What is Bollywood?

Bollywood is India's equivalent of Hollywood. It isn't so much a place as it is a reference to the movie making industry in India, one of the fastest growing media centers in the world, serving a large percentage of the Earth's population with entertainment Bollywood films are usually musicals. Few movies are made without at least one song-and-dance number.

Indian audiences expect full value for their money; they want songs and dances, love interest, comedy and dare-devil thrills, all mixed up in a three hour long extravaganza Bollywood is massive. It makes up to 800 films a year - twice as many as Hollywood and about 14 million Indian people go to the cinema everyday. Films are made so fast that sometimes actors on set shoot scenes for four different films at a time - using the same actors and the same backgrounds.

And sometimes the scripts are even hand-written! 2002 was the year it all kicked off for Bollywood in Britain. A season of Indian films was shown on TV when India and England played in a big cricket tournament.

Bombay Dreams, a new West End musical, was a sell out. Special cinemas also showed Bollywood classic films and had exhibitions featuring Bollywood film posters. Lagaan, a huge Bollywood hit, was nominated for an Oscar.

The music charts were full of Bhangra, with Timbaland, Dr Dre and the Neptunes sampling Indian beats and Punjabi MC having several big hits. Bollywood films have managed to cross over and now it's not just Indian families watching them - they're being shown in big cinemas across the UK Mumbai,India Mumbai.

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