Bollywood
By Cara Pereira
Podar International School
VI B
What is Bollywood?
• Bollywood is the
informal name given
to the popular
Mumbai-based Hindi-
language film industry
in India.
• The term is often
incorrectly used to
refer to the whole of
Indian cinema.
Bollywood is only a
part of the Indian film
Industry.
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How did it get it’s name?
• The name is a
portmanteau of
Bombay (the
former name for
Mumbai) and
Hollywood, the
center of the
American film
industry.
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WannaBe
• Bollywood employs people from all parts
of India. It attracts thousands of aspiring
actors and actresses, all hoping for a
break in the industry.
• Models and beauty contestants, television
actors, theatre actors and even common
people come to Mumbai with the hope and
dream of becoming a star.
• Just as in Hollywood, very few succeed.
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Bollywood Songs
• Bollywood songs are heard far beyond
the borders of India.
• It is not uncommon now to see usage of
English words. Several dialects have been
used.
• Occasionally a few lines in another Indian
language or even a foreign language are
added for mystery
• The lyrics are both modern and
traditional.
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Bollywood Dance
• Dancing in Bollywood films is primarily
modelled on Indian dance: classical dance
styles or folk dances.
• In modern films, Indian dance elements
often blend with Western dance styles,
though it is not unusual to see Western
pop and pure classical dance numbers side
by side in the same film. The hero or
heroine will often perform with a troupe of
supporting dancers.
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Bollywood films feature
song-and-dance
routines
• beautiful natural
surroundings or
architecturally grand
settings
• unrealistic &
instantaneous shifts
of location.
• changes of costume
between verses of a
song.
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Awards
• The Filmfare
Awards ceremony
is one of the oldest
and most
prominent film
events given for
Hindi films in India
and is sometimes
referred to as the
"Indian Oscars."
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Additional ceremonies held within India are:
• Stardust Awards
• Star Screen Awards
Ceremonies held overseas are:
• Bollywood Movie Awards
• Global Indian Film Awards - (different
country each year)
• IIFA Awards - (different country each
year)
• Zee Cine Awards- (different country each
year)
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Some of Bollywood’s “Stars”
Male:
Hrithik Roshan
Abhishek Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Saif Ali Khan
Salman Khan
Sharukh Khan
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• Female:
• Aishwarya
Bachchan
• Preety Zinta
• Rani Mukherjee
• Kareena Kapoor
• Shilpa Shetty
• Bipasha Basu
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The End
Thank You