Cultural Distinction Between Hollywood And Bollywood

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The purport of this exegesis is to study and identify the cultural distinction between the cinema of two different countries. The major area of study is the Indian and Western cinema. Bollywood is known as the biggest film industry in India as well as Internationally in terms of movies produced (Pillania, 2008). While Hollywood has a huge influence in the western world. There are many movies that are inspired by Hollywood and made in Bollywood. I will narrow my study and fixate on Bollywood (Indian cinema) and Hollywood (Western cinema).

These are few movies of Hollywood which are remade in Bollywood. The transmutations required to make the Hollywood film prosperous in Bollywood is the consequential aspect of my study. Will simply taking a …show more content…

Beginning as a novelty in a handful of big cities like New York, Paris, London and Berlin (Nowell-Smith, 1997). This new form of entertainment soon gained a lot of attention from the audience and more people became interested in watching films, which was merely moving images on a screen without any form of narration or dialogue. The more sizably voluminous number of the audience showed interest, which resulted in a trend. Over the years, cinema has transformed a lot from moving images to the 3D and 4D cinema, which are being made …show more content…

Phalke directed his first film called Raja Harishchandra (1913), which was additionally considered as the first Indian feature film. Pundalik (1912), a film directed by Dadasaheb Torne, N.G. Chitre, and P.R.Tipnis was released afore Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913) albeit it was not accorded the status of the first feature film because it was a theatre play, rather than a film produced categorically for the screen (Ganti, 2013). Raja Harishchandra (1913) was a film predicated on a mythological character from Mahabharata. The role of the tragic queen “Taramati” in the film was played by a young boy called Salunke (Pande, 2006). Women acting in the film and participating in theatre plays were considered taboo in the Indian society back in the 1900s. Salunke who played the character of “Taramati” became the first female star of Indian Cinema (Pande, 2006). The movie was a huge success which led to the introduction of the mythological genre. The Hindustan cinema film company composed in 1918 by Dadasaheb Phalke was a first film production company in India. Introduction of sound in films led to the most astronomically immense complication in the Mumbai predicated film Industry. India is the country

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