What is Bollywood?
Bollywood is a nickname referring to the Indian?Hindi?film industry. The ‘B’ alphabet comes from Bombay (now ‘Mumbai’) – the?most?happening?city in India, and a base for the film industry.
Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world, making more than 1200 films each year – more than twice as many as Hollywood.
About 16 million Indian people go to the cinema everyday, and 4.5 billion cinema tickets are sold each year for Bollywood films (compared to 3 billion for Hollywood.)
What makes Bollywood films unusual?
Bollywood films are often long – three hours, with an intermission / interval.
Bollywood films are full of musical dance sequences, colorful costumes and creative choreography.
Romance and love are important elements in Bollywood cinema. However, kissing?and?love?making?scenes are almost never shown on screen.
Biggest Male Superstars
1)?Amitabh Bachchan
2) Shahrukh Khan
3) Hrithik Roshan
4) Aamir Khan
5) Salman Khan
6) Saif Ali Khan
7) Akshay Kumar
8) Sanjay Dutt
9) Abhishek Bachchan (Son of Amitabh Bachchan)
10) John Abraham
Biggest Female Superstars
1)?Madhuri Dixit
2) Kajol
3) Rani Mukherjee
4) Preity Zinta
5)?Aishwariya?Rai
6) Priyanka Chopra
7) Kareena Kapoor
8) Mallika Sherawat
9) Bipasha Basu
10)?Vidya?Balan
Top Directors
1) Yash Chopra (Veer Zaara, Deewar, Silsila)
2)?Mani Ratnam (Guru, Dil Se, Yuva)
3) Rakesh Roshan (Krrish, Kaho Na pyar Hai, Koi Mil Gaya)
4) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Black, Devdas)
5)?Aditya Chopra (Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Mohabbatein)
6)?Karan?Johar?(Kuch?Kuch?Hota?Hai,?K3G,?KANK)
7)?Sooraj?Barjatya (Hum Aapke Hai Kaun, Maine Pyaar Kiya, Vivah)
8) Rajkumar Hirani (Munnabhai M.B.B.S, Lage Raho Munnabhai)
9)?Farhan?Akhtar?(Don,?Lakshya,?Dil?Chata?hai)
10) Rakyesh Mehra (Rang de Basanti)
Top Production Houses
1) Yashraj Films
2) Filmkraft
3)?Dharma Productions
4)?Mukta?Arts
5) Rajshri
6)?UTV
7) Percept Pictures
8) Balaji