Indian Bombs..giving competition to Hollywood babes……………

Posted on July 6, 2008
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India and Indian people are becoming one of the biggest entertainment providers and consumers, when it comes to great films and music commodity. Both Bollywood and Hollywood movies are big hit with Indians and Indians abroad. Bollywood and Hollywood films successfully and passionately runs all over The Indian theaters and multiplexes provides some meaty entertainment and fulfill the appetite for the urban India to chill out not only on week ends but also on the week days. undoubtedly, on week days the crowd is less.

The credit straight can be given to the entertainment makers and bolly boms. India too, has some good and talented actors in the Film Industry, to name few of them are Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Sharukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salmaan Khan and many more. Female stars are also not lacking behind to their counter parts, some of them are Aishwariya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Katrina kaif, Priety zinta, Madhuri Dixit, Bipasha Basu, Rani Mukherjee and the list is usual endless friends.

Demi Moore is all smiles

But the real question is how is the market of Bollywood films out side India? In India both Bolluwood and Hollywood films are appreciated and watched by Indians but what is the stature of Indian film abroad? Apart from the NRIs are they watched by the locals?

Today Indian TV Today presents a brief comparison of the film industry of both east and west.


Just because you make 600 Movies a year doesn’t mean that you make 600 GOOD movies a year. I guess anyone with a camera can make a movie these days, but that doesn’t mean people will watch them.

Probably why Bollywood has got more fans than Hollywood is because that most countries in that region don’t really make that many movies in the first place. Plus since that part of the world has strict requirements of what you can put into a movie (such as no nude women etc…) of course you’re going to have fans of Indian flicks.


Indians have more money in their pockets than ever and the entertainment industry is riding high. People are

shelling out big bucks to see their favorite stars. Tickets in multiplexes range from Rs 100/- to Rs 300 on weekends, Unfortunately Today’s leading Bollywood ladies not up to the mark compared to their counter parts in Hollywood.
But not everyone in the film industry is lucky. Only those who pull in the audiences reap the benefits and so it should be. In India, it’s the male stars, not the leading ladies or the side-kicks who pull in audiences. Paychecks of the ladies are floundering at the old levels and in fact they can be ten times more.

Contrast this with the business realities of Hollywood, where Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts command almost as much as their male counterparts. If a Tom Cruise gets $45 million for a film, Kidman is not far behind at $35 million. If Brad Pitt gets $29 million, Angelina Jolie earns $27 million.

I guess a lot of people would go see a movie to just to see Angelina Jolie or Nicole Kidman. Bollywood starts making movies which are technologically superior (which will need lots of money), cut out the song and dance, make movies with universal and realistic themes (Satya) instead of a family oriented tear-jerkers (KANK) then they will break into the Hollywood market?.

But wait…this doesn’t mean the so-called ‘crossover’ films like ‘Black’ or even the English language ‘Bride and Prejudice’. These films were far too ‘Bollywood’ to be enjoyed by the western audience. Hindi film directors’ efforts to cater to both markets haven’t worked.
The only way that Bollywood films can gain a toehold in Hollywood is if they make a completely separate product for that market by a director who understands the western mindset. But then such a film will bomb in India.

As a very old saying goes ‘variety is the spice of life’ similarly the two world are beyond any comparison and competition. Holly babes and Bolly Bombs both are like two different exotic dishes served at different meals and relished by one and all…………………………………………………………………………………………………



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