LATEST BOLLYWOOD BOX OFFICE NEWS UPDATES
Bollywood box office news updates for Race - Here comes the biggest opening of the 2008 with Abbas Mastaan's much awaited Action-Thriller Race.... a sure shot hit may well become a blockbuster due to no big competion around for a while...
Bollywood box office News Updates For Jodha Akbar - Hrithik Roshan and AIshwarya Rai Bachchan starrer much hyped Jodha Akbar opened to a good response in every Part of the Country.... On it's way to become a Super hit...
WELCOME opened to a bumper opening of around 90%+ allover...on it's way to become superhit...housefull boards seen in Multiplex of Mumbai, Delhi and all other major cities...
Aamir khan's Taare Zameen per Opened to a decent 55-60 %+ ...Film is being considered to be a steady long time runner over coming weeks due to positive word of mouth ...
Bollywood employs people from all parts of India. It attracts thousands of aspiring actors and actresses, all hoping for a break in the industry. Models and beauty contestants, television actors, theatre actors and even common people come to Mumbai with the hope and dream of becoming a star. Just as in Hollywood, very few succeed.
Stardom in the entertainment industry is very fickle, and Bollywood is no exception. The popularity of the stars can rise and fall rapidly. Directors compete to hire the most popular stars of the day, who are believed to guarantee the success of a movie (though this belief is not always supported by box-office results). Hence many stars make the most of their fame, once they become popular, by making several movies simultaneously.
Only a very few non-Indian actors are able to make a mark in Bollywood, though many have tried from time to time. There have been some exceptions, one recent example is the hit film Rang de Basanti, where the lead actress is an Englishwoman. Kisna, Lagaan, and The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey also featured foreign actors.
Bollywood can be very clannish, and the relatives of film-industry insiders have an edge in getting coveted roles in films and/or being part of a film's crew. However, industry connections are no guarantee of a long career: competition is brutal and if film industry scions do not succeed at the box office, their careers will falter. Some of the biggest stars, such as Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan have succeeded despite total lack of show business connections.
Usually created (or recreated) entirely in the studio, with the actors reciting their lines as their images appear on-screen in the studio in the process known as ADR—with the foley and sound effects added later. This creates several problems, since the sound in these films usually occurs a frame or two later than the mouth movements or gestures. The actors have to act twice—once on-location, once in the studio—and the emotional level on set is often very difficult to recreate. Commercial Indian films—not just the Hindi-language variety—are known for their lack of ambient sound, so there is a strange silence underlying everything instead of the proper sound to create some sort of depth.
The ubiquity of ADR in Bollywood cinema became prevalent in the early 1960s with the arrival of the Arriflex 3 camera, which required a blimp (cover) in order to shield the sound of the camera, for which it was notorious, from on-location filming. Commercial Indian filmmakers, known for their speed, never bothered to blimp the camera, and its excessive noise required that everything had to be recreated in the studio. Eventually, this became the standard for Indian films.
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