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By Malte, Dennis and Tim

The document defines Bollywood as the Hindi-language film industry in India, located in Mumbai. It provides a brief history of Bollywood, noting that the first Indian film was produced in 1913, and that Bollywood became a major global producer of films by the 2000s. The document also outlines some common genre conventions in Bollywood films, such as their musical nature and blending of genres. It mentions some criticisms of Bollywood films for their remakes and lower production quality compared to the large number made each year.

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31 views8 pages

By Malte, Dennis and Tim

The document defines Bollywood as the Hindi-language film industry in India, located in Mumbai. It provides a brief history of Bollywood, noting that the first Indian film was produced in 1913, and that Bollywood became a major global producer of films by the 2000s. The document also outlines some common genre conventions in Bollywood films, such as their musical nature and blending of genres. It mentions some criticisms of Bollywood films for their remakes and lower production quality compared to the large number made each year.

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By Malte, Dennis and Tim

Structure
1. Definition
2. History
3. Genre conventions
4. Critics
5. Popularity
Definition
 Populary term used for Mumbai based
Hindi-language film industry in India
 Only a part of the India film industry
 One of the largest film producers in the
world
 Formed out of the words „Bombay“ and
„Hollywood“
 Languages: Hindi, Urdu and English
History
 Raja Harishchandra was the first film
made in India (1913)
 By the 30‘s the industry produced over
200 films per year
 In the 50‘s first coloured films
 Mostly romance movies and action films
from the 60‘s on
 Around 2000 Bollywood became famous
all over the world
Genre conventions

Mostly musicals
Mixed out of many aspects (love,
thrill, comedy etc.)
Plots tend to be melodramatic
Bollywood films change because
of the Western influence
(Hollywood)
Critics
 Bollywood movies are mostly bad remakes
from foreign or even Indian movies
 many movies are produced in one year,
but they are bad in quality
 discrimination of dark-skinned Indians
-> therefore an Indian ideal of beauty is
created
Popularity
 Bollywood films are particulary popular in
America, Europe and Afrika
 In Asia lays the focus of Bollywood-films
 Bollywood isn‘t very succesful in Oceanic
countries like Indonesia or Fiji
 -> but in Australia and New Zealand
Bollywood is the most popular film
industry after Hollywood
Our sources
 www.wikipedia.en
 www.topnews.in/files/Bollywood_Sign.jpg

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