3. 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
4. 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
5. 1913 started
bollowywood
movies
Upto 1930 black &
white movie
Upto 1960 black &
white movie
1960
onwards
romance
movie
Old & new
mixed up
Animation star
What Next?......lets see
6. 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)
7. 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
8. 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
