Bollywood is the movie industry based in Mumbai which makes Hindi movies. It is more commonly called as Hindi movie industry. Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in India, representing 43% of net box office revenue,In 2011, over 3.5 billion tickets were sold across the globe which in comparison is 900,000 tickets more than Hollywood. Bollywood produced 252 films in 2014 out of the total 1969 films produced in India.
It is one of the way where a person can spread his idea to entire community through his movie. It was started by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913 and is known as the first silent feature film maker in India. With proper use and techniques movies can be used to spread knowledge in masses, to uproot old traditions and to educate people. But is this great tool of mass media being used to its complete potential?
Now-a-days movies that are realised are more focused on the revenue they make and not on the knowledge they depart. They do not consider the message they are giving, if any.
It has become a rat race of who makes the most box office collection. All are trying to cross the 100,200,300 crore marks to be on the top.
Every week 2-3 movies are released with more and more movies coming out every week. Their was a time when only one movie used to be played in a theatre for almost 2 months. But now their are multi screen malls that show 5 movies at same time.
Very few movies are now being released which can be called intellectual, majority of movies are based on big movie actors and masala entertainment. movies like 'Wednesday' , 'special 26' , 'kahani' are not being praised enough as much they should be, where as movies like 'humshakal', 'prem ratan dhan payo' and others are getting huge collection only on their stardom without any story line. Directors and actors should focus more on creating movies that give out some kind of message to society and help them get better
