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  • Posted By: mecman @ 01/03/2008 5:22:33 PM

    How in the hell can you not mention Southern Movie industry? Comeone, who the heck wrote this stupid article.

  • Posted By: FBush69 @ 12/24/2007 8:01:15 PM

    If Bollywood dose pass up Hollywood in success, it'll probably be better for the world. As an American, I'm finding Hollywood less and less appealing as time goes on. These idiots making movies are running out of ideas fast, and they can't come up with anything original and intellectual anymore! I mean, how many movies in the last few years were based on the fantasy genre, superheroes, and comic books? You got 3 Spiderman movies, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic 4, The Punisher, 3 Lord of the Rings films, 7 Harry Potter movies, and many more. It's insane! This nostalgia BS is getting on my last nerve. Even the theaters here in my local area that have 14 movies at a time have not one good-looking movie anymore. Hollywood is crumbling, and I hope it gets replaced soon with real cinema.
    Who gives a *** about Mark Wahlberg, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, J. Lo or George Clooney?

    • Posted By: jayfhord @ 01/03/2008 8:46:37 AM

      you are not an american, you are an indian american citizen. And there is no way you can think that Bollywood pass up Hollywood. Are you smoking pot or something.

      • Posted By: thinkthenspeak @ 01/03/2008 9:56:18 AM

        What kind of citizen are you ??

  • Posted By: freggelfrank @ 12/20/2007 4:08:54 AM

    The Bollywood Movie Industry will be different form the Hollywood Industry. They will never be the seem in terms of organisation, sex, violence because of the huge culture gap between the undevelopped US of A and the more mature India. Let's face it, the US is only several hunderd of years old without any real evolution (it was in the beginning all about power, mony and sex and it still is. In India they have had the same past (look in some history books for the facts) en they have evolved to a different level of (social) behavior. Perhaps in 500 years or so the current Bollywood Standard will be the same as in the US of A.

    • Posted By: morbie5 @ 12/21/2007 1:22:08 AM

      Are you kidding me? indian culture is more developed then the USA? What about your caste system? Don't even tell me that it isn't still around. That is about as close to the stone age as you can get.

      • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/21/2007 7:28:10 AM

        Caste system as practised now is sick. It started as a work based classification with free mobility. The writer of the epic 'Ramayana' circa 2000 B.C was of the lowest caste, who educated himself to the highest one. Much like if you made some money and categorised your self as a noveau ' Boston Brahmin'.

        Having said that we can't match the US in terms of exterminating the native Americans, running the slave trade, practising segragation and nuking thousands of Japanese. Indian culture is definitely not as developed as the US, the above considered. We created a positive discrimonatory system for the lower castes in 1948, much before you stopped segregated bussing and earlier than Martin Luther Kings movements. You judge which is more developed. But you should not mind. India has a 4700 year lead over you in matters cultural. You will eventually get there. There is hope yet.

        • Posted By: thinkthenspeak @ 01/03/2008 9:53:59 AM

          As an American who lives abroad I can definitely understand where those that say the USA is far behind India are coming from. I hope that Indian movies will not morph into American-style movies which are too violent and to sex-filled. Entertainment in the form of bloodhsed and harsh language is in fact very "stoneage" even if its produced digitally. Why does everything have to turn into 'America is better than everyone???' The world has alot to offer if you just open your brains up and accept that youre just an American because you happened to have been born on American soil. or have a paper saying so. You talk about a caste system, we had our own racial apartheid not too long ago.........and we still have an overabundance of narrow-minded racists now. We could learn alot from ....gasp....the rest of the world.

  • Posted By: KarlaTexas @ 12/20/2007 3:46:43 PM

    I Love Bollywood!!!!
    it's true that Bollywood have fans all over the world I'm Latina ( not indian ) and i used to live in Florida ( Miami) there they have a lot of Movie Theathers where they show Indian Movies ( only ), now i came back to Texas ( Houston) and My and friends Love to go and see the new Movies every friday or so , I Love the Fact that the make the sub-titles in 6 different languages or more ( including french, english and of course Spanish ) i will like that Hollywood to accept and recognize the industry that Bollywood it's building year after year and Believe Me it's ....Amazing,
    P.S. here for all the haters that don't have anything good to say about Bollywood if you don't like it don't watch it and of course get over it it's just Movies!!!!

