OR Blog #38: Today I read an article from Wikipedia entitled "Bollywood". A lot of the things that are stated in the article are similar to the bollywood movie we watched in class, "Bride and Prejudice". About how bollywood films have song and dance in them and how the actors don't really sing, they lip-synch. The article also talks about how the playback singers can become famous too. I remember when we talked in class about bollywood and Mr. Cheng mentioned that. Another thing that was similar to our in-class discussion was the fact that bollywood was one of the biggest movie producing industry in the world! The name bollywood comes from the names of Bombay(Mumbai) and Hollywood. Some people don't like the name because it makes bollywood sound like "a poor cousin" to Hollywood. Also, bollywood films aren't only in the Indian language, they are also in English. In class, we also talked about how bollywood films are mostly melodramatic. They have things like star-crossed lovers and angry parents, love triangles, family ties, sacrifice, sorrupt politicians, kidnappers, conniving villains, courtesans with hearts of gold, long-lost relatives, siblings separated by fate, dramatic reversals of fortune, and convenient coincidences. That's what I read for today's outside reading blog.

Citation: "Bollywood." Wikipedia. 2009. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 1 Mar 2009 .