Comparison between Hollywood and Bollywood

When it comes to cinema, movies and entertainment, the main thing that comes to mind is the comedy, music, romance, dance, play etc.  There is no doubt that the cinema is one of the main entertainment sources. The Hollywood film industry is the biggest that is based in America and the Bollywood accounts for a subpart of Hindi film industry. The film industry of Hollywood is based in California, Los Angeles and United States. It is not just considered the capital of films but the biggest industry of entertainment in the world. There are thousands of hits have been created from the film industry of Hollywood, that are since 1912 the time to beginning of motion pictures, making Trillions of dollars revenue out of films and it had set up for the production in Los Angeles. On the other hand, the Bollywood is based in Mumbai. However, different to the Hollywood, the Bollywood film industry not be present in ant physical place. The Bollywood is an idiomatic name that has mostly acknowledged as a whole Indian film industry, it is a name that believes to make whole film industry in India seems like a poor companion to Hollywood (S, 2015).

 As the Bollywood are recognized to produce thousands of films annually, that makes the Hollywood seems like real distance poor cousin to the Bollywood. In Hollywood vs. Bollywood contrast, the annual revenue that both of the film industries earn are also different. The Hollywood industry revenue and the quality of production also help to analyses the best player in the film and entertainment industry. Hollywood and Bollywood are the most well-known giants of cinema that has won the billions of people’s hearts, through their music, movies, drama, dance, and particularly story line. These are the two apex industries of films and they are giving each other a hard rivalry. That is because, it is very difficult to compare both of these industry, but this fact cannot be disregard that Hollywood Vs. Bollywood both are doing their jobs very well and taking the cinema and film industry to the next level (Dennison & Lim, 2006 ).

Bollywood Vs Hollywood – Revenue

 It is obvious that Bollywood made more films annually and sell around 4 billion tickets of films each year that is twice the number of Hollywood. The films production of Bollywood is a vast production of multimillion dollar and it is also one of the maximum costs documented in a film production is approximately $27 million for movie Ra.One. In film production Hollywood are also big players. The Hollywood movie Pirates of the Caribbean is formally known as the most highly budget movie made with about $378.5 million budget, though The Hobbit Trilogy opinions as most costly consecutive production of the film with mutual budgets of $623 million afterward credits tax (Heffelfinger & Wright, 2011).

This is nearly double the annual film production Bollywood cost. Some years back, Bollywood sold almost 3.6 billion tickets and documented the revenues (DVDs, theater tickets, television etc.) of $1.3 billion, while the Hollywood in this year sold tickets worth about 2.6 billion and produced a total revenue of about 51 billion USD. In production cost, Hollywood is evidently leader with an extensive margin. As far as the revenue is concern, Hollywood earn revenue about 500% higher than the Bollywood film industry (Pandharipande & at.al, 2010)

Bollywood Vs Hollywood – Production

The movies in Bollywood are averages about 3 to 4 hours long, on the other side in the United States the films are an average of 2 hours long. Some of the features of a movies made in India include songs, dances and intermission, and most likely violent and sexual scenes (Gokhale & Vinayak, 2010). The Hollywood single movie can take a year to release and the stars of the movie are allowed to do two different movies at a time, on the other hand if talked about Bollywood, the duration of completing the movie is max thirty days and the movie stars can work more than ten different movies at a time. This is the main reason why globally people mostly prefer the Hollywood movie instead of Bollywood. Hollywood used the innovative technology for film production and this technology is more sophisticated than Bollywood. Hollywood movie seems very interesting instead of Bollywood (Heffelfinger & Wright, 2011).

Moreover, even in the USA market Bollywood movies are gaining more globally. Presently, in American and British theaters it is more common to hear that Indian movies are played than to hear that in Bollywood theaters American movies are played. On a daily basis in India fourteen million people go to the movies, which is not more than in the United States. In its financial capacity Bollywood has risen, because of this fact. Since the development of motion capture the American cinema has been around. In 1894, in New York City the world’s first motion picture was exhibited. Moreover, in the early 1900s Hollywood because the cinema’s capital (Dennison & Lim, 2006 ).

