Unit 5D vocabulary and speaking exercise 3 page 80.0:01
Bollywood what do you get when you take the B from the Indian city of Bombay and exchange it for the H in Hollywood?0:09
Of course, Bollywood is the nickname for the Indian film industry.0:20
Indian film is not new.0:26
The first short film was made in 1898.0:28
But these days, Bollywood has taken over and become massive.0:32
It is the largest film industry in the world, making up to 1,000 films a year, twice as many as Hollywood.0:37
Sometimes the films are made so fast that the same actors shoot scenes for several different films on the same set and the same time.0:45
So there are actually plenty of differences between Bollywood and Hollywood.0:55
Firstly, Bollywood films are actually more like musicals with lots of singing, dancing and colourful costumes.1:01
They are usually in the Hindi language and last three to four hours.1:09
They can be about family relationships, unusual coincidences or kidnappers and villains, but most often they are classic romantic tales of boy meets girl.1:15
In fact, some young people say that they find the storylines a bit too predictable.1:27
Bollywood's biggest audience outside India is in Britain, where many Indians went to live about 50 years ago.1:34
It's not just Indians who watch the films, though.1:43
There have been some popular Bollywood films in English, such as Bride and Prejudice and Monsoon Wedding.1:46
There are even Bollywood waxworks at Madame Tussauds.1:54
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