THE CHANGING FACE OF BOLLYWOOD

Bollywood is the informal name (0) ....C…. to popular Mumbai-based Indian films in the Hindi language. Bollywood films are generally musicals (1) ………. of song-and-dance numbers woven into the script. A film’s success often depends on the quality of such musical numbers. Indeed, a film’s music is often (2) ………. before the movie itself as this is an effective way of (3) ………. advance publicity.

Indian audiences expect full (4) ………. for their money from their firms, which must include a famous actor in the (5) ………. . Songs and dances, romance and daredevil thrills – all are mixed up in a three-hour-long extravaganza with an intermission.

The (6) ………. of Bollywood films have tended to be melodramatic. They frequently employ formulaic ingredients such as star-crossed lovers and angry parents, love triangles, family (7) ………., corrupt politicians, kidnappers, long-lost relatives and siblings (8) ………. by fate and convenient coincidences.

There have always been Indian films with more artistic aims and more sophisticated stories, inside and outside the Bollywood tradition, but these often (9) ………. at the box office to movies with more mass (10) ………. . Bollywood conventions are changing, however. Large Indian (11) ………. in many English-speaking countries, and increased Western influence at home have nudged Bollywood films closer to Hollywood films. Plots now tend to feature westernized urbanities dating and dancing in discos rather than the more traditional (12) ………. marriages.

0. A assigned	B donated	C given	D conferred
1. A way	B form	C look	D shape
2. Apublished	B issued	Creleased	Demitted
3. A growing	Bgenerating	Cconstructing	Ddeveloping
4. A worth	Bvalue	Cprice	D appear
5. Acrew	B staff	Cteam	Dcast
6. Aaccounts	Bplots	Cscenes	Dacts
7. Afeuds	Bwars	Chostilities	Dcomplaints
8. Adivided	Bseparated	Clost	Ddetached
9. Afell	Bfailed	C missed out	D lost out
10. Apopularity	B appeal	Cattraction	D lure
11. A people	B residents	C populations	D inhabitants
12. A arranged	B organized	Cplanned	Dset up

10. Watch an episode of the CNN show ‘Icon’ from Mumbai, the birthplace of Indian cinema, and decide whether the statements below are true (T), false (F) or not given NG).

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