  • Posted By: karishma @ 12/20/2007 7:50:43 PM

    bollywood going global! thats excellent ,when we say global the first thing that come to mind is that now india movies which contain indian sensitivity ,indian outlook to the world and moreover indian art being appreciated through out the world. but unfortunatly while i was reading this artcle only thing which i could understand that how much more money does indian film industry now has? i have a question -i may be wrong but why an average american see only a big picture (as per your language,global) which is only made by a big money ? what is not there or has not been there in indian films or bollywood films which is not global,the love problems ,family problems,happiness, sorrows ,music? i think all the more bollywood has always been very global because hindi films are very simply made for people and about people in a very pleasant and enjoyable way without any crudity in it and that is actually the reason why even though there was very little money in the industry but still there were people who were creative and intelligent and hardworking who were ready to learn from everywhere be it hollywood or anyother industry in the world and that is the reason why indian film industry has come so far,now that it has learnt the importance of money ,thanks to hollywood .perhaps now after seeing so much money americans or the western world will see and appreciate indian creativity and sensitivity. and believe me there is no harm in learning evn if you think that americans are superior but there is always a chance to learn new things and improve even more,indian culture is rich because it has absorbed things even though always being superior and that itself shows that we indians have open mind and big heart.

    • Posted By: jayfhord @ 01/03/2008 8:59:52 AM

      I believe that when they say India Movie Industry has gone global.... it basically means that they are casting international actors and actresses. But global appeal (like Jackie Chan's movie)... i certainly doubt it.

  • Posted By: jayfhord @ 01/03/2008 8:33:05 AM

    I agree with Mel Vilander. If india stops using bollywood to refer to their hollywood counterpart and use some other term then that will be a proof that people of india will come up with something original.

  • Posted By: Mel Vilander @ 01/03/2008 7:43:28 AM

    indian movies mostly are retarded made for an imature audience. And i cant stand them. They do not stand for india. The folks who are involved i these productions are in no way india's brightest. There is a vast population in india who hate the absolute lack of originality in indian movies and disown them.

  • Posted By: topraman517 @ 12/31/2007 9:12:02 PM

    Being Indian, I have seen many Bollywood movies throughout my life. 99% of them are awful! I'm talking a kind of awful that is unimaginable for a movie from any other country. At its worst, the plots are cliche, the music is generic(not to mention unrelated to the plot), the acting is overdone, etc.. And get this: when a Bollywood flick is good, it's often a clone of a successful Hollywood movie!

    • Posted By: medusa @ 01/03/2008 4:23:58 AM

      I am sure you are one of those Indians who have made US their home and Crazily despise everything that in someway reminds you of your Indian roots. Get a life, small the coffee... i can assure you that life has much more to offer in this part of the worl

    • Posted By: medusa @ 01/03/2008 4:19:46 AM

      I am sure you are one of those Indians who have made US their home and Crazily despise everything that in someway reminds you of your Indian roots. Get a life, small the coffee... i can assure you that life has much more to offer in this part of the worl

  • Posted By: topraman517 @ 12/31/2007 9:11:37 PM

    Being Indian, I have seen many Bollywood movies throughout my life. 99% of them are awful! I'm talking a kind of awful that is unimaginable for a movie from any other country. At its worst, the plots are cliche, the music is generic(not to mention unrelated to the plot), the acting is overdone, etc.. And get this: when a Bollywood flick is good, it's often a clone of a successful Hollywood movie!

  • Posted By: DirtyMartiniGirl @ 12/31/2007 12:03:38 AM

    Btw, sorry about my mispellings, I'm a bit sleepy.

    • Posted By: karaswart @ 12/31/2007 5:34:38 AM

      Hello- Does Bollywood shake you or stir you?

  • Posted By: DirtyMartiniGirl @ 12/30/2007 11:46:54 PM

    Stop the bashing!!!! Bollywood and Hollywood have very different markets. I am from the West Indies but my heritage is Indian. I love most Bolly wood movies. They are, to a certain degre, quite representative of the Inidan culture. Overly dramatic? Definitely! But then most Inidans are very emotional people. We can love and hate with such vicious fierceness it's overwhelming. The movies are also very representative of the way things are in India. The country is still finding a way to mix it's traditional views with modern times.
    I also love Hollywood movies. The stories are equally representative of the Western world with a bit of the same drama thrown in, just in different ways. How many times have you been witty/funny/poetic/inspiring at exactly the right moment??? Sometimes it happens, most of the time, it doesn't. I go to the movies to escape reality, be inspired, cry, laugh, hear an amazing story, etc. And both Bollywood and Hollywood provide just the right stories in many different ways.

