The
History of Bollywood
Bollywood is a mixture of Hollywood
and Mumbai (Bombay). It has a long and rich history that goes almost as far
back as that of Hollywood. Bollywood is a Hindi film industry, mostly in a
Hindi language which is in Mumbai. It does not cover all of Indian cinema,
covering only about 20% of the total film output of India.
Raja Harish Chandra was the first
movie created in 1913 which was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation
Theater in Mumbai. It was a silent movie, not at all sounds, not any
technological equipment’s and not recognize in film making. It was so simple.
Earlier making a movie was easy,
less stress since there were not competitions in the Indian Industry, no
fashionable dresses and most of the actresses were wearing sari’s and the
salaries were limited comparing by nowadays. Audiences and viewers were not
aware about world of Bollywood but they were curiosity and interested to know
about Indian Cinema.
The major commercial success was in
1931 when the first sound film production was released and named as Alam
Ara. This introduced the famous actor,
Ashok Kumar from Bengal, whose full name was Sanjay Ashok Kumar Ganguly.
Development
(1940-1960)
In 1940 to 1960 there were so many
films released which was the best movies ever seen by the audiences and
viewers. These periods was known as Golden Age of Bollywood film industry just
because of the historical films. Here are a few unforgettable movies:
· Pyaasa (1957)
· Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
· Awaara (Raj Kapoor films 1951)
· Shree 420 (1955)
· Mother India (1957): This film was nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film
· Mughal-e-Azam (1960)
Film performers or actors like Raj
Kapoor, Dileep Kumar, Manoj Kumar and actresses like Nargis, Vyjantimala and
Saira Banu became industrial names which built up the Bollywood cinema in the
1960s. Also we should be thankful to the people who had played an important
role as playback singers for all the movies during 1960s and became popular all
around the world; the two famous names are Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi.
During this time the industry was
growing and the first color film was released named Kisan Kanya. Shooting in
this period 1940-1960s was a greater, larger and better than years ago; some
movie shooting took place in outdoors not only indoors.
Modern
Developments.
Bollywood had to go a long way until
it got this kind of fame. People worked very hard in this industry. Everyone in
this world likes to watch Hindi movies (Bollywood). The scenarios which they
are using these days touch almost every issue that belongs to the community.
The latest issues that Bollywood are
trying to attract people with are family’s problems and impairment issues and
not only that some time they give solutions for the problems. Budgets of the
movies are becoming bigger and bigger. The movie makers think it is like some
kind of investment. Those people put a lot of money and they have sponsors to
invest too. If we think about it is like gambling, either it will be a good
movie or it will be a bad one.
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