The popularity of Bollywood actually shows a huge issue that is Indias 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 Spielbergs 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.

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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 todays world, in wot kind of people ur 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 pakis tan and u have all the pakistanis showing up at the airport. Your shahrukh khan shows up at JFK and theres no gora there, only the indians who live there, that is if they come. Well its a laugh comparing bollywood to hollywood so dont! heheFACTS ABOUT BOLLYWOOD:

I will post the ACTUAL REASONS, BEHIND THE POPULARITY OF BOLLYWOOD IN 100S 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 Bollywoods 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.

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Chronicc Says:

March 9, 2007 at 12:41 pm

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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 cityand 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, mi ddle 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 americantoo capitalisttoo 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 NRIs 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.

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bollywood sucks Says:

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..

Parallel cinema in Hollywood is in much better shape than in Bollywood.

If Bollywood has to compete with Hd 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

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