Therefore, the company in a nearby village while scouting nearby filmed areas. All around the world Hollywood become popular, as all of its movies released in all countries. In terms of revenue around the world it is the highest grossing industry of movies. For its amazing graphics, animation as well as storyline is very good in Hollywood and Hollywood known for this technique. In its films for incorporating many different styles as well as languages Hollywood also known for this. Moreover, mostly the language used is English. Now in Hollywood movies there is also a songs and dance are incorporating into the movies (Dennison & Lim, 2006 ).

In India film industry of Bollywood basically promotes their language and culture through their movies. So, it can be said that Bollywood is an informal term. India cinema is not promoting only the Hindi language it also incorporates Telugu cinema, Assamese cinema, Marathi cinema as well as Gujrati cinema and many more. For popular Hindi movies Bollywood is a representative term whether it’s not a physical place. In the early 1900s the Indian cinema has been used around and the exact 1913 was year when Indian Cinema used. In the 1970s the Bollywood term was coined somewhere through combining Bombay but now called as Mumbai as well as Hollywood. From Bombay the B was taken, moreover from the popular American counterpart the rest was taken (Heffelfinger & Wright, 2011).

From the Bengali film industry, the name “Tollywood” was inspired based in Tollygunge, Calcutta (now called as Kolkata) as well as the American Hollywood.  At the starting point the Bollywood movies are very long approximately three hours or sometimes it will be more than three hours but now, it reduces to 2 or 2.5 hours. Now the producers also concentrate on the songs in previous movies the songs are probably 7 to 8 but now the songs are limited to 4 to 5 and properly prepared others are used as playback numbers. For its romantic plot lines Bollywood was known, but the new producers, directors and writers of the industry are coming out with new difficult plot lines and shift the focus from romantic to other side of the movie (Gokhale & Vinayak, 2010).

Moreover, still many Bollywood movies incorporate romantic aspects in the movies. Bollywood also improves their technology day by day as they also translated their movies into different languages and specially translated in English.  Around the world Bollywood is the largest producer film industry as well as each year more than 1000 movies are released. By the U.S and Nigeria it was followed. For its music, love stories and dance Bollywood is popular for this. This trend is also still following by the Bollywood film industry as well as continues to add the song along with dance in their movies. Even though, now Bollywood has made the movies on history and make it according to the history. As it talked about the historical movie the sceneries behind the scene are amazing this will happen mostly in Indian films. There is also romance or song in that type of movie (Pandharipande & at.al, 2010).

Key Differences between Bollywood and Hollywood

Here describes the important difference among the Bollywood and Hollywood (Dennison & Lim, 2006 ):

·         Hollywood is known as industry of American motion picture as Bollywood refers to as motion picture of Hindi language. American is based as the named after near district of Los Angeles California.

·         From the words Bombay Bollywood derives its name (currently known as Mumbai) along with Hollywood. On the other side, in U.S, California near Los Angeles Hollywood is a district.

·         Bollywood has no physical presence but this is not same as the case of Hollywood.

·         In all in one pack Bollywood movies come, such as, audience can see comedy, romance, family-oriented stuff, drama, horror, and many more all in a single movie. Like Horror, science, fiction, romance, comedy, suspense, drama, etc. unlike Hollywood movies are made on subjects (Pandharipande & at.al, 2010).

·         Latest technology used in the Hollywood movies along with special effects while as compared to the Bollywood movies the special effect and new technology are quite less used in Bollywood movies (Dennison & Lim, 2006 ).

·         Hollywood is one of the highest grossing industries of film. As compared to Hollywood the Bollywood is less grossing industry.

·         As compared to Hollywood movies the Bollywood movies are longer ones (Pandharipande & at.al, 2010).

·         In a year Hollywood produces fewer movies than Bollywood.

·         In the Hindi language Bollywood movies are made. While, different languages also used in it. As compared to Hollywood, which mainly add the English language in movies, but other languages is also used. 

