Bollywood
Research Paper
Many viewers have always seem to ask them selves what is the difference between Bollywood films and Hollywood. Bollywood films in the past they all had very similar themes and expressions, but Bollywood films today are somewhat resembling to Hollywood, as one can argue Hollywood films are still more technologically advanced compared to Bollywood movies, since Hollywood movies have a much bigger budget than Bollywood films. Over the past ten to fifteen years Bollywood films have will reached over to many viewers across the world, due to the great innovations and amount of technology which has been put into new Bollywood films. Bollywood movies today have much higher budgets which outcome to better producers, superior actors and actress, and better technology. By using improved methods of technology attracts new and younger viewers, since the new and younger viewers look for similarities between Hollywood movies in Bollywood, If younger Indian’s watch Bollywood movies one may suggest its better because its in Hindi. To many N.R.I’ parents showing their children Hindi movies is more valuable, children watch films in Hindi improves their language skills and keep the children from losing their mother tongue, to many parents this is very important. To the South Asian community newer and improved Bollywood has many benefits.
The Hollywood film industry is still much larger then the Bollywood film industry because Hollywood is much older which equals to more popularity. In the beginning when Bollywood industry had started many films were based on Hollywood films, the main structure of Bollywood films in the beginning were based on Hollywood. Hollywood still has a smaller audience then Bollywood, when it comes to revenue Hollywood movies generate much more money then Bollywood. “Hollywood produces 500 films per year on average and has a worldwide audience of 2.6 billion whereas Bollywood produces more than 1000 (not
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