Bollywood

After watching Bride and Prejudice, I decided to blog about how much these movies normally cost.  The average Bollywood film costs at least a couple million dollars to shoot. And even some higher end movies can cost an equivalent to around one billion dollars. In India, it used to be illegal for a bank to fund any kind of tv, music, or theatre production. But now the law has been lifted and the amount of money that can be spent on production is much more.

Even though many of the big movie making companies in Bollywood receive money from banks and other institutions, many smaller companies have been funded by the Mumbai Underworld. These people have been known to help pay for the movies and then try and put an obscured view on their kind of "patriotism".

Because there are so many people in India, there has been an increase in the number of bootleg copies made by illegal companies in their country. Many of the poor people there can only afford these versions and their involvement has only helped increase production even more.

     

"Bollywood." Wikipedia. 2009. 1 Mar. 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood.