Bollywood

"Bollywood" as the Indian film industry is known is a phenomenon of the age.Cinemas in India are packed to the rafters week after week as beautiful women and equally beautiful men star in feature after feature.Why the film industry in India is so popular is not easy to understand.Dvd releases of the films are popular in the UK with its large Indian population.Film such as East is East and Bride and Predudice have been made by mainstream film makers and have added to the popularity .Indeed even a stage musical entitled Bollywood has been taken to the West End.

The stars themselves enjoy huge celebrity status in India and other places where Indian culture is present.The films themselves are made in a in such a way as to glamourise stories of love and deceit.Large casts are typical as they aim to reproduce the splendour of the early years of film in Hollywood USA when musicals were king.This weekend saw the Bollywood oscars come to Yorkshire.Recognition of the Indian film industry is becoming stronger all the time in the west.Meanwhile in Mumbai two of the screens most popular stars were wed this same weekend.You can see 8 pages of photos as Ashishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai tie the knot after three days of celebration in the Mumbai home of the Bollywood legend, an alliance of two of the most powerful families in the Indian film industry.


Drama in real ife accompanies Bollywood stars s is the case in Los Angeles and Beverley Hills.