence and sex.
June 29, 2007 at 3:47 pm
hey axneer, i think u r making mistake regarding popularity point of view. its not important how much. its matter of in which kind of people u r papular. give u an example if ur shk is going to japan, korea, france, spane etc. no body will be for him except few indians. but if tom cruise or brad pitt came there every body going to see them. not only these top guys if someone like shakira has come everybody is dieing to see her. and how can u say that bollywood is more popular than hollywood. if bollywood is more popular than obviously its goimg to make more money. for ur kind information spiderman 3 in india has done bussiness of 64 cr. in india that can tell u how people think abt hollywood movies
June 29, 2007 at 3:54 pm
monika, have u ever seen any hollywood movie that is giving some message. like cindrellaman, the aviator which guru has copied, a beautiful mind the are thousands in list. Ur Veer Zara gives message to waste 20 yrs of ur invaluable life period behind jail. whereas spiderman gives message that no matter how difficult or restrictive situations are u must have to come out and give up everything to get what u wanna achieve. basically most of hollywood movies give message of not give away and try hard.
July 1, 2007 at 1:13 am
axneer Says:
June 17th, 2007 at 2:32 am
First we have to think here that we can not compare the “ART”.Can two paintings of Picasso be compared.Never. We can not say
that ‘this’ painting is superior than ‘other’.
So the point is clear…what are the points to compare.
~Quantity– Bollywood leads.
~Money—–Hollywood’s business is much far beyond than Bollywood.
~Popularity—–Bollywood takes the lead.
~Technically—Hollywood wins.
~Contents—-sci-fi
stories,Extraterrestrial,supernatural,
aliens,calamities,war
~Contents–Family,values,drama,emotions,tragedy
As bollywood movies have these contents , they become closer to “heart” (which everyone of us have).Language is not much barrier here.
conclusion—’Popularity’ of bollywood will increase more than now…and ultimately [from ‘Popularity’],’Money’ can be earned. Finally [with the help of ‘Money’], ‘technical’ aspects of the film can be improved.
so ultimately Bollywood will win the race.
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HAHA NOW THATS AN INTERESTING **DREAM** HAHAHAHA
…kepp on dreaming…
July 1, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Before making absurd claims about Bollywood and it originality or its popularity compared to Hollwyood. How about first coming up with an original name for Indian film industry?
Bollywood is rip off of Hollywood. The nation which can’t even come up with an original name needs to be quiet instead of making themselves a butt of joke by making absurd claims that they are more popular then Hollywood. Stop embarrassing yourself and other such people like me who have there roots in India.
July 3, 2007 at 1:28 am
to jatinder–
Bollywood is popular. doesn’t mean that it should make more money .If u get a ticket for 25 Rs in India it may be for 500 Rs in Europe.
TIME magazine says–
“his world tour is a sellout at up to $300 a seat. In fact, with Bollywood’s global audience running to 3.6 billion against Hollywood’s 2.6 billion, Khan is in terms of recognition the world’s biggest movie star”
see link -http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,709190,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
French ambassador Dominique Girard said in a statement.
“It is a great pleasure for me to announce that the French Government has bestowed the honour of the Officier dans l&rsquoOrdre des Arts et des Lettres on Shah Rukh Khan, an actor of great talent and unmatched popularity,”
~~United Kingdom Box Office Estimates
for the weekend starting 12 November 2004
1. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2. The Grudge (2004)
3. Shark Tale (2004)
4. Veer-Zaara (2004)
5. Bad Santa (2003)
6. Finding Neverland (2004)
7. Ladies in Lavender. (2004)
8. The Princess Diaries 2
9. Birth (2004)
10. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood
~~United Kingdom Box Office Estimates
for the weekend starting 12 July 2002
1. Scooby-Doo (2002)
2. Minority Report (2002)
3. Resident Evil (2002)
4. Spider-Man (2002)
5. Devdas (2002/I)
6. Bad Company (2002)
7. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
8. Murder by Numbers (2002)
9. Star Wars: Episode II
10. Big Fat Liar (2002)
see other imdb top 10 lists and you will get the point
if this is not sufficiant read the article–
“Bollywood dominates at the UK box office”
here–
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/films/bollywood/2006/11/asian_news_11.shtml
To Mike-
It would be of immense pride to say bollywood as Indian Film Industry,but bollywood is not the name decided by some authority,it is the name given by People because of the coincidence that Hollywood is famous before the Indian Film Industry
If you want to think it in other way “What is in the name?”–Shakespeare
To Jaybe–
Lets see “Dreamworks” will win or “Dreamz Unlimited”
July 4, 2007 at 5:06 am
ya, “peace out” mofos.
July 27, 2007 at 9:12 pm
bollywood will never be like hollywood,most of the countries where bollywood movies are famous are poor countries just like indian.i have seen a lot of bollywood movies and must of them are copy of hollywood movies.all bollywood actresses are very poor compare to hollywood actresses.bollywood actresses are all weak and stupid.
July 31, 2007 at 10:54 am
I accept that bollywood is far away than the hollywood but that doesn’t mean that you say that indian actresses are stupid…
when it comes to beauty…….
They are the best and the most beautyful in world……
In acting also they are not behind than hollywood actresses…..
August 7, 2007 at 9:12 am
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