  • Posted By: Pranab Prakhar @ 12/30/2007 4:31:44 PM

    It is high time Hollywood Studios and World Corporate industries jump into the bandwagon of Indian Hindi Film Industry, popularly known as Bollywood film Industry because of its over Billion Hindi film viewers in India and around the world. Imagine the middle class and higher middle class purchasing power of Indian culture film industry viewers around the world, be it North America, whole of Europe, Australia, Africa and whole of Asia except few pockets of Oriental Asia. Single language cinema viewership as that by Hindi film Industry from Mumbai India also popularly known as Bollywood films is almost abreast with English language viewing audience. Hindi Bollywood film Industry has already crossed viewership figures in single language cinema watching audience to that of French, Spanish or Chinese.
    It is right value for money for FMCGs, Consumer Durables, Luxury items to explore the Billion middle class buying audience who happens to be the highest in the world in terms of purchasing power consumer in terms of single language viewing ie Hindi language cinema viewers around the world.

  • Posted By: Pranab Prakhar @ 12/30/2007 4:19:27 PM

    It is high time Hollywood and the world corporate industries jump into the bandwagon of Indian Film Industry, popularly known as Bollywood Industry, as a Billion Indian cultural population in India and Diaspora Indians, ie Indians around the world, are bringing biggest chunk of single language, Hindi, viewers on one platform. Hindi viewing cinema audience, the one made by Bollywood film industry, around the world will surely cross th next single language single language viewership, ie English. On the other hand French, Spanish and
    Chinese language Cinema viewing audience is far behind Hindi language cinema viewing audience. Apart from this the huge purchasing power of middle class and higher middle class Hindi cinema viewers around the world has opened huge business potential for FMCG, Consumer Durables, Luxury Brands, everywhere around the world except yet nascent Latin American market. We have seen Hindi Cinema viewing, the one created by Bollywood Film Industry, surge in whole of Europe, many pockets of North America, continental phenomenon in whole of Africa along with Australia and New Zealand. Indian Sub continent and South East Asia have already seen booming business created by Indian Hindi Film Industry. Oriental Asia is the latest market which is slowly catching on Hindi Film Industry's craze.

  • Posted By: faren31 @ 12/29/2007 3:51:18 PM

    This article is nothing more than PR for Mr. Screwvala and his U.S. partners. It reeks of American ethnocentrism, ignorance and lack of respect for other cultural traditions. We'll see if Mr. Screwvala has the staying power of the traditional Bollywood films. I hope he makes good movies. But I'm not impressed by this attempt to show him as a maverick innovator who will teach the Indians how to make films "the proper American way"

  • Posted By: vaddapas @ 12/28/2007 4:55:04 AM

    M.Shyamalan is a one movie genius.All the rest have flopped at box office.If you are betting 57 million on his movie the odds are better at Las Vegas tables. vaddapalli

  • Posted By: Anamjem @ 12/27/2007 3:15:16 AM

    I admire the movie adventure of Ronnie Screwvala., he is sighting Indian movie to be place in great hights, I am being Pakistan national but I would like to see Indian ciema run over the mount Everest, so global people can see from all over corners.

    The Indian films inspite of making high rates in true nature of the film making, the Hollywood Dons ignored and overlooked the talents of Indians. I have reason to say with deep study over Indian movies.. Film like Mughle-Azam, Ganga Jamuna, Devdas, Jagte Raho, Shere Apna Apna, Mother India, Guide, Quli, and hundred of ther unmatchable Indian movies were neglected by the Hollywood and other foreign film festivals. accept some Bengali movies etc.,

    I have written a film script entitled The Flag to one of the Hollywood film maker for reading after signing a temprary contract in 1978, the same story was regreted because of its product to unite Germany over deep family conflict ... said it is politcial type..later after laps of decades the same story was infringment ny one of the largest film studio in Hollywood in 2005's , a comic joint movie. this is Hollywood...

    I have written a movie script with songs over India's unique subject HIV/AIDS to create awareness and protections among Indian people. I have also planned to direct byself
    from Dubai. I wish if Mr. Ronnie work together with me....

    • Posted By: SirFsUpaLot @ 12/28/2007 2:47:44 AM

      Anamjen:
      What the hell did you just say? Holy Sant Takar Sing. Get coherrent here, willya.

  • Posted By: Nah its not true @ 12/27/2007 7:44:55 PM

    Awww Evolutionist, I feel for you. Being Indian If I have my reservation for stink man I can understand where you are coming from, but to generalise ALL INDIAN in that category will be like describing GRINGOS and AMIGOS. Dont be scared trying Indian food, once in a life one should by properly cooked food. Adios

  • Posted By: kenpothestar @ 12/26/2007 6:04:52 AM

    Bollywood movies are quite popular and also place their story on drama more than anything else. there is some good talent out there - just the time needs to be right for their fame! if you are a bollywood follower, you can read some of the movie reviews at http://www.clickindia.com/message-board/reviews/

  • Posted By: marylili @ 12/27/2007 1:08:22 AM

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