Indian films for most of our compatriots seem to be a funny exotics of the past era: Zita and Gita and a thousand other stories about the separated twins, a great friend of the Soviet people Raj Kaupur posing in an embrace with Yuri Gagarin, songs and dances interrupting the story for any reason and in any more or less suitable (and sometimes completely unsuitable) moment. It seems that the colorful, naive and sentimental tales of Indian cinema are incompatible with our time and have remained in the distant past.
However, the main Indian dream factory - Bollywood (whose name consists of combining the words of Bombay and Hollywood) every year gives out over a thousand films to the mountain, which several times exceeds the productivity of the Californian "big brother". Which, incidentally, is not surprising: a billion and a quarter of Hindus and the fans who join them from all over the world want traditional shows, regularly and at an affordable price.
Annually movie tickets for Indian films are bought by four billion people, and actors of Indian cinema are cult figures for a wide circle of initiates. Bollywood actors are called to carry a fairy tale to the masses, not only from the screens of cinemas, but also in their private lives.
The novel of the megastar Aishwarya Rai (a small industrious little bee) and the "Crown Prince" of Indian cinema, Abishek Bachchan (the son of Bollywood stars of the last generation), ended with a wedding, for the army of fans became a series unfolding in real life .A very innocent kiss of the same Aishwarya on the screen - the undermining of all possible foundations, which caused almost a popular unrest .(By the way, the kiss of the visiting Richard Gere star with local star Shilpa Shetty at a secular event a couple of years ago almost became the reason for the prosecution of both) .It's funny that in a country that has given the world tantric sex and a religious and erotic architectural masterpiece of all times and peoples of Khajuraho, the cinematic displays of feelings remain Victorian innocent .
| Bollywood in the Italian Montepulciano |
| Bollywood in action |
| On a Bollywood movie |