Bollywood : The Indian Hindi Film Industry
Another name for Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry is Bollywood. Today Bollywood has been accepted as the world’s movie capital. It has its entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Bollywood constitute the broader Indian film industry besides other language films Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam made in India.
Bollywood produces the largest number of films in the world. Daily approximately 14 million Indians go to the movies. It is a strong part of popular culture of Indians, the Indian subcontinent, Middle East, parts of Africa, parts of Southeast Asia and the South Asian diaspora worldwide.
Bollywood attracts thousands of aspiring actors and actresses, models, beauty contestants, television actors, theatre actors and common people. They come to Mumbai to try their luck in Bollywood to become a star. Bollywood employs more than 6 million people from all over India.
Bollywood Clans
Bollywood has many clans, industry connections are, however, no guarantee of a successful career. Example, Rajesh Khanna was a superstar in his days but his daughters Twinkle Khanna, Rinke Khanna, did not get much success. On the otgher hand, Shahrukh Khan has no relations in the bollywood industry, but he is a successful star. Some of sthe Bollywood film clans are:
the Kapoor clan: Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor, Babita, Neetu Singh, Karisma Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor
the Deol clan: Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Esha Deol, Abhay Deol
the Bachchan clan: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan
the Rajesh Khanna clan: Rajesh Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Twinkle Khanna, Rinke Khanna, Akshay Kumar
the Vinod Khanna clan: Vinod Khanna, Akshaye Khanna, Rahul Khanna
the Dutt clan: Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Sunjay Dutt
the Hussain clan: Nasir Hussain, Tahir Hussain, Aamir Khan, Mansoor Khan, Faisal Khan
the Khan clan:: Salim Khan, Helen, Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan, Malaika Arora
the Samarth-Mukherjee clan: Shobhana Samarth, Debashree Roy, Sashadhar Mukherjee, Joy Mukherjee, Deb Mukherjee, Sharbani Mukherjee, Nutan, Tanuja, Mohnish Behl, Tanisha, Kajol, Ram Mukherjee, Rani Mukherjee
the Pataudi clan : Sharmila Tagore, Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan
the Roshan clan: Roshan, Rakesh Roshan, Rajesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan
the Khan clan: Sanjay Khan, Zayed Khan, Feroz Khan, Fardeen Khan, Suzanne Khan
the Ganguly clan: Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Anup Kumar
the Mangeshkar clan: Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Usha Mangeshkar
Bollywood Awards
Some of the popular bollywood awards are:
Filmfare Awards since 1953
The Indian government sponsored National Film Awards since 1973
Zee Cine Awards
Star Screen Awards
Stardust awards
IIFA Awards
Apsara Awards
