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Bollywood Embraces Kazaa Movie Downloads
MaximusTheGreat writes "While Hollywood tries to debate how to tackle P2P movie downloads, Bollywood the world's largest film industry has decided to embrace it. This could usher in a new era of legal movie downloads like iTunes for music, as Bollywood, the Indian film industry produces 1000 movies a year and outstrips hollywood by almost 3:1. Theaters worldwide sold some 3.6 billion tickets to Bollywood films last year, compared with Hollywood's 2.6 billion. In revenue terms Bollywood is already larger than the British, Hong Kong, Japanese and Italian movie industry and is growing at a very fast rate."
India is truley a rising nation, it remind s me very much of the United States. Both are very similar countries in some ways, exploited by the british for all their worth, but when the US won its indipendence is grew to become a major world power.
India won indipendence only 55 years ago, and is fast turning into an intelectual and finincial world power. They have a space program, nuclear wepons and huge investment from global companies such as IBM and Dell.
It looks as though American and European jobs are being outsourced there in droves.. I think in another 50 years that India will be beside the US in terms of being a world superpower. In a hundred it will be the most powerful nation in the world.
There is no god
that nobody would want to pirate them anyway.
I'm not kidding, have you seen any? Atrocious acting, bizarre themes, songs all over the place, fat, overweight actors/actresses playing characters 30 years younger than their real ages. Music blatantly copied from western movies. These movies make Gigli look like The Godfather.
Magnus.
As I already noted in a correction, that's 3.6 billion tickets, not dollars, so you're claim is simply incorrect on its face.
More generally, let's look at the numbers: -- we've just seen that India as a whole sells only marginally more tickets than Hollywood (a third or so more) on a vastly larger number of films. To be specific, a Hollywood film averages about 2.6b / 333 = 7,807,807 tickets / film, while an Indian film averages about 3.6b / 1000 films = 3,600,000, or less than half as much.
If we note that, on top of this, as both I and you have now pointed out, Bollywood tickets cost rather less than Hollywood tickets, we can note that your average Hollywood movie is bigger than your average Bollywood movie on gross revenues as well as ticket numbers...