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Bollywood and Hollywood Actress Gallery

Bollywood is not what you’d expect it to be, as its name suggests. Perhaps the common thing between Hollywood
and Bollywood is that they’re both the entertainment capitals of nations that have a huge movie-loving crowd. There
is no Beverly Hills counterpart in India or a mountain which displays big, white letters that spell ‘BOLLYWOOD’ to
mark the country’s entertainment center. Instead, ‘Bollywood’ is a portmanteau word derived form ‘Bombay’ and

From the traditional musicals, Bollywood has also produced pictures more suited to the taste of an international
audience. In 2002, ‘Devdas,’ which stars
Aishwarya Rai, made a great impact at the Cannes Film Festival, causing audiences to take a closer look at Indian
cinema. Not long after, Ronnie Screwvala, a prominent Bollywood producer, took Jhumpa Lahiri’s award-winning novel,
‘The Namesake’ into a full-length motion picture. The movie was a commercial success, providing more opportunities
for Bollywood movies to have a wider circulation outside of India.

All in all, Bollywood’s growth is undeniable. Stars such as Aishwarya Rai have now started crossing over, gaining
popularity in the western world. She has started being seen in popular television shows such as 60 Minutes and even
the ever popular Oprah Winfrey Show.

The scripts of Bollywood films are commonly in ordinary Hindi or Hindustani which are also spoken by most of the
population. However, a number of movies have also used regional languages or dialects depending on the local color
of the film setting. Current mainstream Bollywood films also make great use of English. A lot of films have several
lines of English incorporated in the script. There is also growing number of Bollywood pictures that are made
entirely in English. This is another sign of Bollywood reaching out into the global market

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