The Similarity of Bollywood Films to High Concept American Films
The term “high concept” is used to describe a script or film that a
person can easily understand after hearing just a few words, it also
means a film which is high budget and attracts a mass audience. To be
high concept the film needs to appeal to young and old audiences to do
this it needs to include aspects such as “fear”, “loneliness”,
”family” and “lost love.”
Bollywood films appeal to most of the Asian culture and religions
(Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist) the most common language being Hindi,
spoken by 40% of Asians so Bollywood films are usually spoken in
Hindi. India is the seventh largest country in the world, and has an
area of 3,287,570 sq km and consists of 28 states, very similar to
America, so no wonder why Bollywood is very alike to American high
concept films.
The Indian film industry produces around 800 films each year. Around
65 million people are estimated to attend cinemas in India each week.
There are about 13,000 cinemas.
In Bollywood films such as Armaan, there is a famous actor, “Anil
Kapoor.” He is the man who will attract the audience to the film as he
is recognizable for being in other Bollywood films. There is always a
hero and a villain, the villain usually has blond hair and is from the
western culture. The villains have to be represented as strong and
powerful. Bollywood films always follow the 9 rasa’s (love, social
issues, vengeance, separation, crime, reunion, family, patriotism and
destiny) without the 9 rasa’s the story wouldn’t be a Bollywood film.
The wife has a number of characteristics which are based on the
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media can influence audiences, whereas Bollywood films do not portray
this information, instead they are more melodramatic and only
concentrate on influencing audience’s to take care of family and
religion.
In conclusion I believe that Bollywood films are not similar to
American films because they are not made on a high budget or no don’t
attract a mass audience. Although Bollywood films do attract mass
audiences of India they do not manage to be able to attract any
audiences outside India. Whereas NBK has attracted many audiences from
different cultures, mostly America.
The only similarities which I can see are that they both attract
audiences of their own country/culture, both have a good Vs evil
aspect, are both highbrid and produce a lot of movies each year.
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