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New age filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap, Rajkumar Hirani, Dibakar Banerjee, Vishal Bhardwaj etc. have changed the scenario. There are movies on a number of themes. There is comedy, thriller, horror, fiction, movies with social message, SCI-FI etc. Films based on real life (Biopic) are making a remarkable impact on the youth. This is the age of Remakes. Films now are considered successful if the box office collection is above 100cr.

The Era of Bollywood Cinema Evolved a lot during the 30’s decade and the 90’s decade. The thirties are recognised as the decade of social protests in the history of Indian Cinema. A number of films making a strong plea against the social injustice were also made like V. Shantaram's Duniya Na Mane, Aadmi and Padosi, Damle & Fatehlal's Sant Tukaram, Mehboob's Watan, Ek hi Raasta and Aurat.

1931 was a landmark year for the Bollywood cinema as Alam Ara. Directed by Ardeshir Irani was the first Indian sound film. Its great Hindustani dialogues and seven songs made it a big hit. Indersabha was a film directed by Jamshedji Framji Madan which included 71 songs and was a 211 minutes long movie. It was released in 1932 whereas in 1937 Kisan Kanya was the first Indian colour film directed by Moti B. Gadwani.

The 90’s decade had a great impact on the Bollywood cinema. There were some great hits in the first half of the nineties. There were also some great achievements being honoured to our Bollywood actors.

 In the 21st century there is no demarcation between the arts of commercial films. Even mainstream films avoid songs and dances if the script does not require it. But the primary reason behind the cessation of such a demarcation is the audience's readiness to accept good films without any discrimination. 

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Now a day’s films are made with the help of computer graphics. Unexpected and

super realistic stunts are possible in movies with the help of VFX and 3D 

technology. Social Media and television shows are new weapons for Promotion 

of films.

      

The first Indian 3D movie My Dear Kuttichathan is a 1984 Indian Malayalam 

fantasy film directed by Jijo Punnoose. It was later dubbed in Hindi as Chhota 

Chetan in 1997 and became a big box office hit. Later with effects in movies 

many Indian films used computer graphics for example the scene from movie 

Krrish where he has a super power of jumping any heights. This was only 

achievable through computer graphics.

Nowaday's almost every film goes through effects or vfx edit table. 

Various effects bring a different get up for films overall view. For example adding 

crowd by effects, creating a duplicate, exploding cars or bomb etc. can be done 

through effects.

This generation is blessed to have all invented already, today the 3D animated 

characters look real with the help of 3D mapping technique. In the film industry 

especially in India people are adopting technical changes. Today everyone has a 

Smartphone and knows how to use internet. It has brought the world a bit closer.

Movies on phone, ads on phone, news on phone to say everything is available

on the palm of your hand. Media has found one more way to reach people and 

its being run successful till now. The journey of Motion Picture has endless years 

to end; we have already achieved virtual reality. It would be interesting to see 

what comes up next. 

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Music in Indian generates 4–5% of the net revenues alone in India. People enjoy music and many a times people watch movies because of good music. Music connects with the audiences emotion thus from the time of F.M. radio it has been a significant part in Indian households therefore music in movies attracts audiences. The major film music companies of India are Saregama, Sony Music etc.

48% India's net music sales are generated through movies.

A Masala Indian film may have around 5–6 choreographed songs.

Music plays an essential role in movies, keeping the audience live with the story. It’s a part where a person can relax rather paying attention in what happens. Music is essentially used to boost the mood. Sometimes the music overpowers the story and that’s when we start disliking the picture but Indians like it anyways.

Hollywood has generally no music in their movies but we do because we add cultural values in our films in order to stick to the emotional aspect of audience for example: recently working item songs. In India majority of people go for movies to enjoy and get entertained and that has to be given in order to run the show.

Playback singers such as Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Arijit Singh and other talented few, drew large crowds with national and international film music stage shows and internet. In today’s modern day internet has made everything so close that the barriers have totally vanished. Internet has also created a platform for those upcoming artists who want a chance to be heard. Many other playback singers have came in the industry and ruled over a period of time but in today’s world there is opportunity for all and that’s what is making the music industry a strong place in Indian film industry. Legend like A.R. REHMAN works with young talents giving them a chance.

Singers like SONU NIGAM, SHREYA GHOSHAL, SUNIDHI CHAUHAN, BENNY DAYAL; ARIJIT SINGH etc. are lending their voice to keep our interest in music always and that indirectly helps movies in India to run successfully.

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Films are made in many cities and regions in India including Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu, Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Konkan (Goa), Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu among others.

Though films are being made in all regional languages there are few regional filmmakers who stand in the race of today’s film industry, after bollywood south Indian movies place second followed with Marathi and the Punjab film industry.

Let’s start by knowing Marathi film industry. It is the oldest film industry. The pioneer of cinema in Union of India was Dadasaheb Phalke, who brought the revolution of moving images to India with his first indigenously made silent film Raja Harishchandra in 1913, is considered by IFFI and NIFD part of Marathi cinema as it was made by a Marathi crew.

