Bollywood's Popular Culture in the South Asian Diaspora The centre of the Indian movie industry is in the Indian city known as Bombay, which has since been renamed Mumbai. Owing to the industrial resemblance with the American movie city Hollywood, the Indian movie industry came to be known as Bollywood. Bollywood is now an industry of massive proportions, and far from simply producing cinema; it is also closely interwoven with industries concerned with music, clothes,
two languages are expressed in this way, they differ remarkable from the same languages as spoken in their separate social systems. This kind of interference on the discourse level is known as code-switching (Malhotra, S. 1980). Since 1957, English was spoken by upper and middle social class in India for social and economic reasons and then it gradually became a symbol of higher social status. Consequently, a handful of upper middle class North Indians can speak both Hindi and English and use
pg2) As the 1950's rolled around, motion pictures began to change a little bit. All kinds of movies were being made portraying males and females as supreme beings, like super heroes or other immortal beings. This idea in movie kept getting more and more popular through the next couple of decades. This was the thing to have in most movies up until the 1980's. Color tv’s came out in India so less and less people were going to the cinemas. So Bollywood had to turn it up a bit
religion is present. There are many religion-based movies made and these movies also receive a good response from the people. But, like a coin has two sides, similarly there are also negative effects of these. People also opposed to some parts of the movie made on it. But the main thing that they DO AFFECT the society. All this is included in this article. And not only religion but also other areas like culture, rituals, customs, traditions, family, etc is shown through movies and all these are also
The president of production at Hanson Productions, an off-Broadway production company, was faced with the same situation for every Broadway production: where to locate, how many seats, what to charge and how to promote and market the production. There are three separate venues, with three separate value propositions to the studio, case and audience. While bigger means more seats and more revenue for each show, there is a capacity percentage that must be factored in to the decision due to the increased
The media, known as the fourth pillar of democracy, has a huge impact on the society. The effects are of course, positive as well as negative. Media is such a powerful tool that it literally governs the direction of our society today. It is the propeller as well as the direction provider of the society. Opinions can change overnight and celebrities can become infamous with just one wave by the media. The growth of media as an industry has accelerated over the past few years with new forms such as
INTRODUCTION Café Coffee Day is a chain of coffee shops in India having it 's head quarters in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka. A division of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. (ABCTCL), it is commonly known as Coffee Day or CCD. It opened its first cafe in 1996 on Brigade Road in Bangalore, and today has the largest cafe retail chain in India - with 650 cafes in 110 cities. Headquartered in Bangalore, a majority of its cafes are also located in Bangalore. The cafe chain has had much success
Executive Summary On December 3, 1984, toxic poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL 's) pesticide plant in Bhopal. The gas leak triggered a disaster that is now widely recognized as the world worst industrial catastrophe. Thousands of people were killed instantly and more than 25,000 people have died of gas-related illnesses, several thousands more maimed for life since. Union Carbide negotiated a settlement with the Indian Government in 1989 for $470 million