Bollywood

Agenda

  • Stereotypes
  • Anatomy of a Bollywood movie
  • Criticism
  • Bollywood in other countries

Bombay

(now Mumbai)

Hollywood

Bollywood

Stereotypes

  • lurid lighting, garish costumes
  • low budget, cardboard sets
  • impossible plotlines
  • low quality acting and dialogues
  • stereotypical characters

Stereotypes

Anatomy of a Bollywood Movie

2.5 - 4 Hours

with intermission

Music & Dance

often released beforehand

The 9 Rasas

Love, Heroism, Disgust, Anger, Peace, Comedy, Horror, Miracle, Emotion

Typical Topics

  • angry parents
  • love triangles
  • corrupt politicians
  • kidnapping
  • lost relatives
  • fortune

Love

  • central topic of story
  • often between people of different social status

CEnsorship

  • No sexual scenes
  • No kissing

Criticism

  • pure kitsch of clichéd romance
  • repeating plots / remakes
  • contain elements of racism
  • contains only people of middle and upper class

Criticism

in other Countries

Popularity

  • very popular among Indian people living abroad
  • gained popularity in western culture in the late 20th century

Asia

  • widely watched in Bagladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

EuropE

  • very popular in the UK
  • Films set in London
  • Popular in former Soviet Unian

North America

  • Films set in New York, LA, Vancouver
  • More popular than films from all the other non-English-speaking countries

South America

  • Unpopular

Sources

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood
  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi-Film
  • http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/punjabis-bengalis-delhi-girls-when-bollywood-loses-the-plot-to-stereotypes-668217
  • http://www.life-enter.de/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/bollywood-xlarga-party.jpg
  • http://m.wozdaz.com//files/wozdaz/film/tt0248126_2.jpg
  • http://www.rd-presse.ch/pressemitteilungen-de-ch/magazin-readers-digest/die-groesste-und-produktivste-filmindustrie-der-welt-traumfabrik-bollywood

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Bollywood

By Leon Bentrup

Bollywood

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