In 1932, Prabhat Films produced first Marathi talkie film AYODHECHA RAJA. Marathi industry has come to notice in recent years after the film SHWAAS caught everyone’s eye. A place of genuine talent and fresh ideas is a key of Marathi industry. In recent year’s new concepts and good quality execution has turned Marathi industry’s faith.

Recently hit SAIRAT is the first Marathi film to cross a 100 crore club.

Another growing regional industry in terms of stories is the Bengali films. Having a legendry name of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen as a back bone Bengali films are widely acclaimed. It started the parallel cinema movement and even today it has not left its style.

Over the years the output of films per year has increased in Bengal film industry it 149 films annually and Marathi film industry produces around 181 films annually.

Many other regional films also work hard and industries like Tamil and Telugu, Malayalam make sensible movies which are critically acclaimed worldwide.

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Year 2001, marked something spectacular in the Hindi cinema business. DIL CHAHTA HAI released, a movie way ahead of its time and created a storm giving all some friendship goals and then there was GADAR:EK PREM KATHA, Sunny Deol’s power packed dialogues with a backdrop of partition in India and mingled love story gave Goosebumps in theatre. The impact of Deol’s dialogues were such that it broke the box office with crossing 100 crore eventually. Directed by Anil Sharma GADAR: EK PREM KATHA became the most liked drama film.

The race didn’t stop hear some of the amazing films were yet to be released and soon the film Lagaan released, India’s entry for Oscars though it didn’t win any award ,it was showered with awards by rest of the world, directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar  and Amir Khan starrer knew its box office result before release. Thoroughly liked by the Indian audience it was like a feast for them.

As the motion picture came along through inventions and new technical changes there was also a change in storytelling. Clichés were out of question. Everyone had its own stamp of recognition. EXAMPLE like Sooraj Barjatya films had family gatherings and family wedding functions, Madhur Bhandarkar’s film depicted reality, Sanjay Leela Bhansali was known for his huge sets etc.

Indian Cinema is also recognised at the American Academy Awards. Three Indian films, Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay! (1988), and Lagaan (2001), were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indian winners of the Academy Awards include costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, filmmaker Satyajit Ray, music composer A. R. Rahman, sound editor Resul Pookutty and lyricist Gulzar.

Coming up next is regional cinema and its share to Indian film industry.

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Now, the Indian cinema has reached the new level and a revolution of sorts has happened in terms of defining glamour, entertainment, commercial values, budgeting, marketing and box office reports. Today Indian Cinema ,especially, Hindi cinema is not only popular in India but in parts of the Middle East, Pakistan, UK and every other place where Indians live. Major global studios such as 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros are investing in Indian cinema because of which Indian cinema has reached to Global level but at the start of the year 2000 it was a different ball game altogether.

The star I gave a hint about in my last blog is Mr. Amitabh Bachchan (Big B), after being a superstar for almost 2 decades it was a shocker for him to see his stardom sway away and go bankrupt. Trying his luck in production Big B failed miserably and strived to revive his acting career but apart from Suryavansham in 1999 no other film worked. Hoping the year2000 would bring back his fortune soon tables turned when Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein hit the theatres and became an instant hit.

Followed with more hits Big B’s career revived and experimented with many of his characters. Now it was time for some fresh talent to enter and sooner arrived Hrithik Roshan with his director dad Rakesh Roshan launched him in a cult hit Kaho Na Pyaar Hai opposite Ameesha Patel. A classy romantic tale starring a handsome hunk quickly established a bond with the audience and it became the highest grossing film of the year 2000 with as many awards.

The twenty-first century has brought a major change in films. Let’s talk about in the next episode.

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As the year 1990 arrived there were variety of films that released and made mark but before we speak about that landmark film this era was stolen by only one man and that’s none other than Govinda. As an actor, Govinda might have gone under the curtains now and probably lost his charm but it was his decade that made him a superstar, a superstar gone unnoticed is an unfortunate mole in Govinda’s career.

Over a decade Govinda acted in 65 films with almost every movie being a hit. Starting his career with LOVE 86 and ILZAAM he didn’t look back after that. A master of comedy timing and exquisite dance were his major highlights in the 1990’s. With HERO NO.1, AANKHEN, BETA HO TOH AISA being hits the late 1990s was dominated by the king of the bollywood MR.SHAHRUKH KHAN.

SRK (Shah Rukh Khan) made his debut in the early 70’s in the television industry and came to be known by the names of Rahul and Raj from his Films Kuch Kuch hota hai and DDLJ (Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge). Other actors like AKSHAY KUMAR,AJAY DEVGAN, SALMAN KHAN, AMITABH BACHCHAN, SUNNY DEOL also did their share to make 90’s its best commercial year with BORDER and DILWALE DULHANIYA LE JAYENGE topping its charts and DDLJ breaking all records 90’s was a turning point for SRK’s career. As of 13 April 2007, the film's initial theatrical release lasted 600 weeks that is more than 11 years making it a world record.

Catching up with the world cinema Indian film industry was finding its own roots in people’s heart. The actors were preparing themselves for a new age and century altogether. Twentyfirst century was challenging for survival and ones who faded away how did they comeback, if you know whom I am talking about stay tuned to know about him.

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