DISCOVERING THE MAGIC OF BOLLYWOOD

1. People in the West have been somewhat sceptical about the quality of the Indian films.

2. A living legend Amitabh Bachchan is better known in India as “The Big B”.

3. Bollywood’s success comes from its ability to cater to the millions of hard-working people across the globe.

4. In India, a song sometimes has nothing to do with the movie, but the film score is often released before the movie itself and helps increase the audience.

5. Because of the harsh reality of life Indian films have a lot of escapism.

6. Songs and dances, love triangles, comedy and dare-devil thrills are all mixed up in a three-hour-long extravaganza with an intermission. Such movies are called masala films, after the Hindi word for a spice mixture.

7. A few people in India want to watch hard-hitting, realistic movies.

8. Hollywood has a foothold in India.

9. Bachchan sees the growing interest from the west as an opportunity to revolutionize the industry.

10. Farah Khan, one of Bollywood’s most successful choreographers, believes the essential element of any Bollywood film, and the key to the genre’s success, is the iconic song and dance routine.

11. There have always been Indian films with more artistic aims and more sophisticated stories, but they often lost out at the box office to movies with more mass appeal.

12. Despite Hollywood influence Bollywood remains to its core an Indian product, tailored exclusively to the Indian masses.

For decades, Bollywood film releases were accompanied by beautiful hand-painted posters that decorated city streets all over India. Mumbai, Bollywood’s home town, used to have 300 poster painters, now remain only a handful.

11. Listen to another episode of ‘Icon’ and decide whether the statements below are true (T), false (F) or not given (NG).

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