How Bollywood Is Different From Hollywood.

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Pina Bansal
May 02, 2019   •  74 views

Hollywood is referred to as American film industry, also it is a place in California, Los Angeles and USA. But Bollywood means movies released in Hindi Film Industry.

Usually Hollywood Films are released all over the world, but bollywood films are popular in eastern countries and also becoming popular in the western part.

As Bollywood and hollywood are two different film industries which serve different types of audiences, so we cannot properly compare them.

Many of the people have seen this HOLLYWOOD place in several movies like The Kissing Booth, Friends Of Benefits, etc.

But one would definitely haven't seen such thing in hindi movies because bollywood is not any physical place. It is just an fraction for Hindi Cinema which also covers Marathi, telugu, tamil, gujrati languages.

Now you see several posters of Bollywood quite similar to the Hollywood movies.

Well, we all know that nowadays most Bollywood movies are based on the movies already made by hollywood industry. For example, recent movie Badla (2019) is quite similar to a movie The Invisible Guest (2016). Bollywood not only take ideas from the storylines of hollywood but also copies the ideas for posters of the movies. There are several posters found similar of both the sectors.

Now lets see what basic key points make Bollywood different from Hollywood.

  1. Time Of Origin

Hollywood movie productions started in late 1800s whereas hindi cinema started to release their films in late 1900s. There is a difference of approximately one century in their origin.

2. What these cinemas represents
Hollywood represents the American industry of movies while Bollywood represents the Hindi Industry which is a small part of Indian Cinema Industry.

3. Language used
Hollywood movies uses only English language whereas bollywood make use of hindi and several other religional langauges.

4. Story Line
The story line incorporates deeper plots which is similar in both the industry but in bollywood love and romance is present in almost every movies.

5. Number of films produced annually
The annual film production of hollywood is approximately 500-600 movies where on the same hand bollwood produces 1000-1100 movies per year.

6. Highest grossing film sector
Hollywood is known as the first highest grossing film industry of the world followed by Various other cinema industry with bollywood on fifth position.

7. Length of the movies
The length of the english movies are approximately 1 ½ or 2 hours where bollywood movies are usually 2 ½ or 3 hours.

8. Music and songs
Bollywood movies are a bundle of songs, if there is no songs or music people hardly watch that movie but hollywood movies do not have enough of music or songs as compared to bollywood.

9. Genres
Both the industries protrays the genres of Horror, Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller, Suspense, Drama.
Bollywood movies show much of action and family oriented stuff which is compartively less in hollywood.

Also you can see all genre in one pack like Chennai Express - it shows a perfect combination of romance, comedy, action, drama but hollywood movies focuses on one genre in one movie i.e. you will find different movie for romance, horror, action, comedy etc.

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Krishna Hariharan  •  5y  •  Reply
Well written!