Saturday, March 3, 2007

Bollywood

Bollywood (is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai -based Hindi language film industry in India . It is the biggest film industry in the world with 1000 movies a year. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema .
The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai ) and Hollywood , the center of the American film industry. Bollywood is also commonly referred to as "Hindi cinema", even though Hindustani , the substratum common to both Hindi and Urdu, might be more accurate. The actors and actresses of Bollywood are role models of the youths of Afghanistan (as they are also in India), with actors like Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai becoming worshipped idols. In the 70s , Amitabh Bachan served as a major trend setter among young men who, through following his moves and fashions , were attempting to look like the actor. In the 90s , it was Madhuri Dixit who inspired the "wanna-be" Afghan girls to don on saris and imitate her dance moves from various films

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