Popular discourses of Hollywood/Bollywood opposition

        In India both Bollywood and Hollywood have made their direct opposition, and into popular cultural vocabulary their rivalry has passed. For Stallone’s Cliff hanger the promotion poster (1993) reads ‘Hollywood challenges Bollywood’; to choose Cliff hanger as the vehicle Hollywood’s decision. Hollywood versus Bollywood possibly based on a modern Indian film reading that has more content related to action, without considering its combination with “Masala’ mix elements, for example expressive melodrama and song. As the challenge of Cliff hangers is failed. On the other hand, Indian also produces the cassette of songs. Within the popular culture of Indian, to the west the commercial success cinema of Indian has become representative of India’s resistance, as well as a battle against Westernization in what is viewed Bollywood stars have become figureheads. The famous Actress of Bollywood named as Madhuri Dixit, known as queen bee’, ‘drew her up as well as on patriotism’ lectured the guy when a fan ‘for an autograph ‘offered her a Canadian dollar. Shah Rukh khan is one of the finest actors in Bollywood and he is very famous in world-wide. People of western country appreciate his acting (Pandharipande & at.al, 2010).

For BPL is an advert another instance (an Indian electrical hardware company) in G magazine which appeared, G magazine is one of the leading Indian English-language, from October 1996 to January 1997 every month. With discourses around national pride is another star of Bollywood named as Amitabh Bachchan the advert combines a photograph. If believe in ourselves who knows what may happen? Therefore, in India what makes a film work Hollywood has not defined, where, conversely, disparity in cultural, instead of any political or else economic factor, Western commercial expansion has slowed (Gokhale & Vinayak, 2010).

            It can be said that Bollywood and Hollywood are both accepted cinemas and their names resemble to each other there and around the world both are successful. In the eastern countries Bollywood is popular and Hollywood is known as world-wide and including the US Bollywood in many western countries has been gaining popularity. With the American cinema Hollywood is a term that has become identical, whereas to the Indian Cinema Bollywood is highly associated. Bollywood and Hollywood are two different cinemas completely that related to different audiences as well as hence cannot compared properly. Moreover, many differences have identified in Hollywood and Bollywood. such as production of film companies, studios for film, cinematography, production of film, screenwriting, post production, pre-production, festivals of film, distribution; as well as actors, film directors along with other film crew personnel the film industry is not small as well as includes many different departments. On the set for many different roles there are many people responsible, to make a single film. As started from the makeup of the actor’s actresses the cleanup and spot light each and every person is responsible for the making of film. Industry gain revenues in dollars every year and gain profit. This is the largest turn over for the Bollywood as they improve their industry in a good manner (Pandharipande & at.al, 2010).

Conclusion on Comparison between Hollywood and Bollywood

      Summing up the discussion it can be said that the Bollywood are recognized to produce thousands of films annually, that makes the Hollywood seems like real distance poor cousin to the Bollywood. Hollywood and Bollywood are the most well-known giants of cinema that has won the billions of people’s hearts, through their music, movies, drama, dance, and particularly story line. In production cost, Hollywood is evidently leader with an extensive margin. The Hollywood single movie can take a year to release and the stars of the movie are allowed to do two different movies at a time. Hollywood used the innovative technology for film production and this technology is more sophisticated than Bollywood.

Now in Hollywood movies there is also a songs and dance are incorporating into the movies. Bollywood movies incorporate romantic aspects in the movies. Bollywood also improves their technology day by day as they also translated their movies into different languages. Hollywood is known as industry of American motion picture as Bollywood refers to as motion picture of Hindi language. Bollywood has no physical presence but this is not same as the case of Hollywood. As compared to Hollywood movies the Bollywood movies are longer ones. Hollywood versus Bollywood possibly based on a modern Indian film reading that has more content related to action, without considering its combination with “Masala’ mix elements, for example expressive melodrama and song. With the American cinema Hollywood is a term that has become identical, whereas to the Indian Cinema Bollywood is highly associated.

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