The Hindi Movieworld-of Bollywood
...he village scenes of India with the farmer mowing his field, his wife visiting him on the field with the rotis and curry or sabzi neatly packed in a cloth kerchief, as depicted by the likes of Dileep Kumar, Guru Dutt and others touched the Indian soul. Exposure to the actual process of movie making as not known to the cinegoers in India, until the popularity of cable networks and television in the 80s and 90s. The average movie goer had no clue as to the prsonal lives of his heroes. This mace the heroes much much more larger than life figures. Peoples' inquisitiveness as to the likes an dislikes of thier heroe sknew no bounds. Especially the love life of the hero interested the audience. Every young indian girl reamt that her husband to be would be blue eyed and fair skinned like Raj Kapoor, wellbuilt and macho like Dharmendra, charming like Dileep Kumar, Tall like Sunil Dutt so ona nd so forth.When a hero died on screen, the cinegoers didnt know where to hive their sorrow! When the hero won his bride, the average Indian perhaps felt hopeful about his own turbulent love life. But when the hero beat up a villain like Praan, then the claps and cheers in the movie hall would not abate for a long time. The actor playing hero on screen was actually thought to be a vile man capable of any sinful act! The entertainment value of Hindi movies is perhaps the highest compared to movies made any where in the world. This is being realised more and more by countries like the U.K, countries in the US, Australia and Newzealand, and ofcourse Switzerland where the Hindi film hero is boun dto take his heroine for ahoneymoon! The colour, variety, creativity and splendour of Indian culture be it in costume or jewellery, sets or make up, combine dwith an international look is attracting foreign audience and increasing Bollywood revenues. Indian music, considered to be the SOUL of In...