Bollywood New Releases Available via Video-On-Demand

af_robot writes "There's an announcement of a secure, DivX video-on-demand service for first-run movies, but only for Bollywood movies. 'Each new Bollywood film is released on the public Internet a day before or on the same day of its theatrical release, through piracy on multiple illegal movie download web sites,' said Al Mason, CEO of Cinema on Web. 'Our partnership with DivXNetworks represents the future of entertainment on the Internet. Soon virtually all new major Bollywood and Hollywood movies, including entertainment will be distributed digitally with secure VOD solutions like the one created by DivXNetworks, simultaneously defeating piracy and generating additional revenue for film studios and producers.'"

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FYI

[zepmaid]

Bollywood refers to the Hindi film industry in India.

Bollywood tidbits

[GillBates0]

Quite an informative (but currently misfigured) Bollywood article on wikipedia.

Bollywood's viewership is 3.8 billion vs Hollywood's 3.2 billion.

Former Miss World, bollywood queen, and my current heartthrob Aishwarya Rai was featured on 60 mins as the world's most beautiful woman and is among the cast in the next Hollywood James Bond flick.

Wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

The James Bond movies are created by Pinewood studios in England, not Hollywood.

Re:What's the name of that movie?

[standsolid]

source

Apu: I'm hoping you enjoy this movie. It made every Indian critic's top 400 list.
Woman: [singing] Love love love love love! I'm in love with lovely Johnny.

[an Indian man breaks through a window and curses in Hindi at three sitting men]
[they all start dancing]

Bart: This movie you rented sucks.
Homer: No it doesn't, it's funny! Their clothes are different from my clothes.
[laughs] Look at what they're wearing!
[laughs more]

-- "Homer and Apu"